“Cut the Crap!!” - Rich Eisen on Cheating in Baseball | The Rich Eisen Show

“Cut the Crap!!” - Rich Eisen on Cheating in Baseball | The Rich Eisen Show | 5/21/21

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Rich Eisen rails against cheating in Major League Baseball and how it’s threatening not only the integrity of the game but the enjoyment of watching the sport he loves.
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@yepyep7629 3 жыл бұрын

Bauer warned everyone that this was coming a few years back. He even proved it in a one game sample where his spin rate went through the roof 1 game then back to normal

@connorrussell2084 3 жыл бұрын

and then the spin rate magically went back to that number last year and so far this year...... that was a good baseball doesnt exist video

@ericmiller254 3 жыл бұрын

It's been here for generations he was just whining

@galactictomato9168 3 жыл бұрын

@@connorrussell2084 Cant blame the guy. Everyone else is cheating too. So is it really cheating at this point?

@tanushcontractor2004 3 жыл бұрын

@B-rad Skull he said if the mlb doesnt fix it hes gonna start doing it, so he did, and hes really good

@connorrussell2084 3 жыл бұрын

@@galactictomato9168 no I dont care, I'm just stating thats hes been doing it the last two years as well

@geoffroi-le-Hook 3 жыл бұрын

Vaseline is not a foreign substance. It's made in the USA --Don Sutton, HOF

@mbdg6810 3 жыл бұрын

YES LOL

@ge4029 3 жыл бұрын

MLB in recent years: Respect the unwritten rules, break the written rules.

@jpman9 3 жыл бұрын

That’s what happens when the players and teams don’t get punished for cheating. Not much of a deterrent out there when you know you can cheat with no consequences.

@adriankendrick4281 3 жыл бұрын

Facts

@samualjohnson5450 3 жыл бұрын

This is why I love rich, he's that super cool dad that everyone wants to hang with, but scares the hell out of everyone once he finally gets mad lol Side note: its almost funny how high and mighty baseball acts, with all its traditions, and unwritten rules...all the while they're the most crooked league around.

@otaviofrn_adv 3 жыл бұрын

Rich, like many ESPN old timers, went out of the mothership and took the greatness with him. About the side note, I couldn't agree more. Baseball fans think the sport is a holy grail of some sort

@yurigodoy93 3 жыл бұрын

I mean, it's the dad's job to be really scary once in a while, so he's still the cool dad everybody wants to hang with, even when he's mad

@christamblyn6780 3 жыл бұрын

Trevor Bauer has been calling this out for years. Rich, as John McClain once said, "welcome to the party pal".

@nocalsteve 3 жыл бұрын

In a sport with unwritten rules, there is no such thing as cheating.

@janmaartenvleer1050 3 жыл бұрын

Well oke, but there is still something like integrity imho.

@robotman8444 3 жыл бұрын

let the kids cheat. I wanna see roids in the game

@joshpezzner5929 3 жыл бұрын

@Justin Hitoki greenies were very ramped in minor league ball in the mid 80's to early 2000's . Short stop for the Yankees opened his mouth and the new minor league drug policy came in affect right around some big scandal book, something called the Mitchell report lol Yeah I forgot the air quotes lol

@Flowerz__ 3 жыл бұрын

League office pretty much agrees since they gave the Astros the biggest sweet heart deal since the worst cheating since the steroid era.

@davidporter7051 3 жыл бұрын

@Justin Hitoki baseball players used PED's starting in 1889. "Cheating" is part of the game.

@jacobball8422 3 жыл бұрын

I mean this in the most respectful way possible. I love it when rich is legit pissed off. Rich Eisen feels like he's a friend of mine. I love all of you're content. You're a boss in you're own element

@hart7668 3 жыл бұрын

He's great like this lol

@harveyhorwitz1346 3 жыл бұрын

He’s a hypocrite.

@PakRT48 3 жыл бұрын

He's like a dad scolding his 12-year old son

@seancallaway5204 3 жыл бұрын

@@harveyhorwitz1346 Awwww, aw you sad? You want me to call a whaaaambulance? You need to be burped?

@Vic-Vega 3 жыл бұрын

@@seancallaway5204 That sounds like a much more appropriate response to Eisen himself.

@grahamcracka9333 3 жыл бұрын

I like how there have been 6 no hitters but only against the same three teams with each one being no hit twice.

@trevorkinder6892 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah so funny. Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Oh wait I’m a rangers fan

@JG-fe1gx 3 жыл бұрын

Seattle is making really really hard to be a fan right now....

@jesusdelossantos7245 3 жыл бұрын

Trevor Bauer warned us

@eodico 3 жыл бұрын

Then he joined them

@bradleylovej 3 жыл бұрын

"Where are they getting it from?" This turned into such a dad rant, omg i love it.

@bgmcc907 3 жыл бұрын

The one that stuck to Molina’s chest protector wasn’t the dead giveaway of all time? And all it was was a curiosity at the time.

@travisp5747 3 жыл бұрын

When was that?

@miguelangelsucrelares5009 3 жыл бұрын

The irony here is that the game today is most likely cleaner than ever before.

@MichaelW52883 3 жыл бұрын

1999 Sosa and Big Mac home run race. I was 16, watching Mark and Sammy just crush balls. It was like the peak of my baseball fandom. Once I seen Sosa was a cheater and then Mark was as well. I couldn't loved baseball as much. I couldn't ever look at the game the same way again. I'm still a fan, but I will never like it like I did back then.

@rgb8289 3 жыл бұрын

Lol keep that same energy for the coke heads of the 70s and 80s.

@mustang268 3 жыл бұрын

@@rgb8289 modern players are doing way more and more powerful and effective drugs then guys in the 70s

@rgb8289 3 жыл бұрын

@@mustang268 😂 cheating is cheating though? Best stuff they had were anabolic steroids and coke. Sounds awesome.

@MichaelW52883 3 жыл бұрын

@@rgb8289 Oh I heard about the clubhouse coke breaks lol 😂

@kenmcfann8128 3 жыл бұрын

Great video Rich, thanks for that...

@cubbybear312 3 жыл бұрын

I just thought of something... All this time the umpires have been checking the pitchers gloves for pine tar and such but has anyone ever checked the catchers mitt?

@rrb396 3 жыл бұрын

Brim of the hat is the most preferred method.

@Rick-Rarick 3 жыл бұрын

Much respect to Rich and crew. I totally agree.

@btbarr16 3 жыл бұрын

Kinda makes sense with how much better pitching has gotten the past few years.

@beschutzer42 3 жыл бұрын

Hotdogs and Booze 🤣🤣🤣🤣😂🤣

@DrBacak 3 жыл бұрын

I died when he said that!

@steve0aw 3 жыл бұрын

Trevor Bauer has been saying this for years now

@timmiller8537 3 жыл бұрын

Gotta wonder why we have 6 no hitters by the end of May. The record for a season is 8 by the way.

@jonnyharding3646 3 жыл бұрын

This connects so well because it's coming from someone that's clearly a huge fan

@pepperypeppers2755 3 жыл бұрын

7:19 Exactly the way to solve it, have someone inspect every ball as it comes out of play.

@spencersilence8097 3 жыл бұрын

Just look at John Means hand sticking to his glove during his no-hitter, or Gerrit Coles hat every single outing.

@michaeldougherty5393 3 жыл бұрын

Here here! No mention of Rob Manfred here Rich? He's a big integrity guy right? He'll step in and get this figured out lol.

@glennwojcik2342 3 жыл бұрын

Very good show.

@j.d.6915 3 жыл бұрын

@5:25 Someone hasn't seen The Bad News Bears. There's a famous scene were Tatum O'Neil doctors the ball and the coach is explaining what she's doing.

@charlesblack9959 3 жыл бұрын

Haven't seen the OG in a good minute. Hard to believe Kelly would end up being Rhorshac...

@grelgen 3 жыл бұрын

what if second base was actually the pitcher's mound. would slow down a lot of those cleats up slides

@bendonahue8628 3 жыл бұрын

Have the 1st & 3rd base ump get the ball before it goes to the dugout. If the ump feels tack then immediately check the pitcher

@alonzobean1 3 жыл бұрын

Curious? Pitcher throws to batter and the ball hits the dirt they throw it out. Batter lines ball to short .... ball hits dirt and he throws out runner. First baseman throws ball back to Pitcher. So what is the difference?

@degenerate4life734 3 жыл бұрын

This is crazy and awesome

@00huntr00 3 жыл бұрын

money.. it begins with money Rich...

@lioneledouard 3 жыл бұрын

Americas favorite past time.. cheating

@vinayramasahayam2410 3 жыл бұрын

I love Rich's rants

@BrendantheDolt 3 жыл бұрын

It looks like the ball is breaking later than ever, not just more than ever.

@hoodrat1632 3 жыл бұрын

Either enforce the rule or allow the pitchers to use substances

@staidenofanarchy 3 жыл бұрын

They need to enforce the rules, letting the pitchers use whatever goop they want will lead to a 3 true outcome nightmare

@enshk79 3 жыл бұрын

THANK YOU RICH!!! it’s so FRUSTRATING

@ernieallison3141 2 жыл бұрын

One of the main reasons I quit watching a game that I used to love. The game has been ruined in so many ways.

@vinceniederman 2 жыл бұрын

I'm Not a Big Baseball Fan As Much and I Agree With U About The Game Being Ruined in Lots of Ways!

@lukelloyd8976 3 жыл бұрын

Isn't this the 1st break a pitcher has got...since the last time they changed the rules, because it looked like there "wasn't enough hitting"

@ben2972 3 жыл бұрын

“i lived through it, i don’t want it to happen again. what the hell is happening?” money (which i’m personally fine with) is what happened. and job security. and fame/glory.

@jeremiahcole2542 3 жыл бұрын

Rich needs to talk about this every day until something is done about it

@dash4800 3 жыл бұрын

I'm not even that big into baseball but I can look at a couple guys that went from being pretty average for many years to being unstoppable in the last couple years.

@jonwhick3073 3 жыл бұрын

One of these days someone's going go to bunt and the balls going stick to the bat like velcro tenis racket games

@youngrickey4927 3 жыл бұрын

I use to play for ABA (Albuquerque Baseball Academy) club team for baseball in Albq, New Mexico. One of the main coaches of the program would say to us “If you ain’t cheating you ain’t trying.” Alex Bergman played baseball and trained at ABA when he came up. Cheating will always be in baseball since it’s the hardest game haha

@alexanderschwarz242 3 жыл бұрын

Funny that he was talking about how Othani should be the storry, it's just that his spinnrate 4-Seam and Slider improved by 200 rpm this Season hmmmm weird

@cburrows4952 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for verifying the destruction of baseball!!✔️

@jennifertimlin1371 3 жыл бұрын

Tell it to the Yankees and Gerrit Cole.

@matiasmorales1130 3 жыл бұрын

Sure Jen keep crying about the Yankees when all the teams are pulling this garbage.

@michaelcottle6270 3 жыл бұрын

Home plate umpire feeds the ball to the pitcher, not the catcher. 3 "tacky" feeling balls and the pitcher is ejected.

@bradmapson6243 3 жыл бұрын

When everyone else in the world is getting away with fraud, and in commuting it can not only save your career but make you among the highest paid it makes it almost impossible for the honorable people to survive.

@Wozrop 3 жыл бұрын

The shift isn't a problem, league wide BABIP is the same. Hitters are getting better, as are defenders, offense is down because strikeouts are up because spin rates are up because substances

@tlhome7565 3 жыл бұрын

Are Umps allowed to check pitchers hands??

@przybywf 3 жыл бұрын

The reason they do it is because if they do not get caught they will get a major pay day that is guaranteed.

@simondaughtry4619 3 жыл бұрын

When you stop watching is when MLB gets a conscious....... and then does the right thing.......

@sundiatasolomon 3 жыл бұрын

Rich eisen rants are what I live for !

@Vic-Vega 3 жыл бұрын

Sad "life," bruh.

@toddkawana7171 3 жыл бұрын

His rants about the Jets... Absolute gold 😆

@beschutzer42 3 жыл бұрын

Glove checks between each inning

@batman421 3 жыл бұрын

The umps put the balls into play. Why aren't they detecting something? Perhaps checking randomly the ball in play??

@johnligon2368 3 жыл бұрын

No wonder I stopped watching sports 10 years ago

@kylenevilmusic672 3 жыл бұрын

Fixing this pitching issue won’t change the strikeout rate or no hitters

@timschmitz2873 3 жыл бұрын

Yes. All of this.

@Briansgate 3 жыл бұрын

If a pitcher is not allowed to use pine tar to get a better grip, then why is the batter?

@anamezola1738 3 жыл бұрын

how lightly the Astros were charged tells every other team its okay.

@twistedconversations782 3 жыл бұрын

The fact that you think that this took off because of the Astros means your not paying attention. Baseball has allowed cheating in some form or fashion since before steroids. The Astros not being punish was because other teams were also cheating and MLB needed a scapegoat. If you punish the Astros you have to punish the Rockies Yankees Red Sox's Dodgers. You think MLB has a season without all the players and managers from those teams not to mention staff and trainers in lab making sticky stuff for pitchers like the Reds.

@runningwithcat6195 3 жыл бұрын

@@twistedconversations782 You literally just proved his point. "If you punish the Astros you have to punish others," in that case, MLB did not do that and then of course it would lead to this cheating taking off.

@justinmathewson3692 3 жыл бұрын

Ace of Spades 😂

@mastermind423 3 жыл бұрын

Why no mention of the ball alterations made this season? How is that not a considered variable as well? Jesus.

@perrytilton5221 3 жыл бұрын

Overall movement yes. For spin-rate itself it doesn't make a difference.

@mackbid4280 3 жыл бұрын

Why dont they just get the ump to feel their hands mid inning next week and suspend like 40 pitchers for 162 games. Boom, they wont do it again.

@loganford1220 3 жыл бұрын

7:40😂😂

@chrismess135 3 жыл бұрын

When was the first official baseball game played? That is where you will find when cheating started. Its so ingrained into the sport that like fighting in hockey no matter how the powers that be try to stop it, it will continue. Baseballs first unwritten rule, if you ain't cheating you ain't trying!

@alexsmith7387 3 жыл бұрын

Dudes, how many baseballs would it take to use a new one every pitch? Then you could monitor every ball from every pitch

@jafopt 3 жыл бұрын

The umps touch the balls when they throw them into play. This sounds like BS unless the pitchers learned how to doctor a ball in 10 seconds undetected.

@jeffreyrossfree1913 3 жыл бұрын

Watch the videos of means using a substance in his glove during his no hitter

@jimmymcfarland4184 3 жыл бұрын

As long as the shift is in play nobody will ever have a 200 hit season. The shift is boring.

@patrickhogue8790 3 жыл бұрын

Sometimes the umpires will handle a foul ball and then toss it out of play. They know what a non altered ball feels like. They don't feel that stickiness?

@isaactaylor5531 3 жыл бұрын

Airport security.... Every inning?!?!....

@edscott4729 3 жыл бұрын

It wasn't wrong to take steroids. It was wrong for the MLB to promote McGuire and Sosa.

@paolo-n2000 3 жыл бұрын

Bud Selig and Rob Manfred have allowed the game to be manipulated by cheaters in the name of $$$!!!! Greedy cheats have ruined the integrity of baseball.

@NeilTruick 3 жыл бұрын

Baseball has been unwatchable ever since the Steroid Era got exposed for what it was. Add to that the "Revenge of the Umpires" period when they were starting arguments with players just to manufacture reasons to toss them, as well as Trashcan-Gate in its many varieties, and it's not a good experience any more.

@andrewb378 3 жыл бұрын

I've just found baseball to be profoundly boring in the last half decade. Nobody can hit anything and those who can are cheating. I'm a fat guy, so being outside in the sun in the middle of august is a horrible experience. Why would I ever subject myself to that for 4+ hours to watch 1 guy hit a home run and have nothing else happen? Honestly, I'd be much more interested in JuiceBall than this garbage.

@xavierdisante2071 3 жыл бұрын

Not for nothing, I love deGrom and I’ve been a Mets fan most of my life. But he has to be doing something, he’s gained velocity as he ages....

@SouthsideDarealist 3 жыл бұрын

I seriously don’t like the they use a new ball every time it hits the ground.

@obarbeito 3 жыл бұрын

You should start by investigating umpires... they touch a lot of those balls during the game and never notice anything???

@Hornsfan64 3 жыл бұрын

They only handle them before they’re thrown to the pitcher. The catcher is typically the one to toss a ball to the dugout after a ball in the dirt or if the pitcher doesn’t like the ball.

@Ch3tSt3adman 3 жыл бұрын

They did literally nothing about the Astros. I don't see how they'll do anything about this. Manfred is a complete joke of a commissioner

@glypnir 3 жыл бұрын

For a technical solution, you really need a device and/or an expert looking at the ball after every pitch. Just automatically take the ball out of play after every pitch and analyze it. You may need lots of balls.

@lacoleccionperfecto 3 жыл бұрын

How about if you get caught, you are suspended for a year with no pay.

@HH-le1vi 3 жыл бұрын

If they do it it'll be after this season. They'll have to put it into the new CBA.

@richardroy3699 3 жыл бұрын

Was it really cheating if there were rules back them? And you gotta add Bumgardner's 7th inning no-hit game.

@freddytrinidad3155 3 жыл бұрын

It’s funny how this sport is held in such high regard to the stupid unwritten rules and out of touch traditions, yet it’s been probably the most historically guilty of cheaters

@seancallaway5204 3 жыл бұрын

Make the whole field bigger.

@KonigGustavAdolph 3 жыл бұрын

How can this happen?! Does McCann know?!

@GeoffNelson 3 жыл бұрын

hear hear! No more cheating.

@jim9703 3 жыл бұрын

Love the naked gun comment. Cheating in baseball has become like fighting in hockey. Unless the win at all costs culture is addressed, it will keep happening.

@WesleyParksTTV 3 жыл бұрын

Ohtani is the horizon line of baseball right now

@Mrqq-jx2ox 3 жыл бұрын

Those young players are pry the only reason MLB hasn't collapsed under its foundation losing viewership bc otherwise what is exciting about the game right now

@cedarpark4052 3 жыл бұрын

No he isn't. Come back in two years and tell me how many games he played.

@lousassle9387 3 жыл бұрын

Ohtani is a unicorn that we should admire, but unfortunately specialization provides much more consistency

@j.d.6915 3 жыл бұрын

@@lousassle9387 Ohtani leading in HRs. He's beating out the specialist HR hitters.

@craigscarborough3696 3 жыл бұрын

Yes Rich, as a kid I was told "bend them till they break. " as in the rule isn't broken until they call it. Also said play better than the refs....ref.

@cvshasta 3 жыл бұрын

Since the 1930's, baseballs can be legally rubbed up with Lena Blackburne Rubbing mud, usually done by dugout manager. Piching mounds have also been lowered to favor hitters. Truth is, pitchers are a lot stronger and fit than in years past and the fastball is the least used pitch. Compared to football, where the balls go through hours-long preparation of surface grinding and conditioning prior to the game. Now you want to eliminate the baseball "shift?" How is that different than the multitude of defences in football?

@planefixerguy5188 3 жыл бұрын

All I can think of is ricky vaughn looking at eddie harris' chest covered in crisco.

@red5llaw 3 жыл бұрын

Professional Sports will NEVER be clean. EVER.

@ronaldstermer776 3 жыл бұрын

Cheating is why I quit watching baseball. So many players who don't cheat get screwed over by those who do cheat.

@johnadams8371 3 жыл бұрын

agreed

@ralphmalph5191 3 жыл бұрын

This is why sports ratings are tanking across the board.

@joemixon834 3 жыл бұрын

That and wokeness and politics

@rainkinggw 3 жыл бұрын

If they can train dogs to find Covid, they can train them to find foreign substances.

@richiehunt5097 3 жыл бұрын

This should be the rebuttal to fans that say that hitters just need to learn to not pull everything and stop swinging for the fences. Guys are throwing harder than ever before with ridiculous spin rates. Forget about the fastballs for a second...the offspeed pitches are ridiculous. Throwing sliders 90+ mph is more the norm than the once in a generation phenomenon. And yes, kudos to Trevor Bauer for pointing all of this out and trying to get it to gain attention as best as he possibly could.

@alexanderperez2732 3 жыл бұрын

The 6 no hitters are versus the same three teams.. Coincidence? Maybe they need to practice hitting. No but definitely pitchers are always trying to find an edge. They want that pay day