our next guest became a uh youtube sensation for his ability to mimic major league baseball hitters
ladies and gentlemen here he is the batting stance guy star reines welcome to the show thanks a lot
thank you for being here thanks for helping us celebrate all-star break uh first of all uh i
thought you were a kid you're not really a kid no how old are you i'm 36 36 years old even better
tell us about it how did it start what does it become and uh why
like you said most kids imitate their favorites automatically they're automatic yeah and so
ideally i would have grown out of it by now and what happened is we're playing wiffle ball in
our neighborhood and my buddy caleb says i'm going to film this and put it on youtube right
and that was yeah that was a year ago now you have uh done this for major league ball players
haven't you yeah it's wonderfully out of control it's the least marketable skill in america and
we people started requesting i want to see my team's video and so we put them all on batting
stanceguy.com and then the teams very literal it was pretty easy so you have to do every lineup in
every major league team in the in the uh in the it was you know it was just fun to find an audience
that found it funny yeah yeah yeah it's it's niche but you have also done it done it for clubs you
they bring it down to the clubhouse and they do it for teams so that what happened yeah the team
started asking me can you come out and do it so i went to dodger stadium and then was
doing the pregame show for the dodgers and i get a tap on the shoulder that says hey adrian
gonzalez of the padres wants to meet you and i i can't believe that how would he know who i am so i
walk over and he says hey man we watch you in the clubhouse all the time can you can you imitate us
so with a dodger jersey on and shorts dressed very similar to today um the padres semi-circle
me and her and are calling out names and so finally the manager bud black says
come on guys let's get back out on the field because it was their time for batting practice
guy guy yells out dude i want to see euclis and then the manager says okay one more one
more man
now uh are we are we ready to go yes okay now now this is interesting i
get i think this which one of these is your your about these are both
either one the goal of all of this has been to get this into the hall of fame
or to be invited to ken herbert's birthday party next year but either one that's a uh it's a wiffle
ball bet essentially it's in the family of wiffle all right now so you you go wherever you're gonna
go and then i can just call out any ball player now um are you gonna call out the names like you
alluded to with joe morgan or will he started i'll just spell out some names here uh
manny ramirez all right so manny i got a chance to meet and talk to and um i said
well you want me to imitate you from cleveland he's like oh you know cleveland right and so on
at washington heights in cleveland he was leaning forward kind of like
carly strimsky did at the very end of his career yeah and then now he's going
you know kind of
okay
all right his old buddy at the red sox david ortiz yes so big poppy
actually hugged me at spring training says oh boy you want us laughing last year i can't i mean
you can't go like this yeah beautiful more more of a waddle
cal ripken jr this is this is going back a little bit cal ripken jr i think our segment is not going
to be long enough to do the 21 different stances that he had at a certain point yeah he he had he
had ones that started up high like this then went like this right he did the violin at one point
where he would go like this back and forth he had one time like this he had one time like this
that's not true okay but the swing was always the same yeah all right perfect lovely um
all right i i used to think i could do a little of this one especially in the toward the end of his
career ricky henderson oh really that i stretched upstairs just in case you asked let's see a little
ricky henderson so ricky came into play right about the time that i started walking in baseball
so he would wear really colorful batting gloves and then he would get
really really low like this and then he would delay a little bit as if to say
i'm so fast that you can't even throw me out on the ground or he goes man
there was like a year there was probably a year to where he were like a fedora and
a pipe i mean he was very like stylized kevin euclis all right this is the this is the best
one i think right now kevin euclas is the best one and i got to meet him and he had watched some of
the cincinnati reds did you grow up liking the reds oh yeah okay so he did too and so he said
i can't believe you're sean casey and hal morris so i asked him a couple questions like kevin why
do you why do you do this when you're when you're on deck it doesn't look like anything and he said
i don't know i saw jeter doing it and i kind of thought it was close like
my virgin here like i can't unders not yankees and then joe he said he said yeah i finished
my swing like this i said why do you like go with the wrong hand he said i saw joe dimaggio
do it you can't tell me red sox yankees so he basically puts his knees together looks like
that sweating profusely with a large hair ball on his chin and he'll go like this and then he'll go
all right
mentioned uh derek jeter let's see derek jeter all right so derek jeter is incredibly cool
and he still calls for time but not with his fingers with his wrist each time so he'll go
and then when he when he takes a pitch he'll take it all the way in
he'll go back out takes it all the way in and then paul schaefer's never
in danger when jeter actually bats but when he finishes the swing he'll usually do this
throw it right at your here's one i remember when i lived in california watching this and
thinking he had a particularly unique stance and swing rod carew rod crew that's a that's a
fantastic choice on the twins he was a little bit more up
but then he got so loose when he was on the angels right in between the first and second pitch often
he would fall asleep for a very short it wasn't for very long it was very short and they would
focus they usually adjust this hat and it would like fall off a lot of one-handed hits okay
let's
charlie hustle not going to the hall of fame all-time hit leader pete rose all right well
it's he tries to get down as far as everybody in baseball history except phil plantier and so
joe morgan all right joe morgan as you did early on he would go around
all right one more willie sturgel all right
so pop by the way you're you're outing your age with all these selections what
can i do my i never get emails for these guys because a lot of them don't have email accounts
there it is willie sturgeon
guy right next ladies gentlemen
look at there thank you your own supply of pine cones that's all for you my house enjoy
the summer nice meeting you gary thank you thank you gary ness ladies gentlemen