My very favorite "trying to catch Gaylord Perry cheating" story is when a reporter asked Perry's 5-year-old daughter whether her daddy threw the spitball. She told the reporter it was a "hard slider", just like Perry said. This amuses me so much not only because a reporter decided to ask a child about her father's possible baseball cheating, but because Perry either anticipated what the reporter was gonna do and coached his daughter on what to say, or she'd picked up on what to say on her own. Either way, hilarious.
I feel like the k rate went up partially because of the emphasis on power hitting. I think having more of an emphasis on hitting for contact decreases strikeouts.
I never realized that the ban on the spitball had to with the Black Sox scandal. I thought it was solely because of the death of Ray Chapman and the timing was a coincidence.
ray chapmans death was also after the ban. in the book the pitch that killed which was about the incident the pitch wasnt a spitter either but just a worn out darkened ball from play.
Joe Posnanski summed up the double standard for Gaylord Perry's cheating best, I think, in Perry's chapter in The Baseball 100: "The best I can tell, sports fans hate some cheaters and love others, and I think it comes down to style. Barry Bonds, whatever else you want to say about him, did not charm. Roger Clemens, whatever else you want to say about him, did not charm. Perry charmed. He made everybody laugh. He did it all with a wink and a nudge and a slap on the back. He touched his hat, his shoulder, back to his hat, his chest, as if he was going for the Vaseline, going for the spit, going for the tobacco juice, and there was no way to know if he was or wasn’t. Umpires constantly checked on him, but Perry had turned the story around. In his story, the umpires were the bad guys, they were the federal agents trying to catch Junior Johnson moonshining. Perry was a rogue. Bonds was a villain. Perry is Han Solo. Clemens is Darth Vader. Yes, of course, it’s a different kind of cheating - but, more, it’s a matter of style."
Its amazing how Gaylord Perry looks exactly like Chelcie Ross's character in the movie Major League which I know is based on him especially with the dirty pitch tactics as well as the team in the movie being the Cleveland Indians. Just dont mess with JoBu's rum.
the newest thing has just been sweat and resin. It's not spider tac, but it does the same thing. Since you can't outlaw the resin bag on the mound, the umpire now has to check the pitcher's hand and, if they believe it's too tacky, make the player wash it off -.- pardon me for saying, but that's just plain stupid. TBH, they should just make a pitching glove with a specific amount of grip on it. They did this for the NFL because the ball kept getting sticky from the gunk wide receivers were putting on their hands (their are no rules against it, as long as it doesn't affect the ball in a negative way). It standardizes the amount of grip the player can use, can be easily transferred to minor and highschool leagues, and a pitcher only needs 1 off season to get used to it. The only issue is choosing the grip placement on the glove, since pitchers use several different grips and sometimes need the ball to slide out instead of stick.
When I was 11 at a pitching velocity cage I spit on the last ball to see what it would do. The guy running it yelled at me. First and only time I ever threw a spitter 😂
Regardless of genre, the thoughtful, well-researched content MTC is bringing rivals any "essay"-type content out there. All the details to satisfy baseball dorks, but enough explanation and humility to also appeal to entry-level fans or even just the curious scroller. 5 fucking stars, MTC. Please keep up the good work.
The way around the foreign substance rule is to use substances that are not foreign; such as blood, earwax, mucus, sebum and pus, and even modified sweat. Imagine... one can have an artificial cyst (or a real cyst at that) put on their skin that slowly leaks sebum and blood, which would work as a great replacement for spider tack. Large amounts of earwax can be pushed into a person's ear and pulled out intermittently. And even sweat could be used -- a person's diet can be modified to cause them to create excess sweat that is stickier than normal. Medicine can be taken that causes your body to create excess mucus (aka a very runny nose). All of these things can help pitchers throw better games.
5:35 for what it’s worth, my hometown newspaper still running today has existing clippings from October 1 showing the white Sox as favorites and us homers refusing to part ways with our dough with some leash: “The reds supporters, while expressing great confidence in their team, are demanding 7 [and even] 8 to 5 [odds], and this is a little more than Sox speculators care to offer”. The prevailing theory was the Sox having faced better competition all season with a roster that despite popular reports we now can prove through actually pay stubs was the highest paid roster by the end of the seasons (they all earned incentive bumps throughout the year) was absolutely loaded, were the favorites even in cincinnati as late as October 1 on major books. Which makes sense. Why would you fix a game they wouldn’t win otherwise? Odds wouldn’t favor that. Hence why the clean up was so stark as you correctly state. The egg on their face was so immense they had to do something. That’s how good the Sox were visibly turning on and off at will in the series made it look worse only slugging with no men in scoring position or late in games their starters already purposefully fumbled.
little know fact: before gaylord perry threw a spitter, he was working on a pitch he called the swallower. he said it was too salt for his liking though.
I'm kinda confused that spider tac was even legal to begin with. I thought all foreign substances were banned. How could this be allowed in the first place?
Baseball, as a business, is a delicate balance of pitch movement. Too much? No one wants to watch nothing happen. Too little? No one's going to go to 6 hour games.
I noticed there seems to be an inordinate amount of BROOKLYN and/or LOS ANGELES DODGERS’ pitchers in this video presentation. 🤔 😲😳😬 🤣😂🤣 Let’s go DODGERS 2024 !!! ⚾️⚾️⚾️ ROGER, The LOS ANGELES DODGER
I really hate that the last word in each sentence you say, you pronounce it in a super high pitch. For example, “I like BASEBALL” “pitchers are good at throwing FAST” Just stay normal voice Or even go lower. This high pitched voice for the last word in every sentence is unbearable. Love your content.
When pitchers used to get a bum arm, there's just a few choices to prolong ca-REERS. One, rest for long periods of time or go through experimental SURGERIES. two, throw a KNUCKLEBALL. or three...in ways to avoid a hitters BAT. the first two options have always been perfectly LEGAL....blah blah blah blah blah-bu-dee-blah blah BLAH.
The videos are great here. They're really well done. Can't praise enough. Except 1. those cringe moments when a major player's name is mispronounced like Bruce Sutter.. ugh 2. And he's talking a little too fast.. or at the least, there needs to be a decent, realistic pause between sentences. ( That is in the editing aspect)
You videos are literally unwatchable because you end every sentence with the last word being super high pitched. Your content is awesome, but I cannot get through 90%+ of your videos
I think a no hitter or an no no game should only count if it's throw by a single pitcher. All those "combined" contests are flukes and should be stricken from the record books. Those are single pitcher achievements.
I’m sorry but there were videos in the past where you didn’t show face right? To establish a channel and then out the blue, just randomly showing your face is really off putting. We came here for the baseball stuff, not you dude smh🤦🏾♂️
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“I wasn’t usin no foreign substance ump, Vaseline is made in the U S of A!” Is hilarious
Dude's thinking literally.
My very favorite "trying to catch Gaylord Perry cheating" story is when a reporter asked Perry's 5-year-old daughter whether her daddy threw the spitball. She told the reporter it was a "hard slider", just like Perry said. This amuses me so much not only because a reporter decided to ask a child about her father's possible baseball cheating, but because Perry either anticipated what the reporter was gonna do and coached his daughter on what to say, or she'd picked up on what to say on her own. Either way, hilarious.
Imagine if an ump punched a pitcher? He'd probably sue for discrimination and then the MLB would punish him by putting him in the crew of the NL/ALWC!
Man just imagine being able to sue and that really happen 😂😂no way
I feel like the k rate went up partially because of the emphasis on power hitting. I think having more of an emphasis on hitting for contact decreases strikeouts.
I read the title as splLitter and was very confused at first, loved the outcome!
I prefer a swallower
I never realized that the ban on the spitball had to with the Black Sox scandal. I thought it was solely because of the death of Ray Chapman and the timing was a coincidence.
ray chapmans death was also after the ban. in the book the pitch that killed which was about the incident the pitch wasnt a spitter either but just a worn out darkened ball from play.
It's amazing just how far Pitchers will go to find Any advantage they can
Yea its almost like performing well will result in them earning millions of dollars
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Joe Posnanski summed up the double standard for Gaylord Perry's cheating best, I think, in Perry's chapter in The Baseball 100:
"The best I can tell, sports fans hate some cheaters and love others, and I think it comes down to style. Barry Bonds, whatever else you want to say about him, did not charm. Roger Clemens, whatever else you want to say about him, did not charm.
Perry charmed. He made everybody laugh. He did it all with a wink and a nudge and a slap on the back. He touched his hat, his shoulder, back to his hat, his chest, as if he was going for the Vaseline, going for the spit, going for the tobacco juice, and there was no way to know if he was or wasn’t. Umpires constantly checked on him, but Perry had turned the story around. In his story, the umpires were the bad guys, they were the federal agents trying to catch Junior Johnson moonshining.
Perry was a rogue. Bonds was a villain.
Perry is Han Solo. Clemens is Darth Vader.
Yes, of course, it’s a different kind of cheating - but, more, it’s a matter of style."
Its amazing how Gaylord Perry looks exactly like Chelcie Ross's character in the movie Major League which I know is based on him especially with the dirty pitch tactics as well as the team in the movie being the Cleveland Indians. Just dont mess with JoBu's rum.
Are you trying to say Jesus Christ can't hit a curve ball?
the newest thing has just been sweat and resin. It's not spider tac, but it does the same thing. Since you can't outlaw the resin bag on the mound, the umpire now has to check the pitcher's hand and, if they believe it's too tacky, make the player wash it off -.- pardon me for saying, but that's just plain stupid. TBH, they should just make a pitching glove with a specific amount of grip on it. They did this for the NFL because the ball kept getting sticky from the gunk wide receivers were putting on their hands (their are no rules against it, as long as it doesn't affect the ball in a negative way). It standardizes the amount of grip the player can use, can be easily transferred to minor and highschool leagues, and a pitcher only needs 1 off season to get used to it. The only issue is choosing the grip placement on the glove, since pitchers use several different grips and sometimes need the ball to slide out instead of stick.
When I was 11 at a pitching velocity cage I spit on the last ball to see what it would do. The guy running it yelled at me. First and only time I ever threw a spitter 😂
Newish viewer, love the channel, great content
this is my fav baseball channel
Regardless of genre, the thoughtful, well-researched content MTC is bringing rivals any "essay"-type content out there.
All the details to satisfy baseball dorks, but enough explanation and humility to also appeal to entry-level fans or even just the curious scroller.
5 fucking stars, MTC.
Please keep up the good work.
Hershiser criticized the Astros for cheating yet he fucking cheated by using the spitter when he pitched
As a former catcher, I am 100% against the spitball.
The way around the foreign substance rule is to use substances that are not foreign; such as blood, earwax, mucus, sebum and pus, and even modified sweat. Imagine... one can have an artificial cyst (or a real cyst at that) put on their skin that slowly leaks sebum and blood, which would work as a great replacement for spider tack. Large amounts of earwax can be pushed into a person's ear and pulled out intermittently. And even sweat could be used -- a person's diet can be modified to cause them to create excess sweat that is stickier than normal. Medicine can be taken that causes your body to create excess mucus (aka a very runny nose). All of these things can help pitchers throw better games.
5:35 for what it’s worth, my hometown newspaper still running today has existing clippings from October 1 showing the white Sox as favorites and us homers refusing to part ways with our dough with some leash:
“The reds supporters, while expressing great confidence in their team, are demanding 7 [and even] 8 to 5 [odds], and this is a little more than Sox speculators care to offer”.
The prevailing theory was the Sox having faced better competition all season with a roster that despite popular reports we now can prove through actually pay stubs was the highest paid roster by the end of the seasons (they all earned incentive bumps throughout the year) was absolutely loaded, were the favorites even in cincinnati as late as October 1 on major books. Which makes sense. Why would you fix a game they wouldn’t win otherwise? Odds wouldn’t favor that. Hence why the clean up was so stark as you correctly state. The egg on their face was so immense they had to do something. That’s how good the Sox were visibly turning on and off at will in the series made it look worse only slugging with no men in scoring position or late in games their starters already purposefully fumbled.
little know fact: before gaylord perry threw a spitter, he was working on a pitch he called the swallower. he said it was too salt for his liking though.
Bruh, you make good content. But yo it's a little distracting that you end 99% of sentences with an upward inflection.
you need to toughen up
I didn't notice until you said it. Now all I can hear. Thx for that
He’s doing the best he can. STFU. You’re seem like one if those types that tries to make someone’s life miserable for no reason 😅
Who tf cares. You focus on the way people talk? Get a life
Dammit! He does. Now I’ll never I hear it.
I miss the old SportsCenter bits...
I'm kinda confused that spider tac was even legal to begin with. I thought all foreign substances were banned. How could this be allowed in the first place?
Probably because it wasn't explicitly banned in the letter of the law, so it became a gray area, doubly so because umps weren't checking for it.
Bruce Sutter's surname is pronounced "SOO-tuhr."
Ha imagine having a 'license' to throw a spitball...
Funny how Gerrit Cole didn’t seem to need spider tack
Best Baseball channel out 👐⬇️
Baseball, as a business, is a delicate balance of pitch movement. Too much? No one wants to watch nothing happen. Too little? No one's going to go to 6 hour games.
I noticed there seems to be an inordinate amount of BROOKLYN and/or LOS ANGELES DODGERS’ pitchers in this video presentation. 🤔 😲😳😬 🤣😂🤣 Let’s go DODGERS 2024 !!! ⚾️⚾️⚾️
ROGER, The LOS ANGELES DODGER
Cole was dominant last year, apparently without sticky stuff. So maybe at least some of these guys don't need it?
Can you stop emphasizing the end of every word it’s super annoying dude wtf
So many RUclipsrs do that crap, it is super annoying.
I really hate that the last word in each sentence you say, you pronounce it in a super high pitch.
For example, “I like BASEBALL” “pitchers are good at throwing FAST”
Just stay normal voice
Or even go lower. This high pitched voice for the last word in every sentence is unbearable. Love your content.
When pitchers used to get a bum arm, there's just a few choices to prolong ca-REERS. One, rest for long periods of time or go through experimental SURGERIES. two, throw a KNUCKLEBALL. or three...in ways to avoid a hitters BAT. the first two options have always been perfectly LEGAL....blah blah blah blah blah-bu-dee-blah blah BLAH.
I've never heard anyone call a spitball a spitter. Lol
The pitch that killed a man
The videos are great here. They're really well done. Can't praise enough.
Except
1. those cringe moments when a major player's name is mispronounced like Bruce Sutter.. ugh
2. And he's talking a little too fast.. or at the least, there needs to be a decent, realistic pause between sentences. ( That is in the editing aspect)
Wow you don’t look like what I thought. Do you emphasize words like that in normal converSATION?!
You videos are literally unwatchable because you end every sentence with the last word being super high pitched.
Your content is awesome, but I cannot get through 90%+ of your videos
You said "Have a great rest of your day" completely normally, wtf?????? That is not what I subbed to this channel to hear.
I think a no hitter or an no no game should only count if it's throw by a single pitcher. All those "combined" contests are flukes and should be stricken from the record books. Those are single pitcher achievements.
The camera shot of you talking with a messy table in the background is disruptive and distracting.
Go watch Sports Center instead .
am i wrong for thinking mtc looks like a funny bumgardner
spitter had a good run but the astros still hold the cheating title
First
Gross.
I’m sorry but there were videos in the past where you didn’t show face right? To establish a channel and then out the blue, just randomly showing your face is really off putting. We came here for the baseball stuff, not you dude smh🤦🏾♂️
Intimate level?! ayo pause… 🤨