Who would win in a DU vs. Free Republic Softball Game?

[absyntheNsugar]

I'm betting we would win, simply because I can pitch consistent no-hitters.

Your thoughts?

[JohnKleeb]

1. Who said you would be the pitcher?

I was a phenom but I was a reliever, a lefty to boot.

[absyntheNsugar]

9. Ahhh a lefty pitcher

We could really screw with them - I can pitch both Right and Left (I'm a rightie, but when I was a kid all I had was a leftie glove and hence, learned how to pitch both ways.)

[JohnKleeb]

17. both ways sweet

I was a closer btw.

[LeftCoast]

2. Hard to say...would they be allowed to continually change the rules?

LOL

[5thGenDemocrat]

3. I'm in

Good glove, no hit. Baseball was my best sport as a kid AND my church softball team (Sacred Heart Catholic) won its league championship in 1987.
John
Then we went to the regional tournament in Saint Charles and got our asses handed to us by some Baptists.

[JohnKleeb]

5. sounds like me, I was great in the field but I couldnt hit

Now you could put me at first base, outfield, or pitcher. I was a shortstop one time. In fact during my baseball years I played all the postions but catcher pretty good and unique for a lefty thrower no.

[5thGenDemocrat]

14. Yeah, I was a left-handed pitcher through Little League

And, interestingly enough, I was a catcher on the '87 Sacred Heart team. I wore number 29 -- same as my childhood hero, Mickey Lolich.
John
So, who's going over to FR to slap them in the face with a pitcher's glove? I think I'm barred over there.

[JohnKleeb]

19. If theres anything I am afraid of, its gonna over to FR

Lefthanded catcher, thats rare but it happens. I am rarest of the rare, a lefty thrower who hits right handed.

[Athletic Grrl]

34. You're Rickey Henderson!

LOL!

[Spirochete]

36. So am I

Throw left, bat right. Like Ricky Henderson, Bill Clinton, Poppy Bush...

[Scurrilous]

4. DU vs. Free Republic Softball Game.

If their counterprotests are any guide, no more than 3 or 4 Freepers would show up. Nevertheless, they'll declare victory and go home.

[VermontDem2004]

6. Of course we'd win

I was one hell of an outfielder for my high school team.

[DiverDave]

7. Um,

are you sure you want to be around those guys when bats are involved?
They seem to be the type that would get...um, stressed when they lose.

[CO Liberal]

8. DU - The Freepers Would Be Too Busy Guarding the Porta-Potties

:-)

[The Lone Liberal]

10. Softball, my ass! Let's get it on with a good old fashion gang fight.

The street-wise hard asses of DU against the pansy butt Freepers. Yea!

[5thGenDemocrat]

16. I'm down with that

I just got the bats out.
John
But, like I said, I never could hit worth a damn.

[wtmusic]

20. You'd never see Limbaugh run so fast

that big wuss

[greatauntoftriplets]

23. Yeah, I am a city broad.

Let's beat their asswipe asses.

[guitar man]

28. Right on!

Let's open up a can of Whoop Ass on
'em!!!!!!

[Lizz612]

37. Limit it to bats

Cause something tells me that freeps have more guns per capita than anyone but the Michigan Militia.
Those lazy white suburban ditto heads wouldn't even show! Just by pure numbers we've got them beat!

[guitar man]

39. The SOB's

...don't have any more guns than I do.:)

[VOX]

11. First base - 6' 5" w/ an 8'+ reach; can scoop 'em up and snag wild pegs...

Hit pretty well, but am pretty much a dead-pull hitter. I shoot for the left-center alley or the left-field line, and can usually drop a frozen rope in there.

Jeez, I can almost taste the beer!

:toast:

[mlawson]

12. If I were on the DU team, we would not win.

I am utterly uncoordinated when it comes to stuff like that. No sports for me.

[HEyHEY]

13. Probably FR

Cheaters and their corked bats

[VermontDem2004]

18. So?

They are huge and uncordinated, they couldn't hit the ball even if it was on a tee.

[HEyHEY]

21. true and a corked bat makes no diff when....

Your chain smokin', beef scarfing, fatass can't run the bases.

[CanuckAmok]

15. I think we'd get the high score, but FR would be declared "winner".

I'm not sure what makes me think that.

Precendent, maybe?

[theemu]

22. Five out of the nine umps agree...

Free Republic Wins!

[UrbScotty]

26. I think you're both right.

Unfortunately.

[MrTriumph]

24. Freepers have had practice

Freepers have had experience handling softball questions from the media for 3 years.

[Fovea]

25. Wow.

I don't think you want me standing amongst a field of Freepers while holding a baseball bat.
:think:

Nothing good could come of it.

[frylock]

29. please edit your post..

nothing but good could come of it!

[Terwilliger]

27. I'll hit your pitches

and shag the long-fly's

[Cheswick2.0]

30. I know there is at least one ex pro baseball player here at DU

I can't tell you who he is but I am sure he posts here on occasion. I think he is a lefty too.

[Endangered Specie]

31. Whose gonna choose the refs?

Anyhow, I would rather whip their asses at something else...


Chess - now that is a thinking man's game, freepers love to potray themselves as upright, elite, and elegant, what a better game than to beat them at.

Badminton - The only physical activity i am good at, and I bet all y'all can easily learn (if a 300lb guy can play reasonably good, so can anyone). I will short serve their asses.

Even better... A little online war game? Like Medal of Honor? or Halo?.. Now that I will kick their asses in bigtime!

[absyntheNsugar]

35. Wait a second...baseball/softball is not a thinking feller's game???

Besides the psyche out factor (involved on the mount every pitch) there is the the strategy of the game. Trust me, baseball is no grunt sport.

[Kolesar]

32. Freeps can only get 12 people to a prowar rally,can they even field a team

Ok, I am exaggerating, it was about twenty. But we have seen their whole bench now.

[Mikimouse]

33. I think we would win, but the real question is

how many of us would survive the game. We would win only because having to change clips tends to slow the freepers down and we would be able to get to base.

[camero]

38. We would win

The freeps would be too busy running away from our line drives.