Mark was 5’11” and 190 playing LT as a senior in HS. He did not seem big to me.
Hey, I was 6’1" and 210 in the program!
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I defer to the program re the 6’1” but I’ll call bs on the 210.
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I was 6’0", 180 lbs as a senior. I haven’t seen 190 in a few months, however.
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Last year, my nephew was a senior in HS and was 6’6" 270 lbs. He played G because he wasn’t big enough to play T. He’s now 6’8" and 290…and he finally started to have to shave.
I saw 190 at the bowling alley the other day.
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If my weight were my bowling average, I’d be pretty damn skinny.
I hit .396 my senior year in HS, but my Denial League average is significantly lower.
My weight and bowling average are actually very similar. Last I weighed myself I was around 195 and my bowling average is 190ish
I bowl like a pitcher hits.
I read a weird article recently about the guard for the Eagles who was stuck at 312 and just couldn’t get those last 18 pounds he wanted. Had to hire a boutique diet instructor. The trick was coming up with meals that wouldn’t keep him full too long so he could eat some more.
And to think that for the vast majority of humanity’s existence we were undernourished if not starving to death half the time.
I’m sure I’ve told the story of my dad when he needed to gain weight to join the 101st Airborne. You had to weigh something like 140 lbs and he was at like 138. He ate and ate and ate, the heaviest meals he could get, just to get those last 2 lbs.
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I can totally relate. As a junior (in HS), I was 5’-8” and 140lbs. As a senior, I was 6’-3” and 145lbs. You could count every rib, all the way up to my collarbone. Bleh. When I stopped running competitively, I made a concerted effort to gain weight so I did not look like skeletor any more. I ate 4,500 calories a day and worked out at the gym with a weightlifter buddy three times per week for a year. It took me that entire year to get up to 170lbs. The enduring legacy of that year is I alternate between being disgusted by food and binging food, neither of which is healthy.
As someone who has never unintentionally lost a single pound and has to fight to keep weight off, this thread can eat a deep fried bag of dirty dicks.
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I’ll gladly settle for further comments being moved to B&Q.
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As a founding member of the Fat Underground, I read Dubon’s complaints with a mixture of contempt and profound envy. Next off-season, I would suggest that Dubon head to New Orleans and stay through crawfish season.
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I ran 20 miles per day all through high school. 6’ and 135 when I graduated.
Used to eat 3 big Macs a large fry and large shake when we stopoed at Mickey D’s on the way back from a track or cross country meet
3 races into my freshman year of college I blew out my knee and was too immature and irresponsible to have surgery and rehab.
Instead I hid in various booze bottles and dropped out of school.
Of all the things I lost its my metabolism I miss most.
35 years later I’m at about 230.
FYI I was able to turn myself around within a couple of years and have had a great happy life.
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I often say I am on the “Amazing Grace” diet.
I once had lost but now I have found.
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One of my all-time favorite exchanges, from Sanford and Son:
Lamont: Aunt Esther says she lost 50 lbs of ugly fat.
Fred: If she’d look behind her she’d find it.
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I saw somewhere that Brantley was taking some practice at first base. I’m not sure why Brantley and not Alvarez, but Brantley will, I’m sure, be serviceable. I would really like to see is a young Bill Spiers or Marwin that could play multiple positions, but those guys are hard to come by.
I expect Jake Meyers to have a big bounce-back year. Maybe he can cover some of that role, at least in the outfield.
What part of “Hensley” are you choosing to ignore?
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