It’s not an analogy, it’s a FACT. Baseballs get doctored CONSTANTLY. It’s one of baseball’s “proud traditions”. It’s part of the foundation of the league.
The gloves have been OK’d by the league. Nothing suspect out them. The league realizes that receivers catching balls is way more exciting than receivers dropping balls so they agreed to let them have spiderman gloves.
My reference is to two teams using different footballs, each using only their (undoctored or not) set of balls, and the referees not noticing the difference, even though they handle the balls after each play.
In the instance of Brady, the baseball analogy doesn’t apply.
However, I appreciate your input. Didn’t know about the Rockies doctoring the baseballs. The analogy would apply if the doctored (dried out) baseballs were used only when they came to bat.
The Brady incident is on the referees back — for lack of perception and basic unprofessionalism and the NFL allowing it to happen in the first place.