I Want A 50 MPH Curveball Tosser

[ssstump]

On the bright side though.

I did get pretty good at basketball. :-)

[Tycobbler]

Now a basketball i know i can hit

[damientheomen3]

Originally Posted by Tycobbler

Now a basketball i know i can hit

I would probably bat .077 in a baseball league that uses a basketball instead and where pitches are thrown at 50 MPH

[ssstump]

Oh !

I just noticed that I have been promoted to 'Rookie Ball' and am not a 'Bat Boy' any longer!

Warm fuzzies!

And that reminds me of the first guy I promoted up to the the big league club and then i saw the beaming smile on his profile page. I actualy got goose bumps.

How stupid is that? :-)

[bubba22plus]

Hmmmmmmmm...... what am i? I know! I'll post and find out.

Double AA. Darn.

[damientheomen3]

triple A biznotches!

[hitmanwa]

First one I ever saw throw one was Ramon Martinez. Crazy looking pitch that handcuffed guys. Glen Davis, with the Astros at the time, yanked one out and he attributed it to playing a lot of softball.

[Left-handed Badger]

Originally Posted by sfeldkamp

Greinke used to screw around with throwing one every once in a while. Slowest I saw was 52 I think.

Soria still throws one occasionally, usually it's in the upper 50s though.

That's just rude to the hitters.

Why? They get paid to hit it. Pitchers get paid to get them out.

[Left-handed Badger]

Originally Posted by BMW

I can throw less than 50mph with BOTH ARMS.

Me too, but I throw like a sissy girl righthanded.

(which in one way is a shame I could only get splitter grip with my right hand, I dont know why)

[Left-handed Badger]

Originally Posted by ssstump

Maybe you 'slow' pitchers could copyright a new pitch.

Streaks in at 60, but then completely runs outa gas right over the plate and drops straight down to thunk off the plate.

Hehe - Just teasin ya.

I'm the guy that had a Zero batting average my second year of Little league. :-)

Unfortunate incident catching in the middle of January for the horse sized pitcher that lived next door to me and could throw harder than any kid oughta be allowed to throw.

Zero degrees - Hunkered down in the snow - Fastball - Never even touched my glove before it hit me square on the nose. My batting average went right to pot afta that. :-(

Thank God for computer games, eh?

Hey, I was mainly only good at pitching. My best batting average ever was .222 one year in JV. (though my OBP was I think .462, yeah, I had the eye )

[Questdog]

Originally Posted by Left-handed Badger

Hey, I was mainly only good at pitching. My best batting average ever was .222 one year in JV. (though my OBP was I think .462, yeah, I had the eye )

My first year I ever played in Little league I had a 1.000 OBP......

I NEVER swung at a pitch and walked every time. I was only allowed to bat once a game and play an inning or two of RF. One game near the end of the season, the coach put me in RF. In the bottom of the inning, I was due third in the order and I was looking through the bats for a stick. The coach said, "What are you doing?"
I said, "Getting a bat."
He said, "What do you need THAT for?"

In the last game of the season, the coach who was at third base, called time out when I was at the plate with no one on base and motioned me over to confer, "I want you to swing. I don't care where the pitch is, SWING!"

So, I did and fouled it off the screen. The coach hollered, "That's the way! Same thing, now!"

Second pitch, I popped up to second, but the kid dropped the ball and I was safe at first. The coach ran across the diamond and hugged me, and I was so happy-silly, I didn't know what to do.....

He gave me a hit in the scorebook....

[adamosity]

I was the James Bond of Little League...

my career batting average was about .007 :-)

[numbuh48]

Mine was .009 (1-for-106)

My brother counted.

[KurtBevacqua]

At the end of his career Ross Grimsley threw a 50mph breaking ball when he was with the Indians. It wasn't a blooper pitch per se, although it did drop about three feet in the strike zone. It was a lot of fun watching a guy like Dave Parker take a full swing at it and miss. I don't recall anyone ever hitting anything other than a foul ball or weak grounder on it. Grimsley's problem by that time was that his fastball was only around 80, and well, you can figure out for yourself that big league hitters didn't have too much problem lighting that one up.