Does the baseball phrase "stepping in the bucket" mean stepping backward or bailing out with the front foot?

Please help settle a dispute.

2008-12-18 16:05:39 by gabeezalbub | Posted in Words & Wordplay

What is a good baseball workout?

Here is my situation: I am planning on going to the Major League Scouting Bureau tryouts this summer. I am 22, a graduate student, and have a desire to do this. I have been training for a month, but my friend who wanted to do this has kind of flaked out. I have my girl friend soft toss with me but it has been a very solitary experience. Here is my workout: I stretch and warm up with a ten minute jog. I hit two buckets of baseballs off a tee, sometimes three or four. I soft toss when my girlfriend is available. I then do five sprints, down and back between the foul lines in the outfield. I have begun to increase the sprints, tommorow I plan to do six sprints. I then do three sets of pushups to exhausture. I then do fifty good crunches. I long toss when I have a partner. This all takes about an hour and half to two hours I want to know if there are any workouts I can do, with an emphasis on solitary workouts. Any and all help will be appreciated. Thanks.
I do other workouts (weights, fielding, etc) as well, but I am getting pissed an disheartened by my friend flaking out as well as others who want to come to the park and then at the last second bail. I am just looking for suggestions on improvement to these workouts or other workouts I can do by myself.

You're 22 and have probably been playing for sometime now, you should know what workouts you can do to improve your overall game.

But if you're asking what you can do to better prepare yourself for the tryout, I have a couple of pointers. I went to a few major league scouting camps a couple years ago.

The first thing that they're going to have you do is run a 60 yard dash. This can literally make or break your entire tryout. Post a good time and they'll keep an eye on you all day, post a bad one and you may as well go home right then....you won't make it to the hitting portion of the tryout.

Next they'll divide the group up by postion and have the outfielders make throws in to the infield, judging their arm strength (either by radar gun or by eye). I've never seen anyone get more than 3 throws, so make them count.

Then they usually hit a few ground balls to the infield and have them throw to first. They'll be evaluating fielding ability and arm strength (again either by radar gun or by eye). I've never seen anyone get more than 5 balls, so make them count.

After this they make cuts. Depending on how well you've done so far you'll either be heading home or moving on to the hitting portion of the tryout. I've seen the hitting done two different ways, so I can't tell you which one you will see for sure.

First way, they have the guys they're still interested in take no more than 10 cuts off a machine and evaluate their hitting ability.

Second way, they have the guys they're still interested in take an at bat or two against some of the pitchers they kept so far. (Pitchers have been working while you've been in the field, some of them got cut too.)

Probably the biggest tips I can give you are: One, to work on your 60. This will be the most important thing you do, a good time can make up for a weakness in another area. Two, long toss and throw to bases. Have your arm as ready to go as possible. Three, take live BP. You know as well as I do that tees and soft toss go a long way, but you may have to face a live pitcher in the hitting part. You'll want to be on top of your game and not rusty against the real deal.

I hope this has been helpful. Good luck.

2007-03-20 23:43:58 by Rabbit | Posted in Baseball

Need help finding pink Red Sox infant bucket hat?

I know I've seen them, but have searched the net with no luck.
I've found regular baseball hats in pink and bucket hats in red white and blue, but no pink bucket hat
HELP!!!!!!!
I want to buy one for my 15 month old daughter for x-mas

Well, there's not much call for pink hats in our family; our little Red Sox fan is 100% boy! If you're near Boston, I'd just go to Yawkey; you should be able to find one there. The only other place I've ever seen them is in Walmart/Target during baseball season. If all else fails, put up a "Want It Now" ad on Ebay. Good luck and merry Christmas!

2007-12-09 14:52:58 by BN'W | Posted in Toddler & Preschooler

diamond baseballs or rawlings baseballs?

http://www.baseballexp.com/catalog/product.jsp?productStyleNumber=BUCKBBXP


or...


http://www.baseballexp.com/baseballs/Diamond-Bucket-with-30-DOLA-Baseballs-/baseball/lev/6/productId/634/N/33+36/Nty/1/Ntk/Def/Ntx/mode%20matchallpartial/Ntt/baseballs/VCategory/SearchResults/index.pro

















im talking about quality not the bucket.

rawlings has WAYYYYYYYYYY better quality

2008-10-22 15:04:16 by Brandon J | Posted in Baseball

where can i buy those huge buckets of sunflower seeds?

you know, like the ones in major league baseball. preferably not a huge bucket with individually wrapped packets of seeds. and no, i am not going to buy a huge bucket and dump a bunch of seeds in there. its for my softball team.

I have seen them at Sam's Club and at Smart & Final. Website says you should be able to find them at your local club or warehouse store, so start there. Some larger sporting goods stores might even carry them.

2008-02-27 18:31:34 by blah | Posted in Other - Food & Drink