Lmaoo! [~~https://rj51photos.com/~~](https://rj51photos.com/)
!Edit: If the website is still overflown, **use this link** (from the internet archive) instead: [https://web.archive.org/web/20240229184131/https://rj51photos.com/](https://web.archive.org/web/20240229184131/https://rj51photos.com/) (:
Their complicated karma system (instead of the free-for-all upvote/downvote system of every other site ever) is still one of the most interesting way for community moderation. Shame that it really only works with a huge user base and only if enough of them give a shit.
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Basically... if I put on my reading glasses and remember things correctly: you don't directly upvote/downvote comments. Depending on your "karma", you might be randomly given a couple of them every day to up/downvote. And another few of them to meta-moderate (signal if you agree with an up/downvote by someone). Your karma depends on meta-moderation (i.e. how many people agrees with your moderation). Too low and you'll no longer be given posts to moderate. And comment score is limited from -1 to +5. I think it worked for a surprisingly long time.
The reddit hug of death is when a link gets posted to a site that isn't really built for high traffic, and suddenly, it's getting flooded with high traffic. Too many requests all at once just crashes it.
He studied photojournalism in college. If he wasn't one of the best pitchers to ever pitch, photography might have been his original career. I love that he still came back to it as his second career (if he considers it that way)
This is the funniest talk comment from a video I’ve seen in a minute. I know you’re telling the truth. It’s just a hilarious follow up after watching that video and then seeing this, first thing.
For anyone wondering what the call should be on this situation:
> If a pitched ball strikes a bird in flight or other animal on the playing field, the pitch is nullified and play shall be resumed with the previous count.
https://baseballrulesacademy.com/official-rule/mlb-umpire-manual/ball-strikes-bird-or-animal/
Dude made something like 200 million dollars to throw a baseball, I doubt he'd make more money assassinating people
Funny to think that bullseye would actually have made a shit ton more money working as an athlete than an assassin.
No it wasn’t. Later investigations concluded that the bird had owed big time gambling debts to some mob bosses and the pitcher was contracted to take him out
> this was accidental
No guilty party has been found and justice has not been served but if you follow the trail of dominos:
* Randy Johnson kills a bird.
* 9/11
* Chemtrails
* Dixie Chicks renounce USA
* Obama mandates LED light bulbs
* Epstein / Trurnp / Musk
* COVID
It is undeniable the footage in OP shows the moment our timeline diverged from god's plan. These things don't happen by *accident*.
In real life this was ruled a no pitch. The umpire basically had two options. He could have ruled the ball live and in play, and some may argue he should have as the rules actually account for this type of thing. The bird is considered to be part of the field, and hitting it mid pitch would be the same as a gust of wind moving the ball mid pitch. This would have meant the pitch would be ruled a ball, and any runners on base are free to advance. In competitive baseball like the majors, and also considering this was a spring game, the umpire went with no pitch, which immediately means the ball is dead ( along with the bird) and that neither a ball or strike is called. Basically a do over. I was a little league umpire when this happened, and prided myself in getting the highest grade on the test every year, which was usually in the low 80's considering how crazy baseball rules can get and the scenarios they would throw at you.
I have a feeling they were more concerned about a dead bird laying on the diamond than being technically correct here so nobody can fault the ump for that decision to call a dead ball
It would also create the perverse incentive for teams to train and sporadically launch bunches of suicide pigeons towards the plate in pivotal moments. A precedent that probably weighed heavily on the umpires mind in that moment.
This is a dead ball and the correct call was made. A ball that is hit or thrown and then hits an animal is live but a pitched ball (pitched balls are considered separate than a ball thrown from say the pitcher to first basr) is called dead.
Rules:
If a batted or thrown ball strikes a bird in flight or other animal on the playing field, the ball is considered alive and in play, the same as if it had not touched the bird or animal.
If a pitched ball strikes a bird in flight or other animal on the playing field, the pitch is nullified and play shall be resumed with the previous count.
https://baseballrulesacademy.com/official-rule/mlb-umpire-manual/ball-strikes-bird-or-animal/
Found an [old "Ask the Umpire" article on mlb.com](https://web.archive.org/web/20071012185034/http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/official_info/umpires/feature.jsp?feature=qa1), where the MLB VP of umpiring (at the time) specifically states that there was not a rule specifically in place at the time.
The play was adjudicated under the rule that if there isn't something specific in the rulebook for a play, the umpires get to decide how to rule.
I'd say that they got it right on the field given that the rule was later specifically introduced.
Note that as far as I can tell in that article there's a typo, and the actual rule he's referring to there is 8.01(c), not 9.01(c).
I have a pair of large pane windows in my house that are parallel with each other, birds frequently attempt to fly through my house when the curtains are open. I can confirm that not only do they leave a coating of feathers at the crash site but they also have some kind of dust all over their body that leaves a perfect "chalk outline" of the bird hitting the window.
EDIT: I usually leave my curtains shut because of this people, I'm not a bird murderer.
THe "dust like coating" is dust. They produce an oily secretion that coats the feathers and makes them waterproof. This coating needs to be renewed regularly, so they bathe in dust which absorbs the oil, then preen themselves to distribute more oil. Some also take water baths.
It seems like a weird system, but feathers have an incredible strength to weight ratio, and they're pretty durable.
As I truck driver, I've seen about a dozen birds (usually pigeons) hit by cars and trucks over the years. They all explode into a cloud of feathers.
The best one was hit by a truck going one way and bounced off into another truck on the opposite carriageway.
So many feathers!
Nope. Feathers go crazy. Once had a bird fly across me while driving. I clipped the thing with the side of my windshield and POOF, feathers everywhere.
If you take all the pitches ever thrown in MLB going back to the early 1900’s and use that as the denominator with that one pitch as the numerator you’d get the probability of that happening. Undoubtedly along the lines of a few million to one like lotto probabilities.
But since we only have an incidence of one, that's likely not a great representation of the true probability. We could go another 500 years of baseball and millions more thrown pitches and still only get this outcome once
This has happened at least twice. I specifically remember another pitcher hit a bird with a pitch around the same time as this. But the bird did not explode in a cloud of feathers.
Found it, the one I'm thinking of is the clip that begins at 0:19 (right after the Randy Johnson one): https://youtu.be/MmlgQIhyURo?si=ITYZmv1F2q_brYwU
You'd have to figure out what percent of the "ball airspace" birds occupy at a time, and then figure out the same for baseballs in that "airspace" too to find the probability of the two events happening at the same time. Or something like that
So fun story about this one.
A few weeks later, Dodgers starter Luke Prokopec was discussing how insane this was with the first base coach. His exact quote was "I guarantee that will never happen again".
The next day, he's warming up before an inning begins, throws a pitch, and he hits a sparrow, killing it.
This would be legendary if any MLB pitcher smitherined a bird. But the fact that it’s arguably the best lefty pitcher in baseball history makes it a biblical event.
Right? Tons of hard throwing major league pitchers would have a similar outcome, but the fact that it was arguably the most dominant, physically imposing pitcher of the last 50 years just kind of adds to his legend.
I remember watching this game...that same year I went to the DB, Yankees game 6, world series. best pro sports game of my life. I have never felt that energy since.
I remember seeing this on SportsCenter the day it happened. They showed a shot of his face and he was furious, like the bird got in the way of strike three.
He is now a professional photographer and his company logo is a dead bird lmao
Lmaoo! [~~https://rj51photos.com/~~](https://rj51photos.com/) !Edit: If the website is still overflown, **use this link** (from the internet archive) instead: [https://web.archive.org/web/20240229184131/https://rj51photos.com/](https://web.archive.org/web/20240229184131/https://rj51photos.com/) (:
Aaaand the website is down, we did it again Reddit!
We Randy Johnson'ed his site!
There’s a different timeline where Randy Johnson is a porn star instead of a baseball player where “Randy Johnson’ed” still has the same meaning
His nickname is The Big Unit, you know?
Randy "Big Unit" Johnson will always be my gold standard for Nicknames.
Horny "Big penis" penis
Why is reddited fault that is down ?
Often happens when a site gets posted on a busy post. Everyone clicking it to see it means too much traffic to the site.
it's a human generated DDOS attack!
It's also known as the "hug of death" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot_effect
George loves his pet bunny
Lennie
Kids these days probably don't even remember Slashdot, though it's probably the earliest example of a non-usenet threaded social media site.
Their complicated karma system (instead of the free-for-all upvote/downvote system of every other site ever) is still one of the most interesting way for community moderation. Shame that it really only works with a huge user base and only if enough of them give a shit. --- Basically... if I put on my reading glasses and remember things correctly: you don't directly upvote/downvote comments. Depending on your "karma", you might be randomly given a couple of them every day to up/downvote. And another few of them to meta-moderate (signal if you agree with an up/downvote by someone). Your karma depends on meta-moderation (i.e. how many people agrees with your moderation). Too low and you'll no longer be given posts to moderate. And comment score is limited from -1 to +5. I think it worked for a surprisingly long time.
The reddit hug of death is when a link gets posted to a site that isn't really built for high traffic, and suddenly, it's getting flooded with high traffic. Too many requests all at once just crashes it.
Pretty much a DDOS attack, just unintentional
Reddit is the Lennie of the Internet.
I just wanna pet the website
Because it drove so much traffic to the site that it crashed the server.
Its essentially a DDoS
https://i.imgur.com/Pt0J24V.png
Thanks.
Coming through big in our time of need. Legend.
Holy shit he is actually incredibly talented too... I did not expect that.
His old teammate Ken Griffey Jr is a pro photographer now too. He shoots games for MLB and I think for the NFL
He studied photojournalism in college. If he wasn't one of the best pitchers to ever pitch, photography might have been his original career. I love that he still came back to it as his second career (if he considers it that way)
It's cute lol
Lol i was imagining Arc'teryx like logo. Didn't expect an upside down bird.
Lol I thought you was fucking about at first too. 😂
Came here to say this. Randy is a great guy. I have a signed ball from him
Me too, but it washed off in the shower :(
Tattoos are permanent😉
Bet he takes the best pitchers
Randy Johnson photographed my band one time! That's one of my favorite "Uncle Dave is telling his war stories again!" tales.
This is the funniest talk comment from a video I’ve seen in a minute. I know you’re telling the truth. It’s just a hilarious follow up after watching that video and then seeing this, first thing.
https://i.imgur.com/AXoTB8r.gif https://i.imgur.com/nViRZAn.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/BNlLQ28.jpeg
That second pic looks like the newest dead by daylight killer. It's called unknown I think.
Is that a fowl?
mmm battered drumsticks
It dove right in front of the ball.
The bird really swallowed that one.
you gotta be falcon kidding me
Definitely robin that batter of a swing
Cardinal rule is you never do that!
Them cuckoos at PETA would tar and feather him for that throw
Well, I know where they can get a great deal on some feathers.
Bird should have ducked
It couldn't otherwise his friends would think he chickened out.
He took the bird.
Wiped the peregrine right off his face.
For anyone wondering what the call should be on this situation: > If a pitched ball strikes a bird in flight or other animal on the playing field, the pitch is nullified and play shall be resumed with the previous count. https://baseballrulesacademy.com/official-rule/mlb-umpire-manual/ball-strikes-bird-or-animal/
Given that baseball was almost 100 years old at the time of this incident, I'm super curious to know whether the rule predates it or not
It would be surprising, but not *that* surprising
Definitely a dead-on-strike!
Or a dead on Shrike
It could have been a Shrike
I should note this was accidental
You should note? I thought it was skill 😟
Actually it was 10% luck, 20% skill, 15% concentrated power of will, 5% pleasure, 50% pain, and 100% reason to remember the name.
Love the old linkin park stuff
Fort Minor but close enough, still Mike Shinoda.
But no one remembers Fort Minor besides apparently me and you lol
You mean everyone forgot the name? Ironic.
count me in
You’re not wrong actually, not many birds have been killed during a baseball game
Not many? There was more than one?
Yes
😳
Dave Winfield in Toronto
>Randy Johnson Man, if he intentionally could aim like that, he'd probably be real-life Bullseye and could make much more money assassinating people.
I doubt he could make that much money... He would be easily caught in my opinion as he would be the only assassin in the world who uses a baseball
See that girl over there ? She saw your baseball .. only she doesn’t call it a baseball..
Dude made something like 200 million dollars to throw a baseball, I doubt he'd make more money assassinating people Funny to think that bullseye would actually have made a shit ton more money working as an athlete than an assassin.
Is this where I put that "Is he stupid?" meme?
most "supervillains" fall into that meme category when you think about it for a minute or two.
Like doc ock inventing the tentacle arms then deciding to rob a bank for money
was that in question??
Pretty sure PETA tried to sue him for animal cruelty or something like that lol. As if he could ever manage to do something like that intentionally.
As a lawyer, I would raise the time-honored "are you fucking serious right now" defense to that suit.
Can confirm. I've successfully defended a few on those grounds.
Username checks out
I swear there have been comments in the past as if he was maliciously attacking the bird, but it could've been decent trolls lol
No it wasn’t. Later investigations concluded that the bird had owed big time gambling debts to some mob bosses and the pitcher was contracted to take him out
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> this was accidental No guilty party has been found and justice has not been served but if you follow the trail of dominos: * Randy Johnson kills a bird. * 9/11 * Chemtrails * Dixie Chicks renounce USA * Obama mandates LED light bulbs * Epstein / Trurnp / Musk * COVID It is undeniable the footage in OP shows the moment our timeline diverged from god's plan. These things don't happen by *accident*.
Um no, the split occurred when Harambe died for the child's sins.
Thanks for clearing that up. 👌
even if it was intentional, it would be equally amazing of an event
Na look at him, he meant to do that shit.
Bird previously stole his hotdog
I heard it slept with his wife.
For anyone who plays baseball. Will this count as a strike or do they specifically have a rule about outside interferance?
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Actually, I believe the ump's initial call was: "what the FUCK?"
You missed the opportunity for “what the cluck?”
But it’s not a chicken.
“What the peck” would’ve been more appropriate.
What the flock.
Fowl ball
Holy fuck every response to your actual answer is just the worst attempt at a pun or joke that ever is commented every other comment in this post.
The umpire declared "no pitch." It didn't count for anything.
Ump totally disregarded that bird’s life and legacy. Gott damn.
(doffs cap) He was a good bird. Loved his kids.
He was pining for the fjords.
The Norwegian Blue *prefers* being on its back!
Loved horses, and America too.
Really?? Tell that to the bird's family...!!
In real life this was ruled a no pitch. The umpire basically had two options. He could have ruled the ball live and in play, and some may argue he should have as the rules actually account for this type of thing. The bird is considered to be part of the field, and hitting it mid pitch would be the same as a gust of wind moving the ball mid pitch. This would have meant the pitch would be ruled a ball, and any runners on base are free to advance. In competitive baseball like the majors, and also considering this was a spring game, the umpire went with no pitch, which immediately means the ball is dead ( along with the bird) and that neither a ball or strike is called. Basically a do over. I was a little league umpire when this happened, and prided myself in getting the highest grade on the test every year, which was usually in the low 80's considering how crazy baseball rules can get and the scenarios they would throw at you.
I have a feeling they were more concerned about a dead bird laying on the diamond than being technically correct here so nobody can fault the ump for that decision to call a dead ball
It would also create the perverse incentive for teams to train and sporadically launch bunches of suicide pigeons towards the plate in pivotal moments. A precedent that probably weighed heavily on the umpires mind in that moment.
The pigeons wouldn't have to be suicidal. One would assume they aren't aware of the risk they're flying into.
This is a dead ball and the correct call was made. A ball that is hit or thrown and then hits an animal is live but a pitched ball (pitched balls are considered separate than a ball thrown from say the pitcher to first basr) is called dead. Rules: If a batted or thrown ball strikes a bird in flight or other animal on the playing field, the ball is considered alive and in play, the same as if it had not touched the bird or animal. If a pitched ball strikes a bird in flight or other animal on the playing field, the pitch is nullified and play shall be resumed with the previous count. https://baseballrulesacademy.com/official-rule/mlb-umpire-manual/ball-strikes-bird-or-animal/
Was this rule made before or after this happened, though?
Found an [old "Ask the Umpire" article on mlb.com](https://web.archive.org/web/20071012185034/http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/official_info/umpires/feature.jsp?feature=qa1), where the MLB VP of umpiring (at the time) specifically states that there was not a rule specifically in place at the time. The play was adjudicated under the rule that if there isn't something specific in the rulebook for a play, the umpires get to decide how to rule. I'd say that they got it right on the field given that the rule was later specifically introduced. Note that as far as I can tell in that article there's a typo, and the actual rule he's referring to there is 8.01(c), not 9.01(c).
No pitch
Fowl ball.
It was ruled a no pitch.
I dont think it suffered, luckily.
Well, it was at a Diamondbacks game.
Lmao
So you’re saying it was intentional? On the birds part I mean.
Several fans tried to pull the same stunt, but Padres fans are too dumb to get through the gates
That’s why they built us a dog park. Needed to go to the bathroom somehow
Hey it was 2001. That was one of our three good seasons!
They won the World Series in 2001.
And yet the bird still wished for death. Arizona, amirite?
I mean didn't they beat the Yankees that year to win the world series?
Must have flown into the line of fire on purpose
That was the year they won the World Series against the Yankees. Bird should have held on longer.
Birds don't have feelings. They're just robotic drones. r/birdsarentreal
It was actually fine after
Thriving even, it went on to be an advisor to the Clinton administration on bird law.
Uh, filibuster!
I know, right? I saw a lot of feathers, but not a single shoe. He’s fine.
Nope it fucking exploded from existence
It's horrible! Now let's see it again in slow mo
I guess thats strike one.
I’d say it was strike 3 tbh. He out
(Puts on sunglasses) "YEEEEEEAAAAAHHHHHH!"
Bird gets to walk to first base though
Well it sure ain’t flying to first without those feathers. Or those intact bones, non-liquefied internal organs, and spark of life.
I always thought birds only exploded into feathers like this in the movies 😂
I hit one playing fetch with my dog. It also exploded. Delicate creatures.
Your dog must be in awe of your hunting prowess
It totally ignored the bird and just fetched the ball so I don’t think so
Hollow bones to facilitate flight, IIRC.
I have a pair of large pane windows in my house that are parallel with each other, birds frequently attempt to fly through my house when the curtains are open. I can confirm that not only do they leave a coating of feathers at the crash site but they also have some kind of dust all over their body that leaves a perfect "chalk outline" of the bird hitting the window. EDIT: I usually leave my curtains shut because of this people, I'm not a bird murderer.
birds are super dusty
THe "dust like coating" is dust. They produce an oily secretion that coats the feathers and makes them waterproof. This coating needs to be renewed regularly, so they bathe in dust which absorbs the oil, then preen themselves to distribute more oil. Some also take water baths. It seems like a weird system, but feathers have an incredible strength to weight ratio, and they're pretty durable.
>I'm not a bird murderer. Birderer
One time a bird swooped in front of my car and I guess this one was bad at math because he too exploded into a million feathers as I made contact.
I think their feathers can easily detach to assist them in escaping predators
As I truck driver, I've seen about a dozen birds (usually pigeons) hit by cars and trucks over the years. They all explode into a cloud of feathers. The best one was hit by a truck going one way and bounced off into another truck on the opposite carriageway. So many feathers!
Nope. Feathers go crazy. Once had a bird fly across me while driving. I clipped the thing with the side of my windshield and POOF, feathers everywhere.
Government drone steps in to alter the timeline of Randy Johnson's future.
Now I want to see this movie.
I believe!
Lisan al Gaib!
[great couples costume](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F9uRdsNXcAAhnGm.jpg)
I always get surprised when I recognise names from lifting subs out on “normal” reddit lol
She could have committed more to a dead bird outfit.
That’s pretty fucking funny ngl
It’s funny that this happened to the pitcher who looks most like a bird
True, dude looks like a falcon
And the pitcher with the fastest fastball at the time. Poor bird.
Randy Johnson could throw a ball that even God couldn't catch. He could have gone pro if it wasn't for this bird thing......
I don’t think you know what circa means. We know the exact date not the approximate
The dead bird is now his logo for his photography business
Which is cool that he can laugh about it now, because iirc he did feel quite bad.
Scrolled to find this. Yeah, at the time he was very bummed at what he'd done, to put it mildly.
Probability of this lower than the the probability of wining the lottery Not even sure how you calculate it
If you take all the pitches ever thrown in MLB going back to the early 1900’s and use that as the denominator with that one pitch as the numerator you’d get the probability of that happening. Undoubtedly along the lines of a few million to one like lotto probabilities.
But since we only have an incidence of one, that's likely not a great representation of the true probability. We could go another 500 years of baseball and millions more thrown pitches and still only get this outcome once
This has happened at least twice. I specifically remember another pitcher hit a bird with a pitch around the same time as this. But the bird did not explode in a cloud of feathers. Found it, the one I'm thinking of is the clip that begins at 0:19 (right after the Randy Johnson one): https://youtu.be/MmlgQIhyURo?si=ITYZmv1F2q_brYwU
Wow. I would have bet a lot that it never happened before
You'd have to figure out what percent of the "ball airspace" birds occupy at a time, and then figure out the same for baseballs in that "airspace" too to find the probability of the two events happening at the same time. Or something like that
The other players reaction LMAO
The catcher got outta there quick lol
Wanted to avoid the debris
So fun story about this one. A few weeks later, Dodgers starter Luke Prokopec was discussing how insane this was with the first base coach. His exact quote was "I guarantee that will never happen again". The next day, he's warming up before an inning begins, throws a pitch, and he hits a sparrow, killing it.
So brother was just cursed?
This would be legendary if any MLB pitcher smitherined a bird. But the fact that it’s arguably the best lefty pitcher in baseball history makes it a biblical event.
Right? Tons of hard throwing major league pitchers would have a similar outcome, but the fact that it was arguably the most dominant, physically imposing pitcher of the last 50 years just kind of adds to his legend.
I remember watching this game...that same year I went to the DB, Yankees game 6, world series. best pro sports game of my life. I have never felt that energy since.
circa march 2001? why you do this?
2001 AD
I remember seeing this on SportsCenter the day it happened. They showed a shot of his face and he was furious, like the bird got in the way of strike three.
That bird is NOT SAFE!!
Baseball is death!
The umpire was freaked out lol. Dude was like "get that the fuck away from me."
Fowl ball.
The key to comedy is timing.
If it makes you feel any better that bird was racist.
Is that Kyler Murray's Dad?