Posted on 08/08/2017 12:54:08 PM PDT by heterosupremacist
Meet Jeffrey “Boog” Powell, the newest Little Leaguer to lasso America’s heart.
The Tennessee 12-year-old stands at an imposing 5-foot-2 and 220 pounds and looks every bit like a fearless slugger with swagger.
And although he’s no relation to that other Boog, the Baltimore Orioles great — or to the A’s newly acquired Powell — when he stepped up to the plate Monday night during the Little League Southeast Regional semifinals, he immediately became the object of Twitter affection...
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Parents should be sued for child abuse.
There’s your sign......
lighten up francis...
this slugger is having the time of his life.
your parents are the ones that should be investigated.
Well if he doesn't watch it, it won't be a very long time. And all these people trying to sugar-coat it, aren't doing him any favors.
s/b “Well if he doesn’t watch it, it won’t be a very long life”.
So the message is even if you aren’t good you are a star as long as you try hard and feel good about yourself?
When my son was 11, there was a 12 year old in the little league who was over 6 feet tall and maybe 220 lbs. The kids was HUGE! But he wasnt’ fat. He wasn’t a great hitter, but when he connected, it went over the fence by a mile. He is now 6’9 350lbs and will be in the NFL next year.
There are people who know a lot more about baseball than me.
I had to teach myself the fundamentals of baseball to coach young guys.
Pitching and hitting favor wide bodies.
Fielding and base running favor lighter people.
Big guys can be good at baseball.
He’s still a “Boog” er anyway!
5’2”@220lbs.
BMI=40.2
Any BMI above 40 is considered “Morbidely Obese”.
http://coolconversion.com/heath/bmi-feet-inches-pounds/_5___2_in__220_lbs_
Well, just as long as SOMEONE lightens up. ;-)
He looks like that fat kid goalie in the Mighty Ducks movies.
“5’2”@220lbs.
BMI=40.2
Any BMI above 40 is considered “Morbidely Obese”*
Standing at 5’9” 212, I guess I can party on!
Technically, newly reacquired, as the A's drafted him in the first place.
Technically, newly reacquired, as the A's drafted him in the first place.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/powelbo02.shtml
I suppose, if he wants, he can just say he feels like a girl, and play on the girls’ team.
We had a “fat” kid on my little league team. He parked it every at bat. I never knew what happened to him. All kids grow differently. I know formerly skinny kids who are now quite rotund. In the Army BMI screwed a lot of very good NCO’s who were NOT fat.
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