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3:11 "Down goes Frazier. Down goes Frazier. Down goes Fraizer" is the legendary call from the late sportscaster Howard Cosell of the George Foreman/Joe Frazier fight in the early 70s.

I gotta say, I’m so touched by the fact that you guys have taken the time to really learn about and appreciate this sport. It’s one of the things that truly separates you two from other reaction channels. That and the fact that you engage with your followers. Not only have you embraced baseball, you have made the effort to immerse yourself in the history and culture of the game. You’re a part of it now. You get why we love this game. That puts you guys in a league of your own. I’m still hoping you’ll check out “MLB, Best Mic’d up fights”. I know you’ll get to it when you can. 🥰

Usually the catcher puts out his empty mit to the umpire so that the umpire can drop a new ball into the mit for the catcher to throw it back to the pitcher. Sometimes, however, the umpire throws it himself. When the catcher didn't feel the ball drop in his mit, he assumed that the umpire wanted to throw the ball himself so he pulled away his mit. The umpire thought he pulled the mit away because the catcher was trying to passive aggressively send a message that he wasn't pleased with the umpire's performance.

"And the Braves will go from Johnson to Hand" was what the announcer said when the manager of the Braves walked out to the mound.

@TeeZee22

6 ай бұрын

And the batter he would face was Mastrobuoni (which sounds like Master Bony)

The one, really short, clip was the announcer horribly trying to pronounce the name of one of the players. One of his attempts happened to be a slang word for a bodily excrement.

The last clip is relevant because it was the batters first major league hit, Pete Alonso didn't know and threw the ball into the crowd.

You have to check out the entire Anderson/Ramirez brawl.

The Umpires' Union is incredibly strong, that's why they can't get rid of certain umps, despite the fact that they do have performance reviews. On a side note, the MLB Players Association (MLBPA) is also the strongest of any of the North American player unions.

@Fatblue246

6 ай бұрын

the NHL has a pretty strong players union as well. They have fines capped at $5,000 which for a heavy contact sport like that is essentially unheard of

@eva11883

6 ай бұрын

I would argue the NBPA is just as strong as the MLBPA, they both have a lot of power.

@FuckYoutubeAndGoogle

6 ай бұрын

@@eva11883 They wouldn't have a salary cap if they were.

@captainnuge937

6 ай бұрын

​@Fatblue246 NHL has also been triple hard capped at 83 mil for a few years now so idk about that

He didn't realize it was the kids first hit.

@psymar

6 ай бұрын

Oh I thought it was the old switch the actual ball out for another one from your pocket to prank the kid trick.

I think ballboy interference gets treated like fan interference, the ump makes their best guess as to where the runners would have finished.

Juan Soto was probably using the bathroom and I've heard of horror stories where the lock in the door gets stuck and won't unlock right away...

Talking about reaching from the stands, in the old, old days of Major League Baseball, they sometimes let spectators on the field. For example, during the very first World Series in 1903, they established the rule that if the ball rolled under the rope holding back the fans standing in the outfield, it was deemed a ground-rule triple.

Evermore is one of Taylor Swift's two COVID-year album releases. Fans of Swift often refer to each album as an "era" as the sound changes greatly between each album. In this case, both Folklore and Evermore were accoustic, singer-songwriter-y songs as opposed to the pop songs she's more familiar with (again, because COVID year).

@DNReacts

6 ай бұрын

Thank you for that explanation! That’s really helpful 😀

Evermore is an album by Taylor swift she was at a concert part of her evermore era tour.

In the last clip the cardinals rookie got his first major league hit and Pete Alonso decided to launch the ball into the crowd rather than give it to the cardinals as is usual rookie tradition

The attraction and trade off is in offering seats as close as possible to the actual field, with the possibility of fans interfering with a ball in play. At the other end of that dynamic is the Oakland Coliseum. If you want to rush onto the field you’d best call an Uber.

I enjoy the pausing cause it's good so speculate, test your knowledge and stuff

I have never in my 62 years seen a ball boy field a fair ball and then throw it into the crowd. I have no clue what the ruling would be. But I sure laughed.

1:24 - Poor John Sterling. Dude was 84 in this clip (now 85). Much maligned for being over the top and he has started getting calls wrong in his advanced age (he also called for the Yankees so people like to hate on him because of that) but he has one of the best voices in the game and keeps things fun and light-hearted when he can. Even though I'm a Mets fan and we've had some of the best baseball radio announcers ever, John is also one of my favorites. 1:43 - The Reds' and Bengals' stadiums are right next to each other and that was Taylor Swift's Eras Tour stage (and Evermore is one of her albums) so I'm guessing that Taylor was playing the Bengals' stadium while the Reds were winning. 5:38 - That's actually kinda cool that they didn't make a big to-do about that. I've seen people get ejected from games for less. He didn't mean it. It might even have helped the Astros. Let him be. 10:15 - Yeah, the ump definitely THOUGHT JT was showing him up even though he was definitely not. In my opinion though, even if he MIGHT have been right, it was still a HUGE over-reaction. An umpire there, ESPECIALLY during spring training, has to assume that it was a mistake and that he didn't mean it because you look a hell of a lot more dumb there being wrong this way than being wrong the other way. 11:23 - Oh they ARE scored and tracked. A lot of those stats are available online too. The problem is, they're not too transparent about when and why an ump might be benched or sent down to the minors. It could be scheduled vaction, injury, rehab, OR poor performance but they don't make that information too public. The best we can do is infer based on stats and assignments to high-leverage games and playoff series. 12:32 - Jazz Chisholm was starting in center field but he said "Jizzum" at first. 12:36 - "So the Braves will go from Johnson to Hand and the batter will be Mastrobuoni and it's probably a good thing Jeff Franceour is in the other booth." If I'm not mistaken, Frenchie is a bit of a character and would have jumped at the opportunity to snicker at such a juvenile combination of names but he was probably over doing radio instead of tv that game. 13:00 - GREAT question! I think it's a single and then whatever the umpires award for bases due to interference but I'm not 100% sure. The ruling is to call the ball dead and to award the number of bases needed to nullify the act but I don't think it's officially "scored" as a full double. 15:37 - It was the kid's first big league hit. It is usually traditional to get the ball into the dugout for him to keep as a memento. Poor Pete felt so bad for doing it. He's like the nicest guy ever and didn't mean to ruin the moment. Traditionally, if the fielder doesn't realize it's a milestone hit, the player or coach or someone on the bench will motion for him to throw the ball in the player's dugout but Pete was made they weren't able to make a play there and just asked the umps to change out the ball and once they did, he chucked it. Mason did eventually get the ball back though.

The catcher that got thrown out for that petty shit is not only one of the most respected in the league but it was also a fucking pre season game.

The catcher moving his glove and the ump kicking him out....: there were a few moments in that game where the catcher and pitcher were complaining about the ump's bad calls. So when the catcher pulled his glove away (Innocently) the ump believed the catcher was "mocking" him (because of the prior complaints) and making him look foolish. So the ump took it TOO personally and ejected the catcher.

The Umpire Union prevents them from being sent down, no matter how bad they do. It’s ridiculous.

There are rules governing fan interference with balls in play. A fan may not reach into the field of play, and it is the closest umpire that makes the call.

When there's interference it's ruled a ground rule double so any runners move up 2 bases

Once you get focused and locked in on catching on a fly ball it's hard to unlock. In my early teens I'd practice catching pop flies that my neighbour and I threw back and forth on our (very low traffic) street. I quickly pursued and caught a very long fly ball. When I extended to catch it my knee hit the side of a neighbourhood car and I flipped over the car trunk (boot) to the ground. I was OK. However, there was a dent in the relatively new car that my knee had made in the process of making the catch. Following that I had to knock on the neighbour's door and explain what I'd just done.😳

The ejection after the Boone one was a preseason game. Still one of the worst ejections too for how childish it was.

The guy who threw the player’s first into the crowd was Pete Alonso. He’s not so bright. Just a big home run hitting ox.

Umpires receive an evaluation report from MLB the day after they serve as plate umpire. They get % rating of correct calls on all pitches as well as the % of correct calls on close pitches. I assume those report cards are used in the selection of umpires for post season games. The official strike zone is "the area over home plate from the midpoint between a batter’s shoulders and the top of the uniform pants - when the batter is in his stance and prepared to swing at a pitched ball - and a point just below the kneecap." It is a strike if any part of the ball passes over the plate in that zone at any point. The strike zone displayed on TV is not the same as the zone used by MLB. The rectangle on TV appears to always be in the same position despite the height of the batter or the stance he takes, and the upper limit is almost always much lower than in the official definition. Also, it is unclear to me where the TV animation of the flight of the ball stops. I wish they would never show the box. It is just a distraction.

Normally, balls are not thrown in the crowd in that instance (runner makes it to first). More than likely, Alonso did it on purpose. Usually the dugout is calling for the ball and he would have heard that.

3:40 Tom Hamilton is the guardians radio play by play announcers one of the best. Cleveland legend love driving around in the car and tuning into the game to listen to him

"you just gotta stop going for the balls" *Thing's I've never said to my girlfriend for 300 please*

Love the baseball videos. Baseball is such a laid back sport. Well the first 100 games of the season are. Things begin to get serious and intense around the 120 game mark. Going up to bat in a big game with all eyes on you is very intimidating. Can't tell you how many time I struck out on 3 pitches. So as much as I loved playing baseball I didn't start playing early enough to really develop the kind of skill the other guys had by 11 or 12 years old. When I was a kid back in the 60's and 70's baseball just became a part of life as much as going to school or church. I grew up in San Diego where baseball is played all year around. ♣

The fans are part of the game. In the example in the video the fan actually helped the Astros because the other team would have caught it for an out. If the Astros would have been in the field and he prevented them from getting an out you would have seen a totally different fan reaction.

They do track the umps performance. That's how they get to work the playoffs

MLB umpires are unionized. Any kind of performance tracking would only serve to bring more scrutiny to their poor performance so there would be zero reason for them to agree to something like that. If disciplining of umpires was something the MLB wanted, Angel Hernandez would have been fired into the sun years ago, but he clearly still has a job so I don’t see reason to believe umpires will ever be held accountable for sucking at their jobs.

Should check out NBA highlights from this season

This was not a very good video to react to...there are much better funny baseball videos out there...an all Adrian Beltre vid would be great