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Sid Finch and I went to different schools together
Harrr!! That used to be my pickup line. The only thing I picked up with that was the trash.
Tom Perkins guess that’s why it was your pickup line
@@brrrrr7630 And, too late smart...
Sid is fake
We know aiden
This guy could have been a millionaire playing baseball but chose not to exist... respect
He’s fictional
@@ogslim5380 he chose to be fictional, we know
@@ogslim5380 wow
@@ogslim5380 You must be fun at parties
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I'm old enough to remember when the article on Sid came out in the American Medical Journal. Apparently both his elbow and shoulder in both arms and been dislocated due to the training for years at the monastery while the surrounding cartilage was extremely strong. This allowed him to throw a baseball with his right arm essentially unattached in two places creating a type of human whip while the strong cartilage kept his arm from flying apart. At least that was the theory. Its a shame he gave up baseball to go back to meditation. We'll never know what career he would have had as a pitcher.
lol this is probably going to get every person who doesnt watch the full video.
"Living a humble life and letting others with less talent than you have their spot is it's own reward." Sidd
still skeptical. It's not about just the cartilage holding up at that speed, but human bones will split themselves in half with that much centrifugal force. sounds like meditation mythos to me
Sid Finch. Wow. My grandpa had watched him in Spring Training camp at the gates and he was absolutely amazing. What an icon.
Sidd Finch once threw a baseball so hard, he struck a guy out with one pitch
One pitch man.
Yeah and he got a concussion
He threw so hard he managed to not exist
CAP
Damn
are we just going to forget the fact that the nationals were beating the mets 25 to 1
Matt Barton I was at that game and it was crazy.
mans is a mets fan and he still put that game in there.
Bruh i was watching that game and i just went to tue park with my brother to play baseball
Matt Barton bruh
Yes
"oh my bad guys... the radar gun was set to KM/H"
Bruh my history teacher loved Sidd Finch, he would hype him up all the time in class. He didn't know Sidd's secret either, which was the best part, the passion in this dudes eyes talking about this legend made it even more hilarious after all was said and done lmao.
Sidd Finch. What an icon. Gave it all up to play French Horn. Randy Johnson said he envied Finch’s courage to do what he loved without caring about the money. “I loved the xylophone, but gave it up. Finch is the man”, said Johnson.
I gave up my baseball career for the accordion. I love dancing to polka's as well.
yo james, i think you should read david’s comment
Finch was a phony conman who never revealed it was a prank so he's not a joker
Jesus loves you alot trust in His death 4 salvation and be saved from eternal hell
I use to go hunting with my friend, I brought my gun, he brought a baseball.
Haha
Haha
Haha
Haha
Lol
The minute I knew this was a hoax was when they said Sidd was from England
Yes. This is cap because if someone could throw 168 they would just kill their arm and never be able to throw a baseball again. And the fastest ball ever thrown was 105 mph by Aroldis Chapman
@@jaibains3657 really? It just went right over your head...
@@n.d.miller1543 yo chill man. I was just saying something geez
@@jaibains3657 100.9 by Nolan Ryan.
@@jaibains3657 I think Jordan Hicks has the record for fastest pitch in an MLB game at 105.something
Sid played in the same league as me. He was clearly known before I faced him. I started my swing and the ball was already there and hit the butt of my bat so hard, if it had stayed fair it would have been a home run.
Thats seven minutes and thirteen seconds I’ll never get back.
yup
Ray Lewis Thanks! You just saved me six minutes of my life.
Thank you for this comment
7:12
@Quinten Summers it's actually 13
In the middle of the video, my dad walked in the room. "What are ya watchin'?" "The Greatest baseball player of all time never played baseball." "And who's that?" "Sidd Finch" "Who?" " *e x a c t l y* "
@Bryan Bradley damn, NHL doesn’t exist?
@@Stxrrzy Lol
Are ya winning son?
Who's on 1st, No, what's on 1st, who..? What, what..? No who...
@@Stxrrzy Not too much time for ice hockey when they don’t let you have the skates
I actually believed this for like 5 minutes. Wow. Now I feel like an idiot 😂
So anyway, I have this bridge for sale...
Graduated in 1985. Best friend was an avid sports fan: baseball, basketball, football, boxing, wrestling, track and field, tennis - you name it, Carl loved it. He also subscribed to two magazines: Sports Illustrated and Ring Magazine. Forgot about ol' Sid. Thanks for the memories.
“Don’t go to the com..” *reading comments
MrTikie9405 lol what I’m doing
Same
MrTikie9405 exactly what I did
Sorry
I made the likes to 666
I went to that car dealer with the guy that threw 180 mph. I tested if he could actually throw a ball 180mph and he threw it straight up my ass and I had to get surgery to remove it. Edit: Lol I commented this in my school bathroom in 8th grade. Crazy how many likes and comments it has now.
wiam smit where did they find the ball
Damn thats crazy, some people lie on youtube but i believe you 🤣🤣
Better idea was to say you went to a Lamborghini dealer & bet the car salesman you could outrun his fastball when you test drove the Diablo model. You won the bet 😂
@Savannah Rey 😂😂😂
Shocking Isn't It? ,
Thank you for this. I remember the SI article and it making me crazy excited to see what he could do!
I remember reading the SI article and being floored by this guy’s story. Still love it.
I heard Darrel Strawberry once hit a 700ft HR in spring training off of Finch. He closed his eyes and swung. Made good contact.
That’s a lie
@@ashleykastner3707 obviously he was joking
*hit
Bugs bunny hit a home run that went all the way around the earth
I seen it
If he threw into one of those carnival fast pitch nets I'm sure it wouldnt clock past 70.
Don’t believe everything that’s correct!! ESPECIALLY THE MSM!! The MSM SUCKS!!!
70?! Try 58
Isnt it just guess ur speed after u throw one so it doesnt really matter if the gun is slower or maybe im rememberin it wrong
Casey Michel i hit 58 lmao
I tried that once , I hit 55 mph and that was about 20 years ago, I doubt I could hit 50 now. Some teenage girl went after me and hit 65 mph, I certainly hope she was a softball pitcher if she could throw that hard.
Saw the title and wondered if it was the Sidd Finch item. I had read the original article when it came out but was remembering the last name as Fish. Remember the "I have learned the art of the pitch" line. Glad my memory still has some items intact.🤔😎
0:30 There was a guy in a college sports forum that had this Sid Finch picture as his avatar. I always wondered what that was. Thanks for explaining.
I couldn't figure out why the baseball kept getting larger. Then it hit me.
Shut up.. Lol
😂
Lol
I shouldn't be laughing this hard at this
Stop
Finch once struck out the side on just THREE PITCHES. The batters told the ump: "the other two pitches won't do them any good". True story.
Only Bugs Bunny has ever struck out the side with one pitch, a extremely slow off speed pitch.
I thought rabbit pitches were illegal?
Corona BeerVirus h
That is actually possible. There is a rule that allows strikes to be called without a pitch if the batter leaves the box and won't return in a timely manner. Hasn't happened in the majors but a player in one of the lower leagues struck out on one pitch after getting upset on a strike call on the first pitch and staying out of the box to bicker about it.
@@ozymandias9375 you mean "rabbit punches"
Guy was a marvel. I saw him play once. It was unbelievable. Literally unbelievable
I’m sure you did!
😆
underated
Life time Astros fan here. Astros were really interested due to having the claim of the fastest pitcher, the great Nolan Ryan. I remember when this came out. The Mets even had a batting cage with holes because he threw it so hard that it busted the fence. Lol.
Dang I can’t believe he throws that hard
It's fake
Daniel Monreal r/wooooosh
@@frosty8756 shut up u meme legend keyboard warrior
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A SI reader from Ohio wrote in saying he knew the story couldn't be real, because the only way to get a player like that is to have the Indians trade him away.
Hahaha! Thank you for a good laugh!! I needed one!
That’s funnier than the video
And now I'm here after the lindor trade 😂
"I thought we didn't have any high priced talent." "I forgot about Dorn because he's only high priced."
Or Cubs
Sidd Finch was my favorite when I was a kid! I read the book about him when I was in middle school.
Yep, my dad and I read that SI article when it came out. My dad then smiled and showed me the date on the cover. Good fun.
Could you make an episode on my RTTS character? He’s hitting .500 with 88 HRs.
LaFlame _ my guy hit .640 with 159 HRs
Mine hits .690 with 420 hrs
Stop playing RTTS on Rookie with the sliders slide all the way to the right. Play it on hall of fame an get realistic stats
MNGBs DoloPikassoMNGheadHancho who would do that lmaoooo nah but chill it’s a joke
@@landon03335 i know just stating the obvious so many ppl brag about their RTTS but play on Rookie. Idk i like to get a realistic experience its not fun doubling the HR record everyyear, hitting 150 bombs a year
I remember this whole story. There was a large tent put up in Shea Stadium and they had a pitching machine in there shooting balls against something so it sounded like Sid was warming up, but no one ever saw him. One of the backup catchers, I don’t remember who, said he had to have a specially made glove to catch Sidd’s pitches.
omg XD Can't imagine the reaction on people faces with this
Epic tale! That ranks up there with Doc Ellis throwing a no hitter while on lsd lol. I really like baseball.
I met Sid Fitch one time in the “back rooms” when I was looking to buy a can of blinker fluid for my 2003 Samsung Silverado F750. She was a really great guy. And she really helped me get through a really tough smell in my life. Good times
His curveball was clocked at 168. His fastball was clocked at 198. It is said that a sonic boom was heard every time He threw the fastball thus letting hitters know what pitch was coming.
Sonic boom? Only at 198 mph? Mmmmmm..... checks out 🤣
@@kinocorner976 also a sonic boom lags behind a supersonic projectile so even if a ball was going supersonic, the hitter wouldn't hear it at all until it passed him
@@werk62 I mean, considering supersonic is around 750mph I’m sure the batter has much more to worry about 🤣
Like that time Wade Boggs drank 200 kegs of beer of a flight before a game and hit 37 home runs that day.
@@abrahamlincoln9758 i was at that game...Boggs didn't look good but his bat was lightening.
I remember reading, "The Curious case of Sidd Finch", when it first came out. It fooled pretty much everyone.
My History teacher went nuts over him, the way he told the story to the class was amazing lol, was so sad when we googled him and what day his story came out... lol.
I got the book---love it!!!
Lmfao. I forgot about this until you showed the pic of him. Great video.
This is a truly amazing place. Thanks for sharing
When I was young, I could throw over three hundred miles an hour. Of course it took an entire at bat
Yo u got my whole name kid. Like literally
First and last
CAP
Stop capping
For everyone saying cap it’s a joke
I enjoyed the cod zombies references. That mystery box music in the background did not go unnoticed 😂
He also played the French horn 😂 😂 😂 had me cracking up
I played little league with Sid Finch. He pitched 86mph when we were 8 years old.
I think that radar gun was in kilometers per hour not miles per hour.
I think you didn’t watch the whole video
@@bigjjohnson21 op could be talking about the anecdote the youtuber made about going to a spring training game where the radar read 180
111mph is still REALLY fast
@@purplegill10 ikr this mans a tard
Freedom- thats funny considering hes a fictional character. Why lie?
I remember that article in SI. Thought it was the most clever thing ever. Thanks for sharing this. It brought back great memories.
It reminds me of a story the BBC ran on the same date in 1957 about that year's harvest of spaghetti from the spaghetti trees in southern Switzerland and northern Italy
Gotta say, really impressed with you asking us not to comment, regardless of the scenario. So refreshing, because you guys usually beg for like, comments, subscribers, bells, yada yada, like we don't already know how to show appreciation or help your channel grow. We know, I assure you and the rest, and no amount of clever segways is going to make it less annoying when you guys ask for us to click buttons for you, stop begging, do good work, don't suck, and viola, you'll get where you need to be, promise. Thanks again, quality stuff here 👍
I remember how reading this story in SI "shook" the sports world back when I was in high school!
Bro it would be so funny if someone said "Omg I know all about him hes my cousin" or whatever and they didnt untill they saw the end lol🤣🤣
ha so funny ha ha ha ha ha ha....... sike that shit was so wack
Thanks I skipped to the end, ruined the whole video before I even watched the intro.
F u u ruined it
He is my cousin! 😂
I do know him. I just saw him Saturday 7/17/2021 in Dekalb, Illinois. A great friend to my family. Love his wife Gloria. We call him Joe. 😁
This is hysterical. I'm a die hard Mets fan and Ive never knew the full story. Now I want a throw back Jersey with Finch on the back. This is definitely something Mets would do. Great video thanks.
Joe Berton (Finch) was a friend of the Sports Illustrated writer. He was also a wood shop teacher at my junior high school.
I remember sitting in my living room reading this sports illustrated article. One of the all-time great april fools pranks. Article was written by George Plimpton who was a real character of a journalist. He tried out with the Detroit Lions and played in an NHL game as a goalie just to be able to write about it.
Plimpto also wrote about boxing Archie Moore and playing tennis against Pancho Gonzalez.
He was wearing one boot to make it feel like he was actually going downhill on a pitchers mound
@@zeromii3234 yea
Man was an absolute monster. Darryl Strawberry somehow connected with one of his pitches during a practice and the ball took out the floodlights.
The only thing Darryl Strawberry could take out was a pound of coke before a game...
It snows like crazy in CA...in the mountains. Sometimes it even snows in the desert.
I was going to say this sounds like an anime, guy finds mentor, trains, then returns to society to be the best
Fax
For those who don’t want to watch the whole video, Sidd Finch had an abnormality in his elbow, letting him snap the balls at amazing speed. Unfortunately he was suffering from colon cancer, and ended up passing 8 months after his name went public. That’s why the Mets didn’t take him. There you go, you’re welcome.
that sucks
it was a notorious April Fools' Day hoax article "The Curious Case of Sidd Finch" first published in 1987
LMAO
Thank you so much
this aint true trust me
that was one of the greatest videos I have seen in a while.... great job guys
Thanks so much 😊
4:30- The description of the story- the first letter of the words reads "happy april fools day". I read that story when it came out and was shocked. Once I learned the secret and saw the hidden message, I never forgot. This was an all-time classic.
I had literally heard of this before and still fell for it 😂
well it was a long time ago . I remember hearing they had him pitch behind a tarp that had holes punched in it from the balls .
I used to play some basketball with Sidd Finch; he was great at that too. He said the monks had taught him that "inner strength will lead to great awareness of the joy of the shot". He never missed, never. He was Stephon Curry before Stephon Curry; he was Larry Bird in a meditative state. We just played that one time.
This is one of the best April Fools pranks ever 😂
I faced Sidd Finch in a sand lot league in 1982. As good as a pitcher as he was he was an even better French horn player. He was so humble he never even told those SI writers that he once was recognized by the Green Bean Casserole Association as having the best green bean casserole in recorded history & was recognized with the Golden Bean, basically the Cy Young of the green bean casserole world, 3 years in a row. Would've won it every year but retired the recipe to give others a chance. He was a true golden hearted, Renaissance man.
My grandma used to tell us this story of Sid everytime we go to visit her during summer. She's in Nepal. 🙏👍
So she'd tell you about a completely made up person... in America no less? yeah, that makes sense.... *cough* BS!
I heard Sid likes to chill with the Yeti...
Robert Johnson R/WOOOOSH
Why does this cumment section have to be so un YT like? I mean like legit I haven’t even seen a single woooosh cumment (it’s not just that, but rather everything). It’s as if it’s just random people who aren’t used to how YT cumment section language is are cumment. It just seems that it’s very little of an actual internetish feeling if you get what I mean or sm Idefk how to explain it well. Like who says BS anymore? More like that’s so sus, I can smell the cap from a mile away, or just something: Wed/06/02/2021 at 23:22 EDT2
I remember this happening, but did not know the Mets had gone along with the prank, until now. Thanks for telling the whole story.
i love how he said they had good pitching but one game they were losing to the nationals 24-1, but they still have really good pitching
I never heard the story before. I was just thinking I have the whole 1985 set, 1986 set and I don't remember seeing a sid finch. Lol great prank.
I remember reading this story in sports illustrated in the 80s and was excited AF. Then got to the end and I wanted to hunt them all down and get my revenge.
“The Mets weren’t very good in 1985.” Who would have guessed
Fishy Hayden true
He said the Mets weren't very good "in the early '80s". In 1985 the Mets contended for the division title, winning 98 games and finishing 3 behind the Cardinals.
It only took 6 years for the pirates to claim their division title.
@Fishy Hayden only because of bill buckner couldn't field a little league grounder.
@@chrisj6773 I blame Calvin Shiraldi and Bob Stanley more. They both couldn't get the last out and the game was already tied when the ball went through Buckner's legs.
I was scratching my head for a minute, because I started collecting sports cards around that time, and I ain't never herd of him, lol. But of course back then my guy pitching was Nolan Ryan and Phil Neikro
Well done, though I've no real interest in sports, I do like a good story. Your updated version is extremly well done.
Still one of my all time favorite stories in sports. I love everything about it.
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I still have that edition of the SI !! I was 16 and was totally taken in hook line and sinker! I was sooo excited to see this “Finch” character! The article really made him out to be an incredible athlete with even more incredible eccentricities! I immediately thought at that time, ohhhh man baseball has got another “MarkFydrich” better known back in the day as the BIRD! He was the AL ROY in 76 an went 19-9 with a 2.34 ERA. If anyone even remembers him, he’s the guy who would talk to the ball and lay on his stomach an even the dirt around the mound🤣😂🤣. What a great memory
1985 was a hard year but 1986 was an amazing year for me. I finally got introduced to something I'd been dreaming of for years. It changed my life and was almost wrecked by it, to be honest.
I was in college. I had a subscription to SI. I got this issue. I completely fell for it, hook, line, and sinker pitch.
Never heard of "Sidd Finch" or believed the headline, but I DO love a good story... true or not.
0:31, the way you were framing it, up until this point, I was wondering “does he know?!”.
never thought i would see a RelaxingEnd clip in a video about baseball
I went to school with Sid Finch. He used to knock down snipes from 100 feet at the river. OGs Slim used to practice with him.
Can we talk about his foot
Off-limits, sorry
Thank you
Tugboatpb I am so sad no ones doing it
fucking finally somebody said it, it's like a goddamn paddle
Syd Finch wasn’t played by an actor, it was Joe Burton, a middle school art teacher in Oak Park IL. I know because I was in his class when all this happened! SI did a follow up story later in which they took a picture of Mr. Burton with some of his students (my friends)-I will always regret that I wasn’t home when he called to ask if I wanted to be in the photo. I missed my only chance to be in SI! By the way, Mr. Burton was a great teacher!
But he acted as a baseball player... therefore he was an ACTOR
If you look it up, 105 mph is the limit for a pitcher as determined by physics and mechanics.
I followed baseball more back then than I do now and I don't remember this at all but then again I can't remember what I had for breakfast.
LoL I laughed at the intro when he mentions the Mets always having great pitching...too bad no championships to show for it!
They do tho
The Amazing Mets.
I am a HUGE Mets fan so it makes me happy to see this
Old footage of the astros reminds me that they once were good. At having cool uniforms.
This man is a true legend of sports.
Doesn't hold a candle to NHL's would be GOAT named Taro Tsujimoto.
Tsujimoto was a young prospect however and Finch came around in his prime. Imagine if Finch had the longevity that Tsujimoto got to enjoy.
The Mets trolling everyone before anyone knew what trolling was. Classic.
Idk how I missed this... I'm an older guy and was a Mets fan from 85 to 89.
This is the best ever!!! I remembered this story.
That’s priceless! I have a new found respect for the mets
“Don’t skip to the comments section”. Well played...😡
Somewhere in my attic I have that sports illustrated from 85. Lol I remember that article well
My dad was visiting New York in '85. He saw Finch getting on a plane to London. He asked him if he was, in fact, Sidd. He didn't answer, just smiled and winked. He said there was an aura to Sidd, he knew he was meant for more than just baseball.
“He played the French Horn” I like this guy
I remember this. It was my junior year and so many announcers and conspiracy theorist had a time with this!
Good video tho, made it to the end, kkeo up the good work mate)))
Physically impossible to throw a baseball that fast, but you still peaked my interests and got me on the April fools joke…well played
why
Love it. Reminded me of a Paul Harvey segment. Lol