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Post by Mister Pigwell on Jun 22, 2014 0:05:11 GMT -5
OH and like any good sandlot game we had awesome house rules.
In the later years the management got us a soda machine and it was next to the door for the laundromat. So we made a rule since it was about 6 feet BEHIND the batter that if you could not only throw a strike but get it into the hole where the soda comes from the batter was AUTOMATICALLY out.
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Post by Mister Pigwell on Jun 22, 2014 0:05:23 GMT -5
...we eventually broke that soda machine.
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Post by Brandon Walsh is Insane. on Jun 22, 2014 0:05:52 GMT -5
We have a mini park across from my house, and totally used tennis balls with bats. Because otherwise they'd fly over the fence. All it took was to lose a ball and we couldn't play anymore.
I totally get your base set up though; our first base was a tree. Second was a the same, sewer cover, and third was a patch of dead grass. Third was SOOO far away from everything else, and first was basically a few strides from home. We did have a really wide outfield though. Our small field was the entire park, basically... but it was more of a grass patch than a park if that makes sense.
I get where you're coming from... that is pretty cool. Sounds like you had a lot of fun there.
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Post by Brandon Walsh is Insane. on Jun 22, 2014 0:07:33 GMT -5
OH and like any good sandlot game we had awesome house rules. In the later years the management got us a soda machine and it was next to the door for the laundromat. So we made a rule since it was about 6 feet BEHIND the batter that if you could not only throw a strike but get it into the hole where the soda comes from the batter was AUTOMATICALLY out. Since we played with tennis balls, "pegging" runners to get them out was allowed. Only once did a ball thrown in from center get someone out on the way to home... and it was marvelous. Knocked them in the head, too. |
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Post by Mister Pigwell on Jun 22, 2014 0:13:02 GMT -5
Never thought of that rule... would have been awesome. The daily deal in summer was baseball followed by football (I was tiny) so I could never tackle well and we had one guys dad be "all time QB" but I could run like a little mother f***er so that was my role... just run with the ball until you get flattened. After football we'd usually go to someones house and either play Nintendo or Sega depending on who's house and in summer that would be followed by super soakers.
All of our hurting-each-other games which just happened at random times of boredom involved very un-PC named games we used as an excuse to just hit the hell out of each other.
The late 80s and early 90s were very awesome for me.
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Post by Brandon Walsh is Insane. on Jun 22, 2014 0:17:31 GMT -5
i was never really good at football... couldn't catch, and couldn't run. I could throw, but we had an all time QB too. Usually a dad or older brother.
And yeah, Sega and Nintendo! Ever get to play Super Spike V Ball with the NES 4 Controller adapter? That was always lots and lots of fun.
We didn't really do super soakers... but once my neighbor got a basketball hoop, we were there everyday.
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Post by Mister Pigwell on Jun 22, 2014 0:27:02 GMT -5
There was a NES 4 player adapter? Had no idea. Super Spike V Ball and that hockey game with the Fat Guy and the soccer game where you could do super kicks with A and B together. Those were all f***ing awesome.
I'm AWFUL at basketball, like embarrassing bad.
I was never good with throwing really so that was definitely never my game.
Another great thing was the fact EVERYONE of us was a wrestling fan but when we were kids it was almost impossible to NOT be with Warrior and Hulk being larger than life ya know?
So all the parents would go into buying all the PPVs which there weren't many back then and all us kids would get at whichever house was hosting and watch it together and cheer and have fun.
I've mentioned my mothers obsession with Undertaker and Demolition Smash at this time frame in random threads before and this is a part of the same weird token.
I remember watching WM 9 and one of the other moms was talking to a different one and wasn't whispering quiet enough and a 9 year old me heard them discussing how big they think Giant Gonzalez's balls were. So there's that.
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Post by Brandon Walsh is Insane. on Jun 22, 2014 0:31:33 GMT -5
Yeah, World Cup Soccer! You could only see so much of the field... but the A B kick was guaranteed goal if you were in line with the net. That game was fun.
And yeah dude... 4 player satellite I think it was called. Made Super Spike so much more fun!
See, that's cool. I didn't have too many wrestling fan friends. My first issue of WWF Magazine did have Big Boss Man on the cover... first one I ever saw was around WrestleMania 5 i think.
I do remember my dad asking why RoboCop was on a wrestling show though. Nowhere near as good as that Giant Gonzalez story though!
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Post by Brandon Walsh is Insane. on Jun 22, 2014 19:12:28 GMT -5
Wait... So what did they figure out for Giant Gonzalez?
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Post by Mister Pigwell on Jun 22, 2014 19:12:59 GMT -5
Well I'm pretty sure they never seen his balls so who's to say.
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Post by Sephiroth on Jun 22, 2014 19:20:26 GMT -5
I said this to my ass as I stuffed my face with potato chips
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Post by CATCH_US IS the Conversation on Jun 22, 2014 19:38:41 GMT -5
I said this to my ass as I stuffed my face with potato chips Olestra? |
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Post by Brandon Walsh is Insane. on Jun 22, 2014 19:54:00 GMT -5
Well I'm pretty sure they never seen his balls so who's to say. Are you sure? |
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Post by Mister Pigwell on Jun 22, 2014 19:59:13 GMT -5
Well I'm pretty sure they never seen his balls so who's to say. Are you sure? Not 100%. I don't know the man personally and have never spoken to him about his sexual activities nor the 2 moms of friends I mentioned, so the possibility is of course there but I'd still take the safe bet that no, they've never seen his balls. |
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Post by Brandon Walsh is Insane. on Jun 23, 2014 1:28:49 GMT -5
Not 100%. I don't know the man personally and have never spoken to him about his sexual activities nor the 2 moms of friends I mentioned, so the possibility is of course there but I'd still take the safe bet that no, they've never seen his balls. That's a fair assessment. Do you ever wonder what your old sandlot looks like now? |
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Post by Mister Pigwell on Jun 23, 2014 3:24:01 GMT -5
Not 100%. I don't know the man personally and have never spoken to him about his sexual activities nor the 2 moms of friends I mentioned, so the possibility is of course there but I'd still take the safe bet that no, they've never seen his balls. That's a fair assessment. Do you ever wonder what your old sandlot looks like now? Nope I live in the lot across the street from it now.  |
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Post by Brandon Walsh is Insane. on Jun 23, 2014 9:17:51 GMT -5
Update: parted ways with her yesterday. A little sad, but it was the right thing to do.
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