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Small-town newspaper claims switch pitcher Pat Venditte is 'amphibious'
Sports Illustrated ^
| June 9, 2015
| Extra Mustard
Posted on 06/09/2015 11:03:08 AM PDT by EveningStar
Pat Venditte, the Oakland Athletics' switch-pitching sensation, has the ability to live on land and in water, according to the East Oregonian.
The little paper published out of Pendleton, Oregon, ran a headline on a story about Venditte touting him as "amphibious" rather than ambidextrous.
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Society; Sports; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: 1; ambidextrous; amphibious; baseball; eastoregonian; mlb; oaklandathletics; patvenditte; pitcher; switchpitcher; venditte
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To: EveningStar; mikrofon; Charles Henrickson
To: EveningStar
There is an oft repeated sports quote by a pro-bballer named Charles Shackleford "Left hand, right hand, it doesn't matter. I'm amphibious."
A lot of people are familiar with the quote and I would imagine the authors use was a reference to it.
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posted on
06/09/2015 11:56:32 AM PDT
by
lwd
To: a fool in paradise
I’m surprised that they didn’t say he was bi!
To: Dr. Ursus
You mean bilingual? Into S&M (Spaniards and Mexicans)? < /Steve Martin >
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posted on
06/09/2015 12:14:39 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Funny how Hollywood's 'No Nukes' crowd has been silent during Obama's Iranian nuclear negotiations.)
To: EveningStar
He can pitch during rainstorms, so the infield tarp is now unnecessary.
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posted on
06/09/2015 12:24:40 PM PDT
by
Hebrews 11:6
(Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
To: EveningStar
Major EIF, -15
Military journalists (and I know there’s a few of you out there) will know what that means.
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posted on
06/09/2015 12:34:40 PM PDT
by
ScottinVA
(The election of Obama was a hate crime.)
To: EveningStar
Could be worse.
He could have been ambiguous.
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posted on
06/09/2015 12:39:46 PM PDT
by
aomagrat
(Gun owners who vote for democrats are too stupid to own guns.)
To: EveningStar
Gotta admit. I'm cute!
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posted on
06/09/2015 12:43:53 PM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: Daffynition
Fits right in with the thread.
The guy is a “relief pitcher”, right?
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posted on
06/09/2015 12:44:44 PM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: aomagrat
ambiguous - nah, that would be someone like Billy Jean King or Bruce Jenner
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posted on
06/09/2015 12:45:39 PM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: EveningStar
I’d give my left arm to be ambidextrous...
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posted on
06/09/2015 12:54:53 PM PDT
by
WayneS
(Yeah, it's probably sarcasm...)
To: Dr. Ursus
I’m surprised that they didn’t say he was bi!
Biphibious? Amphibious maybe but saying he swims both ways is a stretch........
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posted on
06/09/2015 12:59:57 PM PDT
by
Hot Tabasco
(War IS the answer! Peace activists never liberated anything or anyone....)
To: EveningStar
So he throws left handed AND right handed? Wow, I’d give my left arm to be ambidextrous........
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posted on
06/09/2015 1:01:49 PM PDT
by
Hot Tabasco
(War IS the answer! Peace activists never liberated anything or anyone....)
To: WayneS
I’d give my left arm to be ambidextrous...
Dam, you beet me two it....I should have red thru the thred.......
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posted on
06/09/2015 1:04:05 PM PDT
by
Hot Tabasco
(War IS the answer! Peace activists never liberated anything or anyone....)
To: EveningStar
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posted on
06/09/2015 1:12:26 PM PDT
by
Parmy
To: lwd
To: EveningStar
Small-town newspaper claims switch pitcher Pat Venditte is 'amphibious'He can pitch with either fin.
To: Farmer Dean
Public school fail.Again.
Apparently not, it was intentional. Here's a comment at the source of the article:
it's the newspaper giving props to a famous Yogi-ism from the great Yogi Berra. Yogi Berra said it a long time ago about switch hitters...."He hits from both sides of the plate; he amphibious.........So, it's like deva vu all over again.
Don't feel bad, you were taken just like the SI writer of the article..........LOL!
With that being said, it would be all the more better if it was accidental since it was a small town paper.
I love small town papers since they deal primarily with small town stuff and the people in the news are people you usually know.......
I grew up in a small town in northern Michigan and when I went into the Army in April, 1969, one of my best friends father owned the weekly town newspaper and he provided me with a free subscription to the paper for the three years I was in the service........
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posted on
06/09/2015 1:21:58 PM PDT
by
Hot Tabasco
(War IS the answer! Peace activists never liberated anything or anyone....)
To: Farmer Dean
Public school fail.Again. Misspellings in newspapers are as old as the newspaper industry itself.
To: EveningStar
I thought he was bisubmersible.
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posted on
06/09/2015 3:17:22 PM PDT
by
VeniVidiVici
(If Al Sharpton would pay his taxes, two million kids could eat school lunch for one year)
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