I'm not defending his sport I'm defending him. Just because someone is better than u at something doesn't mean u should talk bad about that person. Also if u didn't write that comment that might mean u got hacked, you should get it checked.
i like the shit talk.... unfortunately there is no comeback to "dude, you won the wiffleball cy young... thats like winning the nobel prize in basketweaving..."
+Eric Kostiuk Its funny how u talk shit while he kick ur ass on and off the field. I can careless about wiffle ball. But i wont dis him for being so fing good at it. Must be good he made that MLB hitter look silly. I dont care what league ur in, u do that ur doing something right.
Could you of struck that guy out? Wiffle ball, Baseball, softball? LOL no. stfu and sit down. Or get out from behind your computer u are hiding behind and come prove it. Either way you are the ones that need to zip it. Typical kids run their mouths. But have nothing to back it up.
The gobbler show The bat is way heavier, and I bet if one these pro wiffle ball players hit a pro pitchers fast ball as hard they could, it wouldn't even go 100 ft.
the little bit of humility mr this is my world had to chock up after the hitter used a real bat was so worth it when he faced his opponent on equal terms all in all the kid can pitch like crazy but its only wiffleball
Everyone complaining about him playing a "backyard sport" needs to get a life, everyone needs something to do like a hobby. Would u rather have him be obese and be on drugs or play wiffle ball with his friends because it sounds like all of u are just being salty.
Everyone's hating on the wiffle ball pitcher, granted it's a backyard game but it's something he takes seriously and is very good at. Let the man be great at what he's great at. Definitely won't cut it in the pros but he's good for his sport.
yeah he actually came up with a lot of promise, and was a great average hitter in the minors. he hit .380 in 2006 for Las Vegas and I think that led all of baseball that year.
They're taking him completely out of his element and expecting him to do well. It's like telling a rifle hunter to go spear fish for the first thing and expect him to get the same results.
@spartansown I was the set medic on that show, and he actually got hit in his left eye by one of the throws. They edited it out, plus, when we shot the show it was like 90-100 degrees in that damn hanger.
After getting his new bat, the batter was now able to make ONE line drive (notice that all of the footage of him hitting the ball was taken from the same hit!) How amazing!
It's not random. What the ball does depends on the orientation of the holed side and the type of spin put on it. In general, if the spin is such that the orientation of the holed / smooth sides remains constant, the ball will break in the direction of the smooth side. If the sides rotate with the spin then it will tend to mimic the real baseball pitch associated with that spin (just more exaggerated). The behavior is predictable and (for the most part) controllable.
There's a kid in my school district going into his junior year, and he got clocked at 98 mph. Says it on the "Ephrata Wiffleball Tournament" website. Evan Young. Also, I'm Adam Schwartz, 6th grader who beat out the 8th graders with 82 mph. Know of what you speak, sir.
Interesting test. I grew up playing Wiffle ball on days when I wasn't playing baseball. Great practice. But, I have an interesting test for you. Compare a Major League pitcher, using a MLB official baseball to a Major League pitcher using a regulation NFHS baseball (bigger seams).
I believe he hasn't lived to the high ceiling expectations he was given, however that doesn't mean he hasn't had an impact bat during his tenure with the Dodgers. From 2006-2011, he averaged around 130 hits, and a .288 batting average, and 70 RBIs per season. That type of production can't just go unnoticed, along with a .994 career fielding percentage at first base. With his current power, I agree that he hasn't done anything big. As an overall player though, I believe he is doing great,
It has a bit to do with doctoring. Scuff balls and spitters rely on drastically changing the wind resistance of part of the baseball. The half of a wiffle ball with the holes creates much more resistance than the smooth side so it acts like an exaggerated version of a doctored ball (holes = scuff, smooth = spit). They could have used a real baseball, but to do it justice they would need a pitcher familiar with using doctored balls and I doubt many would really want to advertise that skill.
Yeah is 1/3rd as heavy so it also doesn't have much momentum like a baseball does. Which makes it a lot harder to throw a wiffle ball at that speed than throwing a baseball at that speed.
Man, I'm 2 busy dealing with 2 photon excitation Lipid Domains in Human Skin Stratum Corneum's Lipid Membranes: Effect of pH and Temperature on a personal level to deal with "doctored" baseballs.
Of the five presumed extinct forms, the most - for lack of better choice of words - lethal and deceptive is Koto Ryu. Granted, the last known grandmaster was Seiko Fujita... he died in the early 1960's and left no MALE heir. His niece, however, was extremely proficient. Her son, Saigo Katsugi (died in 1995), passed on her teachings to the person currently considered the grandmaster of this art - and likely the best martial artist on the planet - Akio Katsugi - a woman!
Dude, watch the guys videos. I subbed him for a reason. He was on Tosh.0 and pitched 95mph at him. If you can make a Wiffleball move that fast, you can make a baseball do the same.
It's also tougher to hit because a baseball never rises after release. No major league hitter has practiced trying to make contact on a ball going up. It is technically like trying to hit a knuckleball, but 10 times worse.
I doubt it, it's a totally different pitch. Anyway, you 'might' be right, but first I want to see it happen. Also a 83 mph slider is one hell of a nasty pitch.
random dude: yo dude, what is ur career? Wiffle Ball Pitcher: i am a pro pitcher. Random dude: o really what league? WFP: o the nwbl. Random dude: whats that? WFP: its the "NATIONAL WIFFLE BALL LEAGUE"
You might as well make the whiffle pitcher throw a hardball (which wouldn't be fair of course) and then laugh when he gets hit hard. It's just two different games that only look similar. Fun to watch though and Loney showed some real class.
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I must've missed the part where they "test the benefits of doctoring a baseball"
Exactly
yeah me too
Buck Nekrid yeah this is not an original video
I agree lets dislike.
It's a wiffle ball awareness PSA
Lol He's Like Yeah Baby Can't Hang...You Play Wiffle Ball Calm Down😂
And you probably can't hang in English class.
oh hold up we got a wiffel ball player defending his sport lol, I didn't even write this comment so stfu
I'm not defending his sport I'm defending him. Just because someone is better than u at something doesn't mean u should talk bad about that person. Also if u didn't write that comment that might mean u got hacked, you should get it checked.
LAD Fan I'm with Prizma , wiffel ball is a joke for shit people who weren't good enough to play baseball.
So you would rather have him spend his free time on hard Crack just because wiffle ball is a joke
wiffle ball picture, yeah baby you can't hang, Looney: haha i'll just buy your house.
pitcher*
loney*
Lol
i like the shit talk.... unfortunately there is no comeback to "dude, you won the wiffleball cy young... thats like winning the nobel prize in basketweaving..."
that wiffler needs to calm down. he can hurl a plastic toy. congrats man
guy brunelli you can’t do better fam it’s harder than you think
yolomcswagins so is juggling chain saws but no one gives a shit about either.
Zack Cc 😂 🔥 🔥 🔥
@To Infinity bro this was 3 years ago and it wasn’t even a good comeback😭😭
@@nathanwilson3436 yeah bro your down bad
It's hard to look like a badass when you're holding a whiffle ball
Exactly lol. And BROKE
it's funny how he thinks he's cool playing wiffle ball
😂right
+Eric Kostiuk Its funny how u talk shit while he kick ur ass on and off the field. I can careless about wiffle ball. But i wont dis him for being so fing good at it. Must be good he made that MLB hitter look silly. I dont care what league ur in, u do that ur doing something right.
+NOO NOPE shut up bitch
Could you of struck that guy out? Wiffle ball, Baseball, softball? LOL no. stfu and sit down. Or get out from behind your computer u are hiding behind and come prove it. Either way you are the ones that need to zip it. Typical kids run their mouths. But have nothing to back it up.
+NOO NOPE I'd surely strike you out
You can tell this wiffle pitcher is a failed baseball player.
Hahaha agreed
brent mcghee lol thats hilarious and so true
He's like 5'5", no wonder lol
Ryan Monty also he’s kinda round
"so we brought in one of the best hitters in baseball... JAMES LONEY" lmao
this was like 7 years ago
he's not one of the worst hitters though
He's still a decent hitter.
Lol they should of said an MLB player ....
With the Dodgers he was really good for a season or two. Now hes just not the same
they should of had a wiffleball batter hit a baseball
Ikr
That wouldn't do any thing fucktard it's just a fastball or a pitch that they're used to seeing.
The gobbler show The bat is way heavier, and I bet if one these pro wiffle ball players hit a pro pitchers fast ball as hard they could, it wouldn't even go 100 ft.
*should have
A guy who's 5'4" and throws wiffleballs to make 10,000 a year is talking to a guy who makes 10 million a year lol
Why is this even a feature? This is a joke.
The clickbait game is strong in this one
Lol competitive wiffleball
lol poor guy had no future in mlb so wants to act all hard in whiffle ball..
at least if they fight you know who would win
Joel's parents must be so proud of him. "My son won the Cy Young award of wiffle ball" normal parent "My son has friends and is a doctor..."
i didn't even know there was a wiffle ball league
Why does the title say "Doctoring a baseball" when this is the wiffle ball episode?
the little bit of humility mr this is my world had to chock up after the hitter used a real bat was so worth it when he faced his opponent on equal terms all in all the kid can pitch like crazy but its only wiffleball
I would've had Ken Griffey Jr. batting then James Loney.
Who else just laughs hysterically to the fact that the James is like, 2 heads taller then Mr. Wiffle.
Everyone complaining about him playing a "backyard sport" needs to get a life, everyone needs something to do like a hobby. Would u rather have him be obese and be on drugs or play wiffle ball with his friends because it sounds like all of u are just being salty.
I got cancer from reading this...
You're worth nothing . Nobody likes you.
i was expecting something else. the benefits of a spitball, pine tar ball etc.... not wiffle ball
I love this show... just fun and educational! Rock on.
Everyone's hating on the wiffle ball pitcher, granted it's a backyard game but it's something he takes seriously and is very good at. Let the man be great at what he's great at. Definitely won't cut it in the pros but he's good for his sport.
Well said.
yeah he actually came up with a lot of promise, and was a great average hitter in the minors. he hit .380 in 2006 for Las Vegas and I think that led all of baseball that year.
They're taking him completely out of his element and expecting him to do well. It's like telling a rifle hunter to go spear fish for the first thing and expect him to get the same results.
@spartansown I was the set medic on that show, and he actually got hit in his left eye by one of the throws. They edited it out, plus, when we shot the show it was like 90-100 degrees in that damn hanger.
Lmao Loney's huge standing besides them
5th degree blackbelt in acorn finding...
hahaha...
jbob550 XD
joel has a talent for something that will take him absolutely no where in life.
The hitter also isn't used to swinging a wiiffleball bat
+Stephen Andrews LOL trying to protect the MLB hitter.... I dont think he needs it. Sob you are embarrasing
Not a sing "doctored baseball" in the whole video.
If you look closely, you can see a pattern with John Brenkus. He sucks at everything he tries to do!
They lost all credibility when they called Loney a slugger
it's hilarious how hes actually not changing his grip and just lets the ball do whatever it wants
After getting his new bat, the batter was now able to make ONE line drive (notice that all of the footage of him hitting the ball was taken from the same hit!) How amazing!
lol glad to see James Loney could find some time between grounding out to make an appearance here.
i hate how they make everyone that comes on this show wear that terrible generic clothing
It's not random. What the ball does depends on the orientation of the holed side and the type of spin put on it. In general, if the spin is such that the orientation of the holed / smooth sides remains constant, the ball will break in the direction of the smooth side. If the sides rotate with the spin then it will tend to mimic the real baseball pitch associated with that spin (just more exaggerated). The behavior is predictable and (for the most part) controllable.
There's a kid in my school district going into his junior year, and he got clocked at 98 mph. Says it on the "Ephrata Wiffleball Tournament" website. Evan Young. Also, I'm Adam Schwartz, 6th grader who beat out the 8th graders with 82 mph. Know of what you speak, sir.
the speed is measured out if the hands not at the batter so it would still be easier
They was doing give and take?
so basically, science proved that these two different sports are...different. Thank you, science.
The whiffle ball pitcher is soo proud of his whiffle pitching, look at his smirk.
Interesting test. I grew up playing Wiffle ball on days when I wasn't playing baseball. Great practice. But, I have an interesting test for you. Compare a Major League pitcher, using a MLB official baseball to a Major League pitcher using a regulation NFHS baseball (bigger seams).
I believe he hasn't lived to the high ceiling expectations he was given, however that doesn't mean he hasn't had an impact bat during his tenure with the Dodgers. From 2006-2011, he averaged around 130 hits, and a .288 batting average, and 70 RBIs per season. That type of production can't just go unnoticed, along with a .994 career fielding percentage at first base. With his current power, I agree that he hasn't done anything big. As an overall player though, I believe he is doing great,
loney has such a nice swing
"Yeah baby, you can't hang." Fuck off hahahahahah
I didn't know baseballs got so sick that they turned into hollow plastic Swiss cheeze
so he hit it once and quit or they just didnt put other footage of the baseball bat?
He needed 10 minutes to figure that shit out. First pitch with a decent bat: goodbye. LMAO another level
It has a bit to do with doctoring. Scuff balls and spitters rely on drastically changing the wind resistance of part of the baseball. The half of a wiffle ball with the holes creates much more resistance than the smooth side so it acts like an exaggerated version of a doctored ball (holes = scuff, smooth = spit). They could have used a real baseball, but to do it justice they would need a pitcher familiar with using doctored balls and I doubt many would really want to advertise that skill.
what does this have to do with doctored baseballs?
Yeah is 1/3rd as heavy so it also doesn't have much momentum like a baseball does. Which makes it a lot harder to throw a wiffle ball at that speed than throwing a baseball at that speed.
what does this have to do with doctoring a baseball
Man, I'm 2 busy dealing with 2 photon excitation Lipid Domains in Human Skin Stratum Corneum's Lipid Membranes: Effect of pH and Temperature on a personal level to deal with "doctored" baseballs.
Wiffleballs break more than baseballs? No way!
At 2:28 by college studs did you mean players who weren't good enough to get drafted
I know right he thinks he's amazing because he can curve a wiffel ball made for curving
And WTF are the benefits of doctoring a baseball
um the title is wrong
Of the five presumed extinct forms, the most - for lack of better choice of words - lethal and deceptive is Koto Ryu. Granted, the last known grandmaster was Seiko Fujita... he died in the early 1960's and left no MALE heir. His niece, however, was extremely proficient. Her son, Saigo Katsugi (died in 1995), passed on her teachings to the person currently considered the grandmaster of this art - and likely the best martial artist on the planet - Akio Katsugi - a woman!
@sebastain33 are u talking bout loney or the pitcher?
"Throwing no hitters and perfect games in wiffleball may not sound that impressive." Yes that is correct.
these guys are awsome
I swear, if he tried to play baseball, he probably has an 18 ERA. At least.
i like how when he finally hit it he wasn’t acting hard lol
"rising young star James Loney"
good god this thing is hilarious.
Dude, watch the guys videos. I subbed him for a reason. He was on Tosh.0 and pitched 95mph at him. If you can make a Wiffleball move that fast, you can make a baseball do the same.
It's also tougher to hit because a baseball never rises after release. No major league hitter has practiced trying to make contact on a ball going up. It is technically like trying to hit a knuckleball, but 10 times worse.
I doubt it, it's a totally different pitch. Anyway, you 'might' be right, but first I want to see it happen.
Also a 83 mph slider is one hell of a nasty pitch.
"its like he's throwing a magic BALL"
His first swing in the video was a high swing on a rising ball😂😂😂😂
random dude: yo dude, what is ur career?
Wiffle Ball Pitcher: i am a pro pitcher.
Random dude: o really what league?
WFP: o the nwbl.
Random dude: whats that?
WFP: its the "NATIONAL WIFFLE BALL LEAGUE"
at 1:50 what kind of camera does that effect
$20 says he would set your shit down in a heartbeat.
You might as well make the whiffle pitcher throw a hardball (which wouldn't be fair of course) and then laugh when he gets hit hard. It's just two different games that only look similar. Fun to watch though and Loney showed some real class.
"Yeah baby u cant hang" OMG SO FUNNY
3:24 james loney is like twice his size hahaha
I know this video should be called "Is it harder to hit a Wiffleball or Baseball" instead of doctoring a baseball
it does caus more air is flowing through it
Can anyone tell me what wiffle ball is exactly. Still don't understand.
James Loney's batt AVG= .379. #1 in the League right now.
Anyone else notice how red James Loney's eyes are at 3:31? Think someones been smokin the reefer during the offseason
The whiffle ball guys is like "Fuck yeah man your in my world now!" *Steps onto baseball field* Shit.....
Sport and science do a good mixing
who is phy?
dunno who he is but u r right
And the pitchers pitch about 60-85mph
But has Loney done anything big before that though?
Louisiana Pitch Baby!!
Good on you funky ball guy have your moment. Take one for the little guys bro! Dun listen dem 8terz!
"I had a great time TRYING to hit the whiffle ball."
Its not the pitcher. It's the wiffle ball. You can't throw a wiffle ball in a straight line.
Loney looks blazed.
We drafted, Joel Derouchebag
now, give him a baseball.
The MLB Players eyes were so bloodshot. He was probably high out of his mind for this