Subj : Re: All Blacks
To   : Irish_Monk
From : Bucko
Date : Mon Sep 05 2022 19:57:29

On 05 Sep 2022, Irish_Monk said the following...
 
 Ir> 
 Ir> Thats horrible. Never fun to put that much work into something to have
 Ir> it all taken away in basically minutes. I hope hes doing well now tho.
 Ir> Theres a lot more to life than sports. 
 Ir> 

He is doing fine, got his college education and is working in the computer industry. Nothing beats a partially free education.. LOL

 Ir> I bowled on a team, we had a younger guy on the team I became good
 Ir> friends with, he informed me he had 2 guys from his high school
 Ir> graduation class that were playing minor league baseball, Matt Harvey
 Ir> and Jesse Hahn. So I followed both of these guys while they were in the
 Ir> minors, thought it was cool they lived 15 mins from me. Jesse Hahn would
 Ir> even stop at the bowling alley many times since he was good friends with
 Ir> the guy on my team. Of course if you followed baseball at all, you would
 Ir> most likely know who Matt Harvey is.
 Ir> 

That is great. When my son was playing he worked out of a cage in Norwalk CT, His pitching trainer was there also, he was a former Major Leaguer Kevin Morton, he pitched for the Red Sox for a couple of years till a back injury took away his career.. My kid worked with a lot of great major Leaguers George Foster briefly, Willie Upshaw, were the two most people will know. Willie was the best as my kid had a hard time with his batting. Willie worked with him for 5 minutes and figured out the issue immediately, just a slight turn of the head and he was hitting 400ft bombs! LOL I think the best person was a 5 minute conversation with Mariano Rivera, my kid umpired locally to where Mariano lived, last out was a bang bang play at first and my kid called the runner out. After the game the head of the umpires brought Mariano over to my son to sign a ball for him. They got to talking and Mariano seeing his size 6'5 at the time at 14 years old, asked him if he played and my kid said yes, he was a pitcher also. Mariano spent the next 5 minutes showing him the grips of his out pitch the cutter, and the release point etc. In other words he taught him how to throw his cutter! The faster it was thrown the nastier it was! Sad or not so sad thing was after his injury and the loss of velocity the cutter was even more dangerous as it just moved when it hit the plate and was very difficult for both the batter and the catcher to see.. Jeez..

.... They say there's always one weirdo on the bus, but I couldn't find them!

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