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AZ / Alabama should be a great game. Also that little JMU pitcher shut down OU's offense for the most part. She's fun to watch.
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So which has a higher percentage of lesbians? Women's Softball or Women's Hockey?
My wife (former Softball player) says it's Hockey. I say it's Softball. |
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An ad for something on this page has a picture of Bill Clinton. How appropriate.
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Quoted: Women are just as good as men at everything. Move it back to 60ft pitchers mound and 90-foot bases. View Quote Jennie Finch Strikes Out Albert Pujols |
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Quoted: Quoted: Women are just as good as men at everything. Move it back to 60ft pitchers mound and 90-foot bases. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm9iZnqGMvY Fast forward to 1:35 to watch Bonds give Finch a lesson. He's talking her up while showing her up. This is a hint of what a major league hitter would do to a female fast pitch softball player if they were trying. Barry vs Jennie Finch |
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Ponytails.
I would say it is our best US women’s sport because Every girl gets introduced to it like soccer for Euros. Extensive travel leagues. |
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"They kicked me off the softball team because I wasn't gay enough." - The lesbian kid that used to work for me.
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Turn off the sound and the chants and it is pretty entertaining.
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In 2000 I was in a group of 40 or so Marines on a civilian flight from SoCal to Hawaii. Somehow we ended up seated amongst the UC Santa Barbara woman's softball team. They were going to a tournament at Univ of Hawaii.
While there were some bull dyke types, many of them were fit and friendly. So we did our best to chat them up, and ended up hanging out with them for the week they were there. A few "relationships" resulted. On our way back to back to the East coast, one Marine went UA from LAX to go hook up with the one he met. |
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Quoted: In 2000 I was in a group of 40 or so Marines on a civilian flight from SoCal to Hawaii. Somehow we ended up seated amongst the UC Santa Barbara woman's softball team. They were going to a tournament at Univ of Hawaii. While there were some bull dyke types, many of them were fit and friendly. So we did our best to chat them up, and ended up hanging out with them for the week they were there. A few "relationships" resulted. On our way back to back to the East coast, one Marine went UA from LAX to go hook up with the one he met. View Quote This Marine isn’t surprised by this story at all. However I’m shocked no Mile High memberships were earned on that flight or baby volleyball players or junior Marines were bred in flight. |
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Wow. Alabama pitcher throws first perfect game in 21 years in WCWS
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/softball/2021/06/05/softball-montana-fouts-perfect-game-alabama-ucla-wcws/7558646002/ |
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Quoted: Wow. Alabama pitcher throws first perfect game in 21 years in WCWS https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/softball/2021/06/05/softball-montana-fouts-perfect-game-alabama-ucla-wcws/7558646002/ View Quote Amazing that she did that after pitching to Arizona the day before, she struck out 16 in that game. MLB pitchers need a week off between starts. |
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Quoted: I always kind of brushed off woman’s softball, until one day my 40yr old neighbor tossed a few pitches past me. She was a pitcher in college (D1) and even at 40yr, that fucking ball had HEAT. I was immediately humbled. View Quote One of the kids on my son’s baseball team (8u) has a sister who plays select softball (11u). She can push the baseball on an overhand throw 60+ mph which would put her in the high average range for a male pitcher at that age. Then again she plays 3rd base and has to get the softball to first so that takes a pretty strong arm. |
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Quoted: Women are just as good as men at everything. Move it back to 60ft pitchers mound and 90-foot bases. View Quote Not speaking to the base paths but moving the mound back would help the pitcher more than you think. The movement that a skilled pitcher can get is amazing. Moving the mound back would only give the ball more time and distance to curve or rise. Something tells me you've never played fastpitch or even watched a woman's game. Having played men's fastpitch against pitchers who at the time were in the top 20 in the world, you don't just step in and start smashing. No hitters and 1 hitters are common. Double digit strike out games happen all the time and thats against some of the top players in the world. Watch the men's fast pithc world series. More than a couple former major league players and lots of dominican players. Also, google the king and his court. Eddie often pitched from second base and players still couldn't hit him. |
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Quoted: Wow. Alabama pitcher throws first perfect game in 21 years in WCWS https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/softball/2021/06/05/softball-montana-fouts-perfect-game-alabama-ucla-wcws/7558646002/ View Quote And while she was doing this, Holly Rowe and the ESPN crowd overshadowed it by continuing to talk about how great the UCLA team was. |
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Will be some great games today. My girl is a finalist for PGF All-American High School game on July 31st. It's supposed to be announced today during the WCWS. She's not a Power 5 commit so I won't be surprised if she's not picked. But still nice to be recognized as a finalist. I'm quite certain one of her Travel ball teammates will be selected to the West team though.
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Quoted: Amazing that she did that after pitching to Arizona the day before, she struck out 16 in that game. MLB pitchers need a week off between starts. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Wow. Alabama pitcher throws first perfect game in 21 years in WCWS https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/softball/2021/06/05/softball-montana-fouts-perfect-game-alabama-ucla-wcws/7558646002/ Amazing that she did that after pitching to Arizona the day before, she struck out 16 in that game. MLB pitchers need a week off between starts. Totally a different throwing style. Not much stress in the joints and muscles. They can pitch several games in a row without any stress. |
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Quoted: Not speaking to the base paths but moving the mound back would help the pitcher more than you think. The movement that a skilled pitcher can get is amazing. Moving the mound back would only give the ball more time and distance to curve or rise. Something tells me you've never played fastpitch or even watched a woman's game. Having played men's fastpitch against pitchers who at the time were in the top 20 in the world, you don't just step in and start smashing. No hitters and 1 hitters are common. Double digit strike out games happen all the time and thats against some of the top players in the world. Watch the men's fast pithc world series. More than a couple former major league players and lots of dominican players. Also, google the king and his court. Eddie often pitched from second base and players still couldn't hit him. View Quote No I didn't play it. I played baseball and even after I was done playing when I was 22, there were no fast pitch leagues around here. I dated a volleyball/softball player in college. I have seen enough of women's fast pitch softball to last any man a lifetime. It was so loud and annoying with all the chanting and screaming and yelling. I have seen the king and his court before. They are like the Harlem globe trotters of the softball world. |
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Quoted: Wow. Alabama pitcher throws first perfect game in 21 years in WCWS https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/softball/2021/06/05/softball-montana-fouts-perfect-game-alabama-ucla-wcws/7558646002/ View Quote And they said it was her bday too. |
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Quoted: Fast forward to 1:35 to watch Bonds give Finch a lesson. He's talking her up while showing her up. This is a hint of what a major league hitter would do to a female fast pitch softball player if they were trying. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbMA1RZ7GkA View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Women are just as good as men at everything. Move it back to 60ft pitchers mound and 90-foot bases. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm9iZnqGMvY Fast forward to 1:35 to watch Bonds give Finch a lesson. He's talking her up while showing her up. This is a hint of what a major league hitter would do to a female fast pitch softball player if they were trying. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbMA1RZ7GkA Yeah, they just need to see a few pitches to get used to it. |
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Quoted: Fast forward to 1:35 to watch Bonds give Finch a lesson. He's talking her up while showing her up. This is a hint of what a major league hitter would do to a female fast pitch softball player if they were trying. View Quote Back in the day, 60 Minutes correspondent Harry Reasoner got Reggie Jackson with a woman pitcher (can't recall her name). She smoked his ass. Jackson never even got a foul tip. About 6-7 years ago WWTN had Frank Wycheck teamed up with UT-K's second place pitcher. This is when UT went to the World Series final but lost to Arizona. Monica Abbot was UT's big dog but was unavailable for this test. 2nd place pitcher smoked Wycheck after he claimed he could go "yard" on her. He too never even got a foul tip, much less a hit. Wycheck was an All Pro NFL tight end who played a lot of baseball in highschool. Wonder how Bonds would've done had he not been suped up on HGH? |
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Quoted: Amazing that she did that after pitching to Arizona the day before, she struck out 16 in that game. MLB pitchers need a week off between starts. View Quote Studies show the underhand motion results in a lot less stress on the arm & shoulder. Male softball pitchers often pitch back to back games in one night. My dad played fast pitch when I was young & I often saw a pitcher throw a double header. |
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Can't believe Arizona gave up that 3 run homer. Feel bad for Candrea. Only hope he doesn't retire.
And Taryn Mowatt was hotter than Finch (who was super hot) Attached File Attached File |
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Quoted: Yes, a few hotties. I hear a lot of cuckish admiration from some. Why, I’ll never know. Forced to watch it by family sometimes and personal friends with one of the top travel team coaches whose players almost always get D1 full rides. Yet, too many appear to have their uniform manufactured by Coleman and are massive enough to have gravitational pull with the body of Peter from Family Guy. https://wp.dailybruin.com/images/galleries/softball-super-regionals/5.jpg https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/redandblack.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/3/fe/3fe1f328-9cbf-11e2-aeec-0019bb30f31a/515cca4fdc512.image.jpg http://i.4pcdn.org/sp/1462385217888.jpg And then there’s Chris Christie ?? https://blacksportsonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Chris-Christie-Softball-2-e1499728853592.jpg View Quote An extremely small number of girls get D1 full rides. There are only 12 allotted per team with a minum of double that many athletes the scholarships almost always get divided up and thus almost zero actual full rides. |
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Quoted: Can't believe Arizona gave up that 3 run homer. Feel bad for Candrea. Only hope he doesn't retire. And Taryn Mowatt was hotter than Finch (who was super hot) https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/86202/56428B8B-2899-482A-9B8E-65851C5EF6BC_jpe-1968842.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/86202/08237EE2-2D69-4993-917B-3D9389E15A87_jpe-1968843.JPG View Quote That's back when I watched when Taryn Mowatt was playing. I think she is a coach or something now? I don't know. I just remember that rear view. |
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Quoted: Back in the day, 60 Minutes correspondent Harry Reasoner got Reggie Jackson with a woman pitcher (can't recall her name). She smoked his ass. Jackson never even got a foul tip. About 6-7 years ago WWTN had Frank Wycheck teamed up with UT-K's second place pitcher. This is when UT went to the World Series final but lost to Arizona. Monica Abbot was UT's big dog but was unavailable for this test. 2nd place pitcher smoked Wycheck after he claimed he could go "yard" on her. He too never even got a foul tip, much less a hit. Wycheck was an All Pro NFL tight end who played a lot of baseball in highschool. Wonder how Bonds would've done had he not been suped up on HGH? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Fast forward to 1:35 to watch Bonds give Finch a lesson. He's talking her up while showing her up. This is a hint of what a major league hitter would do to a female fast pitch softball player if they were trying. Back in the day, 60 Minutes correspondent Harry Reasoner got Reggie Jackson with a woman pitcher (can't recall her name). She smoked his ass. Jackson never even got a foul tip. About 6-7 years ago WWTN had Frank Wycheck teamed up with UT-K's second place pitcher. This is when UT went to the World Series final but lost to Arizona. Monica Abbot was UT's big dog but was unavailable for this test. 2nd place pitcher smoked Wycheck after he claimed he could go "yard" on her. He too never even got a foul tip, much less a hit. Wycheck was an All Pro NFL tight end who played a lot of baseball in highschool. Wonder how Bonds would've done had he not been suped up on HGH? I think most of what you are seeing is baseball players not being accustomed to the angle the ball is coming from. Same reason submarine pitchers are effective even though they throw slower than most overhand pitchers. IMO Bonds being able to hit Finch so easily is his ability to adapt quickly to what a pitcher is doing. His playful "let me watch you throw a few" and then watching her go thru all her pitches was him calibrating. The final "let me stand in the box" was the last thing he needed. Once he saw a few from the batters perspective the calibration was final. He knew the angle, break, and speed, then he saw it from the box and knew he had her number. I also question a lot of these male vs female match-ups. A lot of times when the female dominates I don't think the guy is trying their best. I played a lot of sports growing up and saw several guy vs girl challenges. Guys almost always won. If they didn't it was due to a vast amount of difference in skill level. |
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Quoted: That's back when I watched when Taryn Mowatt was playing. I think she is a coach or something now? I don't know. I just remember that rear view. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Can't believe Arizona gave up that 3 run homer. Feel bad for Candrea. Only hope he doesn't retire. And Taryn Mowatt was hotter than Finch (who was super hot) https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/86202/56428B8B-2899-482A-9B8E-65851C5EF6BC_jpe-1968842.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/86202/08237EE2-2D69-4993-917B-3D9389E15A87_jpe-1968843.JPG That's back when I watched when Taryn Mowatt was playing. I think she is a coach or something now? I don't know. I just remember that rear view. She's UofA's pitching coach. |
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Quoted: Why? You want to make softball less challenging? The short distance is what makes it such a fast, intense game. There was a movie called "Fast Ball" that did a nice job of describing the history of throwing truly fast pitches. As it so happens, the ability to interpret and react to a 100mph fast ball from 60' is right at the theoretical limit of how fast the human brain can operate. If one were to throw a ball at 100mph from 45' it's beyond the ability of a human to see the ball come off the hand, determine if it's a ball or strike, swing and hit it. You'd have to begin your swing at the same time the pitching arm is coming down and commit to the swing before the ball leaves the pitchers hand. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Women are just as good as men at everything. Move it back to 60ft pitchers mound and 90-foot bases. Why? You want to make softball less challenging? The short distance is what makes it such a fast, intense game. There was a movie called "Fast Ball" that did a nice job of describing the history of throwing truly fast pitches. As it so happens, the ability to interpret and react to a 100mph fast ball from 60' is right at the theoretical limit of how fast the human brain can operate. If one were to throw a ball at 100mph from 45' it's beyond the ability of a human to see the ball come off the hand, determine if it's a ball or strike, swing and hit it. You'd have to begin your swing at the same time the pitching arm is coming down and commit to the swing before the ball leaves the pitchers hand. The reality is that a fast softball pitch from 43’ is the same reaction time as a fast baseball pitch from 60’. A 70 mph softball is equivalent to a 101 mph baseball in terms of batter reaction time. |
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Quoted: An extremely small number of girls get D1 full rides. There are only 12 allotted per team with a minum of double that many athletes the scholarships almost always get divided up and thus almost zero actual full rides. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Yes, a few hotties. I hear a lot of cuckish admiration from some. Why, I’ll never know. Forced to watch it by family sometimes and personal friends with one of the top travel team coaches whose players almost always get D1 full rides. Yet, too many appear to have their uniform manufactured by Coleman and are massive enough to have gravitational pull with the body of Peter from Family Guy. https://wp.dailybruin.com/images/galleries/softball-super-regionals/5.jpg https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/redandblack.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/3/fe/3fe1f328-9cbf-11e2-aeec-0019bb30f31a/515cca4fdc512.image.jpg http://i.4pcdn.org/sp/1462385217888.jpg And then there’s Chris Christie ?? https://blacksportsonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Chris-Christie-Softball-2-e1499728853592.jpg An extremely small number of girls get D1 full rides. There are only 12 allotted per team with a minum of double that many athletes the scholarships almost always get divided up and thus almost zero actual full rides. But colleges get creative. They take the scholarships allotted, divide them among the players, and augment them where they can with academic scholarships. So in essence it is a full ride. |
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They are different games. A baseball player is not really equipped to face a world-class softball pitcher. They did this same thing with cricket as well - while it's marginally related, it's a very different skill set.
Eddie Feigner is not a good example. Mostly myth, part entertainer. The majority of his "career" was in Globetrotter-type exhibitions, and this includes all of the stupid sideshows like behind the back or second base pitching. Ty Stofflet played competitive fastpitch from the beginning of his career to the end. It's evident from his exhibitions against MLB players that the swing angle is very different. Indeed it's quite challenging for a baseball player to make contact with an unadjusted swing. I guess the point is most baseball players, even professionals, would struggle with a good softball pitcher. Similarly, players from the average men's fastpitch league would be able to hit Finch and Osterman. |
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Quoted: Americans and territories of the British empire are the only countries that can compete, so they yanked it for more inclusive sports. View Quote I knew the olympic committee yanked softball, but I think it is coming back. They keep talking about players heading to the olympic training camp when the WS is over...? I am enjoying the games and pulling for the Tide. RTR |
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Quoted: They are different games. A baseball player is not really equipped to face a world-class softball pitcher. They did this same thing with cricket as well - while it's marginally related, it's a very different skill set. Eddie Feigner is not a good example. Mostly myth, part entertainer. The majority of his "career" was in Globetrotter-type exhibitions, and this includes all of the stupid sideshows like behind the back or second base pitching. Ty Stofflet played competitive fastpitch from the beginning of his career to the end. It's evident from his exhibitions against MLB players that the swing angle is very different. Indeed it's quite challenging for a baseball player to make contact with an unadjusted swing. I guess the point is most baseball players, even professionals, would struggle with a good softball pitcher. Similarly, players from the average men's fastpitch league would be able to hit Finch and Osterman. View Quote |
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