Tom Erwin Well sir, If I get to make the rules as which it seems, They can watch, but not comment, Unless of course it is spelt correctly. That's certainly fair enough.
I used to do my own version of wiffle ball with a ping-pong ball with a piece of tape stuck on it. I would pitch the entire length of my living room against the drapes. I could throw a cut fastball, split finger, curve, change-up, 3/4 slider, and a knuckle-ball. I was the Greg Maddux of my living room
Can you imagine having a child, raising him for 18 years, caring for him, nurturing him, loving him, only to watch him become a fucking professional wiffle ball player?
+Mike Dilullo Wiffle ball is as arbitrary as throwing a ball into hoop/holes/over a line, running in circles, or many other sports. Getting paid for a playing game...sign me up.
+Mike Dilullo Enlighten us all, what have you done in your life that makes you better than professional wiffle ball players? Can you imagine having a child, raising him, caring for him, nurturing him, loving him, only to watch him spend his time on RU-vid pretending he's better than everyone else and making really really shitty videos thinking he'll make a living off of it?
lol I know right. acting tough when the camera points to him and thinks it's impressive. bet he can't pitch that good with a baseball and he would get rocked
Tammy Fay What does anime have to do with anything??? If you are referring to my profile picture it is actually an image by the famous pop artist Roy Lichtenstein called "Girl with Hair Ribbon"
I've seen footage of him in games where he can make it dance like that and consistently hit the target enough to keep batters honest. I think he was just being a dick here and not caring knowing that the batter would have to swing regardless.
Even if you gave MLB hitters practice and time to adjust they most likely wouldn't do well since that is the nature of the sport, way more pitcher dominated than the MLB.
Aaron Hardel Oh, you mean the equivalent of 0.000057 percent of the US population? Or like 0.0000028 percent of the world's population? Yeah, so many people, bro.
This is as impressive as sock ball: I roll my socks together into a ball and throw it at am MLB player, pretty sure he can never hit a home run off me; meanwhile I just chew some gum pretending I own the world.
Very few can make it do that and consistently get it in, or close enough to, the strike zone to get swings or looking strikes. Fast pitch wiffle ball actually requires a good bit of skill on the pitcher's part. I mean, it's not baseball but it's not something anyone can do without a lot of practice.
possumverde I think the point he was making was that this turns the game into a pitcher duel in every game at a truly competitive level. This makes it very boring I would imagine.
lol the pitcher was cocky but that cockiness would disappear pretty quickly if they put a regulation baseball in his hand. Loney who is not the end all be all like they made him out to be still made contact once he got a more realistic sized bat.
Having a whiffle ball player hit off a major leaguer pitcher seems pretty silly to me. MLB players are the best in the world at swinging a bat at a moving object and I think everyone except cricket fans would agree with me. Of course a whiffle ball player isn't gonna be as good a hitter as an MLB batter. Otherwise he'd have a contract in the league.
Al Burbank neither are kids sports specifically. Baseball and basketball evolved over the years into something of a mans game. Wiffle ball was made literally for kids as an outdoor bbq game.
kimberly deabreu Sadly I have... Grab the coconut. Or African handball. Jk not racist but that and soccer are the 2 girliest sports out there. And Relly why did you tag me when you just agreed with me? I said wiffleball is a kids sport not baseball. Mike said baseball.
Al Burbank people like you are what ruin the sport community, i see your profile pic is hockey but i could also say its a girly sport but if you played you know it takes practice and alot of dedication. So does soccer, basketball, baseball or any sport. Every pro practices their ass off to get where they are. I would like to see you step to that plate and hit the ball. You've got to admit. It takes practice no matter what it is, i bet if i even tried to play hockey i would bust my ass on the ice and you'd show me how its done. Respect other peoples sport even if you dont play them or like them
4:02 "yeah baby cant hang" sounds like that guy in highschool who sucked at sports but then found one that he was better then average at then he just gets hella cocky
new drinking game: whenever sports science does a cringy montage of 2 sec clips of an action moment or guest introduction with them awkwardly standing there you drink
A wiffleball is obviously much harder to hit, but to throw... not at all. Basically it's just release point and arm strength. You don't need to flick your wrist or anything. I haven't pitched a wiffleball in a couple months, but I throw at least 8 to 10 different pitches, and they're all easy to pick up on given maybe a half hour of practice with each.
Wiffleball Pitcher: 75 mph = 110 ft/s. Take 42 ft divided by 110 ft/s = 0.382 second reaction time for batter. MLB Pitcher (Aroldis Chapman): 106 mph = 155.5 ft/s. Take 60.5 ft divided by 155.5 ft/s = 0.389 second reaction time for batter. Add in the unpredictability of a wiffleball's trajectory (as judged by the human eye) to make hitting the wiffleball A LOT harder than a 105 mph fastball that doesn't break all too much.
No shit it's harder to hit. If a baseball had holes in it, it would be just as hard to hit too. This guy taking a backyard bbq game seriously is hilarious though.
I think anyone who throws a wiffleball wide open will throw like this guy. I mean, what a douche to think he's so bad ass. I mean, if the sport doesn't even have a catcher, that says enough right there. If a catcher can't catch them, how do they expect a hitter to hit them?
It would be blast to go to one of his whiffle games! All three fans and his parents would be guaranteed fowl balls and a great show as grown men play with a toy found in little tykes toy sets!
This video showcases two different kinds of athletes: the overconfident buffoon who thinks he's cool, and the player who knows what he can do but doesn't need to prove it.
Pretty cocky for a guy that lives in a basement and works part time at a local gas stations making $20,000 a year as compared to a guy that makes double that everyday.
