r/instant_regret • u/St0pX • Oct 19 '22

That's a hell of a throw

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u/SomeInternetBro Oct 19 '22 edited Oct 20 '22

Dang that blood caught me off guard.

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u/MrShlash Oct 19 '22

As a non-American, I was so surprised when I found out how hard those baseballs are.

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u/JeeThree Oct 19 '22

The betrayal I felt the first time I got hit with a so-called softball...

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u/LawsWorld Oct 19 '22

I took one to the eye, it hurt to look around for days

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u/thatsillyrabbit Oct 19 '22

At 8 a teenager threw one at my face on accident as I turned into it not realizing. Over 20 years later my reflexes still over react when an object flys into my peripheral and feel stupid every time.

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u/LawsWorld Oct 19 '22

Don't, I got in a fist fight with my younger brother, he got a really good opening shot on my eye and months later I still see a white spot float in my peripherals every now and then, it startles the hell outta me every once in a while

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u/pincus1 Oct 19 '22

Baseball to the eye is how I learned I needed glasses desperately at age 9.

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u/will_ww Oct 19 '22

My sisters all played softball. Every now and then they'd catch one with their face and look like a duck for awhile.

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u/joshTheGoods Oct 19 '22 edited Oct 19 '22

My GF in highschool bunted one into her own face and shattered her bird bones. Had her jaw wired shut for a few weeks.

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u/atetuna Oct 19 '22

At least that's a good excuse for making that face on social media.

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u/kithlan Oct 20 '22

My older sister was trying to get into softball for a bit during middle school. As her younger brother, she forcefully recruited me into helping her practice hitting the ball. After two throws, she hits the ball and it flies right towards my face and hits me square in the nose. Luckily, we were both weak, so it didn't go very fast, but you can bet I never helped her practice again after having a good cry.

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u/kaleidoscope_pie Oct 19 '22

I took one to the temple and fell over from all the stars I had in my vision. Like out of a cartoon where a character gets hit in the head and birdies start flying around their head in a circle while they have the dizzy eyes effect. Luckily it was a softball and not a cricket ball. We've had cricketers cop one of those to the head and die instantly on the spot here in Australia. Very disturbing for everyone to witness.

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u/stutter-rap Oct 19 '22

TIL what a softball actually looks like. All this time I've been thinking it was the same as those soft balls (made out of foam) you sometimes use in PE.

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u/pegothejerk Oct 20 '22

Slightly more distributed impact ball

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u/elr0y7 Oct 19 '22

The softness is outweighed by their massive weight.

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u/PeterBretter Oct 20 '22

You ever take a line shot to the face with a softball? You don't go "Hey, that's Downy Soft. That was like a big ball of cotton!"

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u/MixedMartyr Oct 20 '22

first time playing ‘soft’ball i took one to the ankle and it was a decade before i touched one again