Re: 11.

That's not remotely funny. Nor witty. Come on, son. I expect a little better from you.

fret

A guy I work with has one of Steve Garvey's Championship Rings. He gave it to him to spy on a wife or g/f who he was suspicious of. I can't remember the actual details of the situation. It was a woman in Atlanta, though ...

Jet, the irony of that is pretty hilarious.

#21 Oops. Didn't get the "your sexuality is fair game, mine is off limits" memo. My bad.

I'm really really sorry, I apologize unreservedly. I do, I offer a complete and utter retraction. The imputation was totally without basis in fact, and was in no way fair comment, and was motivated purely by malice, and I deeply regret any distress that my comments may have caused you, or your family, and I hereby undertake not to repeat any such slander at any time in the future.

Re: 24

No dude. Not that it's off-limits, it's just not funny.

You've done better. At least IHMO.

fret

Ouch. Now that REALLY hurts.

Controling the game is why I pitched. And other than a few glancing line drives off of my head, it was a lot less damaging than even one year as a catcher.

Catchers like having an old guy bending right over them from behind for 9 innings..

hence they're called catchers..

wheel,

#27 Pitchers only think they are in charge. A good catcher doesn't let a pitcher think too much. They're usually not good at it. Sort of like NFL kickers.

#28 That argument is tautological, and therefore, we reject it.

^ Tautology = repetition,,

So the Ump is Humping the catcher in a repetitive manner.

Also Ump is short for Hump..

wheel,

My son played catcher and "pitcher"(behind the coach) last night.

I told him you had a great game tonight buddy. He said, "Yeah I had lots of catches when I was on the Pitchers Mountain."

Gotta love a 7 year old!!!

If there is any doubt that a catcher who can handle a staff can stick in the Majors without a bat, see Chad Moeller--cut by multiple teams, but is starting tonight for the Yanks. Every time a starting catcher is injured, someone picks him up. If I had a son, I'd have him be a lefty reliever, a field goal kicker or a defensive catcher.

I Played Catcher because i wasn't fast but i hit like 800 and they needed to put me me somewhere.

34!!!!!!!!!!!!! And Jacks .800 BA!!!

#27 Pitchers only think they are in charge. A good catcher doesn’t let a pitcher think too much.

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That's a great point. I had two excellent catchers. One of which I saw last weekend. We talked baseball a bit and he told me something close to that.

He said when he knew there was no way I'd listen to him, he'd agree with me and and deal with it. For every couple of times he let me run wild, he'd offer his advice, which I would see as reasonable and I'd almost always do what he said.

Reading Pac's post now makes me chuckle. He's right.