The perfect bunt - a lost art?

[KitchenWitch]

[In_The_Wind]

1. yes ...

[WindRavenX]

2. not so much even a perfect bunt

No one knows how to even lay down a sac bunt anymore- this skill just isn't being taught in the minors or even little league anymore.

Although sacrfices ('productive outs') are extremely overrated (OBP-based offense is by far the most effective), there are times when they MUST be made. It baffles me to see even the best player totally clueless in a total bunt situation.

On the Yankees, really, the only excellent bunter is Jeter.

[johnnie]

4. You don't watch the little league world series?

The last game this year a kid hit a perfect sacrifice bunt.

[WindRavenX]

8. I saw that

But that's not the norm. It's great that kid did that, but seriously, I just haven't seen the skill being taught :shrug:

[Tafiti]

3. I don't know, is it?

I'm not a big baseball watcher, so I have no point of historical reference.

Which reminds me, are you gonna make predictions this week?

[KitchenWitch]

6. Oh shit, thanks for reminding me!

[Tafiti]

9. Not a problem. n/t

[tyedyeto]

5. A squeeze play is so awesome

I get goosebumps when I see one.

[SeattleGirl]

18. I LOVE the suicide squeeze!

[WCGreen]

7. Fucking Riske........

He just sucks.........

[KitchenWitch]

10. If I were a pitcher named Riske, I think I would at least change my name

It is right up there with one of the Twins' pitchers Balfour...I would change my name to Strikethree!

[Fox Mulder]

11. I was the perfect bunter in kickball in elementary school.

It used to piss off a lot of people.

[Tafiti]

12. Best. Reply. Ever.

:rofl:

That always pissed people off. So much so, that it was almost considered unfair.

[Fox Mulder]

13. It was unfair.

But I didn't care. :)

[trackfan]

14. Let the ball come to you. "Catch" it softly with the meat of the bat, not

unlike the action of an "egg toss". Use the back arm to guide the bat.

I heard this on an interview with Maury Wills.

[Tafiti]

15. *Ahem*

:yoiks:

[KitchenWitch]

16. HAHAHAHAHA

[Tom Kitten]

17. Not at all !!!

The perfect bunt is a real piece of cake!

[KitchenWitch]

19. Good pun!

:rofl:

[Tom Kitten]

23. Well thank you !

I guess I've been on a few rolls lately...

As a matter of fact I'm sitting on a couple of buns right now!
:yoiks:

[Gregorian]

20. I got baked.

First you scared me. Then you humiliated me. Haha.

I thought I had mistakenly spilled my soul responding to a cooking post.
Then I realized you had mocked us. How cruel. Is nothing sacred. Can we not get serious around here!

Ok, so I got high for a long long period in my life. Now it's time to start baking.

[KitchenWitch]

21. Um, did you mean to reply to the *other* thread?

:rofl:

[Tafiti]

30. Oh the irony!

On another plane, his post was #4.20!

:rofl:

[JVS]

22. Must...not ...make...obscene...copycat.

:evilfrown:

[KitchenWitch]

24. LOL

Were you here last night???

[JVS]

25. No. Why?

[KitchenWitch]

26. Some posts from last night

rhyming with bunt

[OrlandoGator]

27. Nope. The Marlins' Juan Pierre is a master artiste.

He spends about a half-hour before every game testing the base path clay to see which way he should bunt. He's awesome at it.

[WCGreen]

28. No one on the indians knows how to bunt....

[KitchenWitch]

29. A couple of the Twins do

but not nearly enough of them...Lew Ford is dreadful at bunting.

[WCGreen]

31. If I answer this....

The Bunt mught take back the Blunt.....

[KitchenWitch]

32. HAHAHA

It already did!

[kath]

33. My 13 yo daughter is an awesome softball player. Good little bunter,

and good at reading the defense and slapping one out past 'em when they're coming in to play an expected bunt. And she's fast as hell, so her OBP is pretty darn good.
Agree that a well-placed bunt is a thing of beauty.

[KitchenWitch]

34. A thing of beauty indeed

I love "small ball". So much more strategy involved than just nailing them out of the park.