Enjoy the college baseball season, everyone. Or at least try to before all these Debbie Downers kill the mood.
For those of you who may not be aware, The college baseball season is in full swing.
It might not be my favorite sport, but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t enjoy the sound of a metal bat ringing through my television speakers in the late spring months.
It’s all just a distraction, a pit stop if you will, on the way back to college football, but it’s entertaining nonetheless.
On Friday afternoon, the 19th-ranked Oregon Ducks baseball team traveled to Champaign to take on the Fighting Illini, and a certain highlight from a fairly innocuous conference series is making the rounds on social media.
A true newbie (who looks to be about 35 years old, but I digress) hit an absolute nuke that’s probably still flying through restricted airspace as we speak.
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Almost 500 feet! What a bomb!
But of course, with anything in life, there are people who will question the validity and awesomeness of something like this.
Let’s start with the positive.
Hitting a ball 496 feet is impressive no matter who does it or where it is done.
This kid is also (supposedly) a rookie, and the only other time I remember hearing of a youngster hitting a ball that far was when Bryce Harper launched Paul Bunyon-esque tank jobs in high school home run contests.
That guy turned out alright.
And why doesn’t this boy play football?
He looks like an NFL defensive end. I’m sure the Ducks could use an extra pass rusher this season.
Now let’s see if we can predict what the negative Nellies of the internet will do to belittle this amateur space show about a home run.
“He uses a metal bat.”
“It wasn’t actually 496, it just looks longer because there are no away stands or obstacles.”
“Oh, the flags are really blowing, his ball must have caught a good breeze that carried it.”
“The balls are squeezed, he would never have done that back in *insert random timeframe*.”
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How did I do it? Did I get nails?
Yes, when you’re as tragically online as I am, you can almost predict the narratives before they even appear.
Remember about a decade ago when Giancarlo Stanton or Yasiel Puig hit a 500-foot home run and you heard all about it on Twitter?
Then you’d check the highlight, see it was at Coors Field, and instantly know that 75 percent of the comments would be something along the lines of “do it at sea level and we’ll talk.”
Time is a flat circle.
Enjoy the college baseball season, everyone. Or at least try to before all these Debbie Downers kill the mood.
