r/sportsgossips • u/United_Anywhere_8 • 16h ago

Video Beautiful swing but everything that follows might be the most painful thing these eyes ever laid on!

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u/Famous_Pudding_3598 16h ago

Fast forward to this kids baseball career crapping out in high school and turning into either a cop or town drunk

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u/Rojodi 16h ago

Our "best" player was cut from his high school team (2 schools at the time) as a junior. His dad was an attorney but fortunately told his son no suit lol

He did become a cop 😆

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u/The-Tarman 16h ago

Que the endless stories about how he should be in the big leagues but X Y Z got in the way. He would have been the best anyone had ever seen!

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u/johnny-Low-Five 15h ago

Like my former best friend who coulda been in the NBA except for "politics"! 5"8' white kid couldn't even make the JV team and in his 30s still believes this nonsense. Like I played soccer and baseball and was "good" (played in college) and was faster, stronger, taller, and could jump higher than him and am fully aware I was never going to get a paycheck playing sports but had to hear this story a couple times a year.

Before we stopped being friends I showed him clips of Kobe and Lebron in High School and just said "but the coach had it out for you?"

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u/The-Tarman 15h ago

Bro, these dudes with these delusions of grandure can be the worst. Especially since they are usually using these stories as an excuse for their lives being shit.

99% of the population didn't get to be the things we dreamed of when we were kids. I wanted to be a rock star, played my ass off in a bunch of bands and was pretty good. I also made sure I had a career I was working on in case it didn't work out cause I know people that are natural musicians that play several instruments at a high level and write great music that wash dishes at restaurants in their late 40s... I also know people that have never been in a band and can barley play an instrument that have these stories about how they would have made it if it wasn't for that singer that didn't show up to the big gig!!

Same damn energy and it gets fucking old, fast. And its never their fault things didn't work out. It was always, as your friend said, "politics" or somw other nonsense

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u/Warm_Coach2475 11h ago

Cue*

Also, queue is the “q” sounding version. But different meaning.

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u/akmalhot 11h ago

He's def going to peak in middle school 

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u/grumpyfan 10h ago

Sercurity guard.

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u/SteeleHeller 16h ago

ÂżPorque no los dos?

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u/Pizza_and_PRs 15h ago

I’m guessing this is 12u travel ball.

Kids significantly underestimate the jump from 14u to high school ball.

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u/Ok_Oven4893 10h ago

This kid already crushes monster energy drinks and pays child support

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u/HotelSalt4644 10h ago

He’s 1000000% gonna be a cop.

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u/Unusual_Sherbert_809 3h ago

Lol! I went with "He'll probably join a local militia and later ICE if that squad of losers is still around."

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u/ApprehensivePaint128 1h ago

It’s a long swing…he will have swing and miss issues as he moves up.

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u/theswellmaker 1h ago

Kid is for sure peaking in high school and will be an absolute menace

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u/Lostinthestarscape 48m ago

"Four homers in the championship highschool game, Lenny, ah if youd been there to see it".

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u/Automatic-Syrup-3550 14h ago

Why are you fantasizing about a child's life falling apart because he threw a baseball bat too hard?