| 04 February 2010
Shawn Anderson from The Hall of Very Good recently sat down with The Batting Stance Guy to talk baseball. If you don't know who The Batting Stance Guy is, first let me ask you to crawl out from under your rock.... ready? Okay, his name is Gar Ryness and he's been doing impressions of baseball players with his wiffle ball bat for years now. His YouTube videos and website have become so popular that players like Manny Ramirez, Mike Cameron and Kevin Youkilis know him by name.
Below are a few quotes from Shawn's interview, but I highly recommend you read the whole thing here.
HOVG: What stance is most like your natural stance? Do you even have a “natural stance” at this point?
RYNESS: There are some VHS tapes in existence with me standing like Ryne Sandberg in real baseball. In college and post-college softball I like hitting lefty like Dave Justice, or when I’m trying to go opposite field…Will Clark.HOVG: What players have been the most receptive?
RYNESS: Mike Cameron and Prince Fielder put me in the center of the Brewers stretching circle last season. Cameron either laughs really hard at everything, or enjoyed himself. Honestly, I could have never predicted the player’s responses. To have Joe Mauer, Ryan Howard, Adam Wainwright, Todd Helton, Adrian Gonzalez, Pablo Sandoval, Alcedes Escobar, Mike Lowell, Corey Hart, Eugenio Velez and Kevin Youkilis all introducing themselves to me? Seriously, the world is upside down.HOVG: Who has been critical?
RYNESS: Josh Beckett didn’t love me talking about imitating Mike Napoli hitting a homerun off him versus Mike Napoli hitting homeruns off the rest of the league. *Crickets* Nothing. Blank stare. Very awkward.
Click over for Shawn's full interview, Gar is a really funny guy.
Here's his interview with David Letterman... lots of Red Sox Yankees talk.
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