WHOA!
Yesterday found surf fans, around the world, tuned into the Natural Selection Surf finals day in Micronesia. While day one served up many scary freight train barrels over razor sharp reef, the ender delivered more high performance fare. Australia’s Soli Bailey met Mexico’s Al Cleland Jr. in the last frame and put on a dazzling show that found Bailey, 30, as winner of the inaugural event.
You can watch, in its entirety, here, and might be surprised to know that baseball scouts are joining in, eyes all a’ google.
For at the end of the show, you see, the two finalists made their way over to Martin Daly’s floating kingdom becoming showered with praise and celebratory cans of joy whilst sitting on sleds. Bailey asked for one more and someone on the boat threw a screaming two-seamer right at his head.
With neither duck nor dodge, the handsome regular foot caught the missile, eliciting oohs and ahhs from all aboard and baseball scouts worldwide.
The average baseball salary near $5,000,000 in 2025 it must be noted.
Which leads to the important question: if you could be preternaturally skilled at one sport, what would it be?
David Lee Scales and I, anyhow, discussed “The Catch” during our weekly chat alongside an important back-and-forth on the etiquette surrounding zipping up an un-zipped fly in public.
You’d be remiss to not hear.
Essential.
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Easy one: pro golfer. No one crashing into you. Pick the weeks you want to work. Lots of prize money. Senior Tour when you’re 50.
what’s the catch?
Sportfucking or Sport Fucking. Not sure how it’s spelled, but do know how to play.
“Monkeys never cramps”!!! – because monkeys eat bananas
If I were to grace the sport of baseball with my talents, I would have “contract rider” concessions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NYvnnhreEU
Natural Selection is to WSL as LIV golf is to PGA.
If some big names make the switch, the senile war horse is suddenly a lot flimsier than it seemed.
If it was a left Harry would have won.
Well if my aunt had balls she’d be my uncle.
because my uncle was such a cunt , could he be my aunt, asking for a confused family member?
But it was an entry level double handed catch.
Is that impressive in pro baseball ?
Maybe if it was single handed it’d be ok, for a medium level cricket player…
didn’t see the pitch. but if it was a cold beer I would’ve backhanded, popped it, downed it and then played toss back. or simply dropped it into the sea…
you’ve got one on the loose in Connecticut! or Scotland? from NZ…
https://abc7ny.com/post/scottish-highland-bull-loose-connecticuts-rural-hill-country/15943021/
Great question.
I’m already preternaturally talented at pub sports, inc but not limited to: darts, pool, chopping lines on cisterns with bouncers hammering on the door, and skinning up blind under tables.
Happy enough with my lot.
Must take extreme confidence in a robust immune system to navigate that cistern maneuver.
Guessing you do a single handed lighter catch from across a crowded bar (like moiii) too, noice.
P.S.
Without looking…
a coke head loser , that explains a lot about you
The last thing anyone wants to hear is the 2 of you discussing unzipped pants in public.
What about Kevin Spacey?
That creepy just got creepier but you do you.
The Force was not with Luke’s pants. https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1891903862606287115
Mark hasn’t been drinking anymore since the palisades fire. He also hasn’t been drinking any less.
don’t mind the ketamine…
maybe he had a quik wank….kinky public needed?
Or perhaps Boba Fett assassinated his self awareness, and took his belt as a trophy.
Genuine lols ya bloody mischief.
Xox