Tarek Skubal
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard 14 Nov
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Uh, I think I look horrible with it, but I think it's a fun thing to do, uh, in an off season. You know, I think when I got a hat on, it actually looks great. But, um, other than that, I look really old and, um, it's not really cool to be old in my sport. I want to look youthful.
Like I just turned 28. Like, that's not that cool. You know, you're young, but you're also kind of old. Um, so, uh, yeah, I don't really like looking old. I'm trying to play my sport and feel young.
That could be SIGs and beers related, though. That's true. That's true.
I had, well, one, I think they came right before opening day and I was starting the next day. I didn't really want to fuck with my routine. So that was one. That's probably not a great excuse. But two, my wife and son were there and I didn't want to leave them in the hotel room by themselves. I just felt like a shitty dad. No, you're right. I should have brought them.
I just didn't really think, you know, there's going to be six guys, my wife, and then, you know, at the time it was, how old was he? This is going to be bad math out of me, but... I'm not good at math. Five months old.
Yeah, he can do the gauntlet. He can crawl pretty good. He's not to walking yet, but he's crawling pretty good.
Whenever we play the White Sox or Cub, I don't think we go to the Cubs next year, but whenever we play the White Sox first series, I'll make sure to get in there.
And do the whole thing and. I think that'll be fun. Who did it for us? Tork this year?
That's not good. He went to ASU. It's the whole kind of thing. He's always been a baseball player. He's always been a baseball player. He hits the shit out of a baseball, and that's great.
But, yeah, I think – I actually remember I pulled it up on – I was watching it live. I watched this whole thing live. I think they, like – you guys put out a tweet, like, he's about to go, and I watched the whole thing live, and I was like, damn, he did pretty good.
No, for sure.
I want to pause. Why do you only have 50 at-bats if you're a good hitter?
I played one year. I think there's a full legit defense behind you.
When runners get on, it's a situation stuff. They can turn double plays.
My advice would be to throw it very slow. The slower, like you're trying to gain velocity. I think once you get to like 65, 70 miles an hour, that's when guys are going to start unleashing on it because it flattens out a little bit. It's less loop. So my advice would be to hone in a really slow pitch over the zone. And I think that you will do really well.
Yeah. I think that that's when one position guys get in there and you can kind of see they get a little amped up and they start, you know, letting it rip because they want to, you know, there's VLO guns everywhere in the stadium and they want to start lighting it up or just like. Oh, yeah, I can throw 74. It's like, yeah, you're going to throw 74, and it's going to get 110 out, and it's way gone.
So if you want to get outs, the guys that I think are really good are guys that throw it over the zone. And with baseballs too, like the slower you – this is going to sound like nerdy, but – The slower you throw it, there's more times for seam effects to happen, and your ball will cut and sink, and it'll be a little awkward to hit.
So I think if you can dial in a 45-mile-an-hour fastball and throw it on the two seams, don't throw it on the four seams, throw it on the two seams, it'll cut for you and do some cool sinking stuff.
Okay, I would throw it. So this is the baseball.
Right? Throw it on these two seams.
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