Why Nobody Throws The Best Pitch in Baseball

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[calebraney]

I can't believe you made a nearly twenty minute video on the knuckleball and how hard it is to catch without including this classic from Bob Uecker, "The way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until it stops rolling and then pick it up."

[bipolarminddroppings]

Why doesn't any throw the best pitch in baseball? Well that seems to have an obvious answer: Because Baseball doesn't exist.

[BillyandtheCloneasaurus]

Tim Wakefield saved the Pirates in that 1992 postseason. RIP Tim you will never be forgotten. Also favorite highlight of Wakefield was when he dualed another Knuckleballer Steve Sparks of the Tigers back in 2000, what a game.

[sourkoyote]

So you're telling me, alls my dad had to do when we were standing in the backyard in 110 degree heat in the middle of summer when I was 12, was teach me 1 friggin' pitch & I could've gone pro instead of "disappointing him" for not getting a D1 sports scholarship.

[CoolHandLou]

As a former knuckleball pitcher, this is the best video I've ever watched on the pitch.

One correction - as a lifelong DFW resident and Texas Rangers fan, Charlie Hough's last name is pronounced "Huff", not "How". He's the one who made me want to learn how to throw the knuckleball. Props to the GOAT!

Thanks for the great vid!

[mmShowdown]

I remember sitting in the stands for the inaugural game of the Marlins and watching old Charlie Hough shuffled up to the mound and absolutely destroy hot bat after hot bath throwing nothing but dead slow knuckleballs. I think he threw a 48 mph strike that day.

[ChiknNuggs]

That Boston story should be a movie! Like whattt 😂

[EmberRains]

Unfortunate timing on this video for Waldron since his last 3 games were awful for him. Still heated about his 10 ER last night against the Twins.

[cnking]

14:04 I'm old so I remember watching him, Charlie Hough's name is pronounced "huff, " like "puff"

[teaumanport]

As a 40 year old woman who has loved baseball my entire life, some very stupid part of my brain keeps watching this and thinking, ah-ha! I do have a path to make it to the MLB!

I definitely do not, but it's nice to dream.

[deathlessgamer]

What about the screwball?

Fernando Valenzuela literally set the baseball world on fire because of how well he could throw the screwball.

[GreenWindow]

I can't believe this guy makes such good videos about a sport that doesn't even exist

[TakahigeTsukada]

As the video talks about, knuckleballers have a lot of problems. The catcher can't catch it, it is easily stolen, and if it doesn't bend, it is just a slow fastball. Still, it is a changeable ball that does not seem to be going extinct, and as a viewer, I find it very romantic.

[Matrix_The_One]

This man puts way too much effort into his videos about a sport that doesn't exist. The clips look so real.

[sportsguy]

RIP the goat of knuckleballs, Tim Wakefield

[jakeh]

These dudes are throwing knuckle balls at like 70+ mph. I wouldn't say that takes "no athletic ability" "no arm strength" or that "anyone can learn it". I'd bet well over 50% of people on earth can't throw a baseball 70+ mph anywhere near a strike zone even 5/10 times.

[YaowBucketHEAD]

In Triple Play 98 (the *GOAT* of baseball video games) a knuckleball is a demon pitch. All over the place.

I made a player, named after my middle school language arts teacher, who could throw the nasty knuckler and had a 95+ fastball and nasty slider.

Dominated that game with _Larry Bowers._

[unoqualunque]

Baseball doesn't exists dropped a video on the knuckleball, oh boy I can finally die happy

[DavadWilson]

me watching this a day after waldren gives up 10 runs

[roguemerc]

I remember when R.A. Dickey made The Show with the Knuckleball. I played my friend in MLB 2k, and he chose the Nats for Strausburg's insane fastball, so I chose the Mets for the polar opposite in pitch speed. Then a few years later I was playing Fantasy and meme drafted him, , , and, he had his CY Young season!