My friend joked about how baseball is a sissy's game and he said its just glorified golf. I brought him to my local batting cage that shoots 90mph fastballs. He barely foul tipped 2 out of over 50 pitches. He no longer roasts baseball.

@xyzza2928

Жыл бұрын

I don’t particularly like baseball, but saying it’s a “sissy’s game” is dumb. You stand in front of a plate, staring down a six-foot tall man ready to chuck a rock at you at speeds faster than a car on the highway, and all you have to defend yourself is a plastic helmet and a wooden stick. There’s also the part where you actually have to hit the ball, which is explained here.

@dathunderman4

Жыл бұрын

What a dumb thing to say. Your friend sounds like one of those hockey nerds who thinks suffering brain damage is a necessary component to being considered a “real man’s sport.” If baseball was a sissy sport, there’d be no need to have a whole other version of the sport for women (softball). Not even boxing and MMA does this.

@JackieDaytona1776

3 ай бұрын

I still say one of the most amazing plays I've ever seen was Billy Crystal fouling off a spring training pitch on his 60th birthday.

Yeah I hate how people say baseball is the easy sport but I'd like to see anyway that says that try to hit a 95mph fastball

@SuperMathewson

5 жыл бұрын

who says that?

@NJOverclocked

4 жыл бұрын

@@SuperMathewson Anyone with a brain

@OGecalien

3 жыл бұрын

Or fielding a scorcher coming straight at you.

@rollingdudes8859

3 жыл бұрын

Not to mention changups, curveballs, sliders, and 2 & 4 seam fastballs all at precise locations around the strike zone which makes hitting a baseball SO FREAKING HARD!!!

@aguilasfan96

3 жыл бұрын

Don’t forget some pitchers be throwing a 99 too

This is why they say it's the hardest thing to do in all of sports. But the math is overlooked

Hitting a home run is the hardest things in professional sports they say...really easy to believe after this video.

@lecroitg

5 жыл бұрын

"They" are clearly wrong. Odds of a hole in one by a professional golfer: 1 in 2,500. Barry Bonds hit a home run 6.52 at bats. Imagine if the top golfer hit a hole in one every 6.52 par 3s. Most PGA hole in ones... 10... over an entire career. Sticking to baseball "things".. pitching a perfect game is much harder. It's only been done 23 times in MLB history... 1 in 46,800.

@Galla-Baseball

5 жыл бұрын

@@lecroitg KZread comments are usually horrible, but this comment is so bad it haunts me. Your argument is bad in like, 400 different ways. You start by comparing Barry Bonds, the most prolific, jacked up power hitter of all time, to "your average golfer". "They" are completely correct. There are almost 20,000 PGA golfers. Theres 750 MLB players. 130,000 hole in ones per year, by people who have played for an avg of 24 years, and have an average age of 55 years old. If 750 MLB players hit golf balls for 24 years, there would be hundreds if not thousands, of "hole in ones". Not a single one of those 130,000 that hit a hole in one could hit a major league fastball out of the park. I would guess that maybe 1%, could foul one off, if they trained. Tiger woods trying to hit a fastball, would be embarrassing. A golfer isn't the athlete a baseball player is, the hand eye, the strength. A golf ball is stationary. It sits. And timing isn't even an aspect of golf. Hit it whenever you want, take five minutes to look at it if you want. A pitch comes at you, in three dimensions, in a rate of speed where your decision to swing, location of swing, is done in a third of a second. If you needs even more evidence, baseball players golf for fun all the time, baseball players hit hole in ones ALL THE TIME. Mike Trout hit a hole in one. Brian Matusz hit two in one day, one left handed, and one right handed. You could argue for football, basketball, even soccer and hockey requiring more skill, but this is just bad news.

@Galla-Baseball

5 жыл бұрын

TLDR: If a hole in one, is usually done, by senior citizen, who has been golfing for 24 years.... your sport has a similar skillset of a nascar driver or a fortnite player. MLB players can sock dingers, can sink a hole in one. A baseball player is usually a multisport athlete who made a decision to play baseball over football or basketball. A golfer, cant do any of it. The best athletes, aren't drawn to the least athletic game.

@Takkiiss

4 жыл бұрын

Christopher Galla that last sentence made me smile

@johnedwardsficklecock3319

4 жыл бұрын

Christopher Galla lol thanks for roasting that guy so didn’t have too 👍

I am from the UK and remember thinking as a kid Baseball would be easy as I was pretty good at Cricket and Rounders. When I went to work at a Summer Camp when I was 19, I had to play in a game and was pretty cocky telling everyone I was going to hit multiple home runs as I was good at cricket. Little did I know but the boy pitching to me was a rated player at his high school. As soon as the first ball went past me, I was like, wtf is this. In the end I was able to just about get the ball in play but was run out easily. E Anyway, ever since that day, when someone says to me what is the most difficult thing to do consistently in sport, I say it's hit a home run.

And people say baseball is easy 😂😂

@VivekBabbar

5 жыл бұрын

Only dumb fatties who haven't lifted a baseball bat in their life say so

@hifijohn

5 жыл бұрын

Every thing is easy until you have to actually do it.

@angelinadash2396

5 жыл бұрын

It's only easy to understand the game, but hard to master and play

@exodave7693

4 жыл бұрын

I didn't like ur comment so it remains at 69 likes

@NJOverclocked

4 жыл бұрын

Because for a pro sport, it is easy.

I cannot even a hit ball standing atop a T.

@Ravenholm337

7 жыл бұрын

I can but with a downward angry swing of frustration.

@hazoish7670

6 жыл бұрын

I can’t hit a home run with a T

@enrique4335

5 жыл бұрын

tee**

Add on top of all that spin which if strong enough can make the ball have vertical or godforbid horizontal movement like that witchcraft Chris Sale throws

According to MLB scouts, Chapman's fastball has been clocked as high as 105 mph (169 km/h)

@trevorholland8156

3 жыл бұрын

106 now

@1gbayfisher

8 ай бұрын

Thats insane

Its all about the feet and mental aspect of the game

@beefymeat

6 жыл бұрын

(Your feet need to be impeccable)

@doctorcrafts

Ай бұрын

Deep

It works like that in the field too. It's like you know where the ball is gonna be hit just by the stance of the batter. And if he swimgs and misses on a pitch thats more information about where the ball is going if he connects.

And the ones that do it three out of 10 times in a year get those $300 million contracts

Hitting s baseball is the hardest thing to do in sports

Holy Shit!! You need some Ultra Instinct shit to hit a ball that fast!!

@fanny2081

2 жыл бұрын

The trick is not thinking too much. You have to either swing or not swing. No inbetween.

im 14 and i have gone in 85mph fastball machine. geez, idk how they hit 95 😳😳 went crazy when i made contact lol

Not to mention that they play over 162 games in their season. That’s with spring training but it post season. That part alone is taxing.

THANK YOU

and in video games (for honor) specifically we have to deal with 300/500 ms lights and then the input delays to that the signal tk out brains and evrythign i think i’m on par with a baseball player ... maybe😎

I somehow understood every second of the timing but also don't understand how it's possible. Damn I love that sport

This great video told us that MLB is fill with a great deal of Monsters!

i use to be a pitcher...my batting average was 0.083 for 2 seasons...i was lucky to make contact for foul balls

Thanks for the amazing content !!! And people say baseball is easy 😂

Seeing all the players making it look easy

I have a new-found respect for this sport

Rafael devers from red sox hit a ~102mph fastball

@Takkiiss

4 жыл бұрын

Brian Peralta he’s literally living in the future

I am also a pro........... at missing a baseball

He didn’t even mention breaking balls

@seansmithjr7497

3 жыл бұрын

And that’s what makes hitting hard

Cool!!!

U are great

What lf lt ls one of those Aroldis Chapman fastballs ahh???🤭🙃

@jacksonb9268

5 жыл бұрын

That’s actually a good question. So his stride is actually 120% of his height, at just over 7 feet, so he’s already closer to the plate at release. Then, while average pitchers release above the foot, he releases a whole foot in front of his stride. That’s another foot checked off. Finally his arm whips around in about half the time of an average pitcher

@peteisspidey4451

4 жыл бұрын

Then you are fucked

Is it just me or did I hear "Yogi Bear said.." 😂😂😂

@danielprice4004

3 жыл бұрын

there was a major league catcher named yogi berra

This makes what major league players do all that much more impressive.

TIP: put a high powered, light weight magnet in the baseball ⚾🤓 steel bat

muscle memory

@rudivanrooijen7611

6 жыл бұрын

Muscle memory helps the motion of the swing only. It doesn't help you gauge the ball's speed and trajectory

@NJOverclocked

4 жыл бұрын

@@rudivanrooijen7611 It does though. Muscle memory responds to visual stimulus. AKA the motion of the pitcher's arm, hand and body.

Who edited this?

I have hit an 85mph baseball and the one thing you CANNOT do is TAKE YOUR EYE OFF THE BALL FOR A MILLISECOND otherwise you ARE SCREWED!!!

Sandlot kids is a great film. FACT

20/12 vision? Edgar Martinez hold my walking stick

and the amazing thing is that they are never actually "predicting" the pitch. it all happens in that 400ms timeframe.

wow

20/20 vision is not even perfect vision and not enough to play in the major.😳

I been playing baseball forever...we have playing against young strong softball teams who think they can just make the transition and naw...they cant hit the ball, is funny to see them trying to slap the ball by the time they take the stride the ball is already in the catchers glove

God I love this game.

Griffey said Nolan Ryan threw so fast the ball looked like a pill 😂

I have 20/7 vision

Add swing and a hard leather comming at you at even greater speeds that's cricket

I'd say it is the most difficult sport at which to excel. It also has the highest incidence of injury.

@smellmyclock

5 жыл бұрын

Brian P. Hower lol

@NJOverclocked

4 жыл бұрын

Not even close. Basketball has higher injury rates, as do football & soccer

@TopSportsYT

4 жыл бұрын

NJOverclocked the only reason soccer would have more injuries is because those little pussys fake injuries so they can get a brake. Soccer players aren’t tough at all

@DaBoss-sl3dr

4 жыл бұрын

Eric Goodman that's the one thing I hate about soccer. Like literally they pretend they're hurt while hockey players pretend they're not.

I'm an athlete. I still play competitive league hockey, basketball and I'm an avid golfer. I grew up playing ball and can unequivocally tell you through personal experience that Baseball takes the most athletic ability. From fielding, pitching and hitting... anyone who says baseball players aren't athletes, are complete knuckleheads who think that just because they couldn't make contact at a county fair pitching maching throwing 68MPH.

Actually you are supposed to be late on outside pitches and early on inside pitches

@keithyoungs9435

3 жыл бұрын

Inside pitches

@keithyoungs9435

3 жыл бұрын

For the last one

@danielprice4004

3 жыл бұрын

true

The real question is how to hit a cutter from Mariano Rivera

The only comeback people have is “liar” and “ baseball still is easy”

Órale

*ms

Its been proven that hitting a fast ball is the MOST difficult thing to do in a professional sport. Credits due to these beastly men, not an easy task..... Yes, i said MEN. No women could ever do this .

I keep strikin out in tee ball... guess i need more roids.

Wouldn’t that mean that hitting a softball is harder? Because they’re closer to the batter

@RoxRock4ever

4 жыл бұрын

Yes and no. While they are closer, it is slower and the ball is touch bigger. BUT, the ball is coming with more force and generally rises up instead of down, so I would say with those trade offs baseball and fast-pitch softball are about the same difficulty.

The MLB batting average hovers around 0.250. Which basically means with our knowledge of the science and variations of pitcher delivery that striking the ball contains a lot of luck, even for the best in the game. If someone gave you odds of 25% on something it would be a bad bet. 25% chance of connecting with the ball at all. As a non baseball player it makes sense to me (from an offensive perspective) to focus on athleticism and explosive sprint speed to reduce the time it takes for players to run between bases. Whether that’s from the plate or stealing. You’re gonna have to run 25% of the time so you want to increase your likely hood of getting on first when you do. It feels like a more predictable means of run scoring than the quality/placement of the hit itself. Be good to get a players perspective on this?

@doctorcrafts

Ай бұрын

No

I hate "science" things that completely have no clue what science actually is. Science is not just measuring and statistics.

BaSeBaLl Is EaSy people say

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8 жыл бұрын

98th!

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8 жыл бұрын

120th!

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8 жыл бұрын

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7 жыл бұрын

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7 жыл бұрын

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I don't understand. I use kph and metres

@thanosaekk2449

8 жыл бұрын

Me too! I was using the google units coversion every 5 seconds.

@stealthyavacodo4749

8 жыл бұрын

+thanosaekk lol

@ravous246

6 жыл бұрын

As an american i hate that america is the only one to use different ways of measuring distance.

@robertorayoherrera5354

6 жыл бұрын

ravous246 I will counter that by saying one word. Murcia.

@brainstorm4207

6 жыл бұрын

we use both dumb ass and its because we can. get fucked. Were better and more advanced in every way. we have single states (1/50) with a bigger economy than where you are from. get off the internet, which you wouldn't have without us, and read a book

great! awesome! kool! baseball is still not a sport. it's a cute lil game for children, and manchilds not physically fit and tough enough to compete in real sports. it's great for those who haven't developed past playing throwing/ catching games.

@boxedoutsports

4 жыл бұрын

Get of KZread you old man 👴

@TopSportsYT

4 жыл бұрын

You say that because you’ve never played the game fatass

@DaBoss-sl3dr

4 жыл бұрын

Bet you can't even hit a 60 mph pitch with no curve in it.

@yeahhuh4971

4 жыл бұрын

Frank Saputo In baseball hitting 300 is really good. That means you fail at your job 7 out of 10 times. If Stephen Curry hit 3 shots out of every 10 he wouldn’t be a basketball player. If Tom Brady completed 3 out of every 10 passes he wouldn’t be in the NFL. It’s a round bat and a round ball yet you have to square it up.

@domthedrummer9878

4 жыл бұрын

mad butcher you probably quit in your freshman year because all you did was sit the bench

I feel like this is a sloght remake of the documentry "fastball"