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Yeah the fact that I do what I do and I'm still around I guess I can consider myself lucky, but yesterday I took my son Jake (he's eight) to the batting cages. I put him in the slow pitch (about 39mph) and watched him for a bit and he was SMACKING the crap outta the balls. I decide it looks like fun...so I go over to the fast pitch cage (96mph top speed) and step up to bat (no helmet... duh)....well I let the first four pitches go by while standing away from the batters box to make sure that machine wasn't outta whack and I wasnt gonna get pelted...they all looked pretty good...I stepped up to the box and got my timing down and started nailing about one out of every three pitches...not bad for a guy who hasn't swung a bat in years I thought...this is kinda fun...so I put in more tokens so that I could do it again...I was getting even better with my timing and was at least fouling off every pitch now as well as nailing the before mentioned one out of every three...I think I musta pissed off the machine or something...I wasn't gonna let it strike me out and it knew it...so about 5 pitches from the last ball it had left...WHAM!!!....right into my ribcage...OMFG did that hurt like hell... I shook it off after letting two more pitches go by and stepped back up...swing!!!!...MUTHAFUCKA!!!! Thought I was gonna die from the pain that reverberated through my body from that swing...that was it ...I was done...went to go grab my kid (I let him finish his fun 1st)..and drove him home...then went to the hospital....thr broken ribs....I try to take my kid out for fun...have some good clean fun myself...and I end up having pain from just taking a deep breath..I'm sticking to titty bars!! [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
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Re: Sometimes I gotta question my luck
a couple of years ago we practiced batting with a couple of friends, I was the pitcher. I threw the ball, my friend hit the ball with all his power, the ball came right back to me, a nice shot to my shoulder, we used many different balls, baseballs, tennis balls, softballs etc. I'm glad it was the sofball at that moment [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] I could only imagine what could have happened to my shoulder if it would have been a real baseball."There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste" - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"To be stupid, selfish and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost" - Gustave Flaubert -
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I had a similar experience, but the ball didnt hit me in the ribs. I took a 60mph shot about 4 inches away from my crotch...to say that i dropped to the ground and screamed in pain is an understatement. Just thinking about how close to de-nutting me that thing came....*shudder*Comment
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Re: Sometimes I gotta question my luck
Three broken ribs, YIKES! [img]/images/graemlins/eek.gif[/img]You took too much, man. Too much. Too much.Comment
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Re: Sometimes I gotta question my luck
Sports are bad, mmmmmmK!Comment
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Re: Sometimes I gotta question my luck
Drugs are my anti-sport.Comment
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Your no Happy Gilmore..Comment
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Re: Sometimes I gotta question my luck
got hit with a 96 m.p.h. fastball in high school by a guy they yanked out of high school the very next year and went straight up to the majors. he threw a no hitter the next year for the milwaukee brewers as a rookie, he was 18, blew his elbow out and his career was over. he beaned me , i thought my arm was going to fall off. had an 80 m.p.h. bender to accompany it, i was lefty so was he. he had the advantage. many scouts that day at the game. it's a shame he blew his elbow out.Not helping the situation since 1965!Comment
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his name was juan Nieves.Not helping the situation since 1965!Comment
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Re: Sometimes I gotta question my luck
At my job we have these huge furnaces used for brazing parts. The furnaces run at about 2000 degrees Farenheit constantly. The parts coming out of the back can easily cause a serious blister if they touch bare skin - maybe 1st or 2nd degree burns.
A guy offloading a furnace for 12 hours last night didn't burn himself on a part even once, but he did burn his hand with his cigarette at break [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]I want to depart this world the same way I arrived; screaming and covered in someone else's blood
The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
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Re: Sometimes I gotta question my luck
Cigarettes are bad for you, mmmmk?Comment
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