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QUOTE (witesoxfan @ May 22, 2014 -> 09:49 AM) Shut up and hit a homer Still no homer yet

Those look cool. our custom jerseys are coming in next week I cant wait

I need to get rid of bad stomach fat. I know its mainly due to my poor diet. I eat a lot of junk and constantly drink sodas. I also am not too sure about where all this weight really is. I know I have somewhat of a gut, but I have not noticed any increase in my pant size. I weighed about 205-210 coming out of high school. Right now I am about 230-235. Yet I have a pair of cargo shorts I bought in like 2004 that still fit the same today. So I know my waist isn't whats been getting bigger. I have had P90X for about 4 years now, and have yet to get past 2 weeks of it mainly due to just not wanting to do it.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 19, 2014 -> 10:08 AM) No slaughter rule in the league? We had a rule that if you were up 20 after 3, 15 after 4, or 10 after 5, the game was over. Well there has to be a slaughter rule as they called the game last night after 3 innings when we were down 20-2. Im just saying that we paid to play, and we still had 4 innings and about 30 minutes of time left, why not just let us play. Better than only getting to bat twice and go home 30 mins early. Ok just looked it up, 15 after 3 and 10 after 5.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ May 19, 2014 -> 09:10 AM) There are no errors in softball . That sounds like a line drive single in the book Im playing with my 12"-12 1/2" Nokona baseball glove, im thinking I need an Slowpitch OF glove, but haven't noticed a huge problem yet. Although I wasn't able to snag that shoestring catch, and then in the first game almost had a line drive snow cone out of my glove.

QUOTE (chw42 @ May 19, 2014 -> 08:55 AM) Usually you can only run rule with about 15 or 10 minutes left and the score wouldn't even matter. Our leagues play at least 4 and a half innings. Since you seem to be the stat man around here, let me ask you if you would call this an error. A guy hit a pop that was behind second base, I came sprinting in from LCF and had to attempt a shoe string catch, the ball hit the palm of my glove and I didn't catch it. Would you score this as an error? An infielder wouldn't have been able to make the play, and I had to sprint to it just to have an attempt to catch it.

Heres what bothers me most about it. Our rules are 7 innings or 55 minutes, ok well we are losing 20-2 after 3 innings and about 25 minutes why call the game? I would rather get to play it out then go home 30 minutes early because we suck. I mean we did pay to play.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ May 19, 2014 -> 08:35 AM) Playing on teams like that is either a blast because it is so fun-bad, or it is a weekly death march. Either way, if YOU play good, other teams will notice, and you can parlay your good play into free agency Yeah its laughable bad and I don't mind too much as my main goal is to have fun, but it becomes less fun when you only get to bat twice in a game where you are in the 2 hole.

Well season started last night. We won the first game because the team we were playing didn't have enough people. So they picked up 5 guys and beat us 14-3. We still got the win by forfeit at least. Our second game we lost 20-2. They scored 12 in the first inning, the game only went 3 innings due to mercy rule. I batted 3rd the first game, and 2nd the second game. I got a whole 4 plate appearances in TWO games last night. I ended up 2/3 with a BB and a 2B. My lone out was a bases loaded line drive that the SS snagged, sucks too as it was headed for the gap between LF and LCF. Other than that, I gave up my pursuit of hitting a HR and instead opted to try and do what I thought I could do and just hit line drives for base hits every time. It seemed to work out pretty good as my two hits on the night were both line drives right over the infield. Our team is so bad though. Our RF and RCF cant judge fly balls so they either go way over their head or drp in front of them, and our lineup is a black hole outside of our first 4 batters. Its nothing but infield pop-ups or weak groundballs.

What are the odds that well ever see a Zelda game on a PS4 (Or whatever the next one will be called) Maybe?...

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ May 15, 2014 -> 07:56 PM) They do talk about the Dolphins too much as well. But yes, if LeBron were to leave, the Heat would rarely be mentioned. I think you only think that because of the bully gate thing last season, when they were pretty much forced to talk about the Dolphins non stop. Other than that, I almost never hear Dolphins talk from ESPN that isn't general "signed player x" or "drafted player x" which is done for all teams.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 15, 2014 -> 04:18 PM) It could be. Drop your swing angle to a line drive swing and see if that changes it. If not, it is probably timing. Me personally, I'd bet on timing because you see most guys who just start playing softball, after playing baseball, have that same problem. Well, to be fair I haven't played organized baseball since 2002.. but I only have 10 slowpitch softball games under my belt

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 15, 2014 -> 03:48 PM) The biggest adjustment from baseball to softball is the speed of the game messes people up. Everything is slow. Wait and then wait some more. If you are rolling over on the ball on the ground or popping it up, your swing angle is bad, and you are getting either on top of, or under the ball. From the sounds of, you aren't letting the ball get deep enough on you. Slow. Slow. Slow. That is the key for a softball swing. Let the ball come to you. My initial thought is that I am putting too much uppercut on my swing. I almost never hit ground balls, they are all deep into the air. I am missing out on just a little bit of distance and I believe it is due to the uppercut. That is something from baseball that is tough to initially break out of. I will try waiting a little bit longer on Sunday and see how that goes, I am hitting about 99% of my balls to dead left/slight left center so I might be swinging too early.

Here what it says about the ball " TRUMP STOTE AK-RP-ASA A-Y cor.52 12 inch Balls for men " Also, anyone know where I can get a custom white glove?

Yep, I would say they are prolly 300' down the lines. Also see that we use 12" balls

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ May 15, 2014 -> 03:19 PM) Limit is 1? Wow, either your field is huge or you guys have flight restricted balls The fields seem pretty big to me, but I also dont know the exact dimensions. What size field do you play on.

QUOTE (chw42 @ May 15, 2014 -> 02:53 PM) Then honestly, you should continue doing it. I honestly don't know anyone who can get a hit every single time (maybe 75-80% of the time, but never all the time). The fact that you can apparently get on base on-demand is way better than hitting the occasional home run. Like Kyle said, keep hitting line drives. The home runs will come. I've hit HRs that were more or less line drives and those feel way better than a towering fly ball that just happens to go out. Also, doesn't your league have a HR limit? Our league doesn't sound quite as competitive as some of yours. Most people out there are in their mid to late 20's but there are some older gentlemen as well mixed in. Hell I could prolly hit a ground ball to short and with my speed and odds of a bad throw get on base almost every time that way. However, I have found that I can pretty much stroke a ball right over the 3B/SS area at will. Ive been thrown out on two ground balls, and that's because I am a sore loser who doesn't run hard when I don't get good contact on the ball but I am working on that. The majority of my outs though are flyballs out to deep left/left center. I would venture to guess I hit about .800 last season, didn't have any homeruns obviously but lots of doubles and triples. Our limit is 1 HR, but like I said no one on our team outside of myself and maybe two others will ever hit a HR or even come close. The majority of them we are just praying they don't strike out.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ May 15, 2014 -> 02:40 PM) Since you are just starting, just concentrate on hitting the ball hard, not trying to hit it out of the park. I know you are a big dude, once you "get it", it will be easy for you. Once you start smoking line drives all over, the homeruns will come. I can already do that though, I just want to hit one home run and then I will go back to just hitting line drives. Im just thinking maybe im not swinging correctly since im just used to baseball and not slowpitch softball.

QUOTE (chw42 @ May 15, 2014 -> 02:32 PM) Few questions. What kind of softball is this? 12 inch? What association? If it's 12 inch and it's ASA, what bat are you using? If you're hitting balls to the fence with an aluminum bat, then that is mighty impressive. Getting a composite will turn you into a real good home run hitter. If you're using a good composite bat and you're only hitting to the wall...then stop trying to hit home runs. Yes, they're nice, but your job in softball is to get on base. A team full of guys who get on base at a .700 clip will be way better than a team with 3-4 sluggers who can hit the ball out 25% of the time. Im only trying to hit home runs because I just want to hit one, im the only person on the team who has gotten even remotely close to hitting a home run. After I hit one, I will just hit line drives to short left and get singles or doubles every at bat, that's something I can do every time fairly easily. Our team really isn't that great, we have a bunch of guys who have multiple strikeouts already in just 10 games. Most of our players ground out, or weakly pop up in the infield. We have about 4 of our 13 guys who can hit somewhat decently. It would appear to be ASA

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ May 15, 2014 -> 02:19 PM) My first question would be, does your league use flight resistant balls? and my second would be what bat are you using. Other than that, i would think your timing is just a bit off. I don't know about the type of ball they use I have been using a Psycho.. they have a bunch of bats, but like I said im not 100% sure about what all this softball stuff is just yet

Boy, the soundtrack for The Show is absolutely terrible.

I am on a work team that we just started in March. This is my first time playing competitive softball, but I have played baseball for a good portion of my life so its not much different. We ended the first season 2-8, including a wonderful 34-5 loss in one of those games. I am trying to hit home runs, but I can seem to get the right swing down. Ive hit the fence a few times, and I know im plenty strong enough to get the ball out. Any of you seasoned softball players have any advice for this? I could probably bat 1.000 but I end up popping out to deepish left and left center regularly because I am trying to hit the ball out of the park. Our second season starts Sunday, hopefully we will be a little better than last season.

QUOTE (Tmar @ May 15, 2014 -> 12:34 PM) Bills suck, dolphins suck, bears suck, cowboys best team in league. Oh you mean Cowboys one playoff win since 1996 lolololol

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ May 15, 2014 -> 12:10 PM) The AFC had 4 of the worst 5 teams in the league last year, and the Seahawks absolutely crushed the Broncos in the Super Bowl, while the week before Seattle and San Fran played a game down to the wire. The Cardinals went 10-6 and missed the playoffs (and could have gone 11-5 and still missed), while the Chargers went 9-7 and made it. I don't think anyone's comparing it to the Eastern Conference, but it wasn't close. The NFC was absolutely superior last year. Well agree to disagree. On the superior part anyways, I acknowledge the NFC was better.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ May 15, 2014 -> 11:55 AM) I think it's really hard to argue that the AFC was even close. I think the best 2 teams in the NFC far outclassed the teams 1-6 were way better in the NFC and the teams are the bottom in the NFC were better than the weakest teams in the AFC. How can it be hard to argue when the NFC went 34-30 vs the AFC? Shouldn't that right there be enough to tell you that they weren't as far superior as everyone seems to think? And that record includes 3 teams that were 0-12 against the NFC. The NFC had a division winner with 8 wins, all AFC division winners had 11+ wins. The NFC had 3 teams with 4 or less wins, the AFC had 4 The NFC had 6 teams with 10+ wins, the AFC had 5 The NFC had 9 teams with a .500 or worse record, the AFC had 10 While the NFC was better last season, lets not act like the AFC was the Eastern Conference in the NBA