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From: Steve Robbins on 24 Oct 2009 13:19 Brad Filippone wrote: > On Oct 24, 1:06 pm, "Dano" <janeandd...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >> Pearly Soames wrote: >>> RulesChan...(a)RSN.com wrote: >>>> What rock have you been living under? Football has been the national >>>> pasttime for the last four decades at least. >>> It's a fake sport, just like all the others except for baseball. >> I guess that was an attmpt at humor...but "fake sport"? Really? Weak. > > As opposed to a real sport like bowling? :) Don't be dogging bowling now! -- The Unofficial a.s.b.b-r Reference Page http://redsox.robbins-ut.com/index.html
From: OceanView on 24 Oct 2009 15:15 Steve Robbins <srobbins31(a)yahoo.com> wrote in news:hbvcv3$3k8$1 @news.eternal-september.org: > Brad Filippone wrote: >> On Oct 24, 1:06 pm, "Dano" <janeandd...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >>> Pearly Soames wrote: >>>> RulesChan...(a)RSN.com wrote: >>>>> What rock have you been living under? Football has been the national >>>>> pasttime for the last four decades at least. >>>> It's a fake sport, just like all the others except for baseball. >>> I guess that was an attmpt at humor...but "fake sport"? Really? Weak. >> >> As opposed to a real sport like bowling? :) > > Don't be dogging bowling now! > Curling. Now THAT is exciting! http://www.dakotacurlingsupplies.com/brushes.htm -- ------- Golf is a good walk spoiled.- Mark Twain
From: OceanView on 25 Oct 2009 00:18 Giovanni Wassen <extatix(a)gmail.com> wrote in news:Xns9CAE56EB8A4214815162342(a)217.19.16.66: > McDuck wrote: > >> I saw a bit on ESPN with Buck Showalter. He claimed that he times >> some players. For most, runnig through first was faster but for a >> few, the dive was faster. But you have to dive fairly late --- not >> the kind of head first dive into second. Takes a lot of practice, >> apparently, for the dive to be faster. > > Didn't the baserunner try it during Pedroia's very very very slick > play in Buchholz' no-hitter? > I've no stats to support this, but I can't ever remember a player sliding into first and being safe. -- ------- Golf is a good walk spoiled.- Mark Twain
From: Dano on 25 Oct 2009 00:22
"OceanView" <F(a)chance.org> wrote in message news:Xns9CAF31181739373(a)216.196.97.131... > Giovanni Wassen <extatix(a)gmail.com> wrote in > news:Xns9CAE56EB8A4214815162342(a)217.19.16.66: > > > McDuck wrote: > > > >> I saw a bit on ESPN with Buck Showalter. He claimed that he times > >> some players. For most, runnig through first was faster but for a > >> few, the dive was faster. But you have to dive fairly late --- not > >> the kind of head first dive into second. Takes a lot of practice, > >> apparently, for the dive to be faster. > > > > Didn't the baserunner try it during Pedroia's very very very slick > > play in Buchholz' no-hitter? > > > > I've no stats to support this, but I can't ever remember a player sliding > into first and being safe. > > -- I can't cite an actual example, but I sure have. Usually to avoid a tag on a bad throw. I tend to agree it's rarely a wise move. |