OT: when an all pro LB tries his hand at the most dangerous position in sports
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If you came up against a pitcher in a helmet and mask that fkkr was gonna run your count full every time with balls until giving you a strike
damn. Clay better protect the plate with some slow lobbed chin music next time.
My intramural softball squad at AU was a cumulative 0-12 over the course of two seasons with your boy at the helm. Needless to say a few comebackers put my life in peril, partly because I was incredibly drunk for each game. Luckily I was quick as a fvcking cat. Come see me for tips, Clay.
About like our Co-Rec team at AU. All guys had to bat off handed, but three of us actually threw righty & batted lefty to no avail. Cheated and still never won a game
We had a similar type team where you had to meet for drinks before the game to play. Your boy was an incredible drunk corner infield guy.
2 reasons I only made it through one season of baseball as a child
1) I had played other sports that were more free flowing and where I could touch the ball about as often as I wanted to and baseball was the opposite. You may go 2 innings without touching a bat or a ball and you've spent nearly an hour doing nothing. Hated it for that reason alone. I was a decent fielder so I was in good positions but sometimes you still don't get a ball hit your way. Sucked. Maybe if I had started with it instead of things like hoops and soccer I would have been okay, but after those sports baseball seemed immensely tedious.
2) That ball is hard as F man. I had been hit in the face in the other sports and it sucked. But it didn't suck anything like getting hit by a baseball. Hard pass on that. This probably was more impactful that reason #1 to be honest.
1) I had played other sports that were more free flowing and where I could touch the ball about as often as I wanted to and baseball was the opposite. You may go 2 innings without touching a bat or a ball and you've spent nearly an hour doing nothing. Hated it for that reason alone. I was a decent fielder so I was in good positions but sometimes you still don't get a ball hit your way. Sucked. Maybe if I had started with it instead of things like hoops and soccer I would have been okay, but after those sports baseball seemed immensely tedious.
2) That ball is hard as F man. I had been hit in the face in the other sports and it sucked. But it didn't suck anything like getting hit by a baseball. Hard pass on that. This probably was more impactful that reason #1 to be honest.
It was the only sport I was good at it, so the only one I played in high school.
I still haven't forgotten the worst pain I've ever felt from it though. Playing catcher at the age of 14. Pitcher threw a curve ball in the dirt, and curveballs always bounce weird. I shifted over to block it, and the ball bounced up and hit the bottom of my cup, where just enough sack was poking out.
To this day, I don't think I've felt worse pain. Only time after the age of 8 that I cried on a baseball field, and there was no stopping them either.
Glad your lineage was not cut short. Crying was definately allowed in baseball that day.
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I played indoor soccer when I was in HS and I had a three game stretch where I got a ball teed off into the nuts. Third time I puked in the box when I came off the field. I didn’t go back after that.
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One of the scariest things about softball is that third basemen suck shit most of the time.
So you are trucking down the first base line and there is a solid chance once in a while you’re going to get hit with a screaming ball going nowhere but your hip or back.
So you are trucking down the first base line and there is a solid chance once in a while you’re going to get hit with a screaming ball going nowhere but your hip or back.
Yeah as a wasted third basemen I found that I would generally have more time to make the play if I could peg someone in the head early.
I take it that you are not a fan of whiffle ball rules in men’s softball.
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Why I’d just try to slap the ball opposite field. At least when it didn’t get out of the infield my chances of dying would decrease.
Getting hit sucked, but I was usually drunk enough to not feel too much pain til the next day... I'd always get a little worried when I'd sling a ball from 3rd to 1st or even from the outfield on a throws home and it would come dangerously close to knocking out some hot little sorority girl who absolutely never expected the throw..
Then it would be a bunch of folks lookin at you like yore some try hard douche when the problem really was that you cared so little about the score that you were so drunk you couldn't throw the ball in a straight line. Good times
