Feb
05
2008
Jacoby Ellsbury has mad ball-bouncing skills
Posted by: Richie Rich in MLB Weirdness, Red Sox
Baseball is a game with a lot of downtime.
For nearly half of the game, you hang out and wait for something to happen. If you’re not in the starting lineup, you have even more free time.
- You wait for your turn at bat.
- You wait for someone to hit a ball towards you
- You wait for the starting pitcher to get tired so you can come in from the bullpen
Spring Training, practice, and days off present even more opportunities to develop some really cool skills like …
- Spitting sunflower seeds
- Dating Alyssa Milano
- Putting gum on Dice-K’s hat
- Berating the clubhouse kids
- Talking about free tacos
- Or bouncing a baseball off the skinny end of a baseball bat …
Watch as Red Sox CF prospect Jacoby Ellsbury demonstrates his mad ball-bouncing skills …
I never realized how boring this sport really is …
Which Japanese pitcher is that that tries to copy Ellsbury? Is that Dice-K?
I think Ellsbury will still be considered a rookie in 2008. He had only 116 At-Bats in 2007 (his first in the majors) and you have to have less than 130 to be considered for the Rookie of the Year ballot.
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February 5th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
That’s Dice-K’s translator. I don’t think ball players wear fanny packs.
February 5th, 2008 at 9:35 pm
Yeah, that’s Masai Takahashi, Dice-K’s translator (like Mooj said).
Also, I just grumbled out loud at the tidbit about A-Rod yelling at a kid. Grr.
February 6th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
It’s even worse for pitchers - run a little, throw 30 pitches on your middle off day, juggle baseballs for a couple hours
February 9th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
You’re right about Ellsbury’s rookie status—-the only other qualification is that you can’t have spent more than 45 days on the roster of a big-league team, but days after Sept 1, when the rosters expand, don’t even count, so he’s in the clear.