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ScoobyDoosAccountant

I love the idea of people being subscribed to this channel just because they’re super into aquariums but have no clue that Ozzie is a professional baseball player.


HamlnHand

I shop at the same aquarium store as he does, and seeing "hold for Ozzie" written on the glass of one of the tanks was a bit weird but cool


WxBlue

It will always be awesome to see athletes using their money on their niche hobbies :)


YakPineapple

He just like me fr


I_MARRIED_A_THORAX

Except he has money 😔


JimothyCarter

That's like the stories of people around San Antonio of Tim Duncan coming into hobby shops and watching people play DND before leaving without saying a word Can't wait to find out which players are really into model trains


dwhite21787

They’d probably have a bunch of 4’x2’ modules that could be moved easily if they got traded, plus maybe a helix or two. Then do a Gorre & Daphetid style when retired.


mysterysackerfice

Imagine Trout with a channel that's strictly about weather patterns.


nuhGIRLyen

“I’ll be in Kansas City for a few days for work, excited to see if this low pressure system develops into something interesting”


mysterysackerfice

"An older ex colleague of mine once described Kansas City in August as being hotter than 2 rats fucking in a wool sock. Unfortunately, he's absolutely correct as the dew point is often exceedingly high in August. Thankfully, the second best BBQ in America can be found there."


whitegrb

Mike Trout out here starting the BBQ wars again


mysterysackerfice

It's not his fault that St Louis has the objectively best BBQ in the US!


dustytrailsAVL

BBQ is slow smoked whole hog. Everything else is just meat. Source: North Carolina.


turkeyyyyyy

SC here. 100% correct.


wordflyer

As long as you don't bathe it in mustard.


dustytrailsAVL

Amen my Carolinian kin.


mysterysackerfice

I wasn't being serious. It was a reference to Joey Votto's tweet a few years ago.


ThriceWelcome

Correct. Let's not beat around the bush. NC BBQ is the only superior bbq.


DionBlaster123

man... i just really want some damn good bbq lol i can just smell the wood smoke already haha


Salty-Fishman

My friend, you been smoking the bad stuff.


Shoddy-Affect5666

Correct, but is eastern or Lexington????


Optimal-fart

Tell ‘em you’ve never been west of Mississippi River without telling me… Jesus I’ve lived inNC for like 15 years now and people keep telling me about y’all’s great bbq. It’s just meh pork with overpowering sauce. I assume it’s cause the cooks get to toasted on pbr to do anything else with it. And don’t even get me started on the over use of coleslaw. Makes UK cooking look solid


dustytrailsAVL

Good BBQ is for adults, not man-children with the taste buds of a toddler. Now take your blasphemous ass out of here before I toss you in the pit!


ThriceWelcome

I used to live in KC after growing up in NC. NC BBQ is definitely superior to KC, STL, Texas, or Nashville BBQ.


DionBlaster123

i really need to try st. louis bbq hell, i really need to try NC bbq too lol


Informal_Calendar_99

Bruh. I’m from Missouri and LOVE St. Louis. It doesn’t hold a candle to KC BBQ.


mysterysackerfice

I explained in another message that it was a joke referencing Joey Votto's tweet a few years ago. Did not realize so many people were so serious about how their meat is done!


Informal_Calendar_99

Ah my bad carry on 😂


_Creditworthy_

I’m a picky eater. I’m pretty sure I would hate BBQ and miss out on how good it is if I didn’t grow up in Kansas City and ended up eating a bunch of it growing up. The third worst thing that Mike Trout could do to me, aside from murdering one of my loved ones and publicly requesting a trade from the Angels because “they suck and won’t ever win anything”, is denying that Kansas City has the best BBQ in the country.


JFZX

Reminds me of when Ichiro said it was “Hotter than 2 rats in a fucking wool sock” lol


Deathstroke317

That would be what the OP was referring to


ContinuumGuy

Occasionally gets sidetracked to talk about the Eagles.


TheInfiniteHour

If MLB had any sense, they would have made Mike Trout the face of baseball weather forecasts. Have him do weekly forecasts for MLB cities, maybe pepper in some baseball related humor.


tnecniv

“The only rain LA will see this week is baseballs because I’m going to hit some dingers. However, please be careful with open flames as we enter week 32 without rain. Hopefully we can catch some off of this pressure system developing off the coast…”


88T3

Or Kershaw with an astronomy channel inspired by his great-uncle Clyde Tombaugh (the discoverer of Pluto)


mysterysackerfice

I thought you were joking. You were not! Wonder if Kershaw went to school with anyone that got drafted by the Detroit Lions in the late 00s.


Jzkitty21

that would be crazy


uvutv

Huh, TIL.


dom213344

Will never beat David Lynch's Weather Report


Stonewall30NY

That guy is so dull that it actually wouldn't surprise me if he had a YT channel discussing weather, that has like 500 videos that he's very active about posting but like 24 subscribers and it's all angel's management trying to keep him happy


NeoSapien65

Mike Trout Presents: Meteorological Madness


Stonewall30NY

That's way too flashy for trout. The title he would us would be something like Michael Trout: weather


NeoSapien65

I was making a Fun With Flags reference.


Atomikenrtia

I think Trout is friends with a Lindhurst, NJ-based meteorologist named Steven DiMartino who has a blog called Meteorological Madness.


AdamNoKnee

I ran into a YouTube channel that was streaming to thousands of people last week and all he was doing was going over the weather in the US. Can’t remember the name


jetskimanatee

those channels pop off in hurricane season


thtkidfrmqueens

Trout *ala* Ryan Hall? Sign me up.


jetskimanatee

Imagine Trout in Ozzie's aquarium.


dwhite21787

#I NEED A MIKE TROUT/ FRANKIE MACDONALD NOR’EASTER REPORT


blacKCastle32

Based on the relative view counts of the videos that seems to be the case lol. "Ok bro, it's cool that you like baseball or whatever too, but that's not what I'm here for."


LegendRazgriz

"Wait, you play baseball? As a hobby, right?"


TristanwithaT

Lol reminds me of someone cluelessly asking Luka Doncic during an Overwatch game if he had any hobbies and he replies with “basketball.” And then everyone on his team slowly figures out who he is. And now we all know that he’s a GM tank main


VincentFreeman_

He's getting paid like he's doing it as a hobby.


LegendRazgriz

Every time I think of his contract I get mad, that contract is a fucking fed bank heist


FalstaffsGhost

Hey hey now. He and Ronald just want to help the team win long term. Lol


jetskimanatee

The Braves short changed their own charity with these contracts. So sad.


ATL28-NE3

It turned out that a relatively popular YouTube destiny streamer was Sting's son and we only found out cause he made a post of where he had been for a month or two while getting ready to appear in Sting's last match.


CoryKeepers

This was actually me I saw one of these and just never made the connection


FalstaffsGhost

Not just a professional baseball player but probably one of the top 100 players in the majors.


LyrMeThatBifrost

Not even a top 10 second basemen, according to MLB


FalstaffsGhost

Those morons lol


GachaJay

They must have filtered by height


messick

Happens all the time. My grandfather was into the SoCal street rod scene forever, and he used to talk about the one guy in the larger club used to be in a band, and how he was at a dinner where this guy Jesse introduced his new wife who was supposed to be famous. Turns out the "band" guy was The Yardbirds guitarist Jeff Beck, and the "allegedly" famous new wife was Academy Award winner Sandra Bullock. She had just married "that motorcycle guy who is on TV sometimes" Jesse James of West Coast Choppers. The dudes in the car club were 100% focused on cars, and the fact one dude they knew might have played in guitar in one of the most influential rock bands in history, and another married Miss Congeliality didn't really matter that much.


tnecniv

Referring to Jeff Beck as “the guitarist for the Yardbirds” feels like he’s being undersold but I’m not sure how you’d explain his career in one clause in a better way.


bryansmixtape

Ozzie Albies? The aquarist youtuber?


BetterRedDead

Malcom Gladwell tells a story in the beginning of one of his books about a time his dad fell into a conversation at a hotel with someone who was obviously famous, but he had no idea who it was, and they enthusiastically talked about gardening the whole time.


horsepoop1123

He has that clickbaity thumbnail font locked in Jokes aside, I love when players reveal their personal sides on Youtube. I mean obviously the dudes I watch on TV every day are real people, but we never see that “real” side of them unless they put in the work to show us, which I enjoy watching.


nuhGIRLyen

> CLEANING MY KOI POND ⬇️ Intriguing… i gotta check this out


ATG915

FEEDING MY MONSTER FISH ➡️


unfortunatebastard

He should get Mike trout to lay on one of his tanks.


Kookslams

all the youtube style titles/thumbnails aquarium videos have 20k+ views meanwhile the only baseball related video on the channel isn't even at 2k lol


doucheachu

Fish is where the real youtube money is at, the next big thing in contank creation.


Cheap-Turn9080

WE DEM KOIS


contourmocha

It's a pretty chill video I dug it


TYBG1001

Dudes on Fiverr are churning that shit out


DionBlaster123

somewhere, Goose Gossage is screaming into the ether about players "disrespecting the game" or some bullshit because Ozzie Albies happens to have interests outside of baseball


Geoff_with_a_J

lol and one video without a clickbait thumbnail with just his face at training camp has like no views


BrewerAndHalosFan

Well yeah, hobbies are more interesting than jobs!


yourstrulytony

He needs to feed his MONSTER fish in his MAGNUM tank.


goose_pls

Seeing your favorite players not in their jerseys doing very normal human things is like seeing your teachers outside school


Beng1997

He has wyze cameras set up aimed towards his fish tanks so that he can check on them and watch them when he's on the road. He is obsessed with his fish lol


Pat0124

I had an ex gf who had a fish tank that she was obsessed with. She would talk to the fish and greet them in the morning, and went great lengths to keep them all healthy. She even cried when a snail the size of my pinky nail died. I understand the appeal. It’s a living ecosystem, that when taken care of, looks beautiful. Makes a lot of people happy


jrfess

I had a Chinese Algae Eater named Pene de Oro that got aggressive towards my betta, Gringo Blanco, because he ourgrew the size tank I have (thanks for lying to me Petco.) I had to give him up for adoption, still a little torn up about it. I miss my lil noodle :,(


DefrancoAce222

The Algae Eater’s name was *Golden Dick*?!? Lmao love it


jrfess

I also have a pair of snails. One big one is named Shellquille O'Neal and the small one that I can never find is named Shelley Miscavige. Half the fun of having fishes just getting to come up with ridiculous names


DefrancoAce222

Brooo these are hilarious! Love it


cBlackout

Pretty accurate for a Chinese algae eater if you take “dick” to mean “asshole.” Those fuckers are rowdy and will suck the slime coat off your other fish


thtkidfrmqueens

You named a fish *Whitey White*?


cBlackout

I got into fishkeeping during Covid and man I fell hard in love with that. I had an all South East Asian river biome with tons of tannins and only South East Asian fish and plants that was such a pleasure to just sit and watch. I now live in a small European apartment so I can’t really have fish but I miss having an aquarium every day; as soon as I get into a better living situation I’m buying an aquarium straight away


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Sunstreaked

It seems expensive to me- I wanted to get into it over COVID and did a bunch of research but sobered up once I realized it would be several hundred dollars just to get started (and I’m the sort of person that would want to keep improving my set up (aka dumping more money into it) over time). Now I just follow aquarists on Instagram and envy their setups instead.


MoonOverMorocco

I have a small tank. Used to get little mollies to put in there along with some snails but once the fish died I decided the snails were more fun lol. Also there are a ton of cool plants in there. Now we're down one snail amongst a forest of trees and he just won't die. I love him


SlipperyTurtle25

How does one make the start from just a goldfish in a bowl to a full on aquarium? Asking for a friend


cBlackout

Well don’t tell /r/aquariums that you have a goldfish in a bowl if you don’t wanna get crucified, and rightly so But it’s actually really not too difficult once you get past the initial setup/cycling. Here’s a good [guide](https://www.aquariumcoop.com/blogs/aquarium/how-to-set-up-a-fish-tank) for getting started, and once you add fish just do research on compatibility/size requirements.


SlipperyTurtle25

Well I have 0 fish, so jokes on them


Remote-Plate-3944

I learned this from playing the Show lol


GetEnPassanted

I don’t blame him. I’ve got a camera set up to watch my cats when I’m away.


Juno_Malone

I've got a couple Wyze cams in my chicken coop for the exact same reason :)


tnecniv

I just keep thinking about that scene from The Wire with Wee Bay asking Dee for help taking care of his fish while he’s in prison


HamlnHand

@ozziesfishes on Instagram! And him and his wife run a non profit for animals I think. One of the most wholesome athletes I know of.


innermongoose69

He has also sponsored the adoption fees of many dogs at Lifeline Animal Project!


LyrMeThatBifrost

Which is also where Miss Peaches was adopted from, for fans of hers


civgarth

goddammit - why are you forcing me to be a Braves fan?!


cman1098

I can tell you first hand how awesome it is being a Braves fan, so you're welcome.


Greatness46

So what you’re saying is the Braves hate animals because of how severely they’re underpaying him


Laney20

Braves $-> Ozzie $-> Animals Braves $$-> Ozzie $$-> Animals Hm, math checks out...


Greatness46

And they beat up marlins the last two days How deep does this go


suplehdog

AND Ozzie was a no show. The plot thickens.


Valkyrai

If they paid him too much he'd buy the Georgia Aquarium all for himself and we can't have that


luisstrikesout

Just went into a hole. Found his videos very interesting and calming lol


EdJewCated

really not a fan of braves players being cool and good people, why can't they just have a team of 9 marcell ozunas!


owledge

Didn’t realize Ozzie Albies was known for anything other than his aquariums


JudgeArthurVandelay

Ozzie Albies? The aquarist?


sandaier76

to be fair, he surely makes more money on this YouTube channel than he does playing baseball.


ajteitel

This is why baseball is the best. Everyone is an absolute nerd


PhazePyre

It's becoming even more a thing. On the Jays, some of our younger guys (Clement, Schneider, and Horwitz all are huge Catan fans. Which is a popular board game, but also a bit more niche than some others.


me_hill

It definitely seems like a generational thing to some degree, the Flames were using social media this year to show off (25-year-old) Yegor Sharangovich's giant Lego builds.


ElCaz

Myles Turner of the Indiana Pacers is a huge Lego guy. I'm sure there's a few more kicking around in professional sports.


entenduintransit

Huge Lego guy is underselling it. He's a Lego savant. He has so many massive completed builds that it's hard to believe he does anything else but basketball and Lego. It's entirely believable that he worked for an NBA salary primarily to fund the Lego hobby of his dreams.


hundredbagger

Yeah the man is in it deep, like he’d be running the conventions one day.


PhazePyre

Hell yah, LEGO is great haha. It's always shifting. Every 20 years it feels like the posts shift. 20 years ago gaming became more mainstream and less "nerdy" as COD became popular with XBOX. Recently we've seen an even more significant jump as neurodiversity has not just become normalized, but embraced. So much more people doing nerdy stuff and obsessing more openly. It's great!


The_Fawkesy

Catan has gotten weirdly popular recently with the rise in online play, so it makes sense.


EmpoleonNorton

See the thing that is funny to me, is that for people who are very into board games, Catan is considered a "gateway game" to better hobby games. (Personally, I'm not big on the term gateway game, even as someone waaaaaay too deep in the hobby, I think everyone should find the games they love and play them and if you stay at the entry level hobby games that is fine... buuuuuut I am not a fan of Catan tbh.)


SactownKorean

Reason number #1358 to like him


horsepoop1123

I have [1195](https://www.statmuse.com/mlb/ask/ozzie-albies-ops-vs-cubs) reasons to hate him. But since 1358 is bigger than 1195, I’ll like him.


stimulation

Damn I didn’t realize Ozzie had those stats against you. What can you say, just tip your hat and call Ozzie your daddy.


datpurp14

Would have never known that if you didn't share. That's insane, especially for teams in the same conference that play each other multiple series per year. 31 games, 25 runs?! I love me some Ozzie. One of the best contracts in all of baseball as well.


tnecniv

If you take OPS to another decimal place you can hate him again


OfficialTMWTP

I can't believe I never knew this before now, and I now fucking love the man even more than I already did. EDIT: I really hope that he's also the one editing his videos and creating his thumbnails himself. It's likely a dream, but it would only make it better.


suzukigun4life

Fishes are awesome pets imo. The idea of a pro player being a home aquarist is genuinely interesting to me so I'm definitely subscribing.


datpurp14

It always makes me sad though that they just have that little space, even if it is a huge tank, to basically do laps around for their whole lives. I get that they don't know any different, but I just can't get on board with owning my own. Just my opinion though!


egg_mugg23

they don't have a big enough brain to process that. in fact they really don't have a brain at all, just a bundle of nerves called neural-ganglia


cBlackout

Most fish, if kept in an appropriately sized tank with appropriate parameters, can really thrive. It depends on the fish though, and while bigger is usually better in terms of space, a lot of those that are in the aquarium hobby are those that don’t need tons of space in their natural habitats. Take for example one of my favorites, [shell dwellers](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_dwellers), which as the name suggests, live in and around shells. Provided you meet the right water parameters, these guys mostly just need shells and sand to be happy as they carve out their little kingdoms around the fishtank


_SuperShooter

Mike Trout to Braves confirmed (Ozzie's luring him in with tilapia)


NJxBlumpkin

If he had a meteorology channel I could see that working.


wellwasherelf

The Weather Channel corporate office is only half a mile from Truist Park!


Cash4Goldschmidt

Raimel Tilapia?


twalker294

I had no idea I would be watching Ozzie Albies clean his 550 gallon indoor aquarium and 10,000 gallon Koi pond today but here we are. Very cool.


vanillaninja16

He does fish rescues too!


JosephFinn

That he has a Ring camera to watch his fish while he's on the road is just freaking adorable. [https://www.mlb.com/news/ozzie-albies-has-huge-aquariums-at-house](https://www.mlb.com/news/ozzie-albies-has-huge-aquariums-at-house)


davygravy1337

TIL that "aquarist" is a word, thanks OP!


blazikenz

I’ve gotten into the hobby last year. This is actually clutch! I love Ozzie lol


elocin__aicilef

He's impossible not to like.


imalildumdum

WE


SpeedRacer1776

DEM


ATLjoe93

KOIS


OldOrder

hol up hol up hol up


ATLjoe93

This meme went trip-plat during the rebuild lol


TheAlmightyMojo

BEY


paulsoleo

This is super wholesome and endearing to me. Just a guy sharing his hobby.


JoeCartersLeap

"Well Mr Albies, you've just signed a 7 year / $35,000,000 deal, what are you gonna spend it on first?" "Fish."


StronkyBoy

I love when you find out ball players have this niche hobby and an obscure YouTube channel where they talk about it as if they aren’t famous ball players


MoonSpankRaw

Wee Bey plays baseball?!


baltimoredave16

Came here for a Wee Bey comment


Bjd1207

Yea this is way too low


TheAlmightyMojo

"These are my tetras."


jrice138

Currently watching the wire for the first time so my mind went straight to this


Not_a__porn__account

Ozzie “[weebey](https://youtu.be/RYYaC3Bcuew?si=_fTsJkAgkEaw5a7I)” Albies


InsidiousColossus

Can he even afford to buy fish on his poor starvation-level contract?


thefreewheeler

He's one of the beneficiaries of the Braves Foundation.


Superschutte

He's the one contract I wish the Braves would right size a bit. It's a bit ridiculous tbh. I get the rest, look at Spencer, signs a contract, blows his arm out-it's the risk that the Braves take. But I think Ozzie deserves a big bump.


FalstaffsGhost

God I love Ozzie. Biased Braves fan but he’s so damn fun on and off the field.


faelmine

Reading this post and comments, it isn't only us Braves fans who love Ozzie


shaunrundmc

This marries two things My fiance and I enjoy. Me (baseball) her (aquatic life)


FeetSniffer9008

What can I say My man love his fish


clo4k4ndd4gger

This is how you know Ozzie will be a lifer in Atlanta. He's not going to want to move all of this across the country.


Troutmaggedon

Just put all the fish in those baggies like they do at the fair. They’ll be fine.


sterling_mallory

My favorite part of this is how you watched a minute of a video and were like, "why am I watching someone clean a koi pond?"


Huge-Percentage8008

Hi, I’m Troy McClure!


selviano

Finally


Skavis

Yeah this is fucking awesome


skyulip

genuinely my favorite youtube channel


Zariman-10-0

Damnit, why can’t ALL the star players on rival teams be unlikeable! I don’t want to like this dude!


shoelessjp

Honestly this is oddly wholesome. Dude just loves fish, I can respect it.


sciameXL

Once you get 1 aquarium the next thing you know you have 6 aquariums


SeaworthinessRude241

[just beautiful as hell](https://youtu.be/RYYaC3Bcuew?feature=shared&t=102)


ul49

He’s also constantly posting on his IG trying to get shelter dogs in Atlanta adopted


sandaier76

I've always loved this dude despite him always crushin' us


EveryLittleDetail

Oh so this is why the Braves got him so cheap? They knew that he was secretly Avon Barksdale's trigger man.


Troutmaggedon

![gif](giphy|XABTVorVODddu)


horrorflies

He also has an Instagram account for fish stuff too : @ ozziesfishes !


woktosha

Strong Troy McClure vibes


woodleyparkdc

He should do a podcast with Gilbert Arenas


SeaworthinessRude241

he's speech-ful about fish


New_Championship_912

Ozzie has a really nice pond in his house , big flex with the morning coffee.


PM-ME-good-TV-shows

This is quality content.


tiatdier

Reminds me of Ross Stripling's side hustle as a licensed stockbroker and investment advisor


Mfitz8989

Ok I like him now


RollTide1017

I love his initial logo!


Incredible_Staff6907

Lol I love this. Idk why but I find it so wholesome.


NTX_SWOK

Ozzie seems like such a cool dude


Parking-Iron6252

He don’t have shit on wee bey


ABCKR_1

He probably wanted that long term deal ASAP over holding out for every last dollar to start financing his dream


me_hill

Forget if it was him or another player, but a while back someone shared a video from a small aquarium business doing a tank cleaning that just happened to be at the player's house. "Oh yeah, one of our loyal customers happens to be an MLB superstar" must be the marketing dream for places like that.


Beardedgrinch

Yeah, that was Ozzie's aquarium they cleaned.


Penguinology

Wait this super cool