Valuetainment - ＂Yankees Hired An MIT Physicist＂ – Torpedo Bat CONTROVERSY Fuels Debate Over MLB's Future

00:00:00.320 Yankees' new torpedo bats create a stair amid 15-homer weekend barrage, which, by the way,

00:00:11.640 this whole thing with the Yankees' baseball bat, Tom and Kim have been so furious, okay?

00:00:19.520 Have been so furious.

00:00:20.980 Kim, you know you've been furious.

00:00:22.260 You've been so mad right now?

00:00:23.280 You've been furious.

00:00:24.260 It's not as if the Dodgers haven't already won 162 games.

00:00:27.320 I don't know what their record is already.

00:00:28.420 I think they've already won 162-0.

00:00:29.840 6-0, thank you.

00:00:30.540 Yeah, 6-0.

00:00:31.220 So, Yankees' new torpedo bats create a stair amid 15-homer.

00:00:35.720 Yankees' shortstop Anthony Volpe showcased a torpedo bat, which fueled a record-tying 15-homer.

00:00:41.580 Rob, can you show the baseball bats that they have?

00:00:43.400 And we'll go to Dave Portnoy here.

00:00:47.140 Including nine on Saturday alone.

00:00:49.300 They hit nine on Saturday.

00:00:50.840 And, again, the concept makes so much sense.

00:00:53.540 I know I'm bought in.

00:00:54.840 As its barrel sits closer to the hands, Major League Baseball confirmed legality.

00:00:59.840 Under Rule 3.02, which players like Jazz Chisholm, Cody Bellinger, Paul Goldschmidt, and Austin Walls using it, inspired by ex-Yankees analyst Aaron Linhart, now with the Marlins.

00:01:12.300 As the bat sparked buzz after Yes Network Yankees Entertainment announced, Michael Kay noted Volpe's analytics driven switch it to Victus torpedo models.

00:01:22.600 With Bellinger explaining, the benefit for me is I like the weight distribution.

00:01:26.040 Personally, the weight is closer to my hands.

00:01:30.500 And so I feel as if it's lighter in a way.

00:01:32.780 Manager Aaron Boone downplayed their impact saying, I say to you guys all the time, we're trying to win on the margins.

00:01:38.100 While Captain Aaron Judge, who hit three homers on Saturday, without one said, what I've done the past couple of seasons speaks for itself.

00:01:46.780 So they're not trying.

00:01:47.740 Tom, I'm going to go to you.

00:01:48.660 As a matter of fact, yeah, let me go to Tom.

00:01:50.480 No, go to Dave Portnoy first, and then we'll go to Tom, because I think Tom's going to tee this thing off.

00:01:54.540 I'm sure he's going to have a lot of fun with this.

00:01:56.340 Here's Dave Portnoy with the Red Sox hat, giving us a breakdown.

00:02:00.400 Go ahead, Rob.

00:02:01.780 All right, real quick update here.

00:02:03.520 I've got to talk about these torpedo bats that have taken Major League Baseball by storm.

00:02:08.780 This is, of course, the Yankees hired an MIT physicist to basically take wood from the other part of the bats.

00:02:15.980 Like, you know, they handle the label and put it in the sweet spot, making the sweet spot bigger.

00:02:20.480 They did this because Anthony Volpe sucks, and he kept getting jammed and sawed off. 0.99

00:02:25.040 And we're like, how do we make him not suck? 0.98

00:02:27.480 Let's just make this bat called a torpedo bat, where basically you swing and you make contact on the handle, get sawed off. 0.97

00:02:34.600 It's a home run.

00:02:35.360 So the Yankees have hit, like, I think 13 home runs.

00:02:38.860 Jazz Chisholm or whatever that guy.

00:02:40.500 He's using, he's got, like, 13 home runs.

00:02:42.900 Aaron Judge is hitting home runs.

00:02:44.340 He's saying he's not using a torpedo bat.

00:02:46.360 He is.

00:02:46.740 Take a look.

00:02:49.900 I mean, all the teams are going to use it.

00:02:51.720 Should it be legal?

00:02:52.560 No.

00:02:52.820 Is it cheating?

00:02:53.520 Yeah, it is.

00:02:54.080 I mean, listen, this is coming from a guy who won the triple crown in high school, just mashed everywhere it went.

00:03:00.360 Joyer to the belt. 0.90

00:03:01.120 The one-two pitch.

00:03:02.600 Hit high in the air, deep to right field.

00:03:05.140 Avalo going way back.

00:03:06.700 It's out of here.

00:03:08.180 A home run for David Portnoy.

00:03:09.740 He's showing his own.

00:03:11.280 If you hit a ball at the label, that means you're not getting your hands through quick enough and you stink.

00:03:17.800 Just taking the bat and making the thing like a cork bat with this hump, this torpedo hump.

00:03:23.660 So all you got to do is make contact.

00:03:25.400 It's a home run, which the Yankees are doing right now.

00:03:28.220 That defeats the whole, like, that's just making somebody who stinks better.

00:03:33.600 If you get jammed and it's a home run, that doesn't mean you suddenly got better.

00:03:37.900 That's just some geek from MIT, some physicist, ruining 100 years of baseball or 200 years of baseball.

00:03:44.340 So, listen.

00:03:45.280 Your thoughts on this.

00:03:46.840 Not illegal, but what are your thoughts?

00:03:48.220 As a diehard Dodger fan that celebrated the Yankees losing game five last year in the suite to the Dodgers, how do you feel about this?

00:03:55.780 Well, I've never felt that last year's championship was legitimate because I feel like the Yankees gave it to us.

00:04:02.580 So, you know, just the errors, the humiliation of a proud franchise.

00:04:09.320 It was so hard to be there and watch 50,000 people be let down in such spectacular fashion.

00:04:15.940 Try getting out of this building queue after the podcast.

00:04:18.440 By a team where they had spent millions and millions of dollars on memorabilia and tickets.

00:04:23.500 I was just...

00:04:24.640 Oh, yeah.

00:04:25.280 But about the bats.

00:04:27.960 By the way, look at the picture to the right.

00:04:30.640 Look at the picture to the right.

00:04:31.740 Look at that one.

00:04:32.580 Oh, there it is.

00:04:34.620 Oh, Norman Rockwell.

00:04:36.840 This is great.

00:04:38.340 Go ahead, Tom.

00:04:39.120 So, guess what?

00:04:40.400 The Yankees are first with the next benefit in baseball.

00:04:44.580 And they hired a guy to work within the rules and got them a benefit.

00:04:49.380 You know what?

00:04:50.060 There you go.

00:04:51.600 And that's the way it works.

00:04:53.560 We see rules change.

00:04:54.920 You know what?

00:04:55.680 This is perfectly legal.

00:04:56.900 It's going to get around the league.

00:04:58.200 And then the league's got to decide what we're going to do.

00:05:00.580 A couple years ago, all of the teams, every team.

00:05:05.120 And you can look this up.

00:05:06.280 If you could look up, Rob, spider tack, like T-A-C-K, spider tack. 0.97

00:05:10.340 Every team had a chemist that was working on, see, spider tack.

00:05:16.600 And it was sold to pitchers so that in cold weather and other things that they could, you know, grip the ball better.

00:05:23.380 It was legal for a while, right up to the point that the spin rate on the slider was off the charts and batting averages dropped.

00:05:32.200 And they're like, okay, we can't, we're not going to deal with a three-to-one ball game.

00:05:36.460 We're just not going to do that.

00:05:37.560 And there's all the memes about what spider tack was.

00:05:40.820 So, baseball changed the rules.

00:05:42.460 It says, look, you can't use spider tack.

00:05:44.580 Well, guess what?

00:05:45.220 The NFL changed the rules.

00:05:46.960 They took away hard pass interference.

00:05:49.140 They wanted more scoring.

00:05:50.460 They didn't want, and they also didn't want wide receivers to be, a defenseless receiver rule was put in.

00:05:55.960 You can't, you can't take out a defenseless receiver if you're off the ground, you know, going to the air to catch it and your arms are up.

00:06:02.240 You can't just, as they used to say, cut him in half by putting your shoulder right on his ribs while he's in midair.

00:06:08.320 Football changed the rules because they said, let's protect the receivers.

00:06:11.900 Then everyone in football got upset because they, they claimed that they turned the quarterbacks into women. 0.99

00:06:17.040 Just give them a skirt. 1.00

00:06:18.060 You're not allowed to hit a quarterback.

00:06:19.100 Just give them a skirt. 1.00

00:06:20.080 They were, they were making those kind of insensitive jokes.

00:06:23.000 So, rules come back and forth in sports all the time.

00:06:25.960 The Yankees, hats off to them.

00:06:27.680 They are playing within the rules and have designed a bat, which is exactly inside the rules.

00:06:33.060 Now the question is, like spider tack, which was in the rules at some point, you know, you could have rosin, you could do things.

00:06:39.900 And then they were like, no, no, no, no, no.

00:06:41.400 This is going beyond the rosin permission and things like that.

00:06:44.700 So, now the question is, what does the league do about the bats when the bats circulate around everybody and maybe we see the result?

00:06:52.160 Vinny.

00:06:52.300 Well, there's a bunch of people.

00:06:53.480 So, the Reds are using it.

00:06:54.760 Mike, my friend Mike just messaged me.

00:06:56.800 Baltimore Orioles are using them.

00:06:58.020 Cincinnati Reds.

00:06:58.760 Chicago Cubs.

00:06:59.440 It's Minnesota Twins.

00:07:00.960 Tampa Bay Rays.

00:07:02.200 A lot of people are using them.

00:07:03.860 Have they ordered them or are they using them?

00:07:05.500 No, I think they're using them.

00:07:06.360 Well, there's one guy.

00:07:08.140 Hold on one second.

00:07:08.760 This guy yesterday used it.

00:07:10.680 I'm sorry.

00:07:10.920 He went four for five, Tommy, this weekend.

00:07:13.260 De La Cruz.

00:07:14.300 Ellie De La Cruz from the Cincinnati Reds used the bat for the first time in the 14-3 win over Texas Rangers on Monday.

00:07:20.240 He went four for five with two home runs and seven RBIs in the blowout.

00:07:23.120 So, that was yesterday.

00:07:23.980 So, yeah, they got his hands on a bat.

00:07:25.500 And yesterday, it worked.

00:07:26.940 Yeah, and it worked.

00:07:27.840 And, again, it's not illegal.

00:07:30.660 It's not illegal.

00:07:31.840 Okay, so, and listen, and I get it.

00:07:34.160 Dave Portnoy, he's a Boston fan. 0.96

00:07:36.560 If your team is in last place and has been doing abysmal for the past few years, you're going to talk trash.

00:07:42.040 It's not illegal.

00:07:42.600 If it was illegal, like, listen, like, with the Houston Astros, like, literally got caught cheating.

00:07:48.820 What happened to all the players?

00:07:49.960 Any of them get banned or anything crazy happened?

00:07:51.800 No.

00:07:52.380 Nothing happened.

00:07:52.940 Nobody was stripped.

00:07:53.940 Do they even get an Astros?

00:07:54.940 No, no, no.

00:07:54.960 One guy they came down on, Jeffrey Lunau, they came down on him hard, but nobody else. 0.94

00:07:59.400 Yeah, which is ridiculous.

00:08:01.020 Because if you remember that home run, do you remember the home run by Altuve?

00:08:04.400 He's rounding the bases, and they're about to rip his clothes off.

00:08:07.440 Don't touch my jersey.

00:08:09.000 He's like, no.

00:08:10.180 I wonder what he had under there.

00:08:12.100 We'll never know.

00:08:12.860 He was wearing the buzzer.

00:08:14.280 Dude, you know, Max Muncy ordered a baseball bat, the torpedo bat.

00:08:17.700 I believe everyone's going to order.

00:08:20.540 And, by the way, Max is a lefty at Dodger Stadium.

00:08:24.120 If it works for him, that's going to help him.

00:08:27.400 But that was false.

00:08:28.380 That was not Dave Portnoy said that Aaron Judge is using it.

00:08:31.820 No, he's not.

00:08:32.640 That's fake news.

00:08:34.400 Aaron Judge is using the same bat that he always uses, and he just crushes the ball.

00:08:39.940 Aaron Judge doesn't need to adjust.

00:08:41.660 He hit the foot.

00:08:42.320 Last year, he didn't use it.

00:08:43.580 Who was number one with home runs?

00:08:45.740 That's right.

00:08:46.260 Aaron Judge is not using a torpedo bat.

00:08:47.640 He's not using it.

00:08:48.660 And who broke the record last year for Rutherford's Amaris? 0.99

00:08:52.420 Yeah, he freaking, he's a killer. 0.97

00:08:53.980 Adam, your thoughts on this? 0.99

00:08:54.760 Neither is Shohei Ohtani.

00:08:56.060 Exactly.

00:08:56.620 They don't need to change.

00:08:57.180 And they were both the reigning MVPs, American and National.

00:09:00.300 Well, we'll see if Shohei can stay focused.

00:09:02.580 Go ahead, Adam.

00:09:03.100 Go ahead.

00:09:03.560 Well, you know how there's a term called inside baseball?

00:09:05.980 Yeah.

00:09:06.360 That was sort of this conversation.

00:09:07.940 We were getting really in the nitty-gritty, and I'm sure our audience loves all the inside

00:09:12.440 cork talk we're talking about over there.

00:09:14.040 But I have a challenge for baseball, because with the exception of going with PBD to Yankees 0.99

00:09:20.580 games, I live in Miami, and the Marlins suck.

00:09:25.020 And the chances of me getting to watch. 0.94

00:09:27.100 What's that?

00:09:27.600 They need new ownership.

00:09:28.680 They need a new everything.

00:09:29.660 The Marlins need to sell.

00:09:31.800 Sell.

00:09:32.480 All right, guys.

00:09:33.380 Note to selling.

00:09:35.200 This is a Latin market.

00:09:36.700 New ownership and a stadium.

00:09:38.040 You will watch what happens in South Florida baseball.

00:09:41.160 You have no idea.

00:09:42.460 Okay, Tom.

00:09:42.960 Bienvenido a Miami, mi amigo.

00:09:44.740 So, baseball.

00:09:46.600 It's pretty bad.

00:09:47.140 He went after you.

00:09:47.720 I went after that.

00:09:48.560 Okay.

00:09:49.540 Baseball.

00:09:50.040 I'm going to say it, guys.

00:09:50.880 I'm sorry.

00:09:51.380 I know you love baseball.

00:09:52.440 He called me a taco.

00:09:53.300 It's such a boring sport to watch on TV.

00:09:55.820 If you can get to a game, like a Yankees game, amazing.

00:09:58.880 It was actually amazing.

00:10:00.680 The New York Yankees.

00:10:02.060 But I fully advocate baseball bringing back steroids.

00:10:06.380 Use these cork bats, these torpedo bats.

00:10:09.080 You know, in hockey, you can have fights.

00:10:11.000 Bro, I want to see baseball fights.

00:10:13.040 I want dugouts to clear.

00:10:15.160 I want, you know how, like, the umpires, the coaches will bump the umpire.

00:10:19.320 Punch the umpire.

00:10:20.620 Like, let's get this sport going.

00:10:21.900 What is that guy with that yellow outfit?

00:10:23.440 There have been three of them this year.

00:10:25.060 Thanks for paying attention.

00:10:25.880 We want more of them.

00:10:27.020 The season hasn't even started yet.

00:10:28.480 We want cheerleaders. 1.00

00:10:29.860 Take a note from the NFL.

00:10:31.420 You know, why do you think the NFL has cheerleaders? 1.00

00:10:34.740 Because it just makes the game better.

00:10:37.500 Straight up.

00:10:38.460 So, stop bumping chests.

00:10:39.940 Let's start punching each other. 1.00

00:10:41.160 Let's make baseball great again.

00:10:43.040 Yeah.

00:10:43.240 I mean, we will see.

00:10:45.680 We will see what's going to happen.

00:10:46.900 The problem they're going to have is the following.

00:10:48.440 If the Dodgers can keep their players from staying focused, with Shohei Otani now dating

00:10:54.540 Lindsay Lohan, that's going to be a problem for them. 0.95

00:10:57.060 What?

00:10:57.680 That's going to be a problem for them.

00:10:58.640 Otani's dating Lindsay Lohan?

00:10:59.820 Two weeks.

00:11:00.540 For two weeks, him and Lindsay Lohan have been going out.

00:11:03.500 And I don't know how much the credibility.

00:11:06.800 Lindsay Lohan?

00:11:08.100 Him and Lindsay Lohan have been dating for two weeks, apparently.

00:11:11.620 They met in LA.

00:11:12.400 Wow.

00:11:12.940 It's a thing.

00:11:13.520 You know what that's going to do to his batting?

00:11:16.340 Oh, my God.

00:11:17.040 It is what it is.

00:11:18.020 I mean, listen.

00:11:18.520 You're in LA.

00:11:19.680 Devin Booker was dating a Kardashian.

00:11:21.780 You know, you got Dennis Rodman was with Madonna and Carmen Electra.

00:11:25.340 Shohei Otani is dating Lindsay Lohan.

00:11:26.900 And it doesn't help that whole gambling thing.

00:11:28.380 What?

00:11:29.140 A part of it that could be.

00:11:30.760 She has a drug problem. 0.99

00:11:32.020 She used to have a drug problem. 1.00

00:11:33.520 She's better now.

00:11:34.220 No, she used to have it, but his boy that's doing the gambling thing, did you hear the new

00:11:39.260 thing that's going to be coming out?

00:11:40.580 Yeah.

00:11:40.700 I was like, something new is going to come out.

00:11:42.060 By the way, can you imagine the story?

00:11:43.780 I'm just visualizing.

00:11:44.680 You're going to a game.

00:11:46.060 He's with Lindsay.

00:11:47.540 And if she has had a change.

00:11:51.460 And you know that Britney Spears actually messaged and was like, hey, stay away from him.

00:11:55.080 Well, if you're a celebrity like this.

00:11:56.760 He is not dating, as they say, Lindsay Lohan.

00:12:00.260 No, no, no.

00:12:01.060 Two weeks.

00:12:02.080 There was a rumor.

00:12:03.260 Tom, I mean, Rob, you all right?

00:12:05.200 Two weeks.

00:12:06.140 Shohei Otani and Lindsay Lohan.

00:12:07.340 Don't worry about that.

00:12:08.420 And by the way, because somebody messaged Pat.

00:12:09.780 It's not like it's in the news.

00:12:10.380 I did see the picture, though.

00:12:11.340 I did see the picture of Lindsay Lohan.

00:12:14.820 Can you put up Rob?

00:12:23.260 Tom's like, what the hell is going on?

00:12:26.920 Oh, yeah, it's April Fool's time.

00:12:28.720 Yeah, guys, it's April Fool's.

00:12:30.160 Tom looked at me like.

00:12:31.640 He is not dating Lindsay Lohan.

00:12:33.740 He's looking at his phone.

00:12:35.160 He's texting Lindsay Lohan.

00:12:38.180 But Tom, what if he was dating Lindsay Lohan?

00:12:40.240 And what's wrong with that?

00:12:41.460 What's wrong with that?

00:12:42.240 There's nothing wrong with that.

00:12:43.460 He's a focused guy.

00:12:44.500 They would go to casinos together.

00:12:45.840 There would be no issues.

00:12:47.560 No issues.

00:12:49.260 In the annals of sports history, there have been athletes that had ill-advised relationships

00:12:55.960 with celebrities that didn't go well.

00:12:57.340 What's wrong with that?

00:12:58.120 Don't judge him if he does.

00:12:58.840 By the way, Matt Kemp had his worst year after he was, he lost the MVP to, I believe, Ryan

00:13:08.120 Braun, who had actually juiced and influenced a FedEx career.

00:13:13.800 Anyway, it was a big controversy.

00:13:15.060 And the next year, Matt was completely distracted because he was making the party circuit in L.A.

00:13:19.340 and he was dating Rihanna.

00:13:20.680 True story.

00:13:21.680 So Matt Kemp, who could have been MVP, should have been MVP the next year, was dating Rihanna.

00:13:27.060 And he was completely distracted, completely everything.

00:13:30.240 I think he'll get it together.

00:13:31.560 I think Shohei can handle it.

00:13:32.800 I think Shohei with Lindsay is going to be fine.

00:13:35.840 And they'll eventually figure things out.

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Valuetainment - April 02, 2025

＂Yankees Hired An MIT Physicist＂ – Torpedo Bat CONTROVERSY Fuels Debate Over MLB's Future

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