By Hunter Hodies Former Baltimore Orioles pitcher Jim Poole was diagnosed with ALS last year. He can’t grip a baseball due to the disease and he even had to flip one underhand while a high school team was practicing. “It went about 12 feet forward and almost all to the right,”Poole said. “It was really weird. Let’s just say the kid looked at me and never would have believed I had ever earned a living playing baseball.” Per Dan Connolly of The Athletic, that’s what Poole knew something was off. This past June, he was officially diagnosed with the sickness that’s otherwise known as “Lou Gehrig’s…