Quizical Englishman

Dalesman — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:38:24 -0000

Stuff I've always wondered about:

1] Why don't the SS and the 2B swop positions for Left hand hitters?

2] Why aren't there switch pitchers?

3] Why do baseball players wear gloves? A cricket ball is much heavier than a Baseball and Cricket fielders don't wear gloves, they also make catches with either or both hands?

4] Why are there short stops, all the other positions make sense and have meaningful and descriptive names, Short stop seems to be the odd one out?

5] Why is it called a home run?

6] Why Rookie?

7] Who calls an Infield fly, when and why?

I'm sure there are more, but thats all I can think of at tne moment.

I'm Struggling with AN at the moment

Dalesman — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:01:55 -0000

I've been visiting AN daily for several years, and I've always enjoyed, although not necessarily agreed with much of the content, but this season all has seemed to change.

The A's are in a transition phase, we have a young team who are doing well above expectation, as I write they share the lead in the west and have just swept KC, but you would find it difficult to believe that we are playing well by reading AN. In the past few days I have read that Mike Sweeney and Emil Brown should be released, Street is rubbish and that we'd be better off signing an old man called Thomas (or even worse a chemically enhanced very old, man called Bonds), or bringing up a young whipper snapper who hasn't done anything what-so-ever in the Majors. Give our team a chance guys, we are only a month in, Harden and Duchscherer are on the DL and we are still sweeping teams!

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