Sammy Sosa Did Nothing Wrong* | Baseball Bits

So glad that the whole thing about English being Sosa's second language was brought up. Any legal setting is the most important place to not have your words misconstrued, and one of the many, many reasons why lawyers exist is to communicate clearly on behalf of their clients in the dialect of Legal English (which you could make a solid argument is indeed a dialect from a linguistic perspective). Preparing a statement to be read by your legal counsel is fairly common practice in the court of law, and does not make Sosa a shady character as a result. Honestly, this is one of my favorite Baseball Bits so far; it strays from the usual stats-heavy approach (which I love dearly) and in doing so takes some great creative risks that I think paid off!

you've convinced me, David Ortiz should be banned from baseball immediately and removed from the HOF

“My beautiful daughter poop love her very much” might be a top 5 athlete tweet

This isnt a video on how the 1963 Giants had Willie Mays, Willie McCovey, and Orlando Cepeda combined for about 100 HRs and 20 WAR and somehow missed the postseason.

The craziest thing about the court clips is how old Bernie Sanders is in those clips. He looks almost exactly the same and it’s been twenty years

I have a feeling the MLB won’t leave a comment on this video

You sound like my favorite OOTP Baseball youtuber

Dude when I came to the united states my tio would tell me "we speak english and love baseball." we came to chicago at the turn of the century and settled on the south side but man did i love my cubbies. one of my earliest memories was that nlds against the marlins and sammy smacked a double to right field. i just remember my tio looking at me declaring this as the so called year. watching this masterpiece youve crafted is sobering. it nurtures that inner child in me that knew that sammy did nothing wrong. thank you Mr baseball, can you foolish? youre an icon to the space

Sosa should be in the Hall of Fame simply for the fact he got not one, not two, not four, but three 60 home run seasons and didn't lead the league in homers in any of these seasons. That's rough buddy

Ever time I’m really starting to miss the feeling of that sweet sweet new baseball bits, Bailey delivers

"Schilling left the meeting unscathed." Disappointed that his reputation wasn't dragged through the mud, Curt decided to spend the rest of his life ruining it himself.

You'd be a damn fool if you don't show up with a lawyer to speak to congress when you're not even an American citizen

The thing about Sosa's testimony is that it doesn't mean he didn't use PEDs. His testimony was, “To be clear, I have never taken illegal performance-enhancing drugs.” “I have not broken the laws of the United States or the laws of the Dominican Republic.” and “I have been tested as recently as 2004, and I am clean.” All possibly truthful statements, and all consistent with him using PEDs. Steroids were legal within the Dominican Republic at the time. So long as he used in the DR, he wouldn't take illegal PEDs, since they were legal there. He wouldn't break the laws of either country. And by 2004, he was clean and stopped using. All that said, I don't think it should bar him from the Hall of Fame.

If I had a nickel for every cubs mvp who got knocked in the head and started to play badly, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s sad.

As someone who grew up in a Hispanic household but predominantly spoke English I can assure you that the Spanish that I know is enough to correctly order my lunch but if I tried to use that same level of Spanish in my job I would be fired because I’m just not fluent enough of a speaker to read and speak at the level my work requires of me. It’s a valid reason for Sosa to have a prepped statement while testifying.

I don't care if he was listed in the private MLBPA investigation, Bobson Dugnutt and his 1,238 HRs should be in the Hall of Fame. Nothing was ever proven!

The japanese video game names in the 2003 steroid testing file was a funny touch

I know it's pretty well-known at this point but my favorite Sammy Sosa factoid ever is that he's the only player in MLB history to have three separate 60 home run seasons, and he was the MLB home run leader in NONE of them. Pure craziness.

i think the main reason why ortiz is given the benefit of the doubt and sosa isn't, is because ortiz wasn't good when there weren't drug tests, but once they started testing people, he was even better. Sosa happened to be good before the tests and once those tests were put in place he just kinda fell off. This is a great video though and I really like this perspective.

11:55 Chapman thinking he gave up a homerun and slamming his glove💀💀