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posted by [personal profile] quinn222 at 09:15am on 15/05/2010
I have a confession to make. I'm not a huge fan of baseball (no, that isn't the confession) but I do enjoy going to a game now and then. We have a nice stadium where I live and a pro team comes every year for spring training plus we have the minors. I try and catch a game or two every year. Now, I may be alone in this thinking, but I really enjoy watching catchers. Seriously. This may be one of the sexiest positions in all of sport. Granted there are exceptions to every rule but take a look at this photo:




I chose this photo at random because it illustrates the example, not because I am necessarily a huge fan of Mike Piazza. Seriously though, check out his legs. Those guards that catchers wear make their legs look incredibly sexy to me! I know, it's weird but there you go. I've always felt this way. I once posted a photo I took of a baseball catcher to my LJ wondering why Brian Kinney wasn't a huge fan of the sport. Right before Adam left for Australia he was photographed leaving a rehearsal space or a costume shop or something holding some pieces in his arms, they looked to me like catcher's shin guards of the old fashioned leather variety, but I couldn't imagine why he would have them so figured I was wrong. Then he showed up in Australia wearing them and they had been totally spiked and bedazzled! Given all the other lunacy going on with his outfit at the time they sort of flew slightly under my radar as something noticed but not commented on. All this inevitably brings me around to this:

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The same ones worn over white jeans (and sparkly platform boots.) Aside from the total hotness factor this so plays to my catcher's legs kink you have no idea. Also, Tommy is wearing a tail.

ETA: Someone on _ai did the math and worked out the combination of the boots and his hair up puts him at just about 7 feet tall here.
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posted by [identity profile] qafaddiction.livejournal.com at 02:54pm on 15/05/2010
Like you, I enjoy going to a few games a year. We had a triple 'A' team here for a while (they were the farm team for the Montreal Expos). I like watching catchers too. I love Adam's legs, and I love it when he sparkles things up, but for some reason I don't really find the shin guards "sexy". I'd rather see the outline of his knees and calves through his pants and not be covered up, but that's just me. I do love that he and Tommy are both in "platforms" and that Tommy has adopted the tail. He loves to do what Adam does, and I bet Adam had fun playing with it. :P
 
posted by [identity profile] bentley1530.livejournal.com at 03:11pm on 15/05/2010
I think catchers are sexy because they are the guys in charge calling the game. Also the they have great thighs:)
 
posted by [identity profile] susysunflower.livejournal.com at 03:17pm on 15/05/2010
And just to take it full-circle, a lot of catchers have taken to wearing nail polish because it makes their fingers more visible when they are giving the signs to the pitcher.

I do like baseball and my favorite team is on a hot streak. They have won two games in a row!
 
posted by [identity profile] badachie.livejournal.com at 05:08pm on 15/05/2010
Maybe I spent too much time putting those things on when I was a catcher playing softball to find them sexy, but they don't really do anything for me. And this might be an unpopular opinion, but I find the platforms on Adam and Tommy to be a little ridiculous.

In other news, did some paint on Tommy's pants. Seriously.
 
posted by [identity profile] shadownyc.livejournal.com at 07:55pm on 15/05/2010
LMAO!!! You're the first person to ever say anything like that about a baseball catcher -- that's the position I played on my high school team (that was was softball as girls weren't allowed to play baseball back then).

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