The Brutal Decline of Madison Bumgarner

[@kingofallcards614]

Thank you for accentuating the last word in every sentence.

[@bryanmartinez81]

THIS. I can’t finish the video lol it’s pretty annoying

[@toms7114]

You didn't mention that as a Giant Mad Bum was only caught by Buster Posey during those World Series years, who was quite possibly the best pitch caller of his generation. In the later years Posey had enough injuries that he couldn't always catch Mad Bum.

[@colegleeson3342]

That’s a significant factor but he was still filthy on his own for a period, sad to see his downfall and outbursts as a giants fan

[@michaeldoran4367]

​@@colegleeson3342UNUSUALLY LARGE BALLSACK SEEN THROUGH TIGHT BASEBALL PANTS! VOLLEYBALL SIZED BALLSACK BULGES THROUGH THE PANTS!

[@karsonmapes]

@@michaeldoran4367😂😂😂 impressive cup size

[@michaeldoran4367]

@karsonmapes SHAFT 18 INCHES LONG, 1 CM DIAMETER, TIP IS THE SIZE OF A WATERMELON. BALLSACK IS MASSIVE, BUT BALLS INSIDE ARE ONLY THE SIZE OF PUMPKIN SEEDS SO ITS MOSTLY VEINY SKIN FLAPPING IN THE WIND LIKE A DOG'S TONGUE WHEN STICKING ITS HEAD OUT THE WINDOW. GIANT KOK WHIPPED OUT IN FRONT OF A ROOM FULL OF MENTALLY HANDICAPPED ADULTS. EVERYONE CRIES

[@andrewbathish9265]

Blaming being a bad pitcher on not having a good catcher is crazy

[@WaitingForTheHook]

You don't have to put an emphasis on the last line of every sentence, my dude. It's hella annoying.

[@metalnuck3181]

The Brutal Incline of the End of Your Sentences.

[@DigitalHayds]

Really makes some great well researched content completely unwatchable

[@StuPedasso]

Crazy that his ego got the best of him...D-Backs have an incredibly well respected pitching coach in Strom. No secret that MadBum was unwilling to make suggested changes.

[@J.C...]

Wanna bet that his bad attitude is a LARGE part of why no one has signed him? Nobody wants to put up with that from a losing pitcher on the decline who can't hold his own. When he was good, the teams put up with it. Now? No way. Not when you're playing as badly as he was.

[@Turnkey_BM]

Okay I had to stop when every sentence ended with the same upward inflection. My brain hurts.

[@DixieWreck69]

I love your videos but I cant stand how you end every sentence on an upward inflection, makes it near impossible to listen to

[@bruce4751]

Now I will never un-hear it. 👍🏻

[@jb-fl7le]

what the fuck you commenters saying? wtf is an upward inflection??

[@DaveG425]

I finally know what to call that: upward inflection.

[@pray4us955]

He talks like a human resource manager giving a mandatory SA prevention speech

[@tumalditamadresita]

I couldn't get passed 30 seconds

[@Sabercats12]

There have been many pitchers whose careers declined as fast as it started. Madison was fun watching during the course of the game. It's tough to specifically say what may have been the cause of Madison's ineffectiveness, whether it was injuries or perhaps something else.

[@Alan-rw3ez]

As a d backs fan he failed to adapt and change as his velocity fell. He’s also had a lot of innings under that arm of his.

[@nathanwilliams4005]

Tim Lincecum comes to mind...unfortunately. 😞

[@christopherwoodson7162]

I fell yall are both correct boys. TL comes to mind thinking about BG.

[@KillenEMsoftly]

carrying the damn 2014 giants on his back

[@richardjones1988]

He was never the same after that dirt bike crash where he broke his wrist.

[@ZZSmithReal]

Bumgarner was 15-9 in 2016. The following April he sprained his left shoulder in a dirt bike accident. He never had a winning record again. Was that shoulder injury the cause of his decline? I have no idea, but you can look at the record before and after.

[@tokivikerness8863]

Wins and losses bad metrics to evaluate a pitcher

[@jenniferhamels1176]

@@tokivikerness8863 His 2016 season was arguably better than his 2014 one. Better ERA, more strikeouts, less hits given up. Starting in 2017 all of these metrics got worse after the injury.

[@scottroberts7463]

And you can bet riding a dirt bike was forbidden in his contract. The players can still do things forbidden in their contract since the team owners do not want to risk enforcing the rules and scaring off other players from signing with the club. Plenty of time to indulge in all the dirt bike riding you want after your career is done. I remember Jeff Kent, another Giant, injuring himself on a dirt bike even though he initially made up another story about how it happened, something about washing his truck? Just stay off them.

[@chili015]

​@@tokivikerness8863 - Yes and no. If you're strictly looking at one or two seasons, then you could point to where a pitcher couldn't help whether he won or lost (i.e. Felix Hernandez's 2 best years)... but over the course of a career, the best pitchers find ways to win (like if their offense only gives them 1 run, they win 1-0). A great example is Greg Maddux... for his entire career, when adjusting to every pitcher during that same time, Maddux received the lowest run support in baseball history, yet he's the only pitcher to win 15 games in 18 consecutive seasons. Contrast that with his teammate, Tom Glavine, who had the 6th best run support in history. If you were to swap their run support, Maddux likely finishes with 400 career wins, while Glavine is probably around 250. Also, they played in an era where they didn't have to rely on the bullpen saving it for them as they usually went very deep into games.

[@gemnifan6045]

i say yes he was never the same after that crash his velocity dropped and his k per 9 dropped too

[@chrisjonesfilm]

You should've mentioned the dirt bike accident during the offseason that absolutely made an impact on his arm.

[@dergin38467]

He was never good again after that accident

[@ikefromsmashbros9237]

As a Royals fan, his decline makes me incredibly sad. Mad Bum's 2014 World Series was the stuff of legends.

[@dannythomas417]

Yeah, it's heartbreaking when a World Series champ hits rock bottom.

[@timmathieu8918]

Let’s go Bad Mum!!

[@jerryk843]

Mad Son!..I mean Mad Bum!

[@vinleminh]

Humor of a child

[@michaeldoran4367]

​@user-ti3hd8gw2m HUGE MEATY KOCK OUTLINE SEEN THROUGH TIGHT BASEBALL PANTS. 14" KOCK SNAKES DOWN THE LEG. ENORMOUS TIP BULGES DOWN NEAR THE KNEE, LOOKING LIKE AN APPLE IS HIDDEN

[@disposablehero43]

​@@vinleminha funny child

[@BeatMower]

​@user-ti3hd8gw2m you must be a child

[@danielwallsten332]

I love the 2010's Giants pitching roster with Lincecum, Cain, Zito, and especially Bumgarner

[@dannythomas417]

Yeah, Bruce Bochy was something. Now he's on the other side.

[@codythompson759]

Holy crap I forgot about Zito! He made a late career comeback that year. That was cool

[@codythompson759]

​@dannythomas417 Bruce is still alive, not sure if that's what you meant.

[@azcardguy7825]

As a dbacks fan I hated Mad Bum as a Giant and I never thought I’d hate him even more after his time with the dbacks but somehow I do….

[@Bauter87]

The way you put an upward inflection on the last word of every sentence makes this video unwatchable. Nobody talks like that.

[@snowman9642]

2016 wild card Mets vs Giants MadBum throws a complete game shutout which is also worth mentioning.

[@wowwt]

The way you end everything you say in caps lock is just cancer

[@ForestOfSleep]

Unfortunately in every sport for some guys it's not a slow decline, the game just up and abandons them. Matt Harvey comes to mind as well.

[@chili015]

Harvey went to the Kerry Wood/Mark Prior school of pitching. Enter the league as an overpowering big hoss and after one injury, the ability was gone. At least to Wood's credit, he turned himself into a serviceable reliever the last 9 years of his career.

[@chieflion9526]

Bruh, videos are solid but cant get thru them cuz ur voice inflection ends the same way every sentence. No disrespect, it's just hard to listen to.

[@wakkawakkagaming3710]

Between Mad Bum, Lincecum and Cain its honestly impressive the Giants got the rings they did. So much talent in such a tight window, none of which ever looked half as good outside of those runs. I grew up in the bay area so its a memorable time for me in baseball, and it feels almost like a myth consider how quickly it dissolved.

[@SamGlaze]

Makes you imagine that Posey had a lot to do with the success of the giants pitching staff

[@bobsaget832]

I really wanted to watch this video. I’m begging you not to talk like that. That same inflection at the end of every sentence is too much

[@admdubya2107]

The narrator’s super repetitive cadence makes this nearly unlistenable after 3 minutes.

[@nathanwilliams4005]

Love this guy. I wish more players had his fire and stubbornness. One of my all time favorite Giants players. ❤

[@booradley6832]

Spoken like a true fan.... Meaning someone who's not a player, coach, team employee, league employee or anyone who would have to deal with him in any capacity or his ability to create a worse environment for everyone who has to work near him at any moment. There are lots of people like him who don't even get a real shot because someone along the chain cant stand them enough to even care how good they are. And to them I say: thank you.

[@Wolfeson28]

6:14 The one thing almost no one ever mentions about that last at-bat is: Salvador Perez had more than just a platoon advantage, he was perhaps the *one* guy in the Royals' lineup who had a decent chance of getting to Bumgarner. That one run MadBum gave up in game 1 - the ONE AND ONLY run he ever gave up in a World Series game - was a solo home run by Perez (he also had a .860 OPS in the series overall). In that Game 7 moment, any hit would have tied the game, and a repeat of Perez's Game 1 feat would have won the series. *That* was the final hurdle Bumgarner had to overcome to close out his historic World Series performance. Truly one of the most WS MVP-worthy performances ever by a pitcher. The question I was literally asking myself before the series started was "Can we win one game without Bumgarner?". That was pretty much what it came down to.

[@austinrodriguez4272]

You should make videos too shiit

[@mkultraWUD]

Good video, but some constructive criticism. Try switching up your cadence and intonation. Using the same cadence and intonation for every line is a bit exhausting to the watcher

[@johnnyWalker4]

Fix your pitch at the end of each sentANCE. It’s hard to lisSTEN TO. Other than that it’s a good viDEO.

[@ajb129]

"Why do they call Madison Bumgarner MadBum?" "I dunno. Probably because of his intensity."

[@steveboston5948]

1:30 I'm no expert, but I'd say 99.99% chance this is untrue. The nickname MadBum wasn't due to his competitive nature. Look at his frickin' name!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@lunar33icious]

Great video & perfect timing because only a few days so I was wondering what had happened to him!

[@SeanMinnich-vh8vo]

As a Royals fan I about cried when I saw Bumgarner coming out of the pen. One of the scariest pitchers I've ever seen.

[@scevda]

You know you don't have to inflect your words upward at the end of each SENTENCE It makes you sound like you are trying to emulate an AI text to speech SCRIPT. Or as if you go from talking normally to shouting the last WORD.

[@martincorral4531]

what is up with the voice inflections lol I can't stop focusing on that

[@georgesouthwick7000]

Time catches up with everyone. This in no way diminishes what Madison Bumgarner did, especially in postseason play. Unfortunately, he is just another example of why it is always better to quit a year too early than a year too late.

[@elasmojones]

Why? He's making bank and not having to pitch.

[@booradley6832]

Part of his problem is that he acts like a child even during the games. If someone hits a home run and watches it "too long" he then will hit them with a pitch next time. You want to know what is a different way of handling that maturely? Throw better pitches next time. Glad he wont see the Hall. No reason to feel bad when bad things happen to bad people.

[@javi994]

A lot of pitchers and coaches do that

[@MatthewBaumgarten]

Not a giants fan, but a mad bum fan, he was an awesome pitcher in the 5 year stretch they won the world series 3 times, not everybody is Nolan Ryan in terms of years pitched in the major leagues, I’d rather have Bumgarners career with 3 rings than Nolan Ryan’s career with 1 ring

[@K7VLL]

Respectfully, I do not enjoy the up-talking.

[@yankees2864]

Stop ending your sentences like that, it’s not cool to do a KZbinr voice like that where it grates the ears.

[@Bauter87]

It's unbearable. It's so bad.

[@cpaga1020]

The upward inflection needs to stop my guy. I love your videos, but sometimes it's unbearable

[@TheHENpp]

Not a single mention of his angry-old-man-get-off-my-lawn act.

[@sebastiancostanzo8345]

Could you do a video on the career of bartolo colon? He has a very crazy and funny story with antics happening before and after his career

[@millsfinancialgroup]

I was sitting under the coke bottle for game 2 of the 2012 world series. I will forever remember Madbum dominating that great tigers lineup in a victory

[@andyroid5028]

*Meh. Not crying any tears for this crybaby multi-millionaire. Yep, I am fully aware of the irony of the previous sentence.😮*

[@joet7940]

No doubt Madison was truly amazing through his early years and beyond. One thing that was not mentioned in this report was Madison’s motorcycle 12:49 accident in April 2017. Ever since that incident, his career went south. another fact about Madbum is he is number 15 on the list of all-time homer leaders by pitchers. That’s impressive. Given many of the games were played with a DH during his era.

[@jamesdelap4085]

But not in the NL.

[@booradley6832]

It evens out, it was more games with a DH than during the early days but medical science also stretched careers and the quality of them significantly on average.

[@jameswhy1057]

As a dbacks I really wanted him to be great with the dbacks but sadly it didn’t work

[@caseycharles72]

Why are you putting such an emphasis on the last word of every sentence? It’s pretty distracting from the content of the video lol

[@NinjasBack]

Honestly Mad Bum got hosed for the Cy Young this year

[@Tardo__00]

God bless

[@LDQBBQ]

He hated when guys watched homers he gave up but then proceeded to watch his own on the rare occasion he hit one.

[@Mo_Ketchups]

Yankees took Weaver, Pavano, Igawa, Wright … HELLO, Bumgarner 2024!! 👋 🥳

[@MercilessMe]

As a casual fan MB is one of those guys that deserves to retire at the place he was known for, if he wanted to

[@User-b9q2z]

Dude PLEASE work on your delivery. I love your content but it's so hard to get through a video when every single sentence you speak has the exact same intonation

[@aidanerickson2843]

This guy makes his bread and butter on Brutal Declines

[@kenw2225]

Shows their prime and their highlights. Nice to relive

[@Yankeesfan-zb8dz]

I hope a team who needs pitching signs him and gives him a chance I used to love watching him pitch and always wanted him with the Yankees

[@J.C...]

A chance to keep losing? Lol Pretty sure that and his bad attitude are why no one has signed him.

[@mitchelmodine9197]

NGL as a Royals fan I enjoyed this content.

[@patricksome7142]

Mad Bum would rather be at a rodeo than be on the mound these days. He laid pitches up over the plate on purpose.

[@plaidzebra5526]

Maybe Bruce in Texas will bring the Mad Bum over? He's good and making the most of out his pitchers and giving him the confidence and trust to bring his stuff back and adapt from it.

[@somedude1901]

If Brent Strom couldn’t fix him, it’s not looking promising

[@JacobCranston-m8e]

The narrator speaks with a cadence that is ridiculously annoying. I had to quit watching.

[@taylormillion7244]

He’s probably done but I hope he comes back

[@jackmccarthy5565]

Madison Bumgarner was a STAR, But now, he's lost his spark, just like Matt Harvey

[@becksteadmtb]

A legend to me and still my favorite players I grew up watching. It was sad to see him go

[@Big_Chungus96]

I'm a tigers fan, seeing his decline is genuinely sad. I honestly don't care where things go I think Madison Baumgarner is still one of the greats, from his pitch mix to funky delivery he's an amazing pitcher. We might see him make a return here, he's only 34 so he's got a bit to go before considering calling it quits. The yips affect every player at some point so I believe in him.

[@85mcarnold]

In 2016 ESPN ranked him as the 10th greatest LHP of all time. A little premature as they left off 300 game winner Eddie Plank.

[@tokivikerness8863]

Espns top 100s athletes are somehow worse than rolling stones top 100 musicians and taken less seriously.

[@CharlesChristinaWH]

​@@tokivikerness8863 Right imagine having LeBron James better than Karl Malone And Nicki Minaj better than Nas or Rakim

[@torkul7]

I think honestly its the way he pitches. He extends his whole pitching arm behind him before he throws it and it’s pretty obvious that people started to notice it

[@JommlyYT]

The Giants ran Posey and Bum as much as any player could have played. Bum was the Horse and Posey was the Anchor. The Giants squeezed every drop out of these players and the results showed. Unfortunately it just doesn’t last. The baseball world doesn’t know how much these guys are absolutely SUPERHEROS to us SF fans. These guys are legends for the rest of our lives.

[@ForestOfSleep]

Lincecum too. But they got 3 championships out of it at least.

[@JoeyBachman-l6o]

From Hero......Too Still my hero but a literal zero now in the eyes of most :/

[@KidFresh71]

Surprised that MadBum never gave closing a try, like Eckersley. Always thought Bumgarner would try to become a closer for the second act of his career.

[@morenowg]

Bumgarner …. As a Giant Fan …. You are fu…king AWESOME! You will always be a Giant and whenever you come back the fans will stand for you. We miss you and hope your life is doing great!

[@DanielBenavides-uh4ze]

I dont think he cares, he is still getting paid

[@AdamFerrari64]

Hey he gave it all up for that 2014 championship, mad respect. Never seen anything like it since

[@connormartin1618]

"earning the nickname MadBum due to his ontense competitive nature." Or it could have been because his name is Madison Bungarner.

[@Kaysonsimmons28]

Let’s get him to 1 million

[@steveboston5948]

One millION

[@BryantAvant]

I’m a KC fan, and I’d say this video title is misleading. The guy earned his money and can now, justifiably, chill. Diamond backs are the ones to blame for an ill advised contract.

[@robertmcnearny9222]

Biggest crybaby in baseball.

[@chrisw5604]

Watch your cadence, can make videos unwatchable Edit: It is unwatchable. Inflection at the end of sentences…

[@BillyRamirez]

6:19 I see you went to the James Hinchcliffe School of Pronunciation. It’s “PE-rez” not “Pe-REZ”.

[@rdigital5020]

The G.O.A.T in the playoffs!! Was almost unhittable. When he walks out to end it??!! WS😮and he could hit 10,12,14 forever r

[@stand.6008]

Bum had 5 good years and that's it. He's barely a .500 pitcher. Horrible decision by Arizona to give him that kind of a contract when he stunk his last 3 years with the Giants.

[@xanthippusofcarthage8655]

Bumgarner needs to retire as a Giant… but he’s not the kind of guy to sign a one day deal just to retire. Madison Bumgarner is Giants royalty and we love him.

[@JakeNaughtFromStateFarm]

I remember watching that World Series against (my) Rangers. Tim Lincecum was good and everyone knew it, but I don’t think anybody saw Bumgarner coming (even himself). That dude looked like a 10 year vet out there.

[@elchancho8432]

Probably because I’m not a Giants fan but I will always remember Madbum being sensitive and decline

[@TexasJon]

His attitude didn’t do him many favors, especially as his pitching started to decline.

[@stephenthompson3348]

🐍 big mistake 💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰

[@DaveG425]

A Giants reunion makes perfect sense now with the Ray trade. Give Mad Bum a few months to see if he has any magic left, if not, we got Ray back for the second half of the season. Mad Bum will sell tickets. And who knows, maybe a Giants vs Rangers world series vs Boch? Lol

[@km-lr7wj]

It broke my heart when he left, he was so beloved here in SF, he carried us in that 2014 playoff run man, basically winning 3/4 games in the WS, insane. But he couldn't figure out how to pitch with lower velocity/the launch angle era taking over the league. to be fair, it's extremely difficult to be at your best with lower velocity, especially when your fastball is at the 88 mph range. My favorite pitcher of all time.

[@MoCowbell]

Strange speaking cadence

[@abnushagnasty805]

Madbum didn’t seem to fully recover from his shoulder injury after he got into that dirt bike accident.

[@ilphi08]

There was a time people thought Madison Bumgarner was better than Clayton Kershaw But now Kershaw helped Dodgers won WS, and still put up dominant numbers in his 35(13-5 and 2.46 ERA) and will be first ballot hall of famer While Bumgarner quickly fell off after reaching 30 years old After 30 Clayton Kershaw: 66W 28L, 2.77 ERA, 149 ERA+ Madison Bumgarner: 15W 32L, 5.23 ERA, 80 ERA+

[@javi994]

Mad Bum won 3 rings before 30

[@Yellowfver783]

There are definitely a lot of Bumgarner in hickory

[@swordfish00007]

The guy was a bum. Horrible player period.

[@javi994]

3 rings say otherwise

[@jman2050]

I’m still sad that Alex Gordon cheated us out of maybe the greatest ending to a world series ever by holding up at third. Yeah he was probably out by a lot and he made the right baseball play, but man, just imagine the drama and tension if he had tried to score there.

[@stephenvance4867]

Sometimes the brightest fires burn out the quickest

[@HKim0072]

Want to have a long career in the MLB. Don't make the playoffs when you are young. And, it's crazy how many innings pitchers used to throw in the minors back then. Madbum had nearly 1800 innings on his arm by the age of 26 (majors and minors).

[@martyrodgers1808]

Probably didn’t help his case, that He always came across as being a douche.

[@masonparker24]

The decline of the entire pitching rotation was inevitable. Mad Bum, Lincecum, and Cain to a lesser extent pitched a lot of complete games. Add that the WS runs and all the innings those added over that span and this was bound to happen. Nevertheless, that may have been one of the nastiest starting pitching rotations of all time.

[@clmt_1904.]

Ask B. Bochy about MB and you will get an answer with a 3 attached to it.

[@wwpjd28]

I still think he could rediscover himself and make another 3-4 year push to HOF if he was just willing to adjust some. His fastball and curveball could play if he had a 3rd pitch that became his top one. Just tweaking the cutter into a sharper slider would probably do it. But he has always been so resistant to change. I think there are a lot of pitching coaches out there that could've helped him, including in AZ. And I think it could've saved some of this steep decline and let him make a real HOF push. Even getting to 50 WAR and around 2500 Ks probably would've done it given his reputation as likely the best postseason pitcher of all time and the last postseason workhorse capable of taking any beating possible and just keep dominating. He f'd his legacy by his stubbornness. Will still be remembered well, but HOFers have legacies beyond their fanbase or the people that saw them live.

[@the6ig6adwolf]

Would be nice to see the Giants sign him to a contract so he can officially retire a Giant.

[@TheGodDamnJets87]

Like lincecum and harvey, sometimes pitchers just lose it

[@busstopreviewer]

As a Royals fan, good!

[@KirbysFakePunt]

Alternate title: Mad bum to A Mad Bum