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Beer Drinker

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  1. 5 hours ago, closetojumping said:

    Shane Nance - that's right! He threw at me on 4 straight pitches in an American Legion game one summer. I attempted to whip his fat ass on 3 different occasions, including after and in his gf's front yard while her dad chastised me for "not letting it go" and Nance cried behind the screen door. Saw him and the gf, now long time wife, at my daughter's wedding in CA in September. Didn't do anything but say hello out of respect for the kiddo, but still, fuck that guy. 

    Played against Backe and Cridland plenty. Cridland was a way better HS pitcher than Backe. My little brother threw harder and better than Backe and they were in the same grade. In HS, Backe truly talked like he was a drug dealer working a street corner and attempted to act gangster. It was comical then, and then seeing him speak like a non-thug on tv and radio while with the Astros was even funnier. In youth and HS, that dude could straight up mash. His pitching was secondary and he was only hitting the high 80's as a soph. 

    Yea I played against Backe quite a bit too, my high school team actually beat him 2-3 times his senior year and eliminated Ball from the playoffs.  He was a hell of a player and one of the best hitters in Houston area.  Amazing that once his position player role in the pros never materialized that he could resort back to pitching and excel in the bigs for a while.  I bet he hit low 90’s in 96, his senior year.

  2. 5 hours ago, closetojumping said:

    I played against a lot of guys in Houston and throughout the world from 1990-1994 that were in the high 80’s-low 90’s at 15-17.

    Faced a dude from South Korea in a world series at 14 that was hitting the equivalent of mid-90’s. Faced Ramon Castro from Puerto Rico in the same tournament and he threw harder (drafted by the Astros a few years later and he was definitely not 14 when we faced his cheating ass). 

    Jeff Hampton and Alex Prejean out of Clear Lake. Prejean was high 90’s with little control. He hit me on the tip of my nose in a playoff game in high school and it literally turf-burned the edge of my nose he was throwing so hard. 

    Marriott, Rupe, the Kingwood guys that went in the first round in 93-95. Dana Davis. Mike Gonzalez out of Pasadena High who played for years as a closer in the bigs. A short fat lefty at Dobie named Shane something or other who ended up playing in the bigs for AZ and Milwaukee. Guy named Mosley out of Deer Park who threw harder than any of them besides Marriott and Prejean and couldn’t find the plate. Scary shit to face a dude in the high 90’s with zero control at 15/16. 

    The most ridiculous pitcher I faced was a dude named Ryan Cummings out of Marietta, GA. He had 5 fucking pitches at 16 and threw in the mid 90’s with control. Tore his rotator cuff his senior year, I heard, and I think the Yankees still drafted him in the 16th round. 

    Anyway, I’d say that it’s been going on for as long as baseball has been played. By high school, guys sitting 84-86 are a dime a dozen in the metro areas. 

    I think it was Shane Nance from Dobie.  Don’t forget Backe too.  John Patterson from LCM was throwing high 90’s back then

  3. 5 minutes ago, hornfromdallas said:

    this isnt 2005 a&m has become big brother

    all you homers need to take your orange glasses off to see it

    i know for a fact kids in this era see texas a&m as superior to texas because my woo was recruited by both during the process & i got to talk to many recruits in a gc 

    Shemar told him this in a video

  4. 1 minute ago, DanTheHorn said:

    So this guy posted something on the message board for husky's that was interpreted as he is staying.

    Someone on Husky board stated crisis has been averted.

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    So is the deal he is going to get a raise and staying or the deal is that he is coming to Texas. The statement above can be seen either way.

    Oh shit here we go again

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