MLB Players are Weird as HELL

action. The team and I were brainstorming recently and we came up with a new style of video for [music] the channel. I hope you enjoy. We collectively chose a subject and writers Henry, Caleb, and I say hello boys are going to research and write the script and I am going to read it. This is it. Then I only get a short amount of time to look at it beforehand and then we just roll with it. I'm sure this is going to go just fine. Don't forget to subscribe to the channel and uh check out the substack [music] for more exclusive content. Links in the description. Look, baseball players are weird. We love our superstitions. We love our gimmicks. Our egos are huge. And we love everything to be just so. There are an infinite number of stories of baseball players just doing weird stuff. And today we have the upper echelon, the cream of the crop if you will, of odd characters. As if that weren't enough, we're going to make things interesting by adding in some stories that aren't true, and you get to guess which ones they are. Fun, right? These are the top 10 weirdest baseball players in history. OH MY GOD. The first is Al Roboski, who pitched for the St. Louis Cardinals, the Atlanta [music] Braves, and the Kansas City Royals in the 1970s and early 80s. He was nicknamed the Mad Hungarian for his last name and his impressive mustache. Jesus, look at that thing. He was also famous for his mound presence. Before he threw a pitch, he would dramatically turn away from the batter, walk towards second base, rub the ball between his hands, and then [music] sprint back to the mound and stare down the batter. He was once forced to shave that majestic Fu Manchu when Vern Rap took over as the Cardinals manager. Vern Rap, where do they get these names? leading to tension between the two all season. The Mad Hungarian complained that relief pitching is 75% mental. How am I going to scare the hell out of hitters with my new image? How am I going to convince them that I'm a dangerous man if I look like a golf pro? I've never been blessed with great ability. Mystique is what made me successful. Little did he know, by 2025, half the major leagues would be ecstatic to be mistaken for a golf pro. So, it turns out there was a reason he never played for the Yankees. Even though I'm pretty sure foo man shoes were fine on the Yankees. Have you met Goose Causage? He still has it. The other honorable mention would be at the top of the list if we were just going by names alone. Oyster Burns was an outfielder in the late 1800s. Names as such because he sold shellfish in the off season. Back then, people had to have another job. Actually, they had to have like three jobs cuz baseball like didn't even pay any money at all. The newspaper, the New York Clipper, called him the noisiest man that ever played on the Brooklyn team. His voice reminds me of a buzzsaw. I do not know what that means, but it sounds crazy. He makes this list for one incident alone. In [music] 1893, his teammate Tom Daly was sleeping in center field between games, as one does. In the worst possible way to wake someone up, Oyster went out to him and stabbed him with a pen knife, severing a tendon and putting him [music] daily out of action for two weeks. What tendon? Man, dudes were crazy back then. It is unclear if Oyster was ever punished for this at all. And we thought the whole Tommy fam, John Peterson thing was crazy. He ain't no Oyster burner. All right, now let's get into the top 10. At number 10, we have Turk Wendell, who pitched for a handful of teams in [music] the late 90s and 2000s. So, a lot of you guys may have heard of him. He was a very superstitious man with a list of gimmicks including brushing his teeth between innings, slamming the rosin bag into the mound before facing hitters, chewing black licorice, never wearing socks, always wearing an animal tooth necklace, waving to the center fielder, always drawing three crosses on the mound, hopping very high over the foul lines. That that wouldn't make sense. You don't want to take chances. And making the umpire roll the ball to him. Now, that's just mean. In his final year, he asked to play for free, but the players association wouldn't allow it. He was also the first player to accuse Barry Bonds of steroid use. Somehow, that guy's number 10, and we have nine more to talk about. At number nine, Hall of Famer Wade Bogs. Bogs was also very superstitious. You're going to you're going to see a theme here. He ate chicken before every game, woke up at the same time every day, did batting practice at 5:17 every day, and ran spritz at 7:17 every day, which is during the game. He drew Hebrew symbols in the batters box at every bat, despite not being Jewish. Didn't want the announcer to ever say his number or the same socks every game, and took exactly 150 ground balls before each game. He sounds pretty committed to me. I don't know. It sounds like he would be a great uh Instagram influencer. He was also an avid Miller Light fan who on a cross-country flight drank at least 60 beers with people claiming that he drank up to 107. That is a number that only Andre the Giant could top maybe. One time he fell out of the passenger seat of a moving Jeep and was subsequently run over by his wife. And I might need one of you guys to send me a diagram displaying how that is even possible. Evidently, he was fine, but people joke she was getting back at him for his very public cheating scandal years before. Hey, maybe he had just had 107 beers and didn't feel it. At number eight, we have Mark Bedridge, the 1976 Rookie of the Year and two-time All-Star for the Detroit Tigers. He was nicknamed the bird when one of his minor league coaches told him that he looked like Sesame Street's character Big Bird. Yeah, I see it. The Bird had his own weird routine on the mound, talking to himself and the ball constantly preparing his own mound by patting down the dirt and digging his footooth hole with his hands. He also never let the ground's crew touch the mound when he pitched as he had it exactly the way he wanted it and insisted on shaking all of the infielders hands every time they made a good play. See, now that's just good oldfashioned sportsmanship. Now everyone's just bat flipping. He became a national sensation after [music] throwing a complete game in 1976 against the New York Yankees where the crowd loved him so much that they wouldn't [music] leave until he came out and give a curtain call. After his retirement, Fedri would show up on Monday Night Baseball as a guest commentator. And to the uh surprise of probably not very many people, he had no idea what he was doing and didn't know any of the players that he was supposed to talk about. Look, in his defense, this thing's kind of hard. It's really hard to watch 15 games every day, especially [music] back then. They didn't even have iPhones. Hey, Chad GB2, who won all the games today? In a more somber turn of events, the bird eventually passed away after he got himself trapped under his [music] own dump truck when he was working on it. Uh, I don't know how to react to that. At number seven is Kevin Romberg, who only played 41 games in his major league career. >> Man, he must have been some crazy stuff to get on this list. He had a ton of weird compulsions, mainly that he needed to touch every person that touched him. Teammates and opposing players loved to touch him and then run off so he would chase them. One time he was touched while going to the bathroom. He didn't see who it was, so he went around the clubhouse touching everybody. Hopefully, he washed his hands between. [music] Another time, a ball that touched him was thrown into the stands. So after the game, he spent hours looking for the ball. If he was unable to touch someone back, he would send them a letter that said, "This constitutes a touch." Another compulsion he had was he refused to make right turns on a baseball field. Meaning that if ball was hit to his right, he turned to the left and made a full circle to get the ball. This might be why he didn't play for very long. [laughter] He's not an ambi turner. Okay, number six is another top tier name. Meet Phenomenal Smith, born as John Francis Gammon, who was only 5'6 and had 12 children. That's oddly specific. The nickname came in 1885 when he threw a no hitter against Baltimore and struck out 16. After that game, he made everyone call him phenomenal. So, if you're keeping track at home, they didn't give him the nickname. He gave him the nickname. Those are the best kinds. A few months later, he was traded to the Brooklyn Gays. now the Dodgers where he told his new teammates that he was so good he didn't actually need any fielders to back him up. This led to everyone working together to make 14 errors and lose the game. Each fielder was then fined $500 each, interestingly enough is about $10 billion in today's money and bigger than current fines are in the major leagues. These fines were ultimately removed from the players and just given to Smith because it's his fault. Everyone hated this guy so much they're like, "I'm on your side. You pay it." He then became so popular as a coach that two of the minor league teams he coached, both in Portland and Norphick, decided to change their names to the Phenoms in honor of him. Huh, that's weird. It seems like the guys who played with him didn't like him very much, then. Now, let's get into the top five. Number five, we have Spaceman Billy. He had a mediocre fast ball, so instead he relied on an ephus, which he fittingly dubbed the leafus. Lee missed two months of the 1976 season after tearing a ligament in his [music] pitching arm during the famous Lupinella [laughter] during the famous Lupinella Carter Fisk brawl. That's very hard to say. He had a very public feud with then Red Sox manager Don Zimmer, which would end in Lee and two of his friends being traded after Lee called Zimmer a gerbal. Lee has actually had a very successful life after MLB. He broke Satchel Page's record of being the oldest pitcher to ever record a professional win at 63 years old as opposed to Satchel's 59. And he recently pitched in a game for the Savannah Bananas. They do everything. In 1988, he ran for president as a member of the Rhinoceros Party with the slogan, "No guns, no butter, both can kill." He also ran for governor of Vermont in 2016 with the slogan, "So far left, we're right." There's a movie about him named Spaceman. and he even makes an appearance as himself in the 2024 release of the movie Ephus. Barely missing the podium at number four is well-known recent legend Zack [music] Grankkey. In 2005, after begging to become a position player, he was allowed to hit in the game. He told his general manager that he would hit a home run, and then he did. Later, he claimed he hit it with his eyes closed because why not? He was so proud of it that he called then left fielder Alice Gordon into a room to show him the home run, telling Gordon to do more of that. Bold. After winning the Sai Young, Grankkey said he wish he hadn't. And after meeting President Obama said he wish Obama had been meaner to him in the 2019 World Series in Houston, he tried to hit Juan Sodto, which would have loaded the bases. In an interview before game seven, he said he wish it was a National League Park so he could hit. Seeing a theme I really wanted to hit. In Milwaukee, he threw a 53 mph curveball, which he said was in competition with Randy Wolf to see who could throw the slowest pitch. He once called his catcher off for a mound visit so he could discuss a fantasy football trade. In 2022, a kid gave Rinky a ball to sign. And instead of signing it and handing it back, he just chucked it as far as he could for his amusement. What' that kid ever do to you, man? Also, he has cats. What's wrong with that? Cats are totally normal. People love guys with cats. Guys with cats have like lots of friends. But arguably Grankie's weirdest thing he ever had was his deal with the Arizona Diamond Bags, which is rumored to include 10 tons of guacamole, a minority steak at a Chipotle franchise. The guacamole makes sense now. A Blu-ray copy of the Shaw Shank Redemption, and a samurai sword. I have a sword. Swords are cool. Are we the same? Guacamole was very important to Grankie, saying in an interview, "I like the guacamole. Now I don't really love the guacamole, so I get it when I feel like it." Broly changed their guacamole from $1.50 to $180. And I'll never again get guacamole. It's not about the guacamole itself. I just don't want to let them win. Stick it to the man. Love that guy. Anyway, he's got hundreds of millions of dollars. And here we go. Top three finally at the podium. This list could go in any order. So, let me know down in the comments if you think I messed it up or if they're exactly right. Bronze medal goes to Doc Ellis, an all-star pitcher in the 60s and 70s for the Pirates. He started drinking at 14 years old. quit his high school baseball team after a teammate called him a slur and only rejoined after he was caught smoking in the bathroom. Told he would not be expelled as long as he rejoined the team. So like I guess playing baseball was the punishment. Ellis claimed he never pitched a game without taking inetamines beforehand. Eventually needing to take 70 milligs per game. Now these were Greenies. You don't know what Greenies is? It was like a It was It was Adderall before Adderall. They hadn't really dialed it in yet. So that's a lot. And that might explain why he once chased a heckler through the stands with a bat. What he's most famous for though, and where you probably have heard his name, is when he know hit the San Diego Padres's in 1970 while high on psychedelic drug LSD. Evidently, he was visiting some friends, forgot what day it was, and accidentally took the drug in the morning, and then had to pitch in the night. He couldn't recreate his pitching mechanics, so he went into the locker room, got high, and headed out to the mound to start the game. He claims this was the scariest moment of his career. In 1974, in a game against the Reds, Ellis tried to hit every batter in the lineup because he was tired of the Pirates being scared of the Reds. That's one way to do it. He hit four batters before getting removed from the game. I don't know if he was actually pulled by his manager or if the umpires were like, "Dude, you got to go home." He was photographed before a game wearing hair curlers. He later said, "These hair curlers produce extra sweat in his hair, which he was using to throw a spitball." While he was playing for the A's, they wanted him to chart pitches. It's when you sit up in the stands and you like keep track of everything that your pitchers are doing. It's something we has to used to have to do in the minors and now they have uh they have people for that. It's the worst. Evidently, Doc agreed with me. After that, he was then traded to the Rangers where the manager, Billy Hunter, had a strict no alcohol policy. Alice fought with Hunter constantly, once liking his manager to Hitler. After retiring, he got sober and helped other addicts get sober for the rest of his life. The world's a better place for having you. and you're one of my favorite pictures of all time. Our runner up to the top spot, barely missing out, is Hall of Famer Rubell. In what could be the most obvious case of undiagnosed ADHD, trust me, I know what sounds like a gross stereotype for ADHD, he was easily distracted by puppies and shiny objects, and opposing fans would bring them to games, causing him to run over and look, and also fire trucks. He loves fire trucks. During one game, he attacked a heckler in the stands who must have forgot to just hide behind a golden retriever. Good job. I like that one. Wadell then threw a complete game shutout, which explains why he is in the Hall of Fame. He was a forgetful man acting on a touring show called The Stain of Guilt during the 1903 season in which he was unable to memorize his lines and would improvise them every night, kind of like I'm doing right now. That same season, he also shot his friend in the hand and was bitten by a lion. And this guy is not number one. He claimed to not even remember how many women he had married, divorcing three times in his life. He was married to his second wife for only a week before abandoning her and putting an ad in the newspaper, searching for an unckissed woman to marry. His alcoholism also caused a lot of problems in the clubhouse, resulting in multiple suspensions, trades, and demotions throughout his career. And at one point, his manager, Connie Mack, gave him his salary in $1 increments to curb his drinking. Something tells me that didn't work. He got in a fist fight with his teammate, Andy Kley. He was so confident in his pitching that during exhibition games, he would send all his fielders off and strike out the side. Phenomenal. And in the regular season, he would send them all to sit at the edge of the outfield and watch. He died at only 38 years old in 1914, contracting tuberculosis after protecting a small town from a flood the year prior. What is he? Superman. Like what did he do? Just hold it back. Either way, Noble. And the number one weirdest baseball player in MLB history is Moberg. We're going to have some music. Moberg. Yes, this has been a very pitcher heavy list, but look, the top guy's a catcher. Moberg was maybe the smartest baseball player in history. He graduated from Princeton, spoke eight languages, including Sanskrit. Good luck finding anyone who can speak Sanskrit now. And after his first MLB season, he sailed to Paris and enrolled in 32 classes there. You guys both went to college. What's a normal amount of classes? >> Not that. >> It's like four. It was there that he developed the habit of reading 10 newspapers a day, not letting anyone touch them until he was done with them. He skipped spring training and the first two months of the season in 1926 and 1927 to finish his classes at Columbia Law School and passed the New York Bar Exam by 1930. He would keep playing Major League Baseball for nine more years. Berg later went on the 1934 Japanese All-Star tour with Babe Ruth and Lou Garrick, taking a film camera to capture the sights. His involvement with the US government continued after his retirement for baseball, where he was sent to South America to monitor the health and fitness of the US troops. He then worked for the office of strategic services to help remotely monitor the war in Yugoslavia. Worked on a project to kidnap Italian missile specialists and traveled to Europe to convince physicists to work for the US. He attended a Heisenberg lecture in Germany to determine if the Germans were close to a bomb and had orders to shoot Heisenberg if he deemed them close enough, which he didn't. They just made him a spy. Oh, this turned into a movie called The Catcher Was a Spy. It all it all makes sense. where Berg was played by none other than Paul Rudd. I haven't seen that movie. Have you seen that movie? Is that movie good? Let me know in the comments. After some intelligence gathering for the CIA in the 1950s, specifically about the Soviet atomic bomb program, he retired. He was offered a presidential medal of freedom by Harry Truman, which he actually declined. That was that was a lot. Uh that was a lot to read. It's safe to say that MLB has had its fair share of weirdos over the years, from wouldbe assassins to YouTubers. Some of that was pretty crazy. I wonder which things were actually lies. And it just so happens that none of it was. You got baited. Oyster burn stabbing his teammate. Real. Bill Lee weed pancakes. Real. Bo Berg being asked to take out Heisenberg. Real. It's all real. It's all crazy. But baseball. Beautiful game. Brings us together from all walks of crazy life. So if you like this style of video, make sure you subscribe. Substacks up now. Got all kinds of exclusive content and uh other things that you might enjoy. So, you should just check it out. Stick it to the man.

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