It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World

Pittsburgh Tribune Review ^ | 12/15/03 | Ralph R. Reiland

[thesummerwind]

Playing for the Pittsfield High School baseball team in Illinois, Danny Hannant threw a pitch that a Calhoun High School player hit in a line drive right at the pitcher's mound. The ball bounced off Hannant's head.

Rather than blame the mishap on a lousy pitch or a missed catch, or on the intrinsic risks of the game, Hannant sued the maker of the bat, Hillerich & Bradsby. Seeking in excess of $1 million, Hannant's lawyer argued that the company should have put labels on its Louisville Slugger bats warning that the product "could cause a baseball to be propelled with such velocity that when hit directly towards a pitcher it does not allow the pitcher sufficient reaction time to avoid being struck."

[RightWhale]

Our pitcher got hit by a ball that hit the rubber and bounced right into his moustache. There was enough blood to require an entire white towel, but the man continued to pitch after bleeding came under control.

[mtbrandon49]

My dads response was always "Hurt like h@ll didn't it. I guess you want try that again will ya!"

[agrace]

We used wax paper - deadly stuff.

[Steve0113]

That game was, er, actually called "Smear the Queer" ...

I didn't hear it called that until much later. We always called it "maul ball". My mom always thought we were saying "mall ball", until she watched us play it.

[Conspiracy Guy]

I was born in 1954. The first I remember playing Smear the
Metrosexual" was 4th grade so, that's 64. There were no malls here in 64 but then we only got electricity in 1989.

[LexBaird]

The location is NO WHERE! Smarty pants ; )

Isn't that a small town, west of Topeka?

[Conspiracy Guy]

Actually yes. And remember, "John F. Kennedy did not die in vain, he died in Dallas, Texas."

[Melinator]

In truth, it's the people who hire the lawyers to get them something for nothing. Lawyers are like guns: lawyers do not sue people - People sue people.

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

It was called, Kill The Man. Here's how it went.

Hehe. We played that too. We called the game Smear the Queer. Which of course would never be permitted today. I don't believe any of us knew what queers were anyways.

[LexBaird]

And remember, "John F. Kennedy did not die in vain, he died in Dallas, Texas."

That's what they want you to believe...

Some Conspiracy Guy you are.

[thesummerwind]

I don't believe any of us knew what queers were anyways.

Yeh, I never knew what a "queer" was until I was in college (Pitt) in 1964, when my fraternity house roommate tried to get a little too frisky in the middle of the night as I was nodding off!

Now he's a Congressman!

[LexBaird]

Lawyers are like guns: lawyers do not sue people - People sue people.

Three words for you: Class Action Lawsuits.

And here's four more: American Civil Liberties Union.

What do these things have in common? Finding a pretext, via some shlub "victim(s)", so lawyers can sue, other lawyers can defend and only the lawyers can profit.

[thesummerwind]

There were no "queers" (that we noticed) back when I was a kid. I really didn't notice. Silly me!

[SquirrelKing]

Now baseball is TRULY an American sport.

[thesummerwind]

lawyers standing around handing out there cards.

"there" cards? Please! You are a freeper.

Their!

[thesummerwind]

First, kill all the lawyers... then get really, really drunk and reckless.

I got drunk first, damn!

[thesummerwind]

Even the strongest among us went down.

That's what makes all of us equal. Everyone gets their a** kicked more than once!

That's Freedom, Respect, and America!

[thesummerwind]

My parents reaction, thats what you get for being careless.

Perfect!

Hillary would want to round up some 'child advocates' so you could have sued your parents!

[thesummerwind]

He also knows the location of Democrat Ethics.

Where?

[thesummerwind]

Paging Edgar Snyder.

"We get no money, unless you call us."