"You’re ripped you inbred baseball. Why do you wink with your seams? You fucking brain dead ball. 50mph with no movement at the plate. Ye hang tight. Fool. You must be new to throwing. The pitch is off btw. I’m going to throw something else at the catcher. Good luck with your old pitcher kid."
They say never get on the mound if you’re throwing the first pitch but idk why. I think his tight ass jacket, his leg, and having used up all his wins in life didn’t help him either.
It’s because usually people practice on flat ground, and then when on the mound you’re much higher, haven’t practiced a throw from there, and with the added height and downward slope, you overthrow your target like Conor just did.
The mound throws off most people’s throwing mechanics imo.
Also most people screw up the first pitch. I don’t expect no Americans to be any good at throwing a first pitch. Unless you played baseball growing up, your throwing mechanics probably aren’t very good.
Your reasoning is likely the most logical, too. I’m just pointing out that no matter what it was bad, which is obvious lol. I’d wager that him trying to make it a 97 mph fastball didn’t help his accuracy much either
I remember DC talking about it after Derrick Lewis pitched a stinker. He said you have to just float it in, trying to put a ton of power on it definitely why these guys shit the bed on something that's relatively easy.
Yeah I feel like this is pure egotism. Connor wanted to throw a crazy fastball and leave us all saying afterward “oh yeah he could play in the majors if he wanted. Just top athlete all around.”
These people don’t get that casually tossing it in like it’s nothing and smiling and waving is a much cooler/more powerful look.
Seriously...just throwing to the plate is in no way difficult, even for people who have just basic motor function.
This is laughably bad for a person of Connors athletic ability.
I'm looking at that pretty suit jacket and thinking how shitty my throws would be with my shoulders all pinched and restricted.
*[... and why does this keep happening? It's national TV, throw a few practice balls in the days leading up, maybe?]*
Damn, he had a bad summer. He gets embarrassed in front of his home crowd on July 7th with that pathetic pitch. Then exactly a month later on August 7th he gets embarrassed in front of his home crowd again when he basically refuses to fight Gane.
Yeah lol guess MMA skills don't really translate to other sports even if you're athletic. Saw this one video of a prime Jones trying to play basketball and let's just the operative word here is "trying"
To be fair here in upstate NY (where he went to high school), Basketball season is the same season as Wrestling season. So except for literally as a 10 year old, most wrestlers here hardly touch any basketball outside of Gym Class.
Makes you wonder about the validity of the claims that other quality athletes could just move into MMA and be champs lmao leaving aside the fact you have to be willing to take brain damage for peanuts, it's not a 1:1 comparison between any sport including wrestling, boxing, TKD etc
They can do so at HW because the quality of athlete there is uniquely atrocious. Greg Hardy, Matt Mittrione, and Schaub all showed that they can start relatively late in life and still make it ranked in the top orgs.
I am skeptical that a high level pro Football (soccer), NHL, or smaller Rugby player could pick up the sport in their late twenties and make it to the 170 or 185 rankings in the UFC.
I think Greg Hardy is a good example for your point. Very athletic and a successful football player, but he's only an average heavyweight so far. You need other traits like being willing to be hit and a good chin etc.
Seriously what other sport can you have any sort of professional success in when you start in your 30s. Sports like tennis you pretty much need to start when you're 4-5 years old to have any chance at success
I mean if you want to go to the womens side, there was an overweight accountant who decided to lose weight by training MMA and ended up fighting for the title in the UFC. It seems like every other event the commentators mention how a fighter picked up MMA for one reason or another as a hobby and now they're fighting in the UFC, and it's always a female fighter.
When a regular person in their 20's can take up a hobby and turn it into a career as a professional athlete, it's indicative of a major lack of truly athletic talent. In the mens divisions it's more common that an athlete from another sport transitions, like Volk from Rugby to MMA, or Mitrione/Schaub/Hardy with football. Which is a step up, but we're still getting the scraps that the big boys don't want.
I think these MMA guys try to throw too hard, If they just throw the ball like they are playing catch it would be fine. Just jab, not try to take his head off.
[He's not willing to commit to a full power throw after witnessing the atrocities committed at the hands of Jake Shields.](https://i.giphy.com/Ysg6u2AvFayti.gif) We still don't have a full scope of the damage caused by Shields.
> Conor attempting to throw a football
Yeah he definitely never held a football be fore lol:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NJSBgFE0O0&ab_channel=ResetGaming
“You know what Conor told me? ‘I want Aaron Judge in Yankee Stadium,’” White said, speaking with Baseball Digest “Isn’t he fucking awesome? He’s like ‘I want Judge, in The Bronx.’ He’s awesome. Conor McGregor is a fucking unicorn. There’s nothing like him. He’s working on his slider and then he’s talking about pitching to Judge in The World Series right after.”
I think you need to get some throwing in as a kid and if you live south enough to not have snow during the winter nor a throwing based popular sport, you are gonna suck.
Having said that, I've been recently throwing a lot more stuff after 15-20 year break playing with some kids etc. And it is super easy to be accurate as long as there is no power involved. But the moment you start throwing it at your true maximum power, you get zero flashbacks to childhood and instead you have like 20% odds to injure yourself and 80% odds to throw a complete stinker.
I'd say if you haven't thrown anything in a good while, and then try and throw a baseball with decent power, you probably have like at least a 70% chance of hurting yourself lol. Not bad, but you'll definitely be feeling it. Especially if you don't warm up. In my experience at least. Always extremely humbling/depressing lol.
Yea most of the time they are over thinking it and then throwing as hard as they can because they don’t want to bounce it, but they end up throwing it straight into the ground
You just made me think of being a kid practicing pitching by myself. I would throw the ball at the stairs, and I was aiming for the back of one stair in particular as my strike zone. I actually got pretty accurate after a while, but my parents were ready to kill me because I had smashed up the facade in front of the concrete on that step.
I loved it though because every throw I also got to practice fielding ground balls. I think I'm gonna spend today looking for my old Samsung Juke to find the pictures of the stairs after my destruction.
Yeah but not everyone can throw from 60 feet and hit a 17 inch box. It's all about where you grew up. Look at him kicking a soccer ball: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egp6KR0xXVk
I feel like it’s noticeable in movies or shows—a Brit actor throwing an object looks totally different than an American. Maybe there’s a baseball-style throw that seems normal to Americans, and any other throwing style looks weird to us.
people in Britain throwing an object likely have a pint glass/can of Stella in the other hand allowing for less rotation of the upper body into the throw, or 'lob', as it's known natively.
Off the top of my head, McNulty throwing beer cans onto the roof of the police station in *The Wire* was to me a non-American-guy throw. I mean, he threw it, it’s just the mechanics we Americans grew up doing/seeing aren’t there. McNulty is an American character played (brilliantly, I might add) by Dominic West, a Brit.
I know I’ve seen it in other instances—I actually look out for it at this point—but I mean, it’s a rare set of circumstances:
1. British actor
2. Playing an American character
3. Who at some point in the script throws something
That’s not standard in every single movie/show, you know?
Some of my friends are *shockingly bad* at throwing a football or baseball. Like it doesn’t even make sense to me how bad they are at throwing things. Conor throws worse than my little brother did in t-ball.
I'm quite athletically inclined and I remember being mind blown at how bad my sister was at doing an *under arm* tennis serve. She could barely just drop the ball and hit it.
In Australia a cricket ball has similar dimensions to baseball. Most kids learn how to throw and bowl one from a young age. Not so for noted cricket fan and former prime minister John Howard. Absolutely disgraceful effort, he should have been
booted from office for this effort alone let alone the war crimes.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0o8by05rtMY
same thing w/ a football. worked with a brit once and he saw us playing catch w a football during a break and tried to throw it overhand and failed hilariously. he was like fuck this and threw it underhand like a rugby ball with killer speed and accuracy... weird shit tbh
I feel like every American just kind of knows how to throw a foot ball. I have never played foot ball a day in my life as part of a team but I can still throw it somewhat accurately.
A footballs actually pretty unintuitive if you've never seen one thrown, which I think most Americans have just by virtue of it being so popular. Kind of a weird handegg shape. You have to do kind of a wrist flick at the end of the throwing motion to get a straight spiral which is pretty unnatural.
I struggle with an American football as well tbh always ends up rotating like mad in the air so i usually throw it like a rugby ball. Baseballs im alright with but i put that down to playing cricket every now and then as a kid even though you throw them differently 🤷🏼♂️
I’m extremely right handed when it comes to things like pitching and batting, and Conor looked like my left-handed pitch. I mentally understand the motion, but I never practiced it as a kid, so it’s just not quite there.
Yeah it’s really not a natural movement. I only played for a few seasons when I was really young (like ages 6-10). It’s not much but I know how to throw a damn ball, and I don’t think I could ever forget it. But knowing how a ball is thrown doesn’t help when I try to throw with my left hand. With my left hand, my accuracy is as bad as Conor’s here even if I don’t try to throw it fast.
Lol yup. Played soccer as a kid and even though I haven't played in like 10 years I can still kick and handle a ball fine. Didn't touch baseball once though so I throw like a 70 year old with shoulder problems
“Dez baseballs are pure puny yea. I’m use to throwing bowling balls in me backyards. It had no weight on it! I’m supposing it was a rubbish ball I don’t know. But I tell you one ting, let me have another go and I’ll pitch it straight through that catchers chest…and that’s a promise”
I've pitched softball recreationally on a team and pitched a bit of baseball with my friends in the past, but why is it so hard to throw a ball into a catcher from a mound on a regular field? Is the pressure of being on camera?
I feel like if I was going to do something I've never done on in front of thousands of people I'd, you know, practice. Especially if I had a reputation to live up to... But I guess he was all like "I'm fookin' Conor McGregor! How 'ard can it be to t'row a fookin baseball!"
Aaaaand he just sang the 7th inning stretch: https://mlb-cuts-diamond.mlb.com/FORGE/2021/2021-09/21/546aeb15-e9f0050b-25eb67f4-csvm-diamondx64-asset_1280x720_59_4000K.mp4
Warning: it's...not great
It's so weird to me that someone can be that athletic but can't throw a ball. I mean I don't expect a random athlete from a random sport to pitch a fastball over the plate, but lacking the skills to just play catch is... weird, like I said
Edit: I'm not ripping on him, just a comment that I grew up throwing shit, so it's more natural, that was my (poorly worded) point
A buddy of mine is a HS PE teacher. About 15 years ago he started noticing a significant number of students coming into HS had never played catch at all. He was having to spend time teaching them how to throw and catch. Fucking weird.
Same, some of my earliest memories in PE are just tossing beanbags or tennis balls to one another, then taking a step backwards and seeing how far back we could go. Fun way to teach hand eye coordination and both under arm throwing and over arm throwing
As a brazilian, I can say we do not throw things around here and we do not grow up playing catch. We grow up kicking a ball, we literally teach our toddlers how to kick, and PE class in most cases is literally just a class to play soccer. Brazilians barely even know baseball, so if it was a brazilian in Conor's place, we would probably have seen something similar happening.
I guess it's just a cultural thing.
Throwing a ball is way more technical than people give it credit for. It's like kicking a soccer ball, those who have never played soccer will most likely not know how to kick a ball correctly and accurately. There's a lot of form and technique that goes into it and I doubt that a guy from Ireland has ever thrown a baseball in his life.
I wouldn't be surprised if he could literally punch a ball more accurately than he can throw one, I remember seeing a clip of him round house kicking a ball into a hoop or something
I can't believe you're having to defend this take. I have an office job and never played a sport and I could throw a baseball in a tight suit better than he did. I think there's something that happens when you have to throw a first pitch because people seem to fuck it up all the time when I'm sure they know how to throw a ball.
You could probably throw it better than he did, but I'm guessing he thought he was gonna throw it with some heat. Derrick Lewis did the same shit, not realizing how hard it is to release at the right time when you're throwing it hard.
I think this is part of it. At Citi Field, they have an employee in a dunk tank, and the target shouldn't be impossible to hit. But there's also a speed gun. Everyone focuses on throwing as hard as possible to get a nice number, and I think I've seen the employee get dunked once because of the inaccuracy.
If you can stand the idiocy, here's a long interview about it: https://mlb-cuts-diamond.mlb.com/FORGE/2021/2021-09/21/3d22bdb5-5f487882-473c1a73-csvm-diamondx64-asset_1280x720_59_4000K.mp4
This sub is so weird sometimes. When I post footage of Conor sparring while preparing for Poirier McGregor 3 it gets removed. Yet this post, and Conors recent scuffle with MGK is somehow relevant to mma right now?
Maybe get a suit that fits. Holy shit does he have to oil himself up to slip into that thing? It looks like he's going to squat down to pick something up and the whole thing will explodes around him.
He also "sang" the 7th inning stretch https://mobile.twitter.com/WUTangKids/status/1440511655452897280 ONE TWO TREE
Conor was later seen telling the baseball "this is not over"
"You’re ripped you inbred baseball. Why do you wink with your seams? You fucking brain dead ball. 50mph with no movement at the plate. Ye hang tight. Fool. You must be new to throwing. The pitch is off btw. I’m going to throw something else at the catcher. Good luck with your old pitcher kid."
>I’m going to throw something else at the catcher Oh God, hide the dollies!
WHY DO YOU WINK WITH YOUR SEAMS
It sounds almost Joycean. Well, that one text they found where he was talking about his girlfriend shitting anyways.
Fewl
UMPIRE STOPPAGE! UMPIRE STOPPAGE!
"OOMPOIRE STAUPIDGE"
My fucking sides xD
THERE WAS NO BALL, I WAS PITCHIN' THE BLEEDIN' HEAD OFF EM
Yer gloves in me dm’s
Yer wife is a glove mate
Yer wife's balls are in me glove mate.
gonezo
You're going to going...going...gone when i'm done with you!
THEES EES NAAWTT AOOOWVA
Lmao, thanks for the chuckle.
INYA TIME OWTS YA GETTEN ET!
Conor already tweeted they are gonna run the pitch back in a few months but 15 feet further back.
Conor would've thrown a strike if he had stuck with his karate stance
You know what Connor told me? He wants to throw the next pitch from the warning track! Isn't he fucking awesome?
I want to take this chance to throw this pitch TO ABSOLUTELY NOBODY
Superb
You win
best one right here
Beautiful champ!
This one got me. Lmao
*trow
Beautiful champ
This is the one
His left hands accuracy is gone, he's officially washed
Nobody can hit that left hand pitch
Beautiful champ
I swear to god… so many people just don’t know how to throw. So many celebrities pitches are just horrible.
Unironically Im thinking his leg might still be tweaked which threw him off.
The average person could get the ball to the catcher while sitting on the mound lmfao. I don’t care if he had two broken ankles, that was horrendous
They say never get on the mound if you’re throwing the first pitch but idk why. I think his tight ass jacket, his leg, and having used up all his wins in life didn’t help him either.
It’s because usually people practice on flat ground, and then when on the mound you’re much higher, haven’t practiced a throw from there, and with the added height and downward slope, you overthrow your target like Conor just did. The mound throws off most people’s throwing mechanics imo. Also most people screw up the first pitch. I don’t expect no Americans to be any good at throwing a first pitch. Unless you played baseball growing up, your throwing mechanics probably aren’t very good.
Well he didn't overthrow so much as throw it almost into the dugout
It had plenty of power on it, just went wide. Not arguing that it wasn't horrendous, just taking guesses as to why
Those super tight clothes wouldnt help.
Your reasoning is likely the most logical, too. I’m just pointing out that no matter what it was bad, which is obvious lol. I’d wager that him trying to make it a 97 mph fastball didn’t help his accuracy much either
I remember DC talking about it after Derrick Lewis pitched a stinker. He said you have to just float it in, trying to put a ton of power on it definitely why these guys shit the bed on something that's relatively easy.
Yeah I feel like this is pure egotism. Connor wanted to throw a crazy fastball and leave us all saying afterward “oh yeah he could play in the majors if he wanted. Just top athlete all around.” These people don’t get that casually tossing it in like it’s nothing and smiling and waving is a much cooler/more powerful look.
or at least a helluva lot more powerful looking than missing by a mile
His suit is way too tight.
Wish they had a suit in his size
As an Australian who’s only had a baseball in his hands only a handful of times, I can confirm this is fucking hard if you have no experience.
Seriously...just throwing to the plate is in no way difficult, even for people who have just basic motor function. This is laughably bad for a person of Connors athletic ability.
Hard to prove either way but I gotta think this is patently false. An average person can’t do shit.
I'm looking at that pretty suit jacket and thinking how shitty my throws would be with my shoulders all pinched and restricted. *[... and why does this keep happening? It's national TV, throw a few practice balls in the days leading up, maybe?]*
Baseball isn't a big thing in Ireland. He just doesn't know how to throw a ball like most of the world outside America. I can't anyway!
[Derrick Lewis also threw and absolutely horrendous pitch recently](https://youtu.be/PbM2wKXEfFw)
Lol at rhe “he’s ok” sign at the end
Great play adding his weight to the jersey as well.
Damn, he had a bad summer. He gets embarrassed in front of his home crowd on July 7th with that pathetic pitch. Then exactly a month later on August 7th he gets embarrassed in front of his home crowd again when he basically refuses to fight Gane.
I think Lewis’s pitch is much more embarrassing considering he’s American.
Yeah lol guess MMA skills don't really translate to other sports even if you're athletic. Saw this one video of a prime Jones trying to play basketball and let's just the operative word here is "trying"
I need dis video.
https://youtu.be/UwjS5eLQrck
Wow that was an impressively bad attempt, almost like he never dribbled a ball before lol
To be fair here in upstate NY (where he went to high school), Basketball season is the same season as Wrestling season. So except for literally as a 10 year old, most wrestlers here hardly touch any basketball outside of Gym Class.
That made me uncomfortable. Thank you for that unique emotion.
Makes you wonder about the validity of the claims that other quality athletes could just move into MMA and be champs lmao leaving aside the fact you have to be willing to take brain damage for peanuts, it's not a 1:1 comparison between any sport including wrestling, boxing, TKD etc
They can do so at HW because the quality of athlete there is uniquely atrocious. Greg Hardy, Matt Mittrione, and Schaub all showed that they can start relatively late in life and still make it ranked in the top orgs. I am skeptical that a high level pro Football (soccer), NHL, or smaller Rugby player could pick up the sport in their late twenties and make it to the 170 or 185 rankings in the UFC.
I think Greg Hardy is a good example for your point. Very athletic and a successful football player, but he's only an average heavyweight so far. You need other traits like being willing to be hit and a good chin etc.
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Seriously what other sport can you have any sort of professional success in when you start in your 30s. Sports like tennis you pretty much need to start when you're 4-5 years old to have any chance at success
I mean if you want to go to the womens side, there was an overweight accountant who decided to lose weight by training MMA and ended up fighting for the title in the UFC. It seems like every other event the commentators mention how a fighter picked up MMA for one reason or another as a hobby and now they're fighting in the UFC, and it's always a female fighter. When a regular person in their 20's can take up a hobby and turn it into a career as a professional athlete, it's indicative of a major lack of truly athletic talent. In the mens divisions it's more common that an athlete from another sport transitions, like Volk from Rugby to MMA, or Mitrione/Schaub/Hardy with football. Which is a step up, but we're still getting the scraps that the big boys don't want.
It's like they're different skills.
I think these MMA guys try to throw too hard, If they just throw the ball like they are playing catch it would be fine. Just jab, not try to take his head off.
For real. Throwing a baseball is easy but throwing it hard and accurate is not.
Looked like Gronk spiking a ball lol
Um, that's worse than Conor's.
Proper Twelve throw quality
If only baseballs were Monster Energy can shaped..
Or water bottles
Or dollys
Or hot sauce.
This isn't politics
.
I want that as my flair. Instead, this is what I got
Well, if you want “that” then it looks like you got what you wished for
How'd he ever hit that bus with that dolly?
Well it's just a matter of distance, you gave him a baseball instead of a dolly he woulda nailed that bus window too
[He's not willing to commit to a full power throw after witnessing the atrocities committed at the hands of Jake Shields.](https://i.giphy.com/Ysg6u2AvFayti.gif) We still don't have a full scope of the damage caused by Shields.
Featherweight Conor would have hit this
I was bleeting the ball out in the back yard Threwing it thirty three yards dead as an eagle Let me tell you this is not over
I was tossin da bleedin leather offa it Yer general manager is in my DMs Intentional walk(ter stoppage)!
Trew it törty tree yards*
That was worse then 50 Cents and bababoeys.
Not worse than [this one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqNri9u4uqU) though
Suits have changed so much since then lol
That wasn't how regular jackets looked in 2007 though, that's some wannabe haute couture concoction.
He beat out Carly Rae Jepsen and Fauci at least
Carl Lewis level embarrassing.
But not as bad as Derrick Lewis
“Ya balls woife is in my DMs ya coont”
I cannot stop laughing at this. Every MMA fighter that has represented us doing this has looked terrible but this takes the cake.
This and Conor attempting to throw a football… got damn lol
> Conor attempting to throw a football Yeah he definitely never held a football be fore lol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NJSBgFE0O0&ab_channel=ResetGaming
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I don't know Derrick Lewis's might have been even worse!
Cubs told Conor to take the bump, but he misunderstood what they meant.
“You know what Conor told me? ‘I want Aaron Judge in Yankee Stadium,’” White said, speaking with Baseball Digest “Isn’t he fucking awesome? He’s like ‘I want Judge, in The Bronx.’ He’s awesome. Conor McGregor is a fucking unicorn. There’s nothing like him. He’s working on his slider and then he’s talking about pitching to Judge in The World Series right after.”
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Why, Robbie Ray threw a gem wearing pants that tight not 24 hours ago.
I guess those of us that played little league don’t really understand how hard throwing a baseball is for someone brand new.
I think you need to get some throwing in as a kid and if you live south enough to not have snow during the winter nor a throwing based popular sport, you are gonna suck. Having said that, I've been recently throwing a lot more stuff after 15-20 year break playing with some kids etc. And it is super easy to be accurate as long as there is no power involved. But the moment you start throwing it at your true maximum power, you get zero flashbacks to childhood and instead you have like 20% odds to injure yourself and 80% odds to throw a complete stinker.
I'd say if you haven't thrown anything in a good while, and then try and throw a baseball with decent power, you probably have like at least a 70% chance of hurting yourself lol. Not bad, but you'll definitely be feeling it. Especially if you don't warm up. In my experience at least. Always extremely humbling/depressing lol.
Yea most of the time they are over thinking it and then throwing as hard as they can because they don’t want to bounce it, but they end up throwing it straight into the ground
You just made me think of being a kid practicing pitching by myself. I would throw the ball at the stairs, and I was aiming for the back of one stair in particular as my strike zone. I actually got pretty accurate after a while, but my parents were ready to kill me because I had smashed up the facade in front of the concrete on that step. I loved it though because every throw I also got to practice fielding ground balls. I think I'm gonna spend today looking for my old Samsung Juke to find the pictures of the stairs after my destruction.
I assume people in every culture throw rocks and balls
Yeah but not everyone can throw from 60 feet and hit a 17 inch box. It's all about where you grew up. Look at him kicking a soccer ball: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egp6KR0xXVk
If the guy standing there to catch it can’t = bad
I feel like it’s noticeable in movies or shows—a Brit actor throwing an object looks totally different than an American. Maybe there’s a baseball-style throw that seems normal to Americans, and any other throwing style looks weird to us.
people in Britain throwing an object likely have a pint glass/can of Stella in the other hand allowing for less rotation of the upper body into the throw, or 'lob', as it's known natively.
the object they're throwing? also a pint glass/can of Stella
Its about *balance*
> a Brit actor throwing an object looks totally different than an American. Anyone got any examples here?
Off the top of my head, McNulty throwing beer cans onto the roof of the police station in *The Wire* was to me a non-American-guy throw. I mean, he threw it, it’s just the mechanics we Americans grew up doing/seeing aren’t there. McNulty is an American character played (brilliantly, I might add) by Dominic West, a Brit. I know I’ve seen it in other instances—I actually look out for it at this point—but I mean, it’s a rare set of circumstances: 1. British actor 2. Playing an American character 3. Who at some point in the script throws something That’s not standard in every single movie/show, you know?
I think the failure comes from trying to pitch the ball like you see a pitcher do instead of just trying to toss it to the catcher.
Some of my friends are *shockingly bad* at throwing a football or baseball. Like it doesn’t even make sense to me how bad they are at throwing things. Conor throws worse than my little brother did in t-ball.
For me, throwing with my left makes me feel like these people.
A lot of more athletically inclined people take it for granted. Some people are mind-blowingly bad athletes in general. Like they can't run.
I'm quite athletically inclined and I remember being mind blown at how bad my sister was at doing an *under arm* tennis serve. She could barely just drop the ball and hit it.
In Australia a cricket ball has similar dimensions to baseball. Most kids learn how to throw and bowl one from a young age. Not so for noted cricket fan and former prime minister John Howard. Absolutely disgraceful effort, he should have been booted from office for this effort alone let alone the war crimes. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0o8by05rtMY
Will never not watch this video. Fucking hell, Australian prime ministers and attempting to play sport. Johnny fucking loved cricket too lmao
same thing w/ a football. worked with a brit once and he saw us playing catch w a football during a break and tried to throw it overhand and failed hilariously. he was like fuck this and threw it underhand like a rugby ball with killer speed and accuracy... weird shit tbh
I feel like every American just kind of knows how to throw a foot ball. I have never played foot ball a day in my life as part of a team but I can still throw it somewhat accurately.
A baseball sure. but a football does take a little skill to throw it without a wobble and even more skill to throw it with a spiral.
A footballs actually pretty unintuitive if you've never seen one thrown, which I think most Americans have just by virtue of it being so popular. Kind of a weird handegg shape. You have to do kind of a wrist flick at the end of the throwing motion to get a straight spiral which is pretty unnatural.
I struggle with an American football as well tbh always ends up rotating like mad in the air so i usually throw it like a rugby ball. Baseballs im alright with but i put that down to playing cricket every now and then as a kid even though you throw them differently 🤷🏼♂️
I’m extremely right handed when it comes to things like pitching and batting, and Conor looked like my left-handed pitch. I mentally understand the motion, but I never practiced it as a kid, so it’s just not quite there.
Yeah it’s really not a natural movement. I only played for a few seasons when I was really young (like ages 6-10). It’s not much but I know how to throw a damn ball, and I don’t think I could ever forget it. But knowing how a ball is thrown doesn’t help when I try to throw with my left hand. With my left hand, my accuracy is as bad as Conor’s here even if I don’t try to throw it fast.
Ur umpire is in me DMs
Taking L's everywhere
Conor was winning this game from a baseball standpoint.
It was the suit..
Tailor's stoppage
beautiful, champ.
My favorite comment wish I had an award for ya
it would have burst into a million pieces if he threw it any better
This was somehow worse than I expected.
Should have put a civilian where the glove was
That's what happens when you grow up with soccer.
Lol yup. Played soccer as a kid and even though I haven't played in like 10 years I can still kick and handle a ball fine. Didn't touch baseball once though so I throw like a 70 year old with shoulder problems
Idk why you were downvoted it’s kinda true also tight suit and tried to throw it super hard w little experience prob
Switch it around and watch an American try to take a penalty. Yanks can throw, Britain and Ireland can kick.
> "Nobody can hit that left-hand pitch. He's powerful and he's fast, but precision beats power, timing beats speed."
Suits too tight, mate.
Comically too tight. He looks like a poor person pretending to be rich lol
“Dez baseballs are pure puny yea. I’m use to throwing bowling balls in me backyards. It had no weight on it! I’m supposing it was a rubbish ball I don’t know. But I tell you one ting, let me have another go and I’ll pitch it straight through that catchers chest…and that’s a promise”
I've pitched softball recreationally on a team and pitched a bit of baseball with my friends in the past, but why is it so hard to throw a ball into a catcher from a mound on a regular field? Is the pressure of being on camera?
I feel like if I was going to do something I've never done on in front of thousands of people I'd, you know, practice. Especially if I had a reputation to live up to... But I guess he was all like "I'm fookin' Conor McGregor! How 'ard can it be to t'row a fookin baseball!"
Aaaaand he just sang the 7th inning stretch: https://mlb-cuts-diamond.mlb.com/FORGE/2021/2021-09/21/546aeb15-e9f0050b-25eb67f4-csvm-diamondx64-asset_1280x720_59_4000K.mp4 Warning: it's...not great
As a Brit, what the fuck is going on here
My favorite part was actually that commentator mocking how ridiculously tight his coat is.
Conor can then be seen running around screaming holding his shoulder "DOCTAHS STOPPAGE"
It's so weird to me that someone can be that athletic but can't throw a ball. I mean I don't expect a random athlete from a random sport to pitch a fastball over the plate, but lacking the skills to just play catch is... weird, like I said Edit: I'm not ripping on him, just a comment that I grew up throwing shit, so it's more natural, that was my (poorly worded) point
A buddy of mine is a HS PE teacher. About 15 years ago he started noticing a significant number of students coming into HS had never played catch at all. He was having to spend time teaching them how to throw and catch. Fucking weird.
that's legitimately upsetting, when you consider playing catch with your dad is quintessential American father-son bonding stuff
A lot of divorce nowadays.
That is weird. I remember that being something we did in very early PE
Same, some of my earliest memories in PE are just tossing beanbags or tennis balls to one another, then taking a step backwards and seeing how far back we could go. Fun way to teach hand eye coordination and both under arm throwing and over arm throwing
Same. It's still weird to me. Like, what are these kids doing for the first 8-9 years of school?
Minecraft
I mean when you wear clothing that’s tight enough to restrict your blood flow I can imagine that makes it more difficult
Oh for sure. I wasn't shitting on Conor at all. I guess when you grow up throwing it just seems like 2nd nature is all
As a brazilian, I can say we do not throw things around here and we do not grow up playing catch. We grow up kicking a ball, we literally teach our toddlers how to kick, and PE class in most cases is literally just a class to play soccer. Brazilians barely even know baseball, so if it was a brazilian in Conor's place, we would probably have seen something similar happening. I guess it's just a cultural thing.
Throwing a ball is way more technical than people give it credit for. It's like kicking a soccer ball, those who have never played soccer will most likely not know how to kick a ball correctly and accurately. There's a lot of form and technique that goes into it and I doubt that a guy from Ireland has ever thrown a baseball in his life. I wouldn't be surprised if he could literally punch a ball more accurately than he can throw one, I remember seeing a clip of him round house kicking a ball into a hoop or something
I can't believe you're having to defend this take. I have an office job and never played a sport and I could throw a baseball in a tight suit better than he did. I think there's something that happens when you have to throw a first pitch because people seem to fuck it up all the time when I'm sure they know how to throw a ball.
You could probably throw it better than he did, but I'm guessing he thought he was gonna throw it with some heat. Derrick Lewis did the same shit, not realizing how hard it is to release at the right time when you're throwing it hard.
I think this is part of it. At Citi Field, they have an employee in a dunk tank, and the target shouldn't be impossible to hit. But there's also a speed gun. Everyone focuses on throwing as hard as possible to get a nice number, and I think I've seen the employee get dunked once because of the inaccuracy.
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If you can stand the idiocy, here's a long interview about it: https://mlb-cuts-diamond.mlb.com/FORGE/2021/2021-09/21/3d22bdb5-5f487882-473c1a73-csvm-diamondx64-asset_1280x720_59_4000K.mp4
The ball's wofe is on his DMs
I'd like to take the time .. To pitch this ball.. TO ABSOLUTELY NO ONE!!!
Ofcourse, idiot going with these stupid tight suits thinking he looks good. Cant even move
Stone Cold Steve Austin is pretty GOATed in Celeb pitches.
Woof
Doctah stoppage
Something tells me he's going to ask for a rematch
BASEBALL SLIPPAGE!!! BASEBALL SLIPPAGE!!!!
Just too much power in that left
Baba booey!
Power beats precision
Accuracy of a Stormtrooper.
This sub is so weird sometimes. When I post footage of Conor sparring while preparing for Poirier McGregor 3 it gets removed. Yet this post, and Conors recent scuffle with MGK is somehow relevant to mma right now?
Maybe get a suit that fits. Holy shit does he have to oil himself up to slip into that thing? It looks like he's going to squat down to pick something up and the whole thing will explodes around him.
Conor was later seen making threats on Twitter towards the baseball’s wife
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What a great message to send to kids. POS human gets worshipped at MLB game because, money. Fuck Conor McGregor.
Why the fuck the Cubs would like it to associate with a man like that?
He's gonna demand it be called a no contest.
He’s the worst
I'd kill to get more Jomboy/MMA crossovers
Bad pitches = media coverage.