*** VD 13 Commentary Thread ***

[Ken]

Do like Miguel Vargas and see how often you can reach base without swinging.

Those things don't have bases.

[Kevin Seitzer]

Those things don't have bases.

as far as you know

[Ken]

as far as you know

so 17 miles?

[The Feral Slasher]

This thread represents all that's good and holy about Rotojunkie.

well, that's just,like...one man's opinion

[heyelander]

mermaids are underrated builders. Not like those slacker Mermen.

ethel?

[Kevin Seitzer]

ethel?

Ethel Merman's Mormon Mermen

[heyelander]

so 17 miles?

Lose yourself in the baseball, the moment, you own it

[heyelander]

Cripes, how do we add photos from the interwebs now?

[Kevin Seitzer]

Cripes, how do we add photos from the interwebs now?

You can still do it by manually putting the hyperlink between img tags

[ img ] http://yourimage.com/image.png [ /img ]

without the spaces in the tags

[heyelander]

Those things don't have bases.

.....

[heyelander]

mermaids are underrated builders. Not like those slacker Mermen.

You know who are really good builders? The fuckin' Amish!

[Kevin Seitzer]

And the best of both worlds....Amish mermaids

[The Feral Slasher]

And the best of all worlds....Amish mermaids

fixed

[The Feral Slasher]

You should do it.

And congratulations on making it 1/80 of the way to a million poasts.

So I took Step 1 and drove to the batting cage today. I was really curious and a bit concerned how it might go. I started wearing glasses occasionally a few years ago, my vision used to be 20/13, but not so sharp now. So I'm wondering...should I be wearing glasses ? Nope, I went in naked, ha ha. I went straight to "slow baseball" stall where it was apparently 45mph. I was all over that shit. It's like riding a bike, lol. 20 swings was more tiring than expected though, i was not quite gasping for breath after the last pitch.

So I moved on to the "baseball medium" speed. their (I assume that is the right pronouns, lol) 60 mph heater was still no match for the Slasher. Didn't swing and miss at all, but did foul off about a third of the pitches. Made good contact on about a third (liners, low fly balls) and grounded about a third of them. So it was pretty encouraging and a lot of fun for the 3 dollars I spent !

Injury report- went in with a stiff neck, didn't aggravate it too much, no IL stint required.

Next step - clean the garage and try to find my glove for tryouts tomorrow (or a week from tomorrow if I can't find a glove)

[The Feral Slasher]

So I took Step 1 and drove to the batting cage today. I was really curious and a bit concerned how it might go. I started wearing glasses occasionally a few years ago, my vision used to be 20/13, but not so sharp now. So I'm wondering...should I be wearing glasses ? Nope, I went in naked, ha ha. I went straight to "slow baseball" stall where it was apparently 45mph. I was all over that shit. It's like riding a bike, lol. 20 swings was more tiring than expected though, i was not quite gasping for breath after the last pitch.

So I moved on to the "baseball medium" speed. their (I assume that is the right pronouns, lol) 60 mph heater was still no match for the Slasher. Didn't swing and miss at all, but did foul off about a third of the pitches. Made good contact on about a third (liners, low fly balls) and grounded about a third of them. So it was pretty encouraging and a lot of fun for the 3 dollars I spent !

Injury report- went in with a stiff neck, didn't aggravate it too much, no IL stint required.

Next step - clean the garage and try to find my glove for tryouts tomorrow (or a week from tomorrow if I can't find a glove)

found a baseball glove, it's a pretty nice Rawlings...but kinda small, might have been for one of my kids. also found all the baseball bats from my childhood, taking them to goodwill tomorrow. Lots of good memories from playing BB as a kid. The Jeff Burroughs H&B was great back in the day, but not sure a 30 inch bat will do the job.