Jon Bon Jovi sucks.

I don't understand why FSMW cuts to the behind-home-plate cam. I don't need to see what Jeremy Hellickson's delivery looks like from a $600 seat. I pay $1,400 a year for cable so I can see it nightly on a 50-inch screen. Stop it.

I expect Tommy Pham back around the same time I expect Jordan Walden back. 

My biggest failure of little league baseball came in 1995. My plucky last-place team was taking the obviously stacked-against-us first-place team down to the wire. It was the bottom of the seventh and we trailed by a run. The bases were loaded with two outs against the best pitcher in the league. I stepped in against him. He had a funky delivery and threw really hard for a 9-year-old. I was just trying to make some contact.

The first pitch sailed above my head, sort of like the one to Wong. Feeling the pressure, I swung at it. Miss. Two pitches later, I finally made contact, but was retired on a ground out. Game over. There are many things I took for granted when I played sports as a kid, but swinging at that first pitch is probably the biggest. He was just as nervous as I was and I hacked at it.

Well, this has taken a bad direction.

tkihshbt wrote:

artie_fufkin wrote:

Jon Bon Jovi sucks.

He's a cowboy.

 
Great. Now I have that stupid song in my head.

Howard is about to hit a 500 foot home run ...

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tkihshbt wrote:

My biggest failure of little league baseball came in 1995. My plucky last-place team was taking the obviously stacked-against-us first-place team down to the wire. It was the bottom of the seventh and we trailed by a run. The bases were loaded with two outs against the best pitcher in the league. I stepped in against him. He had a funky delivery and threw really hard for a 9-year-old. I was just trying to make some contact.

The first pitch sailed above my head, sort of like the one to Wong. Feeling the pressure, I swung at it. Miss. Two pitches later, I finally made contact, but was retired on a ground out. Game over. There are many things I took for granted when I played sports as a kid, but swinging at that first pitch is probably the biggest. He was just as nervous as I was and I hacked at it.

 
At least you've moved past it ...

artie_fufkin wrote:

tkihshbt wrote:

My biggest failure of little league baseball came in 1995. My plucky last-place team was taking the obviously stacked-against-us first-place team down to the wire. It was the bottom of the seventh and we trailed by a run. The bases were loaded with two outs against the best pitcher in the league. I stepped in against him. He had a funky delivery and threw really hard for a 9-year-old. I was just trying to make some contact.

The first pitch sailed above my head, sort of like the one to Wong. Feeling the pressure, I swung at it. Miss. Two pitches later, I finally made contact, but was retired on a ground out. Game over. There are many things I took for granted when I played sports as a kid, but swinging at that first pitch is probably the biggest. He was just as nervous as I was and I hacked at it.

 
At least you've moved past it ...

LOL. Every time I watch a player swing at a pitch like that, it takes me back. It's stuck with me because the kids on that team were mostly assholes and I wanted to take them down a peg. 
 

Wainwright doesn't have his head in the game.

Something has to be done about Kolten Wong. 

tkihshbt wrote:

Something has to be done about Kolten Wong. 

 
The worst thing they could have done is trade for another second baseman. He's all screwed up.