Any mags playing softball this summer?

**TJ.Brk** · 05-14-2007, 09:01 AM

Well I don't know about anybody else but summer time is playing ball for me. Anybody else lacing up the cleats for the summer?

My first league games are tonight, and first tourney is this weekend outside of Montreal. I can't wait.

And if you are looking for a wicked hot bat for slowpitch buy the Easton Fastpitch CNT 24oz 34" model SCN1B It is legal for all associations in slowpitch NSA, USSSA, ASA

The bat hits like the old Miken Ultra's. I'm not kidding.

**powdork** · 05-14-2007, 09:06 AM

Any fags playing softball this summer?

There, I fixed it for you.

**smmokan** · 05-14-2007, 09:08 AM

I'm playing with some friends in a rec league in Boulder... if anyone wants to fill in once in a while, let me know- we're almost always short a guy or two.

**Sensisnow** · 05-14-2007, 09:15 AM

I start playing here just after Memorial Day. We were supposed to start 6 weeks ago, but our manager collected all of our money, yet failed to pay the league in time.

**Steven S. Dallas** · 05-14-2007, 09:17 AM

We ballin', son. I fucking love it.

**TJ.Brk** · 05-14-2007, 10:14 AM

Originally Posted by Steven S. Dallas

We ballin', son. I fucking love it.

Ya man. Nothing beats playing ball in the summer. Just like skiing if I could play everyday I would be a very happy man. Here's to a safe summer for all of us. Especially pitchers. Where a helmet pitchers, I do when I get stuck pitching. Thank God I mostly play SS and LC.

**irul&ublo** · 05-14-2007, 10:17 AM

Originally Posted by TJ.Brk

Ya man. Nothing beats playing ball in the summer. Just like skiing if I could play everyday I would be a very happy man. Here's to a safe summer for all of us. Especially pitchers. Where a helmet pitchers, I do when I get stuck pitching. Thank God I mostly play SS and LC.

I thought you got booted from your softball league by a bunch of kermit lovers.

**rungsp** · 05-14-2007, 10:17 AM

Softball is a girls game (nothing wrong with that...if you are a girl).

Cricket is the only proper game, and the sooner you lot realise that the happier you will be.

**Steven S. Dallas** · 05-14-2007, 10:31 AM

Originally Posted by rungsp

Cricket is the only proper game, and the sooner you lot realise that the happier you will be.

Cricket has tea breaks. Softball has beer leagues.

I'm not going to say softball is a badass game by any means, but it's a lot of fun.

**irul&ublo** · 05-14-2007, 11:02 AM

Originally Posted by Steven S. Dallas

I'm not going to say softball is a badass game by any means...

There are a lot of big mean lesbians who will argue that point.

**kush1** · 05-14-2007, 11:21 AM

no softball for me, but the kickball starts at the end of the month!!

**RootSkier** · 05-14-2007, 11:25 AM

And fat dudes.

**slim** · 05-14-2007, 11:25 AM

Softball, Cricket, Kickball? You guys are all homos. My bloody knuckles summer league starts Tuesday.

**Natedogg** · 05-14-2007, 11:36 AM

Originally Posted by Steven S. Dallas

We ballin', son. I fucking love it.

Originally Posted by TJ.Brk

Ya man. Nothing beats playing ball in the summer.

'Ballin'' is hoops.

Id be playing hoops if my ankles didnt suck. Now Im stuck playing this 'softball' game...

Im 0-6 in two games. Three flies to left, and two lines to short. F'in dude robbed me--twice.

**stupendous man** · 05-14-2007, 11:57 AM

The fourth inning is the beer inning. You know we're playing ball!

**TJ.Brk** · 05-14-2007, 12:07 PM

Originally Posted by Natedogg

Im 0-6 in two games. Three flies to left, and two lines to short. F'in dude robbed me--twice.

It's early man. Sounds like you got your pitch to really yank on one the 3 times you flied out. So did you swing out of your shoes or what

**Steven S. Dallas** · 05-14-2007, 02:31 PM

Originally Posted by Natedogg

'Ballin'' is hoops.

Can it, you weak-ankled wussbag.

**Natedogg** · 05-15-2007, 07:23 AM

Originally Posted by TJ.Brk

It's early man. Sounds like you got your pitch to really yank on one the 3 times you flied out. So did you swing out of your shoes or what

Heh, yeah, one of the first pitches I swung and missed bad. Got the "whoooooaa, swingin for the fence, kid?!?" I play softball once a week each summer, and my batting sucks. What should should I do? Be a dork and go to the cages? Soft toss?

Originally Posted by Steven S. Dallas

Can it, you weak-ankled wussbag.

**~mikey b** · 05-15-2007, 07:26 AM

softball = lame

footie is where it's at

**half-fast** · 05-15-2007, 07:42 AM

don't go soft-play hardball!

**Natedogg** · 05-15-2007, 08:05 AM

Originally Posted by telemike

softball = lame

footie is where it's at

People who say softball is lame = lame (and probably soft)

Im on a 'footie' team, too. Actually, indoor was where I last decimated my ankle. My entire foot was black and blue for weeks, and whenever I didnt ice it, it ballooned out to the size of a grapefruit.

**72Twenty** · 05-15-2007, 08:39 AM

I'm not playing this year since I switched jobs and my old team from the last two years at my old job kinda disolved. In fact, I think some of my old team mates are in jail.

Anyway, it was fun. I might help a friend out coaching his son't baseball team. He is 7 and is in the pitching machine league this year.

**Steepdeepnlong** · 05-15-2007, 10:31 AM

Originally Posted by stupendous man

The fourth inning is the beer inning. You know we're playing ball!

Fourth inning? You must be in the minors, son. Our team considers beer to be part of the pre-game warm up ritual.

**TJ.Brk** · 05-15-2007, 10:33 AM

Originally Posted by Natedogg

Heh, yeah, one of the first pitches I swung and missed bad. Got the "whoooooaa, swingin for the fence, kid?!?" I play softball once a week each summer, and my batting sucks. What should should I do? Be a dork and go to the cages? Soft toss?

Actually the best thing is getting a batting tee. Set it up so it is about tit's high with the ball and just hit ball after ball. Forces you to swing up on the ball instead of down on the ball like a baseball swing.

Last night I swung out of my shoes on one and got a sacfly/RBI for it luckily to pad the average. Other than that I got a singe with 2 walks. Hey I'm batting a 1000

Bet that will end tonight LOL

**smmokan** · 05-15-2007, 11:07 AM

Hey TJ, I hate to break it to you, but you've got your ups and downs mixed up. In baseball, you actually swing down on the ball.... in softball, at least in my experience, you should swing more straight across, maybe a little bit down (not an uppercut though, that's for sure).

In my transition from baseball to softball, I found that the best way to look at a softball swing was to try to make it as long as possible, compared to a short baseball swing.