Video - Joey Gathright huge jump over dogers player-spring traing

• The On Deck Circle

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  Eaaaaasy Willie Mays Hayes! Think he'd give that a shot in a real game? Over a 2B stealing?

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• ethanator1088

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  Willie Mays No. Maybe Willie Mays Hayes could d o it.... :-)

  Bonus points to anyone that gets the reference.

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• The On Deck Circle

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  Dude it's a Major League reference. Look at my comment again ;)

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• ethanator1088

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  I was wondering if anyone else got it. I know my favorite Wesley Snipes character. :-)

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  • MrThell

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    Um, no. You pretty much got called out.

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    • ethanator1088

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      I totally would have got called out if it was not one of my favorite basketball movies of all time.

      Posted 3/27/2008 [reply] [flag]

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Joey Gathright jumps OVER Dodger pitcher, Video
Published 3/25/2008 by ethanator1088 at NESW Sports, The Best Sports News
Joey Gathright jumps OVER Dodger pitcher, Video. This is an amazing play. Joey Gathright shows us all that baseball players are athletes, during a spring training game. I wonder how high we would have jumped if he was in mid season form? The funny thing is that the pitcher is a dodger but Joey is doing the dodging. That is comedy GOLD Joey also likes to go Car Jumping! ...

Joey Gathright can jump
Published 3/25/2008 by Jeff at Royally Speaking
If you haven't seen Gathright jumping Dodgers pitcher Hiroki Kuroda here is the video. ---------- The Chicago White Sox are leaning towards starting Joe Crede at 3rd base to begin the season. What are they thinking over there, this would be like KC bringing Mike Sweeney back one more year and sending Billy Butler to Omaha. Josh Fields hit 23 home runs ...

Opening Day… Technically
Published 3/25/2008 by Bill Baer at crashburnalley.com
Opening Day… Technically March 25th, 2008 Posted in Sabermetrics , Philadelphia Phillies , MLB Despite the countdown at the top right of Crashburn Alley, the Major League Baseball season officially started at 6 A.M. when the Oakland Athletics and the Boston Red Sox duked it out in front of nearly 45,000 fans at the Tokyo Dome. If you were sleeping or working and couldn’t catch the game, you missed a doozy. Before I begin my recap of the game, I just have to vent and say that I just have a strong disliking of ESPN’s broadcasters. I’m sure some of it is irrational, but it was so annoying to watch the game this morning because at the end of ...

Joey Gathright Will Jump Over Pitchers, Cars With Ease
Published 3/25/2008 at FanIQ Blog
Joey Gathright may not be known as an exceptional hitter, but the Royals outfielder is one thing above all else: a tremendous athlete. After the Royals starting center fielder David DeJesus went down with an injury, Gathright stepped into his place and knocked down three hits (amazing by itself), one of which came in quite spectacular fashion. Dodgers pitcher Hiroki Kuroda stood in his way trying to retrieve the baseball, so Joey just went ahead and jumped over him. The last time Gathright displayed his leaping ability ... jumping over a car several years ago in a random parking lot. Yes, ...

Joey Gathright Still Has Mad Hops
Published 3/25/2008 by PostmanR at FanHouse
Filed under: Royals, AL Central, MLB Video, Kansas City You may remember --- raise your hand if you remember! -- last April when Kansas City Royals outfielder Joey Gathright showed off his jumping prowess by leaping over cars in a YouTube video. Well, Gathright decided in a recent spring training game to ditch the cars and instead jump over Hiroki Kuroda of the Dodgers. Next up for Gathright? Randy Johnson. Via FanIQ.   Permalink | Email ...

Thing I Have Never Ever, Ever Seen Before
Published 3/25/2008 by Chris Rasmussen at Bugs & Cranks
Yes, yes.  Joey Gathright can jump over things.  I wondered whether this skill would be a nice oddity that doesn’t translate onto a Major League field, much like Rey Palacios ability to stick multiple baseballs in his mouth or Joe Charboneau’s ability to open beers with his eye socket.  Until last night. ...

Royals Player Jumps Over Japanese Man With Ease
Published 3/25/2008 at The Sporting Blog
By Chris Mottram Sadly for Joey Gathright, he's more well known for jumping completely over mid-sized automobiles than he is for playing baseball. During spring training yesterday, he put those skills to use in a (meaningless) game: Hmmm, why does this look familar? Ah yes, Dodgers pitcher Hiroki Kuroda is the new Greg Paulus. In case you'd forgotten, Paulus has received a similar man-bits-to-the-top-of-the-head treatment from both Deron Washington and Danny Green . Note: Please excuse my unsolicited Duke hate. (First seen on Fan IQ , although I done chopped up a slightly higher quality Red Lasso clip of it.)

Blog-O-Rama: Royals Runner Leaps Over Pitcher
Published 3/25/2008 by jason at SPORTSbyBROOKS
• FAN IQ finds Joey Gathright leaping at the opportunity to secure a spot on the Royals’ roster: • WITH LEATHER passes the tissues, as a jilted guy turns to the Cubs to mend his broken heart . • BALLHYPE charts the most loved and most loathed in DEADSPIN’s Media Approval Ratings . • HUGGING HAROLD REYNOLDS knows reading is fun-damental, as Troy Aikman entertains the kids at the White House Easter Egg Roll with a little Dr. Seuss . • NEWS GROPER wonders how A-Rod would enjoy starting his season in Japan . • DEUCE OF DAVENPORT delivers news that Carmelo Anthony’s kid almost had no cake for his 1st birthday party . • DC ...

Joey Gathright Can Leap Over Tall Buildings
Published 3/25/2008 by Anthony Hall at MVN Outsider
As you may remember, a video of Kansas City outfielder Joey Gathright jumping over cars was posted on YouTube roughly a year ago. The video was filmed in 2002, and at that time, he would only have been about 21-years-old. Well, nearly six years have passed since then, but Gathright certainly hasn’t lost his leaping ability with his older age. In a spring training game between the Dodgers and Royals, Gathright was brought off the bench to replace Kansas City’s starting center fielder, David DeJesus. Facing Dodgers pitcher Hiroki Kuroda, Gathright knocked a chopper down the first base line that was fielded by Kuroda. The pitcher ended up ...

Hiroki Kuroda as a Human Hurdle
Published 3/26/2008 by Shinsano at East Windup Chronicle
I wouldn’t normally post your run-of-the-mill ESPN play-of-the-night kind of highlight, but this is unreal. I had heard Joey Gathright’s leaping ability is such that he can jump over a car, but I never expected him to do it in a game. The hurdle in this case is none other than Hiroki Kuroda, who, I think it’s safe to assume, had to add “getting hurdled by a player during a game” to the ”Baseball Firsts in the States!” list in his scrapbook. ...

Joey Gathright Would be a 1st Round Pick in the NFL Draft
Published 3/26/2008 by Larry Brown at Larry Brown Sports
... in a parking lot. I compared Gathright to the freakish Adrian Wilson, who could clear like five feet vertically without a problem. And to refresh your memory, here’s Gathright, who put his hops on display in a spring training game: ...

Joey Gathright Would be a 1st Round Pick in the NFL Draft
Published 3/26/2008 by Larry Brown at Larry Brown Sports
... in a parking lot. I compared Gathright to the freakish Adrian Wilson, who could clear like five feet vertically without a problem. And to refresh your memory, here’s Gathright, who put his hops on display in a spring training game: ...

Joey Gathright Not Only Jumps People, He Jumps Cars
Published 3/26/2008 by Awful Announcing- at Awful Announcing
I'd love to see a jump off between Adrian Wilson and Joey Gathright. Yesterday in the links I had a clip of Gathright jumping over a pitcher trying to make a tag along the first base line. This clip is from 2007 but the dude is jumping cars.... I remember watching a timed run from Gathright once and he got from home to third in about 9 seconds. The kid is ridiculous. Joey Gathright Can Also Jump Over Cars (Real Clear Sports)

[JOEY GATHRIGHT] Joey Gathright No Longer Hurdling Just Cars
Published 3/26/2008 by The Professor at Rays Index
Remember that story about former Devil Rays' prospect Joey Gathright being drafted by the Rays after a scout witnessed him jumping over a car in the high school parking lot? Well, Gathright was never able to utilize that potential with the Rays and was eventually traded to the Royals for JP Howell. Well, Gathright finally put his mad hops to use in a baseball game the other night...Sometimes we wonder if Howell has enough arm strength to throw a ball over a car.

Getting down to brass tacks
Published 3/26/2008 by Ken at The Pipeline
Less than 5 full days remain until the Royals' season opener in Detroit and questions still abound in Surprise. The #4 and #5 rotation competitions has half turned-out like I didn't want it to -- lefty John Bale has stepped up to grab the #4 spot, most likely, which I like, but I didn't want one of the spots to default to someone and it looks like that's what's going to happen in the 5th slot. Brett Tomko has pitched not well but not absolutely horribly, either, for the most part. The team site tried to paint his 4 IP, 3 K, 3 runs but only 1 ER outing versus the Padres last night as a positive, but four of the five hits he gave up went for extra bases, and he has ...

Joey Gathright is amazing (You Tube link)
Published 3/26/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
Baseball Primer Newsblog —The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Wednesday, March 26, 2008 Joey Gathright is amazing (You Tube link) Last season, this video of him jumping a car came out. I never thought he’d use that skill in a game. Jimmy P Posted: March 26, 2008 at 12:04 PM | 1 comment(s) Related News: General Reader Comments and Retorts Go to end of page Statements posted here are those of our readers and do not represent the BaseballThinkFactory. Names are provided by the poster and are not verified. We ask that posters follow our submission policy . Please report any inappropriate ...

Joey Gathright Defies Physics
Published 3/26/2008 by Bronx Liaison at
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A routine grounder becomes an Olympic event when Joey Gathright is on the basepaths: I love how he doesn't even lose his balance in the process of hurdling an upright human-being. Ridiculous.

Joey Gathright is Amazing, Part II
Published 3/26/2008 by Andrew Thell at Empty the Bench
Yowzers. This is probably the most athletic play we’re going to see on the basepaths this season. Note how the act of jumping over a human being doesn’t even slow him down when he touches down. Joey is such an exciting player, a freak on the basepaths and able to cover so much ground in the outfield, and I’d like to see more of him. That .266 career batting average has prevented him from reaching 80 games in any season so far, but with a .307 BA and .371 OBP in 74 games last year perhaps we’ll be seeing the 26-year-old do more of this in 2008: We ...

2008 Kansas City Royal Preview
Published 3/27/2008 by Pistol at Batter's Box Interactive Magazine
Joey Gathright is on the Royals and you know what that means! That's right, the one and only Joey Gathright can JUMP OVER A CAR! But really, besides being pretty cool to watch, there isn't a whole lot of benefit that one gets on the baseball field from doing this. Or is there? Check this out. Now that that's out of the way, where are the Royals? In last year's preview I wrote that the Royals would probably make some progress (71 wins) but still finish in the basement of the AL Central. And they did finish in last place and improve (from 62 to 69 wins). While not a win total you would normally get excited ...

Vince Carter’s Dunk of Death Now Has a Baseball Equivalent
Published 3/27/2008 by mb at Rockin' Steady
Kinda.

Outfielder Leaps Player, Sedans In A Single Bound
Published 3/27/2008 by Brooks at SPORTSbyBROOKS
By now you’ve probably already seen this video of Royals outfielder Joey Gathwright jumping over Dodgers pitcher Hiroki Kuroda : And you might’ve seen Gathright jump over a sedan in a parking lot. But in case you haven’t, hear you go: Incidentally, Gathright was recently selected by Royals’ legend George Brett as having the best Spring Training of any KC player ...

Say hello to Willie Mays Hayes!
Published 3/28/2008 by W.H at Wax Heaven
Joey Gathright may run like Mays, but he hits like shit.

The Joey Gathright Play
Published 3/28/2008 by Patrick DiCaprio at THE FANTASY BASEBALL GENERALS
Friday, March 28, 2008 The Joey Gathright Play For those who haven't seen it. I don't normally do this, but for those who haven't seen it, Joey Gathright jumped clear over Hideki Kuroda while running to first base. It is simply astounding, so here is the link . Posted by Patrick DiCaprio at Friday, March 28, 2008   0 comments: Post a Comment

If He Could Only Hit
Published 3/28/2008 by tips@sportable.com at Sportable, Where Sports are a Lifestyle
Royals outfielder Joey Gathright has never started a full season in the Majors.  His inconsistencies at the plate have raised questions about his offensive abilities.  What shouldn’t be questioned is his athleticism.  While most of us are out hanging with friends playing poker or watching a movie, Gathright is in parking lots jumping cars.  Yes, you read that right.  This is freakish…. ...