Thoroughbreds wrote:The Moon Dogs ... a bunch of howlers
I have a team in another league named the Moondoggies, after John Lennon, of course. But what a great name for a PEBA team. And think of the home field advantage! How big would the stadiums have to be to contain fly balls in such reduced gravity? Or would we come up with a gravity ball that neutralized the effects of the moon's weak gravitation? Of course, playing ball in those astronaut suits would slow down baserunning, in fact, watching a game would be like watching baseball in slow-mo, all the time!
Sinkerball pitchers would have no success, the ball simply wouldn't sink. But knuckleballers would thrive. And the Eephus pitch would make a comeback. No batter would be patient enough to wait for an orbiting pitch to return to the moon's surface. It'd be like watching slow-pitch softball on qualudes.
The more I think about it, the more I like it.
Let's realize the full potential of our league name. Let's move the Bulldozers to the moon!