Name: The 2020 MLB Season is Going to be Wild | Theo Von w/ Dodgers Pitcher Walker Buehler
Uploaded: 2020-07-10T16:00:03.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'The 2020 MLB Season is Going to be Wild | Theo Von w/ Dodgers Pitcher Walker Buehler' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-07-10. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'The 2020 MLB Season is Going to be Wild | Theo Von w/ Dodgers Pitcher Walker Buehler' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-07-10. Transcript available.

What's going to be different about the season?
So the season is happening.
And you guys are in spring training, summer camp 2.0 right now.
And what's going to be different about the season?
First off, they're telling us that you only have a certain amount of guys in
the dugout,
which is weird because we all sit in there and hang out and bullshit and
whatever during the games.
So now they're saying, if you're not playing, you have to sit in the stands.
So there are going to be fans in the stands, except they're going to be us
wearing our full uniforms.
Oh, I was going to say, you should be changing into something more relaxing, I
feel like.
Right, I mean, yeah, it's odd.
I talked to Kersh the other day, and I told him, they also said we can go home,
which is like not something that has ever been okay.
So I told him, hey, I may never watch you throw live all year.
And he said, what are you talking about?
I said, I'm just going to sit in the pool and watch you on TV if I can leave.
Oh, because you wouldn't even have to be there because usually the bullpen's
there and stuff, you mean.
Right, the bullpen will still be out there, but us, we'll just starting pitchers
usually sit right there in the dugout
and kind of hang out.
So if we can leave.
Dan, it's almost like you think you'll miss that part?
Yeah, you know what's weird is in Asia, that's like standard operating
procedure for them.
So they leave what?
Like if they're not pitching, they're not there?
Yeah, they go in during the afternoon and get their stuff done.
An hour before the game, they just head out.
But we had a Korean guy, Hyunjin Ryu, that he like hated watching games because
he'd never done it his whole life.
And then he comes to America and like expected to stay forever.
Dude, I'm not kidding you.
That guy would be out of the locker room within five minutes of the last out.
I don't even think he showered at the field.
I think he just threw shit on his roll.
He's like, I'm not even getting paid for this overtime.
He's like, I want to go to dinner.
Tell me a little bit more about some of the new rules that are going to be
going on.
Okay, so they're saying we can't spit, number one.
So you watch a baseball game, you know, people spit.
So that's going to be interesting.
They're saying instead of spitting, we're going to have a wet rag in our back
pocket.
So we can touch that and then go to the ball because you need a little moisture
sometimes.
So we'll see how long that one lasts, I think.
Obviously, the dugout stuff.
Because someone's going to spit immediately just by nature.
Yeah, you don't even know you do it.
You know, you just spit.
So that'll be interesting.
Is it a penalty if you spit or is it going to be like somebody saying, hey, try
to spit?
I think they can fine you.
No.
Yeah.
Fine you?
I don't understand why it would be a financial thing.
I think it's a bacteria in the air, they believe.
I also know that if you hit a ground ball and more than two guys hit, touch the
ball.
So you threw it, third baseman catches it, throws it to the first baseman.
Three guys touch it.
Got to get a new ball.
Uh-uh.
Oh, yeah.
It's going to be wild.
Oh, my God.
This is going to be like the un-Harlem Globetrotters, man.
Yeah.
That's what it seems like it's going to be.
It's going to be unbelievable.
And so are you concerned about how – now, hold on.
There's more rules, though, too.
I read one that there is because I didn't know about these.
So – but there's one where if you guys – you guys aren't going to bat
anymore.
Correct.
So the pitchers will no longer bat.
Yes.
Which is a good thing, bad thing.
It's all good and bad because we like to hit, but we all suck.
Okay.
So there's two – like there's two pitchers maybe that can actually really hit.
Right.
We don't have any of them.
Right.
No offense to Kirsch or any of those guys.
None of our guys can hit.
Okay.
So – but now I've got to face another actual hitter.
I don't get to face myself, which is kind of a freebie a lot of the time.
So, yeah.
So a lot of those guys in – because the American League, they have –
they have the DH already.
So they have – the pitcher never bats.
Right.
So they have nine professional hitters.
So they have a – so American League pitchers, it's harder for them to get a
no-hitter.
For sure.
Wow.
A hundred percent.
Dang it.
Not easy, regardless.
Right.
Easier in the National League probably.
Okay.
So I'm just thinking about these rules.
This is so insane, dude.
I almost feel like now I'm at the rodeo.
It's almost like we're not playing baseball anymore.
We're just playing like wiffle ball, but –
Okay.
So now also there's a rule if you guys go to extra innings that they're going
to put someone on second base.
Yeah.
So that – they've been doing that in the minor leagues for a long time.
Okay.
Kind of testing it out.
It'll – JT actually came out and said he wanted a home run derby.
And that's JT Snow?
Justin Turner, our third baseman, big red beard guy.
Okay.
He said he wants a home run derby to break the – break the extra innings,
which I love.
I think it would be hysterical at the end of the game.
Everybody's all tired and dirty and just trying to hit homers.
And that's what the extra innings really are because everybody wants to hit the
walk-off.
So everyone just tries to hit home runs all the time in the extra innings
anyway.
So they've done this rule with the guy on second forever in the minor leagues
trying to figure it out.
And now we're going to give it a go in the big leagues, I guess.
But it'll be interesting.
Do you have any thoughts?
Yeah.
Like, what are your thoughts on it?
I luckily have never, like, had to start an inning that I didn't let somebody
on base and they just stuck somebody out there.
But –
Because it'll be pressure right out the gate because that guy's already there.
Yeah.
And then there's, like, a million different strategies.
You know, you can bunt or whatever to try and get him to third so he can score
easier.
And it might be cool.
It might be a way for a pitcher to finally get back in the batter's box, though,
because pitchers are pretty good bunters typically.
But even if your team doesn't get to bat first, you still get the bottom of
that inning, right?
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, because that almost seems like, man, you could easily get the – yeah,
maybe it'll make it a little more exciting.
It might because sometimes these games just go on forever.
Yeah.
We had that World Series game two years ago that went 17 innings.
And I threw the first seven of it.
I was at the ballpark longer not playing than I was.
And I threw the ball really good.
It just took forever.
We played.
Shit, I got home at, like, 3 in the morning that day.
Any other expectations you have going into the season?
Does it feel like going into a regular season?
Absolutely not.
It can't.
We've been sitting at home for three months.
You know what I mean?
So, I don't know.
Well, I hope we get all our games in.
That would be the biggest thing in the playoffs and all that.
But with all the new COVIDs around, I don't know what's going to happen.
Yeah.
And they are planning on traveling?
Yeah.
So, what they did – normally, we play every national league team.
So, we go to the East Coast, back and forth all the time, which sucks because
we get screwed on the time stuff.
But we're only playing – I think we're only playing, like, the NL West, so
our division, and the AL West.
So, we're kind of staying out here, which will be nice travel-wise.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
Instead of six-hour flights to Washington and shit like that.
So, they're making it easy that way.
There will be nobody in the stands.
Correct.
What do you think – like, is that going to – is everybody still going to
care about the game as much?
It takes some of the ego out of it almost.
Yeah.
It takes some of the energy out of it for sure.
You know, like, I think a lot of teams are talking about buying crowd noise or
pumping crowd noise in there.
So, it feels a little bit more like it.
I saw in Korea, they're using sex dolls in the stands.
Putting them out there?
Yeah.
Oh, that would be kind of cool.
Some teams I heard are – you can pay 50 bucks and get a cardboard cut out of
yourself, put it in the stadium.
Wow.
Which is kind of interesting.
So, you can look up.
It's just all these cardboard.
Yeah, that's cool.
That's not a bad idea.
No, but they're doing some wacky stuff, especially over there in Korea.
Wow.
Yes, those were sex dolls cheering on a South Korean soccer team.
Yeah, I think they got in trouble for that.
Why?
Some of those chicks are hot.
And they're wearing masks.
I know.
Dang.
It's an interesting deal.
Gosh.
And they're six feet apart.
Yeah, that's an interesting one.
Wow.
Some on social media.
Go back up to the top if you don't mind, Nick.
Over the weekend, mannequins were placed in the stands for a match against Wangju
FC.
Some on social media already, the telltale signs.
Business logos for sex toy marketers.
We tried to add some funny sauce.
Fun in the no spectator match.
I like it kind of.
I love the idea of having somebody be able to send a picture in or get
themselves put in the stands.
Like for a certain, like you could do that as a gift to somebody.
Yeah.
You know, like you're there.
Yeah.
Happy birthday with three in Tondra Stadium.
Yeah.
And maybe somebody that doesn't want to be there.
It's like grandma, you know.
Imagine open that for Christmas.
It just says, you have a cardboard cutout.
Yeah.
You never get to see it.
You don't get to watch a game, but you might catch a glimpse on TV.
It's almost like getting one of those stars.
It's like somebody buys you a star.
You're like, oh, thanks, assholes.
Or adopting some sea otter.
Yeah.
Yeah, dude.
Now I have to go outdoors at night.
I live in a dangerous neighborhood.
We should send Michael Landon.
Oh, yeah.
We should send Michael Landon.
That's a great idea.
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