On 12/17/2013 11:44 AM, Hank© wrote:
On 12/17/2013 10:50 AM, wrote:
On Tue, 17 Dec 2013 07:54:58 -0500, John H.
wrote:
His comment was about 3" above yours. " Deliberate acts of violence
are not common in baseball or
basketball or soccer (at least not by the players)."
You don't get much more deliberate than that crash at home plate. The
whole intent is to hit the catcher hard enough to make him drop the
ball. The catcher does wear protective gear but it really just
protects him from a pitched ball, not a 250 pound, roided up player,
coming in at 30 feet per second.
If those guys were bright enough to do as they were trained, they'd
protect themselves form oncoming cleats.
Besides, you do get a lot more deliberate than the play at home plate
that comes once every few innings at best... In football you have
pre-planned plays, designed to get as many huge men to hit one guy at
once as possible... They know to "one hit high, one spin, one strip the
ball by smashing the guy in the head as hard as possible".. This is
every 3-7 seconds during any football game... There is not one player in
the NFL that doesn't make each and every hit with the intent of putting
someone out of the game...