5:57 that shot of his socks really pulled this whole thing together.

@guyrandom1

5 жыл бұрын

Michael Schley wtf was the shit 😂😂

@austinjames2160

5 жыл бұрын

No this pulled it together 3:11

Came for Vlad... Left depressed.

This was hardly about Vlad

@checkeater4992

5 жыл бұрын

this fucking sucked I was hoping for details on his progression and time in the minors instead i got an uninteresting story about some random fucking town from a guy who tried way too hard to make the situation into some poetic thing. also i had to watch his shitty clip of him scoring his only run while in the mlb

@atgaming9431

4 жыл бұрын

MANCHESTER UNITED soccer is for pussies

@Bradley_doofus

3 жыл бұрын

MANCHESTER UNITED F.C no

@HBALL100

3 жыл бұрын

@MANCHESTER UNITED F.C fuck soccer

SO happy I learned all about what Vlad Jr.’s life is like in the minors. Amazing. Inspiring.

He got his first major league hit today: a double in the bottom of the ninth

@jonwhick3073

3 жыл бұрын

Hes leading mlb in homers in 2021

Wish they focused on Vlad more than that savant chicken mascot.

@DChappelle27

5 жыл бұрын

Dont hate on Thomas Thomason.

@levivv

5 жыл бұрын

savant? huh

@killajaxond_7436

5 жыл бұрын

Mascot bar more potential

@bcntsportscards242

3 жыл бұрын

Wish they focused on vlad over the anti cole stuff Obama implemented

@jackscalibur

3 жыл бұрын

@M Cool. No one cares.

Anyone watching after the home run derby

You forget how good long form journalism can be until you see something like this.

Very little Vlad, a lot of RIP West Virginia.

This is an incredible story - there's an oscar winning film there (or actual documentary) also - the "morning ladies" *sprays pits and puts on chicken costume* is the real star here

@roaches23

6 жыл бұрын

Errhka check out the movie Sugar. It follows a minor league player from Dominican Republic. When they are sitting in a diner and don't know what they are eating, that scene happens in Sugar lol

And now Vladdy became the youngest player to hit 48 homeruns in a year and lost an MVP only to a Japanese Babe Ruth

Wow this is true backwoods rookie/a ball! Really feel spoiled with the low a stadium I have tickets for. So true with guys barely making money and being here cause they love the game.

I 💓 Baseball. Watching from London UK ⚾🇬🇧

it was crazy to see this filmed in my home town

And now look wheres he at! The *Home Run Derby!*

Just seeing this now for the first time in 2022, Jays are poised to maybe win the World Series this year in large part, thanks to this dude.

Love the video Fernando, hope you you do more in the future like this. Take us to some of the other levels, that would be great to see.

Make more videos like thsi

In 2021 hes leading the majors in homers about 65 games in 23 homers hes also leading the a.l in batting avg. Hits and rbi.s paying off

I lived in WVA when I was in my 20s for a couple of years - I’m from Chicago - holy shit - I watched Deliverance and WVA is just like that. I’ve lived in many states, and there no bigger dumps than WVA. ARK, ND, NM, LA, and AL in that order.

Bruhhh I’m out here watching this and right as it says his career starts here I get a notification the vlad got called up that’s wild

@Chris-mx4jb

5 жыл бұрын

you're only watching this because he just got called up... not the other way around

you should do a video on the montclair cup the rivalry between the two schools in the town of montclair

@andrewrubio3093

6 жыл бұрын

victor magnusson montclair, CA?

@victor-cj1wn

6 жыл бұрын

new jersey

@expos4everac

6 жыл бұрын

victor magnusson is inner eye still there? On Bloomfield ave?

Very nice documentary, wish it was longer

Keep working and moving foward my Dominicans and everybody else in this video. Jesús Christ loves you all :)

@carlosdiaz6367

6 жыл бұрын

Present Truth7 how can someone who is not alive feel ?

@antcar5159

6 жыл бұрын

Carlos Diaz too bad he is though

@Redsoxking

6 жыл бұрын

He is alive

@aaronrodriguez1410

6 жыл бұрын

yes

It sucks that these teams are shut down now

Must have been nice to get a 4 million dollar contract at 17 years old to play in the middle of nowhere in front of the retirement home. Let’s say he never made it to the big leagues. If he was smart with that money, start a business, smart investments. Set for life.

@markinnes4264

4 жыл бұрын

His dad was already a wealthy HOFer. Vladdy has a lot of good qualities... but he did not have to live in poverty like the majority of his fellow Dominicans.

no he is debuting in the mlb

I’m from Bluefield

I would love to live in a small community like this for a year to focus on playing ball

@ronswanny9071

5 жыл бұрын

Lucas Scott it’s not that bad we have a mall lol it kinda sucks

Update: Vlad's killing it

Now he’s the starting 3B of the Toronto blue jays. 💪💯

2 years later...

When the TB Rays move to Montreal and become the Expos, it will make the rivalry even more interesting!

@yakamarezlife

5 жыл бұрын

There's major talk about this but all the owners have to agree

Now on 2021 he is mvp candidate

Vlad should’ve won the hr derby

Imagine of West Virginia became the biggest producer of solar panels? Times are changing up next are the truck drivers

@TCUsouthpaw

6 жыл бұрын

Thomas O'Rilley truck drivers will never be replaced

@AlexLee-fp9cd

6 жыл бұрын

Thomas O'Rilley West Virginia would be a terrible place for solar panels for it’s the state with the least amount of sunny days with 54 a year

@truthpunch2090

5 жыл бұрын

They'll be one of the next major sectors replaced by automation and AI. A child born today won't see that job being listed by the time they're looking to start their own family.

first 2 major league HOMERS baby

Jesus Sanchez sighting!

2:59 Chamber of Commerce!?!?

How to make a short film around 20 seconds of vlad interview

Roscoe the Rooster is the new Tea Girl...

I wanted to watch for Vlad. I saw chicken i closed the video.

No batting gloves

Did know one see that dude behind vlad picking his nose

Ayy vladdy jr

In the South, it's "App-a- LATCH-cha" not "App-a-LAY-sha."

Hey that's where i live

@amycompton8053

4 жыл бұрын

Go to watch games all the time saw vladdy once

home run derby anyone

How many kids play baseball year round in the Dominican Republic

@enniswhalen2428

5 жыл бұрын

jp - Hate to make such a joke ,but the answer is ALL OF THEM!

@parraja100

5 жыл бұрын

Ennis Whalen can you give me a specific number?

is this the vice sports content purge?

@REALTRUEJOURNEY

6 жыл бұрын

Reid Yearwood yup lol

For the ladies...

3:11

I hate little towns like this. It seems so lonely and dead and it makes me sad

@mateuszjasinski3702

3 жыл бұрын

I love small towns. You don’t have to deal with anyone bothering you lol.

Really cool to see a bunch of Rays prospects that I worked with this year in the video!

No se varon hahahah

Princeton Rays but their mascot is a chicken? Huh..

Damn anyone else from Mercer county New Jersey and got absolutely confused when u saw Mercer county west Virginia Our priceton is in Mercer county as well as theirs lol, but ours has the university Our Mercer County has a AA team, the trenton thunder, and they’re always good so they really don’t have rivals

Yeo I felt taht when your in a slump no one wants ya like damn my whole season went like taht bc I never was played feel bad ab the coal going away though

Skipped through this entire documentary looking for Vlad Jr, and all I got was bullshit, bullshit, bullshit.

@digitalbath.

5 жыл бұрын

same here haha i hope vlad jr picks up the slack. i know he’s under pressure but i’m dying to see his first HR.

Vlad is the best minor league player in the country

@marcel9836

5 жыл бұрын

But he's going to play for a Canadian team

A College wood bat league now.

he'll be a Hall Of Famer, mark my words...

stupid title

How does Vlad jr not speak English?!?!? His dad couldn't buy him a tutor growing up?

@mickeymelendez1605

6 жыл бұрын

Ecofolux2427 I am from DR and i don't understand it, either they are a lot of good English school over there.

@elmaster091

6 жыл бұрын

Ecofolux2427 I think is because he is not intereste in learning English.

@blueshky

6 жыл бұрын

It's a problem in the minor leagues apparently. The latin players only hang with other latin players, and they are given translators.....why learn? As a baseball fan, and also a hockey fan, I saw a player that my team had drafted at 18, and by 20 he was in the NHL with NO English, and within a year he could take interviews. Hate that baseball gives these players a chance to just....stay in their shell.

@chrispikoulas1291

6 жыл бұрын

His father doesnt speak English

@blueshky

6 жыл бұрын

And??? My friend is from Mexico and didn't speak English when he arrived here when he was 11. He's fluent now. His parents still can't say more than a few conversational words in English to me (after 20 years here) and use him to interpret at stores and whatnot. So "my parents don't speak the language" is not an excuse. He immersed himself into school, and hung out with kids like me, instead of only the other 3-4 hispanic kids at our school.

Dude mak8ng it to the Major Leagues isnt that hard....all u javr to do is be obe of the best players on the world and be dortunste enough tokbe spitred at the rifht time on thw right team and be ox sistenr for about 5 years through each level of the minors...and then when u get called up the majors where the level of play is night and outer space you just have to be good roght off the bat or you'll be dropped right back down to the minors.....ane its not a mentslly rough fame. All u have to do is fault 7 out of 1p timws at the plate so you 3 entire at bats to make u feel good our of 10.....shiiiit only reason i dosnt make the majors was because I cohldnt even get scouted by a division 1 college.....and I didnt get cloae to beibg drafted. That's the only reason im not Willy Mays

@JROB447

6 жыл бұрын

You speaking dutch?

@tyk2269

6 жыл бұрын

The hell you talking bout fool

@nowellclay1283

6 жыл бұрын

he is right you gotta be able to put in work then they will find you

@martytu20

6 жыл бұрын

That's best case scenario. Most prospects flame out due to injuries or better players coming up who works just as hard. Sometimes working hard alone isn't enough. There will be things beyond your control, because that's how life works.

@jackass2.06

6 жыл бұрын

Fabo Andolini learn how to type

Jesus is the only way to heaven ✝️

Sooo this was random. No storyline or point.

@checkeater4992

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah he kept making it seem like he was going to make some "poetic" connection between the dying town and the start of the kids' baseball careers, but he just couldn't be asked to. So instead we got random fucking b-roll and clips while he blabbered for 10 minutes about how the coal industry is dying, so that he could hit the 10 minute mark. So worthless. edit: i just looked back and the mascot alone takes up 2 minutes of the video. who fucking cares about the mascot? Vlad wasn't even on screen for 2 minutes total. probably not even a full minute lmfao.

This sucked.

@StaySqueezy12

6 жыл бұрын

Blk Palms you suck

Waste of 10 mins of my life!!! Absolutely nothing bout Vlad Jr

First bitches

No worries Bluefield, AN ENTIRE FUCKING NATION HAS YOUR BACK! LETS GO BLUE JAYS!!

I would never want to live in such boring cities like these

@stratdaddy

6 жыл бұрын

Anthony Herrera Cool.

Why the fuck would anyone watch “vice sports”

Thanks Obama.

@kingmidget7123

5 жыл бұрын

coal has been dying for like 50 years now

TRUMP 2020! MAGA

trump will bring those coal jobs back. MAGA!

@zacktorres1382

6 жыл бұрын

Jba 99 u should get cancer

@flat_life750

6 жыл бұрын

let that town die, who needs it anyway. lol

@jba9964

6 жыл бұрын

because you disagree with me politically I deserve a deadly disease? very liberal and tolerant of you

@user-sf9sd8on6i

6 жыл бұрын

How sad we don't need coal anymore

@Imnevergonnapostvids

6 жыл бұрын

hey guys lets just all be friends... and agree roscoe’s gon fuck yo bich