Has anyone here tried the "Personal Pitcher"?

[t_mac_kingjames]

Hey guys I've been playing baseball for 8 years now and have always dreamed of having a pitching machine in my back yard. I searched the web for a portable one that doesn't have to throw regular balls and doesn't need a whole batting cage set up. I found one product that I am thinking about getting as it is only about $160, mounts on any camera tripod, uses golf size whiffle balls (harder to hit), and i could just set it up inside a dining tent thing we have. It has everything I am looking for but i just want to make sure its not a ripoff.

http://www.personalpitcher.com/
http://www.baseballtips.com/personalpitcher.html

If anyone here owns one or has heard anything good/bad about it, a little review to let me know if its worth my money would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by t_mac_kingjames

http://www.personalpitcher.com/

If anyone here owns one or has heard anything good/bad about it, a little review to let me know if its worth my money would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Whatever you do, do NOT purchase this product. If you are lucky enough to actually receive one of these after you pay for it, you will find that they're shoddily made, fall apart easily and and won't last. And when they do inevitably break, the company will not take any responsibility at all for repairs or replacement. They're rip-off artists.

Aamof, avoid buying anything from this particular company. Everything that the sell is just cheap knock-offs and their service is terrible. Avoid them like the plague.

Always glad to help, kingjames.

[t_mac_kingjames]

Yikes...I'm guessing you have personally bought one? And do you have any suggestions for another personal pitching machine that i could use in my backyard with some what limited space for a reasonable price? Thanks.

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by t_mac_kingjames

Yikes...I'm guessing you have personally bought one? And do you have any suggestions for another personal pitching machine that i could use in my backyard with some what limited space for a reasonable price? Thanks.

seeing that this a web site for sports officials, mehinks that you would probably get better feedback from a coaching/team site. I doubt that most umpires really care about what pitching machine is best.

Do not buy a Personal Pitcher though, whatever you do.

[briancurtin]

if you can settle for a side tossup machine, i still have a QuicHands tossup machine in my basement from http://www.quichands.com. its very solid and has worked very well for me. when i still played, it was a great way to hit a few buckets of balls every day in the winter and stay fresh...and its $219 for the tossup machine and an 8'x8' net

[t_mac_kingjames]

i tried to find some actual baseball forums but couldnt really find many active ones other then major league talk.

What about this one? http://www.walmart.com/catalog/produ...uct_id=5601682

[GarthB]

Originally Posted by t_mac_kingjames

i tried to find some actual baseball forums but couldnt really find many active ones other then major league talk.

Try this:

http://eteamz.active.com/baseball/boards/baseball/

More LL coaches in one spot than should be legal.

[Arnold A.]

Originally Posted by GarthB

Try this:

http://eteamz.active.com/baseball/boards/baseball/

More LL coaches in one spot than should be legal.

I commend you for your admirable restraint with this thread.

[Dan_ref]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

seeing that this a web site for sports officials, mehinks that you would probably get better feedback from a coaching/team site. I doubt that most umpires really care about what pitching machine is best.

Do not buy a Personal Pitcher though, whatever you do.

I heard some kid got hurt pretty badly by one of these things and they sued the manufacturer.

[umpduck11]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

Whatever you do, do NOT purchase this product. If you are lucky enough to actually receive one of these after you pay for it, you will find that they're shoddily made, fall apart easily and and won't last. And when they do inevitably break, the company will not take any responsibility at all for repairs or replacement. They're rip-off artists.

Aamof, avoid buying anything from this particular company. Everything that the sell is just cheap knock-offs and their service is terrible. Avoid them like the plague.

Always glad to help, kingjames.

Why don't you tell us how you really feel ???

[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

Originally Posted by t_mac_kingjames

Hey guys I've been playing baseball for 8 years now and have always dreamed of having a pitching machine in my back yard. I searched the web for a portable one that doesn't have to throw regular balls and doesn't need a whole batting cage set up. I found one product that I am thinking about getting as it is only about $160, mounts on any camera tripod, uses golf size whiffle balls (harder to hit), and i could just set it up inside a dining tent thing we have. It has everything I am looking for but i just want to make sure its not a ripoff.

http://www.personalpitcher.com/
http://www.baseballtips.com/personalpitcher.html

If anyone here owns one or has heard anything good/bad about it, a little review to let me know if its worth my money would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

t mac kingjames:

Who are you? Tracy McCrady or LeBron James?

MTD, Sr.

[t_mac_kingjames]

Haha, actually i went to register for some board a while ago and trid t_mac (taken) then tried kingjames (taken), so i put them together and voila. now i use it for most things a resister for.

[t_mac_kingjames]

I've been looking around again and have stumbled across another inexpensive machine. Its called the mound monster and someone on another site said that it works surprisingly very vell.

http://www.baseballtips.com/moundmonster.html
http://www.dickssportinggoods.com/pr...Id=21207888301

any word on this machine?