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Post by Mahnarch on Apr 18, 2009 16:52:31 GMT -5
Well, it's that time of the month! ...wait, that doesn't sound right. Anyway, it's been a month since I've rolled out in the ol' safari truck and culled any prey. So, pulling out the latest technology in forum member seeking programs. Tabulating formulas (formulea/fomulii). Triangulating the stars and...well, closing my eyes and clicking on a random page, I see if I get a victim. Well, I did! And that lucky victim was....... No...I already interviewed that member... I'll pick ClassicBlast, instead! Now, this one was tough. With high security protecting his ranks and the murid array of cameras surrounding his compound I was going to have to infiltrate the building with the latest in spy gear. I don't have that kind of money to buy the gear, so I improvised: I just walked up to the hulking door guide and asked him where Classic was. He pointed down the hall. As I ventured down the hall I walked into a large, open cafeteria. There, in the middle of a crowded room sat a single individual. A plate heaping with foodstuffs, including 5 hamburgers, 7 hot dogs, a pile of chili and crackers, 2 steaks, mashed potatoes and corn, among other things. At the side of the tray is a Diet Coke..... "Classic?" "Maybe..." "Mahnarch" "Hey." "You getting food for the whole team?" "No. Let them get their own!" I sit at the table, notepad in hand. I try to grab a burger off his tray but, I'm quickly thwarted.  "Alright, I have a few questions, here:" 1) How tall are you? 2) How many kilograms can you lift over your head? (2.2 - with one hand?) 3) What color is your bat? 4) Can you do a hand stand for longer than 30 seconds? 5) If I pushed you, standing face to face, who would fall over - me or you? 6) What is in your...left front pocket, right now? 7) Do you wear glasses? If so, have you ever tried to start a fire with them? 8) What's the last song you heard on the radio in your car? 9) You're on a subway. A lady gets on at a stop. Do you let her take your seat or say, "Screw you, mom! You can stand!"? 10) Do you have bushes in/around your house? 11) Do you have a friend named......Steve? 12) Have you ever smoked a pipe? (I'm thinking about getting a Corn-Cob, myself) 13) If you were to mail yourself to Timbuktu, how many stamps would you have to put on the outside of the crate? 14) If you flicked a quarter (25¢) to spin on a table top, how long can you get it to last (I'm on an average of 9 seconds.) 15) Have you ever batted at homerun? 16) You have a dog, right? Can you out-run him? 17) Have you ever punched a guy? 18) Do you take off your wedding ring when you're on the road?  19) Can I pick you up? (I'm 145lbs and can lift my own weight) 20) Have you ever driven a hi-lo? |
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Post by Classicblast on Apr 18, 2009 21:58:53 GMT -5
Hello Mahnarch. It's a pleasure to be your guest this month.
I haven't had an interview from someone I actually wanted to talk to in a long time this is refreshing. Thank you.
1. I am 6'1"
2. I'm not sure how that compares to pounds. I think a kilo is over 2 pounds. Lets say at my best I could press 300, so that would be 150 with 1 hand making it about 68 kilo. I work out with a little bit less than that now though.
3. I own at least 300 baseball bats altogether and they're every color you can imagine. The bats I am presently using are most often a Viper ash 33" that is regular clear wood color from the hands up about half way up and then painted black at the top. I also pack 2 Louisville Sluggers one of them has a blue top and regular wood colored at the lower part and two orange stripes before the color change. The other has a red top and white stripes. I also keep a Rawlings gold rush that is clear wood color throughout.
I keep in each vehicle at least 2 Easton aluminum bats for the batting cages. I learned my lesson about bring game bats to the cages. One time I walked over to the men's room and one got stolen. That same day I snapped one in half at the cages. I learned good bats don't go to batting cages anymore.
4. Definitely.
5. Shall we give it a try? Just kidding. I weigh in at 225 but I'm suppose to say 205 because that's what I'm paid under contract to weigh.
6. Nothing I'm wearing sweat pants. My jeans hanging on the chair have keys in my left pocket.
7. No, I can't fathom starting a fire with glasses.
8. I have a Bob Seger tape in my car right now, I think it was on Hollywood nights when I parked but I'm not sure.
9. I would give up my seat.
10. Yes common yew bushes.
11. Yeah. In fact there's a lot of Steves in my circles.
12. No I never have but my grandfather smoked a pipe and I thought that smelled so good.
13. I would have to call my post office and ask about that.
14. I just tried it 6 times my average was 5 seconds, best 6 seconds worst not even a second. So, 5 seconds.
15. I usually hit at least 20 home runs a season. My career best was 38 in 2003.
16. Not if there's a scooby snack at the finish line. If it's for any other reason yes.
17. Of course. I'm an athlete you deal with ignorant @$$4oles all the time in my business.
18. Whooooah loaded question. To play baseball games yes. I am right handed as all professional players are if they are a catcher, 2ndbaseman, shortstop or 3rd baseman. That means my glove is on my left hand. Its kind of painful if you take a ball in the glove and it smacks against your band. I wear it most of the time outside of playing baseball.
19. Like I said rosters say I'm 205 so that's my on the record answer. I really weigh closer to 225. You would find that's the norm in sports. Players weights are slighted on rosters to give their team a trim image. Not just baseball its' done in every sport. Except high school sports then they embellish weight to intimidate other schools. The scandalous life of athletics. A good baserunner can have an average elevated to match his IQ in most school sectors.
I get paid to say I'm 205 so that's how much I weigh.
20. You mean an extended top camper? No I never have.
I have driven dumptrucks and bulldozers as you know my family is in a contracting business. Never a hi-lo though.
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Post by Mahnarch on Apr 18, 2009 23:17:52 GMT -5
Given the "I stumbled on you by accident" aside, I picked you on purpose a couple of weeks ago on purpose. I just had to wait until today so I could provide the "One Month" line. I've been anxious! That's journalism. Released on the right time. Every time! Now, let's see: 1)You're 6ft 1in. 2 inches taller than me. 225lbs. 80lbs more than me. How do you do this? I must know!! I'm built. I have shape but NOT size. I look like a miniature Lou Ferigno. 2) A kilo is 2.2 pounds so, by your answer; you can lift either: 136lbs. or, ........660....pounds.... That's 2(!) Jerseys!! and some change!!! Holy Crap! I think I just did!!  3) "Clear.....Wood." Like, invisible? And, who needs 300 bats? Only mafia hitmen need that many! You aren't mafia, are you?! Should I "shudd-up ma mout' b'fer summin' happins"? Can I have one of your old ones that you don't use very often? I'll PM you my address. Or, you can get it from Phil. 5) Is that a bet? Any time, bro (Mahnarch puts on boxing gear and hunkers down......and pees himself...before he passes out...) ;D 6) I'm wearing summer shorts and...guess what!! I found $7 dollars in the pocket! Totally forgot about it from last summer. Plus a stick of Chapstick! (Cherry) 10) Yes. I have common ME bushes, too. I need someone in the know to come around and but them down. Now that I think about it, I may know a guy.....who knows a guy. 11) Hmm....Any Steves with a surname of......B? (cuz I looked at my BiC lighter) 12) My grandfather smoked a pipe, too. That's why I'm thinking about it. I was also thinking that, with the latest tax hikes, that, instead of smoking an entire cigarette, I could put a little bit of tobacco in the pipe and take a puff and be done. Instead of smoking an entire death stick. Cheaper and healtheir.......in a way. 13) At 225 "real" weight + tare weight (the crate), I'd say you'd cost about $115.50 Domestic. Timbuktu is international, so you've got customs to deal with... .....72¢ a pound air freight.... $198 - A to B. Cheaper than air fare! Just make sure you drill air holes and leave a "This Side UP" sticker on the outside.....like that matters..... 
14) YES!!! I am the quarter spinning champion!!! At least between me and Classic!
Can anyone else beat 9 seconds?!
Vids for proof!
15) 20 homeruns a season....
Is that.......good?
I'm not a sports guy. I don't know.
This may rank higher than my quarter spinning....
Although, quarter spinning is pretty high up there!
18) Oh. Loaded question.....yeah....
I used to take mine off when working on cars so I wouldn't get electrocuted or get it stuck in/around a belt.
Now, I know I took it off because I hated my wife.
Disclaimer:
......of course, Blastgirl is the best woman in the world, and I salute you for finding and marrying that girl.
Had I run into her before you met her, I'm sure I would have married her, too!
....Blastgirl.....don't leave Classic because he takes off his ring!! ;D
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Hmmm,,, so I would weigh 11lbs more than I ''actually" do, if I applied this logic.
Fascinating.
20)
I mean a regular fork truck: [Edit: Whoa! The pic is huge. Sorry!]
You're family is Blastgirl's family?
Wait...I thought Danny was..no Danny is an Auto Tech...
Who's the one who bet Phil to drive their old truck from their town to Phil's?
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Post by Classicblast on Apr 18, 2009 23:55:34 GMT -5
5, Not a challenge, I'm sure you're much too tough for me.
2. I answered your question in pounds because I'm much too stupid to convert it to metric. I'm one of those muscle brained jocks remember.
3. I'm sure you're putting me on but clear wood being natural wood color like honey brown. I'm sure you have a way of putting it but I am also just as sure you knew what I meant the first time. I can take a joke, however.
I could probably get you an old bat. Baseball bat that is. I could give one from here or I could have Thunderbird my brother send you one from my parents house they'd probably like to be rid of some of my stuff. I can get you a bat probably. I don't know how soon I'd get around to having it sent to you though.
Why I have so many it's a industry thing. If you get into a slump your job becomes in trouble so you buy different bats hoping to improve your game. You try some and they seem right for a while and then not so much. You finally get comfortable with your bat and it snaps in half. You have another the same model but it doesn't feel the same and you get something else. Somebody else has the same bat so you get a blue bat so it doesn't get shuffled with his red bat.
When you get to be 34 and baseball has mainly been your life you've accumulated a lot of bats over 20 years or more.
11. yes but I probably shoudln't say more online
12 I never smoked. I sampled it obviously but I never did it regularly.
13. I think I have a new way to travel. But then I woudlnt' get free orange juice and peanuts.
14. Congrats on quarter spinning.
15. Yeah it's good. I'm considered a "longball hitter." Obviously I'm in the minors it's not as if I hat 20 or more homers on the pitching of guys who near or break 100 miles an hour. But I definitely have power to hitting the ball. The league home run champion would be around 50 a year and most teams have 3 or more guys with 20 but not usually more than that to answer you.
There's all different ways to judge good hitting. That's for later when I have more time to get into that. It's a good question it deserves a better answer.
18 thank you for the nice words.
19. That was obviously my sarcastic way of saying jocks get favor.
20. Blastgirls' family is in auto repair, mine is in building construction. That 73 Ford Dumptruck belongs to the company. Thunderbird did not put it out to pasture he had some repairs made and kept it going. He said that the company did some work in Eastern Ohio and he sent it there for the summer to be used on that job. Its back at the hq now though.
Sometimes older fleet trucks go to a job and stay there until the job is finished just going to get stone or dirt or transport stuff while its' there. It was probably trailered to and from Ohio I doubt they drove it but we'd have to ask Thunderbird.
Thunderbird lives about 100 miles from Phil he thought that might make a good forum tactic. But they couldn't get together on a when and where so they rainchecked it and then last summer the truck wasn't at Thunderbird's place. There's even pictures of it on this site.
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Post by Classicblast on Apr 19, 2009 0:00:48 GMT -5
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Post by Mahnarch on Apr 19, 2009 1:05:11 GMT -5
5, Not a challenge, I'm sure you're much too tough for me. I am pretty tough.... I once opened a jar of jalepeños that no one else could... And, then I ate one!  Hmmm. My muscly armed baseball man... I hope you don't find my money clip strapped to my inner thigh.... [God, I'm crying/laughing over this reference!!] Actually, I'm not putting you on. Remember, I'm more of a 'Guns & Ammo' guy. Not a 'Sports Illustrated' guy. When you said "Clear Wood" I'm thinking 'see-through plastic' or resin. Like, you can see your hand through the other side... That doesn't seem very sturdy to me. Especially given your stoutly build. If I could get an old bat (signed would be extra awesome) I would love and cherish it! I'll give you my address in PM, or you can get it from Phil, in a few days, when he gets my package I sent to him. If you'd prefer to use his return address, I'm fine with that. (When I'm president, I'll know everything about you, anyway!!! Muah, ha ha ha ha!!!!) [Just kidding!] I'm good people. Trust me. Send me a bat - I'll send you some stuff, too. You like sticky pads? ("Post-Its" with my Company name on it) Of course! Everyone likes sticky pads! ....I'll have to send the entire pad in 8th chunks, though, since that's all that fits in an envelope... Hmm...I could go to the Post Office, though, and get a bigger packet. Do you have a P.O. Box? *I'm so overly geeked about receiving a bat from Classic that I forgot what I was going to say for the next few questions inserted here*[/b] I was sincere on that. BG seems like a nice gal and I envy you. You got a good thing going on there. [Given my latest marital status, I'm seeing relationships in a whole new light.] Don't ever mess it up.....otherwise, I'll have to send the biggest guy I know to come over to set you straight... ....meaning....I'll have to send YOU over to beat yourself up! Hmm...how does that work?... |
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Post by Blastgirl on Apr 19, 2009 1:28:10 GMT -5
This is one of the funnier exchanges we have had in a while. Both people were serious but presented humor too.
I don't know if Classic answered the question but pro baseball bats can be made of any hard wood but Maple and Ash are the two most used woods for pro bats.
College Baseball uses Aluminum but none of the Professional Leagues allow Aluminum but he has some for cage use just because they are mostly unbreakable.
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Post by Mahnarch on Apr 19, 2009 20:10:05 GMT -5
Thanks, BG.
I like to keep a light atmosphere in my exchanges.
I still can't wrap my mind around someone actually breaking a bat...
I would like to see that, actually.
....can Blastgirl expedite me a bat in Classic's stead, if he's too busy?
I'm rethinking this "Sticky Pad" thing.
It might be easier to send you guys the same package I sent Phil...
Still functional and awesome.
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Post by Blastgirl on Apr 22, 2009 23:06:15 GMT -5
You'd be surprised how often bats break. Major League pitchers are throwing the ball around a hundred miles per hour. Even Minor Pitching sends it home about eighty-five or better. I hope they don't send you one of the corked ones.  I am only kidding. That's big trouble if that ever happens. A bat snaps and it's corked. |
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Post by Mahnarch on Apr 23, 2009 0:24:41 GMT -5
Hmm. If Classic does send me a corked bat he'd be "getting rid of the evidence"..... Cheap and clean!  I'm still geeked at this prospect of a bat. I hope he finds time enough to send on, soon. |
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Post by Blastgirl on Apr 23, 2009 0:33:31 GMT -5
He's not the most organized but I will keep on him.
It's not that he's not organized it's more that he is busy. He does have games everyday virtually. He was on a little earlier compliments of a rain delay.
They resumed the game after about an hour rain delay.
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Post by Mahnarch on Apr 23, 2009 0:37:53 GMT -5
That reminds me:
How come baseball games don't continue in the rain while football games do?
NASCAR would be a lot more interesting if they ran in the rain.
Indy does....
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Post by Blastgirl on Apr 23, 2009 1:03:14 GMT -5
Because baseball players are soft and mushy and could melt in the rain they're not Manly Men like Football players.
Ohhh NO!!! What did I say? ;D
If a baseball gets wet it's almost impossible to hit it. At least it wouldn't go very far. The field is not entirely grass over hard ground like a football field either it's dug deep and filled in with pulverized dirt. If that soaks through it's an atrocity of a mess and damaging to the field.
That's why they cover it with heavy plastic tarps after the game and during a rain delay. That doesn't prevent all trouble but it manages enough damage control that the bases are runable.
I'm sure the teams are more concerned about the stadium and the expenses associated with fixing the field than they really are about the integrity of the game. Otherwise they would just say "Both teams have to hit the same wet ball and run on the same wet field duke it out."
It's about the field and having to repair it. ;D
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Post by Mahnarch on Apr 23, 2009 4:31:39 GMT -5
Ahh. yes.... I forgot about the melting part..... UUHH OHH!!!! You may get kicked out of the house for saying that! If you need a place to stay, my neighbor has a spare camper trailer you can use, on the cheap. You may remember it from Demona's pictures. Footballs get wet just as bad as baseballs.... But, I can see your point of view on the 'field' itself. "Pulverized Dirt".... Does Classic pulverize it all himself? With his fists of awesomeness? After all,,,, he can bench 660lbs.... If they're worried about rain soaking the field, do the northern states cover the field for the entire winter season? Snow = very cold water. |
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Post by Phil on Apr 23, 2009 12:58:04 GMT -5
I always thought they did. There's a difference in the ground being frozen though too.
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Post by Mahnarch on Apr 25, 2009 1:33:20 GMT -5
True.
That's why they have 'Frost Laws' that I have to follow every early spring. (has to do with rocks under the surface. My weight. Vibrations. And.....revenue generation).
Frost Laws are over, now, so we'll have to wait until next March before I can do a vid of one to explain.
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