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PostPosted: Mon Jul 07, 2014 9:53 pm 
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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.

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 07, 2014 9:58 pm 
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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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PostPosted: Mon Jul 07, 2014 10:11 pm 
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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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PostPosted: Mon Jul 07, 2014 10:16 pm 
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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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PostPosted: Mon Jul 07, 2014 10:17 pm 
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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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I take my kids to either Eich's or GoPro in Plainfield.

Does that help?

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 07, 2014 10:26 pm 
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 07, 2014 10:26 pm 
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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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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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 Post subject: Re: Batting Cages?
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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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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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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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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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PostPosted: Tue Jul 08, 2014 9:59 am 
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Find out where Bernstein turns around 95 mph heaters.

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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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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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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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... 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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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...

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