Pitcher Thread: Post your pitchers

[Inchworm]

:hi:

[Deja Q]

1. Oh come on. Catchers do all the work and everybody knows it!

:rofl:

[Inchworm]

7. hehe

You have a point there. Pitchers don't even have to play the whole game!

:rofl:

[Deja Q]

9. Quite!

:spray:

They can walk out whenever they want to. :(

[Catshrink]

2. Here ya go...

[Deja Q]

3. Hmmm, that looks like the latest design on an old model:

[BarenakedLady]

4. Hardy har har

[Inchworm]

10. That is loverly!

How are you this fine day, sexy?

flirt- flirt- flirt :loveya:

:hi:

[BarenakedLady]

13. Why thank you

I made that pitcher myself...

yeah, that's it.

With my own two hands.

Well that's my story and I'm stickin' to it!

I'm good today. I just got home from my weekly Pilates class, took a shower, and ate Chinese leftovers. The sun is shining, the birds are singing, what could be better?

How are you? Staying out of trouble?

:hi:

[Inchworm]

14. Sounds perfect!

All you need is theme music for such a day. In the future, try not to mention shower and sun in the same sentence, hehe.. I'm lightheaded now :)

All is well here. It's quiet for a Saturday.

:loveya:

[BarenakedLady]

15. It wasn't

in the same sentence.

:P

[Inchworm]

17. Oops

I read "bare naked lady showering in the sun." My bad :D

:P

[BarenakedLady]

23. Of course

That's totally understandable. I often shower in sun.

[Inchworm]

31. Yipes!

I thought I locked the door!?! :D

[TOhioLiberal]

5. Let's get into the spirit of it...

...if we're posting pitchers, at least it should have some beer in it.

[fizzgig]

8. it's a bit early for that here

but i'll certainly have some later.

how you doing today? :hug:

[TOhioLiberal]

24. I'm okay...

...I don't actually drink beer. But what's a pitcher without it?

[Inchworm]

11. Never too early on a Saturday

Hello you!

:toast:

[TOhioLiberal]

25. Hi Inchy...

how are you today?

[Inchworm]

26. doing well

I'm in procrastination mode. err, I mean, the planning stages of doing something productive.

How about yourself?

:)

[TOhioLiberal]

27. Me too...

...I can make that planning stage drag out for hours man.

[Inchworm]

28. hours?

I'm a master of procrastination. We're talking days and days.

:rofl:

[TOhioLiberal]

29. I bow before the master...

[Inchworm]

30. I'm pretty sure

My skill is an undesired one :D

:rofl:

[BrotherBuzz]

6. Stu Miller “blown off the mound” balk - That's ol' Candelstick for 'ya

Before the game, it was the warmest day we had had in a while, Miller remembered, and the flag was straight down - no wind before the game. That was unusual. By the seventh inning, it started to flutter a little bit. By the eighth, the darn thing was just about torn from the flagpole - which was normal for Candlestick. But, I'd never seen the wind as strong as it was that day. I put my foot on the rubber, anchored myself into the wind, and I leaned in toward Colavito.

Just as he was about to deliver his first pitch, a sudden gust of wind caused Miller to move his shoulder inadvertently about three or four inches, he said.

I wavered back and forth just a little. But, the American League bench was looking right at me and they went to hollering Balk! I moved but the wind forced me to move. The umpires didnt call a thing at first.

Plate umpire Stan Landes took off his mask and walked toward the mound - then motioned for the runners to move up one base.

[Inchworm]

12. cool story

:woohoo:

:hi:

[Oeditpus Rex]

32. 'Blown off the mound' is one of the biggest BS stories

in baseball history.

But the rest of the country did find out that day about the Candlestick wind.

[BrotherBuzz]

35. Hey, at least I used "quotation marks"

;)

[Oeditpus Rex]

36. No, I gotcha

I should've acknowledged that you obviously know it's BS, but I hadn't had any coffee at the time. :hi:

That wind was nasty, though. You'd go from a T-shirt or tank top in the first three innings to a jacket in the seventh. And you needed that jacket.

[BrotherBuzz]

37. On occasions the opposite could be true for a night game

It could be windy as stink all afternoon, and maxing toward game time, but by the seventh or eight inning it could be dead calm. I mean dead 'light a match' calm.

[Oeditpus Rex]

39. I never went to a night game at the Stick

Never got one o' these. :(

[BrotherBuzz]

46. San Francisco has a 'rule of thumb'

It blows 22 knots under the 'Gate' at 2:22 pm most summer afternoons. That same wind is funneled down off the San Bruno Mountains, through the old rock quarry, and directed straight at the 'Stick'.

Warren Spahn was my favorite pitcher, Willie May's, too. ;)

[Inchworm]

40. Well now I know

You were the first person that came to mind once I started thread for fun. I learn through you. :D

:hi:

[Oeditpus Rex]

45. W00t!

I have a purpose! I have value! :bounce:

[CatholicEdHead]

16. Here you go

[Inchworm]

18. That pitcher looks very practical

:hi:

[SPKrazy]

19. Goober Alert!

:rofl:

[Inchworm]

20. lol

:rofl:

[SoxFan]

21. Not just any pitcher

The Spaceman himself!

[Inchworm]

22. And the pitch...

it's up, up, up, it's out of here! :D

:hi:

[querelle]

33. Alrighty!

Just gotta find me a cute catcher though........

Q

[Inchworm]

38. hehe

:hi:

[Oeditpus Rex]

34. The best of my lifetime

and my boyhood idol, pitching to Tony Oliva in game two of the 1965 World Series.

[Inchworm]

41. Awesome pic!

:yourock:

[Oeditpus Rex]

44. It is, innit?

Wish I knew who took it or where it first appeared. Looks like it was taken with a lens in the 600-800mm range, which was a monster back then. Hell, it still is.

[Blue-Jay]

42. Weird. I always figured you to be a Tommy John fan.

Or maybe Don Drysdale:



I sure as hell wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of a Drysdale pitch.

[Oeditpus Rex]

43. When I was a kid

it was Koufax and Drysdale, then Claude Osteen. But something about Koufax just mesmerized me. Maybe it was that powerful, leg-driven overhand delivery or the fact that he typically struck out nine or 10 guys.

But, yeah — Drysdale was a mean mofo, especially coming in sidearm. Willie Mays wrote, "Drysdale, who's a good friend of mine, like to kill me a couple of times, and he knows it." There were some great head-hunting expeditions between Drysdale and Marichal, or Perry. (I wish umpires weren't so pissy about that now. You throw at a guy, his pitcher should get a shot at one of your guys. That's baseball.)

I've always preferred home-grown ballplayers, and TJ was an import, coming from the White Sox. I got some good photos of him, though, in 1985 when the A's got him and he was rehabbing with Modesto.

[maveric]

47. Pitched them inside and never had anyone charged the mound at him.

[Inchworm]

49. Whats his name?

I'm being schooled here :)

:hi:

[GOPisEvil]

52. He is THE man!

Love me some Bob Gibson, although he played mostly before my time. :thumbsup:

[Oeditpus Rex]

55. And just think

In the '60s, you could see Gibson vs. Drysdale three or four times per season.

Or Drysdale vs. Bunning. Or Bunning vs. Marichal. Or Marichal vs. Koufax.

(Or Marichal vs. Spahn, like on July 2, 1963. After 15 innings it was 0-0. Marichal didn't allow the Braves a run in the 16th. Then, in the bottom of the 16th, Mays hit one out to win it.)

[EFerrari]

48. My brother practiced this pitch for years.

[Inchworm]

50. Timber!

stretched to the max, huh?

:hi:

[EFerrari]

51. Who was the guy that talked to the ball? Was that Rollie Fingers?

:)

[Oeditpus Rex]

53. Mark 'The Bird' Fidrych

[EFerrari]

58. Ha! Thanks! I haven't thought about him in years.

lol

[Oeditpus Rex]

54. Ever see the 'Cheers' episode Tiant was in?

Freakin' hilarious, man. :rofl:

[Hand]

56. And on another note...

:rofl:

[Drum]

57. Well, here's one...

:evilgrin: