Outside The Lines ESPN - Mark Schwarz follows two reality show contestants from India as they try to land a big league contract - India, metro scad let's go Delhi - Pittsburgh Pirates, Not since Apu quit the Kwik-E-Mart have we seen a more unlikely story involving people from India. Meet Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel, a pair of teenagers with dreams of playing Major League baseball.
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baseball sucks ..cricket rulez!!!!!
there is no way its gonna take off in india..
the only reason 30,000 ppl participated was the 100,000.. even i would have participated, but that doesnt mean i like baseball…
it takes yrs to actually be able to bowl 90 mph, but this guy does it in 7months, which clearly shows that baseball is easy..
these guys are carrying hopes of a 1 billion people… wtf dude? no one in india as ever even heard of these two guys.
nope not at all. i bet you never played in a competitive baseball league and btw if you ever do, DONT buy a glove! Gloves are NOT MANDATORY. i am sure you will do just fine with broken hands.
base ball is very rare in india! i hardly hear anybody talking about it!
Are u fuckin kidding me!!
RInku and Tinku over here…if these fuckers dont make it, its either because they were busy doing maths or because steriods is really killing it with the yanks and their affiliates.
Baseball is a bloody joke to be honest. Fatties who cant run with bats and cant catch without padded gloves. goddamn wat a shame!!!
5 years of cricket……and one has mastered baseball. Half of the desis could end up baseballing if they stopped studying and getting arranged married.
only the pirates?listen pirates are trying to change the game so it can be a game of unity between everyone from every nationalitys and learning to pitch 90 month in a couple of months is amazing but lets see how hard they pitch when they with the mlb teams and they were poor that didnt have nothing so just leave them alone s
wdf chile sdfu bitch what do you mean pittsburgh pirates is a major league team maybe they needed good pitching arms.
GCL pirates I think
you can make fun of the signing of them but the idea of the show was that in a country as huge as India, some people had to be naturals at throwing a ball. Rinkshu is clearly not as talented but in the GCL Pirates, in 6 games Dinesh is 1-0 with a 1.42 ERA and a .79 WHIP. Not too shabby, eh?
only the pirates would do something stupid like this. no offense to Rinku and Dinesh on any of this. Next will they pay people to get married, have a boy, get him to play baseball, and play for them? Or will they sign a 12 year old from the little league world series… or go into northern norway looking for anyone that plays baseball?
you get my point.
anyone know where these guys are now?
Its good to see baseball become more
international
good job guys
I don’t think it’s going to be that hard….they already play a lot of cricket there in India….which is quite similar to baseball….shouldn’t be surprising at all…..
in just a couple months they throw 91 mph for mlb scouts. They’ll make it. If the koreans and japenease can do it the indians can pull it off.
so the guy can throw at almost 90MPH not knowing the mechanics of how to properly throw a baseball thats impressive
they have the heart
there gunna make it
fuck smelly indians
KYDNG you’re absolutely right. Every single person in the MLB has been playing ball since childhood, and would find this charade to be an insult to their profession. India will someday produce a pro baseball player, but it won”t be these clowns.
fck yes, hope these two make it big in the near future. REPRESENT US!
People always have to hate on Indians. It is seriously tired. Get over yourselves.
whatever, get a life you homo.
gud storie
hahaha.Our colony.
They speak English.
Hindi is inferior
y da heck r they playing gals game?
i tink just 4 money.
no one can ruin your dream but yourself yankeesgeek202
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