{"id":835,"date":"2006-03-17T15:08:38","date_gmt":"2006-03-17T23:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=835"},"modified":"2006-03-17T15:20:22","modified_gmt":"2006-03-17T23:20:22","slug":"orillia-riversharks-introduce-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=835","title":{"rendered":"Orillia Riversharks Introduce Themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Al’s Fastball: Orillia Riversharks Introduce Themselves<\/a><\/p>\n

An Introduction to the ISC World’s Newest Team for 2006, from Peter Porcelli <\/p>\n

So let\u00c2\u2019s start with answering a question\u00c2\u2026..Just What the heck is a Rivershark?<\/strong> It is an oxymoron, that\u00c2\u2019s what it is. If you were expecting a physical description, start with pitching. Frank Cox, Robbie O\u00c2\u2019Brien and Mike White, that\u00c2\u2019s right Michael White, The (Gulp) \u00c2\u201cGreat White\u00c2\u201d will comprise our pitching staff. That\u00c2\u2019s right, nobody has beaten me to the \u00c2\u201cGreat White\u00c2\u201d Pun. When you think of it, why did it take so long for that comparison to come up? If anyone has left opposing teams in a pool of blood throughout his career, Michael defines the term, \u00c2\u201cMenacing!\u00c2\u201d <\/p>\n

That leaves Frank Cox as the \u00c2\u201cBull Shark.\u00c2\u201d The bull shark, incidentally, has recorded the highest accumulations for documented \u00c2\u201cHits\u00c2\u201d or Physical attacks on Humans. Kinda makes a batter think a bit when he steps in the box against Frankie and his half-smirk, half grimace. <\/p>\n

That means we can turn to Robbie O\u00c2\u2019Brien as the \u00c2\u201cHammerhead.\u00c2\u201d A hammerhead Shark has those two ends of the hammer, a dual threat. In this case Robbie represents a double threat to his opponents both hitting as DH and throwing, as in \u00c2\u201cAgainst you!!!\u00c2\u201d No other pitchers of the two aforementioned will step in to hit this year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Editor’s note: Don’t stop here! There is a lot more …..click link above for the whole story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Al’s Fastball: Orillia Riversharks Introduce Themselves An Introduction to the ISC World’s Newest Team for 2006, from Peter Porcelli So let\u00c2\u2019s start with answering a question\u00c2\u2026..Just What the heck is a Rivershark? It is an oxymoron, that\u00c2\u2019s what it is. If you were expecting a physical description, start with pitching. Frank Cox, Robbie O\u00c2\u2019Brien […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}