ALL DEE-NEE Team

[doveRBI]

if an ss is needed doveRBI will be key in that position.  i should probably hit either 2, 6, or 7.
doveRBI will provide spark with the bat and wily baserunning as he taunts the opposing players.

[Craig3410]

I guess I didn't make the cut. If I did, just put me on the bench; just bring me up to the plate for a cheap Lefty hit. (From what I can see, I'm the only lefty.   )

[sucka free]

dove and craig, I put you cats on the bench for now.  I have a strict policy in not starting rookies until they prove themselfs in the forums.  Keep posting and you may post your way into the starting lineup

[GDavis]

Craig, you should register a name so you get credit for your posts, instead of logging on as a guest.

[sucka free]

I just recruited a starting pitcher.  MarquisEXB is our ace!

[Lips]

Finally, a starting pitcher.  That's cool.

Sucka free, can you throw me in the leadoff spot?  Thanks...

[The Murph]

I just noticed the ALL DEE-NEE team post.  Here is my spill.......do with me what you wish.

As a little leaguer, I never got a hit, got out only once and stole about 1000 bases.  The first year I played, the kids pitched.  I swung the bat about 4 times, struck out once, and walked every other time I was up to bat.  After getting beamed, over and over and over and over and over.........and over, I decided little league was not for me.

However, I loved the game.  The neighborhood kids began to play on the weekends.  I was actually good when I could get pitches to hit.  After a few months of contributing to the broken window fund, we decided a solution was needed.  Alas, wiffle ball.  Yep, that's right, WIFFLE BALL!!!!  

Best part was you could throw out a running by hitting him with the ball.  Excellent!!  (I know, ironic to little league experience).  Anyway, we had great times in the summer.....we created teams, kept up with stats every year, and played a world series.  Ahhhh, the memories.

Well here were my approximate average/year stats
As a hitter
Dingers.........60+
RBIs..............160+
Avg...............0.465
As a pitcher
Ws................  usually 1st, sometimes 2nd at season end
Ks.................  see above
ERA...............1.10  we divided IP into ER w/o multiplying by 9 (to keep the ERAS in perspective)

I know it was wiffle ball, but I found out, it was just as hard, if not sometimes more difficult, to hit a wiffle ball (especially far) than a baseball.  Well that's my story!!!  Hope I can make the team.

[The Murph]

Oh, I forgot to mention that switch-hit, and well I might add.  Same power on both sides of the plate.  As a pitcher, can only throw righty, but I do have a mean sidearm when needed.

[sucka free]

I just read that Jeter became the yankee captain today, and I realized that we couldn't possibly have an all dee-nee team without gantry in the starting lineup.  Ironically, the SS position was open, so I thought it was more than fitting to give gantry the captain's spot.  We now have a complete lineup.

As for craig3410, doverbi, and the murph I regulated you guys to the bench based on forum participation.  I figured this is the fairest way to decide who gets to start plus it just makes sense.

We still need one more bech guy and 3 pitchers.  I also still don't have everyone's batting stance, righty or lefty

[sucka free]

I looked at the top 15 posters on this forum and we are still missing some big names.   Can anyone get a hold of ericdavis, bban, or jcbball?  

[sucka free]

Can Potsie or Sperling pitch?  Maybe we can use those two guys, and the remaining people on the "friends list" on the dee-nee.com site and start the ALL DAH NAH team.

[MarquisEXB]

Did everyone play wiffleball come from the city? I'm a New Yorker, so playing baseball was tough (although we'd find a few parks here or there where people would play). Strikebox was tough, since you had to find a park with a wall & a long field (usually a school).

We'd played wiffle ball in the backyards. It was great because the broken window factor was null. The only thing that sucked where I lived was hitting it over the garage, on the other side of the block, which meant a walk around the block. One yard had a big mean dog, so those balls were just lost (the owner should have sold them on ebay - we lost millions in that one.)

The best part of wiffle ball was if there was nobody around, you could still practice pitching, since it was essential to the game. With a wiffle ball throwing curves was easy, so you just had to work on: which way to curve, how fast, and where to throw it.

My favorite pitch is the screwball (thrown submarine) or my riser (thrown sidearm), although I throw the overhand curve as a primary pitch.

Anyone else?

Mike

[Craig341]

Thanks for putting me on the team. I've been on here as a guest till I've remembered I had an old name I forgot about.   Thanks for putting me on the bench.  

[Craig341]

I played wiffleball; I actually DID break a window.   I'm good at wiffleball.

[Vitb6]

Potsie...baseball...HAHAHA.  He can be the drunk bat boy.  Stehling never posts, but he was actually decent at baseball.  He played on my little league team for about 3-4 years.  He never pitched though.  I don't recall what positiion he played, but if I had to guess I would say LF, although for some reason I think he may have played third too.  Nick (again) never posts, played a little, little league.  He is big and fat (j/k) so he would be a good catcher.  He can whizz a ball though so maybe he could be our closer.  Jae, played baseball for a couple years.  What I remember he wasn't very good and I know he played RF, because I went to like 2 or 3 of his games.  Eddy-  HA.  Maybe Gantry can tell us if Zorba played baseball, I'm not really sure.  Actually, I think I do remember seeing a picture at Gantry's old house of Zorba in his striped baseball pants.  Once Gantry reads this he'll fill us in on Zorba's baseball days.  That's all the info I have on the baseball habits of the "friends list".

I thought of a good idea for another team to play against.  We should have an all mascot team!  We could have the Philly Fanatic (c- with a good stroke) and the Milwaukee Brewer Sausage guy (leadoff speed with no power) etc...  Since mascots are inheritantly funny, it would be hilarious pitching against them and watching the Fantatic crush a homer...

[doveRBI]

The bench will suit me fine, however, you will quickly find that i'm that guy - ala heep(o'shit) who brings the homer blast off the bench every time.  I will be quit beneficial in that role.  Just wanted to weigh in on the wiffle ball issue.  Much props to all you hard core wiffle ball players but I'd like to help take your game further.  The truest way to play peg wiffleball (the only way to play in my opinion, where you try to peg someone for an out) is to wrap bat and balls in about 18 layers of duct tape.  this not only provides power and control but also generates insane whelps on he unlucky enough to actually get out.  also, i am known as the rob deer of duct tape wiffle ball because when i step to the plate, i can bat lefty or righty, and the out come is always either a home run or a strike out.  Duct-tape forever, dee-nee bench somebody bring the seeds and chaw!
doverRBI out!

[The Murph]

Thanks for the opportunity to shine on the bench!!

doveRBI, we actually had a few plastic balls that didn't have any holes or slots in them, but they were hard.  The 'solids' as we called them, would leave a whelp the size of a grapefruit.  When you were pitched a 'solid' it was best to hit a homer, a pop up, or watch it go by.  Any ground ball, then the best thing to do was stay at home and hope he goes to 1st with it.  I also found that if you cut the ends of the wiffle ball bats off, you get a little more carry with the wiffle ball.  I had a George Brett, black, with tape on the handle, bat and couldn't do anything with it.  Then I cut the end off after it got a crack in it, then Wham!  Over the wall, I used that bat until the handle broke off.

A quick question though....how long did you use your wiffle balls after they received their first crack?  We would use them until a piece of the ball actually broke off.  If one little piece was holding the 2 sides together, and it looked more like a frisbee than a wiffleball, we used it.  Your goal as the batter was to eliminate the ball ASAP.

I am training for my bench sitting as we speak.  I allow myself a 10 min break so I can get up and walk around a bit, then its back to the bench.  In addition to the seeds and chaw, we definitely need the BIG LEAGUE CHEW (I preferred the grape)!!

[MarquisEXB]

To throw a wiffle ball properly you have to scuff it. If you throw with a new wiffle ball, the curve is opposite to what it should be. I've read things on the internet about putting the wiffleball in the microwave to get the same effect, but have never tried it. Unfortunately scuffing the ball decreases it's life. For us, a wiffle ball was dead when you broke one of the slots.

At one point we experimented with bats. The best would be to cut a hole in the handle. Then you would take a newspaper & fold it up a page at a time. Wet the newspaper & stuff it in. Use something to jam it all the way. Then put the bat under water & stuff some more. That made for one heavy bat. If you opened the bat at the tip instead of the handle, eventually the newspaper would come flying out, no matter how much tape you used. Seeing the pitcher get pelted with newspaper on a swing is damn funny.

Mike

[jcbball86]

hey, i think thats a cool idea and i see you want to get a hold of me, i havent been on the forums for a while but i will be now, so if you want to put me on the team, make me either 3rd base (im guessing thats taken up so bench is fine) or righty pitcher (reliever)
i used to play baseball and i had a great average but not much power
if every spot is taken up, its not a big deal

[doveRBI]

More on duct tape - yes i am feeling the solids and that is a phenom that manifests in duct tape ball as well.  obviously not all our balls come from the same source some harder, some thinner, some more, less, or no holes.  even though all are duct taped you know when you get to the solid if you are pitching, but the good thing is the batter doesn't and you can absolutely blow it by him.  as for the splitting, some balls are two piece and will almost always spilt in one clean blow rendering them useless, but if they begin to cave you have to keep playing them until they are totally destoryed.
doveRBI