India's top pitchers try out for MLB scouts

"Dinesh Patel and Rinku Singh had never seen a baseball before they entered and won a contest in their native India in February by throwing one very fast. Curious Major League Baseball scouts were impressed Thursday by how far the two 19-year-old former javelin throwers have progressed as they tried out at the Physiotherapy Sports Clinic in Tempe..."

They're a pair of former javelin throwers, and one was clocked at 94 mph in their session. There's a billion people in India...sure a few of them have the right stuff. You can find out more about the event here:
http://www.themilliondollararm.com

I particularly liked their impressions of college football. :-)

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at football game -LOL!

many people who have graduated from USC apparently now come back to eat outside along this route, but we do not understand why.

gentlemen, welcome to the world of tailgating

What does a mama bear on the pill have in common with the World Series? No cubs.

by unnamedDBacksfan on Nov 7, 2008 12:56 PM EST reply actions

This is interesting.....

Former Arizona D-Backs pitcher Mike Fetters said such an experiment is more than worthwhile.

“I’d give them a shot. They showed you they can pitch. The next step is can they get people out,” Fetters said.

“If one of them made it, you open the door to India.”

You are starting completely from scratch. I think it would be a worthy investment of time and manpower to see how far either one of these two could go.

What does a mama bear on the pill have in common with the World Series? No cubs.

by unnamedDBacksfan on Nov 7, 2008 1:50 PM EST reply actions

from their blog:

Dinesh and I took a plane trip with JB sir to Arizona. Arizona ia very clean part of US. It is very hot in day and in night very cold.

Today we met Mark sir from ESPN and he spent many time interviewing us today for TV program. It was first time Dinesh and I have to do big talking in English. Pitching is hard, but for us media is even harder.

So they are HERE. This is really an interesting read.

What does a mama bear on the pill have in common with the World Series? No cubs.

by unnamedDBacksfan on Nov 7, 2008 10:00 PM EST reply actions

what makes it so fascinating

is their insight to our culture which is just as foreign to them as the game of baseball. You have GOT to read the blog about halloween!! Loved it

What does a mama bear on the pill have in common with the World Series? No cubs.

by unnamedDBacksfan on Nov 7, 2008 10:05 PM EST up reply actions

'SC Football

They also had a squad of women that…dance in time with the music

There’s music? I’ve concentrated on this “squad of women” since puberty. Who knew!

by Diamondhacks on Nov 8, 2008 2:59 AM EST reply actions

CRAP!!!

missed this article a few days ago! Just posted a fanpost of my own. Can someone please clean it up and point and laugh. I deserve it

Let's go Colts!

by JustAJ on Nov 8, 2008 12:32 PM EST reply actions

Hahaha!

There you go. :-) Duly hidden. Not a prob: rather have an interesting story posted twice, then not at all! It’s certainly a fascinating idea, simply based on the huge size of the raw talent pool – three times the size of America. They would really need to be taken in hand to learn even the basics, but if they played cricket [which is very big in India], then I imagine they would have a start, since the general concepts of hand-eye co-ordination, throwing and catching, etc. are similar. We just have to stop them from bouncing the ball on the way to home-plate…

by Jim McLennan on Nov 8, 2008 1:16 PM EST up reply actions