Pablo Torre Finds Out
House Call: Why the World's Best Pitchers and Quarterbacks Seek This Man's Advice
10 Apr 2025
He got the Sandy Koufax seal of approval, then re-trained Nolan Ryan in his forties. He upgraded Drew Brees into one of the most accurate passers of all time, then went tête-à-tête with Tom Brady. He even tried turning Michael Jordan and Tim Tebow into baseball players. But for legendary pitching coach Dr. Tom House, the science of throwing is all in the mind, from performance anxiety to the human nerve bank. And now, at 77, he's looking into a future without Shohei Ohtani on the mound — and a 118-mile-an-hour fastball coming for your head. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Welcome to Pablo Torre Finds Out. I am Pablo Torre. Today's episode is brought to you by DraftKings. DraftKings, the crown is yours.
And today we're going to find out what this sound is.
We know the human arm can go 118 miles an hour. I've done it a bunch of times with pictures.
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The superlative, Tom. The superlative that you deserve is the foremost expert on throwing in the world. I do, though, before we get to throwing, want to start with a time you caught something. Okay. And as a way of introducing you, I presume you have a general guess as to which day of your life.
It would probably be April 8th, 1974. I think it was about 8.06 p.m. A fastball from Al Downing to Henry Aaron. He hit number 715. The only thing I can remember is thinking to myself, it's coming to me. What a marvelous moment for baseball. What a marvelous moment for Atlanta and the state of Georgia. What a marvelous moment for the country and the world.
And then I went blank. The world is waiting for this, obviously.
And there you are. Right under the think of it as money sign. Yeah. So when we drew straws as the bullpen guys on where we wanted to be, it was basically analytics before our time. It came exactly where if Downing made a mistake, that was where it was gonna go. If I would've stood still, it would've hit me right in the forehead. So it wasn't a great catch. I caught the ball, Bill Buckner,
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