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Depends on what day it is...................@FrogBall09 - We'll see. But don't tell me DBU, UTA and Fullerton are better than TCU.
Depends on what day it is...................@FrogBall09 - We'll see. But don't tell me DBU, UTA and Fullerton are better than TCU.
This is still my favorite. It would be nice to see it make a comeback.How about cleaning up that TC to look more like this, but a purple TC on white or cream with a purple bill. A white TC on purple works too.
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Only Oregon State resembles the TCU hugeness.
LSU isn’t the broad billboard type logo (we used to have the identical style with a T instead of an L) and neither is A&M.
Many teams have a an interlocked style logo, LA, St Louis, et al. Just a personal preference.
Cal doesn’t wear that hat.
Hitters know a ball when they see one.
just what we need at a time when tensions in this country are nearing boiling points, two internet posters involved in a logo measuring contest
this can only end poorly
Stand at the plate and see an unhittable 89-91 mph fastball on the outside corner for strike. Next pitch is a slider or change that looks just like the pitch before, except it sinks into the dirt as you swing. So many great baseball fans haven't ever played what is a very difficult game.Then why do they go chasing them?
tell me you never played the game without telling me....Then why do they go chasing them?
Stand at the plate and see an unhittable 89-91 mph fastball on the outside corner for strike. Next pitch is a slider or change that looks just like the pitch before, except it sinks into the dirt as you swing. So many great baseball fans haven't ever played what is a very difficult game.
tell me you never played the game without telling me....
Please somebody setup a live streaming event w any of the current TCU pitching staff throwing live BP to Deep so he can teach us all how to quickly identify two different breaking balls and which ones will stay around the zone and which ones drop out/away. Ill even offer up a couple of the dudes off my 15U team to see if you can figure out their breaking stuff successfully….And yet, never having played the game in an organized league beyond junior high school, even an amateur like me can detect the difference between a breaking ball just off the plate and the same pitch that goes awry a foot outside of the strike zone -- yet still draws a lunging swing from the batter.
Sorry, gentlemen, you haven't convinced me. Batters do not always know a ball when they see one. Heck, even some umpires don't.
Oh, and Paint It Purple? There is no unhittable 89-91 mph fastball. I've seen plenty of batters really belt them.
Please somebody setup a live streaming event w any of the current TCU pitching staff throwing live BP to Deep so he can teach us all how to quickly identify two different breaking balls and which ones will stay around the zone and which ones drop out/away. Ill even offer up a couple of the dudes off my 15U team to see if you can figure out their breaking stuff successfully….
I have sat next to countless folks at ball parks all over America that believe they could "hit that pitch".
How about you two agree on "when the ball hits the catcher's mitt, the batter knows whether it was a strike"?Straw-man arguments. I never said I could "hit that pitch" or expertly judge one breaking ball from another. I only took issue with the statement "hitters know a ball when they see one," which is an absurd claim on its very face.
Obviously, batters don't always know a ball when they see one or we would never see anyone taking a lunging swing way outside the strike zone or arguing called balls and strikes. In fact, we wouldn't even need a plate ump because "hitters know a ball when they see one."
Sorry if that made anybody feel like I was stepping on personal toes. Wasn't my intent.
I told them to look back at the umpire and say, with all due respect sir, that [ Finebaum ]'s outside."How about you two agree on "when the ball hits the catcher's mitt, the batter knows whether it was a strike"?
As to the point about assuming the call, I always coached my players to assume it was a ball. I often saw other batters look back at the umpire after the ball went by, and when you do that the umpire will almost always call it a strike.
There's definitely a "polite" way to assume the call and you never want to show up an ump, but I coached them to never look back at the ump.
Or, quietly say “that’s why this all going to be automated someday…”I told them to look back at the umpire and say, with all due respect sir, that [ Finebaum ]'s outside."
man - are you this much of a blowhard in real life?Straw-man arguments. I never said I could "hit that pitch" or expertly judge one breaking ball from another. I only took issue with the statement "hitters know a ball when they see one," which is an absurd claim on its very face.
Obviously, batters don't always know a ball when they see one or we would never see anyone taking a lunging swing way outside the strike zone or arguing called balls and strikes. In fact, we wouldn't even need a plate ump because "hitters know a ball when they see one."
Sorry if that made anybody feel like I was stepping on personal toes. Wasn't my intent.
the average person sitting in stands can't even see a 90+mph fastball coming at them - it is shockingly funny when we would get our "dads" in the cage and turn up the machine - took them 5-10 swings to even figure out how to track it and that was when they basically knew where the ball was going to be coming from and the path out of the machine.Straw-man arguments. I never said I could "hit that pitch" or expertly judge one breaking ball from another. I only took issue with the statement "hitters know a ball when they see one," which is an absurd claim on its very face.
Obviously, batters don't always know a ball when they see one or we would never see anyone taking a lunging swing way outside the strike zone or arguing called balls and strikes. In fact, we wouldn't even need a plate ump because "hitters know a ball when they see one."
Sorry if that made anybody feel like I was stepping on personal toes. Wasn't my intent.
This reminds me. Could a certain current TCU ballplayer simply need his eyes examined and maybe start wearing corrective lens? Went from an above avg hitter, to looking like he can't see the ball at all.the average person sitting in stands can't even see a 90+mph fastball coming at them - it is shockingly funny when we would get our "dads" in the cage and turn up the machine - took them 5-10 swings to even figure out how to track it and that was when they basically knew where the ball was going to be coming from and the path out of the machine.
not going to say no - I had a teammate that was seriously a real life Wild Thing situation where his eye sight had slowly gotten the point he could not see that well and got glasses - everything changed.This reminds me. Could a certain current TCU ballplayer simply need his eyes examined and maybe start wearing corrective lens? Went from an above avg hitter, to looking like he can't see the ball at all.