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re: If Females want to be treated equally - Can someone explain this to me?
Posted on 4/24/25 at 3:06 pm to FLTech
Posted on 4/24/25 at 3:06 pm to FLTech
The real answer, that nobody will say aloud, is that the people who run softball leagues don’t believe fielders can field well enough to not get hit in the face. At least in little league softball, even outfielders wear masks.
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Posted on 4/24/25 at 3:14 pm to biglego
If you want to really know what it is like, become an umpire. Softball pitchers throw from a distance of 45 feet. Baseball pitchers throw from a distance of 60 feet, 6 inches. Once you get back there, you realize softball is scarier and you have all the equipment to protect you. Softball pitchers have to react 25% faster than baseball pitchers. But if you really want to know what it is like, get out there and play pitcher in women's or men's fast pitch softball. You will come to know fear.
Posted on 4/24/25 at 3:16 pm to OysterPoBoy
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Maybe because they stand 10 ft from the batter?
It's a soft ball though...
Posted on 4/24/25 at 3:25 pm to LSUFanHouston
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Take a softball and a baseball to the face and let me know which one hurts more
I volunteer to hit a few of each into his face so he can decide which one hurts more.
Posted on 4/24/25 at 3:25 pm to Purplehaze
Reaction time is equivalent really. A softball thrown at 60ish from 43 feet is about the same as a 90 MPH fastball in baseball.
My daughter plays, she's a shortstop, she wears a mask. I'm all for it, I think it's pretty dumb that younger baseball players do not wear them.
My daughter plays, she's a shortstop, she wears a mask. I'm all for it, I think it's pretty dumb that younger baseball players do not wear them.
Posted on 4/24/25 at 3:27 pm to LegendInMyMind
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That's the distance from the pitching rubber to home plate. Hitters are getting better and better, pitchers are throwing harder, and there is minimal reaction time.
Also girls don’t catch as good. So it makes a lot of sense
Posted on 4/24/25 at 4:14 pm to FLTech
They were those because they don't need cups.
Posted on 4/24/25 at 4:50 pm to FLTech
NVM
This thread is nothing but softball talk
This thread is nothing but softball talk
This post was edited on 4/24/25 at 4:57 pm
Posted on 4/24/25 at 4:52 pm to FLTech
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A slow pitched softball is far more dangerous than a fast pitched baseball - why else would they make females wear these stupid looking things?
Why do you go be the catcher for one of these “slow” pitched softball pitchers and get back to us.
Posted on 4/24/25 at 7:19 pm to FLTech
I bet you couldn’t hit that “slow pitch”
Posted on 4/24/25 at 7:23 pm to FLTech
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A slow pitched softball is far more dangerous than a fast pitched baseball - why else would they make females wear these stupid looking things?
They’re closer to the batter. It’s really, really simple.
And it’s also not “slow pitch” or anything like it.
This post was edited on 4/24/25 at 7:23 pm
Posted on 4/24/25 at 7:28 pm to biglego
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The real answer, that nobody will say aloud, is that the people who run softball leagues don’t believe fielders can field well enough to not get hit in the face. At least in little league softball, even outfielders wear masks
This is not true at all. It's idiot parents who have no idea what they're doing. My daughter is an elite player at the HS level and has never worn a mask in the field. I have not seen a player at the HS level wearing one outside of pitchers. And if you don't know why a pitcher would wear one, maybe you need to be wearing a helmet daily.
Posted on 4/24/25 at 7:35 pm to Purplehaze
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Softball pitchers have to react 25% faster than baseball pitchers.
But girls don’t hit it as hard
Posted on 4/24/25 at 7:37 pm to FLTech
Women are smarter than men. Just are.
Men would play macho card and be ok with multiple maxillofacial surgeries.
Men would play macho card and be ok with multiple maxillofacial surgeries.
Posted on 4/24/25 at 7:58 pm to FLTech
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FLTech
You might be retarded.
Posted on 4/24/25 at 7:59 pm to FLTech
We had someone wear one because she’d been hit in the face with the ball.
It’s relatively new for pitchers to wear them. Mostly it’s because the rubber is only 45 from home plate and they are even closer when they release the ball.
Not really any different than baseball players and all the equipment they wear at the plate or the jaw guard on some of the batting helmets.
It’s relatively new for pitchers to wear them. Mostly it’s because the rubber is only 45 from home plate and they are even closer when they release the ball.
Not really any different than baseball players and all the equipment they wear at the plate or the jaw guard on some of the batting helmets.
Posted on 4/24/25 at 8:21 pm to iwyLSUiwy
Everyone in the infield has to.
Posted on 4/24/25 at 8:22 pm to FLTech
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Can someone explain this to me?
Cause masking and social distancing help stop the spread
Probably started in 2020
Posted on 4/24/25 at 8:25 pm to FLTech
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so explain to me how a softball hits harder than a baseball
In baseball you have more time to react when a ball is coming at you. In softball you let go of the ball during the pitch and it comes back at you. I wouldn’t want to play third either. The ball jumps on them just as quick as the pitcher
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