this is the first time i found a game of baseball interesting. well done author! well done.
@TS-bj8my9 ай бұрын
LOL I was going to that as well!!!
@smokinggnu65849 ай бұрын
First time for everything i guess. :D
@moofymoo9 ай бұрын
I have lived among humans for decades, but I still don't understand baseball.
@chriscomp208 ай бұрын
Literally this. Lmao
@Bossmodegoat8 ай бұрын
The Amia are adorable. I’d love to see you continue writing about human interactions with them and other species in this universe.
@nin24947 ай бұрын
the author isn't the creator of the YT channel, it's from the r/HFY (which means Humans, Fuck Yeah) subreddit, and the author is the user u/WRickWrites
@Bossmodegoat7 ай бұрын
@@nin2494 I know. I commented the same thing on his post. I just figured that he probably read the comments of these videos too
@robert-trading-as-Bob699 ай бұрын
If there had been a mixed bag of British, Irish, New Zealanders, South Sea Islanders, French, Argentinians, Aussies, and South African scientists, they would have caused an intergalactic incident ending in a war crimes tribunal where they defended their right to play rugby, and explain that despite the punches thrown and vicious tackles, that it was NOT a war, it just looked like one!
@CHMichael8 ай бұрын
Wouldn't they play cricket? Baseball - cricket / football (us) - rugby .... playing soccer / football they would simply argue about the name
@robert-trading-as-Bob698 ай бұрын
@@CHMichael Rugby can be a violent sport, unlike cricket. That's why I used rugby, not cricket.
@ElFeN69WoLf8 ай бұрын
Watching American football or hockey might traumatize more docile races
@sandrosliske8 ай бұрын
Bring back the biff
@scottturcotte18608 ай бұрын
😂 LOL!!! Like the bumper sticker... give blood... play hockey! Rugby on ice with clubs?
@yuyaplays93119 ай бұрын
I love this series of short stories. The author does a wonderful job and I look forward to more. You should definitely put these all into a playlist if you have not already.
@scifistories19779 ай бұрын
I have a playlist containing all his work: Checkout All the other stories by u/WRickWrites in this playlist: kzbin.info/aero/PLkBGMBYRr0mGfLtO633JFDuJd_dehSle-
@SovietReunionYT7 ай бұрын
The Amia shared universe is my favorite thing about all these HFY stories.
@jeremiahadam199 ай бұрын
So that was a homerun 😂😂😂😂. This is a great story.
@Kevin-hq5ne8 ай бұрын
That story gets a standing ovation
@alivecoy7 ай бұрын
standing aviation*
@forksandspoons72729 ай бұрын
I don't know if anyone here has seen a Robin Williams movie called "Good morning Vietnam." He plays a civilian radio DJ during the Vietnam war. There's a scene where he's getting chewed out by an officer for breaking military rules. The officer points to the chevrons on his shoulder and yells "What does three up and three down mean to you?" He replies "End of an inning " the officer absolutely loses his mind at that point. The movie was typically hilarious and also a bit of tear jerker. If you're looking for a good flick, which also includes a fair amount of baseball, you could do a lot worse. Have a great day everyone. 👍
@Myrcella_Rykker9 ай бұрын
I loved that movie as a teen. Haven't seen in a long while, you just reminded me to go watch it again
@forksandspoons72729 ай бұрын
@@Myrcella_Rykker I saw it in theater with my dad. He absolutely busted a gut on the three up and three down line. I was in little league at the time, but I didn't understand the reference. Simply a lack of understanding of common baseball vernacular. I did find it funny years later when I watched it again. Have a great day buddy and enjoy the movie. 👍
@chrislauterbach88569 ай бұрын
I like the comment but three up two down would be a Sergeant First Class - SFC. He's not an officer, and the rank is on the sleeve or collar, not the shoulder.
@AirbornChaos7 ай бұрын
@@chrislauterbach8856 the line is "Three Up and Three Down." And although Master Sargent or First Sargent would have been an acceptable answer for that verbal statement, the Non-Commissioned Officer in question was a Sargent Major. Also, non-military minded persons could confuse the sleeve chevrons for being on one's, "shoulder," especially if they were in Scouts outside the US.
@TS-bj8my9 ай бұрын
A well narrated and unique story!
@dd52199 ай бұрын
Casey At Bat….alien si-fi style. 😅 love it!
@carnivorehippie80716 ай бұрын
As a baseball aficionado I must say that was awesome! Need a sequel where the Amia figure out how to adapt the game to Amia physiology and become just as fond of it as we are...
@droolingfangirl4 ай бұрын
That ending cracked me up
@eochaid9 ай бұрын
that's the most believable ending to a Story told by a Scientist i ever heard 🤣
@alp95329 ай бұрын
Good story very much enjoyed listening
@nevyngould17448 ай бұрын
Brilliantly funny, humans again being casually yet precisely violent, under modest duress.
@outstretchedwings9 ай бұрын
Wasn't expecting *that* plot twist!
@scifistories19776 ай бұрын
WRickWrites now has his own KZbin channel packed with even more stories. If you like his work, and he can write a great story! Please subscribe to his channel here: www.youtube.com/@WRickWrites-qy8pq
@jamesplyler34149 ай бұрын
Your voice and telling are so well, it makes the story great.
@Erin-Thor9 ай бұрын
I believe it’s an AI, a computer generated voice. And yes, it is impressive!
@kennethoneill41769 ай бұрын
@@Erin-Thoryeah I had a commercial come on after one story with the same voice
@Unbekannter_Mann9 ай бұрын
Mofo it's AI
@SnatchUWU9 ай бұрын
It's ai dawg
@robert-trading-as-Bob699 ай бұрын
Baseball was invented by a man who loved cricket, and somehow thought his new game would encourage Americans to play cricket... pretty soon Americans forgot how to play cricket, and are now confused about the universal rules of cricket... what a shame. We had such high hopes for them.
@martyschrader2 ай бұрын
Please give us some more like this. I want to hear about baseball!
@james_baker7 ай бұрын
nice ending. guess not everybody is in to baseball. 😹
@Gregory-uv2pi9 ай бұрын
Outstanding!
@Deco_2k9 ай бұрын
But Nazia aren't the brightest creatures but unfortunately greed overcame caution
@harrygrimley43525 ай бұрын
Yep. Thanks for sharing this with us. Good
@josheroh15148 ай бұрын
Perfectly encapsulates the annoying obsession of every baseball player/watcher ever. Relatable
@stevenf19539 ай бұрын
I loved this story. I hope you have more soon.
@jefferynelson7 ай бұрын
I am enjoying the Amia stories
@TheRaptor19679 ай бұрын
So baseball CAN foster some useful skills! Not sure that's the lesson we really need to teach our children, but in extreme circumstances, yeah, possibly useful... lol.
@jester5ify9 ай бұрын
We stop playing rounders at 10.
@markschneider88159 ай бұрын
WT* is "rounders"?
@a.mathis94549 ай бұрын
@@markschneider8815a British game from what I understand.
@a.mathis94549 ай бұрын
@@markschneider8815similar to baseball, but also different. Rounders throw underhand like softball pitches.
@jester5ify9 ай бұрын
@@a.mathis9454 Where do you think 'baseball' comes from.
@pp_is_smol9 ай бұрын
⚠️British alert⚠️
@thebuddha42088 ай бұрын
If they think that’s weird, show them curling
@floatylog7719 ай бұрын
Watching fake football game from the aliens prespective was quite relatabel for me as an European.
@radfordra3 ай бұрын
Ben Sisko would be proud
@WiredDragoon9 ай бұрын
Someone really needs to start narrating Proximal Flame's "The Last Angel"...
@glowells71349 ай бұрын
it's a good thing that you didn't have a football game that the aliens could watch, that would have driven them crazy. I've been following your video posts. The stories are very good. The narrating voice I have heard on television. advertising. It almost sounds like the same voice on 1010 WINS AM, am I correct?
@Traumglanz9 ай бұрын
It's Adman, some pretty popular AI voice.
@larrythompson86309 ай бұрын
I can attest that I look at things with what kind of a weapon would it make.
@danbingham301113 күн бұрын
This is good but I do wonder where they got all the equipment to play baseball on an alien planet where they have never played baseball.
@lindacarter4572 ай бұрын
Thanks!
@scifistories19772 ай бұрын
Thabk you Linda! That's amazing.
@danielfuentes13864 ай бұрын
Love it
@kgrunenwald9 ай бұрын
If you love it, you love it.
@lisear29268 ай бұрын
👏 Well Done 👏
@iffracem9 ай бұрын
As an Australian, baseball is incomprehensible to me, forget "aliens". It's so boring. Almost as boring as the 5 day Test Cricket a lot of Aussies play. So much "tradition" and "statistics", so little action and entertainment. Give me 80-90 minutes of rugby (League or Union, I'm not that fussy) or similar once a week and I'll be happy ( my 63yo bones won't let me play anymore, and I was never as good as my brain thought I was) and then I'll get on with my life, but jeez.. Baseball, Cricket... its just corporatised boredom
@Erin-Thor9 ай бұрын
Rugby can be brutal. I saw a team retaliate against a player for “spiking” one of their players. The guys hand was a broken mangled bloody mess. At another match I saw one player being followed by another, the player ahead planted a foot and raised his elbow effectively taking the other player out of the game as he was knocked out. I salute you Australian Rugby players, as an American I know I am not manly enough for that game. 😂
@iffracem9 ай бұрын
@@Erin-Thor You think us Aussies are tough at rugby? Take a look at the Kiwi's and South Africans, even the Fijians.. they make us look like old women at a knitting club!! Don't get me wrong, I can't stand the petty thugs who act as you describe (happens too often, even at international level) It's not needed. Although when it used to happen, righteous indignation and retribution was justified, now it's just too common, and replaces real skill at the game. They cause the "powers that be" to introduce new laws that dilute the passion and controlled ... um... brutality? Into something much less than it can be. But that's normal for humanity when money and profit takes hold I guess. Rugby League was the "professional" version (A gentleman's game played by thugs), Rugby Union (a thugs game played by gentlemen) was the amateur version, but people like me with a misplaced sense honour and values have been pushed aside... winning at all costs and making profit is now the way. Giving your best but still accepting being beaten by better players, and applauded for your efforts, is now a thing of the past. ( oh.. yeah.. "Get orf my Lawn! LOL)
@Erin-Thor9 ай бұрын
@@iffracem - Not only that, but we have now taken to ridiculing the losing players. You hear jeers, cussing, “LOSERS!” And worse being yelled. Not sure about Australia but here in the USA good sportsmanship is no more.
@seanhewitt6039 ай бұрын
Childrens' games sorely taken advantage of. That's what professional sports are. And the pro athletes are oversized children.
@Erin-Thor9 ай бұрын
@@seanhewitt603 - We are ALL oversized children, LOL! I absolutely refuse to grow up!
@furiouskaiser99148 ай бұрын
Ah, i too, as a fellow human, enjoy the game of home-sphere-carbon-lattice. 😅
@joseruba10818 ай бұрын
It’s funny that the story assumes all human scientists in the future are American. Why not cricket? Bocci? Hockey?
@ssark91878 ай бұрын
Hey, Japanese also like to play Baseball.
@tsm6882 ай бұрын
american author of course. it didn't assume they were all americans, but the scientist who organized it obviously was
@spiritofthewolf15x8 ай бұрын
SOunds like a pretty average Baseball game tbh.
@AlphaMoist8 ай бұрын
Would like to point out that Baseball originated with Stickball, a native american game that was, in fact, violent and sometimes deadly. Back in the day at least. It's much safer now, played it sometimes as a kid.
@markwarrenseadog23499 ай бұрын
Damn Fine
@paulgreen24169 ай бұрын
Just as well he discovered Baseball instead of European Football 😄
@david28699 ай бұрын
If he wanted to see humans attacking each other during a game, he should have watched hockey!
@sandrosliske8 ай бұрын
@@david2869 or Rugby
@mandolinic8 ай бұрын
Great story! But it would have been better if they'd been playing cricket.
@cindaschuster67259 ай бұрын
😂💙👍
@jeepingwiththelazyturtle13888 ай бұрын
Funny
@MarcZachman4 ай бұрын
1
@ireallyreallyhategoogle7 ай бұрын
Loved the story, especially the list of emotional responses.
@OfficerHotpants9 ай бұрын
Thank god the doc wasn't a fan of soccer...
@sandrosliske8 ай бұрын
Yeah, they would've done more damage after the game than the birds.