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Nolan Ryan is the guy my dad refers to when he wants to talk about how badass old players were. All time career leader in strikeouts with 5,714 which is 839 more than the 2nd place Randy Johnson. Led the league in strikeouts 11 times. Also career leader in walks for a pitcher, with 2,795. 7 career no hitters, an MLB record. Look up some videos of him throwing out first pitches around ~2010 when he was involved in the Texas Rangers organization, he was like 70 years old and still throwing 85 miles per hour.
Back in the day there was basically no chance of an ejection unless you hit multiple guys or you went for the head. Throwing at a guy's butt or torso was how you sent the message that the other team needs to not keep hitting your own team's hitters. Nowadays teams are investing a lot more money per player, so they're protected a bit more sensibly.
While I’ll admit that this is classic and funny, it’s kind of a bummer that this is what Ventura is remembered for by most baseball fans. He was actually a pretty funny guy (watch his rain delay performance while impersonating Mike Piazza), and a damn solid player. Multiple Gold Gloves at 3B, a couple All-Star appearances, and had a knack for hitting grand slams (tied for 5th all time).
As Ventura tells it he got about halfway to the mound before having second thoughts, he knew he was about to get his ass handed to him but decided he'd rather that than the teasing he'd get in the dugout if he backed down.
Ventura would have been better off backing down. Yeah he might have gotten teased for a week or two, instead he'll be remembered forever as the guy that got his ass whooped by an old man.
About ten years prior, Dave Winfield had charged Ryan and knocked him down. Ryan swore that it would never happen again. A decade later, he was prepared.
@@laudanum669 Exactly my thought, I met him once too. Dude is 6'6" and probably 230 lbs easy. Nolan Ryan was a badass, but I don't care who you are, you don't want Dave Winfield charging you.
Love this! There’s a great documentary on Netflix about Nolan Ryan’s career, called “Facing Nolan”. You guys should check it out. He was pretty incredible!
Nolan is a badass, if you watch his bio film, he says he was charged when he was real young and didn't know weather to fight or what he says, so as he aged he told himself no more of that shit I'm fightin' next time...lol
Up until winning the World Series last fall this or maybe Odor punching Bautista was probably the greatest moment in the history of our beloved franchise
You guys should watch Nolan Ryan: Feel The Heat. It’s on TH-cam. It’s a classic sports VHS hype tape. It’s got an original song and everything. It’s really great. All the star athletes had similar VHS tapes but this is one of the best. Now i wanna watch it again. Nolan teaches you his pitching grips!
Robin Ventura was a very good ball player. However, this is the defining moment of his career, I think, for most people. So many athletes are remembered for remarkable moments in their careers. Robin is just remembered for getting beat down after he got plunked.
Bo Jackson, the greatest athlete of our generation, of all people, saved Nolan Ryan. In an interview, Nolan stated he was under the pile, getting crush and was passing out. Jackson’s arms cut through the pile and pulled him out.
The insult to injury literally is being the one getting ejected after going way out your way just to get your ass kicked. But then to not only take an unexpected embarrassing good old fashioned ass whipping from America's dad, but then you're also getting ejected, but that's not the kicker: the absolute kicker is the morbidly hilarious cherry on top of this surrealist theatre of the absurd is the final decision to complete Robyn's about to become his lifetime recurring nightmare playing on loop always in heavy rotation for all eternity and that is having Pops 'who's your daddy' Ryan get to stay in the game. That is what takes it from sublime and makes this pure poetry the level of mad hatter punking the baseball gods had with Ventura in this moment that would immortalize him for all the wrong reasons. I remember when I saw it as a teen that night on highlights without any indication of the outcome of the brawl, and when Robyn charged at old man Ryan, I distinctly was thinking that Ventura was about to become the most hated man in baseball, because he's going to beat up an old man and beloved living active playing legend of the game. I could see that alternate timeline of history play out in an instant so clear in my mind. And then we got the M.Night Shawmalon plot twist of all time. As soon as Ryan wrapped him up and started laying those haymakers, everyone in our living room immediately collapsed into loud uproarious laughter at the sheer improbability of it all and beauty of the reversal of fortune table turn that just unspooled before all our very eyes. My father had tears in his eyes, me and my cousins were rolling in the floor and then instantly reenacting it to each other. This was out of a Hollywood movie. One thing though is we all agreed with the Umpire's ruling. We actually didn't Ike Nolan at the time being Giants fans and our history of him plucking our guys. But, it was part of the game then. Don't agree with it now. Bryce Harper's fastball to the face made me realize it's a lethal weapon and there's no place to purposely got a player. But we were all unanimous in if you willingly choose to charge the mound, you automatically know you're out and out breaking the baseball law and getting ejected. Hitting a batter with a pitch in an era it was more tolerated and has plausible deniability cause it literally is under the guise of playing the game. Charging the mound leaves no question you have stopped playing the game and now on a one man personal vendetta. Even the guy charging the mound knows that. But, both sides knew and America knew that in a time when you could pluck a batter on the shoulder, not career threatening, and a guy comes storming at you, you're really technically just put in a position defending yourself. You're not charging the plate at the batter. Ryan also based standing his ground after the last incident where a battery charged him and he tried to just get out the way, and ended up getting injured. So he made up his mind the next time a guy came at him, he was getting in his licks if he's going to get injured anyway. Also, Ryan credits Bo Jackson for possibly saving his life during that brawl. Ryan was at the bottom of the pile and all the body weights pinched his breathing and he was about to pass out with no idea if he'd get oxygen in time to wake up again. But, Bo started throwing bodies off the dog pile later saying he sensed a man of Ryan's age at the bottom gave him a bad feeling. Ryan called Bo when he got home that night to thank him. The fact Ryan says he almost might've bought the farm, then resumed pitching and got the win, madness. But, he had a little guardian angel who was built like an Adonis God who remember played for the other team come in to be his knight in shining armor. Bo knows how to save lives, baby!
Nolan Ryan said he almost passed out because he was under that pile with his face pressed in the dirt and couldn’t get a breath…then his buddy Bo Jackson snatched him up outta there
Haha I was hoping you would react to this one. 😂. I was a big white Sox fan as a boy, and Robin Ventura was a good player and good hitter. Him and Frank Thomas were very good hitters and made a good young core for the White Sox. It was pretty embarrassing that this happened.
Ryan didn't get ejected because when he threw at Ventura, it was payback for Ryan's teammate getting hit in the previous inning. It's known as a purpose pitch. One if the unwritten rules of baseball is the purpose pitch. It's been a part of the game for as long as baseball has been played.
Ryan had been pitching for like 25 years by this time and he didn’t just play for Texas, he is FROM Texas. No California kid like Ventura was going to intimidate an old school Texan like Nolan. This guy was throwing 100 mph in his 40’s! I used to watch him pitch in the 80’s with the Astros and you could hear him grunt with every pitch. Don’t Mess With Texas.
Nolan lived on a ranch in Alvin, TX; not too far from where I grew up; he worked his own ranch and cattle in the off-season and was known to have wrestled steers a time or two; someone told me he did a bit of bull riding, but I've never quite believed that.
I think if this happened today, Ryan would have been ejected too for sure. At this time, though, I think the thought was if Ventura hadn't charged the mound, there's no brawl, so he's the one who gets ejected.
I’m an Oakland A’s fan being from the SF Bay Area, but Nolan was such a badass then when my first daughter was born I gave her the middle name of Ryan. Women were even more heavily discriminated against 30 odd years ago and I wanted her to be able to submit a resume with a name that would give her a fighting chance. Pun intended.😊
I loved it when you wish Angel Hernandez a good retirement you've only been a baseball fan for 2 years and you already had the same response as everyone over here.
That was a great breakdown. The fact of the matter is that throwing at another player, wasn’t that big of a deal back then. It wasn’t a safety issue. You threw at a player to send a message to the rest of the team. Your punishment was giving up a base runner for free. However, the next guy who stands in the batters box is standing a little further off the plate. If you got ejected for just throwing at players, there was no point. The ejections come from the fights or after being warned. Now they consider it a safety issue. it didn’t used to be.
The only reason Nolan Ryan hit Robin Ventura with a pitch is because Nolan's teammate got hit by a White Sox pitcher earlier in the game. It was "tit-for-tat." Nolan evened the "score." It's "baseball justice." It's been part of baseball culture for many years; the "unwritten rules." Only a newbie to baseball would say something stupid like, "that's a mandatory ejection."
Getting tossed is only automatic if the pitchers/teams have been warned about throwing at batters. There hadn't been a warning. Ventura got thrown out because charging the mound IS an automatic ejection. You can't throw Ryan out for basically defending himself....ESPECIALLY not in Texas lol.
In the Netflix documentary Nolan said at the bottom of the scuffle he felt someone grab his jersey and pick him up with one arm, when he got out of the pile he realized it was Bo Jackson. Kind of a mutual respect there between Bo and Nolan. Nolan was a tough mf but he was not gonna throw at Bo. Also, Nolan wasn’t known for his accuracy, he had that heater and you had to keep in mind he could plunk you.
Yeah he was absolutely throwing at Ventura, but where he hit him is also important - basically in the upper arm/shoulder, which is the "nicest" way to hit somebody. He wasn't trying to hit him in the head or something dangerous like that. Well....he obviously went after the head eventually lol.
Its only been standard since the soft generation. At this time if you hit a batter, which Chicago did, Chicago's first batter up next inning got hit, which they did..that was the RULE. And if you didn't like it and charged the mound you got tossed, which Ventura did. And sometimes took a beating, which he did, because pitchers are some of the biggest and strongest guys in baseball .most others are built more like soccer plays except some first basemen and dudes like Bo. So Ventura gone and Ryan still pitching is the correct decision in this era. Rest in Peace to the "Say Hey kid" the Giants, and Baseballs beloved son: Willie Mays The Original 5 tool player. 2 time MVP would be five if it was judged by todays standards. On the Mt Rushmore of baseball in my,and many others opinion Talk now of Him becoming the new "Logo" for MLB! Hes got my vote
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Nolan Ryan is the guy my dad refers to when he wants to talk about how badass old players were.
All time career leader in strikeouts with 5,714 which is 839 more than the 2nd place Randy Johnson. Led the league in strikeouts 11 times.
Also career leader in walks for a pitcher, with 2,795.
7 career no hitters, an MLB record.
Look up some videos of him throwing out first pitches around ~2010 when he was involved in the Texas Rangers organization, he was like 70 years old and still throwing 85 miles per hour.
He’s the one guy my dad couldn’t stop talking about back in the day
I'm 59 and Nolan is my favorite player ever. I got to see him pitch a few games, I have almost every one of his Baseball cards and a few auto's.
Back in the day there was basically no chance of an ejection unless you hit multiple guys or you went for the head. Throwing at a guy's butt or torso was how you sent the message that the other team needs to not keep hitting your own team's hitters.
Nowadays teams are investing a lot more money per player, so they're protected a bit more sensibly.
While I’ll admit that this is classic and funny, it’s kind of a bummer that this is what Ventura is remembered for by most baseball fans. He was actually a pretty funny guy (watch his rain delay performance while impersonating Mike Piazza), and a damn solid player. Multiple Gold Gloves at 3B, a couple All-Star appearances, and had a knack for hitting grand slams (tied for 5th all time).
It needs saying: Nolan Ryan was throwing punches with his pitching hand. He was *pulling* his punches to avoid injuring himself.
Ah yes, my most favorite baseball clip of all time. I was watching this game live when it happened.
It’s hilarious!
As Ventura tells it he got about halfway to the mound before having second thoughts, he knew he was about to get his ass handed to him but decided he'd rather that than the teasing he'd get in the dugout if he backed down.
Ventura would have been better off backing down. Yeah he might have gotten teased for a week or two, instead he'll be remembered forever as the guy that got his ass whooped by an old man.
@@laudanum669 Nolan has that Old Man strength
@@timtebow2444 Old man strength is real. That combination of muscle memory, working strength, and experience.
i remember the newspaper headline in the sports page - with a picture of Ventura in the headlock “Ryan throws a few knuckleballs”
😂😂
One of his many records: Most punches thrown without being kicked out of the game.
About ten years prior, Dave Winfield had charged Ryan and knocked him down. Ryan swore that it would never happen again. A decade later, he was prepared.
No shame in losing a fight with Dave Winfield. I have seen him close up in person, he's a mountain of a man.
@@laudanum669 Exactly my thought, I met him once too. Dude is 6'6" and probably 230 lbs easy. Nolan Ryan was a badass, but I don't care who you are, you don't want Dave Winfield charging you.
Love this! There’s a great documentary on Netflix about Nolan Ryan’s career, called “Facing Nolan”. You guys should check it out. He was pretty incredible!
Nolan is a badass, if you watch his bio film, he says he was charged when he was real young and didn't know weather to fight or what he says, so as he aged he told himself no more of that shit I'm fightin' next time...lol
Nolan Freakin' Ryan!!! They don't make 'em like him anymore! Don't screw with the old guys.
I don't know if anyone's said yet, but Nolan Ryan is a rancher (even when he was active in the MLB), so he's wrestling cows on his off days.
Up until winning the World Series last fall this or maybe Odor punching Bautista was probably the greatest moment in the history of our beloved franchise
Nolan didn’t get tossed because he’s Nolan freaking Ryan. He was a legend way before he retired.
you got to give Bo Jackson credit. Evidently he got to the bottom of the pile to shield Nolan from the rest of everyone in the melee
I remember watching the highlights of this on ESPN after it happened. One of the best moments of all time.
You guys should watch Nolan Ryan: Feel The Heat. It’s on TH-cam. It’s a classic sports VHS hype tape. It’s got an original song and everything. It’s really great. All the star athletes had similar VHS tapes but this is one of the best. Now i wanna watch it again. Nolan teaches you his pitching grips!
Robin Ventura was a very good ball player. However, this is the defining moment of his career, I think, for most people.
So many athletes are remembered for remarkable moments in their careers. Robin is just remembered for getting beat down after he got plunked.
Back in that era, pitchers did not get thrown out as easily as they do now. Players were tougher then.
Bo Jackson, the greatest athlete of our generation, of all people, saved Nolan Ryan. In an interview, Nolan stated he was under the pile, getting crush and was passing out. Jackson’s arms cut through the pile and pulled him out.
7 no hitters….that’s right, SEVEN….most great pitchers MIGHT have one, maybe 2
The insult to injury literally is being the one getting ejected after going way out your way just to get your ass kicked. But then to not only take an unexpected embarrassing good old fashioned ass whipping from America's dad, but then you're also getting ejected, but that's not the kicker: the absolute kicker is the morbidly hilarious cherry on top of this surrealist theatre of the absurd is the final decision to complete Robyn's about to become his lifetime recurring nightmare playing on loop always in heavy rotation for all eternity and that is having Pops 'who's your daddy' Ryan get to stay in the game. That is what takes it from sublime and makes this pure poetry the level of mad hatter punking the baseball gods had with Ventura in this moment that would immortalize him for all the wrong reasons.
I remember when I saw it as a teen that night on highlights without any indication of the outcome of the brawl, and when Robyn charged at old man Ryan, I distinctly was thinking that Ventura was about to become the most hated man in baseball, because he's going to beat up an old man and beloved living active playing legend of the game. I could see that alternate timeline of history play out in an instant so clear in my mind. And then we got the M.Night Shawmalon plot twist of all time. As soon as Ryan wrapped him up and started laying those haymakers, everyone in our living room immediately collapsed into loud uproarious laughter at the sheer improbability of it all and beauty of the reversal of fortune table turn that just unspooled before all our very eyes. My father had tears in his eyes, me and my cousins were rolling in the floor and then instantly reenacting it to each other. This was out of a Hollywood movie.
One thing though is we all agreed with the Umpire's ruling. We actually didn't Ike Nolan at the time being Giants fans and our history of him plucking our guys. But, it was part of the game then. Don't agree with it now. Bryce Harper's fastball to the face made me realize it's a lethal weapon and there's no place to purposely got a player. But we were all unanimous in if you willingly choose to charge the mound, you automatically know you're out and out breaking the baseball law and getting ejected. Hitting a batter with a pitch in an era it was more tolerated and has plausible deniability cause it literally is under the guise of playing the game. Charging the mound leaves no question you have stopped playing the game and now on a one man personal vendetta. Even the guy charging the mound knows that. But, both sides knew and America knew that in a time when you could pluck a batter on the shoulder, not career threatening, and a guy comes storming at you, you're really technically just put in a position defending yourself. You're not charging the plate at the batter.
Ryan also based standing his ground after the last incident where a battery charged him and he tried to just get out the way, and ended up getting injured. So he made up his mind the next time a guy came at him, he was getting in his licks if he's going to get injured anyway.
Also, Ryan credits Bo Jackson for possibly saving his life during that brawl. Ryan was at the bottom of the pile and all the body weights pinched his breathing and he was about to pass out with no idea if he'd get oxygen in time to wake up again. But, Bo started throwing bodies off the dog pile later saying he sensed a man of Ryan's age at the bottom gave him a bad feeling. Ryan called Bo when he got home that night to thank him.
The fact Ryan says he almost might've bought the farm, then resumed pitching and got the win, madness.
But, he had a little guardian angel who was built like an Adonis God who remember played for the other team come in to be his knight in shining armor.
Bo knows how to save lives, baby!
Nolan Ryan said he almost passed out because he was under that pile with his face pressed in the dirt and couldn’t get a breath…then his buddy Bo Jackson snatched him up outta there
Haha I was hoping you would react to this one. 😂. I was a big white Sox fan as a boy, and Robin Ventura was a good player and good hitter. Him and Frank Thomas were very good hitters and made a good young core for the White Sox. It was pretty embarrassing that this happened.
Every guy who faced Ryan wanted to charge the mound. He was a headhunter. Only one guy did.
Ryan didn't get ejected because when he threw at Ventura, it was payback for Ryan's teammate getting hit in the previous inning. It's known as a purpose pitch.
One if the unwritten rules of baseball is the purpose pitch. It's been a part of the game for as long as baseball has been played.
The phrase, “Don’t Mess with Texas,” comes to mind.
This is awesome!! Love seeing this again 😂
Crazy moment 😂
Ryan had been pitching for like 25 years by this time and he didn’t just play for Texas, he is FROM Texas. No California kid like Ventura was going to intimidate an old school Texan like Nolan. This guy was throwing 100 mph in his 40’s! I used to watch him pitch in the 80’s with the Astros and you could hear him grunt with every pitch. Don’t Mess With Texas.
Is it Monday yet? I can’t wait for the next Ted Lasso reaction. But I’ll watch this while I wait 🤣.
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American kids learned three basic rules in those days: obey your parents, work hard in school, and never fight Nolan Ryan. So obvious.
Robin Ventura got booed every time announced in Arlington for the rest of his career because of this! Lol
I suggest Magic Johnson Highlights & Kirk Gibson 1988 World Series Homer!!
Nolan lived on a ranch in Alvin, TX; not too far from where I grew up; he worked his own ranch and cattle in the off-season and was known to have wrestled steers a time or two; someone told me he did a bit of bull riding, but I've never quite believed that.
my namesake, and the GOAT, Nolan Ryan 😎
I think if this happened today, Ryan would have been ejected too for sure. At this time, though, I think the thought was if Ventura hadn't charged the mound, there's no brawl, so he's the one who gets ejected.
I’m an Oakland A’s fan being from the SF Bay Area, but Nolan was such a badass then when my first daughter was born I gave her the middle name of Ryan. Women were even more heavily discriminated against 30 odd years ago and I wanted her to be able to submit a resume with a name that would give her a fighting chance. Pun intended.😊
It's an unspoken rule. If they hit you, you hit them back. Might not be today but sometime in the 3-4 game series their team will get hit.
I loved it when you wish Angel Hernandez a good retirement you've only been a baseball fan for 2 years and you already had the same response as everyone over here.
That was a great breakdown. The fact of the matter is that throwing at another player, wasn’t that big of a deal back then. It wasn’t a safety issue. You threw at a player to send a message to the rest of the team. Your punishment was giving up a base runner for free. However, the next guy who stands in the batters box is standing a little further off the plate. If you got ejected for just throwing at players, there was no point. The ejections come from the fights or after being warned. Now they consider it a safety issue. it didn’t used to be.
you guys need to watch the canada/mexico world baseball classic fight!
😂His breakdowns are great!
The only reason Nolan Ryan hit Robin Ventura with a pitch is because Nolan's teammate got hit by a White Sox pitcher earlier in the game. It was "tit-for-tat." Nolan evened the "score." It's "baseball justice." It's been part of baseball culture for many years; the "unwritten rules." Only a newbie to baseball would say something stupid like, "that's a mandatory ejection."
I remember watching this on ESPN Sports Center the night this happened
So Great !
Have you guys reacted to best manager ejections?
Those guys can hit a dime @20 meters. So 1%of hit by pitches is accidental
Robin Ventura is the ONLY player in history to get SIX hits off Nolan Ryan in a single game. 🤣
🤣🤣
Getting tossed is only automatic if the pitchers/teams have been warned about throwing at batters. There hadn't been a warning. Ventura got thrown out because charging the mound IS an automatic ejection. You can't throw Ryan out for basically defending himself....ESPECIALLY not in Texas lol.
More memorable in a Astros jersey
Embarrassing, and funny, that my team's 3rd basemen, and later, manager would charge the icon Ryan.
Nolan Ryan did not get ejected because he was defending himself, what is a defenseless old man to do? ;). It was the Alamo, Part II and Noan won.
Did Jomboy call Robin Ventura "Jesse Ventura" at the end there?
In the Netflix documentary Nolan said at the bottom of the scuffle he felt someone grab his jersey and pick him up with one arm, when he got out of the pile he realized it was Bo Jackson. Kind of a mutual respect there between Bo and Nolan. Nolan was a tough mf but he was not gonna throw at Bo. Also, Nolan wasn’t known for his accuracy, he had that heater and you had to keep in mind he could plunk you.
Yeah he was absolutely throwing at Ventura, but where he hit him is also important - basically in the upper arm/shoulder, which is the "nicest" way to hit somebody. He wasn't trying to hit him in the head or something dangerous like that. Well....he obviously went after the head eventually lol.
Thanks! The White Sox need more humiliation! 👍
Hey kid don’t think you can charge at the old man and not get put in a headlock with upper cuts coming at you!
Its only been standard since the soft generation. At this time if you hit a batter, which Chicago did, Chicago's first batter up next inning got hit, which they did..that was the RULE. And if you didn't like it and charged the mound you got tossed, which Ventura did. And sometimes took a beating, which he did, because pitchers are some of the biggest and strongest guys in baseball .most others are built more like soccer plays except some first basemen and dudes like Bo. So Ventura gone and Ryan still pitching is the correct decision in this era.
Rest in Peace to the "Say Hey kid" the Giants, and Baseballs beloved son: Willie Mays
The Original 5 tool player. 2 time MVP would be five if it was judged by todays standards. On the Mt Rushmore of baseball in my,and many others opinion Talk now of Him becoming the new "Logo" for MLB! Hes got my vote
Careful in their discord everybody, it’s full of snowflakes who think they own the English dictionary. If this comment gets removed, my point stands
how about a reaction video to David Hulse foul balls
Second! Big deal, right?
Huge deal! 😂
First one 🥇
Let’s go!
Easily the best pitcher of all time