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sl8

(13,856 posts) Sat Apr 7, 2018, 09:54 AM Apr 2018

US Olympic curling team throws out first pitch

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Video:

From https://deadspin.com/entire-u-s-mens-curling-team-combines-for-total-of-one-1825051903

Entire U.S. Men's Curling Team Combines For Total Of One Respectable First Pitch
Samer Kalaf
Yesterday 2:16pm

The gold medal-winning U.S. Olympic men’s curling team stopped by Thursday’s Minnesota Twins game to throw out the first pitch, and boy were their deliveries crummy. The combined efforts of (from left to right) Joe Polo, John Shuster, Tyler George, Matt Hamilton, and John Landsteiner resulted in one respectable throw—one and a half if we count Hamilton rolling his baseball to the catcher.

Ignore the chyrons in the video, as the majority of them don’t match up with the correct corresponding Olympian. No respect for the curlers.

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MontanaMama

(23,334 posts)

1. Thats hilarious!

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Sat Apr 7, 2018, 10:01 AM

Apr 2018

Ohiogal

(32,040 posts)

2. Awesome!

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Sat Apr 7, 2018, 10:29 AM

Apr 2018

LastLiberal in PalmSprings

(12,590 posts)

3. I had expected them to throw a curling stone at the pitcher

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Sat Apr 7, 2018, 10:32 AM

Apr 2018

The video is funny as hell. I like the second catcher trying to duck out of the way of the errant pitch. It looks like a skit from "Monty Python's Flying Circus" called "Upper-Class Twit of the Year Olympics."

malthaussen

(17,215 posts)

4. I see two okay pitches...

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Sat Apr 7, 2018, 10:41 AM

Apr 2018

... the guys on both ends of the line reached the right catcher, at least, but the southpaw was way high.

As for the two who threw to the wrong catcher...

-- Mal

sl8

(13,856 posts)

5. I thought the bowler did pretty well.

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Sat Apr 7, 2018, 12:42 PM

Apr 2018

A man's got to know his limitations.

Awsi Dooger

(14,565 posts)

6. The Fox Sports video introduction was more inept than the pitches

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Sat Apr 7, 2018, 06:08 PM

Apr 2018

They identified only one of the five players correctly...Matt Hamilton.

Otherwise the wrong graphic was displayed every time, as the players were introduced. After the first one was wrong I was wondering if any of them would be correct.

I guess by Fox standards a 20% accuracy rate is way above the norm.

That's from the long video, BTW, the 2:25 version from the link. The Deadspin article does list the players correctly from left to right. Only the alternate Joe Polo at left threw a respectable, if soft, pitch.

The skip John Shuster is second from left.

Kind of wimpy for Matt Hamilton to roll the ball. I have more respect for Tyler George's attempt, even if it was sideways.

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