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Church League basketball and baseball have their moments - some more intense than traditional leagues · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Let's see here. Artist says that more Bully was undefeated because he hijacked the
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  birth certificates. And basically it was a church league. So I'll tell you
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  what. Those church leagues can get crazy competitive in basketball, baseball, softball.
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  I mean just wild they can. I mean they're more wild than a
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  lot of city leagues sometimes. And church league is supposed to be church league.
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  Calm right, Yeah, it's not usually that way, no. I
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  remember, gosh, this was back early two thousands. We were playing at
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  a church league softball league over at Center City and Pearl and everybody. And
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  this is not me being sacriligious at all. This is I'm just telling you
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  what happened. Met prayed before the game, about halfway through the game,
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  had to break five or six people, I mean like became fisticuffs, was
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  about to be thrown. So it's just wild. I've seen it. I've
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  seen it a lot. And you talk about opening up the middle in slow
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  pitch softball, where you know, people start talking trash and all of a
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  sudden people decide they want to start hitting it back up the middle at the
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  picture. Yeah, picture throws it and starts running backwards to second base as
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  fast as they can. Yep. I've seen pictures get hit right in the
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  in the chest and the shins, and it's a dangerous sport. When when
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  it's bad to say when church people get together sometimes and play church league softball.
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  It's even worse in the city league, especially after they've sat around a
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  parking lot and drink all day, and now all of a sudden they're mad
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  and start hitting the picture with every swing they take. It's not fun to
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  be the picture, I would imagine. I wouldn't do it be if you
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  want to be a picture and a slow pitch team, if we get a
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  team together, put you out on the bump. These days, they wear
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  face mask, they wear ship guards and chest protectors, and I would like
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  a hockey goalie. I don't blame them. I don't either, because you're
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  not coming with any kind of heat, no kind of stuff. You're just
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  you're there. Well, the bats are hotter now, the balls are harder,
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  hot, and they just I don't know. All the equipment is much
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  better than it was ten, fifteen, twenty years ago.