Tom House
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105 appearances
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
Tom House’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I did. Not because I was a genius or whatever. I wanted to find out if what they said was true. And I threw 84 miles an hour when I weighed 170 pounds. I threw 84 miles an hour when I weighed 210 pounds. So steroids didn't do anything for me except blow my knees out.
The thing that amazes me is a hitter should not be able to catch up with $105.
Okay, if you add together the time it takes the best hitter in the game to swing at a pitch, he should not be able to hit 105 miles an hour. The times don't add up, but they do. And it's this ambient nervous system where the decision to swing doesn't go to the brain. It goes to one of the meridians in your shoulder, your elbow. It's like when you touch a hot stove.
your finger comes off before you know it's hot. Right. That's what's happening with hitters.
Exactly. And I swear to God, when people say that hitting is the single hardest thing to do in sports, times 10, that hitter-pitcher relationship, that dance, that's what makes baseball, to me, as interesting as any sport that's out there.
He is the Drew Brees of pitchers.
2-2.
But the genius of Greg Maddux, he threw the velocity where he had the most movement. He could still, even in his later years, he could have thrown 95, 96, but it flattened out. So there's three ways to get a hitter out. You get them out with speed, change of speed, and movement. And he was a genius at all those. And a fastball in at 90 is faster than a fastball away at 90. Perceive velocity.
One foot of distance, three miles an hour. So what he was was a guy that had a release point closer to home plate than any other six-foot pitcher. He could make the ball move and he could change speeds.
Exactly. He released the baseball 48 feet, six inches from home plate. That's the cut of the grass in front of the mound. And he was effectively wild.
And Randy doesn't mind me saying this. They knew every pitch that Randy was throwing in his big league career. They knew what was coming. They knew what was coming. But you couldn't dig in on him because he would do two slatters on the half shell and throw one behind your head without even trying. So he was what we call effectively wild.
The fear factor hitting off of Randy was, I'm just going to take my chances. I don't want to know what's coming.
Exactly.
What goes around comes around.
Jamie Maher was me, only really good at being me. where you just run him out there, and it may be ugly one game, but at the end of the year, he's going to give you innings, he's going to hold games close, and he's going to be productive. You can count on him. He's never going to be on the DL. What's the biggest problem right now with baseball? Half the pitching staff.
Yeah, there's no durability. So right now, in the spring training conversations that I have, everybody's looking for a durable right-hander or left-hander that they can literally abuse. without hurting his arm. And that's going to be someone that doesn't throw overly hard or overly soft, but knows how to pitch and can give it to you anytime he wants to look at it.
You've got to save your studs. And you can't have 12 studs on a staff. You've got to have someone that can eat it so that the stud can perform. That's where it's going. And that's how guys like me will get back into the big leagues.
He was 10,000 reps behind as a quarterback and the same amount as a hitter. If he could have done one or the other with enough myelin, he could have played both. He could have been a solid backup, but his entourage didn't merit, even though it was a good entourage, being a backup quarterback and having that many things in the clubhouse. Everything you see about Tim is true.
But again, he was short on reps as a quarterback throwing and short on reps as a hitter hitting.
What it means is when you're behind the eight ball at the elite level, it's the same thing that happened to Michael Jordan.
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