Celebrating our American violent past-time…a just-in-time delivery

By George!… an update, with editorial license taken, on one of my favorite George Carlin routines, as in comparing and sharply contrasting baseball and football follies…and the folly that the former is more passive than...

“Swing and a miss!” More like a near miss. One needs to look no further than the poster gifted to me by the pitcher-catcher combo (known to me as an aspiring photographer mother who framed her son's pitcher hand) captioned "A Pitcher's Arsenal" Violent enough for you? Two out of three pitches, when thrown too hard, can result in what's known in baseball, as a "violent overthrow" which might, on occasion result in the pitcher or guilty player being "benched...sent to the showers😢" and even, if they throw their arm right out of the socket, require surgical intervention (how did George not gorge on this?) But wait, here comes the one that is reserved for the special occasion where the batter is "crowding the plate" which, when it's done right, can become a crowd pleaser. Known as the "brush back pitch" is designed to get the "leaner" to jump back, and can easily, in just one pitcher's motion...."clear the benches!" 

Enjoy the play-offs...more like the pay-offs these days...as in if you want to bet on who will toss out the first pitch or deliver the knockout punch, you’ll have to enter a “Duel”🫨!

A call for non-violence: come back and see why women’s softball is anything butt…

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