Here's One For You....

Raymond · #1 (**permalink**) Thu Feb 19, 2009, 04:00pm

I had this exact situation in my first HS game this season. I tried to be expeditious

and, without stopping the game, I (trail in 3-man) grabbed the ball and threw it behind my back with a lot of force towards the stands. Unfortunately my aim was off and the ball went up at about an 80 degree angle and hit the thick piping above the bleachers and caroomed directly back on to the court.

Ed Maeder · #2 (**permalink**) Thu Feb 19, 2009, 04:04pm

Had this happen this past weekend with a wiffle ball. Picked it up, it was small so I put it in my pocket and no one knew it had happened.

tw1ns · #3 (**permalink**) Thu Feb 19, 2009, 05:12pm

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Originally Posted by Ed Maeder

Had this happen this past weekend with a wiffle ball. Picked it up, it was small so I put it in my pocket and no one knew it had happened.

If I could have plucked it before it got too far I would have...it came in behind the C and I was baseline cross court...it was a younger kid who came bounding down the bleachers after it.

zebraman · #4 (**permalink**) Thu Feb 19, 2009, 11:08pm

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Originally Posted by Ed Maeder

Had this happen this past weekend with a wiffle ball. Picked it up, it was small so I put it in my pocket and no one knew it had happened.

A friend of mine once told me that I might have better luck with the ladies if I put a potato in my pants. Didn't change my luck. It was only later that he told me that it was supposed to go in the front, not in the back.

grunewar · #5 (**permalink**) Fri Feb 20, 2009, 07:22am

Girls Freshman game. Two big schools - fairly competitive, low scoring game. I'm T. Late in third quarter A passing in front court, knocked away by B. Ball goes into the back court. Mad dash for the ball. Four girls (2A and 2B) running HARD after it.....and out of the corner of my eye I see a young boy maybe 18 months old ON THE COURT GOING AFTER THE BALL! Holy crap!!! He might have won the race to the ball too! TWEEEEEET!

Mom comes out of the stands and retrieves her son - and I mean the court is a good 15 feet from the stands! Wow, mom really lost track of where junior was! My heart was racing.

Mark Padgett · #6 (**permalink**) Thu Feb 19, 2009, 04:25pm

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Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

I had this exact situation in my first HS game this season. I tried to be expeditious

and, without stopping the game, I (trail in 3-man) grabbed the ball and threw it behind my back with a lot of force towards the stands. Unfortunately my aim was off and the ball went up at about an 80 degree angle and hit the thick piping above the bleachers and caroomed directly back on to the court.

It's a good thing you didn't hit that 90 year old grandma up there. It would have knocked her cold!