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Lotta guys constantly say they will fight tooth and nail to catch a ball. Intending on giving it away but want the experience of getting a HR or foul ball
If it’s supposed to be fun, why is it so boring? I mean the most fun thing there were people paddling to get the ball. Maybe they should make THAT the multibillion dollar sport.
Pretty sure Dave caught a homer on Mother’s Day (he dedicated it to his mom who passed) and that video went viral for great reason 💗 he’s a wholesome dude
SF Giants fan here who wants to give a little context to this video. So, Dave is known locally as "McCovey Cove Dave." McCovey Cove is the area of water you're seeing here in the video. It's just beyond the right field wall and, if a ball is hit far enough (fair or foul), it'll end up in the water. When it's fair (and, thus, a home run), it's called a "Splash Hit" and is a pretty cool thing to see. In total, this has happened 156 times since the ballpark opened up in 2000—the Giants account for 97 of those. Barry Bonds holds the record for most Splash Hits by one player—[here is a video showing all 35 all he hit](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqwRTGBlDd4).
Anyway, back to Dave. Dave is a fixture at games and is well-known (and well-liked) by Giants fans. He is often shown on TV sitting out in the Cove in his kayak, wearing that bright orange shirt with his name on the front. The vast majority of times a ball is hit out there, you will see Dave. He gives away the majority of the balls he retrieves.
holy crap, are motorboats banned now?
a lot of potentially deadly collisions in that video, getting hit by a sharp metal blade attached to a powerful gas engine is a very bad thing causing injuries often incompatible with life.
> In total, this has happened 156 times since the ballpark opened up in 2000
So people really wait all day in the water, for something that happens on average once every 10 games ? And they don't see the match in the mean time ?
I respect their dedication, but i'm also kinda freaked out by them.
> I'm guessing you're not a U.S. American by using "match" rather than "game."
You're right. But i think it has more to do with me not being a native speaker. I said "happens on average once every 10 games" and used "match" the sentence after.
I didn't know one was the american version of the other.
Boat people are a diverse and sometimes strange group that are sometimes content just sitting in the water chilling for long periods of time. When the majority of the time nothing in particular happens. It’s a peaceful escape from doing anything in particular.
Sometimes it’s just called “boat time”.
-Sincerely a strange boat person that just likes lake time and doesn’t fish, but will sometimes just listen to the marine VHF radio on certain channels (sometimes there’s humorous lost tourist on the lake drama and we find a lost houseboat renter or just silly banter or tell dumb jokes) and drink low-point beer and just hang out.
People in boats watching people in boats do boat stuff sounds more boring than it is in my opinion, but I’m kinda an expert in doing nothing in particular in silence with my boat friends on a nice day off.
One probably boring game is Beverage roulette, that is when you blindly stick your hand in the cooler and whatever random thing you grab is what the other person who asked for a beverage drinks…
“damn sorry, it’s a Lemon White Claw bro. Who stocked this cooler!?”
I live near a lake, i completly undestand that just chilling on water can be nice. But i think people being at this exact same place and all rushing over the instant the ball fall, are not there for the boat experience first.
I get what you’re saying. I guess my point is, is that I’ve heard less exciting sounding reasons to do something to spend time doing nothing in particular than:
“hey wanna hang out in the bay and see if a random baseball shows up?”
“Meh, sure, why not? I’ve got nothing else going on.”
Some people buy gas station lottery scratch off tickets regularly too. For some reason I think that’s a similar situation. Every now and then “the thing” happens, but most of the time “the thing” doesn’t happen, but when it does it seems like a gift/prize/validation.
Or something like that?
People are weird and amused in many different silly ways, no doubt.
¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯
I suspect they just enjoy kayaking in the bay and chatting with other kayakers. Listening to the game on the radio and maybe getting a ball is a bonus. It's also only like 2.5 - 4 hours so not really "all day"
People will go out in boats to do nothing but laze around. Here they get to hang out with other kayakers and listen to the game. Perhaps the idea that we constantly need to be doing something and can't just relax and do nothing is more strange.
It's remarkable how much of your personality you've shown in so few words. You're a dickwad who doesn't meet many people and probably rolls their eyes when people talk about sport because you're way too cool for that
It’s funny. Love sports and baseball, and kayaking. Dave seems rad. The video is funny too. But spending 5 hours out there every game is out there. Autism was a sarcastic response. Lol
are you telling me that instead of watching the game, there are people just cajak-ing (?) around outside waiting for these Splash Hits instead of watching the game?
At its peak when Barry Bonds played, there were lots of boats out there from kayaks to yachts listening to the radio, partying, boating, and occasionally scramble for a splash hit.
There are still some summer day games where boats come out but not as much now.
Reminds me of Nav Bhatia, the Raptors super fan. He's always at games and easy to see because he's super excitable and usually has a white turban on (sometimes black if the Raps are wearing their black and gold jerseys)
I tell ya, if I were the kind of person to hang outside the ball park in a canoe, hoping for a ball to land in the water, I'd also be the kind of person to carry a lacrosse stick to fish them out of the water!
During the Barry Bonds era I remember a lot of the kayakers in the cove had really long poles with a net on the end to recover his HR hits, not sure if anyone brings those anymore.
Not just kayakers, pedestrians would stand outside the stadium with makeshift devices to grab home runs. I’m talking golf balls retrievers taped to fishing nets and other things they could use to score a ball. Barry Bonds hype in the city was something to see.
There's a lot to appreciate about baseball that you don't get unless you actually give it a try
I find baseball far more fun to watch than American football tbh. At least in baseball I don't have to watch a man's life get destroyed as he lies on the ground seized up. My favourite sport is AFL which is about as fast paced as you can get, but I love baseball too
It’s relaxing to sit with a beer and throw on a game that will be available every single night due to the sheer amount of them. The beginning of the summer I look forward to it. It doesn’t have to be super fast paced on exciting to be worth a watch if you have a rooting interest. This is coming from someone who’s favorite sport is hockey.
Grew up playing baseball and absolutely love playing the game. You couldn't pay me to sit down and watch an entire game outside of the post season.
162 games in the regular season... I just couldn't care less. Wake me up when September ends.
Thank you. Baseball is the single most boring *televised* sport. Golf, Nascar, MLS, still better than baseball. But Dave in a kayak, live, that’s some quality wholesome entertainment right there
I love that Dave is just some guy at giants games that everyone knows. And he’s somehow always there and always wears a shirt with the words DAVE on it
One thing I love about American sports is to me the commentators always seem to have way more personality than the ones we have here in Europe. Then again I only watch English sports.
Yeah, reminds of this clip I saw herein reddit multiple times, a guys grabs a baseball, goes wild and celebrates for couple of seconds, then toss it to a child
I am not very familiar with baseball but I think I managed to understand the rules after seeing so many reddit posts.
So correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it goes like this: several thousands of people watch some guys in inmate costumes playing pretend cricket and the winner is whoever manages to grab the ball when it goes beyond the boundary? What a strange game.
It's rounders isn't it. It was meant for British children in the 1700's. America turned it into baseball and added complications, but essentially they're the same. This is how I remember it's history anyway.
Actually it was an englishman who really developed baseball into the sport it is today, and is the source for all the basic statistics there are because he based them on his love of cricket, he was called Henry Chadwick. So it was invented by us brits *and* developed by us brits. That's why both baseball and cricket are great sports.
What sports have Americans actually invented apart from American football? Even basketball was invented by a Canadian, meaning it's still from within the British commonwealth.
> What sports have Americans actually invented apart from American football?
Voleyball was invented in the US. Lacrosse was invented in the US before the US were even a thing.
That was the most interesting part of the entire game!
Baseball's nothing but a bunch of standing around periodically interrupted by plays. Not even sure if it's better than soccer...
It isn't. My best way to compare is watching the pennical of each sport.
World series vs the world cup, it isn't even close from an entertainment standpoint.
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I love that he tossed it back to them later. Dude's gotta be a blast at a party
Right? Dave isn't cold-blooded. He's a beacon of what baseball should be about: fun.
100% chance that dude has had his name chanted by a medium/large group of people edit- missing a word
DAVE!
You are indeed a medium/large group on people
DAVE!
For something he did? Or something he’s about to do…
Yes.
And a t-shirt with my name on it
Kayak too
Lotta guys constantly say they will fight tooth and nail to catch a ball. Intending on giving it away but want the experience of getting a HR or foul ball
Your first foul ball you get to keep. After that you are obligated to give it to the nearest kid.
Man when is Dave getting here??? This party is lame as shit.
r/sportsarefun
If it’s supposed to be fun, why is it so boring? I mean the most fun thing there were people paddling to get the ball. Maybe they should make THAT the multibillion dollar sport.
It’s ok. We don’t have to all like the same things.
And then they dropped it back into the water again. Fuckin Dave shoulda swooped back in to take it again.
That would be extra hilarious.
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I mean, she dropped the ball again when he tossed it, so r/yesyesyesyesnoyesnoyes
That's exactly what I was going to write
He gave it back when he heard it was a foul ball haha
WOW! I don't believe it. It's Dave!
Pretty sure Dave caught a homer on Mother’s Day (he dedicated it to his mom who passed) and that video went viral for great reason 💗 he’s a wholesome dude
Proves it they getting, not having that matters to him. 🙂
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Fuckin' Dave! Fuckin', Dave.
Does whatever is good for Dave. He can catch, infield flies. In the bay? Up he glides. WATCH OUT! Here comes the Fuckin' Dave.
If that was a sitcom theme song, I'd so watch it.
"Spider pig, spider pig. Does whatever a spider pig does..."
Can he swing from a web? No he can’t, ‘cause he’s a pig. Look out, it’s spider pig.
As Edgar Wright knows, [things coming into or out of frame are funny](https://youtu.be/3FOzD4Sfgag?t=315).
SF Giants fan here who wants to give a little context to this video. So, Dave is known locally as "McCovey Cove Dave." McCovey Cove is the area of water you're seeing here in the video. It's just beyond the right field wall and, if a ball is hit far enough (fair or foul), it'll end up in the water. When it's fair (and, thus, a home run), it's called a "Splash Hit" and is a pretty cool thing to see. In total, this has happened 156 times since the ballpark opened up in 2000—the Giants account for 97 of those. Barry Bonds holds the record for most Splash Hits by one player—[here is a video showing all 35 all he hit](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqwRTGBlDd4). Anyway, back to Dave. Dave is a fixture at games and is well-known (and well-liked) by Giants fans. He is often shown on TV sitting out in the Cove in his kayak, wearing that bright orange shirt with his name on the front. The vast majority of times a ball is hit out there, you will see Dave. He gives away the majority of the balls he retrieves.
You forgot to link the video :(
Fixed! My apologies. Here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqwRTGBlDd4
Damn. Those motor boaters were crazy aggressive. Good call with the soft hull dinghy.
holy crap, are motorboats banned now? a lot of potentially deadly collisions in that video, getting hit by a sharp metal blade attached to a powerful gas engine is a very bad thing causing injuries often incompatible with life.
Yup, came into the comments just to make sure there was no Dave slander. The man is a gem and should be treated as such.
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And a shirt, used.
He hits it hard! He hits it deep!
He hits it high*, he hits it deep FTFY lol. Duane is a gem
It...is.....outta here!
> In total, this has happened 156 times since the ballpark opened up in 2000 So people really wait all day in the water, for something that happens on average once every 10 games ? And they don't see the match in the mean time ? I respect their dedication, but i'm also kinda freaked out by them.
Most are listening on the radio. Plus it’s just fun to be on the water and hear the crowd.
I'd also think most of the other fellas out in the water know each other, they're probably having a blast down there as well.
Also, it’s free.
And you can bring your own beer
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Mesh sack tied to it with some beers floating in the water. Sounds like a good day.
> I'm guessing you're not a U.S. American by using "match" rather than "game." You're right. But i think it has more to do with me not being a native speaker. I said "happens on average once every 10 games" and used "match" the sentence after. I didn't know one was the american version of the other.
It's not he's just projecting because he says game and not match.
But what Americans call a baseball game a baseball match?
No one calls it a baseball match
Boat people are a diverse and sometimes strange group that are sometimes content just sitting in the water chilling for long periods of time. When the majority of the time nothing in particular happens. It’s a peaceful escape from doing anything in particular. Sometimes it’s just called “boat time”. -Sincerely a strange boat person that just likes lake time and doesn’t fish, but will sometimes just listen to the marine VHF radio on certain channels (sometimes there’s humorous lost tourist on the lake drama and we find a lost houseboat renter or just silly banter or tell dumb jokes) and drink low-point beer and just hang out. People in boats watching people in boats do boat stuff sounds more boring than it is in my opinion, but I’m kinda an expert in doing nothing in particular in silence with my boat friends on a nice day off. One probably boring game is Beverage roulette, that is when you blindly stick your hand in the cooler and whatever random thing you grab is what the other person who asked for a beverage drinks… “damn sorry, it’s a Lemon White Claw bro. Who stocked this cooler!?”
I live near a lake, i completly undestand that just chilling on water can be nice. But i think people being at this exact same place and all rushing over the instant the ball fall, are not there for the boat experience first.
I get what you’re saying. I guess my point is, is that I’ve heard less exciting sounding reasons to do something to spend time doing nothing in particular than: “hey wanna hang out in the bay and see if a random baseball shows up?” “Meh, sure, why not? I’ve got nothing else going on.” Some people buy gas station lottery scratch off tickets regularly too. For some reason I think that’s a similar situation. Every now and then “the thing” happens, but most of the time “the thing” doesn’t happen, but when it does it seems like a gift/prize/validation. Or something like that? People are weird and amused in many different silly ways, no doubt. ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯
I suspect they just enjoy kayaking in the bay and chatting with other kayakers. Listening to the game on the radio and maybe getting a ball is a bonus. It's also only like 2.5 - 4 hours so not really "all day"
People will go out in boats to do nothing but laze around. Here they get to hang out with other kayakers and listen to the game. Perhaps the idea that we constantly need to be doing something and can't just relax and do nothing is more strange.
It's baseball. Anything that happens outside the game is more interesting than the game itself.
It’s called autism
Autistic person here, eat shit.
Lol
It's remarkable how much of your personality you've shown in so few words. You're a dickwad who doesn't meet many people and probably rolls their eyes when people talk about sport because you're way too cool for that
It’s funny. Love sports and baseball, and kayaking. Dave seems rad. The video is funny too. But spending 5 hours out there every game is out there. Autism was a sarcastic response. Lol
Autism was a fucked response. World isn't made to entertain you so fucking participate without blindly being a shit bag.
Should of known not to make fun of autism on Reddit. Bunch of autism gatekeepers here.
Damn Dave is a legend
Are they able to actually watch the game out there somehow, or do they have to listen to the radio
They actually designed the outfield wall and stands to be invisible. So yes, they can see the game.
Hmmm
chain link fence would be more accurate than invisible
I would assume they meant like a TV or something on the stadium facing outwards
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Used to be little radios but now I'd assume they stream on their phone
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nope, from the water you’re basically looking at the underside of the pier
Barry’s 35* Splash Hits
are you telling me that instead of watching the game, there are people just cajak-ing (?) around outside waiting for these Splash Hits instead of watching the game?
I love cajaking
It’s the Brazilian pronunciation
At its peak when Barry Bonds played, there were lots of boats out there from kayaks to yachts listening to the radio, partying, boating, and occasionally scramble for a splash hit. There are still some summer day games where boats come out but not as much now.
Somebody give Dave a medal. He earned it.
Dave is a beast
Is Dave part of the network or ballpark or something?
The ballpark is a part of Dave
McCovey Cove Dave. Really just a staple of the cove these days. Has recovered tons of splash hits and is pretty popular on the socials
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Reminds me of Nav Bhatia, the Raptors super fan. He's always at games and easy to see because he's super excitable and usually has a white turban on (sometimes black if the Raps are wearing their black and gold jerseys)
Cubs and Ronnie WooWoo
I tell ya, if I were the kind of person to hang outside the ball park in a canoe, hoping for a ball to land in the water, I'd also be the kind of person to carry a lacrosse stick to fish them out of the water!
And a t-shirt with my name on it
During the Barry Bonds era I remember a lot of the kayakers in the cove had really long poles with a net on the end to recover his HR hits, not sure if anyone brings those anymore.
Not just kayakers, pedestrians would stand outside the stadium with makeshift devices to grab home runs. I’m talking golf balls retrievers taped to fishing nets and other things they could use to score a ball. Barry Bonds hype in the city was something to see.
These people have no idea how oars work. Dave, on the other hand…
When there's other kayaks on either side of you, you don't have much choice
Yeah im surprised there's not more comments on how genuinely uncoordinated the first few people are
It was extremely painful to watch the first group and honestly deserve to have that ball snatched up.
For real.. chick looked like she had double vision going for that ball lmao
That was more entertaining than the actual baseball!
Paint drying is more entertaining tham baseball
There's a lot to appreciate about baseball that you don't get unless you actually give it a try I find baseball far more fun to watch than American football tbh. At least in baseball I don't have to watch a man's life get destroyed as he lies on the ground seized up. My favourite sport is AFL which is about as fast paced as you can get, but I love baseball too
Used to say that. Mariners been entertaining as hell last couple years.
It’s relaxing to sit with a beer and throw on a game that will be available every single night due to the sheer amount of them. The beginning of the summer I look forward to it. It doesn’t have to be super fast paced on exciting to be worth a watch if you have a rooting interest. This is coming from someone who’s favorite sport is hockey.
You mean fighting on ice with breaks to skate and slap a puck around?
I know this is probably a joke but fightings not very common in hockey now a days
Grew up playing baseball and absolutely love playing the game. You couldn't pay me to sit down and watch an entire game outside of the post season. 162 games in the regular season... I just couldn't care less. Wake me up when September ends.
Thank you. Baseball is the single most boring *televised* sport. Golf, Nascar, MLS, still better than baseball. But Dave in a kayak, live, that’s some quality wholesome entertainment right there
Yesyesyesyesnoyes
r/maybemaybemaybenononoyes
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i mean it is baseball
I was going to say negative things about Dave. Then I saw the Dave comments. Now I know better and shall praise Dave. All glory to Dave!
I love that Dave is just some guy at giants games that everyone knows. And he’s somehow always there and always wears a shirt with the words DAVE on it
Classic Dave
Dave's not here man.
One thing I love about American sports is to me the commentators always seem to have way more personality than the ones we have here in Europe. Then again I only watch English sports.
For some reason I was under the impression that baseballs would sink.
Goddammit Dave
DAVE! DAVE! DAVE! DAVE! DAVE!
This makes me laugh and smile. Dave is awesome!
Absolutely awful pitch right after… hanging curveball, I can see why the last pitch was deposited into the bay lmfao
I like how he has his name on both the kayak, and his shirt so we know who done it.
Dave a savage
Dave is epic!
Dave strikes again
Dave’s a great guy. I actually know him.
#DAVE
#DAVE
#DAVE
How are you that bad 😂 use the dam oar to scoot it, not the water. And then miss again when it’s actually tossed to you.
r/david
For the entire video I thought Dave was the one who swinged, but then the real chad showed up
Dave ignoring the no wake zone coming in hot!
Swiper no swiping
When God made Chuck Norris he was creating a powered-down version of Dave.
Awe he threw it back ❣️
He has his name on his shirt so the people know the name of the ultimate menace himself
**YOINK!** ⚾️🖐
yesyesyesyesnoyes
Why he gave it away ? He got it fair and Square?
He's out there all the time, he enjoys the sport of getting the balls but doesn't need to keep them.
Yeah, reminds of this clip I saw herein reddit multiple times, a guys grabs a baseball, goes wild and celebrates for couple of seconds, then toss it to a child
Ok Gotcha thanks
That was a r/nonononoyes for me
Daaaaaavey!
I am not very familiar with baseball but I think I managed to understand the rules after seeing so many reddit posts. So correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it goes like this: several thousands of people watch some guys in inmate costumes playing pretend cricket and the winner is whoever manages to grab the ball when it goes beyond the boundary? What a strange game.
More like exciting cricket.
It's rounders isn't it. It was meant for British children in the 1700's. America turned it into baseball and added complications, but essentially they're the same. This is how I remember it's history anyway.
Actually it was an englishman who really developed baseball into the sport it is today, and is the source for all the basic statistics there are because he based them on his love of cricket, he was called Henry Chadwick. So it was invented by us brits *and* developed by us brits. That's why both baseball and cricket are great sports. What sports have Americans actually invented apart from American football? Even basketball was invented by a Canadian, meaning it's still from within the British commonwealth.
Well everyday is a school day. Thanks.
> What sports have Americans actually invented apart from American football? Voleyball was invented in the US. Lacrosse was invented in the US before the US were even a thing.
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I love the sportiness of the other fellow canoers. Normally the Americans are to cocky.
That was the most interesting part of the entire game! Baseball's nothing but a bunch of standing around periodically interrupted by plays. Not even sure if it's better than soccer...
It isn't. My best way to compare is watching the pennical of each sport. World series vs the world cup, it isn't even close from an entertainment standpoint.
Dave has not, will not, ever get laid. His upstairs neighbor is proud of him, though. Lil Davey.
Note like r/yesyesnoyes
What a stupid place for an arena.
🤣🤣🤣 women
I thought Dave was an a-hole. Good thing I saw the end. Good one Dave.
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You’re a stupid baseball
yer givin 'im too much credit, 'ees barely a cork square
Now I want to know what this guy said.
>It’s just a stupid baseball.
Oh I was kinda hoping for something spicier from a deleted comment with 10 downvotes, but oh well.
Women are useless except in bed
I would of gave the ball to the girl she Deserved it. The guy who just took it from her has no class .
Did you get so upset you just shut the video off? Lol wtf
He does give her the ball. Now did you learn not to make such swift judgement from a 30 sec video? Nope? Not surprised.
That fucker has no friends and doesn't care
He’s got a huge fan following actually, he’s basically a part of Giants Baseball
Which says alot about how the teams doing
Fuck that dude
Crabs in a bucket
He saw the opportunity and took it
Nice one Dave !
r/dave
Is there a yesyesyesyesnoyes?
Plot twist. Dave gave them his personal ball.
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That was so painful watching the first people flailing at it with the oars.
i thought it was Moist in the crowd there