Billy Gil
speaker
730 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 16 Sep
Billy Gil’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 2 in all, peaking in Sep 2026 with 1.
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And the hitters now are so conditioned to swing at pitches that are coming at 103, 104 that they're just so thrilled.
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thrown off by slurs and knuckle balls and balls that they just can't get to.
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I mean, is it just like an ego thing like the granny shot at the free throw line where just no one wants to do it now? 'Cause like, hey, it's not cool to throw knuckleballs.
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Like the best knuckleballers were the ones where the catcher had no idea where it was gonna go.
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And the catcher was guessing just as much as everyone else, just as much as the hitter where it starts up here, it's down here, and the catcher is like just trying to not have a pass ball on this thing.
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Well,
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How much time does it pr take to perfect a knuckleball, do you think?
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I don't know
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So I forgot about this because of COVID, but remember Brian Wilson with the beard from the Giants?
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So in two thousand and twenty, he tried to have a comeback as a knuckleball pitcher, but we all just kind of missed it because he didn't come back and cause COVID happened and it was a forgotten season.
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But I guess Brian Wilson had the same idea six years ago and it didn't pan out for him.
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How do we think the Dodgers story ends, right?
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Cause like what you're saying is true.
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There's no real good feel-good left with this team, even with likable guys.
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They clinched the playoffs earlier this week.
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It was like the most subdued celebration ever, where they just like had a toast with champagne glasses.
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No one looked particularly happy to be there.
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Yeah.
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But
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When we s when the Mark Walter story kind of came out, it wasn't revolving around the Dodgers.
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