50 Cent Has a Second Career as a Pitcher

Just beautiful form, spotted on a dime.  Probably lit up the radar gun at like 96-98 mph guy can do it all.

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I probably shouldn't make fun of the guy, he could start for the Mets or the Phillies right now.

MLB Draft Profile: Another Gordon

We've all heard of Tom "Flash" Gordon, the outstanding relief pitcher.  We've all heard of Dee Gordon, a flash in his own right, the second baseman for the Dodgers who has 30 stolen bases this season in just 51 games.  If anyone is wondering that puts him on pace for 95 stolen bases this year.  Now if only the guy was fast...

Who you probably haven't hear is that Dee is the son of Tom Gordon (I just found that out today) and that he has another son, Dee's brother, that is the #6 overall prospect in this year's First Year Player Draft.  Just to show you where the guy's head is at, his feelings about receiving a full ride scholarship to play at Florida State next year?  That it "wouldn't be too shabby" of a place to continue his development as a man and a baseball player.  Huge dick, gotta love the guy.  There was concern about him being a skinny little bitch at 165 lbs as a junior, dude hopped into the gym and added 15 pounds of muscle over the offseason then posted this as his stat line for his senior year, .494/.576/.843 with five homers, two triples and 10 doubles in 27 games.  Boy can play a little ball, can't wait to see him shredding major league pitching.


Sorry the video is long, but I mean you get the picture.  Dude can ball.

Bat Flip of the Century

God this makes me happy.  Nothing better than the feeling of hitting a bomb and then looking up to realize its basically a shallow fly ball to center field.  Samardzija just making big time moves.

Nothing But Braun, Brewers, and Bruises.

In sports, we see some crazy things happen. Saturday night in Milwaukee we saw just that, something crazy. As the famed “juicer” Ryan Braun was warming up to get on the on deck circle, he abruptly decided he was going to swing his bat before leaving the dugout and clocked his teammate Jean Segura right in the face.

Let’s be honest here people. Braun can’t control stuff like this from happening, after all the guy missed 65 games last season from supposable use of steroids. The urge to swing that bat must be killing him that he cannot wait to step up to the plate and smack the cover off the ball.

As for Segura, according to team manager Ron Roenicke, he suffered nothing severe as to a concussion or anything. But I’m sure he’s going to have a good size bruise on his noggin’. But hey, could be worse. Just ask Delino DeShields Jr., who took a fastball to the face last week. #nopainnogain #nosoap

T-Mac Will Actually Play Baseball

"Former NBA star Tracy McGrady has made the opening day roster of the Sugar Land Skeeters as a pitcher.

"It's an honor to be a part of this club," McGrady said in a statement released by the team." -ESPN.COM

I mean this is sort of embarrassing right?  The guy played a little baseball in high school, may have tossed the rock around in the back yard maybe 10-12 times since then and makes an independent league team?  There's no way T-Mac is good enough to be throwing for them.  This is a Bernie Mac-Mr. 3000 level publicity stunt and my goodness it's working.  When the SUGARLAND SKEETERS are the fifth most important news story on the great villain that is ESPN's media control you know that their ridiculous marketing scheme has been effective.  Oh and how about this, ESPN trying to make T-Mac's first game sound good.

"McGrady made his first start last week in an exhibition game against Alvin Community College, throwing 15 pitches (nine for strikes) and allowing three hits and a run in one inning of work."

Wow! Only one run and three hits in an inning of work against Alvin Community College?  His parents must be so proud.  I'm just hoping ESPN 11 decides to air his first game, I'm always down for a good laugh.

Perfect form.  Just phenomenal.

Yasiel Puig and his journey from Cuba

As much as I hate to link to another sports site because, frankly what more do you want that The Reach doesn't, that is besides actual college graduates, and paid writers with resources to follow through on actual, real stories, I'm going to link to another sports site anyway.

I encourage all of our readers to check out the story on Yasiel Puig's escape from Cuba by Scott Eden of ESPN. It's an insane adventure and a damn good piece of writing. Puig is basically the definition of a badass who truly DGAF, and will earn your respect in some way after this.

http://espn.go.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/10781144/no-one-walks-island-los-angeles-dodgers-yasiel-puig-journey-cuba

A Big Man With an Even Bigger Stick

I just received an invite to join this blog and I thought, why the heck not join and see what kind of fun and trouble we can stir up. I'm a local to the Miami area so I figured I'd start this one off with a local bang. For those of you who forgot about the Miami Marlins due to the fact they’re a trash ball club, they still have one of todays top young home run hitters. The Marlins right fielder Giancarlo Stanton, punishes baseballs for a living. This dude is a beast and is not afraid to whack balls out of the ball park. Last night, Stanton mashed a tater of Stephen Strasburg to dead center for a three run blast to give the last place fish a three run lead in the first. However, what I’m getting at here is Stanton has five homeruns this year and all of them have been jaw dropping bombs. He hits balls so hard and far its enough to have your panties fall down. He hit a ball last week in Philly that traveled 487 feet. Thats absurd if you ask me. Over spring training he launched a ball off the Mets that landed on another field over the batters eye in dead center. Estimated distance over 500 feet. Last person to hit a 500 foot homerun was Bryce Harper when he was 16 (not on steroids) using a non bbcor aluminum bat. So basically, if you're a MLB pitcher facing Stanton what do you…. is there a way to keep this 6”6 beast from tearing the cover of the baseball? Hopefully in years to come when this guy is chasing homerun and batting tittles the Marlins wont sell him off for some 18 year scrub, that I wont see in the big leagues for another seven years. All hail Giancarlo Stanton and his big bat because he will punish you if you throw a ball over the middle of the plate.

2014 Spring Training game vs New York Mets

bomb squad #NOSOAP