There Will Never Be Another Randy Johnson 

He was scary : Getting that 102 MPH fast ball up near your chin try that once

Kerry wood also had a 20 K game

Actually I just looked in the phone book and there's quite a few Randy Johnsons you Sir are a liar😜

Randy Johnson and Nolan Ryan are comparable. They both had some control problems until about 30 years old and then became lights out.

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And when accepting his HOF induction. His speech was an entire oral history of his life. Practically day by day. Hahaha

Who was the catcher?

@@risboturbide9396 Robby Hammock

​@@risboturbide9396 the Terminator. They had to use a superhumanly strong robot to play catcher for Randy, because all the human ones he'd played with had had one hand fall off their arm, from trying to catch his fastballs.

Randy Johnson was when I started to wish there was a way to get rid of Cashman…worst GM in baseball

Yeah all that's great, but we know it was all about the mullet and mustache :D

@@jefffinkbonner9551 🤣🤣

I think of MMA fighterJon Jones in the category as well. Super long and lean or Anderson Silva in his prime

By the time he releases the pitch, his hand could pick the pocket of any lefty hitter. It's just unfair!

There are only two men who can pull of a mullet, this man and the swayze... And I'm not sure if if RJ actually pulled it off or I'm just to scared to tell him otherwise

Yeah...His career basically started at 30. Imagine if he was prime for 10 more years the career numbers and accomplishments he could have gotten...

Thank you for bringing this up. Sad but not surprising that this comment is being ignored!

When Nolaln Ryan showed him how to adjust his pitch, that's when he became awesome.

Had he talked to Nolan earlier…we will never know, possibly the Babe Ruth of pitching

That's why I don't blame the Expos for trading him. He was a trainwreck old prospect until Ryan and Tom House fixed him. There was no blueprint for a 6'10 pitcher back then.

So what Nolan Ryan threw 235 in a game

@@muellertronchannel4625 you don't have to hate my guy, 160 or 235 both are crazy

yep, and that was in a Extra inning game, dont see many pitchers that actually start a game and actually stay in while it went into extra innings, and he struck out almost 20 batters in that game. @@muellertronchannel4625

& that was done often on a 3 day rotation... nowadays pitchers do maybe half on a 5-6 day rotation & still get injured.

@@nicolasmartinez795 We don't hate your choice , Look at the numbers ,I'm not even saying your wrong, But in 1968 ? Mr Bob Gibson had best season find me any MLB pitcher the can even come close to his ERA record ,, MLB lowered the pitching mound to give Batters a chance to score runs, They changed baseball rules because he was so good the batters could not hit him,, MLB wanted more exciting higher scoring games for the fans, MLB changed the rules of the game because he was so good that players were afraid to face, I like Mr Ryan he was one of the best,, But i loved sandy koufax ,, Check out how many complete games he pitched, pitching was differnt then, I'll put Bob Gibsons record against any modern pitcher, I'm interested and value your opinion.

That is one of the coolest things I've heard. Well played!!

They would hang a circle k “k” up for every strike out.. randy Johnson and curt schilling where UNSTOPPABLE!

I used to buy the dollar seats too... I was able to watch a lot of home games as a kid cause it only cost $1! Never once sat in that section tho as we would move down to the bleachers which used to cost like $10 back then

As an Arizona State grad, I did the same thing but would sneak in my own mini-booze bottles.

Circle K was the gas station that did that. What a promo 🙌🏼

I don't know much about baseball but from what I heard about randy we was a stand up guy with nothing but class back in those days we honored our parents and if we didn't listen we got our asses tore up I'm a mommas boy my momma died June 13th 2021 qt 0650 hours I'm about to be getting a tattoo that says "momma" and the date she was born and the date she died

@Repent and believe in Jesus Christ i repent i repent. forgive me Jesus. i will give money to the church i will. forgive me. but Jesus - why do i have to donate all my wages to the church?

@Repent and believe in Jesus Christ Jesus you only love me if i give you money? like a prostitute?

Bob Gibson had that same stare.

@@KwisBwown Technically you don't have to donate ALL your wages to the church. A 10% tithe is generally agreed upon.

and martinezzz

And the grunge scene there. What a time for you haha

The grunge scene 🤟🏼

Sonics were great too. Shawn Kemp and Gary Peyton. City was alive and amazing after winning game six against Salt Lake.

I loved the King Dome. So many great memories there

Absolute Class A PITCHER

It's a shame his 4 consecutive Cy Youngs went somewhat under the radar. Thanks to the peak, and subsequent nose dive, of the steroid era. With everyone focused solely on home runs, then on the fallout of the Balco case. Randy Johnson is one of those athletes that transcends sports. Like Bo Jackson, Nolan Ryan, Wayne Gretzky, etc...

He was so intimidating I have heard you can run faster scared than you can mad I wouldn't want too piss randy off though

He should have won a sixth over Roger Clemens in 2004 so the two can be tied for the most, but unfortunately the Diamondbacks cratered to 51-111 that year so Randy went 16-14 despite a 3.23 ERA in his losses and no-decisions!

Randy was a stud, only Mo is one of a kind

No fucking wayyyyy

He does professional photography at alot of big league games even football.

I met him and his camera equipment at a Jason Bonham show in Phoenix. He had just been elected to the HOF and we chatted amiably about baseball and music. Nice guy.

@Jon O Cool! Thanks for that info. I'm a huge RJ and Coheed and Cambria fan. I know that Alice Cooper and Randy owned a sports bar together at one time (Maybe they still do).

_How about his close relationship with the 3 guys (now just 2 guys, sadly) in RUSH?_

another great pitching duo Maddux, Glavine they were fun to watch for years

@@mw3891 Greg maddux is one of my favorite players of all time. His command of several variations of fairly soft fastballs was extraordinary. Guys with 86 mph fastballs won't even hardly get college scholarships these days, and Maddox won 300(?) games during the "juice" era. Unbelievable. Glavine and Smoltz rounded out maybe the best 3-some of pitchers I've ever seen

@@stevescuba1978 yes I honestly forgot about Smoltz cannot believe that lol your right about the best 3 pitchers they were fun to watch and dangerous

Pedro and Schilling

@@harryparsons2750 Pedro was great, but Johnson had 21 years to Pedro's 18, 4800 K's to 3100, 300+ wins to 200, and 1800 more innings. Still a great duo, but Johnson was just unreal....best pitcher since Nolan Ryan.

Underrated comment

Same

As a fellow Seattleite...we should've never let him go. :(

as an astros fan, i too ennoble randy.

I remember the glory days of Randy Johnson, Ken Griffey Jr, Jay Buhner, Norm Charlton and Edgar Martinez.

I saw him lose in Montreal. But, stand up dude.

Until he became a Yankee

Yes an incredible example of the ped era.

Saw him in Seattle as well. What a monster on the diamond!

I always thought Randy was the only one to hit a bird, but it actually happened another time! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-MmlgQIhyURo.html (It's the one that starts around 19 seconds in that video)

Omg…thank you for providing the link for that. I couldn’t imagine something like that happening more than a single time. That bird had at least a possibility of surviving being it was hit with a breaking ball. Randy smoked the poor bird he hit with an absolute laser that basically disintegrated the poor guy. That was crazy. I saw it, not live, but on the day it happened via SportsCenter during baseball tonight. That was just insane. Lmfaooooo

At least the bird stood a chance. Batters had to stand inside the box.

He should have went to jail for what he did to that bird 😅😅

He will forever go down as the only player to make a bird explode That thing vaporized into thin air

Things only became more amusing when they added Schilling to the rotation... my God, can you imagine facing those two guys back to back? I'll bet they shattered the confidence of all kinds of hitters.

I believe Randy was one of Tom House's first real students after Nolan, so the advice didn't even really exist yet when Randy was in college, House hadn't opened his school yet. But yeah. Have you seen the GQ video on RU-vid where Tom House explains how he became a doctorate of physics and single handedly created the sports science industry of pitching mechanics, and became the best pitching coach in history (not to mention he also teaches quarterbacks to throw in football, he's a big reason why Tom Brady became as good as he did)? If not, here's the link to it. It's absolutely enthralling and fascinating, genuinely, it's amazing what science can achieve in sports, even a sport as old as baseball which you'd think would have pretty much worked out the right way to do things already, but no even by the 1990s it seemed like what the "common knowledge" of everything involved in playing baseball was was barely scratching the surface, and the sport had an enormous capacity to modernize still, there's so much even now that's still yet to he uncovered, that will change the sport in a dramatic way again. But yeah, watch this video, and then afterwards watch the sequel video to this one, also on the GQ channel, where Tom House explains how he coached Tom Brady into becoming the best quarterback ever: m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-fG8o25i8A9k.html Some who tell the story of House teaching Randy make it sound like it was Nolan Ryan who gave Randy the advice, but really it was Tom House. House then got fired for it, for helping a pitcher on another team cos he was with the Rangers and helped Randy who was a Mariner at the time, but that was a good thing in the long run as it meant House could open his pitching school which is still going today. In a way though, Nolan Ryan was way more of a Tom House student than Randy was. Randy was already nearly great, just inconsistent, and had to change one small thing about his footwork in order to become the best pitcher on the planet. But Nolan Ryan went from nearly having to retire early because of injuries making him unable to perform well enough, to actually becoming a far better pitcher than he ever was before, and he was already great. House extended Ryan's career by many many years, and made him into a better pitcher too, I believe most of Ryan's Cy Youngs and no-hitters came when he was already in his early to mid 30s, after the time he'd already come very close to retirement. It's a testament to how powerful science is. He spent years and years working with House and definitely reaped more benefits from it than almost anyone else. If only poor Dave Stieb had been able to work with Tom House. When Stieb was suffering with injuries and his ERA ballooned, he pitched a game against Nolan Ryan, a game that's on RU-vid, and the commentators mention at the start how both of them are on their last legs looking for one final chance to maybe recover their good pitching form and extend their career a bit further after they'd been suffering from bad injuries. One went on to become a far better pitcher than he'd been beforehand, somehow, and the other guy sadly retired soon after, although he did come out of retirement for 1 year, 5 years later, having finally recovered from his injuries, and played all season for the blue jays that year, not just the odd inning here and there, which had never been done before or since after such a huge amount of time since the first retirement. Tom House works with a ton of kids at his school, and so in like 15 years time we're probably gonna start seeing a whole generation of Tom House trained pitchers in MLB who all collectively raise the standard of pitching in the league by an enormous amount. MLB would have to change something again probably, because nobody wants to watch a type of baseball where no tram ever scores lol I wonder how many other aspects of sports could use Tom House and his science. Like with American football and throwing the ball as a quarterback. Like, for example, what about cricket? It's the 2nd most popular sport on earth after all, so there's a _LOT_ of money there riding on good results. House could simply apply his method to the mechanics of bowling and batting in cricket, and make players far better at both, and also reduce the likelihood of injuries by a lot like he has done with baseball. It'd be fantastic to see. Cricket batting already was changed by a single man, Don Bradman, who essentially invented his own new style of batting that went against all conventional "wisdom" of the time, and dominated the world by playing in this style. And then he taught it to everyone else, and these days _EVERYONE_ in cricket bats like Bradman. He didn't use science or computers to come up with all that stuff, he played before computers were even a thing. But yeah I just wonder what Tom House with his PhD and his computers and physics modeling software etc could teach us about cricket, how much could be changed for the better, to make the sport as a whole even stronger.

@@duffman18 I ain’t reading allat

@@duffman18 Thanks for the post, I didn't know about Tom House. But one correction: Nolan Ryan never won a Cy Young award.

I remember watching Randy on my Mariner's in the 90s, wish we would have kept him we had such a good team with Griffy, Arod and Edgar Martinez, could have been the elite

@@jweezy5490 As I remember, the M's were elite without those four (2001).

Behind Nolan Ryan

Kershaw exists so no. Look up the stats Kershaw is the GOAT. I hope you are watching because hes still active.

@@kevinm69138 Kershaw is still an active player, so we’ll see.

@@kevinm69138 Kershaw needs to accomplish a little more to enter Randy territory. He's close. Mind you though, he just turned 35....Randy Johnson won 4 Cy Youngs after turning 35 and pityched till he was 46yrs old.

He’s not even the best pitcher with the last name of Johnson.

Well. This is disrespectful. Tiger Woods is black in a white dominated sport. The Tiger Woods of baseball is Ken Griffey Jr. or Jackie Robinson.. Or even Mr October.

@@2TrainWakefieldshut up nobody cares

I gotta admit, it twinges a little to see people's memories of him be the D-Backs instead of the Mariners, but the M's always had to M...

Even as a Yankee fan y'all always had players I loved Griff Randy Edgar Ichiro was my fav player for a while even playing for y'all id be rooting for them

Loved that mid 90s Mariner team, wish they would have kept Johnson. Griffey, Arod and Martinez were legit

@@jweezy5490 Bro you ain't kidding that would have been a dynasty imo unbelievable collection of talent.

I watched Johnson pitch in the kingdome once. The ball just popped so much louder when he threw. The sound it made got everyones attention...

great, but once in a lifetime, no

Amen

@@garyt19651 there literally are no other 6'10" lefties throwing absolute fucking gas on the mound lmao

​@@garyt19651 He definitely was a once in a lifetime pitcher. 😂😂😂

Nolan Ryan?

Those bats they stink. That's what a guy said working on my air conditioning unit?

Im still shocked that team never won a championship.

@@williamhermann6635 me too but in all fairness that Atl team with 5 legit starting pitchers was going to be a tough outing for any team that faced them

@@timduke4616 Possibly, but they never even made it that far. And that offense was stacked too. Griffey, ARod, Edgar Martinez, Jay Buehner, etc. They could bop with anyone but outside of Randy Johnson they just didnt have the pitching.

He wanted out. No ?

@@breadandcircuses8127I’m sure Griffey wanted out and the mariners picked a rod over Griffey or something like that with them two

Nolan Ryan is the GOAT. No matter who you cheer for that’s is an absolute fact. Randy was a beast though. One of the greatest.

​@@buzzknutson😂 ryans as overated a player as jeter.

​@@buzzknutsonput the bottle down son,I agree about jeter

🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯

It wasn’t solely Nolan. It was Nolan’s coach, Tom House. The one who taught Nolan control in his later years.

No possibly about it. Ryan was the best pitcher of all time and Randy was the best lefty of all time (so, number 2 of all time).

gotta throw Maddox in there as well. We've also had some great relievers in there through the years but yeah I gotta agree.

​@@leecowell8165 Maddox is in a different category. I don't like the term greatest because different pitchers are great for different reasons. Ryan and Johnson are probably the 2 most dominant pitchers of all time though.

@@garyhollman2399 Nolan Ryan was the best pitcher of all time? 😂😂😂😂😂. Learn baseball man. Not even in the top 25

That's cool as hell. Who knew Unit was a Slayer fan? If you need a good laugh, watch Jim Breuer's bit about Slayer fans and then picture RJ being a part of it. Just picturing that in my head makes me laugh

When Randy Johnson has to pull off an extreme zoom with his beloved camera, who is there to catch and return his camera to him?

I was going into Hobby Bench on Bell Road as he was coming out with some RC cars. My brush with greatness.

@@avlisk he’s the coolest 😂🤣 I pumped gas next to him once in Scottsdale

That's awesome. I went to game 1, after my brother in law asked if I wanted to buy in on some tickets. What a show that was. About 3/4 of the way through game 1, he was checking his cell phone and said I could get advance tickets to game #7 for something like $64.00. At that time, I wasn't sure there was going to be a game 7, but I guess they sell them in advance, with no promise of a refund at a major discount. What a mistake it was turning down those tickets. At least I got to watch it on TV. What a game that was. I was living in Arizona at the time and the Diamondbacks brought me back to the sport of baseball, so it was great to have found a new team to root for, then watch them win it all. Randy Johnson and Kurt Schilling put on a show like no other I've ever seen in the sport, of course with Randy being the undeniable star.

I was there for the infamous game 5 vs the Yankees. All I know is to see a outdoor stadium with 35-40,000 baseball fans during the playoffs is absolutely monumental. But to be in a concrete dome with over 72,000 baseball fans in game 5, well, I don't know what the decibel level would have been after Edgar's game winning double, but I'm sure it was at least 160-170. Most incredibe moment of my life. Thank you Randy for the great Mariner highlights and wished you would've went in the Hall as one

@@jeffreyhammond9023 I'll just say that it was loud as fook! Fireworks, everyone high fivin' like the like high fivin' white guys from Almost Live, it was a great experience!

He was incredible to watch. I also got to see him pitch 1 time and it was also in Arizona. I went there to visit an old friend from grade school who I hadn't seen in nearly 25 years. He got us tickets to the game, way up in the upper deck behind home plate in 2001. I'm talking serious nosebleed seats, but it was perfect to watch him shut down the Cardinals and strikeout 14. The only disappointment was that Mark McGuire was sidelined in that game. Despite McGuire's PED use, he and Randy were spectacles to watch back in the day.

seen him live in 2000 became a fan of the Dbacks ever since amazing human beign at his sport all my dbacks jerseys are all his !

During that time, there were only 2 pitchers I watched every chance I got. Both of them were traded by the Expos, as the video mentions lol. Randy Johnson and Pedro Martinez. The latter being my all-time favorite. If only the Expos had some foresight.

My next grandsons middle name will be Randy. I hope

Greg Maddux

@@nicholasadams2374 I watched Mad-Dawg, Johnson, Martinez, Glavin, and Smoltz every chance I that I could. Yes, I am Braves fan, and I will say that Randy Johnson stood Taller (pun intended) in that crowd.

Give Walter time… he’s a big boy with mullet in a mariners jersey. He will hopefully get as close as we will ever see again.

Larry Bird of Baseball

Hands down the nastiest slider ever, that ball slid like 6 feet 😅

He wasn’t just talented either. He was a freakin bulldog out there. He wasn’t like today’s hard throwers who are done after 5-6 innings. This dude was getting you to the 8th or 9th every night with a lead. He battled.

My recollection is that his first game back in Seattle, he was given a five-minute standing ovation when he took the mound - in contrast, Alex Rodriguez was greeted with five minutes of boos and people throwing monopoly money onto the field.

LOL

well his arms were 10 feet long so he could throw effortless fast balls!

@@leecowell8165 I think he more just moved his arm forward and put the ball in the catcher's mitt. It wouldn't surprise me if he had some cartoon-like effects from Wylie Coyote where his limbs stretch like rubber and that's why they're better couldn't hit the ball. If Justin Verlander does not get to 300 career wins, then Randy will be the last one to do it

Both Randy and Curt measured up fine against Pedro. Altho while Randy and Curt won every postseason game against the yanks, neither threw a yankee coach into the mud like pedro 😂

​@@leecowell8165 The ball was already halfway to home plate when he released it lol

​@@ninja0406 I dont think you realize how unbelievable Pedro was during that time. Its not slighting Randy or Curt, its giving Pedro the credit he deserves. He put up the best 3 year stretch of pitching in modern baseball history. Even better than Randy.

like a bird dying

Yep, too bad he didn't have a little bit left in the tank in 2010.

Johnson would pitch 20 no hitters and strikeout 7000 if he played in today's soft game.

Baseball doesnt have a GOAT

Enter Justin Verlander.

I wonder if it has to do with steroids. I’m not discrediting him, he’s the best pitcher in my opinion. I just think if you look at his baseball reference page it’s almost bizarre how he dominants in his late thirties. Once again I think he’s the GOAT regardless

@@dabear7862 thats a valid point but I also think it has to do with sports science advancing in general

@@RunnerBoy55 yeah, he's in the same convo. Not quite as dominant but the run he's been making for the last 5-6 years is crazy considering how "good, but kinda overrated" he was back in like 2012. I guess all the shit talk about the postseason finally pushed him harder lol

​@@dabear7862 I've always wondered if he was juicing too. Most people don't realize there are lots of steroids that don't add massive bulk, but are great for increasing stamina or recovering from injury. Not all roid users end up looking like a wrestler like Bonds and McGwire. I'm suspect of anyone from the steroid era, but especially the guys who played well into their 40's. Johnson is still on my top 5 favorite pitcher list regardless though.

Wtf... He was on the decline, he needed peds.

150 kph for sure, actually close to 160

...they changed the rules of baseball because Gibson was so overpowering. If they had not dropped the mound 5 inches in the middle of Gibson's career...he would have had 400 wins...

Maddux in his prime could crank it up when he needed too. Most dominating pitcher I would have to give to Gibson's teammate, Steve Carlton. You had to score on Carlton early as once he got into his rhythm it was over. He would finish stronger than he started but that was back in the days of pitchers going for complete games. He had a great balk move to first that umpires let him get away with that would pick off guys on first all the time. Hated the guy! LOL. As far as fear, I would probably say J.R. Richard, but his career ended right when he was reaching his prime. But then J.R. was a right handed Randy Johnson so their very similar.

@@rickrandomites I don't mind at all! My favourite pitcher of all time is Nolan Ryan!