R.A. Dickey shows off the knuckleball
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- Опубликовано: 20 июл 2024
- Toronto Blue Jays pitcher R.A. Dickey shows Global's Rob Leth a glimpse of the knuckleball.
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R.A seems so easy to talk to and very down to earth.
sevenguiry that's how most Southerners are
@@dawgsfan1196 thats how nuckeballers are in general
I highly recommend reading his book, "Wherever I Wind Up". I've never played baseball, not even as a Little League-aged kid, and I thought his book was phenomenal.
@@Twister051 i have his strike out book, its most good , damn i miss R.A he was so awesome and seemed like such a great guy to have a beer with. would be cool if he could come back to the Jays or Buffalo to be a pitching coach
Had a few convos on Twitter back in his Mets days. Always very engaging and humble. Absolute legend.
0:48 I love how he says "oh mercy" it's so funny in a cute southern way
That was pretty funny. Oh mercy
To Release is To Resolve 😂 fax
If you got a young talented pitcher, it would be insane to not teach them this pitch and have them start working on it. Super Effective, and it saves arms
Maybe Position Players Who Are Turning Into Pitchers Should Give It a Shot
builds up ur dexterity a bit too, having to be more mindful and tactful with your hands on every pitch
@@19SantaMariaValley13 tim wakefield did it and had a pretty decent career
The Chuck Norris of knuckle balls
"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 pitches once, but I fear the man who has practiced one pitch 10,000 times."
But who’s quote is that??
@@MikeConrow it's a parody of a Bruce Lee quote. Substitute pitches for kicks.
Nothing more satisfying in sports than figuring out the alchemy of a knuckleball. Every person has to figure out their grip that works for their hand and arm. It's absolute wizardry.
Bro the knuckle ball is a pain
It’s the pitch that got me back into baseball
I’ve got mine down to about two rotations but damn...... I’ve only ever thrown three perfect knuckle balls and brothers let me tell you
It slips out of your hand like a weightless bubble gliding through the air tumbling and shaking until it finally drops
if i ever get to be in the same room as Dickey, the first thing i’ll say is “you have the filthiest pitches but the easiest voice to talk to”
one of the greatest pitchers the league have ever had opportunity to see.
being a good player doesn’t always mean putting up the best numbers, it also means being respectable. and Dickey is one of the most respectable pitchers to ever be on the mound!
It's a sad day like today when there are no more knuckleballers in the game.
Too many people just want to throw heat. Then their arm burns out in 5 years and they wonder why they need surgery.
bro there is only 1 knuckleball release in 2020 :(( so sad dude
Great interview. Thanks!
I always threw a knuckleball by gripping the seam with my fingernails (which allowed me to get a better grip on the ball and not loose control during the delivery) but then I pushed my fingertips slightly forward at the release point (just a fraction of a centimeter). This negated any potential backspin that might have otherwise occurred because of my grip.
He doesn't say what he does with his ring-finger. Always keep a little secret.
i mean.. he doesnt have to say, he shows us where the ring finger goes, emphasizing keeping his fingers off the seams. the sweetspot timing on the release is the secret here.
R.A. is the fuckin knuckle Zen Master.
I'm 42 and even though I don't play, I just started figuring it out. The grip? Easy. The throw itself? EASY. Getting the damn ball not to catch and release and not spin. SHUT THE FRONT DOOR. It's really really hard to do. Easy on the arm, but it will murder your mind how difficult it truly is to not spin the ball, or minimize it.
Mr.Tony and Mr. Dean thank yous for sharing your inspiration
Smart guy
RA is a class act.
Thank yous for sharing....
Mr.Dickey, agreed
Please say hello to everyone,especially Esposito.
Great job on tutorial up close,teaching and learning it to separate things. Nice job on interview, seem just like a normal guy, easy to be friend with. Good job w/
camera's angle showing his good side lol, intern,assistant, and the man, like from,show me the money.
Appreciate your time and effort plus teaching someone who may pass on the legacy one day as it has been passed onto you in someways. But practice was first, your hard work ,frustration with
Dickey says he would have been an English professor if he hadn't made it in baseball. You can tell just from listening to this interview. Very smart guy, and yet very humble. Good Christian southerner.
Evolution happened and all religions were founded on psychedelic drugs… u think the first person that tripped knew he ate some mushrooms and everything will be fine… nah he was like “dude I just saw god” to his buddy 😂🥱💀
This guy is WAY more intelligent than the average jock.
Very interesting. I have tried to minimize the spin on a baseball with this technique and I don't come close. It boggles my mind how it's even physically possible with a straight-forward arm-action.
He says it should spin quarter of a revolution during it's time of flight, that's just crazy
assmane999 I was a knuckleball pitcher through little league and all the way through high school. I threw a pretty good one. I would grip the horse shoe seem with the tips of my first 3 fingers and rest my pinky on the side. I'd throw it straight overhand and at the point of the release, "push" the ball out of my hand by extending my fingers. It's definitely a pitch that relies on feel and finesse
Tim White childs hand vs mans hand
@@blahblah8037 I was always big for my age. My hands were “man-size” by 9th grade and I never changed my grip throughout the rest of high school. Even now, at 28, I still grip and throw it the same way when playing catch or just messing around and still with the same results.
@@timwhite2680
You were throwing a knuckleball in HS and
no college offered you a chance to go further with it ?
Wow very insightful!
Legend
Great guy
Favorite pitch
Well explained thank you.
Are knuckleballs easier on pitchers arms or can they still get injured?
Good job Eddie Vedder
Lol
OMG! I cant believe I'd never seen that till I was today years old! Lol
Two and a half years it took.. finally dude
Wayne Gretzky of knuckleballs
My coach makes us hit knuckleballs at 13u and it's really hard. Nice god RA!
Awesome pitcher..
What makes RA different than the Neikros, Hough, Wake, Sparks,Wright...he was capable of pitching with velocity...which he was able to vary speeds...
Thx bro Now I can go out tomorrow and throw it 😄
Toronto bring back ra
80,000 sub!!!
We have a kid on our little league team who is a natural knuckleball thrower. I have tried hitting it, it’s impossible
Did he just say antithetical..
first time an athlete used that word ever
thats so onomotapeia
me sports fan me no like big word
Intelligence is a commendable attribute. Most great pitchers are intelligent because playing smart is better than just playing hard.
My dad taught me way before I even was thinking about pitching like just playing catch and throw it every once and awhile and I might just be biased but I’m not nearly amazed at these perfect knuckle balls from these mlb pitches I really think as a 13 year old I have the nastiest knuckle ball around
Best trade ever (I'm a mets fan)
sorry you're a mets fan
If you guys ever win the world series it will be the least controversial win.
Well the Mets have won two titles in 69 and 86
For the mets that was a steal, (coming from a Jay's fan) as much as I like R.A. he was kinda meh... in Toronto. Cost us Syndergaard......😔
Mets fan here too -- it hurt having to trade him, but Thor + d'Arnaud was too good a deal to pass up
This video makes me wish I paid more attention in vocabulary
Read more books. In 1933, 1833, 1733 and throughout about everything hundred twenty years society rounds up knowledge and Burns some of it off.
It is imperative you use your library card, knowledge is the true currency.
If a jock is high beaming your vernacular , you’ve got a serious deficit but you have the good sense to know it.
I had the same sense, and I grew up homeless and couldn’t go to school. I spent most of my adult life reading.
There is a reason language and knowledge is censored and people are dumbed down.
Be well.
1:55
My son throws a knuckleball and a splitter- and the splitter he throws he throws the Kaizen school technique so his shoulder and elbow won’t explode.
Everyone here bats r handed. I really suggest you teach your kids the splitter in this technique from Japan if you turn your wrist and change your arm angle it’s a curve ball -15 MPH your splitter.
If you just keep your fingers taut on the seems it straightens out into a 4 seamer.
Throwing knuckleballs at 9 year olds and 81 mph splitters seems mean, but this is America and we make Nolan Ryan’s here.
I get forward spin when if anything I think I should be getting backspin
I remember his first game as a Jay. The catchers had a hard time catching it
I swear I was the only guy who threw a knuckleball using my KNUCKLES. When I played third base I used to piss of the 1st baseman on easy outs by throwing knuckle balls and curve balls and the like. The KB was just plumb hilarious
Nope! I totally used to throw a "knuckleball" every now and then in little league game... I too used my knuckles... I dug my front 2-3 fingers down under the horseshoe to where my knuckles were up against the seam, and I would throw it like that... took me awhile to be able to just throw it without the damn ball flying out of my hand way too early in the release... I had to throw it SLOW or else it would escape my grip... well, it was prob more like an extreme change up/eephus, but I remember having SOME success with it... prob if anything because I wasn't trying to throw it like Nolan Ryan, so I was actually throwing it in the strike zone LOL.
+alexreising85 all right! It may not have been as pretty as throwing a fast ball by him but watching them fumble around trying to hit it was golden. I agree, it took forever to get it right and I practiced with a softball which was way easier
he sounds like Thomas Magnum.
Jesus he’s smart
If your here in 2021 your different
You’re*
I can get the idea from the point of view of pitching... but... still failing in understand the batting point of view...
overlord op
I throw a 72 mph fastball and a great knuckleball like Dickey's and I'm 14
I throw a 80 mph fastball and an amazing curveball like Kershaw's and im 8
Alex Jauregui yeah well I throw 103 like Chapman and I'm 2 months old
Chandler Russell damnnnn, well you beat me
Hi 14, i'm dad... weird name, dude...
@@Mmeluso15 I throw 120 on weekdays and 140 on weekends and i's still sperm.
Im 12 and i can throw a really good one
so hard to learn the knuckleball, I played little league softball for 2 years as a pitcher and tried throwing a knuckler, at first it was great I struck out the first 9 batters I faced on 27 pitches. Then after that I struggled. that combined with pressure from the team's catcher (who hated catching for me lol) I abandoned it. Kinda wish I stuck with it though.
So there's no flutter??
☎️
Put some red hair on him and this is the brother on Field of dreams
If you can do this on command u can make money
bradpaisley
Easier said than done
40000 hr guy
He kinda sounds like the gay guy with the mustache off family guy lol
"Peter Griffin's grown a moustache....I KNOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWW!"
he lost me after the 7th word
You R.A.Dickey....lol
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wide angle cut aways are horrible
On j
if only he realized that his ring finger touches the seem. He almost throws a perfect no spinning Knuckler...
야구좋아하는 영어 능통한분 계시면 제발 자막 부탁좀 드립니다..
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It’s like shotput😂
Yeah and he had ONE good year in the MLB with this pitch. And in Toronto he flat out sucked.
I hate knukle bolls
When you're trash, you only learn how to throw 2 pitches. Dickey is a scrub.
2 seam and 4 seam bro? Xd
+BeerAndWarcraft Wow...He won the Cy Young. Not bad for a scrub. You're dismissed.
Says the Hall of Famer known as BeerAndWarcraft
When you're pro, you only need to learn how to throw 2 pitches.
All you need is two pitches, hell a fastball could be it. Its about location mixed with velocity if I can get a 90mph FB in and up you its gonna be a strike or an easy out. Location is key not number of pitches. As Bruce Lee said "I do not fear a man who has practices 1,000 kicks once, but the man who has practiced one kick 1,000 times."
His knuckleball was a rarity as it had velocity to it when compared to others; made him hard to hit in 2012.