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Newspaper celebrates MLB's first amphibious pitcher [Not a joke]
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| 6/8/15
| Bill Hanstock
Posted on 06/09/2015 11:26:48 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
Look, everyone is excited about Pat Venditte. But we can't be too busy to fact-check things like "the word for someone who can use both hands equally well."
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: 2; autocorrect; media; mlb; news; sport
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To: SoFloFreeper
It looks as if the journalist got it right in his article. It is his headline writing editor who blew it. . .
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Clipped from the article:
Look at the 2nd paragraph.
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posted on
06/09/2015 11:36:52 AM PDT
by
Swordmaker
( This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
To: Interesting Times
You’re using all the correct words and as a school board director, I discover .... it’s intentional
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posted on
06/09/2015 11:37:14 AM PDT
by
knarf
To: SoFloFreeper
I dont see any flippers or fins, what gives??
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posted on
06/09/2015 11:38:09 AM PDT
by
eyeamok
To: Proud2BeRight
He should be good catching a fly. Do the rules allow the use of a tongue?
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posted on
06/09/2015 11:39:28 AM PDT
by
Swordmaker
( This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
To: Salamander
Yes. I'm really tired of all the mammal privilege.
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posted on
06/09/2015 11:40:29 AM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: eyeamok
I have to pull from the game kid.
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posted on
06/09/2015 11:40:37 AM PDT
by
Covenantor
("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
To: SoFloFreeper
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posted on
06/09/2015 11:40:45 AM PDT
by
South40
(Hillary Clinton was a "great secretary of state". - Texas Governor Rick Perry)
To: SoFloFreeper
The writer’s defense “It was the spellcheck”, “No, really, it was the spellcheck.”
To: SoFloFreeper
Actually a very cool story on the actual merits. Lots of bullpen flexibility, low to mid 80s, now throws side arm both lefty and righty.
The Venditte rule, 2008
A pitcher must indicate visually to the umpire-in-chief, the batter and any runners the hand with which he intends to pitch, which may be done by wearing his glove on the other hand while touching the pitchers plate. The pitcher is not permitted to pitch with the other hand until the batter is retired, the batter becomes a runner, the inning ends, the batter is substituted for by a pinch-hitter or the pitcher incurs an injury. In the event a pitcher switches pitching hands during an at-bat because he has suffered an injury, the pitcher may not, for the remainder of the game, pitch with the hand from which he has switched. The pitcher shall not be given the opportunity to throw any preparatory pitches after switching pitching hands. Any change of pitching hands must be indicated clearly to the umpire-in-chief.
He uses a six fingered glove with the web in the middle:
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/heres-the-baseball-glove-that-ambidextrous-pitcher-pat-venditte-uses-2015-06-08
Freegards
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posted on
06/09/2015 11:41:37 AM PDT
by
Ransomed
To: SoFloFreeper
Maybe he thought he played for the Marlins.
To: smokingfrog; Salamander
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posted on
06/09/2015 11:42:29 AM PDT
by
Covenantor
("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
To: rarestia
To be fair, the guy who wrote the story, Ulman, used the right word in the article. Headlines are written by someone else.
To: SoFloFreeper
interesting paper outlet, evidently they can’t afford an editor. LOL I worked in carpentry with a guy many years ago who told me “I’m taxidermist, I can hammer with either hand.” not to mention the men I have met that had Prostrate problems.
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posted on
06/09/2015 11:43:39 AM PDT
by
fish hawk
(no tyrant can remain in power without the consent and cooperation of his victims.)
To: babble-on
Oops, I’m the ninth person to say that.
To: babble-on
Oops, I’m the ninth person to say that.
To: All
I don’t think he’s the first either as there was an ambidextrous pitcher in the majors back in the 1970’s or maybe the 1980’s.
Can’t remember the name though.
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posted on
06/09/2015 11:45:32 AM PDT
by
Rodney Dangerfield
(Why did Nero fiddle while Rome burned? Because Golf hadn't been invented yet.)
To: Rodney Dangerfield
Greg A. Harris with the Montreal Expos did it in 1995.
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posted on
06/09/2015 11:46:46 AM PDT
by
South40
(Hillary Clinton was a "great secretary of state". - Texas Governor Rick Perry)
To: SoFloFreeper
In other news, Bruce Jenner is ambisextrous.
To: SoFloFreeper
Something fishy about this . . . I’d give my left arm to be ambidextrous.
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posted on
06/09/2015 11:52:06 AM PDT
by
laweeks
To: SoFloFreeper
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posted on
06/09/2015 11:54:42 AM PDT
by
bgill
(CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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