Baseball Has A Baseball Problem 

What a hag. She probably sold that sht on eBay

It’s one thing to beat a kid to a foul ball, that’s part of life, but taking it from a kid is pathetic. I hope she got Alzheimer’s.

This is rage inducing

@@MrFuzziiWuzzii I agree

Dude what the fuck

That baseball mud is available for sale to us no-talent, weekend scrubs. We use it.

As a longtime baseball fan and a New Jersey native who lives off the Delaware river, I’ve heard from so many people; “I found the baseball mud” it’s one of the funniest little tidbits about baseball ever. It’s a perfect example of as you said baseballs continuity obsession

@@increasearmadillo3032 yeah its like the most old-school juiced in New Jersey sport related thing I've ever heard of like how I heard there's apparently one old suburb of Philly where a crazy amount of nba refs come from and they all know eachother or coached their replacements in highschool or whatever lol. But this is a whole new level of weird

It was on an episode of dirty jobs.

@@ThekiBoran they have done film pieces on the family buisness, they shovel it from a swamp somewhere

Finally a rational comment instead of people saying "this is why I love baseball, because of all the chaos blah blah" - like no, it's not even a legitimate sport if you can't reasonably say that a homerun was because of skill or ball differences

the 'evidence' conveniently is distributed to the crowds. study the home run balls

@@cautemoc4624 And yet, you have idiots claiming they shouldn't test players for steroids anymore. It's basically the same thing.

I mean I'm sure every sport that uses any kind of item also has the same problem.

@@cautemoc4624 Literally who cares, it's not like it's an unfair advantage for one team. They both use the same balls.

Thank you for explaining something that was in the video

@@FBCGodfather : You're welcome.

I was so happy when I found out that they gave him a ring when the Cubs finally won

He didn’t deserve what happen, but he’s still an idiot lol

@@vanderlai6089 and he still would not appear for anything as he said "it would diminish the accomplishments of the players"

Anyway it's Alex Gonzalez's error that really fucked it up. Not Bartman

@@LudaChez that was his lawyer. Bartman has been lawyered up since the catch and has been in fear for his life since then. Can’t blame him he was just a quiet guy that loves baseball and wound up in the crosshairs of his city because of a simple mistake.

Oh trust me basketball and football have the same issues. When the NBA made a new ball a few years ago, most point guards started getting blisters it was such a bad ball.

Jack Nicholson head nod

well maybe not to this extent, but I'm sure many sports have issues with their gear. tennis for one might be the closest comparison

I'm with you on that.

Amen, brother. Amen.

I'm thinking about motorsports now. The amount of rules that govern how a racecar is built are generally downright staggering. You have to have x amount of horsepower, y amount of cylinders, z amount of curb weight, a×b dimensions, c° spoiler, d amount of ride height, and so on. And it makes so much sense when you consider that motorsports are usually more about the drivers' ability to drive their vehicles within a certain performance envelope than about their crews' budget and ability to build and tune better vehicles.

You should start watching F1

i think its also a big reason why drug use really has to be cracked done upon. even though at a casual glance people might think it would just make sports more impressive, but if drug use was free, it would just be a race to inject the most potent formula into your blood veins, with people having to dope just to compete, and the hight of performance could literally use drugs that would cripple/kill them for short term proffessional effect.

This is entertainment not sport

The teamgeist World Cup ball in 2006 was made with only 14 panels (opposed to the traditional 32) and was bonded without seams. It was perfectly round. Which ironically made it one of the worst soccer balls in World Cup history. Its flight pattern was unpredictable for keepers. If you struck it hard enough it would move around like a knuckle ball. A striker’s favorite dream, a keeper’s worst nightmare.

It would be criminal.

Doesn't it favor batter statistics over pitcher statistics? If I was a pitcher trying to establish myself, I'd be pissed!

I feel like different people benefit from different types of balls and laces, and especially if teams are practicing with different balls than they play with that is unfair. The ball should honestly remain the exact same across as many games, seasons, and even off-seasons as possible.

Just put little dents in them like golf balls. Hell, just use big golf balls. Titleist baseballs.

@@timmarkowicz779 right, but what this guy is saying is true. You can be pissed all you want as a pitcher, but if everyone is playing with the same balls, it's fair. No one is getting an unfair advantage if everyone is getting it. It's also why I think bonds should be in the Hall of Fame. A lot of his stuff was during the juicing era. Basically everyone was juicing. If everyone is juicing is it really an unfair advantage? Lol (I'm being facetious)

Well of course they have issues. They're going from one league to another and they both have totally different standards and rules. IIRC the strikezone isn't even the same between the two. Japan's NPB is also only 12 teams to MLB's 30. A NPB team has 125 games in the regular season vs MLB's 165. That puts NPB at 750 regular season games (125x12/2) vs MLB 2430 regular season games (165x30/2). Add into the fact that Japan is about the size of California. NPB needs fewer balls for fewer games and has to transport those balls shorter distances compared to MLB. It's no wonder NPB has an easier time with material consistency.

@@Furluge Japan is a little too big to be comparable to California.

@@jaytb5815 Japan is 145,920 square miles. California is 163,696 square miles. Look up a map of them overlayed sometime.

@@Furluge no, Japan is more like the entire east coast of the USA, not commiefornia

@@512TheWolf512 I'm not sure if you deleted your comment in the past 34 minutes because it's not showing up for me outside of my notifications, but I already posted the square footage of them both. Japan is 145,920 square miles. California is 163,696 square miles.

please look into the right mess of chemicals that go into tanning leather.

It’s a 14 minute video and you commented this five minutes after upload. You didn’t watch the entire video yet

@@diceonamay so? The comment can be applied to all his content. You've embarrassed yourself. You should apologise to Hudson.

@@diceonamay LOL, you got him!! Good catch!.. But he is still right haha, excellent channel.

Facts

this mans content doesn’t exist.

Probably because pitchers are such big fucking babies.

don't know anything about cricket but it's not uncommon to see a baseball get split apart by the batter.

@@hardleecure a cricket ball is very tough, much more so as it is designed to be bounced onto a hard and gritty dirt floor. I don't know why some baseball balls tear/fall apart in games but that just seems like the sport has agreed to play with something that just isn't up to the job in the first place (as if they chose to ignore that the speed of pitches and the power of batters hasn't increased).

@@nathanthom8176 fair point. might also be why the rules indicate that bats can only be able to return a ball at no more than 85 or 90% of the pitched speed (i forget the actual % but it is a rule).

Aluminium bats aren't allowed in cricket, so the balls only have to cope with wooden bats. In 1979 Australian cricketer Dennis Lillee went out to bat with an aluminium bat in a match against England. But after hitting a few balls his own captain insisted the bat be replaced with a regular wooden one, and the rules were later clarified to prevent this happening again. Baseball and cricket are very similar in being enriched by traditions and historical anecdotes, and obsessed with statistics!

Thoughts on changing the name of the bull pen to "arm barn" or "arm pit"?

That ain't no shit. Unless they are hit in the little league fields like Yankee stadium then they easily go out.

Unless you’re Aaron judge then it doesn’t matter. Could throw that man a bowling ball he’d take it yard

I agree though I think there is another factor to consider. It looks to me like these balls break more. I have never seen so many guys swinging at balls that get caught BEHIND them or even hit them. Guys are throwing 97mph fastballs that break more than a Maddux 83mph change up. When a good curve pitcher like Charlie Morton is on the mound, it looks like a wiffle ball game.

@@wingracer1614 Pitchers are just getting better. Guys nowadays have a high speed camera that you can check and isolate exactly what to change to increase spin or make it more efficient.

I know like the one with Stanton earlier this season and John Sterling was already gearing up for the "it is high, it is far..." call and it fell at the warning track. It was at Yankee Stadium too! Sterling got criticized for messing it up but he was not the only one fooled. There is definetly something wrong with the baseball.

Football has the Waterboy, Baseball has Mudman

Just like a bucket of mud like "I'm the mudman like the milk man, but mud"

That HAS to be a really lucrative business if there’s seriously only like 4 people in the world that know where this mud is sourced

@@BendyDH It actually isn't.

@@BendyDH there’s literally a comment above that says he grew up by the river 💀

Repent to Jesus Christ “And my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus.” ‭‭Philippians‬ ‭4:19‬ ‭NIV‬‬ h

@@turbonerd3902 Did you notice that he focused on every white hitter in a subtly negative fashion, but then when it came to Bonds he instead just downplayed the steroids. I'm sensing a very small hat.

@@DarthVader1977 bro what are you on

@@nesssixteen6106 What ever happened to the Canaanites?

This is a bunch of BS!!

Baseball is a very slow-paced sport it REQUIRES manufactured drama to talk about.

Manfred is a true POS

As an F1 fan baseball is where I come when the drama of my main sport gets too passe. Stuff like porpoising, Monaco being the bratty traditionalist of the calendar, and the whole situation at the beginning of the season where the Haas team had a week to resolve the fact that it was being sponsored by a heavily sanctioned war criminal all fades away in comparison to a sport where the NASCAR motto of "If you ain't cheatin' you ain't winnin'" is basically official league policy. At this point AEW is less likely to be faked than MLB.

How is it corrupt. Both teams are playing with the same balls?

Actually the other North American sports leagues are much less forthcoming about scandals than MLB is. In fact, the NFL only says that a few games were "confirmed" to be affected by player gambling. Yeah right.

They can change the recipe and source the ingredients from elsewhere, and they'd be absolute fools not to know it'd effect the performance in some minor way, but how are they going to predict in what way the sway of the leather is going to effect spin, or the degree to which a millimeter of thread will impact hit distance? Yeah, they're definitely screwing the balls up, knowing that it'll effect the game, but I don't think they're really in control of when or how the impact of those changes will play out. If they were, it'd be a lot more consistent.

When considering aerodynamics everything micron matters

You'd think the MLB would have a wind tunnel to test the impact of proposed manufacturing changes on the aerodynamics on the ball.

@@alcubierrevj of course not. They can’t even afford to hire qualified umpires

When they getting quotes for the string, how could there not have been +/- limits for thickness, density, tensile strength, etc.?

We rub that exact mud on our game balls. Would free infield dirt work just fine for us? Yes, but why not increase the Sunday fun factor?

I think a section is closed off for the mlb specifically

Repent to Jesus Christ “And my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus.” ‭‭Philippians‬ ‭4:19‬ ‭NIV‬‬

@@technoandbldr4429 You may be correct, but the last time that I watched a program about Lena Blackburne Baseball Rubbing Mud it certainly didn't seem like it.

@@seekhimwithallyourheartand3358 No

Baseball is weird. Watching it on TV, everything is so slow. You really kind of feel like you don't miss much from listening to just the audio, or a radio broadcast. You wish they would put timers on everything and get people moving along snappily. But going to watch a game, especially a lower league club, you're going for the experience. To have a hot dog and a beer or a warm day, to relax and enjoy the ambiance.

Same here. I can't imagine sitting through a whole game but I enjoy the highlights.

She donated the ball to her grandson

@Zack Hample Zack! Have you ever gone into a baseball or noticed any difference between different years?

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@@BaseballDoesntExist 👊

I own a copy of your book! I'm an Australian baseball fan who picked it up in LA before seeing my first baseball game.

@@BaseballDoesntExist hey bud.. ray chapmans wikipedia references an article by espn that says the pitcher, carl mays was the one to field the ball and throw it to first base after thinking chapman hit the ball. either the wikipedia is wrong or the third baseman wasnt the one to field the ball. you should correct the wikipedia article if youre certain it wasnt the pitcher.

Elaborate on that last sentence...

We know you're capable of killing someone, but that doesn't mean we should assume you did.

I don't know how it's a conspiracy honestly... Ofc they change the balls. They are supposed to. That's their job! They should try to adjust the balls so that the game becomes most enjoyable to watch.

As a South Jersey guy (Cherry Hill, Atco and Berlin), this gives me an odd sense of pride. JERSEY!

The specific hole the specific mud comes from though is a closely guarded family secret

@@coreygolphenee9633 It would be easy to find the location. First, you have to know who that family is. Where they live, Then you plant a gps tracker to their cars. And you just wait and see where they go.

@@nerychristian totally not illegal but yeah

That's weird - In all my years of playing, it was always called "Mississippi Mud" kind of crazy to think that it actually comes from Jersey, lol.

Wut? Are chess and checkers no longer fun too? Soccer?

@@vyor8837 bro calls it soccer 💀 🤓

@@justnot5401 GTFO non-american.

@@justnot5401 asSOCiated football, yes.

@@midshipman8654 it's weird how people care what a game is called

yo shut it man

@@gerg9666 weasel

Indeed

Let’s go fuzzy

Fuz and BDE collab

That could be another explanation.

I love ohtani so it hurts to know all this shady shit going on behind the scenes :(

And is true in almost every sports that uses balls, I play table tennis and we can always tell if the ball changes (same brand)

I bet catchers and umpires, who get hit by balls occasionally like the more bouncy balls that don't hit them as hard.

When you pitch, grip is everything and it doesn't take expertise or science to know it doesn't feel right.

To paraphrase a sad toucan “fifa is more mafia than sports league”

Soccer makes baseball look exciting

I like to think of FIFA as a mafia with a rec league

But rule changes are known ahead of time, so theoretically you know how to tailor your game to accommodate it. If the balls being pitched to you are literally random or change from game to game, you have no idea whether the best play is to try and bomb it thinking it's a juiced ball, or try and line drive it, knowing that it's a dead ball and going for a homer will just be a fly out every time.

Theres so much money involved it becomes more like a cartel with what they reveal to the public and what they can get away with behind the scenes to bring more people in or whatever

How about the people that paid to eat that sauce?

It's wild because the dude everyone makes a scapegoat wouldn't have even been a factor if the cubs weren't already fucking up on their own.

Why do yoyu love MLB?

This leads to situations where incompetence is used as an excuse to hide malice

I hope they dont. The MLB and the MLBPA have a metric f#@% ton of lawyers. I don't want this channel shut down....

@@PezPirate yep good point

My trainer said HIghschool and below balls arent juiced. Minor league balls are juiced. IN the MLB 500 foot moonshot homeruns would be a normal 400 foot homerun.

Mlb probably skimped out on the material to save money.

That ball would immediately present an advantage to the pitcher

And that Mississippi mud...

Explain why

Great comment

Bonds was better than both of them. That’s why he started taking steroids

"Chicks dig the long ball" --Greg Maddux

No, fans need to pay attention and don't do dumb shit. The only way for MLB to protect fans would be to force every stadium to put up netting around the entire stadium. Whether it was when I was at a game or on video, the majority of people I've seen who were injured by a ball either weren't paying attention to what was going on in the game or they were stupid and tried to bare hand a hard hit ball.

@@brendan594 Truth

Yeah right they're constantly looking for ways to screw pitchers over because they want to increase offense juiced balls shallow fences etc.

@@nineteeneightynine432 are you kidding? Pitchers are favored and even paid higher then any other position overall. It's pathetic.

@@nineteeneightynine432 Juiced balls in the modern era, even according to this video, was specified to unique time frames of the MLB. Outside of what the video is speaking on, everything else favors pitchers. Every unwritten rule? Don't swing on a certain count. Don't bunt during a specific moment of a game. How about throwing at players and never having to take an AB? Getting paid the same salaries for playing a fifth of the season or less? The league wanting an increase in offense for viewership isn't an attack of pitchers. If anything it provides more insight on how little scrutiny goes toward pitchers versus position players. I mean honestly dude, they ignored pitchers using substances for decades until the internet made a qualm over it.

Just know you accomplished more than people ever will

@@twitchitzmattox i appreciate the kindness stranger.

I’m just a 13 year old kid and I wanna do the same thing I’m skinny with long arms and I said to have pontential so I’m gonna try

@@twitchitzmattox hell ya man. that’s the only thing you can do. Get used to being rotationally explosive and VERY flexible.

Thanks bro

Bad grip can cost games. If you're getting paid to be an ace, you aren't going to use a ball with worse grip.

@@icaanul That presupposes that ALL balls that have made contact with anything other than the pitcher's hand or catcher's mitt are actually scuffed or damaged AND will make for a worse grip.

I was into baseball before I was a teen, and now the algorithm pushed his channel to me even though I only really watch gaming and lifting content, and I've watched probably 6 videos so far

Strictly low self esteem lol *

I didn't even think about that. A shipment of balls or even their materials being transmitted by air could change their properties. Cargo holds normally aren't pressurized and heated.

​@@AbsolXGuardian another variable that should be accounted for indeed!

Also, orange juice and pineapple juice would affect a baseball differently. /s

I second that. Well phrased .

There wasn't mass-incarceration back then. People weren't arrested or jailed for minor shit, so it's a big deal to be manhandled and arrested in front of a crowd in a stadium.

i heard you are your teams FOGO

Or 13 all season long for Dimaggio in 1941.

Swing changes don't flip on and off all at once in a season though. A few guys change it up in the offseason. Then some of their teammates copy it. Then some more next year.

And factor in hitter friendly ballparks.

If i can hit a linedrive every at bat, lets say 270 feet consistently. Would i be able to go to the mlb.

@@rslwannabe9475 Depends on the spray chart but sounds like a singles hitter who would have no chance without great defense and speed.