serious lols at this: Areas of Interest (baseball): Reading Bee OK's comment when the Giants are losing.
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 1 August 2014 16:33 (nine years ago) link
Thanks, VHS. Believe it or not, I just now figured out your display name. (Not the VHS acronym--I was going to say you'd have to know the Expos, but I see now that VH is still around. Had no idea.)
― clemenza, Friday, 1 August 2014 17:31 (nine years ago) link
Found Andy K's playing background really interesting. I won't fill out the whole questionnaire, but I would like to make it a matter of public record that I was league MVP--well, tied with Jim Peardon, actually--when I was 13. And then, as Jim Bouton says, the big kids got out of school.
― clemenza, Friday, 1 August 2014 17:38 (nine years ago) link
i would like jim in glasgow to answer these questions!
also:
Best offensive player: Ryan Howard― Andy_K (Andy_K), Tuesday, October 3, 2006 8:01 AM (9 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Andy_K (Andy_K), Tuesday, October 3, 2006 8:01 AM (9 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― mookieproof, Friday, 17 June 2016 01:07 (seven years ago) link
2006!
― Andy K, Friday, 17 June 2016 01:41 (seven years ago) link
^^^ andy amaro
― mookieproof, Friday, 17 June 2016 04:31 (seven years ago) link
http://image.mlive.com/home/mlive-media/width620/img/cutoffman/photo/021510-dave-dombrowskijpg-1626b49e2d55ee8e.jpg
― Andy K, Saturday, 18 June 2016 01:48 (seven years ago) link
Quote this tweet with the VERY FIRST baseball player mannerism you copied as a kid.— Brandon Warne (@Brandon_Warne) November 14, 2017
1. willie stargell's 'wind-up' while waiting for a pitch2. probably john candelaria's delivery
even though both those dudes were left-handed and i am not
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 16:01 (six years ago) link
my brother and i would play wiffle ball in our backyard (a home run was one that landed on the roof of the house or went over the fence parallel to the house) and we'd play as teams, but only the teams we were familiar with. he defaulted to the cubs, i'd wind up as whatever opponent they'd play. lots of Cubs vs Expos and Pirates games. not because those teams were our favorite opponents but because we had two plastic helmets in addition to the Cubs one, and those were the two teams.
I'm pretty certain that the first stance I copied was Tim Raines (only his right-handed stance, til i learned to bat from the left side as well a couple years later.)
pitching-wise, i can't remember who i copied.
our six-yr old currently copies Kris Bryant's stance pretty damn well.
― omar little, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 16:50 (six years ago) link
I don't know if I ever did so in actual games, but when I still played at 12 or 13, I'd imitate Carew's batting stance and Tiant's motion.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 18:46 (six years ago) link