This hurts to watch
- Thread starter GK4Herd
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Women never listen. She wanted to do it her way. Guarantee it. Sad thing is she can probably field a grounder better than 80% of the boys now.
Poor girl. You can read her lips saying "that was really bad. I am probably going to get fired."
I’d say he was but with the velocity he was we hit with I don’t think a cup was going to help much
I'm not sure a cup offers 100% protection against a 102 mph heater.
Here's a little test for somebody who wants to patent a product and make a small fortune. Seriously, take ten seconds and do this:
While standing up, lightly grasp your crank-and-balls with one hand. Hold them together in one hand like a protective cup does. Now, with your hand in the same place with the same light grip, kneel into a catcher's position. What happens to your crank-and-balls? When you kneel, they start to come out from underneath the bottom of your hand. A cup is shaped very similar to how your hand is when you "cup" your junk together. Cups are put in while standing up. When a catcher kneels, the cup starts to point out - the bottom of it raises up and points towards the pitcher. This allows your balls (we are good with not using medical terms here, right?) to be exposed, especially from the bottom. This is why you see the most damage done to catchers on foul balls that go directly into the dirt and then bounce back up from underneath the catcher's junk region.
It doesn't matter if you put the cup in a built-in slot in sliding shorts, wear a separate jockstrap for it, etc. The same phenomenon happens. If somebody would create a device that stays attached and doesn't raise up when a catcher or athlete kneels, they would be able to make a small fortune licensing it to big manufacturers/distributors.
Well, I just did your test, but the folks here at work are looking at me funny.
As a Reds’ fan, this is satisfying.
Thanks for the explanation.
My last experience with a cup was little league all stars. It’s not like I have huge Spaldings now but I certainly didn’t then and those cups protected my pre pubescent balls from those ?60 mph? heaters very well.
My last experience with a cup was little league all stars. It’s not like I have huge Spaldings now but I certainly didn’t then and those cups protected my pre pubescent balls from those ?60 mph? heaters very well.
Are you a female? Under no circumstances should a male ever call that “satisfying”
no, I think it was because I was having trouble finding my junk. I'm just a white guy.
Next time, try sticking your finger in your belly button to make it pop out.
If it was anyone else, except for Chris Carpenter, I would feel bad for him and wish him a speedy recovery.
Could look like this. You would have to use an inverted shrunk down bicycle seat concept. Except you don't want your nuts slipping through that slit area in the seat. Need a mesh net like a lacrosse net to hold the nuts in.
This could be huge money maker. Just like that throat protector after Steve Yeager got hit in the throat with the splintered bat. Now ever league requires them.
This could protect your junk and be required all the way from Little League to the Bigs.
This could protect your junk and be required all the way from Little League to the Bigs.
