Name: Trevor Bauer | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #481
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Trevor Bauer | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #481' from Theo Von on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-02-06. Transcript available.

Trevor Bauer | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #481

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our best and we love
you guys and thank you so much for the support amen today's guest is a
professional pitcher for more than
10 years in major league baseball he was the winner of the golden spikes award
in college for the
best collegiate baseball player of the year he's won the cy young he's been an
all-star
he's recently played in japan because of some interesting circumstances i'm
really grateful
to learn about what the past few years of his life have been like and to get to
know him today's guest
his guest is mr trevor bauer
shine that light on me
i'll sit and tell you my stories
shine on me
and i will find a song
i've been singing
these are sm7
sm70 yeah okay i know these mics yeah you know a lot about this this uh these
stuff you know more than i do okay yeah i got into photography back in 2017
started learning about it
and then started the media company momentum in 2019 so i had to you know buy
cameras and lenses and
figure all the stuff out so i learned about it your tripods are in a lot nicer
condition than ours we
put them in the cage where like baseballs are flying so the legs are all bent
and broken oh yeah
um yeah thanks dude yeah i i could probably learn from you i could literally
probably go
watch uh one of your youtube videos and learn more about our own equipment so
maybe i should do that
um do you like to know everything about stuff kind of like it like
well i guess if you start your own media company if you because you have your
own youtube channel yeah
yeah you like it it's good i enjoy it um started it to try to entertain
baseball fans um
so that's what we try to do i think we do a pretty good job we can do better
always trying to get
better but yeah it's fun that's what i enjoy doing so yeah going to work every
day and try to make
some some sort of fun content entertain people yeah i saw some videos on there
you were having fun with
some of the japanese players because yeah yeah yeah yeah they were uh it's it's
kind of interesting
because they don't speak the same language so the same the type of you know banter
back and forth
that you normally have you can't really have so the banter becomes a little bit
more like body language
and facial expression so it was a challenge to like get that there but it's
also fun you know
it's like a new experience and like baseball is kind of a universal language so
they kind of
understood and i understood it was it was a cool experience yeah it's fun when
you don't speak the
same because even you just have to make a look or do something with your hands
like everybody
everybody's like a mime all of a sudden yeah yeah the uh the kind of subtle
cues of human behavior
become more important the the facial expressions the body language the like you
know pauses you know
stuff like that and the i love the moment when you and another person who speak
a different language
realize neither one of you knows how to say what you want to say yeah so the
side that just like
yeah it gets to that moment you're like oh okay uh you just kind of maybe i
should thank you
for your time and try somewhere else um and you were playing in japan right
yeah yeah how'd you
me must have you ever heard that what is it how did you mean how'd you mean how'd
you mean must
uh i'm sure i heard it i don't know i think it is i think it means our
friendship begins can you
look it up nick just if you get a chance i one time got to go to japan i was a
student
on this thing called semester at sea and so we you would go on a cruise ship
and um it was in college and you
would go to different countries around the world that's cool um our friendship
begins uh what does
she dashi no yum yami are how do you marry massive okay so a little off
but a little off right um but we got to go um and i worked like in the
bookstore on this cruise ship or
this school is a floating university called semester at sea that's cool yeah it
was pretty exceptional and
um we got to go on we went to kobe or osaka yeah and then we got to go on a homestay
where you would
go and stay with a family for a couple nights was that down in osaka too yeah
okay osaka's cool area
is it yeah they're uh the beef there is incredible yeah like uh it's just we
played there a couple
different times throughout the year and um there's a hotel that like all the npp
teams stay at because
they serve like the dinner and stuff there's like kobe beef and like
specialized to osaka area so good
it's so good and uh yeah because that wagyu beef that came out of there right
at japan where's that from
bring it up nick um yeah that wagyu beef and everybody's like wag like three
years ago people
started going crazy what is wagyu beef a japanese beef cattle derived from
native asian cattle wagyu refers
to all japanese beef cattle where wa means japanese and gu means cow wow wagyu
were originally draft animals
used in agriculture and were selected for their physical endurance wow so they
picked some real
gangster meat you know that's the fatty it's the intermuscular fat cells marbling
that's uh you get
that um really rich texture god i want that you know it's delicious yeah maybe
not be the best thing
for you for like an athlete but it's uh taste wise it's really hard to beat and
uh when you say npb what
is the teams in jip in japan called so there's 12 teams um nippon professional
baseball um so npb just
like major league baseball um there's two leagues there's pacific league
central league six teams in
each um you got different team names like the you know the bay stars giants um
tigers stuff like that so
everyone it's kind of similar to mlb just smaller uh you know not as many teams
and how uh how was your
team we were good we made playoffs um unfortunately we lost our first two game
in playoffs and got
eliminated um but uh no we had a good we had a good team a lot of talented guys
um a lot of funny guys
that they're super welcoming too which was which was great um i mean the
organization as a whole
making sure that foreign players have translators around even down to like hey
what kind of food do you
guys like um trying to have that in the meal spreads um just welcoming housing
yeah yeah and japan i mean
if you've been there you know like it's super clean the people are super polite
super nice like it
culturally it's it's very different than the united states in a lot of
different ways and that was one
of the things that really stood out is like how nice yeah people are oh yeah
dude on the homestay that
i went on so you got to go stay with a family for a couple nights yeah so i
show up over there uh i
they speak japanese i'm i barely speak english right and so we're just like
dude it's so it's like real
quiet and they made like a little meal for me yeah and uh we just sat around
this little table on the
floor and ate did you so did you have to sit on the floor yeah i think they
might have put some wick
like a thin mat yeah and we sat there and then um i guess when i walked in i
gave the lady just a hug
and a kiss just on the cheek yeah just kind of how i am um and throughout the
next couple days she would
have her friends come over just so i would hug and kiss them on the cheek she
was like linda linda and
like the doorbell would ring and she'd be like do it you know and so i have to
and she just kept
having friends come so i would give them i think they just thought it was
interesting and then they
let me sleep in their room i think like and i think they slept in the wall or
something i swear they're
like they stood up and like in the wall all night and just didn't sleep that's
crazy so i could sleep
like it's just a lot of um i don't know if it's like sacrifice or just extreme
respect i don't know
what do you feel like it is you don't you don't try to explain respect deference
um they
so they they what i've what i learned and i i could be wrong about this is just
what i've been told and
explained because obviously i didn't grow up there and all that stuff but um
they care a lot about the
good of like the group as opposed like over the good of the individual yeah so
if the individual
needs to sacrifice something to make the group environment better the
individual is expected or
used to offering to sacrifice so it makes sense like if you have a guest in
your house and they could be
more comfortable sleeping on the bed and you can spend a couple nights not
sleeping on the bed i can
totally see how that would be how that would be a thing yeah it was baffling
man i was just it was like
i felt so respected yeah it it was it was pretty fascinating i had a similar
experience i you know
they were so respectful that i was like no no i'm i'm no better than you guys
like i'm just another
like we can just be person to person here and it's not that i'm like above you
or something i almost felt
like i was viewed as being above other people and i don't like that i just like
i just like to like i'm
not better than you or anyone else i'm just a normal person let's just like
interact on a fair
playing field level playing field here yeah i don't like being like looked down
on by people and i
don't like being put on a pedestal by people and i know they didn't do it
intentionally but it almost
felt like half the time the interactions i did have with people even just you
know fans out in the
community taxi drivers uh waitresses um hosts stuff like that i almost felt
like i was on a pedestal and
it was a little uncomfortable for me yeah yeah but it's cool like that they you
know there is that
respect and there is that like deference to the other person um yeah they're
almost excited they're
almost so excited to like respect you yeah or to show you how respectful yeah
that's a good way of
putting it yeah um wow what what what uh interesting experiences to get to go
in and be there yeah
like how was it overall it was great um i've always wanted to do that um so i
had an experience in 2009
played on collegiate team usa and we had a five game series against the collegiate
japan team
and so we played over in japan played like five different stadiums were there
for i think 12 days
they were packing stadiums like 40 000 people for a college baseball game now i'm
coming from west
coast baseball which doesn't have the type of fan following as like the sec
does we we draw like
some nights 50 people to a game some nights like a couple hundred people at ucla
and i'm going to this
stadium this professional stadium the tokyo dome and there's 40 000 people or
something in the tokyo
dome for a college baseball game it was crazy and i remember in 2009 saying
like i gotta before my
career's done i'm gonna play baseball in japan i'm gonna experience this
because the fan culture is so
crazy there it's like european soccer there's like packed and chanting and the
passion everything like
that wow look but like images for a baseball game bands playing non-stop and
that was college ball that
was college ball as you know the japanese style they had a band for the
japanese team but they also
provided a band for the american team so we had a band playing for us even
though we were the visiting
team which is which is the most japanese thing yeah it was it was awesome um so
yeah i've always wanted
to do it i you know was happy to have the opportunity to do that um the travel
is different the the
baseball even like the technical little details of the game like the way it's
played what's emphasized
is different fan cult