SoxFan1

Looks like Milan Baros will be out for the Czech's against the US. Thats an advantage for you guys...

Congrats to you CC. She is beautiful. Enjoy her while you can.

I beat both of you to it. I win.

QUOTE(sox-r-us @ Jun 9, 2006 -> 10:32 PM) Get him in the HOF folks.....just like Pods last year GIT R DUN Hall of Fame?

I think you can download iTunes on your laptop then import your songs after plugging it into the USB.

I DONT f***ING THINK SO CLEVELAND! LOL JERMAINE = MVP

Ecuador has one helluva defense. I'm rooting for them a bit. Everyone keeps talking about the elevation differences and how they play at 9,000 ft above sea level. Well, Poland plays right there next to Germany and Ecuador still spanked them. I look forward to the England/Paraguay match (As does Dep) and especially the Argentina/Ivory Coast match. That will be a big match in Group C and should set the tone. I really want to see what CIV is really made of.

QUOTE(greasywheels121 @ Jun 9, 2006 -> 02:27 PM) Haha I figured it was a Might Ducks reference last night, but I don't have that big of an idea about our team period to confirm/deny the coincidence. However, Beaz did go to my middle and high school. From what I know, Keller will be in goal. And it's 1-0 Ecuador at the half.

Poland/Ecuador on now. I will refrain from any predictions and let Serbia's defensive 4 do the talking. That is all.

QUOTE(fathom @ Jun 8, 2006 -> 11:15 PM) That was a slow roller to the SS. No way is he getting the force out at 2nd base on that. How? He almost got the guy at 1st. He would have had a force somewhere.

QUOTE(fathom @ Jun 8, 2006 -> 11:02 PM) Pudge doesn't go to 2nd base if he sees that Mackowiak is in position to make a strong show. Between Mackowiak and Ozuna, we have two outfielders that make every routine fly ball an adventure. Mackowiak has a problem with his footwork when he's going to catch fly balls. Because he drifts to it instead of running there and getting underneath it. It's quite annoying. Oh, and if Pudge stays at 1st, that would make 2 outs and then the blooper would make it 1st and 2nd/3rd with 2 outs. On that slow roller to Uribe, he could have forced the runner out at 2nd. 5 possible outs in that inning.

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Jun 8, 2006 -> 11:04 PM) My problem when I first started college was I used to stride to far, and that would make me leave the ball up and also lose a bit of my velocity. I still dont think that the ball has landed from the first batter I faced in college and threw a 3-1 belt high meatball too. My coach taught us to have your elbow hit the opposite knee. If your back knee is dirty, and your wrist is at your opposite knee then you have followed through completely. Once I started doing that I was in the strikezone, and with my stuff I was successful. Thats a better problem than what I had. After my foot injury early in the season, my mechanics were s***. I had a straight-legged motion towards home, I wouldn't get my elbow up, then I'd open my front leg on the pitch, thus, I'd drag my arm through, shortarming it towards home, and I'd fall off the mound so much that I was practically facing 1st base. I also curled my wrist around the ball, making my curveball slide way outside to righties. Took me a long time to get it all back. I was a mess. Damn that coach for hitting me with a carbon fiber bat.

QUOTE(fathom @ Jun 8, 2006 -> 10:51 PM) Please answer me this....where's the 3rd out in the inning before Thames bats then? If he gets the ball in quicker, Pudge is out at 2nd.

QUOTE(Cuck the Fubs @ Jun 8, 2006 -> 10:55 PM) I hate soccer for a lot of reasons. The only time I ever watch soccer is if I happen to see it on the TV in spanish just to hear the GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!!!!!!!!!!! Ok.

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Jun 8, 2006 -> 10:48 PM) I increased my velocity based on a throwing program over 2 years. In high school I could barely hit 80. I did a ton of long toss over a 2 year period and was able to throw in the mid to upper 80s in college. We barely touched weights and did a ton of running. The only goofy things we did with weights was to increase the breaking pitches. We had one exercise where we used a coke can filled with sand and we would flip it curveball style. We also used a coffee can filled with sand, and it had string attached to a stick and we would wind up the coffee can with the stick. We also did stuff with our leg kick, My leg kick was huge and we would spend a lot of time working on our drive to the plate making sure our back knee was dirty. And to attest to your more body mass doesnt equal more velocity, I was one of the hardest throwers in our league, and I was 6'2 and about 150 back in college. There you go. Long toss is the single best thing to do to improve velocity. One thing that hampers me on occasion is that I tend to be straight-legged on my motion towards the plate where I will keep my landing leg straight, thus making me leave the ball up a lot. My coach changed that by making me pitch and then grab a handful of grass after every pitch with my throwing hand. Works too. Also, running doesn't really help with velocity, just endurance. The longer you run, the more you can pitch.

Seems like Rob isn't getting enough of the blame here. He cost us the game tonight, plain and simple. Thames never should have been up there in the 1st place. I'll say this, if Anderson is in CF on that flyball, Ivan Rodriguez stays at 1st. He catches it and gets it in. No questions asked. But this is not an excuse for Jon's crappy pitching.

QUOTE(Cuck the Fubs @ Jun 8, 2006 -> 10:44 PM) I f***ing hate it. My dad would watch the re-runs at 7 AM, and one day my brother was watching with him. My dad always watches it in spanish. So when a goal was scored and the broadcasters went GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!!! my brother yelled GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!!!! f***ing woke me up. So thats why you hate the World Cup? Some people watch soccer just to hear that moron scream. I luuuuuuuuv nil-nil draws.

QUOTE(Buehrle>Wood @ Jun 8, 2006 -> 10:38 PM) Yeah. Korea/Japan 2002 was hell. ^^^ Yeah it was. I remember waking up at like 3 AM to watch a few matches. Ughhh.

QUOTE(redandwhite @ Jun 8, 2006 -> 07:11 PM) Interesting. I'm shocked that your coach wouldn't have you doing compound excercises such as squats, military press, bench press, deadlifts, hang cleans, etc. You would throw harder if you had more strength in those areas, no? That is not true. More mass does not equal more velocity whatsoever. That is a HUGE myth. My freshman year, I would do bicep curls and think it was going to make me throw harder...it didn't. I was in the high 60's. I did long toss all summer with a workout program of high reps/low weight and was pitching mid-70's my sophomore. I slacked off over the summer and all I had was conditioning and weight training before the season of my junior year and my velocity only went up 3-5 mph. Now, I'm throwing around 80 consistently, topping out at 83. Squats are definitely part of our repetoire as they work the core muscles and improve leg strength which allows us to push off the rubber harder and get some more velocity.

Sunday, 7:55 AM CT. It's on. I have it auto-tuned, as well as all the other matches. Looking forward to seeing Poland/Ecuador as well but I think Germany/Costa Rica will be a better match. Woooot! THE WORLD CUP IS HERE!

QUOTE(redandwhite @ Jun 8, 2006 -> 03:59 PM) It's not necessarily bias, it's just plain wrong for someone who isn't a pitcher. It's a compound excercise, and a vital one at that. However, for a pitcher, performing the bench press without some other resistance training of the two other heads of the shoulder, its not useful. I'm actually quite curious, SF1, what does your coach recommend for a pitcher, like yourself? Resistance bands mainly. Only excercises that expand motion and enhance strength in the rotator cuff.

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Jun 8, 2006 -> 01:57 PM) The problem is, you're looking at this as only a pitcher. Benching is a good exercise because you target a ton of muscles. Now, I do agree that benching is an ego exercise and some people think that it is the only important lift which is entirely untrue but it still is a very important lift. Yeah, it's probably a little biased because I'm a pitcher.

QUOTE(henry wiggins @ Jun 8, 2006 -> 10:13 AM) Yeah, what Balance said. "Believe me, the farther you sit from the plate, the smarter you get." -- Ozzie Guillen, in the Playboy interview, talking about the criticism of his team and game that he hears from people who don't play and have never played baseball. Glad I am en exception. I play baseball.

QUOTE(T R U @ Jun 8, 2006 -> 06:31 AM) This is just an outrageous claim. Bench Press is a great lift to do because it works almost all muscles in the upper body.. Not to mention the MANY variations you can do like Incline, Decline, Close Grip, Wide Grip, Dumbbell, all working different muscles in the upper body Thats like saying squats are pointless, how many times in my life and I going to throw something across my shoulders and lift them up and down? I am going to have to disagree. You might be the genetic-genius but I'm sticking to my guns on this one. When bench pressing, it is mainly working one area of your sholders instead of the entire shoulder. This can be harmful to some because it can leave different area's of the shoulder underdeveloped. As a pitcher, this is a problem. Thats why our coach doesn't want pitchers benchpressing. It limits the movement in the shoulder. I've done quite a bit of research on this one. I agree with RockRaines. Bench pressing is an ego excercise. "How much can you bench?"

QUOTE(CanOfCorn @ Jun 8, 2006 -> 11:07 AM) "And third..." Thats a good one.