Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

'Not Game Ready': Pitchers pan MLB-approved protective cap
FoxNews ^ | January 29, 2014

Posted on 01/29/2014 1:59:39 AM PST by SMGFan

Major League Baseball has approved a protective cap for pitchers, hoping to reduce the damage from line drives to head that have brought some terrifying and bloody scenes in the last few years.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS:
"Great Gazoo hat"
1 posted on 01/29/2014 1:59:39 AM PST by SMGFan
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: SMGFan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-VnIwvY47c Great Gazoo


2 posted on 01/29/2014 1:59:59 AM PST by SMGFan (Sarah Michelle Gellar is now on twitter @RealSMG)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SMGFan

I guess they might as well just go to whiffle ball and be done with the mans game. Ty Cobb and the Babe are rolling in their graves right about now.


3 posted on 01/29/2014 2:06:30 AM PST by Bullish (America should yank Obama like a rotten tooth before he poisons the entire body)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SMGFan

4 posted on 01/29/2014 2:11:49 AM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SMGFan

Jus dum b.

I would think the weight and the way it sits would interefer with speed and accuracy.

You’d be worried about the speed of your movement and momentum throwing the helmet off, cocking it sideways, etc.

Nice try though.


5 posted on 01/29/2014 2:14:08 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SMGFan

6 posted on 01/29/2014 2:18:26 AM PST by Libloather (Embrace the suck)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SMGFan

Just go all the way and give the pitchers a catchers mask...or maybe bubble wrap their heads with a couple eye holes and a straw to breath though....


7 posted on 01/29/2014 2:38:19 AM PST by Popman ("Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God" - Thomas Jefferson)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Vendome

Yeah it needs to be a tight fitting cap like the ones they wear in games like jai alai.


8 posted on 01/29/2014 3:27:35 AM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: Popman

But that would still leave the rest of their body vulnerable. The only sensible answer is to replace the pitcher with a pitching machine. And to avoid injury to batters, replace them with batting machines, and the remainder of the defensive players with giant nets on strung on poles.... /sarc/


9 posted on 01/29/2014 3:49:03 AM PST by Pecos (The Chicago Way: Kill the Constitution, one step at a time.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: cripplecreek

Or like a cup....

LOL


10 posted on 01/29/2014 4:16:21 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: Pecos

One of libtards wet dreams is to make a risk free society....of course though government intervention....

That’s why we are literally in an avalanche of rules, regulations, mandates, policies....

Personal responsibility and consequences of bad decisions....are gladly covered by your local congress critter...who happen to be mostly lawyers...


11 posted on 01/29/2014 5:38:42 AM PST by Popman ("Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God" - Thomas Jefferson)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: SMGFan
The Great Gazoo:


12 posted on 01/29/2014 5:58:04 AM PST by fidelis (Zonie and USAF Cold Warrior)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SMGFan

“Hello dum-dums.”


13 posted on 01/29/2014 6:18:36 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts ("The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it." - George Orwell)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson