Pitcher gets a helmet thrown at him for shouting at the batter, a breakdown

bottom of the first inning. Cordially

says hi to the umpire, says hi to the

catcher, checks his bat. Everything is

good to go. He's been on a bit of a wild

ride. On Friday, he did the thing where

he stands really close to the plate and

then yells at the pitcher for throwing

the ball close to him to start a fight

and to get warnings. It's like his

thing. He does it a lot. He's always

trying to get in the opponent's head and

cause mayhem. He's like, what are you

looking at me? You know, why you looking

at me? And he's like, I didn't do

anything. Benches cleared. Now, he

didn't get ejected, but this was kind of

a thing. I mean, it's been a while since

he had a thing. He usually has lots of

things. Then we go to Monday, the first

game against the Nationals. Hits a home

run. Bat flips it like crazy. Goes

insane to his dugout. It just so fired

up. Doing it for his country, Venezuela,

who just had the earthquake and the

troubles. He had like an benefit for

them. Takes off the mask in the dugout.

And immediately the emotion switches to

tears and heartbreak for everything that

is happening in his home country. and

emotional and he's just going through a

lot of different emotions. Now later on,

same day, Monday, check swing. It goes

against him. He doesn't like the call.

Nothing you can do about it. You can't

review check swings. He's pretty upset.

He's like, "Nuh-uh. No way. You know

what? Even though I can't, I tap my

head. I challenge it." That's the signal

for challenging. Umpire says, "You can't

do that." that he ejected him. Coach

says, "Who?" He says, "No, no, no, no.

Him. What for?" For for him challenging

that check swing. Oh, what? He He was

tapping his head all the way back to the

dugout. He tapped his head and you threw

You threw him out of the [ __ ] game.

What? And it is an automatic ejection if

you do that, but quite silly. So,

anyway, now we're on Tuesday. His first

at bat of the game Tuesday. He's going

to drive in a run on an error. So, he's

safe. And they've scored a run. That's

exciting. They're fired up. He's on

first base now. He's clapping. There's

two outs. He says, "You know what? I'm

going to steal. I'm going to get to

second so I can help the batter out."

So, he runs. He gets to second. He's

safe. Things are going well. What a good

game. Clap, clap, clap. Now that he's on

second, raises his hands like lets him

know, "I got the signs, buddy. Look at

me." He doesn't really have the signs.

Just tell him where the catcher setting

up. You can see him pointing to the left

cuz the catcher is setting up on the

inside. I believe that's what he's

pointing at. And there it is. Now he

scuffles back. The pitcher can clearly

see him doing this. And he's back on

second base. There's two strikes now.

He's looking in. You got me? You got me?

Okay, now he's on the outside. The

catcher has shifted. He's pointing to

the right. And we're going to get a

pitch that's on the inside. It's popped

up. Left fielder has it. Running out of

room. Makes the grab. Ends the inning.

Contrarus runs to the dugout, takes a

sharp detour past the pitcher, brushes

him, and uh that's not something you

see. Now, you might be like, "What is

that a big deal?"

Kind of. In baseball, the littlest

things can be the biggest of deals.

There's I mean, Dallas Braden got very

mad at this because A-Rod ran on his

mound and yeah, it's you don't see it a

lot. So, Cade Kavali is like that

mfer. I went back just to see how common

or uncommon this is. I watched

every out where the runner on second,

rounds third, last out of the inning

since 2020 at Fenway. Does anyone else

take this route to the dugout? You know

how common is it intentional? And

Cherries has a reputation for doing

stuff to get in pitchers heads to [ __ ]

with them. And no one else has ever cut

off the the base path and ran through

the grass before since 2020 on this

play. I didn't find one example where

that happened. So for the pitcher, he's

thinking, "You just did that on purpose

just to brush against me. Here's the one

that looks different than all the rest."

And then there's a sharp turn right at

the pitcher. Then I went and I checked.

every time Contrarus has done this in

his career at all the other stadiums.

Has he is this something he does? Is it

a tactic he's used before? No, he's

never done this either. Then I watched

every single time this has happened in

every stadium, every player this year is

530 different times and it's never

happened. Now, here's an overlay of how

Conurish usually runs the base path. And

you can see at this point he's he's you

know going straight and he's just going

to decide uh I'm going to veer left

right by the pitcher and he does that.

So that's why Kate Kavali is like

you're trying to bother me and it's

working.

It's working. Now you might say but

Contrarus apologized. He did. That

doesn't mean it wasn't intentional. That

can be even more brain messing, you

know, even more tom foolery. And when

Contras turns to apologize, Cavali has

turned his head. So, he didn't see this

at all. See, their heads are almost in

sync. He's like, "Sorry, man. Sorry."

And he's like, "That mother."

And he doesn't see any of the apology at

all. I don't even know if that means he

would have accepted it. So, anyway,

Kavali's upset, right? And now the next

inning, bottom of the fourth, Contrarus

is up again. Cavali's on the mound and

he's got this in his head that screw

you, dude. You don't bump into me like

that. So, what's he going to do? Is he

going to hit him? That would be crazy,

but I wouldn't put it past baseball

players. They like doing that. First

pitch, we're going to go fast ball up

and in. That's how he gets pitched a

lot. Then low and away. But it's two

balls and then you got ball. Catcher's

like, "No, I challenge that. I think

that's a strike." Church's like, "Yeah,

I think you're right. Yeah, I think

you're right." That's a four seam top of

the zone. Okay, so there's strike one,

the 2-1 now. Same pitch. Swings through

it. Now, let's get him to chase low and

away. He holds.

Yes. Now, we go to the pitch of action.

A 3-2 pitch. And I'm going to let the

audio just play for you guys so you can

hear the hot mics because they're easy

to pick up after the pitch is thrown.

One, two, three. The 3-2 pitch.

You heard me.

You heard me.

>> So he hits him WITH A SIT DOWN BOY. YOU

heard me. You heard me. Thick accent.

And Contrarus says, "You talking to me?

Why are you talking to me?" To which

Cade Kavali responds, "I promise. Don't

bump me. Why are you talking to me?" I

said, "I promise.

I promise that you'll see it." Yo, you

don't got to do that to him, bro. Bro,

you saw him. You saw him. Contras sees

this and now he's fired up and now he's

going to make his great escape. Takes

the helmet off. He He tried to take the

helmet off with the left hand and then

it falls. Tries to catch it with the

right. He's not taking his helmet off to

run faster. He's taking his helmet off

to use it as a projectile. So if this

was like in a court, you'd be like, "No,

this was premeditated. You were going to

throw the helmet because it dropped."

And you were like, "Oh, wait. That's my

weapon. I got to pick it up." So then he

picks up the helmet and you can see

Kavali seeing him do this in the

background. Pump fakes it. He goes,

"Throw it at me. Throw it at me, boy."

Now let's go back. This was uh Kavali's

reaction when he saw Contrarus take his

helmet off. He goes, "Okay, I'll take my

hat off." So he goes, "Bro, you s

looks, he sees contriers coming. The hat

goes off. Want some, boy?" Hat's off.

Throw it at me. Throw it at me, boy.

Really hitting the boy. More on that

later. He talks about it. Now, we're

just going to stay with Cade till the

end of this. We're going to ride his

story out. Then we'll go backwards and

we'll watch the throw in the rest of

Contras. But yeah, he's going to fix his

hair. make sure he looks good. And then

he's gonna say, "You know it.

He knows.

You don't do that to me. I promise."

Uh-uh. No way. Yep. You saw it. You saw

it.

Yeah. And then umpire on the right comes

in pointing a finger like, "Hey, you

better stop." He says, "I Yes, sir."

Yep. I swear, boy.

>> [clears throat]

>> Umpire's like, "Hey, cool down." He's

like, "All right." So, let's go back to

the throw. This is the throw. I never

seen a pump fake before. It is pretty

smart. He jumps up.

Doesn't have the right line, I guess.

Pump fakes and then jumps up again and

then it just comes off his hand. It's

hard to throw a helmet. We've learned

that through all. Let's see. Here it is

again. And look at THIS FACE. OH. OH,

you throwing that? Yep. Throws it. It

sticks a little and it hits Chapar right

in the elbow. He got the wrong guy.

Chapar was like, "What? I was breaking

things up, man. Now I'm hot. Let's ride

his storyline out to the end cuz he's

all of a sudden like, I'm hot." No, I

got hit in the elbow with that helmet

and I don't want to get hit in the elbow

with helmets. So, they got to hold him

back. He's hot. Okay, back to the throw.

After the throw, you're going to see a

coach get his hand behind Contras's

neck. Look at that. grabs him behind the

neck by the scruff like a dog. And

Contrarus says, "Get off me." He's got

both his hands to his face. Gives him a

good push. No one grabs the back of my

neck like that. And now Michael is going

to come in and he's going to grab

Contrus. Contrarus is going to grab his

shirt and they're going to dosey-do for

a little bit. Contrarus is trying to get

away, but you'll see in this other

angle, Michael has a great grab on the

front of his shirt trying to stop him.

And Eaton on the Red Sox sees that and

he gets involved. He's like, "Get off my

boy." And now these guys are going to

fight almost like brothers in the living

room just pushing each other and

grabbing each other. It's pretty good.

Michael is like, "Dude, get off me." He

twists out of it and then throws Eaton

straight into the catcher to the ground

and then they get up. It's like a sitcom

fight where they're just holding each

other back and pushing but not really

hurting each other. Everyone breaks that

up. Look at this guy. Oh my god. What is

all of this? I'm scared. Are you? Oh no.

And and then all of a sudden at one

point everything right there almost like

there was a loud whistle the way

everybody right here just stops. Look.

Oh, okay. And we're we're good now. It's

crazy crazy. And stop. Almost like there

was just a giant like Hey,

come on.

And they're going to pull contrus away

from the pile. So things finally

deescalate.

Everybody is pulled away and calming

down and the fans are loving it. Contras

is looking in. Ruiz the Nationals

catcher is like, "Come on, dude. You're

good. We're good. Let's catch our

breath. Everyone's on the on the field.

Bullpens have run out obviously and

we're we're good." Okay, Cavali, he's

fixing his pitchcom. He's like, I'm not

I'm staying in this game. So he fixes

his pitch comp and then the umpires let

everybody know who was ejected.

>> We have three ejections.

Two Red Sox are ejected. Contrarus and

Eaton.

Also from the Washington Nationals.

Nicholas is ejected for all for

fighting. There were no warnings in the

game.

>> All right. So the three of them he's

like okay well that adds up. But Red Sox

manager is not happy. He's like,

"Kay Cavali didn't get ejected." And he

goes to talk to the umps all about that.

He says, "But he has to go.

How the [ __ ] does he not go after

everything that just [ __ ] happened?"

He's like, "Do you want to get We're

going to have to run you." He goes, "You

can [ __ ] run me then. That's fine.

THAT'S FUN."

>> But I don't understand, Vic. We got to

get going.

>> I don't understand that, Vic. But you

guys had to hear that [ __ ] right?

That's what just happened. You

understand that he's walking off the

field and he pops off at him and stares

him down. That starts the whole thing.

That starts the whole [ __ ] thing. But

when talking about a brawl, something

happens like that. What provoked the

action that happened? He has to go, too.

I get that he has to go. Well, of

course, your guy has to go.

And so does he. That's [ __ ] [ __ ]

The whole [ __ ] thing started because

of what he [ __ ] did. He throws his

[ __ ] helmet. Your guy, of course he

has to go. He threw his helmet. His ass

was [ __ ] walking back before he

[ __ ] did that. Yeah, but if he

doesn't throw his helmet, well, then he

could still be in the game. Still be in

the game. Absolutely. Everybody should

still be in the [ __ ] game. Let's go.

So that sums up everything that happened

on the field. Afterwards, Cade Kavali

talked about his word choice and someone

explained to him how it goes down as he

says he had no idea the history of that

word and the intonation in which he was

using it and that he feels heartbroken.

I will put all the screenshots because

it's a it's a good message. If we

believe it to be earnest, it's a good

message. People should be allowed to be

ignorant of something and uh learn about

it and say, "I'm going to do better in

the future." I think it's lengthy. I'm

not going to read all of it. You can go

find the tweet from Spencer or you can

pause this video and read it. But the

gist is he's like, "That's not how I

meant it. I did not know the history of

that word. I'm heartbroken that that is

how it's being per the how the intent is

being perceived. You know, I was just

shit-talking and hot. I wasn't intending

to be racist. And if you yourself don't

know the history of using the word boy

to a person of color, I'd look it up to

understand it. It's not just like a a

silly thing. There is a history of this.

Um there is um you know, if you haven't

learned it, you should learn it. And

it's a good response from Kate Kavali

and I hope it's in earnest and um

and he means it that he's not going to

use it moving forward. But that's the

crazy story for Wilson Contrarus his

postgame he was like I feel like

everything's going against me little bit

of boy who cried wolf because that's

that's like your whole thing dude is in

antagonizing. So when you do something

accidentally people are going to think

you're doing it on purpose because

that's kind of your your reputation. I

like the pump fake. Chaparo's elbow took

the the brunt of it. So that is

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