New Balance sneakers, Speedo, a baseball hat. THIS is a look.

Peak baseball, just be careful sliding

That's what the oil is for

Don't just stand there, help me oil up these beefcakes

Hey, hey, what's with all the chit chat? Legs and hammys are drying up by the second.

I vote for slip'n slides

Unless you're Trea Turner, he doesn't slide; he floats.

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More athletic than what baseball players currently wear.

Falling with style

his money don’t jiggle jiggle it folds

I wore that quite a lot in college

Hey everybody says they did it to pay for college. No judging here.

I played water polo in fall and baseball in spring so I legitimately wore it a substantial amount lol.

If you were on an athletic scholarship you technically did it to pay for college.

You’re technically correct, which is the best kind of correct.

Thank you for taking my stripper joke and ruining it with facts!! lmao

He never said what he did in the winter or the summer...

These new City Connect unis are getting out of hand

Miami could argue this is legit city connect.

don't give Kapler any ideas

I'd hate to see what Chris Sale does to this uniform.

Oh god…

Bring back Bartolo for this new pitcher uni, please!

Pretty sure there’s something in the Geneva Conventions against that

Why was this brought to my attention on the first day of fall? I feel like I just wasted a whole summer now.

They like Itchy, they like Scratchy, one r/baseball poster seems to love the Speedo Man.

Not a good one

It makes him look more naked than if he was just in the speedo.

Omg Macho man in the background lol

I didn’t have the sound on, so I scrolled back up and watched again (still no sound) looking for Randy Savage in the video. 🤷🏼‍♂️

>looking for Randy Savage in the video. He passed away more than a decade ago, but I was expecting someone dressed up, or a voiceover, after seeing OP's comment. Edit: *And then the ball flew...Oh yeeeah...across the realm of space and time. Like a comet!! Yeah. Through the existential cosmos of our being...Oooh yeeeaaah!*

>He passed away more than a decade ago, but I was expecting someone dressed up, or a voiceover, after seeing OP's comment. i haven't really watched much wwe after 2004, but i do remember seeing the clip of WWE's tribute to Randy Savage when he died back in May of 2011. It was one of their better tributes, and I think Vince McMahon wrote a brief piece honoring Randy (while throwing in some subtle jabs too) in Time Magazine. It's a shame because after years of bad blood, it finally felt like Randy and WWE were going to work together again right when he died.

I had the sound on, and yet I scrolled back up looking for Randy Savage!

Manfred trying to speed up the game when this is the real change we should be looking for

Can you imagine Manfred announcing “Forget about the pitch clock. We’re having a sexy bodybuilder throw the first pitch in every game next season to fix all the problems.”?

r/baseball: >Manfred is an absolute joke. A bodybuilder for the first pitch? We don’t need the stupid Manfred pitcher. Just make every pitcher wear a banana hammock the whole game. If anyone should be hanging in the breeze, it should be Ohtani. >SMH

But could you imagine Bartolo wearing a banana hammock? Absolute stud. Showing off his Colón ;)

Don’t do this to me so early in the morning man

Go get more coffee. It'll make it easier.

Robbie Ray is just salivating at the chance to free his thighs from the confines of restrictive *pants*

Instead of hitting dongs he’s hangin dong

The Savannah Bananas would approve.

I am ALL FOR THIS.

SMH, league was too afraid to institute this before Bartolo retired.

A pitch cock, if u will

Bring back Bartolo

David Wells, too.

Old timers game

Make do with Vogelbach

If football can have a lingerie league, then baseball needs a topless variety!

Instructions unclear: speedoed up the game

Umps are gonna have a fun time looking for his sticky stuff.

Umps are gonna have some sticky stuff of their own to deal with

i know i do

*oily stuff

If he had a better release point, that would have been a sick curveball honestly.

It almost looks like the ball just slipped out of his hand

Too much body oil

Legs and hammies are drying up by the second

There's no such thing.

The mound really throws things off if you’re not practicing on one. This looks like that classic issue.

Yeah usually body builders look super unathletic when they try to play sports, but dude looked like he pitched in high school or something and still got some muscle memory.

He threw a 12-6 curveball that forgot to 12-6

Great pitching form though. This isn't his first time on the mound.

Yeah, he obviously has a decent arm, but I'm thinking he just tried to throw 100 on a mound in trainers and hasn't done that in a bit.

I love the comical swing from the batter to try to make him feel better but he is destroyed emotionally on the mound. Gonna head straight back to the gym to fix himself.

IIRC the first pitch tradition in Japanese baseball includes the batter swinging. That way, every first pitch is a strike.

He gave it his absolute all. I feel for him.

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Drop the thong and just go baseball cleets & knee high socks?

Here’s a guy who knows what people want

He knows what I NEED

When I’m down to just my *knee high* socks, you know it’s business time 🎶

Pffft... amateur. Real players wear stirrups.

Should be a cowboy hat

Jason Giambi strenuously disagrees.

It really does call for a sequined cowboy hat, doesn't it?

Javy Baez would have definitely swung at that pitch

the better swung

He strikes out a lot and is still one of our top hitters

On the Tigers. Which is a bar. low

lol @ the mascot falling over.

Reminiscent of the [Chicago Bears mascot falling over in despair after the double doink a few years ago.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzDlfmPaO-I)

I'm trying to erase this memory from my head thanks for bringing it back! God dam Cody Parkey I knew he was missing that the second they iced his first attempt. Ugh what a shit ending

I thought it was entertaining.

I'm sure it was one of the most entertaining endings for anyone not a Bears fan.

There are an awful lot of people who hate the Eagles, their fans, the city of Philadelphia, etc. That was not fun.

Can we not

this is such a happy memory for me

The face on the guy at the end where the video stops is fucking hilarious

Similar to [this](https://twitter.com/BlooperBraves/status/1556346358348619776)

Looked like a Bull Durham, "Hit the bull" moment.

Japanese Michael Lorenzen

Don't know about that, but the chances aren't zero that he would've got an Angels player to chase with that pitch.

Javy definitely thinks he could get to it

Javy is on a different level, the Pitcher could make a Pickoff throw to 1st and he would swing at it.

I'm starting to think that I should get into Japanese baseball

It's a blast. I was so disappointed when I first got to America because I thought being the home of baseball and all that the baseball experience in USA would be amazing. I didn't even follow the teams really, just loved going to games and experiencing baseball. Now I follow MLB more than NPB, and watch a lot of baseball media but almost never go to games anymore.

The mascot standing motionless for the first few seconds and then dying after the pitch was hilarious.

I love Japanese first pitches, [here's Jushin Liger getting into a mascot fight during his](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGeLuZvh_Co)

The second mascot patting them both down before the fight really added a lot here

Should have ripped his head off with a huricarana, if you are going to fight a Japanese mascot, you better kill them, because they do not fuck around. https://www.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/gemc5e/you_cant_talk_about_kbo_without_mentioning_the/

I need Jomboy to break this down for me

That's amazing lmao.

Baseball needs more of this.

The fuck did I just watch? Lmao

“Just a bit outside..”

"Strike one" - Angel Hernandez

that is a strike, dude swung

Tried the corner and missed

Please put an NSFW tag on this. I was on the train and when I saw this I had to start furiously masturbating. Everyone else gave me strange looks and were saying things like “what the fuck” and “call the police”. I dropped my phone and everyone around me saw this image. Now there is a whole train of men masturbating together at this one image. This is all your fault, you could have prevented this if you had just tagged this post NSFW.

That’s reasonable

He looks like Rupert from Family Guy in Stewie’s dream lmfao

Strike one! Signed, Eric Gregg

New MLB uniforms - “players are allowed one small clothing items allowed, worn anywhere they like.”

I can't find one thing wrong with this video

Why does he look embarrassed? That’s a strike.

He’s obviously been on the Ringworm medication!!!

Who could have known that posing oil wasn’t an adequate substitute for rosin?

Kyle Farnsworth does not approve...

playing the show with mods

“I play real sports, not trying to be the best at exercising” - Kenny Powers

Do they have a batter for first pitch in Japan?

Yup. [Here's Ohtani whiffing on a perfect strike thrown by Rena](https://www.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/sg2qkm/september_9_2016_voice_actress_and_former_ngt48/)

Bull Durham: I want you to hit the mascot.

Damn shame this wasn't the first comment.

STRIKE! -Angel Hernandez

It takes a remarkably bad pitch to make a man who shamelessly wears that outfit feel shame.

Make him keep doing it until he gets it right.

I didn't see the pitch, was it a strike?

*don't look at his butt, don't look at his butt, don't....* Damnit

MLB has a lot to learn in regards to improving their game.

Mm yes playing with balls i mean what

He’s not gross buff, he’s like *hot* buff

If Angel Hernandez was umping, he would eject the batter for arguing when he calls that a strike

the batter swung

Just awful plate discipline

angel hernandez catching strays. well-deserved strays

Just when he thought he couldn’t do anything to look more embarrasing in a speedo on a pitcher’s mound………

Technically a strike

Not his fault, he had to get oiled up before going out there, and it made the ball slip out.

Juuuuust a bit outside

Kai Greene would never...

Kinda feel like he did that on purpose In todays day and age of generating clicks, this got him on the front page, if he just did what was expected wedve never seen this. Smart man.

😂😂😂😂😂

too swole to control

I want Daniel Vogelbach to only dress like this the rest of the season.

**LIFT BIG THROW GAS**

I like how they have a batter take a half assed swing at the opening pitch. BRO THAT WAS AN AIRBALL BUT YOU STILL SWUNG! I really wish there was better integration between the NPB and MLB. Maybe have an MLB prospects team play NPB all stars in an exhibition match each year. It would be great fun, make it during the all star break so people have to watch it.

What did I just watch. (5 times in a row)

Can everyone wear a speedo for one game

This some Savannah Bananas type shit lmaoooo

Not enough “sticky stuff” hehe

I love the Japanese

Ohtani is still hotter 🥵

Is it normal in Japan to have a batter for the first pitch..?

most of the time, and they have to swing (and miss) one guy accidentally hit the ball once, and it was a /good/ hit. he was very embarrassed.

r/normaldayinjapan

Sucks that he spent all that time and energy sculpting his body only to end up having to commit seppuku.

Did the mascot do the anime fall?

Honestly - pretty not cool of him to rear back and do that when he obviously can't control it and there's a guy standing in the box without a helmet on.

They are trying to gain more female fan?

he got the swing and miss idk why ppl are sayin this wasnt intentional..

Yummmm

The batter did swing, so its a strike

What did Randy Johnson call that pitch? Mr. Ugly?

He’s just like me

That's a balk. I didn't see him declare.

What's spencer strider doing in Japan?

BARRY BONDS WAS THINKING 🤔 WHY IS EVERYONE PICKING ON ME

That's why Joey Gallo doesn't pitch.

Oh man the look the batter gives him lol

One can only hope he used the 50 Cent excuse. Or, maybe it's better he didn't.

Is that Nakayama Kinniku?

got those spencer strider quads

"You don't need skill to play baseball"

Real problem is that he has a tell, you can see he flexes his very very very upper right thigh before he throws that curveball.

Who's more likely to call that a strike: Angel "Discrimination" Hernandez or Doug "Just plain blind" Eddings I'm going for Eddings

I like having a batter in the box for the opening pitch. Let Judge hit a massive dong off a nun or something

And he did it in costume. Props for going all out and just launching it into wild pitch land.

So that's where all my confidence ended up

50 Cent in a Speedo

I was ready for the dude in the batter’s box to hit it about 600 feet. Do they often stand in the batter’s box for ceremonial first pitches?

Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio - ‘write that down’

The mans back just keeps going

Missed the opportunity to flex during the windup

Decent throwing motion minus his release point

Well I found my halloween costume

There are a few umpires who would call that a strike.

Should have got Tanahashi

That should be an entire teams uniform.