Perfect!

Oldie but goldie!

I heard Greg got a dog. Poor thing never got walked.

haha that was good made me smile on a sunday

You’re lying. Why would a HOF pitcher accept a job to paint a house?! It doesn’t make any sense!

I mean, it is one of his most iconic pitches of all time to one of the great hitters of that generation. I would think that would be hard to forget.

I think everyone has that one play that sticks out to them the rest of their lives. For me it was a football play, keeping the opponent out of the end zone on an extra point that would have won them the game. I stopped it.

@@thisjustin7492 cringe

Not really. I haven’t played in 35 years but I still remember a lot of pitches, plays, hits, games, etc

@@BeyondTigerMilk Let the man have his glory!

💯

Exactly. 18 gold gloves is crazy. Especially 13 in a row 😮‍💨

I got to watch him in person and I was amazed at his dedication...it was every pitch!

Plus he was decent at the plate holding a bat.

He's just an underrated athlete. The looks fool you, but his reflexes and the way he moved were rare attributes.

madux is Zach Hamples dad

So good was scary

And a golfer

Maddox, Coufax, Seaver, Randy Johnson and Nolan Ryan were flat out the best.

@@cdsersd2d Rocket and Mo could make your list

Saw an interview where supposedly he called up the catcher cuz he got wood and need someone to run interference for a cpl min😂😅

The ending got me😂😂😂 Two Legends they don't make em like that too often Tony Gwynn and Greg Maddux 🎉

@@mainetain15yeah seriously

Greg Maddux the original Michael Richards, eh?

The day the Cubs let Maddux go was the day I knew I'd never like them. I already wasn't a fan because their games interrupted my cartoons, but this just solidified it. Been a Sox guy ever since.

which is one of the many reasons why there are no other fans like cubbie fans

MrCyYoung is what some people called him after that.😊

He went back to the Cubs though after Atlanta won the WS.

Man please. Those bulls were pretty good in the 90s lol

I know, poor guy had to witness the Blackhawks win a bunch of Stanley cups too in 2010s​@@p0pimp2004

Tom Glavine was a sight too. He would pitch off the outside of the plate and get strike calls. And just when guys would lose patience and start swinging at those outside pitches he would bust one right over the plate catching the hitter looking.

The braves had 3 first ballot hof pitchers as team mates. DANG.

'tis sad commentary. So many historic pitchers would not be in today's game. What baseball would have missed and how much is it missing now?

@@slide_drexleras a dodgers fan I hated them but obviously respected their pitching staff so much. Killers.

And Steve Avery

I hated watching Glavine because he nibbled on the corner so much he would often be behind in the count even though he was effective.

That era of braves team was one of my favorites. Not a braves fan, but that trio plus chipper and andruw jones was a badass team.

I was a Mets and they won me over eventually too 😂 Especially when Smoltz came to the Mets, he was so old but still very effective!

The sad thing is that they only won one World Series. All that talent for at least ten years. It was nice when WTBS carried their games and had a pretty good crew of announcers. I remember the first couple of years when John Smoltz first joined the Braves. He had really good stuff but if he gave up a homer he couldn't get it out of his mind and tended to fall apart. He started see a sport psycologist and it changed his game from pretty good to great.

That used to be the case, but MLB keeps going further and further down the drain.

The scuffed ball adds an element of unpredictability to the game. Maddux was able to use it to his advantage but in the hands of a lesser pitcher it might have resulted in a wild pitch. That's why I dislike the automatic intentional walk, it removes the element of chance when the pitcher has to actually throw the ball.

Yogi Berra sharpened the fastener on his shin guard and used to scuff the ball before throwing it back to Whitey Ford.

@@yankees29 No kidding! That's amazing!

@@Meyers1793 Agreed for sure on the auto intentional walk. BS rules.

Nolan was mine with Greg a hair behind

Could not have been said any better!!!

Boo hoo the cubs won in 2016 and the Blackhawks had 3 in 5 years. Cry me a river sincerely an MN sports fan

Best of any gen

Yep this is when baseball was most fun for me was the 90’s braves

True TBS. Turner

They actually do that in cricket and it still takes 5 days!

I love how MLB punishes players for taking too long, but allow umps to take several 10+ minute trips out to the mound to cavity search the pitcher lol Then again, umps can do pretty much anything they want all thanks to the immunity they get from their union.

@@SvendleBerriesUmps also make a tiny fraction of what players make to do a very thankless job and have arrogant multimillionaire 20 somethings yell at them anytime a call doesn’t go their way. It’s easy to hate umps and I get they still have better jobs than the majority of regular people but the level of heat they take is not fair. Plus the players have a union so why shouldn’t the umps get one too?

Brilliant idea, jeffin! Bring back some fun, from the good old days when more people watched baseball. Was it unfair that he got a scuffed ball? Don't cry. It all evens out over 162 games, I say.

@@Redmenace96It would give a significant advantage to pitching and an unprecedented amount of guys are already throwing 100mph plus. I get that the games were taking too long but you could actually hurt the game if you make too many rule changes for the sake of pace if you kill offensive production. 90 mins is still a long time to sit through if no one’s hitting. Even baseball purists who appreciate lights out pitching still want to see some exciting offense. And it really makes those great iconic pitching performances that much more special. I promise you the sport will get incredibly boring if everyone’s got a sub 2 ERA even if every game is under 2 hrs. Lastly people watched more baseball back in the day because there were far fewer sports to watch. Pro football and basketball were in their infancy when Babe Ruth was captivating the nation (which I might add he did through unprecedented offensive production).

He already played the at bat 3 months later in his head.

It was for Bagwell...he let Bags hit a HR in spring training

But that's the greatest misconception... he still hit the llow 90s. Sure, it wasn't Randy, Pedro or Clemens, but early/mid-Maddux wasn't exactly BP speed either.

@chrisvanderwielen1530 citing his lack of velocity is not a slight at all. By the end of his career he averaged 86 mph on his fastball. He hit a high on 93 early on. He knew how to pitch and understood how to make a ball move.

Interesting perspective. Thanks for sharing.

@@raymondm4441 Well, the thing about Maddux is he always cared more about movement, than velocity. But that doesn't mean he didn't have a decent fastball either (at least, as you pointed out, earlier in his career). There was a video a while back, where he discussed his pitching in high school. And, while everyone else would ask how fast they threw, he would instead ask how much movement was on the pitch.

Boring?

With the ridiculous salaries these days, I'd say they can stretch a little higher than 10k my friend. 😃😃

the professor

Can. Anyone out there get an interview with Alou? There are other pitchers to discuss. Alou hit them all at least once.

Between this and the Kerry Wood 20K game, Alou has seen some filth.

@@plus790 ... and Alou was a great major leaguer, played many years as did his brothers.

That's one of the biggest reasons he kept getting strikes called just off the black of the plate. If you keep throwing it to the same spot, and the catcher helps you out by not being obvious that he's framing the pitch, you'll get calls. As long as the ball was in the zone height wise, most of the umps would give him that pitch an inch wide or inside. That's why I never understand how power pitching became more desirable than a control pitcher that can change speeds no matter how hard he throws. Maddux said "You know why I'm a millionaire?' He said, 'Cause I can throw my fastball where I want to.' He said, 'You know why I got beachfront property in LA? Because I can change speeds."

He had pinpoint accuracy, it was unreal, down to the inch he could put the wherever he wanted.

Yeah, what _was_ that buzz? I remember it fondly. It was always hypnotic.

Baseball and golf the ultimate weekend nap sports .

He was also the king of finding out the umps strike zone and pitch by pick extending it. By the 4th or 5th inning he was getting strikes a few inches off the plate. People would be losing their minds with the Kzone up after every pitch today

Maddux didn't have such low velocity until the end of his career. When he threw that pitch to Alou he was still throwing 95 MPH.

You're outta your mind if you don't think pitchers had wild movement on the ball back then. I grew up in that era. There were plenty of guys with filthy sliders and 99 mph gas. Nolan, Clemens, Martinez (Ramon and Pedro), Randy Johnson....and on and on. Before those guys, you had screw ballers, and all sorts of funky pitches. Phil neikro comes to mind. Go back even further and there are crazy pitches that nobody even throw anymore, not to mention spit balls before they were illegal. I played high school ball in Arizona, and almost every game some kid would have a nasty curve or something like it I hit off of Jason Bond (ASU college w.s. and several MLB teams) in high school, and he was throwing mid-90's with a vicious curve ball....when he was 17 Maddux didn't have any more movement or velocity than most pitchers....he had a different movement and velocity for every pitch.

He's been famous for 35 years. His name has six letters. It's in the title of this video. And you still can't spell it.

@@siler7 Go to bed man karen 🤡

nor providing context of what you're protecting him from...velociraptors?

Don't you have an original statement to show how you admire the guy? I see this in every video these days... "protect X at all costs!" -- video is about making a peanut butter sandwich and comment is like "we gotta protect peanut butter sandwiches at all cost!" -- ridiculous. None of it is under attack and you aren't edgy or cool by repeating something someone else made edgy and cool.

@@apelike lmfaooo they’re all sheep. Nobody thinks for themselves

staged

@@michaeljames4630-Umm, that's what a Prank is.

And Steve Avery also

To be fair he's probably watched that game tape a few more times than average...

maddux was a well known joker

It seriously looks like a wiffle ball.

I got him in the top three . Where is Spahn ?

@@zman8340 He can be in there, but you don't expect me to name every great, (or your favorites), do you?!?!

@@cnyweathertainment5075 just a friendly conversation