>Today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth
What did he mean by this?
>>66671551
he realized he wasn't 100% american.
>Give it to me straight doc. How bad is it?
>Well, we're going to name the disease after you
Probably happy to be finally done with baseball. What a boring "sport"
>>66671551
He's happy that Ina few decades a craze will sweep the nation and people will pour ice water buckets on themselves for his disease
>>66671602
Lel
son of German immigrants, famous baseball player, American dream blah blah blah
>>66671600
Boreball to /asp/ when
>what did he mean by this?
Hello darkness, my only friend
Serious answer: Despite his impending disability and death, he had had opportunities in his life that most people only dream of. He was acknowledging that and expressing humility and gratitude
>>66671551
He meant that ALS is tons of fun
>>66671551
>ywn be lucky enough to have a disease named after you
He ment that he would rather have a horrible desise and die, then to play even one more game for the New York Yankees
>>66671551
>....I don't have much time on this earth...
Reminder that Yuropoors will never have history like this
>>66683245
they have that one time where they all killed each other in that stadium
>>66683263
>>>96
>>66671551
It means he's going to die before Negroes play major league ball
so, can boredom cause ALS?
TODAY TODAY TODAY TODAY TODAY TODAY TODAY TODAY TODAY TODAY TODAY TODAY TODAY TODAY I FEEL FEEL FEEL FEEL FEEL FEEL FEEL FEEL FEEL FEEL FEEL FEEL FEEL FEEL FEEL FEEL FEEL FEEL FEEL FEEL FEEL FEEL FEEL FEEL FEEL FEEL
>>66683245
>Reminder that Yuropoors will never have history like this
Fucking kek
>>66693956
because our sports don't all cause brain damage
>>66681618
>get a disease named after you
>it's an std
>>66694028
>baseball causes brain damage
Wew lad
But I guess we can't all prance around kicking a ball and flopping onto the ground like a retard
>>66695126
Baseball is seen as a sissy sport compared to Cricket here because in griget it's completely legal to bounce the ball to hit batters in the head.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjsWtXtnFkA
>>66695126
>baseball causes brain damage
Before batting helmets it did. There's even a theory that Gehrig's ALS was caused by being beaned so often.
Fun fact about Gehrig. In 1934 the Yankees had an off day so they scrimmaged against one of their minor league teams. The pitcher for the minor league team had attended Columbia University with Gehrig and didn't like him. Gehrig's first at-bat he hits a home run off him and it infuriates the pitcher. Next time up the pitcher nails Gehrig in the head. Gehrig lost consciousness for over 5 minutes and was rushed to the hospital where he was diagnosed with a concussion and was told not to play for a while. Well we all know his streak didn't end there... the next day the Yanks played against Washington. Gehrig's head was so swollen he had to borrow one of Babe Ruth's hats and even then he had to cut it to get it to fit. Lou Gehrig hit three triples in 4 innings. Then a storm came and the game was called, erased from the record books.
>>66695237
Uh, in baseball it's not illegal to throw at a batter's head...
>>66695438
muh unwritten rules
>>66695454
I miss pitchers like Clemens and Pedro who would bean a guy just because they didn't like them.
>>66683263
Lel how the fuck does that even happen?
>>66695519
yuropoors too cheap to buy tickets rushed the gates
>>66695438
Well I mean if you hit a batter in baseball they get to walk to first base and pitchers get ejected for it, in cricket there's no punishment for it.
>>66671583
HOLY KEK
>>66695353
Yeah, I know, but they've used helmets for what, over 50 years now? All that shit was solved for the most part except in the rare case where they get a concussion from a 100 mile an hour fastball in the right spot
>>66695616
Nah, you just have to make it not obvious that you're throwing at them. You're usually allowed to hit at least two people if they're spread out and not obvious
>me
>age 12, poor white kid living in Mexican neighborhood
>Tallest kid on neighborhood litttle league team (bc white) and could throw hard as fuck, just couldn't throw strikes
>game against team from nig neighborhood
>coach wants to rest our usual starter, makes me pitch
>hit the first 3 nigs I face
>their parents are chimping out, yelling at me
>our Mexican fans have my back
>brawl takes place just outside the fence, play is delayed while the melee is sorted out
>play resumes
>I strike out the side
>team goes on to win city championship
>>66697893
>>66671551
wait, am I dismissing the dubbed quote or that simpsons episode were Homer was a baseball team mascot was making a reference to this?
>>66708679
You've got a lot of problems with your sentence there, amigo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancin%27_Homer
>Homer's line, "Today, as I leave for Capital City, I consider myself the luckiest mascot on the face of the earth" that he says in his farewell speech to the Springfield fans, is a reference to Lou Gehrig's farewell speech in the 1942 baseball film The Pride of the Yankees.
