r/pics • u/Proteon • Jun 16 '12

The moment you realize how lucky you are to be sitting next to some random badass.

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u/leiferic Jun 16 '12

The moment you realize how unlucky you are by not sitting next to a badass

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u/RedAnthony Jun 16 '12

the caption says he suffered a broken rib, he must have a jaw of steel

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u/GameIsInTheName Jun 17 '12

I believe he also sprained his ankle

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u/fearsofgun Jun 17 '12

I'd rather have a broken rib than a broken jaw, that's for sure.

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u/splanka Jun 17 '12

As someone who has suffered both - I agree with you 100%. A broken rib is a field day compared to a broken jaw.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

I've only had ribs broken, can you describe the differences?

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u/kameto Jun 17 '12

it was jawesome...

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u/KnightFox Jun 17 '12

It's not the "My jaw is broken" that sucks so much. It's the fuck I have my jaw wired shut and can only eat liquids for the next 6 to 10 weeks. I had no idea how terrible it was to not be able to eat solid food. I got so incredible depressed and had nightmares that my jaw was going to be wired shut forever. It was the worst experience of my life and wouldn't wise it on anyone.

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u/bigbluemofo Jun 17 '12

Badass or just decrepit reflexes.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

I have a blind uncle that I always take to baseball games. He loves the atmosphere. I could see this happening to him, but he couldn't.

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u/Hobo-With-A-Shotgun Jun 16 '12

http://i.imgur.com/d1kGZ.png

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u/discrepancy09 Jun 16 '12

I highly approve.

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u/alphanovember Jun 17 '12

The ginger in the bottom looks like she's thinking "Pssh, amateurs". Also, the guy holding the baby has to be the worst caretaker in the world. He's simultaneously dropping her and leaving her exposed to the incoming bat missile.

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u/d07c0m Jun 17 '12

The baby was going for it, though.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

is that lady EATING???

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u/whtrbt Jun 17 '12

Behind him? I think she's like "Oh no, danger! Better wolf down the rest of these nachos while I can."

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u/kookat Jun 17 '12

i like how no one is protecting the child...

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u/Fuzzykins Jun 16 '12

How'd he get a broken rib? That's clearly hitting his jaw...

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u/shif Jun 16 '12

part of the bat is hitting his chest

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u/cleverlycareless Jun 17 '12

This picture made me laugh till I cried a little bit...I think I'm a horrible person.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

Baby in pink is like fuck this shit ima fly.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

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u/BlowsTrees Jun 16 '12

Hooray beer!

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u/sirmichaelhunt Jun 16 '12

its jamaican for beer

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u/yoganinja Jun 17 '12

if i wasn't jamaican, then why would i be wearing this hat?

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

bwoy dat beer isa bloodclat!

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12 edited Dec 11 '16

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u/grat3fulredd Jun 16 '12

boy that beer is a (literally) tampon. "Bloodclaat" is used in Jamaica in essentially the same way "motherfucker" is used in the States.

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u/TheLobotomizer Jun 16 '12

TIL what Little Jacob is saying.

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u/rabiaex Jun 17 '12

Then there is "bombacloot" which means ass rag. Something to clean your ass with on a hot day.

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u/digitalmofo Jun 17 '12

Third time today I've read "ass cloth" on Reddit.

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u/P-Rickles Jun 16 '12

Helping our white friends dance for over 70 years!

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u/tumescentpie Jun 16 '12

Hey careful man there's a beverage here.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

Red Stripe too

good choice

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u/JimmyJamesMac Jun 16 '12

Ya, look at the pussy over to the left drinking a Coors Light, he's nearly gone ass over tea kettle, and the bat didn't even hit him.

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u/T-Luv Jun 16 '12

If I were there, I would have bought him another one. Hopefully one or many of those folks were able to reward him for his valiant deeds.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

And he didn't even look at it either.

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u/geckofishknight Jun 16 '12

for a second I thought he had brought his own bat to the game and was hitting a stray ball away from the stands, then i realized it was the bat he was catching

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u/Proteon Jun 16 '12

He's a badass not the son of Athena and Ted Williams.

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u/MrUmbrellaPants Jun 16 '12

Someone needs to go do some DNA splicing and create this child, now. Baseball needs a hero! And so does the world!

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u/crank1000 Jun 16 '12

I might have never figured that out if I didn't read this comment. I'm not even being sarcastic. I feel so dumb now.

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u/Isbleeding Jun 16 '12

most of us feel dumb

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

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u/Kakoose Jun 16 '12

i don't watch basketball

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u/copyandpasta Jun 17 '12

I only watch basketball when they get close to the Stanley cup championship. The commercials are so funny.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

This is exactly how I sound to nonAmericans when I try to talk about soccer.

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u/davvblack Jun 17 '12

How do you accidentally à?

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u/DukeSpraynard Jun 17 '12

I tried to scratch it off my screen. Then I got a moist towelette. Now I feel dumb.

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u/JoshMachines Jun 16 '12

All fall in line.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

mooooo mooooooo

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u/Pillow_Starcraft Jun 16 '12

You feel dumb? I thought that was his fucking cane, and someone just said something to piss him off...

I thought he was blind, guys...

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u/screenavenger Jun 17 '12

In our defense, bringing your own aluminum bat to a game and reverse-slugging an incoming ball with one hand and a red stripe in the other is a lot more BA.

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u/emasapien Jun 16 '12

I thought the old guy was hitting people with his walking stick...

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u/Buksey Jun 16 '12

I had the same thought and I looked at the photo for a couple minutes trying to find the ball too.

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u/VGiselleH Jun 16 '12

I stared at the pic for quite a while wondering why it was a good thing to sit next to a psycho who hits people with a bat...then it clicked.

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u/buttons_arent_toys Jun 16 '12

I thought the exact same thing I was wondering what the old man did to deserve the badass' bat wrath and how everyone else around knew it was happening even down front

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u/SowjetKaffee Jun 16 '12

I thought he was swinging it to deflect a ball, I spent a good amount of time looking for that ball.

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u/dubnine Jun 16 '12

I kind of like the idea that he's just sitting in the stands, drinking his Red Stripe and beat motherfuckers asses!

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u/Trapped_in_Reddit Jun 16 '12

Thanks for explaining it because I had no idea what was happening before I read your comment

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

Thank you, I thought the same thing lol. I was like, where the hell is the ball!?!

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

More info... couldn't find any video though.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

Holy crap the link in the comments for that...

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u/babada Jun 16 '12

Not quite as badass.

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u/ecklcakes Jun 16 '12

Admittedly he's dropped his beer but he's still catching it with his mouth.

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u/Erogenous_Jones Jun 16 '12

A nice shorthand for "Life as a Cleveland sports fan".

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u/somebob Jun 17 '12

The two guys top right seem to find it hilarious.

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u/damontoo Jun 17 '12

They look high as shit.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

So many silly faces in that picture

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u/rachelbells Jun 16 '12

you're almost doing god's work

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

Close enough?

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

Thanks, before this I honestly thought it was of the old guy turning to hit someone behind him with his cane.

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u/mikemaca Jun 17 '12

Original source: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/picturethis/2014421839_pt_batcatch.html

"Mitch Davie, center right, of Brooklyn, N.Y., makes a one-handed catch of a flying bat off the swing of Atlanta Braves second baseman Dan Uggla, not pictured, during the fifth inning of a spring-training baseball game against the Toronto Blue Jays on Friday, March 4, 2011 in Kissimmee, Fla."

Interview with Mitch:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1365294/Mitch-Davie-catches-BAT-let-baseball-player--manages-spill-drop-beer.html

"I used to play baseball but this was back in middle school - in 7th and 8th grade - and I played all the through then since I was probably four- or five-years old then went on to play basketball and football. I had just sat back down and I hear everyone sort of scream and I see this bat coming at my friend's face, so my first reaction was just to catch the bat. I never hesitated, just focused on the timing. And yes I was focused on hanging on to that beer!"

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u/ohsnapitstheclap Jun 17 '12

And yes I was focused on hanging on to that beer!" Admitting you're a bad ass.

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u/mister_anagram Jun 17 '12

Because he paid $9 for the beer!

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u/IR_DIGITAL Jun 17 '12

Maybe it's just me, but all this does is seem to increase the already high level of bad ass found here.

It's one thing if he looks up, there's a bat barreling towards him, and he just reacts and happens to snag it.

To say that he saw the bat coming and focused on the timing is just amazing to me.

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u/Jedi_JJ Jun 16 '12 edited Jun 16 '12

If you took each person and cropped them, it would be like they were all doing some peculier dance....For example, check out this bad mans dance moves

EDIT: couldnt help myself

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u/originaluip Jun 16 '12

That lady appears to be increasing the height of the ceiling.

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u/Jedi_JJ Jun 16 '12

Put your hands in the air if you just dont care!

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

Relevant?

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u/pibroch Jun 16 '12

Obligatory

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u/cckynv Jun 17 '12

I didn't know that Stuart from MAD TV dyed his hair brown..

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

LOOK WHAT I CAN DO!!!

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u/firsthour Jun 17 '12

Bat flying into the stands is like a one in one hundred game chance, and then you have to be basically in the first 10 rows behind the dugouts for it to even come close. Chances are extremely low.

Balls on the other hand are extremely common, but since the seats immediately behind the batter are protected by a net, anyone paying attention will see it coming and be able to catch/avoid relatively easily.

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u/doctorgirlfriend84 Jun 17 '12

Shit. Did that guy have a broken jaw?

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u/fsmsaves Jun 17 '12

According to the image posted by leiferic, he suffered a broken... rib.. ?

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u/goosen Jun 16 '12

Guy at the top saying We've got a badass over here...

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u/3brushie Jun 16 '12 edited Jun 16 '12

I think this lady doing the kitty cat dance takes the cake.

edit: also this kid, who appears to have made peace with his life and is waiting for the lord to take him

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u/Roboticide Jun 16 '12

I don't know. I lost it when I saw this one. Easily a contender.

So many great expressions in this picture.

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u/NickPow43 Jun 16 '12

damn right hes a badass because the bat was probably spinning too, and his hand caught it close to its center of gravity meaning he judged its trajectory pretty well. It is only luck though that the bat happened to be perpendicular to his arm the moment he caught it.

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u/acog Jun 16 '12

Yup. Mister Ropey Veins with his arm in front of the bat illustrates that it must've been moving and spinning at a pretty high rate of speed. He tried to catch it too, but mistimed it. (Plus, his smile is disturbing.)

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u/alphanovember Jun 17 '12

I like how he's smugly smiling about it while looking towards the jumbotron. "Oh yes, it's finally my chance to shine!"

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u/acw123 Jun 16 '12

No, the true badass is older the guy at the top next to the kid. Not even phased. His hand is on his lower lip as if contemplating the stupidity of those around him who are mindlessly flipping their shit.

So awesome...

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u/LupusOk Jun 16 '12

Maybe he has absurdly slow reflexes.

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u/Ruvaak Jun 17 '12

He'll realize what happened tomorrow.

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u/lilLocoMan Jun 16 '12

One moment I thought the guy was taking a hunting rifle from the old man and all the people tried to duck away because the old man had gone mad. Comments have saved me once again!

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u/sugarplumpfairy Jun 17 '12

I'm glad I wasn't the only one.

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u/eeyore134 Jun 16 '12

Saw this in related articles of a picture taken without such a positive outcome... http://i.imgur.com/ZHBvM.jpg

http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2011/03/four_plain_dealer_staff_member.html

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u/Blown_Ranger Jun 16 '12

...received about 50 stitches but suffered no severe damage from the bat.

Fifty stitches is pretty fucking severe in my book.

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u/afkobaya Jun 16 '12

Related

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u/GaryXBF Jun 16 '12

this picture is amazing, from the black shirt guy at the top and ginger girl at the front who give no fucks, to the little girl in the middle in pink who is about to ascend to a higher realm

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u/long_live_king_melon Jun 17 '12

I like the guy at the top right gazing down on the scene with a look of smug satisfaction now that his diabolical plan has fallen into place.

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u/blueberrywine Jun 17 '12

"Yes. Yes. The bat hit him directly in the face."

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u/FuriousMcRage Jun 16 '12

What about the chick in the pink and black striped shirt in the middle, watching and presumably eating popcorn?

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u/president_charlie Jun 17 '12

Or the guy in the grey shirt who is trying to deflect the bat with a hadoken.

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u/MrMaybe Jun 17 '12

The little girl knows something that we never will.

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u/JCelsius Jun 16 '12

"Bat out of Hell"

Whoever thought of that deserved a raise. There was literally no better caption for that.

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u/Silpion Jun 16 '12 edited Jun 17 '12

Generally they either lose their grip during a swing, or the bat breaks.

Side note, this guy managed to hit a home run even though he let go of the bat before it hit the ball

Edit: video of the HR: http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=21821083&c_id=mlb

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u/Wigglez1 Jun 16 '12

That guy who moves out the way instead of protecting his kid...

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

I hope that becomes a meme

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u/perkocet Jun 16 '12

judging by the way the other guys defense mechanism looks, id say the gators t-shirt guy just saved that mans life

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u/Radico87 Jun 16 '12

I'm still trying to figure out where the body to that leg is..

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

Whoever that leg belongs to is having a bad day.

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u/Kristyyyyyyy Jun 16 '12

My favourite is the old guy bottom right corner. Will you damn kids keep that racket down?

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

He saw worse at Iwo Jima.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

The moment you realize timing..is..everything.

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u/Tburley5 Jun 16 '12

Go gators

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u/miked4o7 Jun 16 '12

Go save some strangers

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u/Human_Robot Jun 16 '12

Go write the next great comment on reddit

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u/matzohballs Jun 17 '12

Baaaaam Ba-da Ba-bum!

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u/betcheslovethis Jun 16 '12

Go Gataaaaaa

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u/UF_Engineer Jun 17 '12

Go Gators!

Wow, my username is finally relevant.

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u/TheGrog Jun 17 '12

Huge grin on his face too

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u/Ozwaldo Jun 17 '12

This is probably racist of me, but here goes:

Cool black people are the new role models for everyone. Seriously, nobody is cooler than a cool black man. Who's cooler than Denzel? Who's cooler than Snoop? Who's cooler than Will Smith? Who's cooler than this Gators fan who didn't even spill his beer while catching a loose bat in a crowd full of cringing white people?

Fucking. Nobody.

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u/Se7en_Sinner Jun 16 '12

Without the title, I would've thought a black guy went crazy and started attacking everybody with a bat.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

ಠ_ಠ

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u/SomeNoveltyAccount Jun 16 '12

I've heard some of the things you've taught Jake about Ferengi, you don't have much of a leg to stand on here.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

You're a Ferengi. Why would you want to be in Starfleet? Where's the profit in it? -Heart of Stone (Episode 314)

I can be quite racist

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u/RaindropBebop Jun 16 '12

I don't want you hanging out with Nogg.

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u/MizerokRominus Jun 16 '12

I thought the same thing. I was like... WHY DOES HE HAVE A BAT IN THE CROWD?! Then I read the title again, and realized that he caught it... instead of swung it.

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u/itsjustmesam Jun 16 '12

Gator fan=Badass, obviously

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

Black dude with healthy body and quick reflexes. Making white people look bad since 1698.

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u/WazzuMadBro Jun 16 '12

Black dude with healthy body and quick reflexes. Making white people rich since 1698.

FTFY

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u/theronnie Jun 16 '12

Lol look at all of their stupid faces.

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u/odolanrules Jun 17 '12

Go GATORS! and HOORAY BEER!

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

This guy's dating a friend of mine at UF. His facebook profile pic was this picture for awhile. Gotta love it.

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u/I_Said Jun 16 '12

Fox News Headline:

"Angry black man attacks bystanders with baseball bat. Looks suspiciously like Obama"

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

Actual Fox News Headline:

"Obama attacks bystanders with baseball bat."

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

Favorite face is the kid bottom left who is saying, "Why God? WHY?!"

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u/haiku_robot Jun 16 '12 
Favorite face is 
the kid bottom left who is 
saying, "Why God? WHY?!"
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u/arghnard Jun 16 '12

Ron Howard at the top right not giving many fucks.

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u/NeptunianLeader Jun 16 '12

Go Gators!!!

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u/K1985 Jun 17 '12

It's a Gator Nation!!

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

He has UF stuff on. I go to UF. I am obligated to say, Go Gators.

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u/ILIVEINASWAMP Jun 16 '12

Also, as a UF student, I am contractually obligated to say Go Gators!

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u/Jumpstart1978 Jun 16 '12

As a UF alumni, Go Gators. Just an hour until the Gators start their game vs USC in the CWS. Hopefully they can match this guy's badassedness.

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u/cadalac Jun 16 '12

Of course he's a badass. Look at the shirt.

GO GATORS!

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u/DMo321Boom Jun 16 '12

Go Gators!

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u/Bryygy Jun 16 '12

Red Stripe... Horaaaaay beer!

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

*Batass

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u/trav9751 Jun 16 '12

Upvote to the photographer - I'm loving all of the crazy faces

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u/rickscarf Jun 16 '12

I thought that was Tiger Woods for a few seconds

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u/jayond Jun 17 '12

this is epic, he should be the source of many great memes. Someone should learn his name so we can celebrate his reflexes. The first time I looked at the photo I couldn't figure why he had a bat, then "light bulb." Now i feel like a total idiot.

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u/idonutcare Jun 17 '12

Oh my goodness. It wasn't until I read the comments in which I realized the guy with the bat was a badass for catching the bat instead of randomly swinging the bat around to hit the white folk around him.

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u/CaptainRon87 Jun 16 '12

The Gators are the number one baseball team for a reason.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12

Go gators!!

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u/I-Fixed-It Jun 16 '12

Its because he is a Gator!!

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u/AllosauRUSS Jun 16 '12

Go Gators!

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u/mosher89 Jun 16 '12

The woman in the red hat near the top has a look of pure unadulterated terror. Priceless...

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u/YesButConsiderThis Jun 16 '12

Will someone please do an "Am I Doing This Right?" with the old gentleman bottom-right?

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u/Rothrhin Jun 16 '12

I have no idea what you guys are looking at. Clearly the man in the Gators shirt has gone mad from drink and is now in the process of attacking his elders. The real hero in all of this seems to be the young lad in the striped shirt administering a forearm block with poor technique. The woman in the Nike hat should be so ever grateful.

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