Adam Dunn had the weirdest career in MLB history | Dorktown 

Damn

Go Reds

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Not really true. The border between Kentucky and Ohio is at the low water mark on the Ohio side. That means it extends about 100-500 feet into the river. Not at the shore line. This was settled back in the 80s.

@@cagedtigersteve I’m sorry but your the guy nobody likes in school

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Bob

Yes please work on your sound levels..

Learn how to adjust volume yourself

red this 30 secs before the outtro, i thank thee

haha this is the first comment I read after cranking my volume.

maybe it depends on how you define a "well balanced breakfast"

Well as the saying goes, everyone during that era was doping, but there's still only one Barry Bonds. He was putting up record-breaking seasons before the drugs and after, he still stood above everyone else in the game. Still GOAT material imo

@@jayiyengar9136 everyone wasn’t doping and Bonds was far better relative to his peers when he was taking rods compared to when he wasn’t. Don’t get me wrong he’s still an all time great without them and I think he should be in the Hall, but without roids he wouldn’t be GOAT level. He simply cheated

Bro same

You have to be such a Braindead dork to think boosted testosterone makes you great at baseball. Do you even have a clue you can’t bench 145 dipshits how many people take testosterone and are not elite athletes lmfao. Bunch of Braindead dorks.

I've always wondered how he managed that. Thanks, Jon, for finally explaining it.

I literally LOLed at that line.

sure he did...

Wheaties with creatine sprinkles.

Push ups sit ups and plenty of juice

Roids lmao

the breakfast of champions

So that's what juiced means...

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@@stupidyankee9 I love them Frosted Flakes

Lmao

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sounds like something straight out of Mass Effect 1

Welcome to chillwave

@@coolguy02536 yep the mass effect Galaxy map is exactly what I was thinking.

Gallo can actually run and play defense though

First player EVER with 100 homers before 100 singles

That's a tiny sample size compared to Dunn though. He has to keep up that pace for a good while before it's a fair comparison

@Sefton Cookie jerry callow, with a C, not jerry gallow, jerry gallow's dead - Joe Pesci

The balls nowadays are juiced obv

So that was you making all that noise!

I’m laughing so hard!!!!

I didn't

Haha same here!

Lol Steriod frosted wheaties.

Freakin hilarious

That shit made me actually laugh out loud.

Legit laughed out loud at how sincere he sounded when he said it

Mad funny I did a double take when I heard that

Tom is the best!!!!

As a twins fan, I gotta say that is a great quote 😂😂😂😂😂

During a recent Clemson football game one of the commentary guys described a inaccurate pass as "if it was a hand grenade no one would have died" lmao. I am a Clemson fan and still had to laugh at that.

Those teams must have been from his early years

What about the real teams he played with loser

@@calvinrivera49 Looks like someone lost a lotta money on fantasy..

@Shareef Taylor I’m gonna take a wild guess that 2011 was NOT one of those years?

Horton Im a Nats fan and I agree.

I am I Reds fan too...sadly

Horton: basically nobody but the pitcher and catcher needed to wear a glove when Dunn was batting.

Horton you should have seen him on the White Sox.

Reds fan here. I was talking to my wife one Opening Day and told her, "With Adam Dunn, it's usually a HR or a K." That Opening Day, he went 2-4, 2HRs 2Ks.

I thought the same dang thing. It's subtle but brilliant

@@noahwolfgang6882 I'm assuming that means "he started doing steroids" but I know nothing about baseball

@@grandbean9031 that is exactly what it means, bonds notoriously juiced and put up some of the best numbers in hitting of all time

@@TeamHiggins2 Thanks, I was still not sure if I was right or not.

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I'm Brazilian and I thought I knew the game of baseball quite well - for a Brazilian. Now my girlfriend thinks I'm a complete crazy dude for my reaction to that statistical outlier. By the way, I've unsuccesfully tried to explain to her the concept of slugging...

Not only a ridiculously high number, but against arguably the most dominant pitcher in the past decade.

@@PongGod dude had a pure soul read on him.

It’s out of 400%

I realize this is an old post, but I loved Adam Dunn and didn't start posting on RU-vid until this year. I think part of the reason Dunn hit Kershaw pretty well is that Kershaw likes to keep the ball down in the zone and Dunn liked the ball in the lower part of the strike zone. Dunn seemed to struggle against the pitchers who could elevate their fastballs in the zone and/or had really wicked sliders/breaking stuff. But he could hit it a long way if you (as a pitcher) missed your spot.

I don't get it

Writefag Greens it’s because Dun hates to run and can’t play defense

@@emichael7299 His first 6yrs in the Majors he was always a top 5 in defense for LF tho...

According to what metric?

subg88 liters

Dunn managed to generate almost as much negative defensive value as he did positive offensive value. The man truly was an enigma of a ballplayer and it's one of the biggest reasons why he's one of my favorite players of all time.

Yeah but Adam Dunn hated baseball, just did it as a job

Adam Dunn

So every time he hit that 40 he was Dunn.

@@ezeqeel8352 underappreciated joke

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@@ezeqeel8352 Dunn and Dunn

YoungSleepy dude you just brought back so many memories 😂 you remember how David price was like a god on that game

YoungSleepy miss that game so much

@@dannygreen6883 facts. He verlander and kershaw were awesome. Plus young Aroldis Chapman as well.

@@robbyatwood7734 its still fun till this day. Luckily my vopy still works.

YoungSleepy yeah I play it from time to time. If only they’d do roster updates lol

Chip Southworth I have no idea that shit is amazing

Just to show you what he really cared about, home runs and that's it

Well, you'd at least occasionally expect him to swing for the fences, but come up 20' short...

that was exactly my thinking. damn this is some weird shit. i need to take a shower.

because he either hit a dinger, k'd or walked lol

Me, a cardinals fan: 🥰

*vietnam flashbacks*

LMAO that's hilarious 😂😂 but here's my question, why would you have a DVD with you at a ball game? 😂

christian The better question is why wouldn't I bring it with me?

Hunter Jenkins LMFAOOOO

Hunter Jenkins did he tell you to pull the lever ??

Awesome movie. I quoted that for at least a decade

He loved them Balc-O's

Loved his roids too 😂

yeah, batting 206 with a 37% strike out rate, that sounds fun

Ryan Crouch no Chris Davis is the new Adam Dunn

@@body7100 Touché. Lol

Eh. Kinda. Joey is much more athletic, he can play cf. Adam Dunn is fat.

@@bluesfan6862 Joey is a hero

I realize he hasn't joined the club yet because he doesn't have 200 dingers, but there's almost no doubt he will get there.

Up until like a couple of days ago he had more home runs than singles in his career.

A Well Built Taco That is actually insane.

Alright I'm new but does HBP mean hit by pitch and if that means to literally be hit by the pitch how has that happened over half of the time?

Zed HBP does mean hit by pitch, but it only happened 8 times. The 60.1% refers to the total number of HBP, BB, SO, and HR.

wish I had that strong of a stomach

And 11 McDonald's Cheeseburgers on off days.

That'll slow your reaction time.

Imagine how much better he would have been had we waited until after the game to eat.

"Where am I gonna get 50 hotdogs"??? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-w-hpRGXclIo.html

Ｙｕｎｇ Ｖｕｌｐｉｘ And THAT'S how you redistribute wealth in the Majors, son!

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Ｙｕｎｇ Ｖｕｌｐｉｘ if Jon Bois lead a communist insurrection we'd have the red flag flying over the white house within a week

So you're comparing Adam Dunn's refusal to hit ground balls to Francisco d'Anconia paying people to work in the San Sebastian Mines where he knew there was no valuable ore to mine?

@itheuser First Not true, I saw him run once. He got a walk and then the next batter up got a double so he had to hustle to get to third base

I agree 100% and I will say this about his fielding. I agree he was definitely no Gold Glover, but he would make the occasional really nice play. He wasn't any worse in the field than a lot of players I've seen. The pitching staffs in Cincinnati and Washington were pretty awful as well...he'd have made fewer errors with a better pitching staff. And I don't think anyone in baseball history (I'm excluding the juicers here) hit HRs the way Adam Dunn did. Not just the number and frequency, but how he hit them. He just didn't hit many wall-scrapers.

@@joelspencer9233 He got a lot of flak for his fielding but it really wasn't that bad. He played in a notorious hitter's ballpark on a team that sucked and he was also a very large man. On paper it wasn't good, but there were a lot of exterior causes to that other than just "he sucked". Although he still wasn't great. He's in the Reds HoF for a reason. Everyone in Cincinnati loves him.

He’s nowhere near a HOF level player in terms of actual production but I actually heard a compelling argument for him being a HOFer based on how influential he is. Idk I stopped watching baseball obsessively after the 2011 season and the fact that everyone is trying to be Adam Dunn now prevents me from starting up again. I couldn’t stand Adam Dunn (as a player I mean. I’m sure he’s a nice enough guy). I don’t mind guys who hit for power, walk a lot and strikeout a lot if they also are just good hitters in general: my favorite player Jim Edmonds was a good example of this. A more modern example is Mike Trout. But guys who hit like .220 are just lame I’m sorry. I don’t care how much power they have.

@@RandyRhoadsRules3 Dunn was, at least offensively, better than the majority of guys who emulate his approach. During his prime (2001-2010) he averaged a slash line of .251/.381/.521. Joey Gallo wishes he was that good at the plate, as he's averaged .206/.333/.489 since he debuted in 2015. Gallo's a FAR better defender though, but from a purely offensive approach, give me prime Dunn over Gallo any day.

@@squirrelguy2195 Yeah Dunn was a better hitter than Gallo for sure. I can’t take Gallo seriously as a hitter that average is just disgusting.

Tej Seth it’s got Jon

You don’t get it

Good, but not quite Pretty Good

Honestly Pretty Good and Chart Party can’t be replaced

ReesDaKing I get the joke I was saying atleast we got Jon

Just the White Sox Junior didn't play with Chicago for that long.

@@bigcee8393 Wrong, He played 8 seasons with Griffey in Cincy and had 5 seasons w/40+ Homer's there

Griffey never saw the field

Stop making white Sox fans look like idiots

The 'Balco breakfast' at Denny's. Only $7.99. Coffee not included.

I had an existential crisis the other day and then saw Bois had dropped his saddest punt video. It got me through.

The Pillow Mafia i don't even know the rule. watched the whole video. didn't understand a thing. so is he good or not ?

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All the losers.

I watch Baseball

I'm only here because Porter residents try to crucify me every time I tell them idk who Adam Dunn is.

Idk Man. David Ortiz fits the bill.

Edgar Martinez?

IDK??? Being a White Sox fan it was painful to watch him transition from a 1st basemen to a DH. He was GOD AWFUL for one of those seasons. If you were to do the math when Dunn spelled Konerko at 1st? Id like to know if he hit or walked more as a "position player"? The ChiSox had the same issues with another NL ex outfeilder turned 1st basemen WITH the same first name. Adam LaRoach. IDK if fans or players realize how difficult it is when your. in the NL and you're a position player, and you get traded or sign with an AL team that expects you to DH 5 outta 6 games a week. Something you've never been a custom to doing for most of your career. I know Jose Abreu doesnt like to DH and has better stats when he plays 1st. PS. White Sox brass, PLEASE never sign another 1st basemen named Adam that played his whole career in the NL and make him your daily DH!

Billy Butler?

Garrett Berry Billy Butler was a White Sox KILLER!

WHAT HE SAID!

Bring back chart party

the man the myth the legend

o shit whaddup!

I like bois

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it's quite amazing, haven't worked the entire day, just this xD

Intro audio just BAM!!!!!!!!

^^^^This

Agreed. I always have to put my laptop really close to my face to listen to Jon's videos without headphones.

fuck you

youtube isn't fixing audio levels in any case. many of Jon Bois's videos are leveled poorly imo with music being way louder than dialogue, oftentimes (perhaps intentionally?) to jarring effect.

Or do like bonds and take a lot of steroids

Never, and as an Angel fan we're paying a high price, $25 Mill a year exactly, to watch a way over-the-hill, slow footed, DP machine rob the organization. Arie Moreno (owner) loves to reward players for what they've done for their past teams.

Pujols should have retired a long time ago. Saying this as someone who had a lot of their fondest childhood memories shaped by him. Absolutely ridiculous hitter from 01-10 though, and especially from 03-09….the picture of consistency you could basically always mark him down for at minimum .325-35-115 in those years.

He just needs to eat a more balanced breakfast.

KENZO productions you don’t watch podcasts

Cameron McGuire thank you for letting me know.

Good to see Jon rockin' fashionable attire, there. Gonna have to confirm it on his channel. ;)

yeah, its pretty good

Kaiden Clark How do you know he wears perfume?

Godspeed

Chris and neither did you...

Good Grief I'm pretty sure Chris wasn't denigrating Dunn in anyway, just noting how such a unique player somehow never got to play in a postseason game, despite the many worse players who somehow managed to get an appearance in the playoffs.

The staffs on the Reds' and Nationals' teams that he played for were awful.

YES. I have been recommending 17776 to all my friends and co-workers. Let's get this comment to the top where it belongs.

MrKheywood91 What is 17776 about?

Honestly as someone who has read it. I'm still not exactly sure.

Margaret Mead an alternate universe where humans are immortal and the way they deal with immortality is playing football all the time. And there are three sentient space probes in it.

Margaret Mead I know that sounds super weird but trust me.

The Lonnie Smith episode was really good too imo

that it was, but it was also well before the Frenchy episode

I liked the lonnie smith one

so did I, it was a great video; Jon does a lot of great videos

Jon's the guy on the left. It's just been so long you forgot what he looked like.

I remember having to carefully pitch to him....Pujols was also a damn challenge to pitch to any breaking pitch around the knees was pretty much history.

Edwin Ricardo Perez it's still annoying to this day. ..

@@KuroShiiiro yep, don't give him a fast ball in mvp 2004 or 2005 baseball or it's gone lol, same for like mlb 2k6 through 2k9 lol

F Je He also played in a segregated league with pitching that wasn’t even close to as good a today’s.

@@quickman1047 He also played his home games in a stadium , in which, baseball historians claim that the long center field robbed him of more home runs than the short porch gave him. However, are you honestly trying to argue that Babe Ruth would be Adam Dunn if he played on today's teams? Really? When Ruth, Foxx, Simmons, Gherig, and Cronin played, strikes were legit. Pitches at the letters or at the knees were called strikes. In the 80's and 90's strike zones changed from player to player which is why overrated ball players, like Harold Baines are getting into the Hall of Fame. Sorry, don't buy it.

@@quickman1047 He also had no control over any of that stuff and was obviously a hitting god regardless of who was on the mound. Funny, Ruth was a pretty sick pitcher himself.

@@kvltizt truth

F Je I don’t think they were saying he was as good as babe, I think they were just using him as a comparison as to why his style of playing the game is so extreme. Babe had a 4 true so high because he was amazing at baseball. Adam Dunn has his so high because he didn’t want to run :P

But only for baseball infielders/outfielders.

Guy had more golden sombreros than a rich Mexican.

The ultimate question was going to be revealed in five minutes... but the computer blew up.

No! The answer to the great question of life, the universe, and everything is 42. We don't know the question.

Aj Dembroski facts

But what's the question?????

I have XLII tattooed on my arm lol