Go down to Home Depot, pick up a couple day-laborers. One to pitch, another to shag fouls.
Get there early, tho, so you get a first-rounder:
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| Author: | bigfan [ Mon Jul 07, 2014 9:53 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Batting Cages? |
Sick of Bash, cages are a few feet short and it's great that they tell me a 56 ft pitch at 84 is = to a 90 MPH or whatever the calc is, but Need an new place. Used to head over to the Park on Western, but of course the Park District doesnt have the money to fix that machine, they just have money for everything else. Bunny Hutch sucks. Keep it! Anything else? I know I can Yelp it, but want to hit outside, on a machine that works, not like going to Sluggers and dont want shitty reviews. Whatyagotgoingon? |
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| Author: | Urlacher's missing neck [ Mon Jul 07, 2014 9:54 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Batting Cages? |
ask dempster to throw to you. |
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| Author: | bigfan [ Mon Jul 07, 2014 9:58 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Batting Cages? |
Urlacher's missing neck wrote: ask dempster to throw to you. he probably would, you can tell the guy is bored. Lotsa time talking to STREETWISE guy at Southport and Roscoe. |
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| Author: | Hussra [ Mon Jul 07, 2014 10:01 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Batting Cages? |
At least if he tries to bean you, you'll have 3 chances to get out of the way before he succeeds. |
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| Author: | Chus [ Mon Jul 07, 2014 10:11 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Batting Cages? |
bigfan wrote: Urlacher's missing neck wrote: ask dempster to throw to you. he probably would, you can tell the guy is bored. Lotsa time talking to STREETWISE guy at Southport and Roscoe. Is he doing his bad impersonation of a bad Harry Caray impersonation? |
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| Author: | spanky [ Mon Jul 07, 2014 10:16 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Batting Cages? |
Chus wrote: bigfan wrote: Urlacher's missing neck wrote: ask dempster to throw to you. he probably would, you can tell the guy is bored. Lotsa time talking to STREETWISE guy at Southport and Roscoe. Is he doing his bad impersonation of a bad Harry Caray impersonation? Does he do that with with the wife, the mistress, or his "sister"? |
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| Author: | IkeSouth [ Mon Jul 07, 2014 10:17 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Batting Cages? |
its call a friend, bigfan. maybe if you wash your vag a couple times a week the guys will pitch your mitt once and awhile |
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| Author: | spanky [ Mon Jul 07, 2014 10:25 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Batting Cages? |
I take my kids to either Eich's or GoPro in Plainfield. Does that help? |
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| Author: | Keyser Soze [ Mon Jul 07, 2014 10:26 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Batting Cages? |
Elite Baseball Training. |
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| Author: | newper [ Mon Jul 07, 2014 10:26 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Batting Cages? |
spanky wrote: I take my kids to either Eich's or GoPro in Plainfield. Does that help? This also is pretty well liked for the area: http://www.randallsislandgolfcenter.com/ |
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| Author: | spanky [ Mon Jul 07, 2014 10:27 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Batting Cages? |
newper wrote: spanky wrote: I take my kids to either Eich's or GoPro in Plainfield. Does that help? This also is pretty well liked for the area: http://www.randallsislandgolfcenter.com/ Not THAT Plainfield.... |
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| Author: | Crystal Lake Hoffy [ Tue Jul 08, 2014 7:12 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Batting Cages? |
Don't know of many. The two I used to frequent closed a while back, one of them over by the racetrack in Maywood. How about the Bulls and Sox Academy? http://www.bullssoxacademy.com/ |
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| Author: | Darkside [ Tue Jul 08, 2014 9:39 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Batting Cages? |
Crystal Lake Hoffy wrote: Don't know of many. The two I used to frequent closed a while back, one of them over by the racetrack in Maywood. How about the Bulls and Sox Academy? http://www.bullssoxacademy.com/ I went to a batting cage with boyd in your area last summer. It's in that industrial area near pingree? Something like that. We went to bww after and it was like 10 minutes away. |
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| Author: | Frank Coztansa [ Tue Jul 08, 2014 9:45 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Batting Cages? |
Get some of the Sox relievers to throw BP to you. A few of them need all the help they can get. |
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| Author: | good dolphin [ Tue Jul 08, 2014 9:58 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Batting Cages? |
If you are willing to go as far as Bunny Hutch, then Niles Park District isn't much farther. SE corner of Touhy and Harlem. 15 pitches for $1 is a pretty good deal. It is part of a big complex of fields and miniature golf. Stop at Nick's Gyros half a block north for one of the few home made gyros in the city. |
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| Author: | Chus [ Tue Jul 08, 2014 9:59 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Batting Cages? |
Find out where Bernstein turns around 95 mph heaters. |
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| Author: | IMU [ Tue Jul 08, 2014 10:15 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Batting Cages? |
http://www.theballparkmp.com/ |
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| Author: | spanky [ Tue Jul 08, 2014 10:19 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Batting Cages? |
Chus wrote: Find out where Bernstein turns around 95 mph heaters. Anybody can do it once they get the timing down. |
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| Author: | Crystal Lake Hoffy [ Tue Jul 08, 2014 11:35 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Batting Cages? |
Darkside wrote: Crystal Lake Hoffy wrote: Don't know of many. The two I used to frequent closed a while back, one of them over by the racetrack in Maywood. How about the Bulls and Sox Academy? http://www.bullssoxacademy.com/ I went to a batting cage with boyd in your area last summer. It's in that industrial area near pingree? Something like that. We went to bww after and it was like 10 minutes away. Dunno, haven't checked it out. The last time I was in a batting cage, it was the Louisville Slugger factory and it was so embarrassing that I haven't gone near a bat since. |
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| Author: | Hussra [ Tue Jul 08, 2014 12:12 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Batting Cages? |
Go down to Home Depot, pick up a couple day-laborers. One to pitch, another to shag fouls. Get there early, tho, so you get a first-rounder:
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| Author: | IMU [ Tue Jul 08, 2014 12:13 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Batting Cages? |
... dude... weekend baseball is back on for me and my friends! Never thought about this. We can fill those required 4-5 spots that we can never get to field two full teams. Genius! |
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| Author: | Hussra [ Tue Jul 08, 2014 12:23 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Batting Cages? |
Teenager from south of the border coyotes into the USA and makes his way to Chicago. Every morning, he queues up for day-labor at the North and Elston Home Depot. One weekend, he's selected by a fresh-out-of-college intern in the Cubs front-office to fill out the roster on a pick up baseball team. Turns out, the kid has a lightning bolt for an arm... "Vecindad Closer" |
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