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7 hours ago, Cajun said:

Yup.

Guy named Roland Virella on my HS baseball team sawed off an Easton Black Magic at the handle in one of our district playoff games against New Braunfels Canyon way back in the era of MTV and TRex roaming the planet.

Good times!

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Checking the dates, the original Easton aluminum bat came out in 1978.  The Black Magics were newfangled at the time, but we had em, both in school bat bags and as personal bats.

Vintage EASTON L9 3024 Baseball Barrel Bat 30" 24oz 2 1/4" Dia CU31 USA ...

So, I guess they were getting pretty long in the tooth by the mid 80s, which was our time, certainly my time.

And yeah, the couple two or three that broke did so right above the handle.

I would later learn as an engineer that aluminum is highly subject to fatgue and cracking, especially if a tiny defect or a stress riser--like where diameter starts to change rather abruptly.

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Posted
8 hours ago, NBHorn7 said:

I remember like in 1992… [snip]…On the Fourth of July they came to Austin and played the Mexican national team at Disch-Falk.

Last night I was wondering why “Disch” got his name first when I flipped the names. 
 

“Falk-Disch”

…and said the names out loud.

Start of the season everyone would be saying…

Falk-Disch it’s cold!

🥶 

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Posted (edited)
1 hour ago, TwiceHorn said:

So, I guess they were getting pretty long in the tooth by the mid 80s, which was our time, certainly my time.

 

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Alamo Heights HS Class of 1985
Posted
1 minute ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Is weather an issue?  I noticed Kentucky’s home softball game was cancelled. 

No, the bad weather was on Boston’s end. Looks like they wanted to get out of Lexington early 

Posted (edited)
6 minutes ago, Bevo&Pevo said:

What's everyone gonna next year when the roster gets smaller?

It’s going to be very interesting to watch.

We have 20 position players right now on the roster. My guess is with a 34 man roster limit that number will go down to 15-16 because teams are going to still feel like they have to hoard pitching if they can.

If you filter out Cunningham and Fien (both likely 1st round picks), our incoming freshman class has 5 position players and 11 pitchers. That is probably how most classes will look moving forward.

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Posted (edited)
3 minutes ago, chase25 said:

Trying to keep Winfield and Jayden off of it

Haha, true. I’m assuming at least Winfield won’t be on the roster next season. 

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Posted
17 minutes ago, TrashMaster G said:

Trying to keep Borba on the field?

Trying to get as many bats in the lineup as possible.

5 minutes ago, Hookem2147 said:

Oh good a remote broadcasting crew 

Seriously what the fuck is this bullshit. SEC+ is a fucking joke. 

Posted (edited)
2 minutes ago, Underdog said:

GD, Blue. That was a strike! Even I could see that on my 19in b/w tv. 

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you better be ice fishing or you’re in need of an upgrade 

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Posted
Just now, Dahobbs said:

Yuck at that. Waste of a lead off walk. And we aren't making this pitcher work at all. 

I will say this season so far we have struggled early in games and haven’t worked a ton of deep counts. We have been great during our 2nd and 3rd times through the order and we have crushed opposing bullpens. 

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Posted
2 minutes ago, hobbes2702 said:

I will say this season so far we have struggled early in games and haven’t worked a ton of deep counts. We have been great during our 2nd and 3rd times through the order and we have crushed opposing bullpens. 

Yeah, been a bit of pattern. But usually even when we struggle to get hits, we work counts. 

Kentucky with a lead off double and fly ball deep to left that advances the runner. 

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Posted
1 minute ago, hobbes2702 said:

Not great feet from ARod. Threw that like an infielder 

Have you watched the throws from our other outfielders? Everyone else would have had to hit a cut off man. 

1-0 KY on a single up the middle. 

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Posted
1 minute ago, Dahobbs said:

Have you watched the throws from our other outfielders? Everyone else would have had to hit a cut off man. 

1-0 KY on a single up the middle. 

True. Jayden isn’t a D1 baseball player and Winfield appears to a small school level guy.

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