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Mr. Asterik (aka Barry Bonds) breaks the record
shardian:
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--- Quote from: ChadTower on August 08, 2007, 10:48:21 am ---
I liked catching but never caught on a team where the coach wasn't calling most of the pitches. That takes most of the fun out of catching. By the time I got up to the ages where you're calling your own game I was playing centerfield.
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I was allowed to call pitches my last year of little league. Of course, that was only because we had a kid who actually had three decent pitches and could actually place. I also knew how every kid in the league batted because I was at pretty much every single game in town back then. I didn't think much of it back then, but he was damn good for his age as a pitcher. He was a starter in high school. As a catcher, you tend to take for granted that a pitcher will throw it where you want it.
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On one of my little league teams, we had the fastest pitcher in the league. He threw the ball hard. None of the other kids who played catcher on our team wanted to catch when he pitched. It was told to me, when Travis pitches you're playing catcher. I had a great time catching him. It was fun. Not a lot of hits when he pitched so the fielders probably got a bit bored.
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My first year of little league we had one of those guys on my team, but I was not allowed to catch him. Every little league has one of those freak-like early puberty kids who can throw in the high 70's and hit everything out of the park.
You HAVE to have a good glove to catch those fellows. I never had the greatest catchers mitt. I have a closet full of old ones - I can't pass up a catchers mitt at a flea market or rummage sale. ;D
Chris G:
I played a little IM softball in college. I liked to play outfield so's I could stare at the coed's asses in the infield. That's about the only thing I can recall liking about the game. :dunno
ChadTower:
I tried softball. Fast pitch was okay but the league was filled with superfrustrated old guys convinced they had once been one break away from the majors and were still just a couple more away from what they were ten years ago. The slightest thing would start guys screaming, guys would strike out and whip their bat and helmet to the ground, it was just a really uncomfortable place for a person just looking for decent level of play without being delusional about it.
Then I tried slow pitch... that was just boring as hell. Fat guys and pop flies for three hours.
shardian:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on August 08, 2007, 12:48:01 pm ---
I tried softball. Fast pitch was okay but the league was filled with superfrustrated old guys convinced they had once been one break away from the majors and were still just a couple more away from what they were ten years ago. The slightest thing would start guys screaming, guys would strike out and whip their bat and helmet to the ground, it was just a really uncomfortable place for a person just looking for decent level of play without being delusional about it.
Then I tried slow pitch... that was just boring as hell. Fat guys and pop flies for three hours.
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All the reasons I have given up on baseball are right there. I haven't even handled a bat in probably 2 years now. We had a HS ball field across from our first apartment on which I taught my wife how to hit. We were over there every evening all summer. She could hit the ball regularly and even pop fly out of the infield by the end of the summer! :laugh2: :laugh2:
ChadTower:
Heh. My mother was really good at softball. When I was kid she used to strike guys out cold. Some would get really pissed, too, since I guess it damaged their fragile egos to get struck out by a woman.
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