I’ll just lift up my leg and wipe the rim off with my sock, then go about my business as if nothing happened.

Then you are dumb as fuck. Thanks for commenting.

Oh great, jellyfish have learned how to post internet comments.

Darren Sharper is a lot less dangerous in 2-D.

It doesn’t seem fair that people keep trying to communicate with you as if they’re your equals.

The best comment ever to hit the Internet, period. You the real MVP.

Oh, you gotta have a google to compete in today’s global marketplace. You just gotta.

Yup, you’re right. When they said “one or two years pro,” it made it seem like guys in the third year of their entry level deal would be available. But, like you said, that’s not the case.

I was just being sarcastic. The reply by the “Sports Talk” guy is a non sequitur. It’s totally irrelevant, has nothing to do with the hit batter, and ... I found it pretty funny (in a dumb kind of way). But no, it’s not really a “savage beaming”.

First Machado is hit with a pitch. Then “Sports Talk” follows up with a savage beaming of his own at the O’s on Twitter.

Yes, but not just that...a lot of players ability to get the ball up and down over a wall and under the crossbar has a ton to do with their body positioning and the amount of torque and power they generate with their body. With Payet it has a lot to do with how he keeps his body low and how far his plant foot is out…

This is not a very illustrative gif; a better angle would be from behind the ball or directly behind the goal. But to follow up on your baseball comprehension, dude essentially hit the keeper with a 95mph knuckleball, or maybe more like a sinker.

To put it in terms you’d understand? He threw a Clayton Kershaw curveball with his foot.

It’s actually the Magnus effect of spinning the ball.

His target area isn’t that much bigger than a few basketball hoops. He can’t go too high, can’t go low or it won’t get over the wall of bodies, can’t go too far left or right, and ideally it has to have enough power and swing on the ball to beat the goalie. So not only is it picking out a small target but also how the…

Imagine if a home run ball had to be hit within a roughly 8' x 24' window. Then imagine there’s a dude who is likely 6'+ standing there whose job it is to stop that ball. Then imagine you have to hit that home run with your foot instead of your hand.

It can, but Roberto Carlos intentionally put a reverse spin on the ball there, which was his specialty. My favorite was this one, on the run, which the keeper didn’t expect to go behind him.

That’s pretty rare (as far as wind), but putting rotation on the ball to curve the ball’s flight path is a very common technique at the highest levels—most commonly on free kicks and corner kicks. Just being able to do it is pretty hard, and doing it with precision is insanely difficult.

Here, watch the multiple angles of the replay. It gives a more complete picture of the curve and spin he had to put on the ball, and the accuracy it took to hit that spot on the inside of the far post where the goalkeeper couldn’t knock it away.

Go out to a practice with some high school or college kids and try it. The technique required along with the power is incredible. One of those things you can’t know until you go out and see for yourself because you are correct, it does look easy. But then so does catching a football or hitting a baseball really hard.