Reminds me of when Mythbusters proved a corked bat makes the ball travel shorter distances due to the corked core absorbing a large percentage of the impact unlike aluminum which absorbs less of the impact making the ball travel farther due to the higher percentage of momentum conserved in the elastic impact. So if you can hit a homerun with a corked bat, give that batter a medal
That was a bogus test, IMO. The whole point of using cork is to make the bat lighter, thus increasing swing speed. A faster bat *can* produce a longer hit ball. Same as in golf. IIRC, they did not adjust the swing speed of the mechanical arm. EDIT: Wow, there's a lot of replies to my comment, some of which are a bit uncalled for, so let me clarify... If we're only talking about the potential distance advantages of a corked bat, I think it still boils down to force. That is, the greater the force applied to the ball, the longer the ball will travel. IIRC, the calculation is F=MA. So, if the mass is dropped slightly, so does the force and the ball won't travel as far as noted in the Mythbusters experiment. However, if the drop in mass allows for the batter to swing it faster (and logically it does), then the corked bat *may* result in a farther hit ball, so long as the increased swing speed more then compensates for the decrease in mass. What I would have liked them to do: run the calculation "for mass of bat m1 with a swing speed of s1, the resultant distance is d1". I would run this multiple times to account for minor variables. Then cork the bat and note the drop in mass. Then perform the calc for the breakeven point "for mass m2, the swing speed must be at least s2 to achieve the original distance of d1". Then adjust the swing speed of the bat to s2 to demonstrate it. Then conclude what the likelihood of achieving s2 (or greater) is. Something like, "you'd have to increase your swing speed from 90 to 120 mph" which seems unlikely and would conclude corking is not worth it. To the contrary, "you'd have to increase your swing speed from 90 to 94" might be achievable and thus worth it (aside from the penalty of getting caught). For completeness, I would also perform this experiment on various sizes of bats. Perhaps corking a small bat doesn't make sense, but corking a larger one does? Also, players use corked bats for reasons other than a gain in distance.
If anyone’s wondering why this is an issue; “In baseball, a corked bat is a specially modified baseball bat that has been filled with cork or other lighter, less dense substances to make the bat lighter. A lighter bat gives a hitter a quicker swing and may improve the hitter's timing.” (Edit; Wikipedia copy/paste)(Edit 2; I’m amused at how many people take seeing a copy/paste as a personal insult.)
While that the above statement was true, the momentum of a corked bat is reduced compared to the solid one. That's why we should always use solid bats because corked bats will lead to, most of the time, flyout.
Cork is abnormally poor for baseball, because it absorbs a ton of the shock from hitting the ball. It's essentially like hitting it with a foam toy bat. No player would knowingly take a cork-filled bat, because it's incredibly difficult to hit far with one. There's no way he knew it was corked if he willingly took that bat.
@@basedimperialism but since the bat will be lighter you can swing it faster just depends on if the extra speed the batter can create will out balance the loss of the corked bat
@@bulletbourne327 Not really. Cork isn't that might lighter than normal wood. You'd only save a few ounces max, which translates to maybe a few inches per hour faster. The weight reduction is insignificant compared to the shock absorption. Edit: Changed "a few pounds" to "a few ounces."
"Sabo also pointed out his minimal offensive numbers that year (.256 batting average with 3 home runs), saying "That's hardly a good endorsement for the cork industry."" I love this guy
@@captainchaos8701 It was probably those dope goggles he sported. He was a solid player also, but his eyewear was unusual, which branded him in a unique way, and that signature look made him memorable. There are players from his era who were just as good, or even better, who are barely remembered. Others that come to mind that fall into this memorable branding camp are: - John Olerud (and his batting helmet) - Barry Bonds (dangly cross earing, turtleneck, and cyborg arm pad) - Jim Abbot (one hand; his incredible throwing to glove-on-hand transition - *and also prob my fav Angel pitcher of all time*) - Julio Franco (batting stance & swing) - Frank Thomas (straight up huge man, and even on TV, he just looked like a total hulk) - Randy Johnson (legendary pitching aside, he was memorable for his crazy tall & lanky frame, mustache, and mullet) - Reggie Jackson (Mr October was always rocking his aviator style glasses or sunglasses) - Rollie Fingers (curled, handlebar mustache) - Tim Lincecum (long, straight hair and resemblance to Joseph Gordon-Levitt) Bartolo Colon (pudgy pitcher with a great personality, who hit one of the greatest Mets dingers of all time) ...and many others. Heck, even a negative thing can brand a player forever: - Bill Buckner (he was an All Star, NL Batting Champ, had 2700+ Hits, 170+ HRs, and 1200+ RBIs, but does anyone remember that? Nope, they remember him catastrophically missing a first base ground ball in the '86 WS forever). - Armando Galarraga/Jim Joyce (the Perfect Game that wasn't, due to Joyce's botched 1st Base 'Safe' call. Though the game is not recorded as a PG in MLB record books, everyone knows that it was, in fact, a PG, and so it has ironically become one of the most memorable PGs ever) Other sports: - Dennis Rodman (his hair colors, piercings + his tattoos were unique in his era) - Anthony Davis (unibrow) - Troy Polamalu (long wavy black hair) - Clay Matthews (long blonde hair) There are lots, of course. Some of the above are just fashion/lifestyle related, some are just that they use unique gear, and others are purely genetic and just part of who the player is and their story. But all of these things are memorable. Most of the above also happen to be solid or even great players, but they are remembered in a different way than their peers because of their uniqueness. Wow, this got long. lol
He was caught with an illegal piece of timber, which was sent to the umpire's laboratory for testing. It was found that Sabo was batting with a 300 foot tall redwood tree.
@@FordRangerClassics idk, I don't really care enough to search it and find out. The commentators rushing to his defense breaks the fevered pitch of the accusatory tones of our modern society so is it okay if we just have this moment, man?
This discussion was typical of them. George Grande and Chris Welsh were one of the most underrated commentating teams in baseball, in my opinion. I can't tell you how much I learned about the game while growing up from their commentary like the segment here. I was a huge fan of Marty and Joe on radio and still am today, but people forget how superb Reds tv broadcasts were back then.
+Matthew Green - Back 20 years ago when this happened, yeah maybe Welsh was a good color guy. But now he is just a giant homer that always jumps to conclusions based on his employment with the Reds/FoxSportsOH. He is usually wrong and won't even admit with the invention of instant replay. He has a very bad reputation in the media as a biased homer. Even when replay proves him wrong and Thom telling him he might be off a little bit - he won't admit it. He has become an idiot in his advanced age but you are right about one thing. HE is awesome to listen too especially when the Reds are getting the asses kicked. There isn't a bigger cry baby in baseball when things aren't going right for the Reds. ROFL
Alexander Lively It most definitely was intentional. So many guys were corking their bats in this time period wine makers started using pull tabs due to the shortage. That's just the home announcers trying to place at least a shadow of doubt into the viewers minds. Why would guys fuck around at batting practice with a corked bat but not in the game? These are pros not kids at a sand lot.
Reggie Rhoden those commentators did what the league would WANT them to do. Play it off as if it was a joke at the guys mess around with in batting practice lmao!!! Good one
Sorry if I’m incorrect, but are you trying to say that because his mates laughed it means that he intentionally used the wrong bat? Because if so that is pretty stupid reasoning.
Lol that doesn't mean they set him up. It's not that unusual for friends or team mates to laugh when the other gets caught out for things. I've seen it in my sport too. You might not respond that way, but plenty do
+Allen M Sorry, it doesn't matter. The rules say if a player uses invalid equipment during a league game, that player will be ejected. I feel for the guy. I think that he got screwed; by a teammate or the bat boy. Regardless of how I feel, the rules state he must be ejected. There's no wiggle room; no exceptions are stated in the rules. There might be now, but the rules in force at the time of this incident cited no exception to the invalid equipment rule.
+Allen M He knew it was corked. He didn't want to go get another bat because it looked suspicious... two swings two broken bats... and they did an article on it, and they found out it was
The USA just cheats at everything, every single sport they take part in they cheat. Football Baseball Boxing Hockey Basketball Cycling Wrestling Athletics (multiple events) The list goes on and on
Reminds me of that cyclist who had a motor in his bike. It had to be small and wouldn't do much, but among the elite, even 1% additional performance can do the trick. He was found out when there was a mass collision with six or so bikes, and his back wheel wouldn't stop spinning ...
@@tatererer9747 seeing as a majority of these players have had more college education than a great deal of the population, saying something so ignorant is really just ridiculous. Just because they are physical for a living doesn't mean their mental state won't peak above yours
It was the bat boys fault. Lots of pro players practice with corked bats. He was delivered a practice bat. Doesn't matter though, his ejection was justified, which is why he left with a smile.
It's called a lie. How does practice gear make it in with game gear? Is this little league where one of the childrens father is the coach and doesn't want to spend more of his own money to keep gear seperated? Every MLB team could bring out lets say 3 bats per player # wise. Then the umpires could select like 3 to 5 total random bats to intentionally bust per before the first pitch. These teams have to much money to work with for this stupid crap. Peace
MLB has regulations on how heavy and how long bats can be, players cork bats to make them lighter making them faster to swing, Corking a bat does not give extra distance when you hit a ball but it does make it easier to make contact with the ball since you can swing it a bit faster making it easier to make contact with the ball, SO it would be more cost effective to have a electronic scale that every bat being used in the game has to be weighed, if the bat is too light it can't be used in the game.
Fun fact about cork wood. It's a much softer wood that absorbs more of the impact of a baseball when compared to oak wood. So using a cork bat might actually lessen the overall distance the ball travels when struck. Aluminum absorbs so little it can actually multiply the speed of the ball so fast that it could kill a pitcher in a line drive.
@@DeLewrh with how fast they pitch you need to swing fast so the lighter bat will make it swing faster and can help your timing with faster pitchers but like they said it does absorb the impact and shorten overall distance but sometimes a quick single is all you need
That is the stupidest thing anyone could say. If you think that you are an idiot. He did it, he got caught, and every one, even the ump treats it like a joke.
I remember Chris Sabo’s towering home runs in Centennial Park in Burlington VT when he played AA ball. It was funny to hear the commentators talking about the Reds not having a lot of good players in the minor leagues which was probably true when Sabo was in the majors, but there were a depth of players that came up with him that ended up having distinguished Major League careers. There were at least two future HOF players who came up through that AA team in those few years.
@@catfighter5879 one piece is far more entertaining than baseball. Not everyone knows that... But maybe that's for the best. What happens whenever something becomes *too* popular?
To this day, watching Sabo look at the bat before swinging and then his gestures in the dugout, leads me to think it wasn't him. That bat got in there by accident or someone experimenting with it during practice and forgot about it or lost it among many bats.
@@Maninawig Some people believe that having a cork core (drilling out the center of your baseball bat and filling it with wine bottle corks) will make the ball go further when hit by the bat, as the bat is lighter and therefore easier to swing quickly. Whether this is true or not is unknown (and Mythbusters came to the conclusion that its actually detrimental). Regardless, it was banned by the MLB so that people don't go looking for ways to use things hidden in the bat to gain an unfair advantage.
@@jackhilbing8287 I don't think they think the ball will go further, but the bat is lighter and easier to maneuver, a lot of hitters find it easier to hit balls with a corked bat because there timing is better.
@@jackhilbing8287 Cork and pine tar (as a bat grip...see the George Brett game) are banned because they make a mess, not because they give a competitive advantage.
Everyone in this video is having a good laugh over this because they know Sabo is not a power, or even homerun, hitter at all. I think he averaged 12 homeruns a season in his career while guys like Albert Belle - who was caught using a corked bat - was averaging like 35 homeruns a season in his career and even hit 50 in one year.
Not only did Albert belle cheat with a corked bat. The Indians sent players to sneak into the umpires office to try and swap out the corked bat with a clean one.
@@jurassicsushi quicker bat swing. Takes a little weight out of the head of the bat and replaces it with saw dust or cork. Lighter bat equals quicker and easier swing.
- - -@@tokivikerness8863 Mythbasters already busted this myth. But players don`t have enought brains to understand that. And most muirikans too, i think.
I was at that game and most people didn't believe that he knew it was corked as the bat boy brought him that bat as he also broke the bat on the previous pitch!! 😲. He was one of my favorite players as he was an older guy holding his own with the younger players!!
@Pravose Pillnits I think it says that he knew the bat was corked and he didn't want to give it up because he knew he was going to get a good hit on it and he was hoping it would hold together.lol
Honestly I really love how the announcers look at the situation, most would just say that he was sure cheating or just was too slow to change bats. It really does sound reasonable that the batter was just caught doing so by circumstance, i mean yeah, if you knew you had a corked bat why else would you decide on letting it break instead changing to a none corked one?
+John Otto lel a prank happened in my little leauge, someone came back late to the game and he was at the doctor and he stole some injectors/needles and put them in my friends pocket so he got a hit and he slid, then injectors/needles fall out of his pocket and the umps thought they where performance enhancing drugs XD
Nobody's watching the Cincinnati Reds, this is for real. Baseball players have cheated since time begin in baseball. Cheating scandals, steroids, corked bats, juiced balls, sticky substances, blood letting, and everything else in this world you can think of these guys have done it and still do it... oh the houston Astros sign stealing scandal the year they won the world series... baseball is a very traditional sport and those days playing it like a soap opera was bad for business, everyone was a purist and they hate cheating...
@@chuckdeuces911 Corked bats make the ball travel a shorter distance because the cork absorbs some of the impact force. There’s no reason you’d want to use a corked bat over a normal wooden one. Only reason he was ejected is because it wasn’t a standard issue bat. Whether the bat would make him play better (aluminium bat) or worse (corked bat), it’s not what he was supposed to be using so it’s classed as illegal so he gets ejected. No ifs ands or buts
@@kermeinchara4328 I saw the "disproof", where a guy in a comment says the TV show didn't increase the swing speed manually on the robot. It made me laugh. If you give a robot less mass and tell it to swing with the same force, it will swing it faster, no need to adjust the arm. Sad that most people don't understand the physics they claim to know. I can tell you with certainty that thread up there is trying to help each other understand and failing. Lol
So, they’re going to send that bat to the “umpire’s room”, huh. Mm hm. I wonder what’s going on in the umpire’s room? Lots of microscopes in there probably, all kinds of different scanners. With lasers. Maybe it’s like the Batcave in there. With the umpire’s “bat” crime computer, spitting out punch cards. “Beep beep, boop boop - BAT WAS… CORKED” Or who knows, maybe there’s just an old couch in there, and a fridge with a couple of cold ones in it.
I like your first theory, but with angel Hernandez voicing the batcave computer! “Beep-boop, that’s a strike”.. “that’s not a strike angel, that’s a bat”
If I remember correctly the ending of this the bat boy actually stated he brought out the wrong bat when sabo's original bat broke, and I distinctly remember sabo saying he was unaware it was corked till after it broke and he looked down at it ,he knew he was going to be ejected even if it wasn't his fault the bat he used was corked, sabo's not stupid enough to cheat, I think that's why now teams tend to mark the corked bats to tell them apart from the actual solid bats (if I'm mistaken please correct me but I'm sure I remember teams starting to make the corked bats easier to identify against non-corked ones)
The word *CORKED* in big bold letters on the side or the grip. No tangible difference from a real one, just the world's easiest way to tell the two apart if you have eyes. Why was such a simple change never implemented we never know.
@@saverofthehumens If they are clearly marked differently, then you can't fall back on the excuse of having it "accidentally" brought out when you get busted for having it.
Randomly suggesting a baseball video to a Brit who has literally never watched a clip about it never mind a game. Yet here I am, well done algorithm you got me.
I'm not a fan of sports but there's something about having not only the skill but also the knowledge these presenters have that makes it super interesting and insightful
Sabo only played three more games after this in his career, all as a pinch hitter. He never got another start or another base hit. His career just about ended on this ejection.
@Igotacavityfrom sweettalkingyourchick rightfully so? If this was accidental, I think we can all agree that he didnt rightfully deserve this and even if this was intentional, he deserves to have his career ended because he used an illegal instrument others have used before?
@Shadesworth i can see his comment went so far over your head it slammed into the moon, he was saying why did he get punished when it was someone else's doing that caused him to be ejected
So true people in this country have become way too sensitive about so many things, the men and woman who made this country are long gone by now. They are probably spinning in their graves on their heads.
I was thinking that. I don't watch baseball but even I was thinking that the commentator guys were making a lot of assumptions about that being a 'practice bat'.
@Hunter he could have just struck out instead of hitting the ball then he knew it was already cracked. Then nobody would no and nobody would check the bat. I don't think he knew that bat was corked. even though he has a meathead hair cut nobody is that dumb.
The obvious conclusion is he didn't know it was corked. Someone who did know would have taken the chance of getting it examined after cracking instead of breaking it open to be seen by everyone.
The algorithm of RUclips never fails to impress me. It’s 6:09am here in the U.K., I can’t stand baseball yet here I am reading about Chris Sabo and his personal life on Wiki after this video. I’ll never learn.
ronjon83 Okay, a question.....why is it not allowed to do this? I don't know the rules of the game...... is it because it makes the bat lighter, so easier to swing faster and harder? Seems like that would be right... Is there some regulations in the weight of all bats that wouldn't allow this? I ask because we don't play baseball is the UK.....well some may, but it's not as popular as it is in the US, Cuba, or Japan for example
It was a setup. Way too many faces of joy. Kinda creepy to see that as a Cincinnati player, you better watch out of Red "fellows" because maybe you are getting a nasty surprise from them.
@@subg8858 I'm thinking setup. The whole team would have also got fined 25k for the incident. They wouldn't have found it so funny if it were not done on purpose. The announcers even clued in to it being a prank. I'll bet the first bat was corked too. It made the same sound when it broke.
This is the only time baseball gets Interesting, action or intrigue. When I went to a stadium to watch a game, thinking I'd have FUN, I sat for hours watching teams transition from side to side then my home team got smashed to pieces in score. I would rather have been relaxing at home, seen our team losing the whole time, and switched channels
I think its a bit like cricket - unless you're super into the minutae of the game, it isn't necessarily worth going live. He'll, even going live to a cricket match its worth having the radio on in your ear.
0:08 Sabo definitely used his bat the first time, and then the bat boy brings him someone else's bat. Notice one is a Louisville Slugger, and the second bat is a Mizuno. 4:03 Sabo talks to the owner of the corked Mizuno bat.
@@niallcorcoran4437 0:12 it is a block printed "M," not cursive. I looked up the different style of "M" used by Marucci Vs Mizuno on their bats, and Marucci uses a cursive "m" and Mizuno, in the 80s and 90s used a block print style "M." This means it was Mizuno. Besides, as mentioned above, Marucci began in 2004; this game played in 1996. Thoughts?
1:40 Could the Reds manager act any more more guilty?? Ump: So what do you know about this? Reds Manager: Well ummm....you seeeeeee...um..well....that right there....um....you know....is....I don't know....ummmm....well....ya.
EnigmaOGN it could have just him being stressed or nervous about his team facing repercussions and negative feedback that can hinder the image. He may or may not have known. It's possible he swapped multiple bats under his direct request and the players didn't know
Im sure the bat boy made a simple mistake and grabbed one that probably was marked or separated by mistake. honestly just looks like a big mistake by the way everyone was laughing about it
if it was marked, then it was more likely an inadvertent use of illegal bat. I say if you get caught with one in a game, no matter what- the tam gets a serious penalty- like forfeit the game.. Put the onus on management to police their own players
The only reason to cork a bat is to cheat. Certainly the only reason to have one in a MLB stadium is to cheat. But if they were having them for a lark then you bet they'd mark it so prominently you can't miss. And note the bat boy brought Sabo THREE bats and he chose one. A corked one.
The people here who blame the bat boy have to go back to 0:10 and see him pick out the bat, bat boy has three bats. holds out one, and sabo goes for a marked one. no one here thinks that after thousands of hours of practice, baseballers can't recognize different bats?
Hemnir Yes it seems that batboy is extending his left arm to Sabo almost recommending the bat on the left, but Sabo ignored that bat and opted for one of the two bats on the right side.
Mythbusters proved corked bats are no advantage whatsoever, in fact, they are detrimental in terms of how far the ball will go. I do agree with the penalty because it is technically a rule violation and everyone knows it and the players may even think that it does give some kind of advantage, even though, it doesn't. Runs in the same category of the punter that could punt so far the balls were tested for helium, however, if you fill the ball with helium it actually will not go as far due to it being lighter. If it was filled with something like sulfur hexafluoride then it WOULD go farther because it will push through the air better. Fill the bat with lead next time lol.
the8jrfan Mythbusters was right but they were way behind the curve, so to speak. They haven't used cork for a long time because pros already knew that it provided little advantage. Even though they are still commonly called "corked" bats they are actually stuffed with something dense and heavy these days.
Cuinn Mullins Then don't say anything. You sound like some shit talking troll by saying "You're wrong just trust me I know." Explain then if they're wrong.
the8jrfan I just wanted the person to do some research of his own instead of believing that the "Mythbusters proved corked bats are no advantage whatsoever, in fact, they are detrimental in terms of how far the ball will go." just cuz they said so
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Reminds me of when Mythbusters proved a corked bat makes the ball travel shorter distances due to the corked core absorbing a large percentage of the impact unlike aluminum which absorbs less of the impact making the ball travel farther due to the higher percentage of momentum conserved in the elastic impact. So if you can hit a homerun with a corked bat, give that batter a medal
the thing is, MLB players don’t use aluminum bats, i’d like to see how corked is compared to a standard wood bat.
That was a bogus test, IMO. The whole point of using cork is to make the bat lighter, thus increasing swing speed. A faster bat *can* produce a longer hit ball. Same as in golf. IIRC, they did not adjust the swing speed of the mechanical arm.
EDIT: Wow, there's a lot of replies to my comment, some of which are a bit uncalled for, so let me clarify...
If we're only talking about the potential distance advantages of a corked bat, I think it still boils down to force. That is, the greater the force applied to the ball, the longer the ball will travel. IIRC, the calculation is F=MA. So, if the mass is dropped slightly, so does the force and the ball won't travel as far as noted in the Mythbusters experiment.
However, if the drop in mass allows for the batter to swing it faster (and logically it does), then the corked bat *may* result in a farther hit ball, so long as the increased swing speed more then compensates for the decrease in mass.
What I would have liked them to do: run the calculation "for mass of bat m1 with a swing speed of s1, the resultant distance is d1". I would run this multiple times to account for minor variables. Then cork the bat and note the drop in mass. Then perform the calc for the breakeven point "for mass m2, the swing speed must be at least s2 to achieve the original distance of d1". Then adjust the swing speed of the bat to s2 to demonstrate it. Then conclude what the likelihood of achieving s2 (or greater) is. Something like, "you'd have to increase your swing speed from 90 to 120 mph" which seems unlikely and would conclude corking is not worth it. To the contrary, "you'd have to increase your swing speed from 90 to 94" might be achievable and thus worth it (aside from the penalty of getting caught).
For completeness, I would also perform this experiment on various sizes of bats. Perhaps corking a small bat doesn't make sense, but corking a larger one does?
Also, players use corked bats for reasons other than a gain in distance.
@@CreamySpoon Where did you learn your physics mate?
@Samuel Prince it’s been a while since my last physics class but isn’t velocity x mass what determines force? More velocity should produce more force.
@@Noplayster13 i believe its mass×acceleration, but since velocity is the derivative, its basically as you said i think
If anyone’s wondering why this is an issue;
“In baseball, a corked bat is a specially modified baseball bat that has been filled with cork or other lighter, less dense substances to make the bat lighter. A lighter bat gives a hitter a quicker swing and may improve the hitter's timing.”
(Edit; Wikipedia copy/paste)(Edit 2; I’m amused at how many people take seeing a copy/paste as a personal insult.)
I don't know anything about baseball. I think you know very well. Do you know why different woods affect the strike timing?
Timing? A ball isn’t getting anywhere being hit by cork!
While that the above statement was true, the momentum of a corked bat is reduced compared to the solid one. That's why we should always use solid bats because corked bats will lead to, most of the time, flyout.
Cork is a terrible material to use for this though. It's too soft and absorbs force from the ball, affecting the hit.
Thank you
It's amazing how calm the announcers are considering they executed Chris Sabo directly after this game.
Wait what
I don't know if executed is the right word...
I think the word you’re looking for is excoriated
Woah baseball is more extreme then I thought
*executed*
announcers are spot on, if he knew it was corked he wouldn't have ever taken a second swing after he heard it crack
You never know. That would be just as stupid an act as cheating like that to begin with
@Logan You are not the brightest...
@@135Ops Says the person who said that to someone who was completely correct
If he admits the bat is broken it gets checked and he is fucked.
He had to keep going and hope it didn't break
@@gyroscope915 Then miss? Why slug a broken bat you know is corked? I'm with the camp he didn't know.
The way he kept looking at the bat like he thought there was something different about it, leads me to believe that he didn't know when he took it.
Cork is abnormally poor for baseball, because it absorbs a ton of the shock from hitting the ball. It's essentially like hitting it with a foam toy bat. No player would knowingly take a cork-filled bat, because it's incredibly difficult to hit far with one. There's no way he knew it was corked if he willingly took that bat.
@@basedimperialism but since the bat will be lighter you can swing it faster just depends on if the extra speed the batter can create will out balance the loss of the corked bat
@@bulletbourne327 Not really. Cork isn't that might lighter than normal wood. You'd only save a few ounces max, which translates to maybe a few inches per hour faster. The weight reduction is insignificant compared to the shock absorption.
Edit: Changed "a few pounds" to "a few ounces."
@@basedimperialism it wasn't bored out super far either, so its probably more like ounces. I'm curious now though.
@@bulletbourne327 and less mass also means less kinetic energy.
The most interesting moments in baseball are when there's no baseball being played
This is the most accurate thing I've heard all day, my guy lol
Yeah
Same with football
The hate for baseball is so silly. If you want to hate a game, at least pick one that deserves it like Golf.
@@cbalan777 or baseball
"Sabo also pointed out his minimal offensive numbers that year (.256 batting average with 3 home runs), saying "That's hardly a good endorsement for the cork industry.""
I love this guy
for some reason he was my favorite growing up. this further etches his greatness in my mind.
Or he used a corked bat because of those dismal numbers, you have no data other than your wanting it to be so
lol
@@captainchaos8701 It was probably those dope goggles he sported.
He was a solid player also, but his eyewear was unusual, which branded him in a unique way, and that signature look made him memorable. There are players from his era who were just as good, or even better, who are barely remembered.
Others that come to mind that fall into this memorable branding camp are:
- John Olerud (and his batting helmet)
- Barry Bonds (dangly cross earing, turtleneck, and cyborg arm pad)
- Jim Abbot (one hand; his incredible throwing to glove-on-hand transition - *and also prob my fav Angel pitcher of all time*)
- Julio Franco (batting stance & swing)
- Frank Thomas (straight up huge man, and even on TV, he just looked like a total hulk)
- Randy Johnson (legendary pitching aside, he was memorable for his crazy tall & lanky frame, mustache, and mullet)
- Reggie Jackson (Mr October was always rocking his aviator style glasses or sunglasses)
- Rollie Fingers (curled, handlebar mustache)
- Tim Lincecum (long, straight hair and resemblance to Joseph Gordon-Levitt)
Bartolo Colon (pudgy pitcher with a great personality, who hit one of the greatest Mets dingers of all time)
...and many others.
Heck, even a negative thing can brand a player forever:
- Bill Buckner (he was an All Star, NL Batting Champ, had 2700+ Hits, 170+ HRs, and 1200+ RBIs, but does anyone remember that? Nope, they remember him catastrophically missing a first base ground ball in the '86 WS forever).
- Armando Galarraga/Jim Joyce (the Perfect Game that wasn't, due to Joyce's botched 1st Base 'Safe' call. Though the game is not recorded as a PG in MLB record books, everyone knows that it was, in fact, a PG, and so it has ironically become one of the most memorable PGs ever)
Other sports:
- Dennis Rodman (his hair colors, piercings + his tattoos were unique in his era)
- Anthony Davis (unibrow)
- Troy Polamalu (long wavy black hair)
- Clay Matthews (long blonde hair)
There are lots, of course.
Some of the above are just fashion/lifestyle related, some are just that they use unique gear, and others are purely genetic and just part of who the player is and their story. But all of these things are memorable.
Most of the above also happen to be solid or even great players, but they are remembered in a different way than their peers because of their uniqueness.
Wow, this got long. lol
Never took himself too seriously, other could learn from that..(looking right at you B. Harper!)
The relaxed vibes of the announcers and the lack of chaotic music and ads makes this the best baseball/sports I’ve watched in a long time
So true
Baseball. Game where Sleeping and you missed NOTHING.
100000% the energy of the broadcast and everything just so nice and mellow
You would enjoy snooker and cricket my friend
@@Endeva09 I've always wondered why I find these and baseball enjoyable. Maybe this is it.
He was caught with an illegal piece of timber, which was sent to the umpire's laboratory for testing. It was found that Sabo was batting with a 300 foot tall redwood tree.
lmao
Anyone who can bat with such a thing deserves a medal
And his arms were genetically engineered to include cork where his bones used to be. Adds more spring
😂😂😂😂
@Emily Lavën Haven’t heard that game mentioned in many a year XD
ok everyone talking about the bat but can we take a moment to talk about the guy that handed the broken piece to his clone 1:33
Probably his brother LoL 😅
@@sc6907 naah clone is the only logical answer
@@tabithasdumb-dumbs5890 yeah, The devs didn't even make an effort to change it.
@@Bammy1108 for a game with such graphics you'd expect more npc models smh
They'll do their job well, I guarantee that.
It’s really cool how the commentary gave him the benefit of the doubt before accusing him of cheating. A lost art in our day in time
Bro it's not like it was a video from 1915 lol
Talking about this vid like its vintage lost footage from 1734
Our culture has become so petty and spiteful!
@@neondystopian the guy in the video was actually cheating though, right?
@@FordRangerClassics idk, I don't really care enough to search it and find out. The commentators rushing to his defense breaks the fevered pitch of the accusatory tones of our modern society so is it okay if we just have this moment, man?
these commentators did a very good job discussing what happened.
This discussion was typical of them. George Grande and Chris Welsh were one of the most underrated commentating teams in baseball, in my opinion. I can't tell you how much I learned about the game while growing up from their commentary like the segment here. I was a huge fan of Marty and Joe on radio and still am today, but people forget how superb Reds tv broadcasts were back then.
+Matthew Green - Back 20 years ago when this happened, yeah maybe Welsh was a good color guy. But now he is just a giant homer that always jumps to conclusions based on his employment with the Reds/FoxSportsOH. He is usually wrong and won't even admit with the invention of instant replay. He has a very bad reputation in the media as a biased homer. Even when replay proves him wrong and Thom telling him he might be off a little bit - he won't admit it. He has become an idiot in his advanced age but you are right about one thing. HE is awesome to listen too especially when the Reds are getting the asses kicked. There isn't a bigger cry baby in baseball when things aren't going right for the Reds. ROFL
Alexander Lively It most definitely was intentional. So many guys were corking their bats in this time period wine makers started using pull tabs due to the shortage. That's just the home announcers trying to place at least a shadow of doubt into the viewers minds. Why would guys fuck around at batting practice with a corked bat but not in the game? These are pros not kids at a sand lot.
Reggie Rhoden those commentators did what the league would WANT them to do. Play it off as if it was a joke at the guys mess around with in batting practice lmao!!! Good one
homers
“It could be perhaps that hes a victim of circumstance”
_team mates holding back laughs_
Frfr
Sorry if I’m incorrect, but are you trying to say that because his mates laughed it means that he intentionally used the wrong bat? Because if so that is pretty stupid reasoning.
@@mrblister7631 no, the insinuation is that his team mates set him up
@@jordanious7711 oh sorry my bad. Thank you for the correction.
"I didnt know my bat was corked"
"Thats not my kilo of crack in my car"
"That rifle was not in my pants"
The anatomy of a setup. Those guys got him good. They almost swallowed their chew juice laughing at him. Dudes nearly fell over trying to hold it in.
Yeah it feels like his teammates set him up on that one
Lol that doesn't mean they set him up. It's not that unusual for friends or team mates to laugh when the other gets caught out for things. I've seen it in my sport too. You might not respond that way, but plenty do
@@DreamBelief OK YOUNG ONE ITS ALWAYS EASY TO SEE
@@strueskills people who write in all caps. a special kind of breed.
@@sam-psonsmith9951 CAPS LOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL. AND IN CASE I HAPPEN TO MENTION DOOM.
When they asked him if he knew how that bat ended up corked he replied, “Yo No Sabo”
LMAO
Lmao
Snitches get stitches yknow
*Yo no sé
@@just_dec so it was a joke..
I guess you could say he got sabotaged
SkyZero 409 SaBATaged
I was going to say that Xd
Hhhhhhhhhaaaaaaahahahahaha
Sabo-taged like skyzero said is better imo
What you did there, I saw it.
if he knew it was corked he wouldn't have used it after it cracked
Exactly they need to understand
also his bat before broke and it wasnt corked and he was forced to go for a different one.
+Allen M Sorry, it doesn't matter. The rules say if a player uses invalid equipment during a league game, that player will be ejected. I feel for the guy. I think that he got screwed; by a teammate or the bat boy. Regardless of how I feel, the rules state he must be ejected. There's no wiggle room; no exceptions are stated in the rules. There might be now, but the rules in force at the time of this incident cited no exception to the invalid equipment rule.
+Allen M He knew it was corked. He didn't want to go get another bat because it looked suspicious... two swings two broken bats... and they did an article on it, and they found out it was
+EILRAHC T "It was"...you left me hanging here...arggg...I'd love to know what the aftermath was.
It’s almost like this sport has an extensive history of cheating.
I could name like 10 instances of cheating in like the past 3 years!
Yep, almost.
It is not even a sport.
The USA just cheats at everything, every single sport they take part in they cheat.
Football
Baseball
Boxing
Hockey
Basketball
Cycling
Wrestling
Athletics (multiple events)
The list goes on and on
@@bctiger575 Which is pretty much a fact in every other country and their sports. The corruption in European football is rampant.
Reminds me of that cyclist who had a motor in his bike. It had to be small and wouldn't do much, but among the elite, even 1% additional performance can do the trick. He was found out when there was a mass collision with six or so bikes, and his back wheel wouldn't stop spinning ...
I love how the manager starts scratching his head immediately when the ump first shows him the bat
I think that's funny
chiga tumadre
ire
Chris MacLean I noticed that also, haha
HMMMMMMMMM
In an interview, Sabo maintained he never used corked bat and added "If you look at my numbers, you can tell I'm not using one this year." LOL!
Absolute legend
He didn't cork anything intentionally. Why would he willingly use it again after he heard it crack?
@Faze BlaZe Shadow I could say the same for you, and I doubt that Andrej Bogdanov is a man with an IQ of 200, but he’s probably right.
@@tatererer9747 seeing as a majority of these players have had more college education than a great deal of the population, saying something so ignorant is really just ridiculous. Just because they are physical for a living doesn't mean their mental state won't peak above yours
"This year"*
I love how Sabo looks down at the broken bat afterwards... you know he's thinking "uh oh" lol.
Colonel Klink its the batboys fault
And Sabo didn't even bother getting upset when he was tossed. He said OK.
He held on to the broken part for a while. Like , what do I do?
Colonel Klink I
It was the bat boys fault. Lots of pro players practice with corked bats. He was delivered a practice bat. Doesn't matter though, his ejection was justified, which is why he left with a smile.
Ump 1: "Hey boss. Check this out."
Ump 2: *visibly enraged*
1st
That umpires face when he looked at that bat lmao. It’s like when a dad reads a bad note from his kids school.
Oh sheit meter
I can’t even see his face
@an entity idk how I can behind the mask and low quality video.
@@Mikey-ym6ok try opening your eyes and revisting 1:29
No words, just sheer disappointment
At least the commentators had enough sense to understand the dude didn’t even know it was corked.
Edit: I'll never get this many likes again :D
Yeah. Ok bud
@@truthbetold6578 lol okay dudio.
Nah legit if you knew you were cheating and it cracked a little nobody in thier right mind would use it again just to get ejected
If fake news were commentators they would hav made it look like Sabo was tring to kill another player w/ shrapnel.
He did not know? right.
If you do have a practice corked bat, you might want to mark it with a sharpie or something...
J D and maybe not have it in the dugout during the game? lol
Billy Ripken marked his BP bat with an infamous profanity so he could find it in a hurry.
It's called a lie. How does practice gear make it in with game gear? Is this little league where one of the childrens father is the coach and doesn't want to spend more of his own money to keep gear seperated?
Every MLB team could bring out lets say 3 bats per player # wise. Then the umpires could select like 3 to 5 total random bats to intentionally bust per before the first pitch. These teams have to much money to work with for this stupid crap. Peace
MLB has regulations on how heavy and how long bats can be, players cork bats to make them lighter making them faster to swing, Corking a bat does not give extra distance when you hit a ball but it does make it easier to make contact with the ball since you can swing it a bit faster making it easier to make contact with the ball, SO it would be more cost effective to have a electronic scale that every bat being used in the game has to be weighed, if the bat is too light it can't be used in the game.
If the bat is travelling at a higher velocity, then the distance the ball travels is greater. Simple physics.
Those Reds unis were the absolute fkn best.
Sabo was a dude. Glad he went back to Cincinnati for his final year.
Fun fact about cork wood. It's a much softer wood that absorbs more of the impact of a baseball when compared to oak wood. So using a cork bat might actually lessen the overall distance the ball travels when struck. Aluminum absorbs so little it can actually multiply the speed of the ball so fast that it could kill a pitcher in a line drive.
That my type of baseball.
why would someone cheat with one then? I'm not that into baseball
@@DeLewrh lighter
@@bombomos death ball
@@DeLewrh with how fast they pitch you need to swing fast so the lighter bat will make it swing faster and can help your timing with faster pitchers but like they said it does absorb the impact and shorten overall distance but sometimes a quick single is all you need
His teammates set him up, look at the players on the bench cracking up😂
Don't know why they would do that considering that's a fine and suspension coming....
MrJimmy3459 not for them
It's a prank! It's a prank, bro!
That is the stupidest thing anyone could say. If you think that you are an idiot. He did it, he got caught, and every one, even the ump treats it like a joke.
None of them were “cracking up”
I remember Chris Sabo’s towering home runs in Centennial Park in Burlington VT when he played AA ball. It was funny to hear the commentators talking about the Reds not having a lot of good players in the minor leagues which was probably true when Sabo was in the majors, but there were a depth of players that came up with him that ended up having distinguished Major League careers. There were at least two future HOF players who came up through that AA team in those few years.
Vermont expos!!
Good to see another Vermonter
VT gang💯
I remember seeing Champ the mascot at the games too
Centennial was a good time back in the day
I love it! Cheating in MLB is a good old American tradition. Notice how everyone on the field was smiling? Hysterical!
*watches video of Bo Jackson breaking bat over his head*
*Ends up here 5 days later*
Same
Same
Same
Same
Same
Gotta love how his teammates are trying to control their laughter 😂😂
How old was arnold schwarzenegger when he was old
I clicked on this video because I thought it was something to do with one piece
@@catfighter5879 Lmao not Sabo from one piece Sabo is to good for baseball he would play it with a flaming baseball not a regular ball
@@catfighter5879 one piece is far more entertaining than baseball. Not everyone knows that... But maybe that's for the best. What happens whenever something becomes *too* popular?
@@derealized797 agreed
I bet they jumped the bat boy after this
Joseph Stalin My Lord
Joseph Stalin is dead
The ZombiesLegend2019 not to me he isn’t
Long live the great Stalin our lord
Joseph Stalin I thought u died
To this day, watching Sabo look at the bat before swinging and then his gestures in the dugout, leads me to think it wasn't him. That bat got in there by accident or someone experimenting with it during practice and forgot about it or lost it among many bats.
Based on the reactions of some of his teammates in the dugout, they could’ve had the batboy bring him the corked bat to screw with him.
3:35 going back to the classics. I love that every single person, even the umpires, had a good smile about this
I am confused on the rule here (first time I even heard of a corked bat). Can you please explain?
@@Maninawig Some people believe that having a cork core (drilling out the center of your baseball bat and filling it with wine bottle corks) will make the ball go further when hit by the bat, as the bat is lighter and therefore easier to swing quickly. Whether this is true or not is unknown (and Mythbusters came to the conclusion that its actually detrimental). Regardless, it was banned by the MLB so that people don't go looking for ways to use things hidden in the bat to gain an unfair advantage.
@@jackhilbing8287 oh that makes sense. Thanks.
@@jackhilbing8287 I don't think they think the ball will go further, but the bat is lighter and easier to maneuver, a lot of hitters find it easier to hit balls with a corked bat because there timing is better.
@@jackhilbing8287 Cork and pine tar (as a bat grip...see the George Brett game) are banned because they make a mess, not because they give a competitive advantage.
Haha the guys on the bench are laughing at him!! They knew it was loaded...
Stuntman D29 No doubt man.
Of course; the whole team got fined 25 g's.
yea but why wasnt the first one corked and why in gods name would he use it after it was already cracked if he knew it was corked?
ramrodnj he didn’t know it was corked the bay boy gave him the wrong bat when he broke the first one
@@nathanwebb5981 No, Sabo knows which bats are his. He wouldn't take a bat that wasn't his from the bat boy.
Everyone in this video is having a good laugh over this because they know Sabo is not a power, or even homerun, hitter at all. I think he averaged 12 homeruns a season in his career while guys like Albert Belle - who was caught using a corked bat - was averaging like 35 homeruns a season in his career and even hit 50 in one year.
Not only did Albert belle cheat with a corked bat. The Indians sent players to sneak into the umpires office to try and swap out the corked bat with a clean one.
Corked bats are lighter thus the swing is faster which is good for contact hitting as well.
What advantages are there having a corked bat? I am not a sports / baseball guy but curious non the less.
@@jurassicsushi quicker bat swing. Takes a little weight out of the head of the bat and replaces it with saw dust or cork. Lighter bat equals quicker and easier swing.
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Mythbasters already busted this myth.
But players don`t have enought brains to understand that.
And most muirikans too, i think.
I was at that game and most people didn't believe that he knew it was corked as the bat boy brought him that bat as he also broke the bat on the previous pitch!! 😲. He was one of my favorite players as he was an older guy holding his own with the younger players!!
If he had swapped it when it cracked he would have been ok
@Pravose Pillnits do a better job of cheating?
@Pravose Pillnits you didn't know it was corked either. What does that tell you?
do any of u know anything about baseball
@Pravose Pillnits I think it says that he knew the bat was corked and he didn't want to give it up because he knew he was going to get a good hit on it and he was hoping it would hold together.lol
1carpentrys lol yep. He was cheating ... he didn’t want to give up that bat even though it was cracked
the bat boy had 1 job...
PeachRobot1000 LOL!!!
I agree
PeachRobot1000 hahaha right. Batboy must have been an Astro's fan.
PeachRobot1000, so did Tom Brady's ball boy...
PeachRobot1000 hahah
Well that's sabo for you so strong, strong enough to protect Luffy and his friends from the marine admiral.
Nah, Sabo uses steel !
Should've used haki on the bat to keep it from breaking
his steel pole do be corked tho
I'm slain by this joke
Glad the OP fans are here 😁
Honestly I really love how the announcers look at the situation, most would just say that he was sure cheating or just was too slow to change bats. It really does sound reasonable that the batter was just caught doing so by circumstance, i mean yeah, if you knew you had a corked bat why else would you decide on letting it break instead changing to a none corked one?
Except the bats have players names….. no you right it was prob the bat boy
Why am I watching this, I live in Australia, have never watched baseball, and baseball doesn’t even really exist here
As a Kiwi, I feel that too !
I'm an argentinian in new zealand, not the faintest idea
Razor Ultra corking a cricket bat wouldn’t help though but cheating in general is still a thing 👍
Razor Ultra I know that’s what I’m saying
Oi, it's cricket mate
If he was aware it was corked I doubt he would’ve continued after it cracked. He’s not an idiot
I like how u repeated exactly what they told u. Nice job keeping up
@@ryuk5673 “Nice job keepin up🤓”
@@ryuk5673 “I like how 🤓🤣🤓”
I don't know, doesn't seem like a PhD to me.
1:21 “Now you’re making me hungry.”
“Wouldn’t take a lot to do that.”
This man just roasted his co-commentator alive and it went right by him.
@Travis Fresh sigh.. censoring curses. Yt automatically deletes comments with cussing right?
I had to go back and listen😂😂
@@jackdaniels1749 Yep 😠
Joke that doesnt affect target but only for people who get it is just pathethic.
@@jackdaniels1749 " fatass ", nope don't believe it ever has
I saw the game live on TV, I remember when this happened! I didn't even watch that much baseball as a kid, but this was a wild one to catch.
I mean if he wanted to use the corked bat he probably would have went up to the plate with that one first
How do you know the first one wasn't?
donkey punch I don’t...
@@traww9537 i know. I'm just messing with you
punch because it cracked they looked inside of it and it was normal and the second was different
@@b.l.o.o.m6614 I'm going to direct you to my previous comment
Chris Sabo was not an Imposter
1 Imposter remains
Legend
@xXProdigiousXx ur a legend
Hahaha
haha good one
I was venting
player gets caught cheating
announcers: “that is classic”
He wasnt cheating...he didnt know it was corked
Hey he was right tho, we still talking about it
@@kxng4525 sure he didn't
Not even cheating it cork makes it worse
@@kxng4525 he didn’t know, but it’s still cheating
Only recently got into Baseball, loving these recommended vids. Learning a lot.
Why don't they just paint a wood grain over a nice aluminum bat ?......TING !
+Kyle Kadence Sabo: The Heck? Hey It Went Ping I Didn't Ask For A Aluminum Bat
Are you fucking stupid?
*sarcasm*
+Pablo Escobar Apparently not as stupid as you are...
+John Otto lel a prank happened in my little leauge, someone came back late to the game and he was at the doctor and he stole some injectors/needles and put them in my friends pocket so he got a hit and he slid, then injectors/needles fall out of his pocket and the umps thought they where performance enhancing drugs XD
The crowd was polled after this incident and it was stated that this was one of the most exciting incidents in the history of baseball. No joke.
More sabotages like this in baseball pls. Anything to make it interesting
Yes, and steroids!
Lol Sabo-tage......
Typical...
MMA and GTA fan
I bet you wear affliction also
@@llamacebu216 wow people enjoy stuff 🤡
It's more interesting than football. Football is just visual diarrhea.
pretty wholesome how much you can tell the commentators love their job.
this comment made me so happy
This was a setup, everyones laughing. They played ratings games back then too
Nobody's watching the Cincinnati Reds, this is for real. Baseball players have cheated since time begin in baseball. Cheating scandals, steroids, corked bats, juiced balls, sticky substances, blood letting, and everything else in this world you can think of these guys have done it and still do it... oh the houston Astros sign stealing scandal the year they won the world series... baseball is a very traditional sport and those days playing it like a soap opera was bad for business, everyone was a purist and they hate cheating...
@@chuckdeuces911 Corked bats make the ball travel a shorter distance because the cork absorbs some of the impact force. There’s no reason you’d want to use a corked bat over a normal wooden one. Only reason he was ejected is because it wasn’t a standard issue bat. Whether the bat would make him play better (aluminium bat) or worse (corked bat), it’s not what he was supposed to be using so it’s classed as illegal so he gets ejected. No ifs ands or buts
@@NepSpoon go a few more comment threads up. They had a whole physics class disproving that mythbusters study
@@kermeinchara4328 I saw the "disproof", where a guy in a comment says the TV show didn't increase the swing speed manually on the robot. It made me laugh. If you give a robot less mass and tell it to swing with the same force, it will swing it faster, no need to adjust the arm. Sad that most people don't understand the physics they claim to know. I can tell you with certainty that thread up there is trying to help each other understand and failing. Lol
@@chuckdeuces911 you forgot about when the mafia fixed the 1919 world series
So, they’re going to send that bat to the “umpire’s room”, huh. Mm hm. I wonder what’s going on in the umpire’s room? Lots of microscopes in there probably, all kinds of different scanners. With lasers. Maybe it’s like the Batcave in there. With the umpire’s “bat” crime computer, spitting out punch cards.
“Beep beep, boop boop -
BAT WAS… CORKED”
Or who knows, maybe there’s just an old couch in there, and a fridge with a couple of cold ones in it.
I like your first theory, but with angel Hernandez voicing the batcave computer! “Beep-boop, that’s a strike”.. “that’s not a strike angel, that’s a bat”
Ok
Are you charles bukowski reincarnation???
.... They literally said it was being sent to the league office
Someone is high. Lol.
Was that the Lance Armstrong signature model
Lmfaoooo best comment I've ever seen on youtube
Alex Hili
I got my moments
I don't know,was it?
fenderstratguy OOooohhh I hate Lance.... # Suck it Armstrong
fenderstratguy Sadly, Armstrong is ten times the athlete any of these soft-bellied fatsos are.
These are my favorite pair of announcers. They are concise and cool.
He swinged the bat around as he tought the blance was of, the he looked supriced when i broke and he saw inside. He was set up
I had a stroke reading this.
I ddi half strock redding i to.
I don’t get it what says up there
You card read good.
I don't know where you learned English, but you must ask for a full refund
If I remember correctly the ending of this the bat boy actually stated he brought out the wrong bat when sabo's original bat broke, and I distinctly remember sabo saying he was unaware it was corked till after it broke and he looked down at it ,he knew he was going to be ejected even if it wasn't his fault the bat he used was corked, sabo's not stupid enough to cheat, I think that's why now teams tend to mark the corked bats to tell them apart from the actual solid bats (if I'm mistaken please correct me but I'm sure I remember teams starting to make the corked bats easier to identify against non-corked ones)
Why aren’t corked bats already different?
@@elgoogscod4791 so it feels no diffrent from a normal bat (atleasz the handling, you obviously notice it's lighter)
The word *CORKED* in big bold letters on the side or the grip. No tangible difference from a real one, just the world's easiest way to tell the two apart if you have eyes. Why was such a simple change never implemented we never know.
@@saverofthehumens I guess we never will brother
@@saverofthehumens If they are clearly marked differently, then you can't fall back on the excuse of having it "accidentally" brought out when you get busted for having it.
Randomly suggesting a baseball video to a Brit who has literally never watched a clip about it never mind a game. Yet here I am, well done algorithm you got me.
Well, have you started watching baseball?
I mean it’s pretty interesting
@@Spiffier it's definitely interesting in its' own way. Whereas soccer/football is really pretty intuitive, baseball is all about tiny margins.
Pretty much the exact same here
Me shaking in American hoping I never get a cricket game recommendation.
Most calm ejection ever.
I laughed when Sabo broke the bat
The commentators are good with the jokes. “Pizza paddle”, “wine bottles”, “classic” 😂
I wouldn’t like the bat boy after that
Honest mistake
Lol
It was his bat
by now they are probably batman
@@xman9354 underrated response
He should of kicked a field goal instead. Now the other team has a power play.
wrong sport, youre talking about ping pong...trust me
majurbludd Should have... not should of. Smh 🤦🏻♂️
Nah a slam dunk would of done some justice
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bruh but then the bungee would HAVE to go through the wickets
I'm not a fan of sports but there's something about having not only the skill but also the knowledge these presenters have that makes it super interesting and insightful
There's a lot of not a lot going on in a baseball game. You need good commentary.
Sports commentators are good like that, they're all enthusiastic nerds.
Was actually the last game he started as an MLB player. Three pinch hit appearances in three different games, and then never played again.
Wow great info!
Sad how he was set up
What a bunch of cork
What a cork of shit
Hahaha
I see your channel everywhere! That video of the train rollin the fire is cool though!
Wide World of Trains
Stop being so "corky"
Wide World of Trains I
Sabo only played three more games after this in his career, all as a pinch hitter. He never got another start or another base hit. His career just about ended on this ejection.
good
@Igotacavityfrom sweettalkingyourchick rightfully so? If this was accidental, I think we can all agree that he didnt rightfully deserve this and even if this was intentional, he deserves to have his career ended because he used an illegal instrument others have used before?
The fact that he made contact on a professional mlb pitch is something most people will never understand . It’s amazing if you ask me
@Shadesworth what did he say that was wrong?
@Shadesworth i can see his comment went so far over your head it slammed into the moon, he was saying why did he get punished when it was someone else's doing that caused him to be ejected
That is an incredible freak of nature for the cork to grow inside wood like that.
Huh? Corked bats are a form of cheating where they hollow it out and fill it with cork, I hope that helps you understand!
@@damien8949 Sarcasm is apparently lost on some folks.
@@ancil57no it’s just hard to tell in text sometimes
Ahh the good ol days when they just laughed it off. If this happened today a huge scandal would be made about it instantly.
Case in point; Sammy Sosa, even though that wasn't too recent, still, SC had a field day with it.
So true people in this country have become way too sensitive about so many things, the men and woman who made this country are long gone by now. They are probably spinning in their graves on their heads.
Yup
+m0rdecai89 He got suspended for 7 games. I wouldn't call that laughing it off.
+emcmw i feel you. People are so sensitive about 9/11 too. Dumbass
I remember channel surfing and randomly catching this happen live. Here it is again.
🤗🥲
The announcers did a great job covering for Sabo. 23 years later and people still bought the BS. "Why have a practice corked bat in the dugout?" LOL
This was 23 years ago?? Sheesh
I was thinking that. I don't watch baseball but even I was thinking that the commentator guys were making a lot of assumptions about that being a 'practice bat'.
Maybe it was a common practice 23 years ago
Wasn't sabo a good player? Why would he bother cheating?
@@MaestroAlvis they all cheat..if u don't u won't last long. Steroids corked bats pin tar resin spit balls sandpaper
Y'all talking about Sabo, but we will always remember Ace ;(
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See, if only he had switched bats the 2nd time, he wouldn't have been caught... XD
he didn't want to switch because he knew if it was sent back it would get examed
+Mariam's beauty YOU ARE A SPAMMER!
@Hunter he could have just struck out instead of hitting the ball then he knew it was already cracked. Then nobody would no and nobody would check the bat. I don't think he knew that bat was corked. even though he has a meathead hair cut nobody is that dumb.
I would just purposely strike out
The obvious conclusion is he didn't know it was corked. Someone who did know would have taken the chance of getting it examined after cracking instead of breaking it open to be seen by everyone.
The algorithm of RUclips never fails to impress me. It’s 6:09am here in the U.K., I can’t stand baseball yet here I am reading about Chris Sabo and his personal life on Wiki after this video. I’ll never learn.
same. not into sports. hate baseball. still here? you bet!
I do the same thing 😂
Sabo, the Spuds McKenzie of baseball ⚾
Same lol
Same haha 10:22 uk don’t know jack about baseball
I woulda called him Corky everytime I saw him after that.
Hahaha good one mate
Stink one
There's a Boogie on my tail
ronjon83 Okay, a question.....why is it not allowed to do this? I don't know the rules of the game...... is it because it makes the bat lighter, so easier to swing faster and harder? Seems like that would be right...
Is there some regulations in the weight of all bats that wouldn't allow this?
I ask because we don't play baseball is the UK.....well some may, but it's not as popular as it is in the US, Cuba, or Japan for example
Shona O'Neill Idk either, and I am obsessed with baseball.
He didn't know. He didn't flinch when it exploded.
It was a setup.
Way too many faces of joy.
Kinda creepy to see that as a Cincinnati player, you better watch out of Red "fellows" because maybe you are getting a nasty surprise from them.
???
Wtf? Can people not laugh?
Seems a little odd for a team to laugh when they just got busted cheating.
The f*ck are you talking about?
@@subg8858 I'm thinking setup. The whole team would have also got fined 25k for the incident. They wouldn't have found it so funny if it were not done on purpose. The announcers even clued in to it being a prank. I'll bet the first bat was corked too. It made the same sound when it broke.
1:17 He looks at the bat before he tosses it to see if he’s in trouble
James Odom bc you can hear a difference. He probably heard it.
Or maybe he’s looking at it because it just fucking exploded in his hand
Bill Cosby, I’m sure you’re an expert at shafts exploding in peoples hands
Bill Cosby, he looked right at where the corking was in the bat, have you ever seen any innocent bat breaker look at the bat like that? No.
@@jamesodom4980 I would
That Forest Gump haircut
HardAnall Jr. run Sabo, run!
My good sir what picture of the y tho kid is that
Yep, douchebag
If you mean Forrest gimp was the barber... the shit cray
HardAnall Jr. shut yo humbie bumbie lookin ass up
The fact is, he didn't choose that bat. It was handed to him!
I see the RUclips algorithm is still going strong working in its mysterious way
It scares me
IKR!!!
This is the only time baseball gets Interesting, action or intrigue. When I went to a stadium to watch a game, thinking I'd have FUN, I sat for hours watching teams transition from side to side then my home team got smashed to pieces in score. I would rather have been relaxing at home, seen our team losing the whole time, and switched channels
Sounds like an Aviators game lol
Watch rugby instead
I think its a bit like cricket - unless you're super into the minutae of the game, it isn't necessarily worth going live. He'll, even going live to a cricket match its worth having the radio on in your ear.
@@bmyattuk it’s different now with the shorter game .. much more exciting
@@freedom5941 oh, definitely. These days if I was trying to get someone into the sport I'd take them to a T20 or - heresy incoming - The Hundred.
Wow! 4 minutes plus. First time in my life watching baseball related content this long. I like these splitting bats.
After 20 years youtube decided it was time to recommend me this 👌
0:08 Sabo definitely used his bat the first time, and then the bat boy brings him someone else's bat. Notice one is a Louisville Slugger, and the second bat is a Mizuno.
4:03 Sabo talks to the owner of the corked Mizuno bat.
universalchiro it was a marucci but yea true
Niall Corcoran Marucci didn’t exist in 1996
universalchiro it was SABOtage?
@@Craiguuu
That was classic. Lol
@@niallcorcoran4437
0:12 it is a block printed "M," not cursive. I looked up the different style of "M" used by Marucci Vs Mizuno on their bats, and Marucci uses a cursive "m" and Mizuno, in the 80s and 90s used a block print style "M."
This means it was Mizuno.
Besides, as mentioned above, Marucci began in 2004; this game played in 1996.
Thoughts?
Thanks YT recommend, I really needed to see this in 2019
Same
Yeah i really don't get RUclips recommended. I don't even like baseball but just spent 5 mins watching a video about a bat breaking.
@@DmundZ Found the guy stealing my comments before I type them
Im a Packers Fan word lol
They’re leading us somewhere, I just don’t know where exactly.
I'm just a victim of soicumstance!
+jake hobbs SOITENLY!! NYUK NYUK NYUK NYUK!!
+president comacho doubt they're old, they just watch south park
yea its the three stooges are parodied on the episode with satans birthday party
it's from the three stooges
For me I recognized it from Billy Joel's "My life".
Oh what do we have here, a baseball video. Thanks for recommending these to me once every 5 years, oh mighty algorithm.
I feel like Jomboy needs to do a breakdown on this
@Jason Allen corked bats doesn't give the hitter an advantage.
@@fanenthusiast3802 Are you from secret base
Yeah Joyboy's Sabo's brother after all
1:40 Could the Reds manager act any more more guilty??
Ump: So what do you know about this?
Reds Manager: Well ummm....you seeeeeee...um..well....that right there....um....you know....is....I don't know....ummmm....well....ya.
Bat boy all grown up and has a big boy job now. Now he pumps up footballs for the Patriots
The head scratch when the refs came over was a dead give away.
EnigmaOGN it could have just him being stressed or nervous about his team facing repercussions and negative feedback that can hinder the image. He may or may not have known. It's possible he swapped multiple bats under his direct request and the players didn't know
PONYBOYonline If you're not cheating, you're not trying?
Maybe he just had an itch
I’ve never seen so much gum being chewed at the same time in my life 😭
pull up 5 of kobe’s games
It's not gum Its chewing tobacco
@@scottt3022 Except for the pink bubbles they're blowing but yeah.
big league chew was huge back then. loved that string bubble gum as a kid.
That's the sport of baseball lol
What legitimate reason would any team have for having a corked bat anywhere near a major league stadium?
Warm up before the game maybe?
Used in practice only...bat boy given wrong bat...Sabo was set up
You'd think corked bats would be marked and kept separated by the equipment guys. Only reason to have on the field during the game is to cheat.
Im sure the bat boy made a simple mistake and grabbed one that probably was marked or separated by mistake. honestly just looks like a big mistake by the way everyone was laughing about it
if it was marked, then it was more likely an inadvertent use of illegal bat. I say if you get caught with one in a game, no matter what- the tam gets a serious penalty- like forfeit the game.. Put the onus on management to police their own players
+wilson blauheuer yeah........ No, that's a terrible idea
Posted in another thread, If so than mark it by painting it orange.
The only reason to cork a bat is to cheat. Certainly the only reason to have one in a MLB stadium is to cheat. But if they were having them for a lark then you bet they'd mark it so prominently you can't miss. And note the bat boy brought Sabo THREE bats and he chose one. A corked one.
The people here who blame the bat boy have to go back to 0:10 and see him pick out the bat, bat boy has three bats. holds out one, and sabo goes for a marked one. no one here thinks that after thousands of hours of practice, baseballers can't recognize different bats?
Good point.
Baseball fans have trouble accepting reality. All their favorite players are angels who would never cheat haha
Hemnir Yes it seems that batboy is extending his left arm to Sabo almost recommending the bat on the left, but Sabo ignored that bat and opted for one of the two bats on the right side.
Hemnir maybe he just liked that bat more just for a random reason.
Chocolate Milk Of course Sabo liked that bat--it was corked.
Mythbusters proved corked bats are no advantage whatsoever, in fact, they are detrimental in terms of how far the ball will go. I do agree with the penalty because it is technically a rule violation and everyone knows it and the players may even think that it does give some kind of advantage, even though, it doesn't. Runs in the same category of the punter that could punt so far the balls were tested for helium, however, if you fill the ball with helium it actually will not go as far due to it being lighter. If it was filled with something like sulfur hexafluoride then it WOULD go farther because it will push through the air better. Fill the bat with lead next time lol.
the8jrfan Mythbusters was right but they were way behind the curve, so to speak. They haven't used cork for a long time because pros already knew that it provided little advantage. Even though they are still commonly called "corked" bats they are actually stuffed with something dense and heavy these days.
Cuinn Mullins
Then don't say anything. You sound like some shit talking troll by saying "You're wrong just trust me I know." Explain then if they're wrong.
Cuinn Mullins mythbusters are scientist, I doubt they would do something as simple as a baseball bat test incorrectly
the8jrfan I just wanted the person to do some research of his own instead of believing that the "Mythbusters proved corked bats are no advantage whatsoever, in fact, they are detrimental in terms of how far the ball will go." just cuz they said so
Cuinn Mullins
It was scientific and repeatable so that's as good as it gets IMO.
Sabo won Rookie of the Year award thanks to his corked bat.