Forget Hitting A 100mph Fastball, Nathan Eovaldi Striking Out Sean Murphy While Mic'd Up During The All-Star Game Has To Be The Hardest Thing To Do In Sports

They always say the hardest thing to do in sports is hit a 100mph fastball. The nerds in lab coats at Popular Science have cold hard facts to back up that claim up. Well I've got bad news for those dorks because a new level of sports difficulty was just unlocked: Having an awkward ass conversation with a broadcast booth while pitching to the best hitting catcher in baseball during an All-Star game.

Some people can't talk and do anything. Have you ever been hanging out with someone and when they're looking at their phone their ears don't work. It's maddening. You have to keep repeating yourself every time look up again from their handheld digital prison. Or go ahead and try backing into a parking spot with the radio blasting. I bet you turn the music down every time. 

Nathan Eovaldi has balls of steel because there is zero chance I'm letting you mic me up in that spot. These freaks launch pitches 500 ft off guys in normal scenarios. Now you want me to small talk with Joe Davis and John Smoltz like I'm buying gas and they're the cashiers?

"Finally get ahead of a guy."

"They keep throwing me off with multiple signs."

"I'll take this beef jerky and $20 on pump number five please."

That's how nonchalant the whole thing sounded. You could tell it took him a minute to get his bearings because he allowed two hits. But once he settled in his pitches were dancing and the conversation was delightful. It was like one of those yuppie dinner parties Francis Ellis throws for his fellow coastal elites.

It's kind of absurd they even had the balls to ask him to do it. I mean why stop there.

What else do you want the guy to do? Juggling? Sudoku? Six degrees of Kevin Bacon? Let the man pitch and not get mashed on.