Tag: Mike Trout

See Mike Trout, Steph Curry and other athletes nail golf trick shots

This is a good way to pass some time at home.

With nothing much to do as the coronavirus pandemic continues and pro and amateur athletes are staying home due to social distancing, we’ve seen some of them resort to keeping themselves busy with some creativity.

Specifically, they’re turning to golf and becoming viral video stars by trying out some wild trick shots in their backyards or in their houses, and it’s a reminder that even if you play basketball or baseball or hockey, you can still be really, really good at golf (and as someone who wants to be really, really good at golf, I’m jealous).

Here are some of the shots:

Mike Trout

Steph Curry

Mardy Fish

Jake Elliott

Elias Pettersson (this one is funny)

I’m sure there are more of these to come.

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Like many of us, LeBron James is missing sports

The Los Angeles Lakers star shared a video that made him a little emotional on Friday afternoon about the world’s stoppage amid coronavirus.

Listen, it’s not easy out there. In the past, even during the most difficult times over the years, we’ve had sports. But due to the immediate need to practice social distancing in these times, leading to lay-offs nationwide, the distraction of a new sports match is impossible to find in the United States. With that on a lot of people’s minds, Major League Baseball shared a video on Friday of moments in which fans and players interacted with each other over the past few years, showing the connection the game can foster among us in order to try and cheer us up.

That message got to LeBron James, who shared the video himself on Friday, sadly mentioning how he misses his sports.

Not only can we not watch sports, many of us, especially those of us who love team sports, cannot even play them. Such is the cost of slowing down the coronavirus, something that James has acknowledged is a necessary one. Still, it doesn’t mean we can’t miss what’s been a daily part of our lives.

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Watch: MLB stars Mike Trout, Cody Bellinger crush golf balls

Mike Trout is crushes a drive at Topgolf and it’s a viral video sensation.

Wanna see Mike Trout launch a golf ball to the moon?

What about Dodgers rising star Cody Bellinger?

The two Major League Baseball stars were among several players swinging for the fences at a Scottsdale, Arizona, Topgolf facility on Sunday.

They were all there for an event sponsored by The Pujols Family Foundation, a non-profit run by Angels’ slugger Albert Pujols and his wife which, according to their site, “focuses on Faith, Family and Others.”

Trout, a five-tool player on the diamond, proves that he can crank a driver as well. His reaction to the moonshot is pretty solid, too: A little flex followed by a huge ear-to-ear smile.

Bellinger also showed off his swing.

The lefty has a nice, slow takeaway and then lets it rip.

Trout and the Angels hold spring training in Tempe, while Bellinger and the Dodgers share a facility in Glendale with the White Sox.

With three more weeks of spring training, there’s a better than good chance Trout will be somewhere in Arizona sending golf balls, and baseballs, off into the distance.

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Mike Trout hit a golf ball a country mile and everyone was rightly in awe

Mike Trout hit this ball to the moon.

Major League Baseball has had a tough spring so far, as the Houston Astros and their cheating ways have dominated the headlines during spring training.

Who can rescue us from all of that bad news and bring us back to some fun baseball stuff to marvel at?

Mike Trout, of course.

Well, I guess this isn’t technically baseball, since he’s hitting a golf ball at one of those fun Topgolf places, but it is still a lot of fun to watch the best player in MLB hit a golf ball to the moon.

Check out this video of Trout hitting an absolute bullet that still might be in the air as I type this:

I mean, come on. Sure, he might have pulled it a little left but that is a ridiculous rope by the 3-time AL MVP.

Twitter was impressed:

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Mike Trout destroyed the Astros for cheating, thinks the punishments were weak

“I lost some respect for some guys.”

The heat on the Houston Astros is only being turned up as other star players and teams report to spring training. Questions are being asked and hoo boy are opposing player giving their opinions on the cheating scandal that helped lead the Astros to a World Series win in 2017.

One of those players who didn’t shy away from talking about the Astros is Mike Trout, who is arguably the very best player in the game.

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Trout stepped out of his normal, bland self and took a number of pointed shots at the Astros on Monday, which says a lot.

Here’s what the three-time MVP had to say, via ESPN:

“It’s sad for baseball,” Trout said. “It’s tough. They cheated. I don’t agree with the punishments, the players not getting anything. It was a player-driven thing. It sucks, too, because guys’ careers have been affected, a lot of people lost jobs. It was tough. Me going up to the plate knowing what was coming — it would be pretty fun up there.”

“I lost some respect for some guys,” Trout said. “… All the stuff coming out, it’s tough to see.”

None of players who cheated, of course, were punished by MLB commissioner Rob Manfred, which is absurd.

Here’s video Trout’s meeting with the media:

He also added:

Rob Manfred and MLB are going to continue to look really bad for how this whole thing has been handled.

Which is just great.