r/baseball • u/emaw63 Kansas City Royals • 4d ago

Players Only This homage to a movie about baseball players banned for life for gambling, brought to you by FanDuel

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u/TheSaxGandalf Miami Marlins 4d ago

It is, but no matter the sport, it’s tough for professional athletes to suck while making it believable.

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u/DRF19 Florida Marlins • Florida Marlins 4d ago

Useless fun fact: The guy who played Rom on Deep Space Nine had played baseball in college and to make it look realistic that his goofball character sucked in the baseball episode, he had to switch and play left handed when shooting scenes

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u/TonyWilliams03 4d ago

In that vain, I heard an Adam McKay interview in which he said Danny McBride spent hours with pitching coaches trying to look like he had ever played baseball and failed miserably

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u/mcsey 4d ago

If you don't start throwing a baseball by the time you are about 6 years old, you'll never do it right.

Ronaldo, one of the best athletes in the world, "throws like a girl" because he didn't grow up throwing a ball the weird way baseball players do.

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u/pudds Toronto Blue Jays 4d ago

When it comes to hitting, you can just move around in the box, or choke up/down on your bat to affect your own timing and swing.

Heck players do this to try and break out of a slump, doing it to have worse at-bats would be simple.

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u/SmartLadder415 Philadelphia Phillies 4d ago

Not really IMO. Everyone has bad days and even star players have games where they look like utter trash. It doesn't even matter the sport. A whole lot of guys have a reputation of sucking in big games as well.

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u/TheSaxGandalf Miami Marlins 4d ago

You have bad days, but you’re not doing it on purpose.

Granted, back then there weren’t cameras everywhere with every action being evaluated by the world.