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| f*ck A rod AND HIS SIDE ARM SHEET! | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jul 21 2006, 08:48 PM (123 Views) | |
| Grandy4MVP | Jul 21 2006, 08:48 PM Post #1 |
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wHAT THE f*ck IS WRONG WITH HIM????? What f*cking gives? Throw the ball from over the fecking top! |
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| Strider | Jul 21 2006, 08:50 PM Post #2 |
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Gotta fill in for BC. His dad, if he knew him, would've told him that sidearm is a more natural arm angle and it'll help him preserve his arm. |
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| Grandy4MVP | Jul 21 2006, 08:52 PM Post #3 |
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:no1: Too bad his dad is still out buying that 40 and a pack of smokes! On a side note, is this all true? Does A Rod not really know his Daddy? |
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| Yanks473 | Jul 21 2006, 08:59 PM Post #4 |
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And the Band played on......
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http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/people/sho...ez/profile.html
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/mari...basegame25.html |
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| Grandy4MVP | Jul 21 2006, 09:07 PM Post #5 |
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:no1: I guess Poppi still hasn't come back with that pack of Newports and 40 oz he went to go buy. |
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| Strider | Jul 21 2006, 09:08 PM Post #6 |
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Awwwwww. That's sad (not really), but there are so many people who have similar stories and don't let it f*ck them up. So many athletes. Ain't a black athlete in America - except Grant Hill - that knows his daddy. Chacon probably grew up in an igloo with just his mother. Hell, Jeremy Shockey's father left when he was a kid and he's said that as a teenager, he used to fantacize about one day meeting his father so he could kick his ass.
Somebody told me that in Miami, A-Rod grew up pretty close to Carrol City. He should've let Kenneth "Boobie" Williams take him under his wing and sold some cocaine. |
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| amit | Jul 21 2006, 11:46 PM Post #7 |
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Shaq. :peace: |
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| Giambi_MVP_25 | Jul 22 2006, 01:53 AM Post #8 |
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He's always thrown side arm. |
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| Mattingly23 | Jul 22 2006, 02:46 AM Post #9 |
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That's actually horrible. I do feel bad for him in that regard. A-Rod is my age. I'm sure I'd still be emotionally scarred if that happened to me.
Are you kidding? "Phil is my father. Biological didn't bother." Shaq is the WORST example to bring up! Jordan would have been a much better example. James was a huge part of MJ's life until his death. Of course the conspiracy theorists say James was murdered over Michael's gambling debts, although it was probably just a car jacking gone wrong. |
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| Gategem | Jul 22 2006, 08:16 AM Post #10 |
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A-Rod made that play and throw with the proper technique. Sometimes when you throw ¾ to sidearm the ball sails on you. I don’t think he had the time to stop, straighten up and throw over the top. The execution was correct but the results sucked. |
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| amit | Jul 22 2006, 10:58 AM Post #11 |
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That guy they always show when Shaq's playing insn't his father? |
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| ONE-BUY-ONE | Jul 22 2006, 11:53 AM Post #12 |
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You know. This happened to me when I was 2. My Mom remarried when I was about 9 and my step dad was a hard working strict ass Yankee fan, who turned me from a sissy to a baseball (Yankee loving guy). Took me to many games at Yankee Stadium and in Boston and I witnessed many great games and series. I loved this game so much they I would sneak my transistor radio in bed on a school night and listen to an away game in KC (about 10p.m.). My step Dad was great, but ran me tough as if I was in the military, making me toat the line. He always said I couldn't take orders and I couldn't make it for 4 years in the military. I guess I had to prove him wrong where I retired with 30 years of service. My Dad, god rest his soul passed away 2 years ago on Veterans Day. He served his time on a B-17 in World War 2. I did get the chance to come home months before he left us and we were happy watching Yankees every day on my sister's big screen. So you see, ARod probably is missing that. |
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| Mattingly23 | Jul 22 2006, 01:22 PM Post #13 |
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His real dad abandoned him. I actually think I read one story about how his biological father tried to show up again when he made it rich, a la Bobby Boucher's daddy. No word on whether or not Shaq's mom tackled him though. Shaq considers Sgt. Harrison his dad, and he is for all intents and purposes, but only because he was abandoned first.
--Wikipedia
There's a time to go sidearm and there's a time to throw over the top. If you're on the run with your momentum pushing you towards home plate, you're definitely going to sidearm it. If you have time to set and release, and you have the arm A-Rod has, you clearly go over the top. Like you said, it'll sail on you if you go sidearmed a lot of the time, which is what has happened several times in the past two weeks.
Not every throw, he hasn't. He's even acknowledged he needs to work on his release point. You can't be accurate on throws if you're always slinging it over there. The throw home the other night is the perfect example of when not to throw sidearmed. He had so much time. He rushed it. |
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| Strider | Jul 22 2006, 03:22 PM Post #14 |
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You ain't know? I think I heard that Shaq's real father left when his mama was pregnant with him. Sarge isn't tall enough. His real daddy is probably 11'2". Oh, and Kobe and McNabb grew up with their fathers. But that's it. It's black tradition; the way it's 'posed to be. A-Rod should be thankful that old man hung around for 9 years. I got 7 before my parents broke up and that's more than a lot of people got. A lot of them leave before the child is even old enough to remember them having been around. But it's not something that I even think of unless it's brought up. I hear from him on birthdays and holidays, and that's enough. I don't dislike him or anything, but out of sight, out of mind -- move on. That's not just me, it's most everyone I know with a similar situation. And thinking about athletes, who else is boo-hooing about it? Picture Iverson in therapy because his daddy ain't around. For him to still be harping on this after 23 years, it's not good. He should probably, in his mind, accept that his father is dead. Eminem has said that he assumes his pop is dead because if he was living, he'd have crawled around looking for a handout. That's what the shrink needs to tell him, instead of milking extra sessions. "Alex, your father's dead. He became a cab driver in New York, and as you know, in the 80s and 90s, a lot of cabbies were killed while on duty. Look at the positive. Had that not happend, you wouldn't have gone to D.R. and played baseball. You'd be just another nobody. So that $250 million is your inheritance. Now stop being a bitch and throw the f*cking ball correctly." |
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| Mattingly23 | Jul 22 2006, 03:24 PM Post #15 |
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Jeter's dad is black. |
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| Strider | Jul 22 2006, 03:27 PM Post #16 |
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But that's it. And it's probably because he doesn't have a pre-nupt and Sanderson would take him to the cleaners. "She was damn sexy 34 years ago. The coochie had me and I wasn't thinking straight." |
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| Giambi_MVP_25 | Jul 22 2006, 05:15 PM Post #17 |
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If his mother was black too, he probably wouldn't be around anymore. |
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| Strider | Jul 22 2006, 07:36 PM Post #18 |
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Good point. He's there for the white meat, like NBA players. |
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