Category: Sports
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If I Had A Baseball Name
As a major league pitcher, I can think of some cool names I’d like to have like:
Neckball
Wiffmaker
Striker
AimengroinOn the list of undesirable names, I’d have to include:
And if I was a Twin or Ray and was forced to play inside, I’d probably want a name like:
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Hitting .406
I just finished a wonderful baseball book, “Teammates” by David Halberstam.
The baseball history and tidbits are fantastic in this book. It’s also a book about a dear friendship between Ted Williams (the only major league player to ever hit over .400), Dominic DiMaggio, John Pesky and Bobby Doerr.
Of Ted Williams .406 season, Halberstam writes:
“I think in that sense the .406 is special and defining, not that he was the last man to accomplish it, but much more important was the way he did it. On the last day of the season, Boston faced the Philadelphia Athletics in a doubleheader and Ted’s averaged rounded out to .400 and [Red Sox Manager] Joe Cronin offered him the day off. But Ted Williams did not round things out, and he had played, gotten six hits, and taken the average up to .406.”
With an end like that, how much more special was Williams’ feat? This man marched to the beat of his own drummer.
Will you be remembered not only for what you did, but how you did it?
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Amazing Hole In One Golf Shot (Actual Footage)
According to this YouTube user, the following is actual video footage from a security company video training course in 1997. The character is a clumsy, nerdy professor who tries every sport from baseball to tennis to fishing — and can’t do anything right during the video until the end when he finally succeeds.Apparently it was this guy’s acting debut and he retired from acting just days after wrapping 9 training videos and hundreds of hours of filming. This guy better hope no one has more of this video footage!
According to the YouTube description, this shot was supposed to ricochet off the bricks and out of camera view — another failed attempt for the Super Nerd professor. Instead, the ball hit the bricks, popped up and landed right in the cup!
Supposedly, this is actual video footage with no studio tricks except for the music and some styling.
Whoever this goofball is, I hope he never goes into politics. The negtive ads would be brutal!
Yes. That is me.
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Cleveland Browns “Bottlegate” – My View
My endzone view of the Cleveland Browns “Bottlegate” game on December 16, 2001:
Bottlegate December 16, 2001 -
182 Days Until Opening Day
Let the countdown begin!
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The Perfect T-Shirt
Amen and Amen.
