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BKLYNCyclone

BKLYNCyclone

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The greatest achievement thread got me thinking about the other side as well. Show some humility and enjoy being relatively anonymous.

-I backpedaled to catch a pop up at third base and tripped on a 3" tall lip between the dirt and the grass outfield. Ball landed right next to me... Awful.

-In little league, I got caught too far off 2nd base on a line drive catch by the shortstop and wasn't able to tag up. Not so bad, until my little league coach came out into the middle of the field and started screaming at me. (In hindsight, might have been more embarrassing for him, but I still remember it).
 
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I took a baseball to the nuts on a pop fly. There was a quarter in my pocket between the ball and the target and it left a circle bruise. It was not a great day.
 
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Warming up for baseball games was not a good experience for me...

-One time, I was charging a "bunt" in warmups, caught one foot in the other foot's stirrup, and magnificently tripped.

-I also broke my nose in warmups on a bad hop from the coach. It was on a horrible, rocky field, and I suffered the consequences.
 
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My senior year of high school we were playing DSM East in the substate finals and the first shot I took was an airballed three that had to have gone a good foot and a half past the rim.
 
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Also, playing football our sophmore year against Dowling our head coach sent us out with the pep-talk of "Boys, I have never been inovled with a team who was 50 pointed in my life-- don't let today be the day". We got fifty-pointed about 3 minutes into the 3rd quarter.
 
Jogging for a routine fly ball and my cleat got caught on my opposite shoe's shoelace. Fell right on my face and my feet were stuck together for a couple seconds. Terrible.
 
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All my attempts to play basketball in school. I'm 6'5" and easily confused with this (when wearing yellow):

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Got walked in little league, let go of the bat too late, threw it over the fence and kit the coaches mother. Sweet.
 
ran into wall during bball game after saving a ball from out of bounds... broke my big toe and was out 2 games :/
 
Got another one... As a freshman, I ended up starting over a senior in baseball one year removed from our state championship. (Not a popular decision by the coach, though exciting for me). In any case, the embarrassing part was that I had the favor returned as a junior when my little brother ended up starting in front of me... Talk about a no-win situation.
 
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Line coach (ex aTm center) was demonstrating the proper blocking technique and launched me about 15 feet in the air and fat on my ***....right in front of all the cheerleaders.....
 
isucyfan said:
-One time, I was charging a "bunt" in warmups, caught one foot in the other foot's stirrup, and magnificently tripped.
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Hilarious. I was lucky. I only wore the low stirrups, so there was nothing to get caught on. Later though we switched to the socks with the built-in stirrups... Now I know why.
 
besides my striking out 4 times in one intramural softball game that i posted in other thread i have a couple that stick out.

In college puked all over my arm while down in three point stance just before play started. Felt much better afterwards but guy across from me didn't enjoy getting puke on him during that play.

Missed a dunk in high school that came off the back of the rim and broke three of my fingers during a game. Two on one and one on the other.

In eighth grade missed a wide open layup, on the other teams hoop, so good thing I missed.


I'm sure there are more that I will remember.
 
My senior year, I was playing nose guard and the offensive guard just whifs his block when me and the tackle do a twist stunt. I'm totally unblocked, and bearing down on the QB for a sack, when all of a sudden, I catch the full back out of the corner of my eye. He lays out and just dives right into my knees. I get completely horizontal to the ground and completely miss the QB. I thought for a second that my leg was broken. During film the next week my coach probably rewound that play about 5 times just laughing his *** off.

The other thing that sucked was that on the field goal team, I was always the guy right next to the long snapper, despite being one of the smaller guys on the line. I was right up against the biggest guy from the other team nearly every time. To make matters worse, our coach insisted that we block for field goals by turning our upper bodies perpendicular to our feet and grabbing the guy next to you, so you were completely off balance. I let up 2 blocked kicks in a game and that was the end of me being on the field goal team (which I was just fine with), but damn if that wasn't embarassing.
 
Another one....pee-wee baseball.

We hadn't won a game all year. Game is tied in the top half of the final inning with the bases loaded, 2 outs. Ground ball short hops me right in the John Henry. I go down like a ton of bricks and the go ahead run scores.

Bottom half of the final inning. Still nursing my stones I walk up to the plate with 2 outs and a man on 2nd and 3rd and proceed to foul out to the catcher on the first pitch.
 
When I was in Jr High track I got the task of running the 1,600 meter run. Everybody finished at least a lap ahead of me.

As I was making the last lap with everyone else done my dad is walking in late to come watch me so I yell "Hey Dad"........Not sure who was more emberassed.....Him probably
 
FarminCy said:
In college puked all over my arm while down in three point stance just before play started. Felt much better afterwards but guy across from me didn't enjoy getting puke on him during that play.
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That reminds me... In JH football I gagged on my mouth guard and vomited all over the opposing guard as I spit it out. The guy freaked and I tackled the running back in the backfield, to be nullified by an equipment penalty for not having my mouth guard in.
 
Leading a game of knockout during a timeout at a WBB game a few years ago, only to biff it on my way to the last lay up in front of a full house of Cyclone fans.
 
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