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West Indies put up a strong batting performance after being put into bat by India in their virtual quarterfinal of T20 World Cup 2026 in Kolkata on Sunday (March 1). The visitors didn’t have any batter going past 40 but capitalised on cameos right through the order to post a healthy score of 195 on a dry but good batting pitch at Eden Gardens.  While West Indies’ batters put on a good show,…

Ok so I have a HC that whenever Zack and Ivy try to throw something they almost always miss.

Like, they are always inches from actually throwing it right while playing catch.

Ivy however is significantly better under pressure but at HQ she just can’t.

But there are 2 exceptions.

1 - They can almost always stick a bottle flip because of how much they practiced when they were younger. So if they need something to beat Carmen and Shadowsan on, bottle flip is their go to.

2 - When Lee Jr introduced “Stick it in that old thing…. Embarrassing.” from Woody and Kleiny, it became like a switch for the Southie Siblings. Once you tell them to stick in that old thing - they do it perfectly. But otherwise, it’s back to terrible throwing.

Lee is the only one who knows this trick so he messes with Carmen and Shadowsan by showing off.

Carmen: Zack! Can you throw me the blueprints?

Zack: Heads up.

[Zack lobs the blueprints and nearly hits her head. She barely dodges in time.]

Zack: Sorry!

Carmen: Maybe next time say heads down.

[Meanwhile Lee is sitting next to her and his pen runs out.]

Lee: Hey Zackery, do you have a pen?

Zack: Yep.

Lee [pointing to the pen holder]: Do you mind sticking it in that old thing?

Zack: What? That old thing?

[Carmen already flinches but Zack manages to throw the pen straight into to the pen holder]

Lee [taking the pen casually]: Embarrassing…

Carmen [in her head]: ?!?!??!

This piece frames the knuckleball’s modern flicker as a rebellion against a sport built on repeatable shapes, velocity, and lab certainty. It sets the scene with Matt Waldron warming up and immediately shifts to why baseball stopped teaching “weird,” pointing to the broader trend of hard fastballs and declining old school breaking ball usage as the environment that starved the pitch. 

Waldron is presented as a true outlier because he commits. The article cites spring usage that jumped to a knuckleball heavy mix, then uses tracking era arsenal data to underline how extreme that identity looks today. The core claim is that hitters cannot truly rehearse chaos, so preparation collapses once the pitch starts floating. 

Then the real thesis lands. The knuckleball lives or dies with the receiver. The Doug Mirabelli and Tim Wakefield split is used like a warning label, and the text argues that any real comeback requires infrastructure: a catcher trained for it, a staff willing to absorb passed balls, and a team culture that accepts mess as the entry fee.