Jake Diekman: Part A's reliever, part TikTok star.
While we wait for MLB to return, Diekman, and his wife Amanda, are dominating the TikTok game:
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TikTok, for those who might not know (or have resisted downloading the app), has been taking over social media at a rapid pace, as its combination of dances and sound-board clips create an addicting experience.
Diekman is taking it pretty seriously.
“He went on a streak where he was determined to make a new one every day and he was such a perfectionist,” Amanda told NBC Sports California. “We filmed that Kardashian one no less than 10 times. If he got one word wrong or his crop top looked wrong, we were refilming.”
Oh, here’s that Kardashian TikTok:
Worth a minimum of 10 takes? Absolutely.
Amanda admitted she began riding the TikTok train and Jake wasn’t super into it … at first.
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“And then he saw me scrolling through it once and started watching, and the next thing I know, he has it downloaded too and asked me to help him make one,” Amanda laughed.
She has her own impressive collection of videos on the app as well, but Jake is holding his own. All while doing it in a crop top.
Impressive.