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1 Start Spreading the News   ~  Apr 21, 2010 12:04 pm

Insane "slide" to score the run.

BTW, here is a great breakdown of LaRussa's overmanaging of the 20 inning loss to the Mets -- a fun read:
http://bit.ly/9S7N7n

2 Cliff Corcoran   ~  Apr 21, 2010 12:04 pm

Nice! I've always wondered why players don't try that. Running backs do it in the NFL to get into the end zone, why not an athletic baserunner, just vault the damn catcher . . . not that it's that easy, but it's an option. If you can't go around it, go over it.

3 Sliced Bread   ~  Apr 21, 2010 12:06 pm

that's sick! don't think I've ever seen that.

4 TheGreenMan   ~  Apr 21, 2010 12:16 pm

I thought only Willie Mays Hayes could do that!

5 Alex Belth   ~  Apr 21, 2010 12:16 pm

The timing of it is incredible to be able to run full speed and then time it right without over-jumping, wow. Nice play, dude.

6 The Hawk   ~  Apr 21, 2010 12:36 pm

How the **** did you get that embed code to work? I use WordPress too and it is just coming up blank. It's pissing me off.

7 weeping for brunnhilde   ~  Apr 21, 2010 12:54 pm

Hah ah hah ah ha ha hah !!!
Holy bejesus!

That was fucking insane.

Mother of God.

8 weeping for brunnhilde   ~  Apr 21, 2010 12:55 pm

[2] Yeah, but Cliff, can you imagine the potential for injury? You'd have to be one limber motherfucker to be able to pull that off without breaking a wrist or a rib or god knows what.

9 weeping for brunnhilde   ~  Apr 21, 2010 12:56 pm

Dude looks like a trained seal!
God, that is just too surreal.

10 Diane Firstman   ~  Apr 21, 2010 12:58 pm

[8]

And footballers are mostly leaping onto grass. This guy leapt onto dirt/hard plastic plate.

11 Just Fair   ~  Apr 21, 2010 1:08 pm

That's what was on Wang's mind when he was rounding 3rd in Houston.

12 Sliced Bread   ~  Apr 21, 2010 1:10 pm

among the current Yankees, only a runner as fast and nimble as Posada could pull off such a feat.

13 Diane Firstman   ~  Apr 21, 2010 1:13 pm

[12]

Nick Johnson disputes that assertion.

14 The Hawk   ~  Apr 21, 2010 2:32 pm

Where does this video come from? It's annoying me that I can't make it work. Still.

15 NYYfan22   ~  Apr 21, 2010 2:45 pm

[4] you may run like Hays, but you hit like shit.

16 Sliced Bread   ~  Apr 21, 2010 3:38 pm

[14] try looking for Fordham Iona baseball at youtube.

17 The Hawk   ~  Apr 21, 2010 4:15 pm

[16] Huh, there was nothing there earlier but now there is. Cosmic, man.

18 rbj   ~  Apr 21, 2010 8:27 pm

Actually, we do this all the time in Aikido. Maybe not to that height, but a youg athletic man should be able to do it.

19 Mr. OK Jazz TOKYO   ~  Apr 21, 2010 8:53 pm

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