Hot mics and hidden angles from the NLCS, a breakdown

it was short-lived.

Very shortlived. But there was a time.

I've been pretty busy in the off season

just getting the rest of the company

going and setting things up. But in my

spare time in the cracks, I have just

been reviewing all this extra footage we

got from Major League Baseball. crowd

shots, extended shots, and piecing them

together to show you guys everything

that the broadcast didn't show you

because they don't have time to go

through all of this. So, this is the

National League Championship Series

extra bonus content as put together by

myself. It's brought to you by

DraftKings Fingerpoints. Let's go,

bro.

It cut off. Like I said, that was pretty

short-lived. Those fans went from that

to this feeling very quick. And then, as

you guys remember, they got just stuck

in this feeling. Actually, maybe not. It

got worse because this feeling had a lot

of hope and pain in the eyes. And

eventually, it probably just went to

acceptance and numb. Just punching

himself in the face. Utter shock. Beard

scratches. Beard scratches. Glasses

fixes. Beard scratches. Beard scratches.

Looking up at the gods. Oh. Oh, no. just

head inand sadness. I mean, it's a tough

it's a tough montage. Usually, I like

putting together montages of everyone

when they're happy and then when they're

like extra happy or they're nervous. And

the montage of of this feeling lasted a

while. Uh oh, and then a Dodger fan

sleeping cuz that's how easy it was for

them. All right, let's see what else I

put together.

HA. OH, HE DOESN'T LIKE IT. He's like,

"No, it was down." South Freelick

AGREES. HE SAYS, "NO, IT'S DOWN."

Manager Pat Murphy didn't like it. It's

[ __ ] John. It's [ __ ] [ __ ]

Here's the ump cam. Look at it. And what

do you got?

Here we go. This is as slow as it gets.

The umpire does not get this frame. To

me, that looks like a strike from the

way he's angling his head. But we're

just getting his point of view here.

Watch it again. And again, this is

slow-mo.

I think that was in there. I think I

agree with the call after seeing all of

the footage. And then the ball boy hit

some new balls and some ear tickles.

Yeah, that's my ear. Yeah, I can feel

it. No. Yeah, I have feeling on my ear.

Yeah, for sure. Freddy Freeman got a

hold of this ball. Bam. Smokes it high.

Does it have enough? Does it have

enough? Is it going to be caught? It is

off the awning and then into the picnic

table. The reason I show you the home

run is so you can see the reactions that

we have. Here's Mookie's reaction. Okay.

Eyes are going. Eyes are Oh, okay. Still

now. Now he's hopeful. Now he's trying

to find a view through butts, through

legs, behind backs. Celebrates. That's

Mooki's reaction. We And then he's out

on the front step. Left hand number one

up. Now we have Show's reaction to the

same pitch and hit and he had more

excitement right away, more hope right

away. He is

Oh yeah. Okay. So he did no blockage of

his view. Two hands are up and now he's

fist whatever that is. I don't know what

you call it. Now he's Okay, here we go.

Same time.

Tracking. Tracking. Oh,

Muki silent. Show kind of pushing on.

Trying to push it on. And then

let's see. Show reacted first, but

Muki's view was blocked. So, I don't

know if it's it was a clean race. I'm

not sure about that. Check swings and

great camera work. We've got this guy on

the third base side. The cameraman is

wide showing the whole field. It's a

beautiful shot. He realizes what's going

to happen. Bam. punches in for the punch

out. Great camera work, but was it great

umping? Let's see. Here's the side view.

Oh, that was close. Oh, Kiki doesn't

like it. That dude loves it, though.

Look at that fist bump. Oh, come on.

Come on, Kik. Sit down that way. Let's

watch it again here and see what we

think. You guys think he went frame by

frame?

Eh,

as of now, that gets called a lot. went

to his knee. It's parallel enough. I

think he he gets called. This fan liked

it a lot. Like I said, fist pump and

then come hither sign. Oh yeah, come

this way. Oh yeah, come this way. And

sit and again different camera shot on

the pitcher knows what's happening.

Zooms in. Yes. Punch out again.

The camera crew all over. That's why

they're doing the biggest game. Now

that's a swing. I don't need to show

slow-mo for that. That one great call. I

thought this was a cute interaction in

the dugout. Blake Snell gets a hug from

Yamamoto and then just, you know,

crossing cultures, respecting each

other. He gives him the little bow. You

know, thanks for the hug. I'll give you

the bow and then we'll do another

handshake and a two-handed handshake.

Very, very gentle. Yes. Thank you. Thank

you very much. And then uh what's he

signaling here? Like one big. What's

that mean? I or big thank you. So just

charades happening. You forget you

forget that like you know THERE'S BIG

DIVIDES. OH FREDDY PROBABLY THE last

time the Brewers in this season got

pumped up for a walk. It was a big

moment. He holds ball for Yeah. Look at

the guy behind him. Oh yeah. Take your

pace, baby. Let's go.

THAT WAS about the end of their

excitement, I think, in Milwaukee. But

just a fired up slow-mo shot of ball

four. You don't get that in the regular

season. The best of ump cam miked up

moments. These are either cool pitches,

the umpires miked up, you hear stuff,

cool view. It's the best of the National

League Championship Series Cam in my

opinion.

>> Oh, he go swing.

Huh?

Here we go.

Pause.

Hey.

Oh, that's beautiful.

Ow.

>> Almost hit the ump.

>> Shadows.

Jeez.

Fight.

Fight.

Fight.

Fight.

Hair.

>> Oh no. Did he go

pair?

Hurry.

Hurry.

Hurry.

Hurry.

No.

Oh, Donnie just clobbering him. What a

view to have of that. We had a great

catch in the crowd right behind the

dugout. It's fouled up. It's up. We've

got first baseman running. The dugout is

there. It's behind Guy in the jacket.

Makes a great two-handed. Very safe

grab. He dropped his rally to tal towel.

Watch. He drops his rally towel right

here. Has it in his right hand. Realizes

I need both. I'm going to catch this

thing. Doesn't let it bounce. Doesn't

let it touch the ground. Doesn't want it

to go to review. Wants everyone know I

caught this. Gets the respect he

deserves. We're going to get a high

five. Lefty. We're going to get a

handshake. Pats on the back. Good job.

And this guy wants a high five. Doesn't

get it right away. And you gotta, you

know, a guy that's wearing a Hawaiian

shirt in Wisconsin

in November,

he's gonna stay strong and demand his

high five. Hey, tap tap. Give me my high

five. Now it's about me. And he gets it.

And then he pulls him in for a shake.

Never do that to me again. Overhead view

of a ball hit right up the middle. Play

is made. Thrown to first. Looks pretty

routine from that angle. And you can see

him look at his teammates can be like,

"Uh, yeah, it hit. Yeah, it bounced."

And I love when we get base ball. This

ball takes a funky hop off the mound and

ramps itself up onto the ball. Watch it

in slow motion. Just a lot going on. A

lot of obstacles in the way here. And he

hangs tough. We've got it hits the top

of the mound, which is going to speed

ramp it up right there. Boop. And that

goes straight from mound to base of the

bag, which is going to turbo boost it

again for like a nice high hop off of

that. It didn't skid off of it. But two

obstacles stayed with it, hung tough,

got the out. Listen to the audio of it

hitting the bass. It's a very fun sound.

It's a satisfying sound.

Close your eyes and listen to all the

noises of this again. Beautiful.

It's the little things. Crowd on their

feet. Contraras up. Knee to hero. Line

drive. Oh, right into Mookie's glove.

[ __ ]

Hit it. Well, no result. Brutal sport.

It's everybody's favorite. The best of

base cam. What does it look like from

the bases point of view? Everyone's

always wondered. Well, that's nice.

Okay, what do we got here?

Oh,

we were at second base and we have a

pickoff play. Now you can watch again

knowing what you're looking at.

Woo!

Second base again. And the ball errant

throw rolls right past us.

Okay, first base.

Pitcher covering.

First base taking the lead. It's hit to

Freddy. Grabs it. Throws to first.

Yamamoto covering. Makes the scoop.

Dirt right in our faces. We're the base.

That is not that graceful of a slide.

But I appreciate the uplose look at the

the cleat. You don't see that a lot.

Right into the camera. That's cute. This

one was a close play. Head first slide.

Left hand is there. Glove comes down and

gets him right there. He does not have

the base. Base camag

>> bunt play on. First base is going to run

in and crash. Grab it. Spin. Fire. Easy

play. Nicely done. What do we got here?

A double play ball to second to first.

They turn two. Let's watch it from

second base. Here we go. It's hit to

third base. He grabs it. Throws it to

second. He turns it. Fires it. We

already saw that double play from the

bases. You've always wanted to see that.

Admit it.

Uh-oh. He caught it. He's got to get

back. Don't get doubled off. Ah,

where were you going?

Slide. Stealing third. Bam. In there.

Stealing second. In there. And then I

spent a lot of time editing this. I

already posted on social just making

these edits. I need to make myself laugh

sometimes. And I thought, hey, what

would this look like if I edited it like

this? And then this is what it looked

like.

That was an hour of editing, key framing

every single frame on my couch just for

funsies. Did you know Roki almost got

his head taken off by a ground rule

double? I didn't know that until I

watched this camera shot of this ground

rule double. We got it smoked. It's in

the gap. It's going to land on dirt.

Bounce up. Oh, he ducked just in the

nick of time. Everyone is there. First,

let's do our dance. Okay. And then let's

all point out that almost hit you in the

face, dude. You ducked. He's like,

"Yeah, I ducked that way." They're like,

"Yeah, that ball was coming. It went

right over your head. That was close."

And then they throw it to someone in the

crowd because they've been nice. Watch

it again.

And there's his face. And whoa.

I like how they did the dance first.

They point out his head. They're like,

"Dude, that almost hit you. Hold up.

Acknowledge the batter. Okay, we're

dancing." Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. No. But

for real, that almost hit you, dude.

Boom. This is what Otani's home run

sounds and looks like if you are a bird

flying over the stadium.

And this is what an Otani home run looks

like if you are the bases fastened to

the ground.

And this is what the bullpen looks like

after Otani hits his third homer of the

day. And everything is just roses.

Yes.

High fives galore. Everyone's going to

get together. High five there. High five

there. But then we just got a hand.

Wild. Just a wild hand dancing. He's

like, "You know what?" Boom. Boom. Boom.

I'll give you high fives. Great. And I

don't even notice. I'm doing my own

thing. You can high five me if you want.

I'm dancing. I'm dancing. I'm riding.

I'm having fun. I'm still going. I

paused. Now I'm going to scream. Ah,

they had a lot of fun.

Otani says hi to every opposing manager

besides Schilt. That was the only

manager that he stopped saying hi to. So

here he is saying hi to Pat Murphy

before the game. A little salute. Pat

Murphy points back at him says, "Okay,

thank you. Here we go." Just a nice

respectful thing Otani does. Except uh

Shil, who's not managing anymore, but

that was reported, I believe, that he

was the only manager. He stopped doing

that. And yeah, what a nice little hero

shot of him walking in getting ready.

Super slow-mo. Cool stuff. And then

there's a lot of shots of Otani just

making faces. He's very expressive. Here

he is in the batters box contemplating

the pitch. Like, okay, that was a little

nasty. That's fine. Here we go. And then

we got another one of him just in

thought. Just cute. Just a cute guy in

thought thinking about stuff.

Yes. Yes. Yes. Okay. He confirms his

thought over there. Whoa. What do we got

going on over here? We've got quizzical.

Very quizzical,

huh?

Oh, nice bat. Look at this bat. Then

we've got a cute whistle while you work.

Just getting some music in your head.

Get a rhythm. You know, you got to have

music in your head to do stuff

successfully. Said someone somewhere.

Time out. Uh, time out, please. Time

out. Now he's on the mound. And I

believe he's trying to get the attention

of the manager again. He's like, uh,

yes. Uh, nope. Can you get him? Can you

get Murf for me? Uh, Murf, where are

you? Hello. Where are you?

Uh, yes. Hi. Hi. Good game to you. This

one cracked me up. On the mound, gets

the pitch call. He says, "Okay, I'll

throw it." Wait, what the [ __ ] that

pit? Wait, what? I have that pitch.

Well, here it goes.

Okay. All right. Not bad. What? What was

that? Huh? You want me to throw what?

This one? Huh? I have that. Of course I

do. Ball four. Oh,

it was out. Okay, I agree. You're right.

I agree. I agree.

So, just tons of faces by Otani. Closeup

of Yamamoto's foot and his cleat. Got

the nice red laces, the blue Nike, and

then the toe, the special toe protector

cuz he drags his foot so much. That's

cool. Are they going to start making

cleats with that as a design? Maybe that

already happens. I'm not in that world,

but that is just they decided on the

broadcast we need to get a beautiful

closeup of the the cleat and the tow

drag.

And we got it. And I wasn't going to let

that go to waste. That's beautiful

camera work. This umpire drills the

footooth hole with the ball when he

throws it back at the end of the inning.

Watch this. He throws it. It's up on the

mound and lands beautifully there. Some

people when they go to a stadium, if you

don't know this, some people at the end

of every inning, they play a game where

you have to guess if the umpire is going

to throw the ball and if it's going to

go on the mound or off the mound. The

way that we played growing up was you

had a dollar and if you every time a

base got touched, the dollar passed. So

a home run was hit, that's four bases.

You pass the dollar four times down your

group. And if the dollar was on you and

there was two outs, you had to declare

before the third out happened on or off

the mound. And then if you got it

correctly, you kept the money. If you

didn't, you added another dollar or $5

to the pot and kept going. This umpire

some when you play this game, you learn

some umpires don't care at all. They

just go like this. other umpires know

this is a game because one guy at one

time an umpire didn't turn to uh our

section and like looked at us because he

heard us cheering or not cheering. So

this umpire he's aiming for the mound

and I don't know I forget who it is. I

could look it up. Maybe I don't need to.

And just want to commend him on a nice

shot. That's just a nice roll right into

the foothold. Stuck it beautifully.

Here's a Freddy Freeman double. And if

you're not interested in watching a

Freddy Freeman double, you might be

interested in watching Freddy Freeman

swang his hips around because they get a

nice slow-mo shot of this that just

makes it the butt. So,

you know, if you want it, I thought some

people might want that. I thought

Dodgers fans might want it. Dodgers

putting the Brewers to bed right here.

Another hit. Beautiful camera work. They

pick up Kik rounding second. He's going

to round third. He's going to score on

the hit. And then this camera operator,

he knows exactly where he's going next.

He's going to the crowd cuz he's got a

kid. CUZ LET'S GO.

Good night.

Good night.

Bye.

Something I always love finding when I

get this footage is all the different

pitch grips and release because we have

the high frame rate cameras, we have the

super slow-mo. So, here's Blake Snell.

This is going to be a fourseam fast

ball. You can see his fingers uh along

the four seams and he's just going to

rip that, pull it backwards, get that

spin, and hit his spot. From that angle,

it looks low, but we already showed you

that video earlier. This is his change

up. Now, you can see it's the the power

finger, the pointer finger is off. It's

the other two fingers, and that middle

finger is really what pulls it. And he

doesn't have it across the seams. He's

got it on the uh railroad of the

horseshoe, if that makes sense. And uh

pulls it with his middle finger there to

get that last second spin. And the power

fingers are off, so he's not going to be

able to get as much spin, get as much

VLOO on it, and it just falls off and

away. That's beautiful. And then we have

the curveball where he's going to wrap

it around. The thumb is behind it and

he's going to pull down on the pointer

finger to get top spin.

And that is going to turn over and over

and over and on its way falls off. I

love looking at this stuff. So, here's

the three put together in slow-mo.

And you can see all the different ways

he's holding it. Power fingers on, power

fingers off, behind the ball, on the

side of the ball. Three different things

causing three different speeds and three

different movements with the same

delivery. Pitching's fun. Now, let's do

the same thing with Yamamoto. We've got

this one and that is his four seam grip.

You can see across the four seams, he's

going to pull down, get that tight

backspin, lot of revolutions that rides

and stays up and is a on top of the bat.

And then we've got the split finger here

where he's got the railroad of the

laces. That's straightaway where the

logo is and his fingers are on the

outside of it. So a splitter grip and

that's going to fall off to the right.

His right finger there is going to be

the last to touch it right there. So

it's going to be spinning uh off of that

finger and that makes it go towards his

right side. That's why they call it arm

side run. That's his arm. It's going to

run that way and come into the batter

and drop off a lot. So, those are three

different pitch grips there. Very fun to

look at. Here are two of them freezed

up. There's the splitter and the four

seam side by side and the spin that

comes off of them. You can see one is

tight and spinning a lot and one does

not have a lot of uh spin. Not a lot of

reolutions.

Revolutions per minute. Revolutions.

Why' I Why' I doubt myself? That's just

sounded weird when I said it. And here

is an overlay where I tried my best to

sync them up even though their cameras

are moving. So, you can see how they

look side by side and the difference.

One just shoots out and the other falls

down. But for a little bit from the

batter's point of view, he can't tell

which one is which. So, that is some fun

editing to showcase how the pitchers are

doing what they're doing. Here's one of

Glass. Now, I just found this fun to

watch. You get to see his delivery, his

grip, and how the baseball moves. And I

will try to pause it and show you. That

is a two seam grip. So, he has his

fingers on the railway of the ball, not

across the four seams, which is going to

make it go to the right a lot. So, it's

a sinker or a two seam. They're kind of

interchangeable terms, but it's how you

grip the ball. And you can see that just

run away from Yelli's bat, where if it

was a force, he would stay. Now we got

Roki out of the bullpen and he's

throwing a splitter, but this is much

different than the splitter I showed you

from Yamamoto earlier. This is more of a

fork ball in my opinion. That is at the

webbing of his fingers, not at his

fingertips. That there's pressure deep

in his fingers, which is going to take a

ton of spin off this pitch. And it acts

more of as a closer to a knuckle ball uh

than a split fast ball or a split change

because it's really just doing its own

dance. No spin and just drops like

crazy.

That I think that's more of a I think we

have so many splitters in baseball now

because we have uh a lot of guys are

throwing what I what used to be called

fork balls, but they're calling them

splitters. Like that to me is not the

same pitch that um Gossman throws. He

actually throws a circle change grip

that is like a split change up. That's

not the same pitch that

uh Kirby is throwing or even Yamamoto.

That's more Fernando Cruz is throwing

this pitch or Raldis Chapman throws this

pitch every now and then, but they just

stopped calling them fork balls. So like

if you look at how many splitters are

being thrown in the league, the number

is going like crazy. But I think where

breaking balls are getting segmented

into sweeper, slerve, curve, slider,

and you're getting so you're getting

like less because you're

microcategorizing them. The splitter is

is is picking up other pitches. Split

change, split fast ball, uh fork ball,

they're all just splitters. So I feel

like it's an identification thing. And

more people are throwing splitters. Oh

yeah, make some noise.

Yeah.

Okay. Dodgers fans, different vibe than

Brewers fans. They started their home

games happy and they stayed happy the

entire time. And what is happiness if

you feel no pain.

Maybe that's just numbness as well. No,

they look pretty they look pretty happy.

Uh they're pretty into it. Waving flags

on the dugout, going crazy. Beautiful

sunny day. Shadows in Glassnau's favor.

Mascots are chilling and hanging out,

having tons of fun. Didn't know they had

two mascots. Not in the mascot game.

Binoculars are out. Seeing all those

cute Otani faces I was telling you about

earlier. Focusing in. Look at the active

focus there. Wow. Very nice. This slider

from Mezerowski had my hitting himself

in the head. Just undoing himself. That

cut in like crazy at such a high speed.

It's there and it just drops. So he

misses but he swings so hard because

it's so fast that he hits himself in the

helmet. It falls down. He's like, "Whoa,

I hit myself. You good? I'm good." Yeah.

Damn. It's a big swing. How about a

little picture and picture on a sweet

Mookie Bets play? It started on Roberts

and then Glass Now is going to Hey,

Glass Now is an awesome dugout guy. Just

an awesome dugout guy. He's always top

step. He's always streaming. Love

streaming Mookie's name. I found that

out by watching these. That's it. That's

everything I found from the National

League Championship Series. There's four

games. I still am going to do the World

Series, I think. But they're kind of

become a back burner between the between

the cracks of my day task. So, it'll

come. But if something bigger happens,

I'm going to make that video. Also, we

got holidays coming up. I got a vacation

coming up. It's the off season. trying

to relax and unwind so I don't burn

myself out and then not have fun during

the season, if that makes sense. So, I

appreciate you guys hanging with me and

everyone that understands that part of

the equation. Thank you very much. This

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