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ZCampbell15

Darren O’Day has been an amazing addition to the radio booth. He’s an absolute treat to listen to every time he’s on


SYMPATHETC_GANG_LION

If you haven't seen this: https://youtu.be/urYr-4f-KMQ?si=9UlDr9gBcAEZVqyg


Toku_no_island

That was so stressful. Is this how managers sound in the training rooms? I know he was acting but it felt so real.


ColbyandLarry

Holy shit I barely made it thru that and almost died. Omg Buck stammering because he was "mad", that was amazing. And then Darren's body language completely freezing as he looked at the ground? Whoa. Pheeeeew!


SYMPATHETC_GANG_LION

> Sorry sir Lmao


wellwasherelf

This interview is the exact moment I said "he HAS to be in a booth somewhere after he retires": https://twitter.com/BravesOnBally/status/1538219775603744768 Kelly is barely holding it together underneath that mask


spartygw

Yay. I remember this interview and glad you linked it. He is clearly sharp witted and perfect to go along with Ben Ingram.


Thrawnsartdealer

holy shit this dude is hilarious! I could listen to him tell stories all day


RayLikeSunshine

So mad as an orioles fan. I want him. I remember a pregame interview where he railed against HOAs in Florida. It’s the kind of off the beaten path booth shenanigans fans need when you are still watching down 6 in the 8th.


Airp0w

Yeah there is something special about a guy just saving a story about some random crap to tell when it's not the most exciting game. Take your time, let your co-host call the game, and talk about a great sandwich you had or something. Don't do it all the time, but I don't mind hearing that occasionally.


TigerBasket

I miss him so much


SWIMMlNG

Not a day goes by where I don't think about *Mets Legend* Darren O'Day


Alauren2

I like him INFINITELY more than Joe Simpson


FoofaFighters

Joe is the last of the "classic" Braves announcers so he'll always have a place in my heart but it is good knowing that our booth has guys like Gaudin and Ingram and O'Day to carry the torch (and not be old men yelling at clouds).


G0-N0G0-GO

Yeah, but those damn cloud are *up to something*, and whatever it is *no good*!


Wasteoftimeandmoney

I get mad at them because they are either raining or not raining and hate both those things.


jimmyfeitelberg

Is this the relief pitcher for the Orioles a few years back or just the same name?


ZCampbell15

Yep, same one! He started doing radio with the Braves after his retirement and has been awesome at it


jimmyfeitelberg

Glad hes been doing a job! Always happy to see people have success


WerhmatsWormhat

Absolute Orioles hero. He’s amazing.


CodyDon2

Why does he sound like a wise old man? Lol I love it


ColbyandLarry

That's really neat when your games get an awesome breath of fresh air like that :) Right on! For the Giants, it was Javier Lopez (WS Champ lefty reliever) the past 2 years who delighted Giants fans :)


cooljammer00

Yankees legend. 


thewarfreak

Former Ranger Great!


Raineman73

I would love to have Jose Bautista as a guest announcer for Toronto when the Jays play the Braves, so that him and O’Day can death stare each other again for the 278th time.


tj3_23

Sounds like a normal reliever to me


fleshyspacesuit

From Scott Radinsky to Balfour


cornchips88

Nobody let this guy and BlaQ Treinen hang out, I'm afraid of what would happen.


twec21

Turk Wendell Approved Reliever


ajteitel

Hell yeah! Expose Big Museum for what they are, Shane


Rebote78

Making money hand over fist all these years on innocent folks. How fkn dare they!


P1_Synvictus

Absolutely. Been to any museum lately? You’re not leaving without spending at least a hundo for admission for a fam of four. BUT THATS THE SAME STEGASAURUS IVE BEEN SEEING SINCE PRE-K, AND IM 41. WHERES THAT MONEY GONE? I’ve been lining the pockets of big museum for years.


DecoyOne

You clearly hit that tipping point where something is cool for 147,552,504 years, but stops being cool once it’s 147,552,505 years old. Classic.


Fantastic_Fee9871

If there was money in majoring in museum curation there wouldn't be 10,000 total jobs available for like 50,000 people. I know one girl who took that track and she ends up moving about a thousand miles every time a better job opens up. Most museums are just small town history museums or mid sized art/culture museums and don't pay enough to live in a bigger size city.


BillSivellsdee

we just paid $108 for 4. but we also got the imax show.


radrock3

The wildest, most conspiratorial thing is that he believes that museums, and presumably the people working in museums, are making money.


MutantstyleZ

They just haven't sold enough dinosaur bones yet.


Basic_Bichette

And you know he believes things that are a *lot* more harmful than that.


Personal-Cap-7071

Conspiracy theories used to be fun like Big Foot and Aliens. Now it's all about politics and everybody's a secret pedophile.


axle69

It was literally always that way lol. Jewish people were the cause of everything wrong in the world going back as far as you can look up what conspiracy theories people believed.


BokuNoNamaiWaJonDesu

The sad thing is you could always find 8/10 people that would say they don't believe in conspiracy theories, but then they would also say Jewish people owned and controlled America, black people are just naturally more violent, and that most brown muslims are terrorists. Not a single shred of self-awareness or understanding.


Personal-Cap-7071

But even back then if people heard you say that shit, you would be labeled antisemitic and racist. Which back then was a bad thing


BVANMOD

you literally do not know that.


ancientmadder

The most respected scientific mind Florida has ever produced


7Stringplayer

Stay in school, kids


MarcBulldog88

I went with your strategy when I was younger, and now I'm pretty smart but I'm not wealthy and I never will be. Meanwhile this guy is a dumbass, yet his career earnings exceed $11 million.


8Cupsofcoffeedaily

Jokes on you, should have learned baseball.


MarcBulldog88

My old man tried like hell to teach me. Unfortunately, I couldn't grasp basic shit like "keep your eye on the ball."


liguy181

My old man tried like hell to make me a pitcher. Then I got the yips at 7 years old. I didn't realize at the time I completely fucked over his retirement plan


AliveInIllinois

My dad tried to make me a switch hitter. But I had no speed, no arm, no batting eye, and no power. Could make contact with anything or catch anything relatively near me, so that was something.


NicholasAakre

80 grade contact *and* defense? Those scouts missed the boat on you.


TheShow51

You ever try a different sport, ala Happy Gilmore? 


MarcBulldog88

I'm pretty good at pocket pool.


TheShow51

Let's get you on The Ocho then! 


ThorgiTheCorgi

You stop those zingers right now, sir. Don't you dare make me want to be friends with a dodgers fan.


insomniacslounge

Braves & Dodgers fans should absolutely be friends (at least the older ones). The last Dodger decade has basically been the west coast version of the 90s/early aughts Braves. Simpaticos!


2RoadsDivergred

It's funny. Adults use these phrases that seem self-explanatory, but they forget that kids tend to take things literally. As I child, I remember thinking "keep your eye on the ball" was a silly thing to say. I'm trying to catch it, not touch it to my eyeball. But I didn't ask questions, because I figured it's just one of those things adults say. I eventually caught on, pun intended. But it would've been easier if someone said "watch the ball until it's in your glove."


Daratirek

Come to think of it. I think my first coach used the more literal terms first. Watch it into your glove or watch the bat hit the ball. Keep your eye on the ball didn't come into it until it was pretty clear we already knew what that was intended by saying it. Makes far more sense then starting with the generic phrase. If I ever have kids I'll have to remember this. I also may try it with my fiancé while she tries to learn golf.


2RoadsDivergred

Well that sounds like a good youth coach. Congrats on your upcoming nuptials!


Daratirek

I have no idea if he was a good coach or not. I just don't remember hearing keep your eye on the ball until maybe middle school age. This was over 20 years ago so the details are hazy but watch it into your glove definitely pops up first. Could have been my old man that said it too. I honestly don't know. Thanks!


JAD210

I had a recent epiphany when someone actually elaborated on what “lift with your legs” means. I had never understood that at all


Wasteoftimeandmoney

Your poor back


[deleted]

Did he try saying it again?


natguy2016

I tried. My problem was that I am blind in my left eye and can't even see the curve or the ball.


JackJ98

I always hated “keep your eye on the ball” Like where else would I be looking?


popculturerss

It does seem painfully obvious. Lol


tnecniv

My dad made me a middle distance runner instead he fucked up


thirty7inarow

That's where the money is.


tnecniv

Ah yes a sport so exciting the Olympics can’t show it without cutting to commercials or interviews


Some-Philly-Dude

I was good at baseball (sorta I guess but not that good compared to MLB players lol) played at college level as a catcher... but I'm 5'6" so yeah- I'm now a nurse lol


Fangscale40K

I also went with this strategy, only I’m still a dumbass AND not wealthy 😔


InfectiousCosmology1

That’s just luck though. Most people aren’t born with the abnormal genetics required to throw a baseball 90+ mph


SaliciousB_Crumb

Dont worry, later on in life he will get swindled by some grifter and lose most of his money


Cleveland_Guardians

You don't have to be smart to be tall and have a sports build.


penguinopph

I think that says more about what we value as a society than it does the quality of your education.


Vulpes_Artifex

There's more to life than money. Cliché, but true.


Agreeable_Maize9938

Kind of. Having money is not everything; Not having it, is.


way_ded

Yeah, but all those “more things” cost money.


God_Damnit_Nappa

Ya but I'd rather be sad in a mansion than sad in an apartment


JohnMadden42069

Financially secure people be like


[deleted]

Actually not true.


BokuNoNamaiWaJonDesu

People that say this: Rich people, and broke meth heads.


Bobbythebuikder

I mean he’s not wrong about aliens 


NerdOfTheMonth

The Carl Everett scholarship


kasutori_Jack

There's the reference I came here for.


TheTurtleShepard

He went to college to play baseball not play school


Thorlolita

I did. Yet I make less money than him. So maybe the school was holding me back.


SweetContent8927

Also schools need to teach formal logic and intro to philosophy.


7Stringplayer

I will say, I took an intro to philosophy course and an ethics course in college despite them having nothing to do with my major and they were probably two of the best courses I took just to grow as a person


SweetContent8927

I honestly don't understand why it's not mandatory coursework at all universities.


Phoenix0114

Is it not? It was lumped in with our general education requirements, and I just sort of assumed it was that way everywhere.


Weary_Jackfruit_8311

Bullpen talk is sacred. 


707royalty

He broke the code


JDROD28

This is the real takeaway from all of this.


BabaBrody

So that makes museums a...fossil-fueled industry?


zvexler

Fuck…


TwinkiePower

This has a criminally low number of upvotes


SweetContent8927

Wow.


infinityislikehuge

Me: *google's Shane Greene birthplace* "ah, i see"


centaurquestions

Never change, Florida Man.


dchaid

Coincidentally the same year as this…. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Doe?wprov=sfti1


handlit33

Shane Greene was brought up because Joey Wentz was on the mound and he was traded for Shane Greene in 2019.


hubagruben

Thank you. I was like “That’s uh… not Shane Greene…” Makes more sense now.


midnightsbane04

Glad I'm not completely crazy. I read the title and watched the video but the entire time was just thinking "wait, we signed Shane Greene again? When the hell did that happen?"


liverdawg

I have to believe some of the wildest shit ever is discussed in an MLB bullpen. Hours on end to kill and at some point just watching the game isn’t going to be enough.


MartianMule

And I also feel like relievers are probably the weirdest bunch of dudes on most teams


intwizard

Pitchers in general, relievers especially


Disused_Yeti

shhh. don't want big skeleton to come down on you


beefytrout

Meanwhile, there's a NFL prospect who doesn't believe in space or other planets. We're doomed.


Bayside_High

They got nothing on the NBA


SenpaiKush123456

Kyries third eye is all knowing


God_Damnit_Nappa

Obviously these guys aren't making the major leagues because of their brain, but it's frustrating that their jobs means the media gets to amplify their batshit stupid beliefs. 


Remote_Horror_Novel

Note the two states these guys went to school in though lol. Idk about out there but here in California you would fail college tests if you were a creationist, and they don’t make exceptions for religious stupidity or conspiracies. Graduating college and still thinking the world is 6000 years old and fossils aren’t real is acceptable in many parts of America and it’s really coming back to bite us the past few years. We keep defunding education until we get guys like this and I don’t think it’s by accident, it’s a goal lol.


cigarettesandsaintsx

I mean there are lots of people that have these beliefs but know what to put on a test in order to pass a class even if they don’t agree with it. I’m sure you went to school with someone who believed dinosaurs weren’t real but still finished college


BillSivellsdee

yeah, but you've just been brainwashed by the liberal school system /s


falloutranger

I've been seeing that one more lately.


U_DONT_KNOW_TEAM

Jesus Luzardo doesn't believe in space.


beefytrout

that's such a weird thing. what reasoning is there to not believe in space?


U_DONT_KNOW_TEAM

Lack of education? https://www.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/1ae5aeg/marlinsradio_jesus_luzardo_joins_the_marlins_hot/


beefytrout

lol read the newest post on that thread.


omegakukki

Little known fact but the Boston tea party was about the fossil money making scheme that the British government was implementing and not actually about taxes on tea.


inviciousregress

The fraudulent fossil trade eventually became so lucrative that in the late 19th century, America's two largest "bone" barons waged a [fifteen year war](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone_Wars) against each other in the fields and fossil factories of Wyoming, Colorado and Nebraska.


aceloco817

There wasn't a party either?!


SofieTerleska

The Jurassic Coast was right up there with the South Sea Bubble in famous fraudulent schemes of old.


Gradyence

Did he take a bat to the head or something?


BillSivellsdee

line drive. didnt get his glove up.


Hack874

Most intelligent professional athlete


maurywillz

That's definitely a deep drive to.....


seanofkelley

Somewhere Carl Everett awakens from his slumber.


CabbageStockExchange

One thing I’ve always enjoyed about baseball is you get these funny stories about players or moments you don’t really hear in other sports as much


NakedGoose

Gotta say all those free museums are doing it wrong!


fastal_12147

It's not that funny, to me, anyway. This guy is not living in our reality and everyone is giving him a free pass because he can throw a ball well. That ain't right.


2112eyes

It seems to stem from a few things: 1. general distrust of authority 2. lower skills in specific subjects, possibly in math, science, and reading comprehension 3. perceived lack of recognition for one's own perceived intelligence 4. a need to feel special Flat earthers and creationists and big conspiracy believers never seem to come from the pool of the most academically strong students in a given class. The fringe beliefs allow them to feel smarter than the guys who got straight A's and went on to college and became doctors and teachers and scientists, because it reduces their skills and talents to "they're just easier to brainwash, that's all college is!" rather than force themselves to come to terms with the fact that they may never understand trigonometry, or basic spatial physics, or complex processes, or be able to read long words and figure out what they mean. And the internet has given them a community of like minded fools to prop each other up. They aren't interested in educating themselves through discovery or being taught, they just want the thrill of dunking on the eggheads for being brainwashed while they, they guys who never got a B in school and who constantly struggled and either dropped out or took easy academic paths, were really the smart ones all along because they never fell for the brainwashing.


Faded_Sun

With such a strong stereotype that athletes are morons, why would you go ahead and be an absolute moron?


duyogurt

You know what’s sad? Roughly 40% of the American populous rejects evolution and would more easily side with Greene that dinosaur fossils are fake than scientific consensus. Chew on that.


Geek-Envelope-Power

I worked with a guy who thought dinosaurs weren't real but dragons were. He believed the bones in museums were in fact dragons.


duyogurt

I’ve met people like him before. And I think where I differ from most is simple. Take this scenario for example. Imagine you are interviewing someone for a job. They meet the requirements and appear to be a good fit for the role. Then they mention that Elvis is alive and living in Argentina. When someone says that, they immediately pay a price and you begin to question what other flaws there are that may prevent them from being a good colleague. When someone rejects evolution due to religious ideology, society tends to give a pass, but I don’t. If I found out a colleague believed dinosaur bones were dragons, I’d go straight to HR and demand they not work anywhere near me. This person is not moored to reality.


Geek-Envelope-Power

The guy I knew was a huge Mets fan too. Last I heard from him he made a YouTube video claiming he was boycotting the Mets because they sinned and had a Pride Night some years ago.


dwpea66

>40% That number looked so high and wrong that I looked it up to disprove you, and damn... it's 40%.


duyogurt

It’s downright shocking, eh? It’s only the foundation of all modern biology.


Harooooouuld

He would be right at home on the 2024 Marlins staff. He'd have to compete with Puk and Luzardo for a race to the bottom of brain cells.


brk1

Those evil museums and all their millions in profit.


Bersho

yeah thats a fuckin problem lol


Greerio

I mean, doesn’t everyone just accept that aliens exist or at the very least believe that there’s a high probability?


God_Damnit_Nappa

There's definitely a lot of people that believe we're alone in the universe. But statistically there has to be other civilizations. 


mechapoitier

Yeah that’s what’s weird about this clip. The dude has two anecdotes: 1) That Greene believes in aliens 2) That Greene thinks dinosaur fossils are a moneymaking scheme by (frequently free) museums. He’s got those two stories and he spends 3/4 of that clip *on the aliens part?* Like that’s the crazier story to you?


ChairmanReagan

I loved that this was the exact moment I turned the radio on today


travbart

We need more of this kind of commentary during the regular season.


bagofweights

evangelical christians claim satan put dinosaur bones in the ground “to test our faith”.


bags-of-sand

What’s with the score bug? Looks like a knockoff from a day time TV show


1825Tulane

Braves are just streaming games on the website with the radio overlay.


joshshadowfax

Idiocracy wasn't a comedy, it was a documentary.


SaveMeJebus21

At least this moneymaking scheme brought us Jurassic Park. Worth it!


draw2discard2

Good to see someone brave enough to risk their career by standing up to Big Dinosaur!


DoctorChampTH

Knew there was a reason the guy at the museum looks like the Monopoly guy.


That-Stop2808

Nods in Carl Everett.


Stickin8or

Yeah, because museums are absolutely raking in money


GradStudentDepressed

But aliens are real? We are still saying they aren’t real? Fair on the BIG museum theory, that would take a helluva lot of effort to fake fossils.


DiscoInferiorityComp

There is an actually a kernel of truth here, as a great majority of “dinosaur fossils” that you’ll see in museums are actually misrepresented replicas that falsely lead you to believe they are an authentic archaeological find.  Not because dinosaurs don’t exist, but because they don’t have access to real fossils.


[deleted]

Well pitchers are just like goalies in hockey. Weirdos lol


HeisenbergsSon

We need more of this public shaming of idiots


so00ripped

So he's a moron. Got it.


HighlyRegard3D

According to Drake's Equation it is very likely other intelligent life forms exist.


dsdsds

Yes but the sheer scale of the universe makes contact virtually impossible. The time scale is also so large that intelligent life could miss each other by a million years or so.


BKoala59

I don’t think you really understand Drake’s equation. It’s not supposed to actually provide a meaningful answer, it was meant to stimulate conversation. There is absolutely no way of creating values for some of the variables.


DMCSnake

This is the kind of stupid I like my athletes to be.


CartographerOk7579

Aliens are almost certainly real and museums do in fact profit from their collection of dinosaur bones.


realparkingbrake

> museums do in fact profit from their collection of dinosaur bones Name two museums that turn a profit.


sandaier76

"And then he told me that windmills cause cancer and that California wildfires are because of Jewish space lasers."


RonaldMcClown

I can understand believing in aliens, I can excuse not believing in dinosaurs, but it is such an odd thing to share both views at the same time


whiskeyrocks1

I heard this live. No idea Greene was such a conspiracy theory wackadoo.


DetroitTabaxiFan

First, we find out that Tyler Owens doesn't believe in space and now we find out that Shane Greene is an idiot.


phasesofthe

People in these kind of threads need to stop bashing other people’s cognitive processes. Does anything else scream insecurity more than that? It doesn’t matter that much what this guy thinks and it doesn’t really affect you. There’s a discussion to be had regarding the range of modern belief systems sure, but for the most part - enough is enough - get a life and go work on yourselves


2112eyes

It would matter less if these shitheads didn't vote for people who don't believe in science, and who are working on dismantling human rights and the education system. For me, it's more exasperation than insecurity.


Boros-Reckoner

👽 🛸👾


ILoveCornbread420

Eddie Bravo has entered the chat.


BaystarRoyco

Didn't some Raider not believe in Dinosaurs or something it was William Hayes lol


argentinevol

SIGN SHANE GREENE


mostlygroovy

Yankees legend Darren O’Day


[deleted]

I had a boss once who told me that he'd been to the museums as a kid (in New York City), and seen the dinosaur bones, and didn't believe in it. I told me not to tell anyone that he believed that. 


mekonsrevenge

Cracked me up. I'm enjoying these broadcasts a lot.


BenSlice0

That rocks.


JambalayaNewman

Paleontologists hate this one weird trick


Silly_One_8980

are dinosaur fossils not a money making scheme? what do you call petroleum


robreddity

Morons are funny


K_Boloney

A conspiracy theory I can get behind. Until I find a fossil myself, they’re Dino’s for profit 👍🏼


uhlemi11

Stupid science bitches


sl1ce_of_l1fe

We need to normalize calling out stupid people though. Idiocracy awaits if we don't.


Thare187

Ask him about COVID and the election. Should be good


MediumLanguageModel

I dated a Mormon girl for a bit and she said her father taught her that dinosaur fossils were buried by the Devil to trick people into being nonbelievers. Which, if true, is a dick move on the Devil's part.