Former clubbie says he corked bats for Pete Rose.

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Күн бұрын

Bryan Greenberg of Jupiter says he corked bats for baseball star Pete Rose in the 80s when Rose played for the Montreal Expos and gives a deomstration.

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@johnguelfo3067 2 жыл бұрын

He is full of crap

@dickfitswell3437 3 жыл бұрын

Everyone used corked bats during those days.

@robd1329 3 жыл бұрын

Yea...it was ok back then also for Babe Ruth!

@BSDLLC 2 жыл бұрын

Baseball idiots: "We didn't cheat". Team gets caught cheating..... "Well, everybody cheats"

@kidsontheblock2680 2 жыл бұрын

And 90% of people took some sort of steroids or Greenies

@frankthespank 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, they all believed this dumb notion that it gave them magical powers and balls would “explode off the barrel” and it’d be so light a baby could swing it etc. lol

@Dev-sb1fw 2 жыл бұрын

Yep and it was still less effective

@dickgezinya5318 3 жыл бұрын

He probably corked Gretzky's hockey sticks too.

@docschweitz7606 Ай бұрын

Pete Rose didn't NEED to cork his bats! This story is just that: A STORY!!!!!

@fathermayhem6185 2 жыл бұрын

Tbh- Idgaf!! Pete Rose deserves to be in Hall of Fame and until he's there the HOF is complete bullspit 💯

@davidball3461 2 жыл бұрын

He is absolutely going in. Posthumously unfortunately. I just spread my cousin and tournament in fishing partner! I’ll get everything real skinny

@brianellis6880 2 ай бұрын

Had he not admitted to a relationship with a minor I think he’d be in, that’s what’s really keeping him out

@grunders 3 жыл бұрын

You can tell he's Canadian by the way he quickly said "I'm sorry" after making a minor mistake

@landmarkcreations1183 3 жыл бұрын

Looks like he’s done this a few times before lol

@davidhagar9847 3 жыл бұрын

corked bat for a singles hitter, gthoh.

@louie24seven 3 ай бұрын

He won't get into the hall of fame until he's ded 😂

@groupersti 2 ай бұрын

Or until the right powers that are keeping him out are...

@alonsolopez3541 4 жыл бұрын

why would a singles hitter cork a bat?

@pmac7113 4 жыл бұрын

Faster bat speed...let’s you wait a split second longer to see a pitch. More accurate swing. Not for power. I’ve read people who have his old bats had them x rayed and they were corked

@doofus9575 4 жыл бұрын

If anything I think a corked bat would be more useful for a singles hitter than a long ball hitter.

@jasona9 3 жыл бұрын

Pete was 45 years old when he played his final game in the majors. I'm sure he wanted every advantage he could get to SLOW DOWN Father Time.

@Andy-ph6mf 3 жыл бұрын

wouldnt that be a reason to use one, you're kinda dumb m8

@highzrollaz5428 3 жыл бұрын

@@pmac7113 that argument is bullshit. All you need is a lighter bat for speed because Pete wasnt a HR hitter. And corked bats have been proven to do nothing but be a placebo

@jimeditorial 3 жыл бұрын

Corked a few in the 80s, but never for pros....used a toolroom lathe and a steady rest, then packed powdered cork and the dowel as a plug. Never believed it made a difference in beer league play, but there is a psychological advantage. We believed that you had to turn the label away from the ball, or your bat might break...lots of myths....

@squirrelguy2195 2 жыл бұрын

Mythbusters did an episode that proved your theory correct. Corking the bat in fact made it overall less effective. It might be faster, thus in theory making it easier to make contact, but the trade off is it actually makes the ball travel less distance, which could easily could cause a double become a single or an out or a home run become a fly out. A player is in fact better off using a lighter bat than corking it if they were trying to get on base via a single or double.

@Slippindisc Жыл бұрын

@@squirrelguy2195 myth busters tests are usually unscientific at best and a complete joke at worst. Properly corking a bat is effective.

@TheRealSwampOperator Жыл бұрын

YES YES YES .. You are the only other person I seen that knows the real way... Your supposed to grind the cork up to about the size of bbs.. and pack it tight in the bat.

@arizonavotes3276 3 жыл бұрын

He didn't have a problem corky bats then,but now he wants to be a snitch

@SnackMuay 2 жыл бұрын

Who cares?

@bye92 2 жыл бұрын

So?

@johnnymotorboat8824 2 жыл бұрын

Right? It's just slimy for some reason. I guess you have to be stand up to notice it.

@DarthTwilight 2 жыл бұрын

Good. He should snitch. Cheating is not cool.

@arizonavotes3276 2 жыл бұрын

@@DarthTwilight so I guess you're a little snitch yourself that's why you can relate

@TELEVISIONARCHIVES 3 жыл бұрын

I'd heard about this when he was playing back in the 1970s

@dharmaram7527 2 ай бұрын

I wonder what sort of technology is being used with the modern big leaguer bats. Lots of HR being hit nowadays.

@martinoamello3017 3 жыл бұрын

Little peanuts in the grand scheme of things. Pete sanded the hitting surface of his bats flat the year he broke DiMagio's hit record then MLB changed rules to prohibit it. At the time it was perfectly legal in the sport though.. Despite everything anyone who ever watched Pete Rose play the game on a daily basis knows nobody played with as much ferocity than Pete Rose. They guy would run into a burning building to score runs..

@louie24seven 3 ай бұрын

It was Ty Cobb's hit record, fool.😂

@louie24seven 3 ай бұрын

He would also run into a burning building to have relations with a 14 year old.🙄

@bam3108 3 жыл бұрын

STOP SNITCHING ⚾️😂

@koskey06 3 жыл бұрын

I just cut my Pete rose fame used bat....and its NOT corked!

@kieran7011 3 жыл бұрын

Hahahahahahahahaha

@terencediamond356 3 жыл бұрын

That too bad. Maybe an exray machine

@IllogicalJJ 3 жыл бұрын

you got a fake

@kingarthurj 3 жыл бұрын

Very informative video but #stopsnitchin

@jammasteracct488 2 жыл бұрын

It was wayyyyy better to use one solid piece or even 2-3 bigger glued pieces…. A bunch of little cork discs glued together wouldn’t work as well.

@since1876 2 жыл бұрын

I'm pretty sure you'd be wrong on that. The impact is going to be on the side of the disc (or, in your case, rod) of cork. So the compression and expansion shouldn't be any different. If it were being used like a cue stick, I would agree with your logic. But either of us could be wrong, the only way would be to test it out, which neither of us is likely to do. ☺️

@jamescaldwell2616 3 жыл бұрын

Probably counted votes for Joe Biden too

@brandonsims3339 3 жыл бұрын

hahahaha best comment yet!!!

@sealy81 3 жыл бұрын

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@el34glo59 3 жыл бұрын

Jesus christ you guys are sad af

@el34glo59 3 жыл бұрын

@@brandonsims3339 If you're a moron it's a good comment. Imagine being a father and teaching your kids that if you lose it means the other person cheated. This generation is a disgrace

@brandonsims3339 3 жыл бұрын

@@el34glo59 but what way did I go????

@mke7876 3 жыл бұрын

Ash, oak are what they would have been made of in those days

@Angrykat420 2 жыл бұрын

Can someone please explain to me how cork improves a bats performance? Does it really matter if its corked or not? The ball only makes contact for a millisecond and it's only hitting the outside of the bat which is wood so not sure how it effects the ball. I'm just not understanding the physics behind it is all.

@fulccrum2324 2 жыл бұрын

From what I've read, cork was thought to make the ball go further. In actuality, being a good absorbent of force and making the ball travel less distance?

@HoboJoe1416 2 жыл бұрын

The bat is lighter, increasing bat speed.

@rafaelguasp1141 2 жыл бұрын

It creates more of a bounce when hitting the ball because even tho its not hollowed, it does feel like it is because the center is still lighter then the wood surrounding it. So instead of a solid crack, you do feel a slight bounce off.

@MarkVrem 2 жыл бұрын

He is using harder dense wood on the outside.. But soft lighter cork on the inside. SO it's a harder more dense bat at a higher speed.

@changemymind8692 2 жыл бұрын

Being illegal because it makes the bat lighter makes no f-cking sense to me. So what if the bat is lighter.

@danielolivo285 2 жыл бұрын

If pitchers can use material to better grip the ball and create deception. Batters should be able to cork it’s only fair 😂

@since1876 2 жыл бұрын

There's a video that talks about how when MLB cracked down hard on sticky fingers, there was a very sharp increase in batters getting hit. Once they got bored of enforcing it and stopped checking as thoroughly, people began to have better control of the ball and were less likely to accidentally crack skulls. So, officially, it is cheating, but it's cheating in a way that keeps players safe. Which is kind of a good thing. 😜 Anyway, the point is that there's worse things to worry about than sticky fingers.

@TheRealSwampOperator Жыл бұрын

I played with this too I took my cork and ground it up to about the size of #4 turkey shot, and packed it . This worked better than the method here.. objectively.. But the best one I made was with the ground up cork , but about 3/4 inch from the top, I put lead in... Then capped off with a thin peice of dowel.. That think was a hammer, reminded me of the old c core aluminum bats without the ping.. I think if you mixed the ground up cork with the right amount of wood glue, and corked it that way, you'd get all the advantages, but with a lot less risk of a break...never tested that theory, but I think it would work.. I know this, ground up cork is the way to go... Not ground to a fine powder, but about the size of a bb..

@siainvestigationsteam2713 3 жыл бұрын

If your not cheating in baseball your not trying. Cheating is part of the sport of baseball.

@chriswhite3696 3 жыл бұрын

Youre*

@gavinp3575 3 жыл бұрын

@@chriswhite3696 you’re*

@thugmagicthugnificentdr.th7589 3 жыл бұрын

@@gavinp3575 You are*

@gavinp3575 3 жыл бұрын

@@thugmagicthugnificentdr.th7589 you aren’t*

@rockymypug 4 жыл бұрын

Never happened. This guy is a joke.

@deathninja16 4 жыл бұрын

You don't watch documentaries that often do you?

@usaveteran-retired6464 4 жыл бұрын

@@deathninja16 Actually, I do, and I think this is a joke, too. Yes, all that glue, and Rose doctored his bats for years - I understand Rose has lost a lot of credibility over the years (earned), but there are some pretty small critics out there, too. Nice of the "former clubbie" to come out of the - ahem - "woodwork" 36 years later with this great tale.

@yourewrong16 3 жыл бұрын

Your names the real joke lmao what a loser

@TELEVISIONARCHIVES 3 жыл бұрын

Yes it did It was actually written about from a Cincinnati sports writer

@BSDLLC 2 жыл бұрын

Denial is a powerful drug... Rose was sort of a piece of shit

@vambo13257 7 ай бұрын

Pete told Vlad tv that he used corked bats in batting practice for extra confidence, what?? What is the great leap to think he actually used them in games then???

@HaggisMuncher-69-420 2 жыл бұрын

Imagine talking proudly of your lack of integrity.

@user-ir8mf7km6w 2 жыл бұрын

Integrity means following through on your word. Not the right use here.

@20yearsago88 2 жыл бұрын

0:05 those have got to be some of the shortest/stubbiest fingers I've seen on an adult.

@trevorhubbard6416 2 жыл бұрын

It's his line of work I have a older family member that has fingers like that

@20yearsago88 2 жыл бұрын

@@trevorhubbard6416 but how is that beneficial to baseball? I was talking about Pete Rose btw

@serronserron1320 2 жыл бұрын

just use a bat entirely made out of cork

@CSXRP 2 жыл бұрын

What does a corked bat do I don't get whats wrong with that.

@acb9896 3 жыл бұрын

Bullshit. Hustle was a ground ball hitter and legged out anything in the air. This guy's a corker but I seriously doubt Rose did that even when he got older. Like he said those Mizuno bats were hard af already

@blackop101 2 жыл бұрын

No hall of fame for you

@adrianbravo6452 3 жыл бұрын

Tip use a hard wood for your bats

@isorokudono 3 жыл бұрын

Sure he did.

@SeahawksBamBamKam 6 ай бұрын

It's baseball, you steal signs you steal bases, you cheat its always been part of the game and its in the baseball players nature going way back to the beginning i dont look at Pete any less for this yes its likely he probably did it but he wa still the best hitter without it. Who cares he should still be in the Hall of Fame

@breakmylegs7294 2 жыл бұрын

And still he could only hit singles

@daniellinehan63 2 жыл бұрын

But lots of them

@timquinn3397 8 ай бұрын

Who is Pete Rose? Did he play recently

@brianschaffer9220 Жыл бұрын

Yeah, like for sure man! Never got caught once either. Never broke a bat that you corked for him. Totally for sure! 🙄

@louiet2679 25 күн бұрын

Love how offended people got over this as if they know pete rose didnt do it 😂 who gives a shit. Stop being weirdos

@robertromero8692 4 жыл бұрын

Not the least bit surprised that Rose would do this.

@williamreed5470 2 жыл бұрын

Must be a Bonds fan.💩💩

@zoreyaswain1133 3 жыл бұрын

Shame on you.

@since1876 2 жыл бұрын

You'd think the guy that made a video to test the difference between corked and uncorked would have watched this video to see how it's really done... The one I saw drilled a hole in the bat and then drilled into a block of cork and put the powder in and then used wood glue. No compression at all. And then he couldn't even swing the bat so I went ahead and stopped watching halfway through 😂😂😂😂

@usaveteran-retired6464 Ай бұрын

Yeah, right. BS...

@beckybecky9304 2 жыл бұрын

snitch

@danielbonner8309 2 жыл бұрын

Im sure Pete just used them for bp. He doesnt seem like a rule breaker to me.

@jesseg5923 2 жыл бұрын

Same with Sammy Sosa. If it weren't for that damn kid mixing up the bats... 🤣

@shujaamwenyemaarifa6821 3 жыл бұрын

🐀🐀🐀

@xFlow777 3 жыл бұрын

what's the point tho? that much, I don't see how it could make a difference, it's not like the bat becomes carbon fiber all of a sudden

@Ryan40272 3 жыл бұрын

You don't understand the point of corking a bat?

@xFlow777 3 жыл бұрын

@@Ryan40272 yes

@Andy-ph6mf 3 жыл бұрын

@@xFlow777 quicker swing, you not being able to see something on account of low iq means nothing

@xFlow777 3 жыл бұрын

@@Andy-ph6mf on account of you being an idiot comply missed point, faster swing/less mass = slower swing/greater mass. And even that, the amount of weight they shed is not noticeable, stick a gum to the end of the bat and pick it up and see if you can tell the differance with gum and without.

@el34glo59 3 жыл бұрын

@@xFlow777 It's not just quicker swing. It's causes a bounce effect off the bat

@Hoops2Good 3 жыл бұрын

This guy is lying. Pete Rose was a hard worker. He had his faults and issues but still deserves to be in the hall. He never corked his bat. Do you really believe this guy?

@jacobredmond4127 3 жыл бұрын

Uhhhhh kinda. Everyone found a way to have an advantage. People do it to this day. Pitchers use illegal substances with no repercussion.

@maddogmusic1976 3 жыл бұрын

Your right Pete Rose himself never corked his own bats he had someone else do it for him. I do agree with you on the point that Pete Rose was a hard worker and that we all have our own faults.

@thaimassage23 3 жыл бұрын

When Pete finds this video somebody is gonna get hurt or killed.

@kingcassius2586 3 жыл бұрын

@@maddogmusic1976 *you're

@maddogmusic1976 3 жыл бұрын

@@kingcassius2586 you're ??????

@jasona9 3 жыл бұрын

Corked bats or not, I do not like Pete Rose. He lied about gambling on baseball for years and had the nerve to sue baseball when he was issued a lifetime ban. NO PLAYER, even 'Charlie Hustle' is above the game.

@Ryan40272 3 жыл бұрын

Meanwhile Bonds and McGuire are still held as heros by Pete haters 🙄

@jacobredmond4127 3 жыл бұрын

What are you saying. We literally have apps for gambling on sports. Baseball has had these as sponsors. It’s not like he bet against his team. Or cheated his way to a World Series or paid the other team to lose on purpose (not Joe Jackson obviously). Or took drugs that increased your physical ability.

@TheDylandProductions 3 жыл бұрын

I used to be more on the fence about him, but one day I actually got to meet him! Plus, he really is a down to earth guy who loves baseball - just as his sports analysis program appearances would show. I like him now. Great player and coach and really respects the game. He gambled ON (not against) his team, and voluntarily put himself on the banned players list. However, when a few years later it was decided that all players on that list should be restricted from the hall of fame forever, he was up in arms and sued. Of course. Wouldn't you? He didn't know he was 'agreeing' to HOF ineligibility. But I think that was MLB's plan from the beginning. They did him dirty, and that's not right.

@TheDylandProductions 3 жыл бұрын

@jeff afe Lol no. Cheating doesn't help at all if you suck. You have to have at least a little talent to use cheating to your advantage. Rose was a GREAT hitter. So any "cheating" would have just given him MORE of an edge. But he only bet ON himself & his team, never the other way around. I say that should be legal!

@williamreed5470 2 жыл бұрын