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Post by Fils d'Abeille » Sun Jun 10, 2007 5:14 pm

It has become clear to me in a vision that the forest must begin regular volunteer baseball events in the meadows. For this it has been foretold that the forest will fund the purchase of one or two bats, a few gloves and a couple of balls.

It also strikes me that it would be cheaper and good fun to descriminate against left handed people by only buying gloves for the left hand.

I hope nobody is tempted to mess with the inevitable.

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Post by swithun » Sun Jun 10, 2007 11:06 pm

That would be fun. Forest against the South Paws.

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Post by Fils d'Abeille » Mon Jun 11, 2007 1:45 am

sure... what he said...

so my motion has been seconded...

open to the floor!

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Post by Duncan » Mon Jun 11, 2007 3:50 pm

The forest will lose every time.
I love the bomb.

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Post by Fils d'Abeille » Mon Jun 11, 2007 3:55 pm

ah yes... but if we play forest v forest... the forest will always win!

quick people... we'll be lucky to get three days of summer this year.

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Post by ravanwin » Mon Jun 11, 2007 5:18 pm

budget approved, i say.

ps: i love the knife war swith v. dunc.

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Post by Shannon » Mon Jun 11, 2007 5:18 pm

i want a right hand glove.

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Post by Duncan » Mon Jun 11, 2007 6:00 pm

this one is different because it's ours
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Post by Dandolo » Mon Jun 11, 2007 7:09 pm

Duncan is evidently self mutilating while Swithun's is still sparkley out of the box! Hard to say who's winning. I like baseball... gloves are important because without them you forget whether you're supposed to catch the ball or run the other direction. Let's chew up the bowls green and aim at quartermile.

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Post by Shannon » Mon Jun 11, 2007 10:17 pm

Seriously - we have quite a few lefties. Off the top of my head: Dan, Duncan and I. There should be at least one glove for the lefties.

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Post by Fils d'Abeille » Tue Jun 12, 2007 1:42 am

okeydokes, let's talk numbers... I don't know how to play properly.
We need enough gloves for one team (plus 1 or two for good measure) and a couple for the leftie whinge bags.

Do we want two, or just the one bat?

Do we look out for good shopping? Or shall I just scout out the prices at John Lewis. Heck I'll reconoitre anywho and report back.

This my friends... is the time for ideas. There is no reason we can't schedule the first game for saturday. HAHA... turd... funny.

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Post by bill » Tue Jun 12, 2007 12:19 pm

try getting 'em second hand on ebay/somewhere else says our envirnment policy. cheaps ones made in china are a no go......can we use boxing gloves to make it crazy fun?

what if we just punch the balls out the air instead of gloves?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/FRANKLIN-BARRY-BO ... dZViewItem

http://search.ebay.co.uk/search/search. ... age=search

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Post by Shannon » Tue Jun 12, 2007 12:22 pm

A proper team consists of at least nine people (pitcher, back catch, 1st/2nd/3rd base, short stop, left/centre/right field). I doubt we're looking for this??

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Post by Fils d'Abeille » Tue Jun 12, 2007 1:17 pm

perverting the tried and tested rules of baseball is only one step away of being reduced to kick ball.

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Post by chris » Tue Jun 12, 2007 2:09 pm

ROUNDERS is the true game of champions...

tennis ball, is preffered... we can make an excellent bat out of a table leg..
Maybe it could work? But it will be a kaleidoscopic blend of mysterious shadows and rainbow hued-dreams seen through compassionate tears.

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Post by Gandhi » Tue Jun 12, 2007 2:24 pm

I agree with Chris...Rounders is the future. Can we all dress up in crazy team outfits like the guys in that film The Warriors??? with face paints and everything.
It's like God's vagina!

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Post by nix » Tue Jun 12, 2007 2:26 pm

Chris ... YES!

don't buy stuff... make stuff!

why play someone else's game when we can make up our own rules!?

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Post by swithun » Tue Jun 12, 2007 2:40 pm

Rounders is probably better. It is cheaper, simpler, requires fewer people and is more flexible. Baseball is maybe only worth playing if you are at a certain level. If we are all crap, then being run out most of the time and no prospect of a home run, then it will be less fun. Rounders is enjoyable even if some of us are no good.

That said, it is more ambidextrous. Hmm.

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Post by Fils d'Abeille » Tue Jun 12, 2007 2:41 pm

absolutely not. Let's play a real game.

not everything done by other people is bad.

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Post by ravanwin » Tue Jun 12, 2007 2:43 pm

softball is a good game, similar to baseball but a bit lighter. gloves are not needed for all positions maybe... maybe some people will invest in their own gloves?

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Post by Shannon » Tue Jun 12, 2007 6:18 pm

I wish this conversation was a week ago. My mom could've brought my glove over!

How does rounders work?

I was looking forward to tossing a ball around - need a glove for a good game of catch.

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Post by Duncan » Tue Jun 12, 2007 6:22 pm

I've got my own glove, so that's a start.

Agree with Ryan on the softball option.
I love the bomb.

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Post by Fils d'Abeille » Tue Jun 12, 2007 6:34 pm

ok... well in the meantime I shall follow the bat bid on ebay and perhaps try my luck. Anybody got an idea on how much I should bid to? Prices on baseball equipment is not my forte.

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Post by Shannon » Tue Jun 12, 2007 6:36 pm

Is baseball equipment easy to get your hands on here? You can get a used bat cheap in the homeland, but it's a more common game...

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Post by Dandolo » Tue Jun 12, 2007 6:42 pm

Don't get that bat for chrissake it's only worth a tenner!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Franklin-Barry- ... B0000522CU

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Post by Dandolo » Tue Jun 12, 2007 6:51 pm

I like the idea of one made of willow so when we're done with it we can plant it into the water of leith and watch it grow.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/WILLOW-Baseball-b ... dZViewItem

It's non-logoed too!

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Post by Duncan » Tue Jun 12, 2007 7:16 pm

Looks good, I've put on a bid.

Do we need more than one bat ?
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Post by Fils d'Abeille » Tue Jun 12, 2007 8:50 pm

looks lovely... buy buy buy...

we discussed this at meeting tonight. We reckoned that any more than 12 pounds was too much for a bat.

so anything up to that can be exchanged for forest dollars. wahay...

It is also felt that bat can be used from anything from rounders to baseball. So with that and a tennis ball, we already have hours of fun.

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Post by Shannon » Tue Jun 12, 2007 9:42 pm

We should only need one bat.

I say boo to tennis balls. Get a softball.

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Post by bill » Tue Jun 12, 2007 10:38 pm

yes bats balls all are a good

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Post by lucky » Tue Jun 12, 2007 10:43 pm

Tennis balls are good. A softball as an optional extra (when we smash a car's window, let's say) maybe?

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Post by Dandolo » Wed Jun 13, 2007 7:31 am

Why not a regular baseball? Tennisballs fly so high they go into orbit and leave you with a dislocated shoulder, and softballs are ginormous, not very soft at all, and have to be thrown underarm at an arc that makes it impossible to hit.

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Post by lucky » Wed Jun 13, 2007 11:55 am

It'll be about a year or two before I'm due another head wound. I fear baseballs may increase the chances of this being sooner rather than later.

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Post by Duncan » Thu Jun 14, 2007 4:54 pm

One bat on its way. Cost was 11 quid, but about another fiver for postage. Seems very reasonable to me, and anyway I've paid.

Did the baseball / softball equipment aquisition risk assessment preparatory meeting come to any preliminary conclusions about gloves by any chance ?

Perhaps we can buy a helmet for Alex just so he looks funny ?
I love the bomb.

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Post by Shannon » Thu Jun 14, 2007 5:35 pm

Softballs do not have to be thrown under arm (though that's how the official rules go). Also, bigger ball means easier to hit. Tennis balls will go really, really far when whacked. Maybe too far...

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Post by Dandolo » Fri Jun 15, 2007 2:16 pm

It turns out that willow bat's what you use if you weigh 250lb. Babe Ruth was 215lb.

Maybe half of us could buy gloves for ourselves and share them around as they ought to be taken care of, being cut off the backs of animals. Here's a few for small right hands from an Edinburgh seller:

http://sports.search.ebay.co.uk/_Baseba ... ZkcsQ2d111

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Post by Dandolo » Fri Jun 15, 2007 2:17 pm

*small left hands

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Post by Shannon » Fri Jun 15, 2007 5:22 pm

Gah. I hadn't considered the leather factor. Please don't buy a new glove for the right hand on my behalf!

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Post by Duncan » Fri Jun 22, 2007 5:03 pm

Bat has arrived ! It's very pretty, and please ignore Daniel's weight nonsense. The bat is just under 2 lbs which is just the same as the lighter bats that the pros use nowadays, in the age of fast pitching.
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Post by Dandolo » Fri Jun 22, 2007 5:43 pm

I'm glad to hear it. have you taken to a tennis ball with it yet?

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Post by Fils d'Abeille » Wed Jun 27, 2007 11:42 pm

hum... we have bat... and have ground to a halt.

At least one person said they already had a glove. Is this true of anyone else? I'm currently watching a few items on ebay. A couple of these are right hand gloves (for you lefties).

I'm not too sure what I need to be looking out for in terms of size etc. I know there's the leather issue, but they're second hand so that's something right?

In any case, these seem pretty cheap. Might be nice to get ahold of two/three gloves. Any thoughts?

Here are some examples:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... &rd=1&rd=1

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... &rd=1&rd=1

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... &rd=1&rd=1[/i]

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Post by Fils d'Abeille » Wed Jun 27, 2007 11:43 pm

alternatively (or may additionally) one or two of us can get our own gloves as Daniel suggests.

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Post by Dandolo » Fri Jun 29, 2007 9:52 am

maybe the forest could buy a catcher's glove (the last one I think) as nobody's going to get one for themself?

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Post by Fils d'Abeille » Sun Jul 01, 2007 6:09 pm

yo yo...

Just won a right hand glove for left handed players for a fiver. Some progress is being made. Someday we will have a game... of something. Do not lose hope. My next target has a ball involved. Wahay.

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Post by Duncan » Tue Jul 03, 2007 6:12 pm

So, after all the fuss we've so far got two right hand (for a left hander) gloves.

Oh the humanity.

Perhaps if we could agree that the Forest will spend say 50 quid on this we could get more gloves.

Wish Matt was still here, he was a softball player. Played with one of the teams in Edinburgh iirc.
I love the bomb.

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