{"id":44418,"date":"2017-02-17T11:50:06","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T15:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=44418"},"modified":"2020-07-30T15:24:26","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T19:24:26","slug":"this-is-the-best-thing-ive-seen-in-a-while","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=44418","title":{"rendered":"This is the best thing I\u2019ve seen in a while"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/axkik-8oFTs?controls=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Greg Maddux isn\u2019t one of my all-time favorites because he was on the Braves and helped them win their only World Series.\u00a0 He\u2019s not one of my all-time favorites because he\u2019s arguably one of the greatest pitchers in the history of the game.\u00a0 I\u2019ve always been a fan of the guy, because he\u2019s always been a guy that that outsmarted rather than overpowered and I always favor intelligence over sheer brawn all day long.\u00a0 But aside of his qualities as a baseball player, I\u2019ve always loved the guy because he\u2019s always seemed like one of those people that just simply, got life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">This video that broke recently, where Greg Maddux pranks reigning NL MVP Kris Bryant, by pretending to be a sound guy for a fake commercial Bryant is believed to be filming, that fills in at throwing batting practice, before hurling a litany of unhittable breaking balls and perfectly located pitches, nearly had me in tears laughing.\u00a0 Maddux is classic Maddux in the video being all passive-aggressive and deadpan while pretending to be the critical sound guy, judging the swing of a guy that just came off a season where he hit 39 home runs. But it\u2019s when the ruse is on where this video really takes off.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Kris Bryant\u2019s disrespect for ordinary men, when fake sound guy-Greg claims he can fill in for the coach that had to leave is kind of the perfect setup for an ownage session from the 4-time Cy Young Award winning Hall of Famer.\u00a0 And then Maddux gets behind the screen and suddenly starts hurling curveballs, with Bryant flabbergasted and trying to laugh away his rising shame, is simply the funniest thing I\u2019ve seen in a while.\u00a0 And for god-knows how long, Maddux continued an onslaught of perfect pitches designed to catch guys looking, or get guys to tap the ball harmlessly into outs, while Bryant is futilely swinging himself into looking like a little leaguer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">There\u2019s no doubt when Red Bull approached Maddux with this idea, the Professor probably dialed up some old MLB contacts or something and got a scouting video on Kris Bryant and studied his swing and tendencies for a few hours.\u00a0 And that when he showed up to the ballfield in Vegas, he had more than an adequate game plan and pitch sequences specifically designed to undress Kris Bryant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Nearly eight years post-retirement, Greg Maddux still manages to make one of the best hitters in today\u2019s game swing like Mario Mendoza.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Sure, there is the suspicion that this video could have been staged a little bit, but I don\u2019t really care.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been in a dour mood a lot lately, and this was something refreshing and welcome to watch and get a little bit of enjoyment out of.\u00a0 With Spring Training just around the corner, seeing something like this actually gets me a little bit excited about watching some baseball again this season, hopefully with a lot of current baggage behind me by then.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Maddux isn\u2019t one of my all-time favorites because he was on the Braves and helped them win their only World Series.\u00a0 He\u2019s not one of my all-time favorites because he\u2019s arguably one of the greatest pitchers in the history of the game.\u00a0 I\u2019ve always been a fan of the guy, because he\u2019s always been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=44418\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This is the best thing I\u2019ve seen in a while<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[62,52],"class_list":["post-44418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-baseball","tag-owned"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44418"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44427,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44418\/revisions\/44427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}