because "fingernailball" doesn't quite roll off the tongue

[rone]

In case you've never seen a mere mortal try to catch a knuckleball, Jim Caple dons the tools of ignorance to try to catch R. A. Dickey's pitches.  Dickey was a curiosity when he hit the majors a few years ago because his pitching arm does not have an ulnar collateral ligament (what's replaced in Tommy John surgery); he was either born without one, or it disintegrated early in his life.

That's right, babies; it'll be spring this weekend, and baseball starts the week after that.  I'm in two fantasy baseball leagues, one with jwgh and another with a bunch of dorks from PROTRADE.  WHEE FUN

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[mdyesowitch.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the vid! I have a soft soft for the knuckleball, as you well know.