Dad abused by daughter- "I fell down the stairs "

[RubberBiscuit]

DW did find out (the hard way) how difficult DD's riseball can be to catch........

 

[guero_gordo]

Wife thought she could catch DD when she got past 50 ------- NOT!View attachment 6806

Funny, she doesn't look that old. ;-)

 

[marriard]

That WAS the last ball DW caught for DD. I was out-of-town when this happened...... I could have ringed her neck!

Last time my DW tried to catch my DD they didn't speak to each other for a week.

Upgrading my catchers glove this week. My hand is starting to hurt after each session.

 

[marriard]

BTW, I find it hilarious that many coaches (and associations) require the catchers - who catch live pitching regularly - to wear their equipment to warm up pitchers - but the coaches (who don't) go out there to do it with nothing but their gloves.

 

[WARRIORMIKE]

Contrary to what you may have heard, they are still making leg guards. ;-)

Yeaaaaa yeaaaaa yeaaaaa.

 

[slingnit]

Suck it up and put on the catching gear.

Yeah and I'll stop and get your maxi pads! Lol jk

 

[bucket pinata]

With the drop ball I just pick up my feet and don't even try if I cant reach out and glove it in the air.The bad part for me is the slowly separating bones in my glove hand and the thumb that hasn't stopped hurting since the Bush administration. The one that will get me one day is the low rise. the one that starts down and rises up square to the face.at times it feel I barely get there Younger throwing 55 and older 60 plus or minus. I have a umpires mask but It makes me crazy so it sits on a hook in the corner of a cage. My day is coming fortunately I'm ugly already but like my dad used to say "if your going to be stupid you have to be tuff"

 

[smddad]

Daughter has been perfecting her drop curves and drop balls. I swear it seems anytime she changes something in her technique I get beat. Literally. My daughter two weeks ago got my right leg on a nasty but great drop ball. Today was a nasty and not a good drop curve. Hit me in the same leg same bruise. Now I can't feel my leg. It hurts. Bad!

Has anyone ever stopped catching for there daughter because of velocity or just becoming a wuss ? Lol.

I quit catching them when her drop hit the ground, bounced up and hit me directly on the knee, then nailed me square in the nose. I refuse to catch that pitch to this day.

 

[smddad]

Contrary to what you may have heard, they are still making leg guards. ;-)

The most in shape and athletic dad I know wears full catchers gear when catching his DD.

 

[Greenmonsters]

BTW, I find it hilarious that many coaches (and associations) require the catchers - who catch live pitching regularly - to wear their equipment to warm up pitchers - but the coaches (who don't) go out there to do it with nothing but their gloves.

And yet these are the same coaches that think they are so much smarter than the girls that they have to call pitches from the dugout.
It's all beginning to make sense now.