Chuck Bryant

Yeah, I mean, I know you're kind of kidding, but sad but true.

Like, especially these days, there's been more and more instances of Tommy John surgery being required because pitchers are throwing harder and harder.

And if you're not, you know, able to get it near 100 miles an hour these days, you're not going to have much of a chance.

It's a real problem in baseball.

Yeah.

I just love that you love saying Earl Hershiser.

Sure.

What a name.

Boy, he was great.

There was a study in 1990 that confirmed the grip strength thing.

I think they studied 74 people who regularly cracked their knuckles and their average grip strength was definitely lower.

And they had more instances of hand swelling than

than the 226 people who did not crack.

And another interesting thing is they found that in another study that if you're a habitual knuckle cracker, you are more likely to be a manual laborer, more likely to bite your nails, as I do, smoke cigarettes, which I don't, and drink alcohol, which I do.

Yeah, I don't manual labor, so we shouldn't count that one.

Oh, interesting.

Is that like getting your back cracked or something?

Yeah, we found one more thing, you know, like I'm at the age where, you know, if I kneel down to get something, you're going to hear a snap, crackle, and a pop maybe coming from some part of my body.

I do.

Oh, yeah, like, oh, God, here we go, or something like that.