Tom House
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105 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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Michael Jordan was probably the best athlete on the planet. But when I threw batting practice to him, I look him right in the face and I say, as long as your p*** is pointing down, you're not going to hit the ball in off the plate. Long-arm man in, can't hit. If he would have played baseball from the start, he probably could have made a really good big leaguer.
I'll tell you what, he's a pretty good athlete.
But again, being on a mound where the base is loaded in the bottom of the ninth is different than being behind center. With 20 seconds going in the last quarter, You're out there on an island by yourself, and I don't know if he has that makeup. If you're a pitcher and you can't make a pitch in that situation, it's toast.
No, he couldn't. He's too wired to pitch a baseball. Now, he throws a football. I don't know if you're aware.
No.
I think he's a hitter. He's proved all he needs to throw, all he needs to do as a pitcher. Again. I think his value to the ball club is on the field every day. And I'm going to say this with, I hope I'm wrong, I don't think his shoulders can handle it.
It's a combination of a bunch of stuff. Primarily the thresholds with heavyweight training are really good for hitting, but not good for pitching. And the everyday stresses of throwing down the hill, when you generate energy on flat ground, the most you can get out of flat ground is about four times body weight. in foot pounds of energy.
When you're going down the mound, you get about six times body weight. I don't think his shoulders can handle that, the deceleration. I haven't ever worked with him. I'm only looking from afar. I'm looking at his mechanics are very good. His makeup is outstanding. He's a dude, but I don't think his body can do both.
Just kidding. I think his Hall of Fame life is going to be from an everyday player.
I loved to throw. And I was, if not, I was one of the best BP pitchers in the history of baseball. And I noticed when I was throwing BP, the ball would get away from me. I'd throw a ball that would hit someone in the foot. And I also noticed when I was walking that I was shuffling and leaning forward. And I thought, okay, something's wrong.
When I got tested, I thought I had a brain tumor or something. Couldn't find anything there. And then one of my best friends, we were walking toward the practice range. He said, Tom, I think you have Parkinson's. I said, what? All right, how do I find out? He said, call this guy. So I got tested and I did. They figured I'd been misdiagnosed for about three years. So I've had it for about 18 years.
And then... When I figured out the prognosis, I said, this doesn't look too good for me. And I said, okay, let's figure out what we can do. So I took everything that I've been doing with elite sports and started throwing it at Parkinson's people. And we're not curing it, but we're slowing it down.
Well, if it can be figured out, I'll stumble into it. And the doctor that I was working with at the time said, it doesn't kill you, but you don't die from it, you die with it. But your quality of life is going to be harder on you than you think. Then I found out that Dopamine is the reason we have Parkinson's.
If your brain stops producing dopamine, then all the symptoms like I'm showing right now, where I start to quiver and my voice goes away, that's my price to pay. But if you can keep your dopamine up and add in something else. They can give you synthetic dopamine, but you keep having to take more and more and more just to hold your own.
So I made up my mind, encafelines and endorphins are basically brothers and sisters of dopamine. It's an ene. It's an upper. It's a feel-good thing. And they've taken my skin cells. My skin cells are becoming... the stem cells that they can inject at the base of my brain to make sure that dopamine production starts again. I've been involved in that research for the last 12 years.
Most important thing is not to be a burden for my wife. And the second most important thing, I've got to get what's in my head out to you kids before I punch my ticket.
I'll be 78 April 29th.
So you don't notice my voice? When you mention it, sure. It's the good Lord paying me back for all the bullshit I did way back when.
Yeah. I've been on a vacation my whole life being able to play. I've never worked a day in my life. I'm playing every day. And the joy of going to the field and working with a 12-year-old or coming and hanging out with you still keeps me going. I'll be driving home tonight. my adrenaline will carry me because I had a really good time doing this.
And you've brought memories back that haven't come to the surface for a long time. So thank you for that.
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