R.A. Dickey shows off the knuckleball

[@sevenguiry]

R.A seems so easy to talk to and very down to earth.

[@dawgsfan1196]

sevenguiry that's how most Southerners are

[@angelruiz6901]

@@dawgsfan1196 thats how nuckeballers are in general

[@Twister051]

I highly recommend reading his book, "Wherever I Wind Up". I've never played baseball, not even as a Little League-aged kid, and I thought his book was phenomenal.

[@spookerredmenace3950]

@@Twister051 i have his strike out book, its most good , damn i miss R.A he was so awesome and seemed like such a great guy to have a beer with. would be cool if he could come back to the Jays or Buffalo to be a pitching coach

[@GeoffBosco]

Had a few convos on Twitter back in his Mets days. Always very engaging and humble. Absolute legend.

[@Dirt_McGirt_Osirus]

0:48 I love how he says "oh mercy" it's so funny in a cute southern way

[@supercrossedup2873]

That was pretty funny. Oh mercy

[@isaacsway5855]

To Release is To Resolve 😂 fax

[@garygwinn4256]

If you got a young talented pitcher, it would be insane to not teach them this pitch and have them start working on it. Super Effective, and it saves arms

[@19SantaMariaValley13]

Maybe Position Players Who Are Turning Into Pitchers Should Give It a Shot

[@dm3402]

builds up ur dexterity a bit too, having to be more mindful and tactful with your hands on every pitch

[@Supremacy_King]

@@19SantaMariaValley13 tim wakefield did it and had a pretty decent career

[@DutchVanDerLinde-sx1ox]

"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 pitches once, but I fear the man who has practiced one pitch 10,000 times."

[@MikeConrow]

But who’s quote is that??

[@captainnoob4]

@@MikeConrow it's a parody of a Bruce Lee quote. Substitute pitches for kicks.

[@donutwatch24]

The Chuck Norris of knuckle balls

[@Jman7945]

Bro the knuckle ball is a pain It’s the pitch that got me back into baseball I’ve got mine down to about two rotations but damn...... I’ve only ever thrown three perfect knuckle balls and brothers let me tell you It slips out of your hand like a weightless bubble gliding through the air tumbling and shaking until it finally drops

[@georgefloydspaceshuttlepro1839]

Nothing more satisfying in sports than figuring out the alchemy of a knuckleball. Every person has to figure out their grip that works for their hand and arm. It's absolute wizardry.

[@Bozo_Lord]

if i ever get to be in the same room as Dickey, the first thing i’ll say is “you have the filthiest pitches but the easiest voice to talk to” one of the greatest pitchers the league have ever had opportunity to see. being a good player doesn’t always mean putting up the best numbers, it also means being respectable. and Dickey is one of the most respectable pitchers to ever be on the mound!

[@edvardferand9934]

It's a sad day like today when there are no more knuckleballers in the game.

[@JesusChrist2000BC]

Too many people just want to throw heat. Then their arm burns out in 5 years and they wonder why they need surgery.

[@jacknguyen8211]

bro there is only 1 knuckleball release in 2020 :(( so sad dude

[@immeohmyoh]

He doesn't say what he does with his ring-finger. Always keep a little secret.

[@BillBrasky86]

i mean.. he doesnt have to say, he shows us where the ring finger goes, emphasizing keeping his fingers off the seams. the sweetspot timing on the release is the secret here.

[@Silirion]

Great interview. Thanks!

[@the72u7h4]

I'm 42 and even though I don't play, I just started figuring it out. The grip? Easy. The throw itself? EASY. Getting the damn ball not to catch and release and not spin. SHUT THE FRONT DOOR. It's really really hard to do. Easy on the arm, but it will murder your mind how difficult it truly is to not spin the ball, or minimize it.

[@nancysmith9487]

Mr.Tony and Mr. Dean thank yous for sharing your inspiration

[@wheelinthesky300]

R.A. is the fuckin knuckle Zen Master.

[@McScott76]

I always threw a knuckleball by gripping the seam with my fingernails (which allowed me to get a better grip on the ball and not loose control during the delivery) but then I pushed my fingertips slightly forward at the release point (just a fraction of a centimeter). This negated any potential backspin that might have otherwise occurred because of my grip.

[@mromero548]

RA is a class act.

[@spurs4159]

Smart guy

[@eltorpedo67]

Dickey says he would have been an English professor if he hadn't made it in baseball. You can tell just from listening to this interview. Very smart guy, and yet very humble. Good Christian southerner.

[@cammoseley3226]

Evolution happened and all religions were founded on psychedelic drugs… u think the first person that tripped knew he ate some mushrooms and everything will be fine… nah he was like “dude I just saw god” to his buddy 😂🥱💀

[@wheelinthesky300]

This guy is WAY more intelligent than the average jock.

[@sychophantt]

Good job Eddie Vedder

[@nitochi3]

Lol

[@GeoffBosco]

OMG! I cant believe I'd never seen that till I was today years old! Lol

[@evoii323]

Favorite pitch

[@ChongYoWang]

Legend

[@domwings4329]

Are knuckleballs easier on pitchers arms or can they still get injured?

[@Oh_I_Will]

What makes RA different than the Neikros, Hough, Wake, Sparks,Wright...he was capable of pitching with velocity...which he was able to vary speeds...

[@scotrburns2764]

Great guy

[@nancysmith9487]

Thank yous for sharing.... Mr.Dickey, agreed Please say hello to everyone,especially Esposito. Great job on tutorial up close,teaching and learning it to separate things. Nice job on interview, seem just like a normal guy, easy to be friend with. Good job w/ camera's angle showing his good side lol, intern,assistant, and the man, like from,show me the money. Appreciate your time and effort plus teaching someone who may pass on the legacy one day as it has been passed onto you in someways. But practice was first, your hard work ,frustration with

[@NicholasStJohn-yc4ln]

Best trade ever (I'm a mets fan)

[@lvl9001Troll]

sorry you're a mets fan

[@marvinuhilarious]

If you guys ever win the world series it will be the least controversial win.

[@chsims7032]

Well the Mets have won two titles in 69 and 86

[@marcpower4167]

For the mets that was a steal, (coming from a Jay's fan) as much as I like R.A. he was kinda meh... in Toronto. Cost us Syndergaard......😔

[@RandomMusingsdpecs]

Mets fan here too -- it hurt having to trade him, but Thor + d'Arnaud was too good a deal to pass up

[@marksymbala1193]

Toronto bring back ra

[@16valves3]

Wayne Gretzky of knuckleballs

[@travislindberg6463]

Two and a half years it took.. finally dude

[@icebrow]

Did he just say antithetical..

[@jeremyc2445]

first time an athlete used that word ever

[@JW-td7kx]

thats so onomotapeia

[@Massflavour]

me sports fan me no like big word

[@kvltizt]

Intelligence is a commendable attribute. Most great pitchers are intelligent because playing smart is better than just playing hard.

[@valuedhumanoid6574]

We have a kid on our little league team who is a natural knuckleball thrower. I have tried hitting it, it’s impossible

[@ericgerst3003]

My coach makes us hit knuckleballs at 13u and it's really hard. Nice god RA!

[@roargary3]

Wow very insightful!

[@kingslaphappy1533]

Well explained thank you.

[@jmecillakennedy7102]

Awesome pitcher..

[@johnnybravoBoyah]

Thx bro Now I can go out tomorrow and throw it 😄

[@thetortugaparker5382]

This video makes me wish I paid more attention in vocabulary

[@codyi5232]

Read more books. In 1933, 1833, 1733 and throughout about everything hundred twenty years society rounds up knowledge and Burns some of it off. It is imperative you use your library card, knowledge is the true currency. If a jock is high beaming your vernacular , you’ve got a serious deficit but you have the good sense to know it. I had the same sense, and I grew up homeless and couldn’t go to school. I spent most of my adult life reading. There is a reason language and knowledge is censored and people are dumbed down. Be well.

[@Discjockeynumber1]

My dad taught me way before I even was thinking about pitching like just playing catch and throw it every once and awhile and I might just be biased but I’m not nearly amazed at these perfect knuckle balls from these mlb pitches I really think as a 13 year old I have the nastiest knuckle ball around

[@mikeyg6631]

I remember his first game as a Jay. The catchers had a hard time catching it

[@codyi5232]

My son throws a knuckleball and a splitter- and the splitter he throws he throws the Kaizen school technique so his shoulder and elbow won’t explode. Everyone here bats r handed. I really suggest you teach your kids the splitter in this technique from Japan if you turn your wrist and change your arm angle it’s a curve ball -15 MPH your splitter. If you just keep your fingers taut on the seems it straightens out into a 4 seamer. Throwing knuckleballs at 9 year olds and 81 mph splitters seems mean, but this is America and we make Nolan Ryan’s here.

[@thisguy3987]

1:55

[@landonpiazza9431]

If your here in 2021 your different

[@Midash2k]

You’re*

[@billnye6311]

80,000 sub!!!

[@jdohn3951]

I get forward spin when if anything I think I should be getting backspin

[@ww-town7973]

Jesus he’s smart

[@kawboyzx1400]

he sounds like Thomas Magnum.

[@jakelakota3010]

I swear I was the only guy who threw a knuckleball using my KNUCKLES. When I played third base I used to piss of the 1st baseman on easy outs by throwing knuckle balls and curve balls and the like. The KB was just plumb hilarious

[@Holy_hand-grenade]

Nope! I totally used to throw a "knuckleball" every now and then in little league game... I too used my knuckles... I dug my front 2-3 fingers down under the horseshoe to where my knuckles were up against the seam, and I would throw it like that... took me awhile to be able to just throw it without the damn ball flying out of my hand way too early in the release... I had to throw it SLOW or else it would escape my grip... well, it was prob more like an extreme change up/eephus, but I remember having SOME success with it... prob if anything because I wasn't trying to throw it like Nolan Ryan, so I was actually throwing it in the strike zone LOL.

[@jakelakota3010]

+alexreising85 all right! It may not have been as pretty as throwing a fast ball by him but watching them fumble around trying to hit it was golden. I agree, it took forever to get it right and I practiced with a softball which was way easier

[@breakingmath1]

I can get the idea from the point of view of pitching... but... still failing in understand the batting point of view...

[@letsgobrandon5530]

Im 12 and i can throw a really good one

[@thaotruongba8930]

overlord op

[@roskichan3001]

So there's no flutter??

[@mr.baseball6215]

I throw a 72 mph fastball and a great knuckleball like Dickey's and I'm 14

[@SirPeewee]

I throw a 80 mph fastball and an amazing curveball like Kershaw's and im 8

[@Mmeluso15]

Alex Jauregui yeah well I throw 103 like Chapman and I'm 2 months old

[@Mmeluso15]

Chandler Russell damnnnn, well you beat me

[@JW-td7kx]

Hi 14, i'm dad... weird name, dude...

[@Jacob-jw8xe]

@@Mmeluso15 I throw 120 on weekdays and 140 on weekends and i's still sperm.

[@sentree9857]

What’s the difference between a knuckleball and a screwball?

[@gameshowfreak2007]

so hard to learn the knuckleball, I played little league softball for 2 years as a pitcher and tried throwing a knuckler, at first it was great I struck out the first 9 batters I faced on 27 pitches. Then after that I struggled. that combined with pressure from the team's catcher (who hated catching for me lol) I abandoned it. Kinda wish I stuck with it though.

[@dtimbs84]

Put some red hair on him and this is the brother on Field of dreams

[@ulisz]

He kinda sounds like the gay guy with the mustache off family guy lol

[@dalethelander3781]

"Peter Griffin's grown a moustache....I KNOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWW!"

[@njdrummer7120]

Easier said than done

[@eddy5097]

If you can do this on command u can make money

[@tamarmccormick9129]

bradpaisley

[@leecoleman822]

☎️

[@furself114]

40000 hr guy

[@christopherr7195]

wide angle cut aways are horrible

[@edwardrobinson4940]

You R.A.Dickey....lol

[@mike15447]

On j

[@dPokey]

he lost me after the 7th word

[@bullockcrawford4663]

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[@ericorozco5831]

if only he realized that his ring finger touches the seem. He almost throws a perfect no spinning Knuckler...

[@zigfield723]

Yeah and he had ONE good year in the MLB with this pitch. And in Toronto he flat out sucked.

[@스피릿-z7d]

야구좋아하는 영어 능통한분 계시면 제발 자막 부탁좀 드립니다..

[@CarlosDiaz-vz9fi]

,

[@coolstufftodo5256]

It’s like shotput😂

[@anitakudus4331]

I hate knukle bolls

[@BeerAndWarcraft]

When you're trash, you only learn how to throw 2 pitches. Dickey is a scrub.

[@Nick-rj4lk]

2 seam and 4 seam bro? Xd

[@TheOlesarge]

+BeerAndWarcraft Wow...He won the Cy Young. Not bad for a scrub. You're dismissed.

[@haydensmith6552]

Says the Hall of Famer known as BeerAndWarcraft

[@raviculleton8610]

When you're pro, you only need to learn how to throw 2 pitches.

[@Emergencymedicaltactician]

All you need is two pitches, hell a fastball could be it. Its about location mixed with velocity if I can get a 90mph FB in and up you its gonna be a strike or an easy out. Location is key not number of pitches. As Bruce Lee said "I do not fear a man who has practices 1,000 kicks once, but the man who has practiced one kick 1,000 times."

[@9mmsleepingpill851]

His knuckleball was a rarity as it had velocity to it when compared to others; made him hard to hit in 2012.

[@eamonkelley3811]

The most unexpected cy young winner ever