Female joins men's team in U.S.

AP ^ | April 9, 2010

[ConservativeStatement]

TOKYO (AP) -- A female knuckleball pitcher from Japan will be playing for a minor league team in the United States.

Eri Yoshida, an 18-year-old pitcher who played pro ball in Japan last year, signed with the Chico Outlaws of the Golden Baseball League. The team said she will report to spring training next month.

[ConservativeStatement]

I'm offended by the name "Outlaws." What happens if a player slaps her on the behind? Will he be prosecuted? What happens is the local announcer says "She was bombed in a start"? Will he be punished? Oh, the PC ramifications. /sarc.

[84rules]

So, when do men get to join women’s softball leagues or other women’s sports leagues?

[Responsibility2nd]

I’m offended by the name “Outlaws.” What happens if a player slaps her on the behind? Will he be prosecuted? What happens is the local announcer says “She was bombed in a start”? Will he be punished? Oh, the PC ramifications. /sarc.

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You do realize - of course - that none of this matters.

What really matters here are pictures. So we horn dogs can pronounce a verdict of “guilty” or “not guilty”.

And regardless of the verdict, we can soon expect Laz to be here to hit it.

[1rudeboy]

You want to be a man playing on a girls’ team?

[Frantzie]

Trying to think of submariners. I am sure there was a reliver I cannot think of. I would love to see her pitch. Knuckleballers are awesome.

Charlie Hough(??) pitched for teh Marlins when he was 50 or something?? Knuckleballer.

[Clock King]

"What happens if a player slaps her on the behind?"

What behind? She's probably flat as fresh tinfoil.

[84rules]

I’m already on a co-ed swim team and am enjoying it very much. :)

[OneWingedShark]

Interesting.

[Touch Not the Cat]

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Seems popular in Japan — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQCz6nSHuwA

Some of those guys have a wicked delivery!

[OneWingedShark]

>You want to be a man playing on a girls’ team?

Change ‘on’ to ‘with’ and you’ll get closer to his meaning.

[weeweed]

[ConservativeStatement]

Dan Quisenberry?

[Adder]

So men can play on women’s teams too?

Kewl!

[ccmay]

I like it! I liked Manon Rheaume and Ann Myers Drysdale too. Obviously women in the big leagues will always be limited to positions of skill rather than physicality— knuckleballer, hockey goalie, basketball guard— but if they can play with the big boys, I say go for it.

[Responsibility2nd]

lolol

Well!

I guess I found out what the mods think in response to my guilty or not guilty reactions.

Post # 3 WAS a picture of this knuckle baller. The mods must have found her very, very guilty.

lolol

[Touch Not the Cat]

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Or Kent Tekulve.

(I cheated and went looking on Google but I do remeber both those players.)

[dfwgator]

Eri Yoshida, an 18-year-old pitcher who played pro ball in Japan last year, signed with the Chico Outlaws of the Golden Baseball League

I wonder who their sponsor is?