Mooch
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blakcherry329
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I like it when slow-pitch pitchers talk about pitching inside when there's usually no batter's box to speak of. lol
That team didn't put up much of a fight. How do you boot the ball like that on turf???
I didn't see him do too much on the mound, they just weren't hitting and Mooch's team made plays.
That team didn't put up much of a fight. How do you boot the ball like that on turf???
I didn't see him do too much on the mound, they just weren't hitting and Mooch's team made plays.
bigwignj
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Mooch’s defense made like 3-4 amazing plays cause he plays with those young gun Amish boys that absolutely ball out every weekend. Also playing on red Easton, scores are super low regardless. You can say, yeah but roofx scored 20. Sure they did but they literally did nothing but hit infield gaps and a ton of errors by cheap suites infield. Anomaly game but congrats to one of the best to ever do it, mooch.
stang7222
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All I have to contribute to this thread is that back in like 2011 Matt Stairs came with his team to Diamond Nation in NJ. They played against Mooch's pick-up team full of major and A players. Mooch got Stairs to roll over on a ball in his first ab. In his second ab, Mooch was juking and jiving, and Stairs hit a ball that still hasn't landed..
ilyk2win
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I too had a
Very similar experience pitching to Stairs. Class guy too, bc after he made the out his first AB, his 2nd time up I allowed a ball to float out over the plate way too far and he took it instead of killing me.
Definitely not in the conference, where the strike zone is a tea cup.
That pumping took out the two step, and nothing else imo. You can occasionally get someone off balance your first time, but it only effects lower players after that. The guys that do all this elaborate faking, and then still come set in a different way giving away that this will be the pitch, to throw a strike crack me up.
DirtBag215
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The energizer bunny pump fake for 3 seconds, then stop completely and pitch. It’s a classic. I agree with you! It’s more so a nuisance at that point. Just pitch the damn ball!
stang7222
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I was playing with a terrible pick-up team about 10 years ago. Their pitcher was awful so I came in to pitch. I'm sure you remember Wayne McGee... (and his bats) Anyway, I left one on the outer third and he could have murdered me but he held his swing. I said thanks, put the next pitch right on his hip, and he hit it about 500'
They were gonna mercy us and everyone on the field knew it. I think that's what saved me.
EAJuggalo
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Mooch is one of the top three pitchers in the game and has the best rules knowledge of any player I've ever come across. In games where I've had him, he's tested every limit there is, but accepts what I will and won't give him. As much as his antics can grate on people, especially umpires, he really is one of the pitchers I like to see out there.
bigwignj
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I was probably on this team. Maybe even pitching against you.
Also had Stairs hit one about 450 feet off me that day in Flemington.
stang7222
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It's possible. I don't think we've ever met.
blakcherry329
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I may have been there that day, too. I didn't play against him, but I heard he was there.
I miss those tournament days.
DirtBag215
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If you’re talking about the perfect game, yes. It’s on YouTube under usssalive’s page. This Matt stairs game in Jersey? Idk but if so, I wanna see it too lol
I used to have a really good knowledge of the rules, but it just pissed me off so I stopped caring. I might miss the benefits of a call or two a year, but compared to the anger I used to have over stupid rules or the times I'd know the rule and be right and it still wouldn't change the call I just decided to cut my losses and play.
stang7222
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Nobody was livestreaming games then. It was 2010-2012 something like that.
stang7222
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I just remembered now that on one of my many trips to Toronto to watch the Yankees play the Blue Jays, Stairs was really cool to us and some other folks. We had a hotel room in the stadium overlooking LF. He was coaching with the Jays at the time. After an early afternoon practice (7:00pm game) Stairs hung out and hit fungos to us and some kids in a few adjacent rooms. I'm talking hitting the ball about 100' straight up. My brother dropped a can of Molson XXX to him out the window onto the bullpen netting.