Umpire ejects the Cubs manager for arguing a ticky tack rule, a breakdown

him close. This one's brought to you by

Create. Try to back pick him. He's safe.

They thought they were going to have

him. The catcher's like, "Ah,

thought we had him." But first base and

the Mets aren't getting along right now,

nor any of the other infield positions.

But anyway, PCA looking to steal one-1

pitch high 2-1 pitch. Check on him,

pitcher. Yep. Yep. Okay. They're worried

about him getting second base. We got a

foul ball. We've got a 2-2. Now it's

three and two. And he's off and running

on the 3-2. It's ball four. He slides in

and the umpire doesn't say anything cuz

it's ball four, right? He gets the bag

and he said, "Can you check it?" Yeah.

Can you check it? Yeah. He's got to put

his hand up. You know, we want to review

things. Umpire, put your hand up to let

us review things. Umpires get together

and they're chatting. They're like,

"Yeah, well, I guess we can review it

cuz yeah, he slid and then he was

tagged." Then he had the base. They're

all talking and PCA is like, "Uh, what

guy in the crowd's like, "You're out,

dog. Umpire is going to address the

crowd. Let them know what's going on."

>> New York is challenging the safe call at

second base.

It's a walk. You see PCA is confused.

The announcer's like, "It's a walk. What

are they talking about?" Well, here it

is. He's out. He slides in. He's safe.

What matters? What does? He says, "He

literally told me ball four's dead."

That's what he said. PCA is like,

"What?" He's watching the replay. He's

looking up. He's What are you talking

about? I'm going to second base. Umpire

says, "Nah." After the review, the

runner initially contacts second base,

loses possession of the base, and is

tagged while losing possession.

Therefore, the runner is out. The call

is over third loses.

>> Look at Simeon's face. He's on the other

team, but even he's like, "Oh, dog.

I don't know, man. What are these guys

doing?" Turns out they're doing just

fine. There's a lot of examples that

make this make a ton of sense. But

before I show you those, let's just

watch counsel because he is mad. He's

just You just told me that. You said it

was dead.

You said it was out at first, then you

said it was dead. What's going on?

Jordan Baker told us umpire in the

league. He's looking on, overseeing,

overlooking, and he's Oh, that's [ __ ]

ridiculous.

That's [ __ ] ridiculous.

That is [ __ ] terrible.

That is [ __ ] terrible.

That's ridicul That is [ __ ] terrible.

And now he's ejected. He's like, "What?

You got to be [ __ ] me. That is

[ __ ] terrible. That's not the [ __ ]

rule." He's out. He's out. What did you

call him?

He's out. The ball is dead. [ __ ] you.

[ __ ] you. [ __ ] you. And he's ejected and

he's gone. All right, let's take a look

at examples. We poured through game

footage from the past to find out what's

going on here. And this is an example of

how you can't get tagged out on ball

four. You are entitled to second base.

So, here's just one example. It was ball

four. There was a a base runner was

stealing. They threw down to second,

tagged him out. No, that's easy.

Everyone understands that rule. Now, why

is it not a dead ball? Cuz this happens

quite a lot. The ball gets thrown and

the runner gets to stand up and run to

third. If you want it to be a dead ball,

then you wouldn't have this. And this is

is pretty common. Like this doesn't look

foreign to anyone, even though it's ball

four. Sometimes the catcher hears ball

four and they get a little jarred and

they sail that thing. Now, because it's

not a dead ball and it's a live ball, if

you were to see this happen, your brain

wouldn't blink. you would go, "Uh, Elvis

Andrews, where are you going? It's a

live ball." And even he's like, "Damn."

Okay. And he gets tagged out even though

it was ball four. So that makes sense.

That's why the rule exists. Sometimes

rules exist and then they get applied in

tickytacky ways. And in 2023 in this

Cubs Giants game, Mag gets tagged in the

dick and they say, "You're out." And

he's like, "What?" And then they say,

"No, we're going to challenge it cuz

they overruled it." They said, "No, he's

safe." And then they challenged it and

this like it was ball four. He slid past

and he went back. Same thing, same exact

play, same exact thing. He gets tagged

in the nuts and then he's off the bag

and then he gets tagged on the hand

right there. And it's as if he touched

second base and continued running just

like what Elvis Andrews did in that one

I showed a second ago where he gets in a

rundown. So, it's the same thing. Now,

when it happened in 2023, it didn't even

make it to my radar, anyone's radar, I

don't think. They said, "Yeah, we

checked it. he's out. And they explained

it to the manager and he was like, "So,

because he ran past then, okay, okay, I

get it. I'm not going to yell and

scream." So, this one didn't make

headlines. But I was like, "Wait, 2023

Cubs. 2026 Cubs. There's got to be the

same players on the same team." So, we

took a look at the starting nine and

we've got three guys. Ian Hap, my dude,

Danzy Swanson, Seya Suzuki, you guys

were all on the field when this happened

last time. I wonder if Happer was like,

"Yo Craig

this happened to us already.

Chill. It's They're right. They're

right. I tried to call Hap, but he's

playing professional baseball, so he

didn't answer. Maybe he'll text me and

say, "I did tell Craig that." Or you

say, "I forgot." Because no one made a

big deal out of it. So, when you really

boil it down, it's a tick-tack call. All

the calls where you touch and barely

bounce off second base are tickytac

calls. But the applica the rule

exists for a reason and they applied the

rule properly and this has happened a

lot before and no one seems to care. So

there you go. That's the breakdown.

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