The St. Louis Cardinals are adding a new piece of equipment to the protective gear worn by their catchers; a bullet proof athletic cup. The additional safety measure comes after star catcher Yadier Molina took a 102 mph foul boll to the groin last Saturday. Molina underwent surgery that night to repair a traumatic hematoma and will be out for a month convalescing.
The bullet proof cup is made by an outfit called Nutshellz and let’s just say the company’s CEO has a dramatic, if not potentially deadly, way of demonstrating the armored qualities of his company’s product. More
A bulletproof cup is probably expensive. If I didn’t have my two kids already, I’d ask how much.
Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeow! Molina is a MAN! I’d have been rolling around squealing like a pig!
Oh! and two kids are only replacement value.
“Speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.” Geo. Orwell
I’ve never had the need to yell ‘YADIER”….but that would do it…..
GO PIRATES!!!!!
Hmm, this is something I should consider for my troops when in, I mean ON, the field. And this is coming from a former little league catcher! Got to get the requisitions goin’…
Guys watch the vid in slow mo. UGH. There shite ricocheting around there!
Gals/Wives watch the vid in slow mo. OMG
Bullet proof? How about a major effing CUSHION absorbing CUP. Kinda like a NFL HELMET.
The man deserves a medal!
wearing protective cups came into vogue around 1874 …. in 1941 baseball adopted the batting helmet
only took about 65 years to figure out not just the beans, but the bean should have some protection too
… goes to show you where male priorities lie
@col. glover ~ lmao! can you imagine the ‘package’ a catcher would be sporting w/ an ‘NFL helmet’ protector stuffed down his knickers?
I bet they start calling him Tin Cup.
This might catch on with bad guys so I guess I will have to readjust the height of my aims, since that’s where I aim when I practice.
Michelle Obama is the product’s biggest endorsement.
@ Molon Labe
As we say in the ranks, WHATEVER it takes…we are talking ARMOUR here!
Do those come in extra large? Not asking for a friend.
I have to hand it to the inventor of the bullet-proof cup; he really put his balls where his mouth is. Or something.
Plain Jane. Just trying to ring the bells?
Ann is just bad, in a good way.
I hope he calls it his “Tea Bag Caddie”…
It’ll be real entertaining when someone invents airbag underwear for this.
I’m not sure which would be worse – the impact or the explosion!