Posts by hillpitcher2006

how sick was fukudome's debut??

Correct but that question was kinda for emp315

thats sick.. haha yea don't worry, we'll beat them

Original Post by carolf_new:

I'm not really sure what you're getting at... but I was looking for an answer to the questions posed in my initial post. Why would I ask a question to which I already have the answer?

It's been answered.  Over and over.  You asked for specific, personal experience.  Given.  You got medical opinions. 

You are either a tease/troll jerking us around, or you have a real difficulty getting off the pot. 

So which is it?  Do you need help with your weight/unhealthy habits?  Then be open to it when you get it.  If not, please stop pestering.

I'm done unless I see something more hopeful from you.

Sweet ultimatum but in case you didn't notice, I threw up the white flag way back on Feb. 13th: "I get it. Smoking is bad. Thank you, this thread no longer needs to be continued." (post 32)

So chill the hell out. Especially nsgardener, telling me I'm a disgusting person because I don't take responsibility for my actions. What if I actually did have issues with responsibility or substance abuse. Think you just helped me out?

One last time for the record so we can all move on: I'm 19, a 6'5" 200 lb. Division I college athlete in excellent physical shape who joined this site to try to eat a little healthier and gain a little more weight. I asked the smoking question because I was curious and I DIDN'T FEEL LIKE POSTING ON ANOTHER SITE. I don't have health or weight issues. I'm not a tease/troll. I don't need/want more responses on this post. I didn't get the responses I expected, but I DID get some useful information (alle0299) so thank you. I think overall everyone freaked out way too much, and then people started attacking me like you're still doing. Excuse me, I'm being defensive. I meant that people started trying to help me recognize what they saw as possible shortcomings.

So again: I get it. Smoking is bad. Thank you, this thread no longer needs to be continued.

Peace.

Original Post by levavelgem:

I do not have a scolding, factual answer or any help for you.  What I have is a question of you.

From your obvious writing and use of the language I find a very intelligent young man asking a question of which he already has the answer.  My question, just what is it you are looking for???

I'm not really sure what you're getting at... but I was looking for an answer to the questions posed in my initial post. Why would I ask a question to which I already have the answer?

The absorption rate question was really directed at the benefits/drawbacks of Gatorade vs. water. How fast it gets into your system is part of the issue, but people have been giving a lot of info on what gets into your system too, which is great. I didn't know a lot of this stuff before, so it'll help me be smarter about how I drink during games and workouts in the future.

Here's a few things i'd like to mention.... 

santana to the mets: one more reason to hate the mets.

curt schilling needs to shut up and retire.

barry bonds is still the most damaging player in baseball history, but thank god we have a good white upstanding classy competitive media/fan-friendly legendary pitcher to focus the steroids scandal on now! (i'm being extremely sarcastic)

bud selig is an absolute disgrace and should be tarred and feathered.

the phils have brad lidge!!!

clemens did not seriously use steroids, but he probably did tiptoe the line with certain drugs and was definitely vocally theoreticizing with his CLOSE FRIENDS WITH WHOM THERE SHOULD BE ABSOLUTE CONFIDENTIALITY which led to the mistaken recollections of andy pettite. mcnamee is a liar. mitchell and waxman are snakes. don't even get me started. one more reason to hate the red sox. (almost as much as the mets)

college baseball starts this week!!!!! (our opening series is this weekend, wish me luck)

to be continued...

Original Post by feanor:

Original Post by hillpitcher2006:

I'm just looking for "any firm example or statistic showing that my particular smoking frequency merits completely quitting". Period.

 If you want opinions, ask on a message board. If you want firm examples and statistics, do the research yourself. Sorry, but I don't understand why you post asking this question if you only want to hear opinions that agree with yours. OR why you think people are going to go out and do the work for you.

First of all, once again, thanks to everyone for all the responses.

As for feanor's charming comment: This entire website revolves around questions like mine. A site like this, and its message boards, are for a community of people to draw upon the knowledge and experience of each other, so that they don't have to do the research themselves.

And I'm confused as to where you decided I only wanted opinions that agreed with mine? Please remind me again what my opinion was?

Apparently no one has yet figured out what I'm asking. Here's some examples of what I was looking for: "Hi, I've smoked a cigar a week for the past 15 years. Here's how I feel." "Hi, I've read that this is what happens to people who smoke a cigar a week." "Hi, I'm a doctor and this is what you can expect if you maintain this rate of smoking."

Instead, I've gotten people comparing smoking to riding motorcycles without helmets, people telling me all of the horrific ways in which I might someday die of cancer, people discussing the value of life, and people repeatedly telling me that smoking is bad. (Really?) And my personal favorite: you. Telling me that I shouldn't even be asking this question since all I deserve are opinions.

Every time someone asks for tips on gaining weight, my opinion is that the answer is pretty simple: eat more and lift. But if they challenged me to give them more specific examples/tips/suggestions/methods than that, would I tell them to stop posting? Of course not. But you apparently would.

So for everyone else out there: I get it. Smoking is bad. Thank you, this thread no longer needs to be continued.

I just searched the internet for some information, and received a pretty mixed group of answers, much like this thread has supplied. Of course the bottom line I keep reading is that the best thing to do is to not smoke at all. But I certainly haven't gotten a unanimous position regarding the health issues of smoking a cigar 3-4 times per month.

I never have breathing difficulties.  

hgielrehtaeh: are you saying that at my rate of smoking I could get cancer or hardened blood vessels?

rmgarcia and stanbob are the only people so far to get what i was asking about a single action lol... anyways, in my opinion, the homerun stands as the greatest action in sports. it is the most sucessful rendition of the most difficult action in sports (hitting a baseball)

http://www.projectview.org/MathandBaseball/Mo stDifficultActinAllSports.htm

Hitting a baseball has been described as the single most difficult feat in sports.  And for good reason.  Imagine the quality of hand-eye coordination required to make contact with a little white sphere traveling at over 95 miles per hour, using a 2 ¾ inch wide piece of wood being swung at over sixty miles per hour.  Consider the intense concentration.  A batter standing just 56 feet from the pitcher's hand has only about 45/100's of a second to decide if he'll swing, predict where the ball will be, instruct his muscles to move, and bring the bat to a point of impact.  If all goes well, the bat and ball rendezvous a few inches in front of the plate.  The ball is crushed to half its diameter, springs back, and is launched on its return flight at speeds close to a hundred miles per hour.  Timing is essential.  The difference between a hit over second base and a foul near first or third is a swing mistimed by 0.01 second.  Baseball is the only sport where being a failure seven out of ten times is considered to be outstanding - only about a dozen players in each major league bat .300 annually.

Original Post by jessikkaa_x3:

and hillpitcher, since you didn't answer my question i take it your not a red sox fan huh? lol. oh well, as long as you dont like the yankees...

Haha I hoped you wouldn't make me answer that... While I respect Beckett for being possibly the filthiest pitcher in baseball right now, I'm from outside Philadelphia. And you know how those Philly fans are, we hate everyone else lol.

Original Post by trillian129:

I guess I should have been more specific.  Male, ice hockey, not currently playing.  I also had 2 specific questions: how big (calorie-wise) is a good breakfast for workout days and for off-days, and how many calories should i be taking in after working out for like 40 minutes at the gym?  Thanks.

Your breakfast, in my opinion, should be about a fifth of your day's total calorie intake. So for me, I'll get in a bagel w/ cream cheese, bowl of cereal w/ whole milk, glass of orange juice, a banana, and bacon/ham/sausage/etc. for about 1,000 calories.

I don't really worry about what I specifically eat before a workout as long as I have enough in me (i'm weird: i like to feel kinda full when i lift/run). And right after I can't eat a lot of food so I don't worry about calories. Instead I throw back a Gatorade and a protein shake (EAS Myoplex is good). The shakes are important to get into your system soon after a lift to help the flush-and-build cycle get going. Then within a couple hours I'm starving and try to get in my biggest meal.

yea i feel like im in the only person in the world like this.. but i need to eat a lot before i run or lift. if i don't, my stomach hurts and all i can think ab while im running/lifting is how hungry i am.. weird. i never throw up or anything no matter how much i eat right before exercise. but i'd take a shake like that afterwards for the whole reload purpose.

and the banned substances are all these random really long complicated names that apparently would turn me into josh beckett if i accidentally had like 2 mg in a protein shake....

and good luck with soccer!