User Comments, Suggestions, or Complaints | Privacy Policy | Terms of Service | Advertising
|
Demarini, Easton and TPX Baseball Bats
|
AllianceTickets.com has cheap MLB Tickets. Get all your Colorado Rockies Tickets, Seattle Mariners Tickets, San Francisco Giants Tickets and all your favorite baseball tickets here. We also carry cheap Denver Broncos Tickets, Seattle Seahawks Tickets and Denver Nuggets Tickets. |
For wholesale prices on baseball gifts and equipment, check these stores out! |
Page rendered in 0.3758 seconds
53 querie(s) executed
Reader Comments and Retorts
Go to end of page
Statements posted here are those of our readers and do not represent the BaseballThinkFactory. Names are provided by the poster and are not verified. We ask that posters follow our submission policy. Please report any inappropriate comments.
1. Torn_cuff (Special Ability Extra) Posted: March 19, 2012 at 04:24 PM (#4084555)Ze goggles, zey do nothing after your age 30 season!
Pro-tip: Catch the ball with your glove, not your face.
you mean left-fielder-turned-third-baseman-turned-first-baseman-turned-third-baseman.
Also known in some circles as "natural DH"
I think he was SS>3B>LF>3B>1B>3B
I think it's time for those clear NBA facemasks to make their MLB debut...
Well, it was a baseball that hit him, not a soccer ball...
I'm writing in pain right now, so I will just direct you to the grammar thread.
Not the best timing on that joke...
I'm better of in the "stupid autocorrect" thread.
Meh, that was 0.3 Muta at best. Flair's probably bled more than that during a promo.
No your not.
How due ewe no?
1. Error
2. 5-3 groundout
3. Facesmash
I axed them and they told me. There not lieing.
AMBER
Miss Stoeger. My plastic surgeon doesn't want me doing any activity where balls fly at my nose.
DIONNE
Well, there goes your social life.
Check out "My Own Private Idaho" if you want your classic literature updated in interesting ways.
That would be pretty awesome, actually.
#Theresnocryinginbaseball.
Apparently this isn't great for your peripheral vision. Kobe tried a black one after the Wade elbow the other week, and abandoned it at HT after stinking up the joint. Plus, it looked pretty retarded actually...
I'm serious ossifer, he kept hitting my fist with his face.
Rumor has it, Smirnoff collected it and bottles will start rolling off the line late next week.
Passed up the 5-4, possible 3?
The AAGPBL being before his time.
If anybody might, maybe, possibly be catching RAW tonight...
Rocky's gotta stop cutting pre-taped promos. On the other hand, Punk-Jericho was terrific. Bryan and Ryder had a nice little match. Fingers crossed, but it seems like Vince is running a tight ship tonight because he knows the Philly crowd won't take anything less.
That crowd is very hot for Cena-Henry right now. Speaking of Cena:
Josh: We might get Marky Mark to plant a celebrity tree.
Cher: Oh how fabulous. Getting Marky Mark to take time from his busy pants dropping schedule to plant trees.
If there's one thing I didn't expect to see on this thread, it was guys quoting classic lines from the movie Clueless. Unless it was Ray--that is totally something I could see Ray doing.
And yes, I have seen the movie multiple times--it's not bad. I also had no idea that "My Own Private Idaho" was based on Shakespeare.
There's better video of the play here. It looks like Cabrera may have been cut by his sunglasses as the ball smacked into them. It also looks like the sunglasses may have protected him from a more serious eye injury, but all of that is hard to tell from this video quality.
I thought it was well done since it finally established what purpose Rock has for even going along with this match in the first place. Until tonight, he was too preoccupied with this inane WWE-fueled Twitter obsession to bother saying why he was coming back for this match. And no, "John Cena is a *insert cliche homophobic remark*" doesn't really constitute reasoning. At least not if we're supposed to be in favor of The Rock.
most of the show right now is just unwatchable to me. it's great that punk is champion, but he's basically a sideshow right now because of the politics of the above.
* 1 of the local park's fields is really dangerous at third. The water drains right off behind the bag, so after some April showers & games, there is a noticeable ditch right in the baseline. First few games I played on the field, I was at normal depth. After 2-3 balls that shot up by my ear after hitting the ditch, with humming top spin, now I know to play even with the bag or a step in. Of course standing 59' from the batter's box has it's dangers as well.
Softball isn't 45 feet between bases?
I'm just disappointed Punk hasn't had a chance to yell "This is straight edge!" like he did in a similar feud in ROH.
It's sad, if you told me a few years ago that WWE's champions would be CM Punk and Bryan Danielson, I'd be excited, but it's mostly unwatchable right now. I find the Cena/Rock Twittermania stuff to be horrible, I lost all interest in the feud after Rock kept cutting "Let's get people to chant / tweet whatever I say" promos. I don't mind the HBK/HHH/Taker stuff, at the very least it's a feud with a lot of backstory, and it gets most of the old guys isolated into one place.
The real problem is that everyone on the roster outside of Punk and Bryan range from "I don't care" to "get this person off my television". A lot of that's the fault of the writers, but there's a lot of non-compelling characters right now.
From every field I've played on they are between 60' - 65' for men's slow pitch. I think men's USSSA tournaments are 65'
you're thinking of the mound to home plate.
That would be Victorino. Sorry, we need him. If it was Lou Montanez, he's gone.
I play third too, although its a beer league, so rarely do I get any shots hit that hard. I've played for years and never got one in the face, til last week. Luckily, my glove grazed it, slowing it down a bit, but it got me in the jaw pretty good.
I took a baseball to the face at 1B in HS. Hard one hopper on a shitty, rocky infield. Same thing, caught the edge of my glove, and then my nose. Broke it, and had shiners for a couple of weeks, but not really that bad, except for all the blood.
Some buddies talked me into playing fastpitch softball for a couple of seasons, though. And that was different. Because so many batters bunt, the 3b has to play in MUCH closer than a MLB 3b would play. Then some of those hitters fake the bunt and swing away. That is dangerous to the 3b. But the worst part was that our main pitcher was a grandpa. I kid you not: an old guy who was at least 55 who had no fastball at all. So I was having to charge into guys who were crushing the ball down the line at me. I think I made it a couple of games before a hot shot richocheted up and just barely grazed my face. I moved to SS after that.
I don't delude myself by thinking I could have played like a great MLB infielder. But I do wonder how nice it would have been to be able to predict hops on the vast majority of balls hit to me. Because MLB infields are almost always heaven compared to the unprepared dirt abominations that passed as infields for us. When a ball hit a rock on our infields, there was no telling whether it would flatten out, shoot under your glove, or bounce right up into your face.
That's just such a killer promo. I love(d) ROH. It's gone downhill since Sinclair came in, and love strong style though I do, Davey Richards just doesn't do it for me. I'll still take it, though.
I wonder if Lord Tensai (Giant Bernard/A-Train) has picked up his workrate in Japan?
Rock/Cena has definitely disapointed me so far, but my expectations were *very* high. Rock's been great to have around and seems to have found his rhythm again. Hopefully they keep hammering the "legend vs. legend" aspect and not transvestite ladyparts + wrist notes. It gives Cena the final rub necessary to push him into living legend status and gives Rock a reason to be around and be in this match. For something with over a year of booking, the backstory does seem a little soft.
I think the writers definitely do need a shake up. There's a ton of talent in the undercard (Ziggler oozes charisma.) It's just a matter of finding the right rhythm. You can see it almost clicking so often, and it's going to be great when/if it does. I think the Long/Johnny Ace tag match iis the end of the brand extension, and hopefully that'll make it easier. Only having one main event title should do a lot to emphasize the new talent and put them over.
I hafta break with you on the HHH/Taker/HBK thing. Those guys are pros and it's being brought together really well. More HBK is always a good thing, and while I don't get where Taker's really coming from (he wants to prove he's better than HHH, but he also wants to end the streak?) I think HHH has been fantastic. This feud is really, really evolving his character away from HHH: cerebral assassin + 13x champion to HHH: the sort of insecure heir to the WWE throne. I think that's the endgame. It's another step from HHH the wrestler to HHH the heel authority figure.
That was always my thought. The few times I got to play on a nice well maintain field (regionals in HS, summer travel ball, etc); I felt so confident that I could catch anything after growing up on rocky fields.
Ring of Honor had a *ridiculous* amount of talent throughout the 2000s. Yes, if you lose Punk, Samoa Joe, Austin Aries, Bryan Danielson, and others, of course it's going to fall off.
Still, I like their TV show and I've like their last two iPPVs, especially for the price. ROH currently has the best tag division in all of pro wrestling. Kevin Steen is probably my favorite person in wrestling right now (Daniel Bryan is a close second though). Richards/O'Reilly-Cole/Edwards put on a great match at the 10th Anniversary show, though Edwards/O'Reilly/Cole do lack charisma/character. The wrestling is still great, they've just lost some tremendous personalities over the years.
Regarding last night's Raw, the writers are used to writing 4 week story arcs with the blowoff at the PPV. Wrestlemania has six weeks of build up, and it's starting to show. Cena-Rock, Orton-Kane, HHH-HBK-UT are just spinning their wheels right now.
Agreed wrt Steen, and I'd love to see him get a title push. They need to move the title off of Richards. He's an incredible worker, but he's too dry to carry the promotion. It's the gap between Hart/Benoit/Danielson and the Malenkos of the world.
There's no doubt that ROH has a very strong in-ring product, but the show just isn't where it was. Some of that is cyclical: you're not always going to have the talent boom they did in the mid/late 00's (and Chris Hero just got bought off, too.) However, post-Sinclair ROH seems to have stagnated a little bit. The last iPPV was strong, but the main was a bit paint-by-numbers in terms of ringwork if that makes sense. When your product is as dependent on hardcore fans and in-ring product as ROH is, I think you need more than that (and more than a tag match in the main event, period.)
WRT Raw: I'll buy your theory wrt build. I just find it amazing that the writers would have to strain. An extra 2 weeks gives so much more room and allows for so much more. Creatively, the PG constraints have obviously been loosened. The product is definitely better now than it was in, say, early February but that's not saying much. Storylines this time of year are a bit like cooking in the summer. Everything is available (Rock/Taker/HBK/Jericho/HHH) and it's all so vibrant, so you really should take advantage of it. Until last night, only HHH/Taker/HBK had been taking advantage of that "special Wrestlemania season/hype" factor. They need to push it more for Rock/Cena (legend v. legend) and Jericho/Punk (though it is an enjoyable feud.)
You must be Registered and Logged In to post comments.
<< Back to main