1. The Sox have really been working hard with the catchers fundamentals.

THEY JUST GOT THERE ON WED! How Hard have they been working Larry?????

2. His amazing baseball senses picked up that AJ would probably catch Danks and Flowers would catch Peavy?

I am not 100% sure on this, but I thought AJ and Peavy didnt get along last year and Flowers caught almost all Peavy's games? Assuming I am correct, doesn't that make this even less than news????

Great Job Larry! But if you say it slower and a little softer, it sounds very important like an observation you caught?

_________________
"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

You can thank Laurence's bosses at NBC5 for allowing him to broadcast from Arizona and as he said before he took vacation time from WSCR 670 The SCORE, he ended up saving $18 to boot for his ticket.

Yes we know, he has mentioned it each time he gets 15 mins on the air about the fact he is on Ch 5 and they paid for the trip...

Not really sure why paying for him to stay 3 extra days was such a big deal? He probably already had the ticket, he stays in his condo...so he made another $120 a day? congrats Larry..you made it

_________________
"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

I'm more impressed that he saved $18 on his ticket out there.

_________________

Guys who have been heavily recruited as Catchers by MLB teams share a common bond.

Guys like you and I couldnt understand

He has picked up the poor fundamental that AJ has of shifting the ball to his throwing hand poorly. He has talked about it on the air for years and each time he mentions it like he thinks he is a coach.

Larry could be in the HOF of DePaul Club Baseball as the highest rated player ever.

_________________
"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

I was just laughing with my friend about the KC Royals and Toronto Blue Jays annual open tryouts. All are welcomed. If you are a pitcher, they give you about five pitches before telling you to leave. If you are a fielder they give you one sprint.

My friend pitched at Illinois. He is tall, thin and a lefty. He has the look of a pitcher. His tryout was over within three minutes.

_________________
O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Larry of course claims he has a letter of them inviting him.

I guess Larry never heard of form letters.

I also know a few people who had much better credentials than larry and got about the same look as Larry.

_________________
"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

Guys I know who played REAL College baseball on scholarships went to open tryouts and didnt get more than a second chance to throw 3 pitches.

Larry the catcher on the DePaul Club team thought got a tryout!

DePauls club team gets it's ass kicked by 50% of the High Schools in Illinois! I don't start in HS, but on the DePaul Club team I play first base and bat 5th!

_________________
"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

One time in 7th grade, we had to write patriotic poems for Veterans' Day. Now, 7th grade was right about when I realized after three years of gross underachievement that I would never be a good student, so I decided to just make people around me as miserable as I was, you know, just to keep my head, and ace enough tests to keep myself from failing outright. This was 1998, remember, so taking the piss with America-as-abstract-concept wasn't yet punishable by decapitation. So for this poetry assignment, I decided I would just make a really shitty concrete/acrostic combo, the great crutch of every mediocre mind in a poetry unit, wherein each stripe of the flag would be a line starting with a letter in AMERICA and then there was some little text box for the canton in the upper-left. I did this all in Quark XPress, so it was all very professionally done. The lines were really ridiculous, like

Man, this is a great country,

and the one I still remember,

Every war, we win, Vietnam excluded.

So I banged this piece of crap out, had a few yuks to myself about how seriously I didn't take this, and then went back to doing whatever the hell else I thought was more important than my education in November 1998, which I'm guessing would've been watching Monday Night Raw, playing Final Fantasy VII, or some combination thereof (making Barrett Wallace in create-a-wrestler so we could determine once and for all who was tougher, him or Gangrel).

Imagine my surprise when I not only got an A on this assignment, but was told that my teacher had nominated it for some sort of Young Poets Of America anthology, which would publish this masterpiece contingent on my purchase of the anthology. It was like $12 or something, and my parents insisted that I buy it as some sort of keepsake. So yes, I bought it, and there amidst all sorts of mawkish middle schooler poetry, was my acrostic bullshit

Really glad to live here and not Canada
I probably couldn't ask for a better flag.

So the moral of this story is that I am a published poet in the same sense that Larry is a baseball prospect.

_________________

Hmmm?

_________________
"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

You have also caught more major league pitchers than Larry the pro catcher.

_________________
That's my purse! I don't know you!