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I know this is kinda dumb and doesnt really pertain to anything but do you think there is any truth behind the gyroball??

i'm not even sure what it's suppost to do

isnt it some form of japanese curve? i think the red sox guy that just got here throws one

yeah i knew that but i'm not sure what kind of movement it has on it, i guess i dont really believe in the gyroball, but ya never know 

FACT

I think its a buncha crap

project-pat wrote:FACT

haha why u think it's fact, or are u just sayin that

knights4 wrote:i'm not even sure what it's suppost to do

probably starts inches from the ground, rises (up and in to righ-handers i might add), then drops (down and away from the right_hander), and finally makes some sort of loop just before going into the catchers glove. id probably throw it every time if i knew how

o well i developed that pitch back in my pee-wee days, thats nothing special

its very hard to throw

knights4 wrote:

project-pat wrote:FACT

haha why u think it's fact, or are u just sayin that

Them Japanese guys can do some crazy stuff with balls, ping pong for example.

hahahahahaha, true dat

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sboi0EWp8ao&mode=related&search=

here's a vid of one being thrown.

that is pretty nasty, just looks like a sinker w/ extra sink

knights4 wrote:that is pretty nasty, just looks like a sinker w/ extra sink

and a little movement from left to right...like a two-seam splitter/sinker kinda

and here i thought gyro-ball was just japanese for 'hanging curve'

i'd say like a screwball, cause it breaks the opposite way of a slider

i believe the mathimatical equation for a gyroball is screwball+sinker+some funky japanese magic=gyroball, to bad i'll never be able to throw it i dont have the secret ingrediant

It is supposed to be a change-up with screwball action

[font=comic sans ms]Definitly looks like a gyro[/font]

haha, i throw something that moves like that, i guess i thought it was a screwball, but maybe its a gyroball.. Obviously it isn't as hard or have as much movement cause if that was the situation i'd be in the majors by now.. It worked good in high school, got alot of batters to swing over it. maybe the only thing is you have to be japanese to call it a gyro ball

are u trying to tell me that you throw a gyroball

i'm saying i learned how to throw a SCREWball with the same grip and it got the same movement, just not as much movement and not as fast, as the gyroball on that video on youtube..  I call it a screwball, he calls it a gyroball..

ok so basically what ur sayin is that u can throw a gyroball...haha

knights4 wrote:ok so basically what ur sayin is that u can throw a gyroball...haha

haha, yah man.. i guess you could say that.. i threw it maybe 7 times a game, and i got people to swing and miss usually about 4 of those times.. the other ones were balls.. wasn't my best pitch..

I was reading an article on the web and it says that there is only 2 players that can throw the gyroball.  Daisuke Matsuzaka and a minor league pitcher.  Matsuzaka also says he cant throw it consistant.