RIVALS: Vlad Guerrero Jr. and Life in Baseball's Minors - VICE World of Sports
2017 ж. 27 Жел.
494 027 Рет қаралды
In Appalachia an old rivalry lives on at the lowest level of the minor leagues.
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5:57 that shot of his socks really pulled this whole thing together.
Michael Schley wtf was the shit 😂😂
No this pulled it together 3:11
Came for Vlad... Left depressed.
SO happy I learned all about what Vlad Jr.’s life is like in the minors. Amazing. Inspiring.
This was hardly about Vlad
this fucking sucked I was hoping for details on his progression and time in the minors instead i got an uninteresting story about some random fucking town from a guy who tried way too hard to make the situation into some poetic thing. also i had to watch his shitty clip of him scoring his only run while in the mlb
MANCHESTER UNITED soccer is for pussies
MANCHESTER UNITED F.C no
@MANCHESTER UNITED F.C fuck soccer
He got his first major league hit today: a double in the bottom of the ninth
Hes leading mlb in homers in 2021
Wish they focused on Vlad more than that savant chicken mascot.
Dont hate on Thomas Thomason.
savant? huh
Mascot bar more potential
Wish they focused on vlad over the anti cole stuff Obama implemented
@M Cool. No one cares.
You forget how good long form journalism can be until you see something like this.
Anyone watching after the home run derby
And now Vladdy became the youngest player to hit 48 homeruns in a year and lost an MVP only to a Japanese Babe Ruth
Very little Vlad, a lot of RIP West Virginia.
GTOAviator w
This is an incredible story - there's an oscar winning film there (or actual documentary) also - the "morning ladies" *sprays pits and puts on chicken costume* is the real star here
Errhka check out the movie Sugar. It follows a minor league player from Dominican Republic. When they are sitting in a diner and don't know what they are eating, that scene happens in Sugar lol
it was crazy to see this filmed in my home town
I 💓 Baseball. Watching from London UK ⚾🇬🇧
Love the video Fernando, hope you you do more in the future like this. Take us to some of the other levels, that would be great to see.
Wow this is true backwoods rookie/a ball! Really feel spoiled with the low a stadium I have tickets for. So true with guys barely making money and being here cause they love the game.
Just seeing this now for the first time in 2022, Jays are poised to maybe win the World Series this year in large part, thanks to this dude.
And now look wheres he at! The *Home Run Derby!*
Very nice documentary, wish it was longer
In 2021 hes leading the majors in homers about 65 games in 23 homers hes also leading the a.l in batting avg. Hits and rbi.s paying off
Make more videos like thsi
you should do a video on the montclair cup the rivalry between the two schools in the town of montclair
victor magnusson montclair, CA?
new jersey
victor magnusson is inner eye still there? On Bloomfield ave?
It sucks that these teams are shut down now
Must have been nice to get a 4 million dollar contract at 17 years old to play in the middle of nowhere in front of the retirement home. Let’s say he never made it to the big leagues. If he was smart with that money, start a business, smart investments. Set for life.
His dad was already a wealthy HOFer. Vladdy has a lot of good qualities... but he did not have to live in poverty like the majority of his fellow Dominicans.
no he is debuting in the mlb
Update: Vlad's killing it
Bruhhh I’m out here watching this and right as it says his career starts here I get a notification the vlad got called up that’s wild
you're only watching this because he just got called up... not the other way around
I’m from Bluefield
Keep working and moving foward my Dominicans and everybody else in this video. Jesús Christ loves you all :)
Present Truth7 how can someone who is not alive feel ?
Carlos Diaz too bad he is though
He is alive
yes
I know I’m a little late but I need more Francisco Perez
Now he’s the starting 3B of the Toronto blue jays. 💪💯
2 years later...
I would love to live in a small community like this for a year to focus on playing ball
Lucas Scott it’s not that bad we have a mall lol it kinda sucks
Now on 2021 he is mvp candidate
When the TB Rays move to Montreal and become the Expos, it will make the rivalry even more interesting!
There's major talk about this but all the owners have to agree
How to make a short film around 20 seconds of vlad interview
Vlad should’ve won the hr derby
first 2 major league HOMERS baby
Imagine of West Virginia became the biggest producer of solar panels? Times are changing up next are the truck drivers
Thomas O'Rilley truck drivers will never be replaced
Thomas O'Rilley West Virginia would be a terrible place for solar panels for it’s the state with the least amount of sunny days with 54 a year
They'll be one of the next major sectors replaced by automation and AI. A child born today won't see that job being listed by the time they're looking to start their own family.
2:59 Chamber of Commerce!?!?
Roscoe the Rooster is the new Tea Girl...
Hey that's where i live
Go to watch games all the time saw vladdy once
No batting gloves
I wanted to watch for Vlad. I saw chicken i closed the video.
Did know one see that dude behind vlad picking his nose
How many kids play baseball year round in the Dominican Republic
jp - Hate to make such a joke ,but the answer is ALL OF THEM!
Ennis Whalen can you give me a specific number?
In the South, it's "App-a- LATCH-cha" not "App-a-LAY-sha."
home run derby anyone
Really cool to see a bunch of Rays prospects that I worked with this year in the video!
Ayy vladdy jr
is this the vice sports content purge?
Reid Yearwood yup lol
For the ladies...
Damn anyone else from Mercer county New Jersey and got absolutely confused when u saw Mercer county west Virginia Our priceton is in Mercer county as well as theirs lol, but ours has the university Our Mercer County has a AA team, the trenton thunder, and they’re always good so they really don’t have rivals
Vlad is the best minor league player in the country
But he's going to play for a Canadian team
3:11
I hate little towns like this. It seems so lonely and dead and it makes me sad
I love small towns. You don’t have to deal with anyone bothering you lol.
he'll be a Hall Of Famer, mark my words...
Yeo I felt taht when your in a slump no one wants ya like damn my whole season went like taht bc I never was played feel bad ab the coal going away though
A College wood bat league now.
Princeton Rays but their mascot is a chicken? Huh..
No se varon hahahah
Skipped through this entire documentary looking for Vlad Jr, and all I got was bullshit, bullshit, bullshit.
same here haha i hope vlad jr picks up the slack. i know he’s under pressure but i’m dying to see his first HR.
stupid title
How does Vlad jr not speak English?!?!? His dad couldn't buy him a tutor growing up?
Ecofolux2427 I am from DR and i don't understand it, either they are a lot of good English school over there.
Ecofolux2427 I think is because he is not intereste in learning English.
It's a problem in the minor leagues apparently. The latin players only hang with other latin players, and they are given translators.....why learn? As a baseball fan, and also a hockey fan, I saw a player that my team had drafted at 18, and by 20 he was in the NHL with NO English, and within a year he could take interviews. Hate that baseball gives these players a chance to just....stay in their shell.
His father doesnt speak English
And??? My friend is from Mexico and didn't speak English when he arrived here when he was 11. He's fluent now. His parents still can't say more than a few conversational words in English to me (after 20 years here) and use him to interpret at stores and whatnot. So "my parents don't speak the language" is not an excuse. He immersed himself into school, and hung out with kids like me, instead of only the other 3-4 hispanic kids at our school.
Dude mak8ng it to the Major Leagues isnt that hard....all u javr to do is be obe of the best players on the world and be dortunste enough tokbe spitred at the rifht time on thw right team and be ox sistenr for about 5 years through each level of the minors...and then when u get called up the majors where the level of play is night and outer space you just have to be good roght off the bat or you'll be dropped right back down to the minors.....ane its not a mentslly rough fame. All u have to do is fault 7 out of 1p timws at the plate so you 3 entire at bats to make u feel good our of 10.....shiiiit only reason i dosnt make the majors was because I cohldnt even get scouted by a division 1 college.....and I didnt get cloae to beibg drafted. That's the only reason im not Willy Mays
You speaking dutch?
The hell you talking bout fool
he is right you gotta be able to put in work then they will find you
That's best case scenario. Most prospects flame out due to injuries or better players coming up who works just as hard. Sometimes working hard alone isn't enough. There will be things beyond your control, because that's how life works.
Fabo Andolini learn how to type
Sooo this was random. No storyline or point.
Yeah he kept making it seem like he was going to make some "poetic" connection between the dying town and the start of the kids' baseball careers, but he just couldn't be asked to. So instead we got random fucking b-roll and clips while he blabbered for 10 minutes about how the coal industry is dying, so that he could hit the 10 minute mark. So worthless. edit: i just looked back and the mascot alone takes up 2 minutes of the video. who fucking cares about the mascot? Vlad wasn't even on screen for 2 minutes total. probably not even a full minute lmfao.
Jesus is the only way to heaven ✝️
This sucked.
Blk Palms you suck
I would never want to live in such boring cities like these
Anthony Herrera Cool.
Waste of 10 mins of my life!!! Absolutely nothing bout Vlad Jr
No worries Bluefield, AN ENTIRE FUCKING NATION HAS YOUR BACK! LETS GO BLUE JAYS!!
First bitches
Thanks Obama.
coal has been dying for like 50 years now
Why the fuck would anyone watch “vice sports”
TRUMP 2020! MAGA
trump will bring those coal jobs back. MAGA!
Jba 99 u should get cancer
let that town die, who needs it anyway. lol
because you disagree with me politically I deserve a deadly disease? very liberal and tolerant of you
How sad we don't need coal anymore
hey guys lets just all be friends... and agree roscoe’s gon fuck yo bich