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[Soul]

Much sadness at seeing Harvey's name and remembering in '04 at Fitch Park watching him jack like 10,000 balls over the fence and being amazed.

 

Why you let me down big guy? :cry:

 

because they don't throw breaking balls during batting practice.

 

yes yes I know that. I was kind of hoping he would learn to hit a breaking ball, ya know?

[RedFlash]

Much sadness at seeing Harvey's name and remembering in '04 at Fitch Park watching him jack like 10,000 balls over the fence and being amazed.

 

Why you let me down big guy? :cry:

 

because they don't throw breaking balls during batting practice.

 

yes yes I know that. I was kind of hoping he would learn to hit a breaking ball, ya know?

 

At this point, as most would agreed, I would much rather him learning and developing a breaking ball, instead of embarrassing himself trying to hit it. Come on Cubs, make the transistion already.

[hawkeyecub]

In '02 and into '04 with Prior, Wood, Cruz, Z, Patterson, Kelton, Hill, Choi and some of the studs in our farm system I thought we had a shot at a run near what the Braves had in the '90's. We had pitching coming out of our ears and what looked like a very good core of position players.

[inari]

In '02 and into '04 with Prior, Wood, Cruz, Z, Patterson, Kelton, Hill, Choi and some of the studs in our farm system I thought we had a shot at a run near what the Braves had in the '90's. We had pitching coming out of our ears and what looked like a very good core of position players.

 

Yeah, I did too. And I completely bought into the Choi hype. I still think he'd be a pretty decent major leaguer if he was actually playing in this country. He had a pretty nice year in 2004 with the Marlins before he got shipped to Florida. His power and ability to draw walks was certainly not overhyped (well, his power was a bit I guess).

[NCCubFan]

And I completely bought into the Choi hype. I still think he'd be a pretty decent major leaguer if he was actually playing in this country. He had a pretty nice year in 2004 with the Marlins before he got shipped to Florida. His power and ability to draw walks was certainly not overhyped (well, his power was a bit I guess).

So the Marlins traded him to the Marlins. :D

[inari]

Do what I mean and not what I say. :P

[Post Count Padder]

Funny story about Kelton. Back in the yr he was senior, by HS decided to schedule a 3 team tournment, just near the border of Alabama/Georgia. Troupe and Newton are considered GA 5A, would be Alabama's 6A. To say we got our butts handed to us (17-2, and 22-7) is a pretty fair description. But anyways, I was a junior on the JV team (yeah, I pretty much sucked, but oh well), and our "brilliant" coach, knew we would be getting our butts spanked, so intead of risking his "star pitchers" he ask for myself, and two other JV pitchers to join the varsity team. To make a story short, I came in about the 5 inning of the 1st game again Kelton's team, and guess who the first batter I got to face...............David Kelton (and in a previous AB, he had crushed one for a 3 run blast). So my first pitch to him, was a "fastball" ( I loosely use the term fastball, because I could throw harder then a new born baby) that hit him in the back. And the next thing I knew, I saw him smiling and shaking his head. It didn't hurt him, is what more of a "can I stay up to hit, instead of the HBP" smile. After the game I caught up to him, and apologize for hitting him, and he said, "no problem, I won't even leave a bruise."

 

Later the weekend, my HS team won the Tallassee Tournment. But the chance to pitch against Kelton was a pretty goo dmoment for me in HS.

Sweet story, despite all the typos :wink:

[RedFlash]

Funny story about Kelton. Back in the yr he was senior, by HS decided to schedule a 3 team tournment, just near the border of Alabama/Georgia. Troupe and Newton are considered GA 5A, would be Alabama's 6A. To say we got our butts handed to us (17-2, and 22-7) is a pretty fair description. But anyways, I was a junior on the JV team (yeah, I pretty much sucked, but oh well), and our "brilliant" coach, knew we would be getting our butts spanked, so intead of risking his "star pitchers" he ask for myself, and two other JV pitchers to join the varsity team. To make a story short, I came in about the 5 inning of the 1st game again Kelton's team, and guess who the first batter I got to face...............David Kelton (and in a previous AB, he had crushed one for a 3 run blast). So my first pitch to him, was a "fastball" ( I loosely use the term fastball, because I could throw harder then a new born baby) that hit him in the back. And the next thing I knew, I saw him smiling and shaking his head. It didn't hurt him, is what more of a "can I stay up to hit, instead of the HBP" smile. After the game I caught up to him, and apologize for hitting him, and he said, "no problem, I won't even leave a bruise."

 

Later the weekend, my HS team won the Tallassee Tournment. But the chance to pitch against Kelton was a pretty goo dmoment for me in HS.

Sweet story, despite all the typos :wink:

 

Yeah, you won't confused me with an English major.

[jaydee]

who is Kelton playing with these days?

[Brendan]

who was the pitcher for wichita that hit the batter in the on-deck circle? ben christensen?

[NCCubFan]

who was the pitcher for wichita that hit the batter in the on-deck circle? ben christensen?

That's who it was. Some people on this board referred to him as Beanball Ben.

[RedFlash]

who is Kelton playing with these days?

 

According to his wikipedia bio, he retired after the 06 season.