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  • @FoolishBaseball
    @FoolishBaseball  4 ปีที่แล้ว +308

    bla bla bla you know the deal www.patreon.com/foolishbaseball

    • @BloodoperaBlackvomit
      @BloodoperaBlackvomit 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I joined. Thx for the great content.

    • @FoolishBaseball
      @FoolishBaseball  4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@BloodoperaBlackvomit Really appreciate that!

    • @batoff99
      @batoff99 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I joined also

    • @teamblairtahoerealestate-c5871
      @teamblairtahoerealestate-c5871 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Same

    • @paysonfox88
      @paysonfox88 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      What is your name -- I'd like to know which Brave's player you were in 2001 man.
      Good Going! Great to hear a former MLB player become a successful youtuber.

  • @brunoemf90
    @brunoemf90 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2397

    According to Reddit, FB was 24 years old in 2019. So he played for the Braves at the ripe age of... 6. What a story.

    • @FoolishBaseball
      @FoolishBaseball  4 ปีที่แล้ว +1193

      It really is quite the accomplishment.

    • @NathanJakobMichaelThomas
      @NathanJakobMichaelThomas 4 ปีที่แล้ว +229

      Foolish Baseball well I played on the Red Sox at the ripe old age of -18.

    • @johnosbron5311
      @johnosbron5311 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.

    • @kygem
      @kygem 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      thats what happens when ur a young prodigy

    • @SvendleBerries
      @SvendleBerries 4 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      Thats a very large 6 year old as well. He must have eaten his Wheaties!

  • @hachi9832
    @hachi9832 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1593

    "Everyone in this story's dead. Except Craig Kimbrel."
    RIP Derek Jeter

    • @wiskeeamazingdancer4964
      @wiskeeamazingdancer4964 4 ปีที่แล้ว +179

      And Foolish Baseball rip

    • @hachi9832
      @hachi9832 4 ปีที่แล้ว +120

      Baseball was a dangerous sport in 2001. First Jeter, now Foolish?

    • @Reneg3r
      @Reneg3r 4 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      RIP Graeme Lloyd

    • @lockdownhighlights6621
      @lockdownhighlights6621 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      3 Homer games th-cam.com/video/uxcXYnxHLDk/w-d-xo.html

    • @calebos268
      @calebos268 4 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      8:05 rip everyone watching this video

  • @felixbabe6215
    @felixbabe6215 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1173

    Number of Cy Young Awards Cy Young won: 0
    Number of Cy Young Awards Bartolo Colon won: 1
    Bartolo > Cy Young

    • @FoolishBaseball
      @FoolishBaseball  4 ปีที่แล้ว +333

      really makes u think

    • @jrob1059
      @jrob1059 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      Sound logic there

    • @marcus3704able
      @marcus3704able 4 ปีที่แล้ว +102

      Just name it the Bartolo Colon Award

    • @pedrohenriquez1970
      @pedrohenriquez1970 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@marcus3704able technically, Bartolo wouldn't win his own award as just happened with Cy Young.

    • @brunoemf90
      @brunoemf90 4 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      Should change the name to Humongous Seductive Award.

  • @breezy1151
    @breezy1151 4 ปีที่แล้ว +469

    10:09 "Everyone in this story is dead..." FB mentions himself during the video, confirming the Atlanta Braves attempted to cover up their 6 year old phenom drowning from a Gatorade shower after a walkoff homer.

  • @henryeichner6762
    @henryeichner6762 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1215

    “Thankfully, Old Hoss did the wise thing and died.” This channel is the anti-boredom mechanism.

    • @FoolishBaseball
      @FoolishBaseball  4 ปีที่แล้ว +231

      Really good move from Old Hoss

    • @aidancooke2352
      @aidancooke2352 4 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      that line legitimately made me laugh aloud to myself. I don't do that a lot

    • @SvendleBerries
      @SvendleBerries 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Old Hoss knew what was up. "I already pitched every game to win once. Im sitting this one out permanently, fam."

    • @noah_that_bills_fan1613
      @noah_that_bills_fan1613 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@FoolishBaseball agreed

    • @andrewschaeffer5241
      @andrewschaeffer5241 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I laughed audibly when he said that

  • @geosultan4
    @geosultan4 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    RIP Cleveland Spiders, you would have loved the 2024 White Sox

  • @nathaniellevesque2782
    @nathaniellevesque2782 4 ปีที่แล้ว +353

    The Spiders' record for road losses is literally unbreakable. As teams are limited on how many road games they can play each season, as long as that doesn't change, the Spiders' record can't even be approached.

    • @Compucles
      @Compucles 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      What about unusual situations like when the Montreal Expos only played something like a quarter of their games in Montreal in 2004 before moving to Washington? Heck, the Blue Jays don't technically have a single home game this season in 2020, although there's only 60 of them compared to the usual 81 road games.

    • @Kerrmunism
      @Kerrmunism 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      How the tables have turned

    • @furioussherman7265
      @furioussherman7265 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      2021 Arizona Diamondbacks: *Allow us to introduce ourselves*

    • @nathaniellevesque2782
      @nathaniellevesque2782 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@furioussherman7265 you know I'm talking about total road losses in a season, not road losing streaks?

    • @kraai98
      @kraai98 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@nathaniellevesque2782 I think he's saying that attendance is so low that it's basically an away game. Seems like there are more away than home fans at Chase these days

  • @kidcrumpet3333
    @kidcrumpet3333 4 ปีที่แล้ว +291

    Cy young never won a cy young award what a bad player

    • @SuperNuclearUnicorn
      @SuperNuclearUnicorn 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      I'm sure those HOF voters checked all his sabermetrics though

    • @CBielski87
      @CBielski87 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      him and that loser, Nolan Ryan

    • @6thwilbury2331
      @6thwilbury2331 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      I was proud to hear him say that... it has been a little running joke of mine for a while: "Cy Young wasn't that good... he never even won the Cy Young Award."
      Sort of similar to "Lou Gehrig died of Lou Gehrig's disease because, like, duh, obviously... his parents totally doomed him when they named him Lou."

    • @KororaPenguin
      @KororaPenguin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I don't think Alfred Nobel ever won a Nobel prize, either.

  • @dingers5days
    @dingers5days 4 ปีที่แล้ว +208

    I read the book about the 1899 Spiders titled “Misfits!” and I recommend it (although it may be out of print). The best story has to be the one where Frank Robison wires Lave Cross and states “We are not here to win games”. Yes, he really said that!

    • @FoolishBaseball
      @FoolishBaseball  4 ปีที่แล้ว +76

      Haha that's great! On par with Mark McGwire's "I'm not here to talk about the past."

    • @SuperNuclearUnicorn
      @SuperNuclearUnicorn 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@FoolishBaseball we talkin bout practice?

  • @SadMarinersFan
    @SadMarinersFan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +173

    "Old Hoss did the right thing and died in 1897"
    That got a good laugh out of me. Thank you baseball man.

    • @FoolishBaseball
      @FoolishBaseball  4 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      Thank you, comment man

    • @JWex-jy7sk
      @JWex-jy7sk 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @Andrew Behrend Lol I literally found this comment at the exact time he was saying it 😂

  • @6thwilbury2331
    @6thwilbury2331 4 ปีที่แล้ว +92

    The standings at 12:01 are interesting: eight of the 12 teams had winning records (with Louisville only two games below .500) because Cleveland swallowed up such a disproportionate number of the total losses.

    • @TheManny717
      @TheManny717 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Not to mention... Pincinnati.

  • @dannyphantom47
    @dannyphantom47 4 ปีที่แล้ว +345

    “I played for the Braves in 2001.” Something’s not adding up...

    • @raishauntanner4206
      @raishauntanner4206 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      He is Spooneybarger

    • @aidancooke2352
      @aidancooke2352 4 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      yeah the braves didnt win the WS that year. maybe he meant '95?

    • @lockdownhighlights6621
      @lockdownhighlights6621 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      3 Homer games th-cam.com/video/uxcXYnxHLDk/w-d-xo.html

    • @JWex-jy7sk
      @JWex-jy7sk 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @Raishaun Tanner Hold up is this narrator really Tim Spooneybarger???

    • @raishauntanner4206
      @raishauntanner4206 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      1997 Mtw crazy, right?

  • @Sam_on_YouTube
    @Sam_on_YouTube 4 ปีที่แล้ว +240

    I would love to see a Jon Bois style documentary on each of these 20 wins.

    • @FoolishBaseball
      @FoolishBaseball  4 ปีที่แล้ว +209

      They should call it Pretty Bad

    • @Karmy.
      @Karmy. 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@FoolishBaseball great idea of a new series about historically bad seasons!

    • @watchdogshighlights635
      @watchdogshighlights635 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I would too

    • @RicardoAGuitar
      @RicardoAGuitar 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Boisbots are annoying

    • @Karmy.
      @Karmy. 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@RicardoAGuitar ?

  • @calumrf0211
    @calumrf0211 4 ปีที่แล้ว +493

    Foolish Baseball x Jon Bois is something we need, it would be pretty good....

    • @FoolishBaseball
      @FoolishBaseball  4 ปีที่แล้ว +270

      It would be, uh, Baseball Bits

    • @nolansnotepad
      @nolansnotepad 4 ปีที่แล้ว +77

      It would be Pretty Good Baseball Bits, how about that

    • @sporer_
      @sporer_ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +64

      We’d have also accepted “it would be Pretty Foolish”

    • @OhNoBruno
      @OhNoBruno 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Bois is terrible now.

    • @ezralebowitz3371
      @ezralebowitz3371 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      @@OhNoBruno the mariners series was phenomenal

  • @NickPoeschek
    @NickPoeschek 4 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    I love those old-timey names like the Perfectos and Superbas.

    • @RetepAdam
      @RetepAdam 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      And Pincinnati

  • @GarrettJonesBroadcasting
    @GarrettJonesBroadcasting 4 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    This makes me feel a lot better about my 115-loss rebuilding squad on OOTP

  • @antonmcCl
    @antonmcCl 4 ปีที่แล้ว +101

    FB: The team that lost 134 games
    My T-ball team: “Finally, a video about us!”

    • @FoolishBaseball
      @FoolishBaseball  4 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      Losers need representation too!

    • @trake4440
      @trake4440 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      oH BOy WOO HOo

  • @FuzzyFromYT
    @FuzzyFromYT 4 ปีที่แล้ว +278

    3-1

    • @FoolishBaseball
      @FoolishBaseball  4 ปีที่แล้ว +143

      20-134

    • @shanghaicj821
      @shanghaicj821 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hello king 👑

    • @shoukatsukai
      @shoukatsukai 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      0-16

    • @jupjow5808
      @jupjow5808 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      3-1 leads giveth 3-1 leads taketh

    • @ianwagner1698
      @ianwagner1698 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Those are words of beauty over here in Chicago

  • @edalder2000
    @edalder2000 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    I first heard of the 1899 Spiders in a book from over 20 years ago called, "On a Clear Day, They Could See 7th Place." But this laid out how awful The Spiders were.
    After the 1899 season, the ownership of two teams was banned. 4 teams were also contracted. Cleveland and Baltimore were among them.

    • @FoolishBaseball
      @FoolishBaseball  4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Yeah Cleveland certainly weren't the only club in deep financial trouble at the time.

    • @edalder2000
      @edalder2000 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@FoolishBaseball BTW if you can find "On a Clear Day..." it's great. The Phillies appear twice. The '62 Mets appear. Sadly The 1988 Orioles do as well. I grew up near Baltimore and remember the '88 Orioles.

    • @cedricgist7614
      @cedricgist7614 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      As I understand it, conflict of interest also existed between Brooklyn and Baltimore and Pittsburgh and Louisville.

    • @nathanrodriguez8125
      @nathanrodriguez8125 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Weirdly enough, only one of those teams to fold - the Louisville Colonels - never had another team replace them in that city (the Spiders had the Guardians, the Senators had two teams also named the Senators - both of whom left to become the Twins and Rangers, respectively - and the Nationals, and the Orioles had two teams also named the Orioles - the original one who are now the Yankees and the current one). It’s just weird to see that

  • @yourfamilydocter
    @yourfamilydocter 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Can't wait for the follow up to this video featuring the 🧦s

  • @Verlisify
    @Verlisify 4 ปีที่แล้ว +297

    "Old Hoss did the wise thing and died" is the most savage line in a sports video

    • @baseballislife4195
      @baseballislife4195 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Never imagined this guy liking baseball but that’s cool

    • @Kutturama
      @Kutturama 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@baseballislife4195 ikr

    • @tylerhartley5031
      @tylerhartley5031 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@baseballislife4195 I feel like people who don’t like baseball is people who never watched it but they should definitely give it a try because as soon you do start watching it there’s no turning back and that’s a good thing

  • @zachnatural2450
    @zachnatural2450 4 ปีที่แล้ว +63

    So is no one gonna talk about how Chicago’s team in 1898 was literally named the Orphans?

    • @JWex-jy7sk
      @JWex-jy7sk 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Zach Natural Well actually in 1898 it was okay to name a baseball team that.
      We don’t know why though???

    • @jefffinkbonner9551
      @jefffinkbonner9551 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      The Brooklyn *Bridegrooms*

    • @BillHFA
      @BillHFA 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I had the same thought! lol

    • @MrSleepy677
      @MrSleepy677 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That team did became the Loveable Losers after a name change.

    • @TryPuttingItInRice
      @TryPuttingItInRice 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Sounds like a name someone would make their Diamond Dynasty team lol

  • @matrix3509
    @matrix3509 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Thanks for covering more of pre-20th Century baseball. It often feels like the "here be dragons" era.

  • @LSDcrackers226
    @LSDcrackers226 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Me: hears "Ipswich"
    Me: omg a mlb player from my hometown no way!
    Me: hears "Queensland"
    Me: oh...oh well that's cool too

  • @KingKRool-oc4ln
    @KingKRool-oc4ln 4 ปีที่แล้ว +76

    This team was just a AAA team in the mlb

    • @emiliovilla2286
      @emiliovilla2286 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      AA team*

    • @jacksonpalmer8955
      @jacksonpalmer8955 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Fam this was my T-ball team in the MLB

    • @yankees2864
      @yankees2864 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Emilio Villa * Rookie Ball

    • @IIIJDubsIII
      @IIIJDubsIII 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Esports team playing actual baseball*

  • @SJZach
    @SJZach 4 ปีที่แล้ว +92

    Still a better win percentage than the 2017 Browns

  • @someguyik
    @someguyik 4 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    "We're not Detroit!"

    • @FoolishBaseball
      @FoolishBaseball  4 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      ...we're not Detroit!

    • @chicagoakland
      @chicagoakland 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      2003 Detroit Tigers: "We're not Cleveland!"

    • @andrewpestotnik5495
      @andrewpestotnik5495 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@chicagoakland you're right, they're worse lol

    • @cajunboi4888
      @cajunboi4888 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Still not Detroit!

  • @TheChosenOne66501
    @TheChosenOne66501 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Scoring the winning run against Boston on July 1st, 1899 was such a great time. We celebrated hard after that one

  • @griffinjmiller28
    @griffinjmiller28 4 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    When the cleveland commercial played i knew what was about to go down

    • @FoolishBaseball
      @FoolishBaseball  4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      COME ON DOWN TO CLEVELAND TOWN EVERYONE

    • @griffinjmiller28
      @griffinjmiller28 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      OUR BASEBALL TEAM WON ONLY 20 GAMES

    • @shoukatsukai
      @shoukatsukai 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      SEE OUR STADIUM THAT ATTRACTS NO FANS
      ITS SO ABANDONED THAT NO ONE WANTS TO PLAY HERE

    • @augusthoyt8447
      @augusthoyt8447 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      What a great team!

    • @augusthoyt8447
      @augusthoyt8447 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      To win a whole 20 games!

  • @agentdub3366
    @agentdub3366 4 ปีที่แล้ว +156

    Makes me feel like the pirates are good!

    • @ob_gynkenobi4014
      @ob_gynkenobi4014 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      It's a hard life us Pirates fan live, baseball wise that is

    • @FoolishBaseball
      @FoolishBaseball  4 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      Pittsburgh Alleghenys still gonna get called out though.

    • @AthHendrix
      @AthHendrix 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Don't worry that feeling will pass

    • @bripbleu6561
      @bripbleu6561 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      He’s just ripping on the burgh... :/

    • @lziv7583
      @lziv7583 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      0:27 still 4 below .500 😂

  • @alexaj19960814
    @alexaj19960814 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    The picture you used for Jack Powell was accidentally printed on his Ramly baseball card. It is actually a picture of his teammate Harry Howell. Howell would later go on to be involved in the 1910 batting title scandal, which is another interesting story.

  • @mcsweatshop
    @mcsweatshop 4 ปีที่แล้ว +96

    The standings at 0:27 and the Pirates are still 4 games under .500 😂

    • @FoolishBaseball
      @FoolishBaseball  4 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      Some things never change

    • @alvizothegreat8096
      @alvizothegreat8096 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Then the Pirates won three straight pennant starting in 1901

  • @Stop_arguing_with_strangers
    @Stop_arguing_with_strangers 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Knowing you’re on a bad team is tough in any sport, but that feeling after an elusive win is indescribable.

  • @DFCwastaken
    @DFCwastaken 4 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    A surprising return of the Bob Wickman Calendar!

    • @FoolishBaseball
      @FoolishBaseball  4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      I knew I still had that thing somewhere.

    • @Panda-wv3ng
      @Panda-wv3ng 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Foolish Baseball there was no prominent seductive at the end :(

    • @joshcrosby
      @joshcrosby 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Missed this joke in the past apparently. Can someone explain it to me? Saw Bob Wickman and was very confused haha

    • @ajwootz8165
      @ajwootz8165 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@joshcrosby in a previous video he had a bob wickman calender but at the end there was a picture of bartolo colon and foolish got a little mad

    • @alexvratsanos5227
      @alexvratsanos5227 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ajwootz8165 Also just looked it up, Wickman and Graeme Lloyd were traded for each other, allowing Lloyd to have the playoff run FB mentioned. Nice touch.

  • @daleftuprightatsoldierfield
    @daleftuprightatsoldierfield 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    2024 White Sox: Hold my Malört

    • @philip863
      @philip863 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Welp, still finished not the worst

  • @mkadoza
    @mkadoza 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That you so much Foolish for everything you do. The research, editing, soundtrack are all AAA quality. No speed runs through your content! Love you dude!

  • @MrShadowStalker
    @MrShadowStalker 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    That's some Aussie history that I never knew before. Thanks for that, keep the content up! Fan from the land down under.

  • @scottxjared
    @scottxjared 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Your new videos are always an instant watch for me! And youve awoken a fascination for old timey baseball that I never knew I had. Like the story of the guy who got shipped off to Louisville back when transportation wasn't nearly as easy as today. These stories are so great and I want to know even more!

  • @wilsonli5642
    @wilsonli5642 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    "In some ways, losing so much just makes winning that much sweeter." This, right here, is what being a sports fan is all about.

    • @shoukatsukai
      @shoukatsukai 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Unless me being an Astros fan .-.

  • @frenchfrey65
    @frenchfrey65 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I absolutely LOVE you for that Cleveland Tourism video! And this is one of those baseball subjects that I know about! Very glad you're bringing them to light!

  • @iDaCarrot115
    @iDaCarrot115 4 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    Me, an Indians fan: “Huh I wonder what this video is about”
    Video: “Fun times in Cleveland today-“
    Me: (。ŏ﹏ŏ)

  • @paulbaeza7
    @paulbaeza7 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    “He has a glue stick early on but he was shipped to the Perfectos” thanks for the laugh on that one Baseball boi

  • @bg2e
    @bg2e 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Spiders were tanking 110+ years before it was cool.

  • @Dunk24
    @Dunk24 4 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    Aye Baltimore was second feels decades but they were good like 6 years ago

    • @FoolishBaseball
      @FoolishBaseball  4 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      Manny Machado was really good for those 1898 Orioles.

    • @shoukatsukai
      @shoukatsukai 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Manny Machado was injured when the Orioles lost to the Rangers 30-3

    • @watchdogshighlights635
      @watchdogshighlights635 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      But that was six years ago

    • @jacknewark5040
      @jacknewark5040 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hey... those Orioles went on to become... the Yankees.

    • @johnosbron5311
      @johnosbron5311 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      And then the Orioles didn’t put Zack Britton in the Wild Card game and they were never good again... 😔

  • @masonschreiber3252
    @masonschreiber3252 4 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    “National League”...”that’s a dumb name for a league it’s never going to last”

  • @alexw0310
    @alexw0310 ปีที่แล้ว

    I've been rewatching a bunch of old episodes lately and I think this might be the best video on your channel

  • @ethansprague2005
    @ethansprague2005 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Orioles: finally a worthy opponent, our battle will be legendary!

  • @emorimiku
    @emorimiku 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    rewatching old Baseball Bits is my favorite way of recovering from an anxiety episode

  • @evanbeckett6216
    @evanbeckett6216 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    That last story really makes you realize how much you’d take even crappy, disappointing baseball over nothing. Even the meaningless win they had against Boston was worth so much to those fans. I’d do anything to watch some baseball right now even if my team goes 0-however many games they play this year

    • @cedricgist7614
      @cedricgist7614 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Nah, you wouldn't want to experience such futility. However, I can understand the void you're dealing with right now.

  • @gabepollock1641
    @gabepollock1641 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The content on this channel feels like a hybrid of Bill Wurtz’s humor and Jon Bois’ sporting interests. I love it.

  • @nate_kang
    @nate_kang 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    3:07 I'm 99% certain that's not actually Jack Powell, but rather Harry *Howell,* who was another pitcher from the era

  • @blantant
    @blantant 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That intro deserve some sort of reward. Sublime

  • @anthonychapman3129
    @anthonychapman3129 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    I’m a simple man I see a foolish baseball vid I click

  • @Andy-iq9pz
    @Andy-iq9pz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    0:27 can I point out that Boston are called the beaneaters. What a legendary name lmao

  • @ryanmack7781
    @ryanmack7781 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I really thought this was a Stark Raving Sports video till I saw the graphics

    • @FoolishBaseball
      @FoolishBaseball  4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      This is definitely a topic they'd do.

  • @HellaHelgi
    @HellaHelgi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I miss baseball too, thankfully this channel is here to hold me over :)

  • @MindlessWanderings
    @MindlessWanderings 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Ahahahehehehe... I'll have to show my lassy this video. We currently live in Ipswich, Queensland because that's where she is from... Quinn being head of the rejects is fantastic and sums up Ipswich perfectly. (Though he is still the first Aussie in MLB so I guess it's also a win for Ipswich.. Damn.)
    Also, this video has about 33,000 views with 514 comments and there's about half a dozen from Ipswich.. I wonder what the odds are on that. Is it a surprisingly high chance like the birthday thing where you only need 23 people to have a 50% chance of a shared birthday or is there a general oddity going on here. (probably a whole cricket/baseball crossover thing helping chances someone is from Aus).

  • @shanearnold7781
    @shanearnold7781 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Bro that Frank Robison detail is on point. Seriously, that's really impressive work for pixels. Awesome vid as always man! I really miss baseball but channels like yours and Jomboy Media bring back some of that feeling, keep up the great work! : -)

  • @seanventen1530
    @seanventen1530 4 ปีที่แล้ว +52

    A team that lost 134 games? Surely you're Joe-Quinn...

  • @DanCMadsen
    @DanCMadsen 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Those Cleveland videos are so funny, havent thought of them in years. great opening lol

  • @BillDotree
    @BillDotree 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I'm confused. Did the 2018 Orioles actually just sign all of the 1899 Cleveland Spiders Rotation?

    • @zyzzy-ko4ww
      @zyzzy-ko4ww 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      If the 2018 Orioles had done that, they would have gone 11-151 instead of 47-115.

    • @Ahmetyavas34
      @Ahmetyavas34 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      HAHA Brownies

  • @ericbarlow6772
    @ericbarlow6772 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Another interesting stat is they had 101 road loses that year. This is a record that won’t be broken under current rules as the most road games played are 81.

  • @aidancooke2352
    @aidancooke2352 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I love what you do. This has quickly become one of my favorite channels on youtube and I enjoy the video game styling and comedic elements. Incredible work. Just some topics I'd like to suggest and see what you could do with them.
    Black Sox Scandal
    Greatest All-Star team ever?
    Something about Negro League players
    History of baseball stadiums
    keep up the great work!

    • @felixmarvin1199
      @felixmarvin1199 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Definitely a series on the Negro Leagues needs to be made. Satchel Paige is a good one for starters.
      It would be interesting to see how the award winners and HOF'ers from MLB stand up against their contemporaries in the Negro Leagues.
      If Mountain Landis hadn't been a racist scumbag, maybe America would look a lot different today. We would undoubtedly have many more African Americans in the Hall of Fame

  • @marcjohn9404
    @marcjohn9404 ปีที่แล้ว

    These videos are the best, the level of info is just next level and you can tell a lot of research goes into these. I was always fascinated with the Spiders, I think the first they came to my attention was in 2003 (?) or whatever year the Tigers lost 119, and I remember the local broadcast showing the stat from the Spiders having lost 134. Definitely seems like an unbreakable record, so they have that going for them.
    Re: "The Rajah"
    Love those old timey nicknames, that one in particular reminded me of Charlie "Jolly Cholly" Grimm.

  • @wairong
    @wairong 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The fact that we have the ability to apply advanced metrics for players over a century after they played is amazing to me.

  • @ohyeahyeah2652
    @ohyeahyeah2652 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    foolish please favorite this or the cy young wont be renamed the old hoss award.

  • @Ryan-lr1gy
    @Ryan-lr1gy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I can’t stress how hard I laughed at the Old Hoss Radbourn part “he did the wise thing and died”

  • @scottellis1204
    @scottellis1204 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Craig Kimbrel just had a press release where he said he will be dying at the end of the 2021 season "just to one-up Foolish Baseball"

    • @johnschauer6832
      @johnschauer6832 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      What is this a reference to?

    • @scottellis1204
      @scottellis1204 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@johnschauer6832 I dunno I just made it up

    • @johnschauer6832
      @johnschauer6832 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Scott Ellis Sorry I just hadn’t gotten to the point in the video where he brought up Kimbrel

  • @Compucles
    @Compucles 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    No, the Cardinals nickname started the very next year in 1900, not 1901, and it was Branch Rickey's farm system that put the Cardinals on the competitive map. Hornsby was merely the only star player on a bunch of losing teams until he got backup from the farm.

  • @timmitny6310
    @timmitny6310 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I can't wait for the 2022 Reds to only win 19 games.

  • @pacificdrumma
    @pacificdrumma 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Didn’t love the topic, but appreciate the time and effort spent to create content. Thanks for giving us plebs something to watch

  • @tielmaster7879
    @tielmaster7879 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    3:18 yooo I'm done 😂

  • @tedmur
    @tedmur 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love the little details foolish puts in videos like putting "CIG" as Eddie Kolb's position lmaoooo

  • @jrob1059
    @jrob1059 4 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    It's never a good sign when your team is named the "Spiders."

    • @FoolishBaseball
      @FoolishBaseball  4 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Spiders are good for the ecosystem. Failing ballclubs are not.

    • @ryanthiccdicc1682
      @ryanthiccdicc1682 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Foolish Baseball agreed

    • @randucke
      @randucke 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I dunno, a team with that kind of name must know how to leg out some infield hits.

    • @nirvana131995
      @nirvana131995 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The Mariners must of originally been the Cleveland Spiders and that's why their stadium got burnt down.

    • @Bobby-Dingers
      @Bobby-Dingers 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@nirvana131995
      When did that happen?

  • @imhamish
    @imhamish 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I grew up in Ipswich, Queensland and that scared the shit out of me

  • @nicholaswidlewski8876
    @nicholaswidlewski8876 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    "...as any talented ballplayer was going to play their way out of Cleveland, whether they liked it or not."
    Thanks to the Dolans owning that team, some things never change.

  • @bombs3328
    @bombs3328 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I love that they actually have the Spiders Cy Young in The Show this year.

  • @daleftuprightatsoldierfield
    @daleftuprightatsoldierfield 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Fun times in Cleveland again (Still Cleveland)
    Come on down to Cleveland town everyone
    Under construction since 1868
    See our river that catches on fire
    It’s so polluted that all our fish have AIDS
    We see the sun almost 3 times a year
    This guy has at least 2 DUIs
    Flats look like a Scooby Doo ghost town
    Don’t slow down in East Cleveland or you’ll die
    Our economy’s based on LeBron James
    Buy a house for the price of a VCR
    Our main export is crippling depression
    We’re so retarded that we think this is art
    It could be worse, at least we’re not Detroit!
    We’re not Detroit!

  • @mcpootis7796
    @mcpootis7796 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank goodness I get a new Foolish Baseball video on my birthday!

  • @evanblacksher7597
    @evanblacksher7597 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    11:57 is that koogs 😂

    • @ryanburton3567
      @ryanburton3567 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      lol it does look like him tho

  • @Jack-bg2li
    @Jack-bg2li 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you for this content to get me through quarantine, Mr. Baseball

  • @jaredjohnson1027
    @jaredjohnson1027 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Wait, isn’t the Entire MLB feeder teams for the Yankees...

  • @nicklamonica8647
    @nicklamonica8647 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    BASEBALL BITS IS THE ONLY THING KEEPING ME ALIVE

  • @MetFanMac
    @MetFanMac 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    A word on Honus Wagner -- it's pronounced "Hawn-us", which admittedly is hard to tell at first glance. It makes more sense when you remember it's a diminutive of Johannes.

    • @gabepollock1641
      @gabepollock1641 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I knew how to pronounce it but I didn’t know it was a diminutive of Johannes. Thanks for the fun fact.

  • @antoniocuriel9125
    @antoniocuriel9125 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This is like, the third time in a row I’ve eaten a Pollo Bowl from El Pollo Loco, where you upload a video.

  • @Frigidevil
    @Frigidevil 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Timeout FB you played for the Braves!?

    • @nicknumber1512
      @nicknumber1512 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Yep. He's also in the story and, thus, dead. RIP FB.

    • @FoolishBaseball
      @FoolishBaseball  4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Yeah in 2001

    • @nicknumber1512
      @nicknumber1512 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@FoolishBaseball Wow. You have a very youthful voice for someone who's in his mid-thirties. And deceased.
      Sorry for your loss by the way.

    • @Karmy.
      @Karmy. 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@nicknumber1512 apparently Graeme Lloyd is too

  • @robertperry8392
    @robertperry8392 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Wow! The Cleveland Spiders actually make the 1962 edition of my beloved New York Mets actually look pretty good.

  • @MstrChamberlain5
    @MstrChamberlain5 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    So, essentially, Cleveland was a minor league team playing in the majors

  • @Senrabekim
    @Senrabekim 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I miss baseball so much that I found myself watching Joe West and Angel Hernandez umpire fail videos at 4 in the morning.

  • @wyattcorbin1629
    @wyattcorbin1629 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Am I the only one who thinks “Spiders” is one of the worst names for a team possible?

    • @FoolishBaseball
      @FoolishBaseball  4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Better than Cleveland Cockroaches

    • @bradyware8718
      @bradyware8718 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      I think the “Chicago orphans” is worse

    • @Bradley_doofus
      @Bradley_doofus 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Foolish Baseball tru

    • @tfuhl
      @tfuhl 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      certainly better than the naming a team Indians

    • @cedricgist7614
      @cedricgist7614 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      To me it's a name you have to win under to make it respectable. I think it's no worse than "Packers" or "Heat" or "Oilers."

  • @redsox258
    @redsox258 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    That writer for the Chicago Trubune in 1899 was a straight savage

  • @justrob4139
    @justrob4139 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Of course it would be a team from Cleveland.

  • @freeparking301
    @freeparking301 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I’ve watched this channel propel Larry Walker to the hall of fame. And now I’m enjoying the ride to see if the “Spiders” return. We’re off to a good start with the news yesterday...sucks we have to wait a year to find out if Cleveland brings back the Spiders.

  • @karyote1929
    @karyote1929 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    10:12 so you are dead too

    • @kinglearisdead
      @kinglearisdead 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Somehow he made the video from beyond the grave. That's some mad talent.

  • @jasongerber6972
    @jasongerber6972 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I watch these videos cause they are very well done with stats and facts, not cause baseball is anywhere near my favorite sport

  • @shanghaicj821
    @shanghaicj821 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Makes my mariners look good

  • @danmathis1696
    @danmathis1696 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you for using Bob Wickman! I hated him when he played for Atlanta lmao

  • @pudding126
    @pudding126 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Oh I'm early

    • @FoolishBaseball
      @FoolishBaseball  4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Not just early, you're first!

    • @pudding126
      @pudding126 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Foolish Baseball oh I didn't even notice lmao

  • @HumanParaquat
    @HumanParaquat 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    It made me unreasonably happy that you said "Tough luck, Sport" lol