Not enough stars for this. I’ve never reached your level of proficiency, but I was an instructor for a bit right out of college. It’s amazing how many players - good and bad - get obsessed with static position images, drills, target exercises, etc. Sure, you need all that shit to build a swing, or fix an identifiable…

Is it just me or is five minutes a long time to stand in the box swinging as hard as you can, for multiple rounds?

Whaaaaa? You mean the pitcher didn’t catch you in his perhipheral and tear a ligament, or the batter didn’t see you and get beaned in the face, or you, entering the concourse at such a uniquely dangerous time, didn’t get clobbered with a runaway bat?

They do! You know, don’t want to distract the hitter, who is definitely scanning the stands for moving patrons and not, y’know, keeping his eye trained on the projectile heading his way at 90+ mph. Not to mention the food and drink vendors who can traverse the stands at will, both wearing brightly colored clothing AND…

At Nationals games, they used to do that followed by a whole “honoring” of whatever troops they could find to seat up behind home plate. It took decades. I don’t think they do it every game anymore, which I’m fine with.

You sound like a lot of fun at said cookouts!

There is not one single damn thing wrong with a very, very cold Bud longneck (and only longneck, fuck a can or a draft pull) on a hot summer day. It might be the best of things.

I wonder what parasite infects the brains of dog owners and causes them to say, in an unequivocally positive sense, things like “I love having an animal that depends on me!”

Am I a huge tool for asking this question?

I mean, if we’re being reasonable, a test made to deceive rather than just evaluate knowledge retention isn’t exactly fair. Not to give a free pass to the kids who thought the answers just couldn’t be all the same, but, c’mon.

Lately I’ve been slaying with “Shut up and Dance” by Walk The Moon.

Bullshit. There is NO evidence of his hips opening in that clip, and the lower body gets moving first any time a hitter makes a move at a ball. Nor did his arm begin to extend. The elbow dropped straight down.

This is just the dumbest complaint against the announcers. They’re calling the game on the team’s local channel, where most everyone is also biased. Why wouldn’t I want my announcers to feel the same way I do?

Not to miss the overall point of the post, but I create a lot of content for AskMen and that article was published July 9 of 2011, and written even earlier. The tone of the site has changed a lot since then. The site is absolutely NOT run by MRAs; the managing editor is a woman, all but one editor I’ve worked with…

Oh, no question he shouldn’t have been in there (which, if anything, makes a fix even more likely). But he’s 51, not 81, and he was trying to choke a 41 year old Kimbo slice, not a rhinocerous. You get the crook of one arm under the chin (infinitely easier when your opponet is flat on his belly) and find a way to…

He sounds like a really fun guy to bring to a game.

I still think the fix was in, particularly evident in the takedown that led to the would-be choke. Kimbo basically gave him his leg. While, yes, it is difficult to choke someone with a neck measurement approaching 20”, I don’t think there are many people that Ken fucking Shamrock couldn’t choke when he has both…

Can someone explain to me how he winds up with all of these balls? I mean, I assume he does his homework, that before every game he looks at spray charts for players to see where they hit home runs, fouls, etc. But seriously, of all the people it just happened to be thig uy who caught A-Rod’s ball? Like, if he…

Also a pretty accurate reenactment of the Nats’ defense that game.

Well, but is it? Is a fishing boat so named because it carries fishermen, or because you fish on it?