0:00 Prologue - It's Only 30 Seconds 1:25 Chapter 1 - What Is A Knuckleball 9:00 Chapter 2 - The Astros Cheating Scandal 16:15 Chapter 3 - The Impact Of Human Error (In Baseball) 25:55 Chapter 4 - The 'Juice' Era 30:31 Outro
Even though I'm not that into sports, I actually love hearing you talk about it. The way you talk about sports shows me how passionate you are about it, and that makes it so interesting to listen to. It even makes me want to ask questions. When someone is passionate about something, I can listen to them talk about it all day, whether it's a topic I cared about prior or not. This stream was so fun and I look forward to the next one!
The reason why i loved this stream personally was seeing nagzz this enthusiastic about something he loves and it made the stream 100 times more enjoyable.
Its only fair that we get to see so the nerdy sports side of naggz after we share our interest of anime/manga culture. We should express interest in his hobbies as much he has expressed the passion and eagerness to learn about our hobbies/passion. Thank you nagzz21.
Hardcore baseball fan and also an anime fan is a rare breed and I love hearing Nagzz talk about it. Its such a weird overlap but its amazing for me since I love both of them as well, I hope you do more stuff like this in the future! I would love to see you and chat react to incredible baseball clips
The reason knuckleballs work is the same reason rifling makes bullets fly farther and more accurately. The rotational motion makes the projectile more aerodynamic, which reduces the influence of external air currents. Throwing the ball without making it spin is letting whatever natural air currents are present have that much more influence on the ball, which is what makes its trajectory almost random. EDIT: NFL BLITZ REFERENCE FROM NAGZZ? +1000
One thing I love is people going HAM on their passions. Seeing chat meming and "zzzzzz" to like completely into it was icing on the cake. I was completely engrossed the entire time!
Naggz probably wishes that was just his stream 😅 Seriously though, I think if he did even a weekly series like this and the other react content but just for sports, it would be really fun to watch.
I've never been into watching sports and being european I don't even know the rules of baseball. Despite that this was one of my favorite streams, I really hope we'll have another one in the future.
Not into sports, but its really nice seeing nagzz talking about what he's passionate about, the main reason why I stay and watched the whole video. I would definitely encourage for there to be a part 2
2:43 the text art here is amazing XD Thanks for this, it was actually interesting to learn a lot more about baseball, I haven't really watched a game since I was a kid. I just remember being a really big Rockies fan cause they were my home team. (I remember my family named our cat after Andrés Galaragga, who was our favorite player in the opening season)
Good day youtube frogs. I am here to remind you all that EVERY SINGLE METS GAME is streamed on the discord by Lyth. Join US in the beauty of the mets game, trolling nagzz, and the general banter that goes every time.
That was a really cool video. I grew up watching baseball with my grandmother, and seeing your enthusiasm kinda makes me want to check it out again. Coming from your anime/vtuber content, this was a fantastic little breath of fresh air. And I'm now subscribed to this channel, as well as Discovers.
I'm a huge baseball nerd. I follow major rules and get deep into stats and sabermetrics. This had me smiling the whole time. Oh, and as a Yankee fan, I feel obligated to say F*** THE ASTROS
Ngl, I found Nagzz during his original vrchat run but wasnt interested however I came back and fully came onboard when his vtuber discovers series began; and I could proudly say that whatever this man talks about I get very interested in it because of just the sheer passion and charisma that this man exudes whenever he talks, especially if it's about sports. I'm not a huge sports fan, and I am certainly not a fan of baseball at all, but this video was entertaining and fun all throughout. Nagzz enthusiasm and passion about the sport, added by his skillful way of story telling, just makes this a very damn well good video. Props to you Nagzz.
Really hope we get more content like this. I love all the other vids, but these mix ups, hearing his passion and excitement, it's just fun and entertaining
Always been a casual fan of baseball, was a genuine pleasure seeing you dedicate an upload on something you're passionate about and even helping me understand the sport more. You and your stream seem like such a fun wholesome community and one of these days I will make it to a stream.
Finally got time to watch this. You should definitely, if you want to, have more of this kind of content. It's very entertaining. And I love chat for letting Nagzz do this. Edit: *gasp!* This can be A SERIES!
Think this is my first comment on a Nagzz vid, but as someone who found him through the anime and vtuber vids, and also as a fellow Mets fan, I absolutely love this content from him. He is so enthusiastic and fired up about sports in in such a cool way, given what his majority content usually is. Love how he can just cover really any topic he is passionate about, and his personality shines through no matter the subject.
I love watching baseball but, admittedly, I know very little about stats and how most things work. I loved hearing you talk about it and, hopefully, you could make videos like this every once in a while
I'm not into sports at all, but the way to talk about it made it very interesting. I was listening intently and the video was over before I even knew 30 minutes had passed.
Oh damn now I wish I was here for this on the call to, I love talking about sports I could talk about it for hours since I’m a huge sports history buff
That disclaimer made me crack up, cause its extremely true lul. I also always laugh how when nagzz is looking for something he just repeats the word of what he's looking for over and over and over.
I don't mind this explanation video.... I Love it actually ! I love either learning new things that I would never care about otherwise, or watching someone explain as best as they can things that they like or are knowledgeable about
I will have to agree, this was a fantastic video. Back when I was in high school, I didn't care a single bit about baseball but my dad was glued to the TV and monitor screen for it. Becuz the TV and my pc was next to each other due to tight space, I had to watch/listen to the games he watches so much so the point that I actually understood how baseball works and would occasionally watch it with him just to see how the current match was going but I didn't care who was who. At one point, I knew which team belonged to which state/city and here's the best part my dad didn't understand a lick of English.
As I don't really enjoy watching sports this was really fun watch you explaining about baseball. I hope you do more of these videos they are really entertaining.
Ayooo, BASEBALL. Nice Nagzz, you makes me nostalgia. Those days when I watch my first ever proper, start to end, anime called Cross Game and on-going watchlist Major and Ace of Diamond. You just made me love baseball more, thanks my guy. Love watching chat going wild. Love seeing that. 🤣
The reason baseballs have movement is because of the seams. So when a knuckleball is thrown, the seams aren’t telling the ball where to go, and however the air pushes against the seams will determine where the ball goes. Something like that ⚾️
When Barry Bond came up to the plate, the pitcher’s world would grow darker, and infernal chanting mixed with a dark souls style orchestral suite with choir would begin blaring in their ears
I used to into NBA/NFL when I was a kid because it was what my dad/uncle/grandpa was into growing up. Seeing all these clips (especially the roids batters) brought back so much nostalgia.
When someone can be passionate about something, explain it, then anyone listening can enjoy it too. This is also why all sports anime (most anime really) can do a lot of explaining and still be entertaining.
I'm so disappointed, I missed the baseball stream. I just like Naggy Waggy grew up in the juice Era. During baseball season I rushed home from school to watch these monsters hit dingers.
Let's go Giants! Crazy to think even with Barry Bonds, the Giants didn't win a World Series until 2010. And they didn't even have Bonds then. Guess it goes to show a team needs to have good pitchers as well as hitters.
You know, its kind of fun to watch Nagzz get all excited over the sport he loves, even though he knows we literally don't give a shit. Well hey, at least he's happy.
Funny enough, had Nagzz used volleyball terminology to describe the knuckleball, and called it the baseball equivalent of a jump float serve, a large number of the chat would have understood instantly thanks to the popularity of a certain volleyball anime..
there's this "realistic" anime about baseball called "one outs" which basically cover's all the shitty stuff about sign stealing and explain all the baseball pitches and situation's fairly clear if anyone wanna watch it...
European football fan here, I definitely don’t know everything I should about baseball to properly relate, but I love Nagzz’s enthusiasm here, because I just know I would also be like that talking about European football 💪🏼⚾️⚽️
Being from eastern europe i never could get into baseball was just boring to me, but hearing Nagzz talking about it just makes me want to know everything about baseball
The only way I get into baseball is when I have to get 100% completion in the Yakuza games. In order to do this is to play the baseball minigame and it's tasks.
Nagzzs rant on Barry bonds just makes me think about how much of a monster someone like derrick Henry, an already otherworldly freak of a running back, would be with roids
Not a huge fan of sports...But I am a huge fan of seeing people ramble passionately about something they care a lot about... It made it easy to sit through this whole video. ^_^ A lot of it was actually interesting too.
For the Knuckleball part: You ever play the Baseball game in WiiSports? A is a fastball pitch, super fast but easy to track and hit. B is a Curveball, which is kinda fast but curves/breaks to confuse the batter a little A+B is Knuckleball, which was always super slow and had a weirdly harsh drop that always caught Player 2 offguard especially if you've established a rhythm by only using Fast/Curveballs for most of the game. Hope that helps, from a former Mets fan to my fellow weebs/shrimps
I'm wondering if Nagz is watching this season so far, and going "oh my god, the Mets are doing great this year!" and I'm just so sad for when the eventual heartbreak comes and destroys him when they choke at the end of season =/ Sincerely, a SF Giants fan (;
Oh he is. And so was chat during the eldin ring endurance month. If you check out one of the recent VODs on his twitch channel, you can actually see chat, for the first time ever, spam ZZZZ to ELDIN RING in favor of watching the legendary Mets comeback. We also had a thing basically saying nagzz was a mush (basically bad luck if he watches the game) because every time he couldn’t watch the game cus of eldin ring streams the Mets won. It’s even funnier when he made the realization that the last time the Mets won the World Series was the year before he was born lol.
nagHandsup I WAS THERE nagHandsup In all seriousness, I’m glad nagzz got to finally speak to chat and y’all youtube gang about something he’s really passionate about without chat constantly ZZZZZing him. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, if we are allowed to gush to nagzz about anime a whole bunch, then it’s only fair he should be allowed to gush about sports to us as well. nagHmm starting to think this “Pete Alonzo” guy might be best waifu material in nagzz’s book, need further research tho.
0:00 Prologue - It's Only 30 Seconds
1:25 Chapter 1 - What Is A Knuckleball
9:00 Chapter 2 - The Astros Cheating Scandal
16:15 Chapter 3 - The Impact Of Human Error (In Baseball)
25:55 Chapter 4 - The 'Juice' Era
30:31 Outro
Even though I'm not that into sports, I actually love hearing you talk about it. The way you talk about sports shows me how passionate you are about it, and that makes it so interesting to listen to. It even makes me want to ask questions. When someone is passionate about something, I can listen to them talk about it all day, whether it's a topic I cared about prior or not. This stream was so fun and I look forward to the next one!
Now that is an absolutely fantastic way of looking at things I appreciate your way of thinking, not gonna lie though wish I had more sports friends
For real
Nagzz should do these streams more often. You can really see the passion he has for sport when he is explaining everything, it amazing.
The reason why i loved this stream personally was seeing nagzz this enthusiastic about something he loves and it made the stream 100 times more enjoyable.
100% agree
"I swear I'm not cutting him off this is just how he talks" god I love Lemon
Its only fair that we get to see so the nerdy sports side of naggz after we share our interest of anime/manga culture. We should express interest in his hobbies as much he has expressed the passion and eagerness to learn about our hobbies/passion. Thank you nagzz21.
Hardcore baseball fan and also an anime fan is a rare breed and I love hearing Nagzz talk about it. Its such a weird overlap but its amazing for me since I love both of them as well, I hope you do more stuff like this in the future! I would love to see you and chat react to incredible baseball clips
The reason knuckleballs work is the same reason rifling makes bullets fly farther and more accurately. The rotational motion makes the projectile more aerodynamic, which reduces the influence of external air currents. Throwing the ball without making it spin is letting whatever natural air currents are present have that much more influence on the ball, which is what makes its trajectory almost random.
EDIT: NFL BLITZ REFERENCE FROM NAGZZ? +1000
One thing I love is people going HAM on their passions. Seeing chat meming and "zzzzzz" to like completely into it was icing on the cake. I was completely engrossed the entire time!
This makes me feel like Nagzz should have an occasional podcast just to talk about things he is enthusiastic about.
Naggz probably wishes that was just his stream 😅
Seriously though, I think if he did even a weekly series like this and the other react content but just for sports, it would be really fun to watch.
I've never been into watching sports and being european I don't even know the rules of baseball. Despite that this was one of my favorite streams, I really hope we'll have another one in the future.
Not into sports, but its really nice seeing nagzz talking about what he's passionate about, the main reason why I stay and watched the whole video. I would definitely encourage for there to be a part 2
As one of 5 of your fans that’s into sports and VTubers, I love that you cover this stuff
Clickbait title,Nagzz's chat watches every game of the Mets nagWeird
Sports, chat go Zzzzzzzzzzz, this stream actually got me into watching baseball, thank you naggz.
2:43 the text art here is amazing XD
Thanks for this, it was actually interesting to learn a lot more about baseball, I haven't really watched a game since I was a kid. I just remember being a really big Rockies fan cause they were my home team. (I remember my family named our cat after Andrés Galaragga, who was our favorite player in the opening season)
Good day youtube frogs.
I am here to remind you all that EVERY SINGLE METS GAME is streamed on the discord by Lyth. Join US in the beauty of the mets game, trolling nagzz, and the general banter that goes every time.
next game is in 30
That was a really cool video. I grew up watching baseball with my grandmother, and seeing your enthusiasm kinda makes me want to check it out again. Coming from your anime/vtuber content, this was a fantastic little breath of fresh air. And I'm now subscribed to this channel, as well as Discovers.
I'm a huge baseball nerd. I follow major rules and get deep into stats and sabermetrics. This had me smiling the whole time.
Oh, and as a Yankee fan, I feel obligated to say F*** THE ASTROS
Ngl, I found Nagzz during his original vrchat run but wasnt interested however I came back and fully came onboard when his vtuber discovers series began; and I could proudly say that whatever this man talks about I get very interested in it because of just the sheer passion and charisma that this man exudes whenever he talks, especially if it's about sports.
I'm not a huge sports fan, and I am certainly not a fan of baseball at all, but this video was entertaining and fun all throughout. Nagzz enthusiasm and passion about the sport, added by his skillful way of story telling, just makes this a very damn well good video.
Props to you Nagzz.
Really hope we get more content like this. I love all the other vids, but these mix ups, hearing his passion and excitement, it's just fun and entertaining
Always been a casual fan of baseball, was a genuine pleasure seeing you dedicate an upload on something you're passionate about and even helping me understand the sport more. You and your stream seem like such a fun wholesome community and one of these days I will make it to a stream.
as a baseball fan i really enjoyed his eagerness to talk about it i hope he does this more often for videos
U make me wanna become a sports fan. Like the way you describe everything so a shut in weeb can understand is a feat on it's own. Very cool Nagzz
Finally got time to watch this. You should definitely, if you want to, have more of this kind of content. It's very entertaining. And I love chat for letting Nagzz do this.
Edit: *gasp!* This can be A SERIES!
Yoooo I'd love to see more sports content.
But be warned. Teaching chat sports memes is gonna be really dangerous lmao
DUDE. Imagine sports memes but injected with the same energy and autism as gaming memes.
Think this is my first comment on a Nagzz vid, but as someone who found him through the anime and vtuber vids, and also as a fellow Mets fan, I absolutely love this content from him. He is so enthusiastic and fired up about sports in in such a cool way, given what his majority content usually is. Love how he can just cover really any topic he is passionate about, and his personality shines through no matter the subject.
Fav Nagzz video so far. I loved the passion.
I love watching baseball but, admittedly, I know very little about stats and how most things work. I loved hearing you talk about it and, hopefully, you could make videos like this every once in a while
I learn more about baseball from nagzz than anything in tv. Thakyou nagzz, you da man
I'm not into sports at all, but the way to talk about it made it very interesting. I was listening intently and the video was over before I even knew 30 minutes had passed.
I’m not a sports guy in the slightest, but hearing Nagzz talk about it so enthusiastically makes it so enjoyable to watch and listen to
A century ago, two brothers decided it was possible to fly. And as you can see, they were Wright.
🛩
Thank you for the baseball lessons, I now have something to talk to my brother about. You're the best Nagzz
Oh damn now I wish I was here for this on the call to, I love talking about sports I could talk about it for hours since I’m a huge sports history buff
Its actually really cool to see Nagzz in his element and teaching us things for once, and I admire the amount of passion he clearly has for baseball.
Nagzz talking about the bad call no hitter feels like how us Pats fans feel about the tuck rule
That disclaimer made me crack up, cause its extremely true lul. I also always laugh how when nagzz is looking for something he just repeats the word of what he's looking for over and over and over.
Yooo the boss parry analogy was actually perfect though 😮
I need more "Nagzz talks passionately about stuff he likes" videos !
I don't mind this explanation video.... I Love it actually ! I love either learning new things that I would never care about otherwise, or watching someone explain as best as they can things that they like or are knowledgeable about
I will have to agree, this was a fantastic video. Back when I was in high school, I didn't care a single bit about baseball but my dad was glued to the TV and monitor screen for it. Becuz the TV and my pc was next to each other due to tight space, I had to watch/listen to the games he watches so much so the point that I actually understood how baseball works and would occasionally watch it with him just to see how the current match was going but I didn't care who was who. At one point, I knew which team belonged to which state/city and here's the best part my dad didn't understand a lick of English.
Thanks for sharing your passion for sports with us! This video was a lot of fun and I learnt quite a bit!
bro I don't understand almost nothing about baseball but watching someone talking about what they are a nerd on is so fun, thanks for the video
This was a great segment we need more of these
As I don't really enjoy watching sports this was really fun watch you explaining about baseball. I hope you do more of these videos they are really entertaining.
I love the clip of someone intentionally walking Bonds during a home run derby
Ayooo, BASEBALL. Nice Nagzz, you makes me nostalgia. Those days when I watch my first ever proper, start to end, anime called Cross Game and on-going watchlist Major and Ace of Diamond. You just made me love baseball more, thanks my guy.
Love watching chat going wild. Love seeing that. 🤣
The reason baseballs have movement is because of the seams. So when a knuckleball is thrown, the seams aren’t telling the ball where to go, and however the air pushes against the seams will determine where the ball goes. Something like that ⚾️
As a baseball and anime fan we should get Nagzz to read this manga about a dude who gets isekaid and uses baseball to save the world
Love the passion Nagzz has for this, but not going to lie... this helped me falling asleep asap
(applause/clapping at the end woke me up tho)
This was fun to watch. He is so passionate about sports it's infectious
11:20 The parry god relating to baseball xD perfect example honestly
Passionate explanation is THE BEST explanation 👌
Pls do more of this NAGZZZZ
When Barry Bond came up to the plate, the pitcher’s world would grow darker, and infernal chanting mixed with a dark souls style orchestral suite with choir would begin blaring in their ears
I honestly feel like I'm watching a documentary but it's actually interesting, wtf?😂
I used to into NBA/NFL when I was a kid because it was what my dad/uncle/grandpa was into growing up. Seeing all these clips (especially the roids batters) brought back so much nostalgia.
When someone can be passionate about something, explain it, then anyone listening can enjoy it too. This is also why all sports anime (most anime really) can do a lot of explaining and still be entertaining.
Since I love Adachi Mitsuru's sports manga especially the baseball ones, this is actually helpful and makes me appreciate the manga more lmao.
2:00 Desk kun -30 hp
10:24 Desk kun -20 hp
11:35 hit 2 times, Desk kun -20 hp
Not a sports fan, but this was interesting. I too remember hearing about Toby and not caring. KEKW
pitching against Bonds in the day is like, facing a aim bot on COD
I'm so disappointed, I missed the baseball stream. I just like Naggy Waggy grew up in the juice Era. During baseball season I rushed home from school to watch these monsters hit dingers.
Let's go Giants! Crazy to think even with Barry Bonds, the Giants didn't win a World Series until 2010. And they didn't even have Bonds then. Guess it goes to show a team needs to have good pitchers as well as hitters.
Im not a sports guy but watching Nagzz talk about it is very interesting!
Baxter went out in glory. He probably thinking "DAMN IT WHY NOW DAMN IT" but there was a timeliness he as forgotten because he dropped the ball
Barry Bonds really was the Hulk of baseball I can't believe it, BREAKS THE BAT AND _STILL_ GETS A HOMERUN!
You know, its kind of fun to watch Nagzz get all excited over the sport he loves, even though he knows we literally don't give a shit. Well hey, at least he's happy.
Funny enough, had Nagzz used volleyball terminology to describe the knuckleball, and called it the baseball equivalent of a jump float serve, a large number of the chat would have understood instantly thanks to the popularity of a certain volleyball anime..
Actually, Nagzz should really watch Haikyuu.
This was really interesting to watch! Baseball isn't really a thing where I'm from, so it's nice to learn about it.
I really cant wait for the next sports stream. Nagzz might think we'll find it boring but everyone will assure him it wont
there's this "realistic" anime about baseball called "one outs" which basically cover's all the shitty stuff about sign stealing and explain all the baseball pitches and situation's fairly clear if anyone wanna watch it...
The hivemind is the Barry Bonds of Twitch
I’m not really a Baseball Fan but that Pitcher’s gotten a Perfect Game. Dude deserves that W.
I'm glad he had fun talking about this. And I learned something
You being enthusiastic about this, is the best
European football fan here, I definitely don’t know everything I should about baseball to properly relate, but I love Nagzz’s enthusiasm here, because I just know I would also be like that talking about European football 💪🏼⚾️⚽️
Being from eastern europe i never could get into baseball was just boring to me, but hearing Nagzz talking about it just makes me want to know everything about baseball
Nagzz being a baseball guy makes me happy. Him being a Mets fan, not so much. At least he’s not a dodger fan and that is all that matters
The only way I get into baseball is when I have to get 100% completion in the Yakuza games. In order to do this is to play the baseball minigame and it's tasks.
Nagzzs rant on Barry bonds just makes me think about how much of a monster someone like derrick Henry, an already otherworldly freak of a running back, would be with roids
Not a huge fan of sports...But I am a huge fan of seeing people ramble passionately about something they care a lot about... It made it easy to sit through this whole video. ^_^ A lot of it was actually interesting too.
Chat really has to let Nagzz talk a little sports every once in awhile. He enjoys it so much!
Thanks nagzz, chat and lemon for the vid
For someone in the UK that knows nothing about baseball. That was pretty fun and actually educational.
Damn it. Nagzz tricked me into thinking about sports Sadge.
Can't believe the Mets pitched a no hitter the day this video came out lol
Today's chapter: Chat discoverz
Honestly, this was super fun and I hope he wins this as a bet so he can do this again...
For the Knuckleball part:
You ever play the Baseball game in WiiSports?
A is a fastball pitch, super fast but easy to track and hit.
B is a Curveball, which is kinda fast but curves/breaks to confuse the batter a little
A+B is Knuckleball, which was always super slow and had a weirdly harsh drop that always caught Player 2 offguard especially if you've established a rhythm by only using Fast/Curveballs for most of the game.
Hope that helps, from a former Mets fan to my fellow weebs/shrimps
I'm wondering if Nagz is watching this season so far, and going "oh my god, the Mets are doing great this year!" and I'm just so sad for when the eventual heartbreak comes and destroys him when they choke at the end of season =/
Sincerely, a SF Giants fan (;
Oh he is. And so was chat during the eldin ring endurance month. If you check out one of the recent VODs on his twitch channel, you can actually see chat, for the first time ever, spam ZZZZ to ELDIN RING in favor of watching the legendary Mets comeback. We also had a thing basically saying nagzz was a mush (basically bad luck if he watches the game) because every time he couldn’t watch the game cus of eldin ring streams the Mets won. It’s even funnier when he made the realization that the last time the Mets won the World Series was the year before he was born lol.
Hey nagzz, thanks for the 30 minute sleep, really needed that!
im not a sports fan but i felt the hype of the sport whit you hype i loved it and it will be cool if you make more videos like this
Directions to Knuckle Ball unclear, I snapped my wrist off and the ball spun backwards Sadge
nagHandsup I WAS THERE nagHandsup
In all seriousness, I’m glad nagzz got to finally speak to chat and y’all youtube gang about something he’s really passionate about without chat constantly ZZZZZing him. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, if we are allowed to gush to nagzz about anime a whole bunch, then it’s only fair he should be allowed to gush about sports to us as well.
nagHmm starting to think this “Pete Alonzo” guy might be best waifu material in nagzz’s book, need further research tho.
Only in America where they have a tournament with "World series" in the name but only have teams from one country participate.
next arc will go full circle with nagzz watching One Outs
love Nagzz talking sports
As a redsox fan, I grew up watching Tim Wakefield do that and it was wild. I used to try and do that throwing wiffle balls, very tricky
Kinda wanna see Nagzz do some sports thing once in a while. Hoping chat will give it a chance.