Wily Mo Pena signs with indians.

[soxhop411]

Jon Heyman ‏@JonHeyman 2h2 hours ago
wily mo pena signs with indians. 700K if in majors.

 

[soxhop411]

Has his homer in KC landed yet?

 

[Hendu for Kutch]

I watched him take BP before Opening Day in Arlington in 2006 from the stands in LF. He was hitting absolute moonshots over my head into the second deck. I was awestruck at their sheer majesty and fell in love that day. I still have a #22 Pena t-shirt somewhere in my closet, it'd be fun to bust it out for an Indians game this year.

 

[Frank Fenway]

Has his homer in KC landed yet?

God lord could that man crush a fast ball. Damn you curveball.

 

[Bergs]

I will never forget the zero-arc line drive blast he hit into the monster seats. Sick.

 

[OCST]

I will never forget him playing LF at the Bash one year, where a soft line drive right to him caused his body to spin and contort like Wile E. Coyote in that moment when he looks down and realizes he's going to fall off the cliff.

 

[Laser Show]

I will never forget the zero-arc line drive blast he hit into the monster seats. Sick.

This was the first thing I thought of. I was scared that rocket was going to take someone's head off on the monster.

 

[shaggydog2000]

I will never forget him playing LF at the Bash one year, where a soft line drive right to him caused his body to spin and contort like Wile E. Coyote in that moment when he looks down and realizes he's going to fall off the cliff.

I was so disappointed to find out he pronounced his name like Willy instead of Wile E.

 

[bradcote]

 

[Wallball Tingle]

I'll always remember a grand slam in the 8th down 2-1 in Baltimore that gave Beckett a W in 2007. All that I remembered, but I'd have thought the game was in summer. Looking it up, it was April 26, and no doubt gave me more hope than I should have felt about Pena's long term chances--his AVG was .172 after a 2-hit day. To be fair, Pedroia's was .184 after 0/2 with a BB.

 

[joe dokes]

This was the first thing I thought of. I was scared that rocket was going to take someone's head off on the monster.

I was on the monster when he was taking BP with the Reds in '05. (The night they "dedicated" the Fisk pole). He hit a rising blast that was headed under the billboard in left-center and hit a woman standing in the last row in the arm. It was loud. Good thing it got flesh, not bone. She was down for quite a while.

 

[Harry Hooper]

I hope he makes the team.

 

[simplicio]

I hope he makes the team.

I hope he makes the home run derby.

 

[Cumberland Blues]

Hardest non HR I ever saw...WMP hit a topspin liner (off Joel Pinero when Pinero was a Mariner) that bounced a good 40 feet in front of the warning track in RF and one hopped over the bullpens into the bleachers. Freakin' Pinero shut the Sox down that day, but that ball definitely stayed hit.