Sporting Goods : Easton 7-Foot Pop-Up Catch Net |
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Rating: - * Dont Buy this Net ... This is an extremely poorly made net. "Improvements" made to the original model are faulty. The net barely stands up after minimal use do to poorly designed connector assembly (essentially a washer with a nipple). Rating: - * Overall a good practice net ... I play Pony baseball and I bought this net to improve my swing. This net is good for hitting off a tee or for soft toss. It drops the balls very quickly after being hit. It is a very large net and not easy to hit past. Overall this is a pretty good net, but if you hit a pop up it sometimes goes over the net. I used it in windy weather and it sometimes still fell over with the steaks in the ground. Definitely a good value compared to others I looked at. Rating: - * OK -- Could be better ... I bought this net for my kids in Little League baseball. I have found that (a) it folds up easy if you have folded 'pop-up' type items before (tents, etc.) and (b) it is unstable in even a slight wind and works better if it is on a slight backward incline. The balls we hit into it stayed inside as the net is pretty floppy. The pole supports could benefit from a sturdier design. Generally, this is fine for younger kids if you are looking for something inexpensive and portable. As my kids get older I imagine we'll transition to the heavier gauge pole nets that they have out at our ballpark. Rating: - * Not good ... doesn't stand up any kind of wind, I got mine two monthes ago and now it is twisted and not in the original shape. I wish I could return it. Rating: - * Better to get the Jugs Insta Screen ... Bought this for batting at home in June '06. Works great only if set up on a slight incline (hitting slightly down hill). On flat ground, or any type of grade going up behind the net, it falls down at the slightest wind. Actually it falls down even when set up ideally with the most moderate of winds. Balls normally kick out of this net rather than staying inside. Also, one of the two folding polls had the metal nipple part push back up into the poll, which I have to pull back out every time I set it up. do what 95% of serious teams do (go to any baseball or softball Travel tournament and you'll see), and get a Jugs Insta-Net for only $10-$20 more. |

Critics and audiences didn't seem too happy with Back to the Future, Part II, the inventive, perhaps too clever sequel. Director Zemeckis and cast bent over backwards to add layers of time-travel complication, and while it surely exercises the brain it isn't necessarily funny in the same way that its predecessor was. It's well worth a visit, though, just to appreciate the imagination that went into it, particularly in a finale that has Marty watching his own actions from the first film. --Tom Keogh
Shot back-to-back with the second chapter in the trilogy, Back to the Future, Part III is less hectic than that film and has the same sweet spirit of the first, albeit in a whole new setting. This time, Marty ends up in the Old West of 1885, trying to prevent the death of mad scientist Christopher Lloyd at the hands of gunman Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen (Thomas F. Wilson, who had a recurring role as the bully Biff). Director Zemeckis successfully blends exciting special effects with the traditions of a Western and comes up with something original and fun. --Tom Keogh


