CB Bucknor makes the worst call you've ever seen, a breakdown
What Happened
Blew a call and it was surprising somehow in the way he blew it. I've got some footage that hasn't been seen before, some new angles.
Why This Matters
CB Bucknor strikes again with a call so bizarre it somehow manages to be worse than his usual strike zone disasters. A runner gets called out for missing first base on a play where the ball was literally knocked down in fair territory, and Jomboy has exclusive angles that make it even more inexplicable.
With 555K views, this Bucknor breakdown cracks the top 35% of all-time Jomboy videos, proving that umpire chaos never gets old.
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Players: CB Bucknor.
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Click timestamps to jump to that momentCB Buckner did it again. Blew a call and
it was surprising somehow in the way he
blew it. I've got some footage that
hasn't been seen before, some new
angles. Excited to share them with you.
This one is brought to you by Fanatics
Sportsbook. Let's dive in. We're in the
sixth inning of a two-run game. There's
two outs. Brewers and Rays. Remember
they had a big brawl a couple years ago?
That was fun. 20 pitch is smoked,
knocked down by the second baseman, but
then thrown away with these. The Rays
say, "Hey, give me the ball. This play's
not dead. I don't think he touched first
base," says the Rays first baseman. And
Stevie Buckner calls him out. The first
baseman,
the first baseman thinks he has to go
tag him. He steps on the bag there, but
he doesn't think that that's when he's
going to get him out. CBer says, "Out."
First baseman is like, "What?" Okay.
Okay. And CB's like, "I already called
him out." And he tags him and everyone's
like, "What's going on? What's going
on?" Then you're going to see CB walk
in. This is footage we got that hasn't
been seen. And he he asks the Home Plate
umpire. He says, "Did he touch the bag?
Did he touch the bag?"
Uh, "Did you see him touch the bag?"
Homeplayed umpire's like, "Well, CB, you
called him out." He's like, "Yeah, I had
him not touching the bag." He's like,
"Well, then he's out." Yeah. So, you
have to call him out. Yeah. Okay. Yeah,
you're right. call on the field is that
the batter runner did not touch first
base and then was put out.
>> 15 seconds on the clock for you guys to
challenge. And trust me, you're going to
want to challenge. So, I'm letting you
know right away, you've got 15 seconds
on the clock to challenge. Look at the
first base coach. Gives him the confused
dog look. Huh?
What?
Bower's like, "Come on, CB. You crazy.
What? He What you say? He didn't touch
the bag. What? Everyone's looking at the
replay. Okay, let's see. Did he touch
the bag? What's happening here? Did he
step on the white? The big white. Yeah.
Okay. And CB surely saw that because
he's looking right at the player. Oh,
he's not looking at the one place he
should be looking.
Maybe that's why he missed it. Well,
what could have happened? Because he's
getting in position. He's looking at it.
the throw goes away and he goes, "Oh,
look at so funny." He just gets
distracted by the ball going away right
there. He just starts following the ball
and by the time he looks back right
there, he's he's off past the bag. It's
unbelievable. They go, "Well, how did he
miss that?" And then they show the
replay and you're like, "Oh, because he
didn't look at it." So, he's getting
into position, getting into position,
the ball is ary, and then he follows the
ball. Look at this. It's just so
perfect. It's so perfect. It's
unbelievably perfect. That's why it's so
surprising because CB isn't a
perfectionist. And this is perfect. It's
the perfect way to to miss a call. You
don't look at the one thing you're
supposed to be looking at. You get
distracted by the ball flying in the
air. So, they they quickly come back
from replay.
>> Have to review. He's safe. The call's
overturned. Milwaukee retains your
challenge. Uh, and Vow is just laughing
and CB's like, "Okay, well, yeah, I knew
I missed it. Don't blame me. I mean, I
went and asked." And the manager just
looking at it, you're like, "What?"
I mean, look at these like serious
faces. Then Icon and Cash is like, "What
the hell?" Looking at manager of the
Brewers, Murphy, who looks at him like,
"I don't know, man. I mean, that's CB
for you." He's like, "What?" He's like,
"Yeah." I mean, so CB's giving laughter
to the people, which is great, and good
medicine. and the hat's coming off or
scratching her head like what the hell
just happened? And yeah, I do have a
little bit of a problem with baseball
MLB in this way. If the umpire,
you know, we're all human. If an umpire
looks away, they miss it. There's
something wrong with the either MLB, the
infrastructure put in, or the union.
Like CB Buckner should just go, "Hey,
this is an umpire's challenge. I'm not
positive." I I I botched it. I looked
away. They shouldn't force another team
to risk one of their challenges because
we know they love to say call stands,
even though that's egregious, but if
you're an umpire and you're not sure,
why can't they just go, "Oh, this is
going to be an umpire's decision." At
any point in the game, I think that that
would be the best thing to do. This
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