Bonds Hits #756
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Iamforever
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rodriguez is scared of pop-ups. :rofl:
So now who are we supposed to ****? I say Henry Blanco!
ChefChiTown
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I do kind of **** him. I just **** the way he looks...there's something about his face that makes me angry.
Down with Blanco! 
Down with Blanco! Down with Blanco!
Down with Blanco! Down with Blanco!
ChefChiTown
The secret ingredient? MY BALLS
How about hating the Cubs TV and radio broadcast teams.They are fucking horrible!
That's what helps make the Cubs, THE CUBS.
How about hating the Cubs TV and radio broadcast teams.They are fucking horrible!
Dude, Len and Bob are quite entertaining. Pat Hughes is like the best around. Santo....not a fan. The White Sox crew is worst though! Holy crap! What a bunch of snooze artists! :*****:
And that's why the Cubs suck too!
ChefChiTown
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I agree with that. I'm a Sox fan (and a Cubs fan, easy, eaaaaasy) and it's hard for me to watch the games on TV. The only entertaining thing that comes out of their announcing crew is "HE GONE!!!".
Hawk actually has quite a few catch phrases that quite catchy. "Stretch" "Gasss" etc. But man, listening to him and DJ, they have the worst chemistry.
Bob Brenly(spelling?) is pretty good but Len Casper is WAY too exitable.Hughes play by play is good but I **** his voice and Santo...Well what can you say?It really doesn't get any worse than him.
On the other side of town...Hawk and DJ are good.They are like a couple of guys hangin' out talking about baseball.I like those two.Now Farmer and Singleton are a different story.I kind of like Singleton but Farmer is absolutly horrible and I hope they get rid of him by the time next season rolls around.
Earlier this season,Steve Stone(of all people) sat in for Farmer and he and Singleton were really good.Stone was calling the game with Hawk last night,but I hope that Stone becomes the permenant replacement for Ed Farmer.
The first year of Bob and Len was really unlistenable, but over time, I think they have really started to mesh well. Pat Hughes is the **** for me. One reason why this guy is so good, is cause he has to deal with Santo in the booth. I love Santo, but sometimes...he doesn't even know if he's on the air.
The Sox radio guys, yeah, terrible. I guess we'll have to agree to disagree about the tv crews. To me, DJ and Hawk are sooo boring.
And I don't want to talk about Stoney. I am STILL pissed at the Tribune for letting him go.
The first year of Bob and Len was really unlistenable, but over time, I think they have really started to mesh well. Pat Hughes is the **** for me. One reason why this guy is so good, is cause he has to deal with Santo in the booth. I love Santo, but sometimes...he doesn't even know if he's on the air.
The Sox radio guys, yeah, terrible. I guess we'll have to agree to disagree about the tv crews. To me, DJ and Hawk are sooo boring.
And I don't want to talk about Stoney. I am STILL pissed at the Tribune for letting him go.
You should be pissed about Stone.He was and still is the best color commentator out there.Hope he makes the South Side his permanent home.
Cubs, Sox, Cubs, Sox...wait what was this thread about?
I got me the Len Kasper and Hawk impressions down pat. And let me tell ya, that Len Kasper voice is harder to imitate than you think. Too bad I can't do it here. :weeping:
I got me the Len Kasper and Hawk impressions down pat. And let me tell ya, that Len Kasper voice is harder to imitate than you think. Too bad I can't do it here. :weeping:
Who can't do Hawk??? Len? LOL I'm glad we can't hear it here.
On Topic, I wish I could do an impression of Bonds swing....pre roids :eek:
ChefChiTown
The secret ingredient? MY BALLS
Interesting side note:
I just got done watching Mythbusters and they did a bunch of "baseball myths". Well, a corked bat actually makes it HARDER to hit HR's. Chew on that for a while.
Also, humid baseballs travel about 14% shorter of a distance than dry baseballs do. I thought that was pretty interesting.
Another thing, just to stay on topic with the thread...
Apparently, with the whole steroid scandal going on, Major League Baseball and Bud Selig are seriously considering a label for the current era. The "steroid" era. I think that's kind of sad, considering only a very, very few number of players have been accused of using performance enhancing *****.
I just got done watching Mythbusters and they did a bunch of "baseball myths". Well, a corked bat actually makes it HARDER to hit HR's. Chew on that for a while.
Also, humid baseballs travel about 14% shorter of a distance than dry baseballs do. I thought that was pretty interesting.
Another thing, just to stay on topic with the thread...
Apparently, with the whole steroid scandal going on, Major League Baseball and Bud Selig are seriously considering a label for the current era. The "steroid" era. I think that's kind of sad, considering only a very, very few number of players have been accused of using performance enhancing *****.
Interesting. The cork bat part especially surprises me.
Sometiems I will be watching Mythbusters and I will be thinking that 'this is so stupid'. But I am SO glad this show exists.
As for number 756? My first two thoughts were:
1) I wonder who got the ball and what's it worth (I found out later).
and 2) Thank goodness this fucking nonsense is FINALLY over.
There have been many studies about the effects of corked bats and all of them pretty much state that the advantage is small. You can swing it faster but it's also lighter so the ***** of the impact isn't as great and they more or less cancel each other out. I think it's estimated that with a corked bat you might be able to get an extra 10 feet out of a ball that is normally hit around 400 at best. Once in a while that might help you, but not often.
Now a bat that has a substance in it like bouncy balls are a whole different story. You can get a big advantage out of those, which is why some players have been caught with them falling out of there bat in the past when it broke. :1orglaugh
ChefChiTown
The secret ingredient? MY BALLS
They explained why corked bats don't really give you an advantage on Mythbusters. The weight and mass of the bat decreases which lessens the ***** with which you hit the ball. They did the test by building a rig that swung both a normal bat and a corked bat at the same speed and measured how fast the ball traveled off of the barrel of the bat when it was hit. With an 80MPH pitch, a normal bat made the ball travel just around 80MPH when it was hit. The corked bat, with an 80MPH pitch, made the ball travel about half of that, around 40MPH.
I do agree that faster bat speed does help, a little bit, when it comes to hitting a ball farther and harder. It's pure physics that can't be ignored.
It was a pretty cool show actually. I would recommend trying to catch a re-run of it.
