America's Best Baseball Schools

"Baseball is the hardest sport to prognosticate," says former Louisiana State coach Skip Bertman, who led LSU's baseball team to five College World Series titles. "In football, I watch the scouts come in and run seven or eight tests for each kid -- vertical jump, bench press, 40-yard dash -- and when you put all those scores together, you know their athleticism. In baseball, you don't have to have a 40-inch vertical; you don't even have to run real fast. But you do have to be real smart and know how to deal with failure."

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BTW - link credit goes to Chiburb. I just answered the text message to post it since he couldn't.

Yeah...surrre.

by homesickalien on Jun 9, 2009 6:49 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Chiburb - not Chicago tough.

...take your hobbit circle jerk to another thread
by larry on May 18, 2009 8:58 PM PDT

by rhythm on Jun 9, 2009 7:26 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Clearly.

Yeah...surrre.

by homesickalien on Jun 10, 2009 11:51 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Thank you.

The City of Chicago, led by Mayor Daley and a vast and tumorous army of aldermen and bagmen and yesmen and opportunists and spineless, parasitic political-machine halfwits of forms never seen outside the roiling cesspool of governmental slop-trough greed, has proven itself unworthy of something as potentially delicious and fulfilling as the 2016 Olympic Games.
- Rick Telander

by Chiburb on Jun 10, 2009 11:05 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Mr. Blanton, Mr. Webb

sounds kinda strange..

"...but the devil lives inside this kid, I swear it. It rises out of him in a mist, this baby-faced defiant wrathful version of Pat Kane, escapes his bodily confines to perform satanic miracles all over the offensive zone. The only thing more fearsome than that assist was the keep-in preceding it. The only thing more unholy than his face is his black magic." GMH

by Illini0509 on Jun 10, 2009 6:17 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Skip Bertman eh...

sounds a lot to me like Steve Bartman. Maybe that was the deal that gave the cubs rights to Theriot and Fontenot. Paying the cubs off for that 2003 playoff situation.

by airnjp on Jun 10, 2009 11:29 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs