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Frobby Hangout Grand Counsel

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10 minutes ago, JimGinSP said:

Great family Thanksgiving activity!  Dad still can hammer.  Oh and they referred to the indoor sport court as within “the Holliday compound”…. Jackson won’t be signing any 8/80 extension.   

Land is pretty cheap in Stillwater Oklahoma.

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4 minutes ago, now said:

That power tool's starting to look pretty good after all.

The ball wasn’t carrying very well but he couldn’t put it out anywhere but straight away RF or towards the line.  Even his “little” brother was able to put a couple out to CF although they were talking about different bats so that could have made a difference too.  I think the composite bat, like the colleges use, was used by Ethan when he gave it a second try.

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28 minutes ago, RZNJ said:

The ball wasn’t carrying very well but he couldn’t put it out anywhere but straight away RF or towards the line.  Even his “little” brother was able to put a couple out to CF although they were talking about different bats so that could have made a difference too.  I think the composite bat, like the colleges use, was used by Ethan when he gave it a second try.

They gave him a juiced bat they said. "Ethan needed a redemption round with a juiced bat". It was like one of those Flintstone-sized wiffle ball bats, the barrel was huge.

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11 hours ago, Orioles0615 said:

Yea if we could draft Ethan too that would be great

 

 

PS Matt Holliday could be our DH next year and be great probably 

Joking I assume?

He would still be in the majors if was the case. Hitting BP home runs and big league stuff isn’t quite the same.

Like in boxing, power is the last skill to go. 

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1 hour ago, RZNJ said:

The ball wasn’t carrying very well but he couldn’t put it out anywhere but straight away RF or towards the line.

A couple of those might have been over if that were Oriole Park. The wall in right field in this video was saying 375.  Right-Center is 373 at Camden Yards, and strait down the foul pole is only 318. Which means there's alot of opportunity for home runs in between those 2 markers at Camden Yards for left handed hitters. When the weather is warmer, that's even more likely.

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