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The New York Yankees are facing off against the Chicago White Sox in a crucial matchup. Aaron Boone, the Yankees' manager, is becoming increasingly frustrated with the home plate umpire, Laz Diaz, whose strike zone has been inconsistent throughout the game. Boone believes Diaz's head positioning is causing him to miss calls on the outside corner of the plate, and he expresses his displeasure by arguing vehemently with the umpire. Diaz, unswayed by Boone's complaints, ejects the manager from the game, leading to a heated exchange. The two men engage in a back-and-forth, with Boone accusing Diaz of "botching the outside corner all game" and Diaz responding by telling Boone to "play your fucking game." Boone then approaches the plate, attempting to demonstrate where Diaz has missed pitches, but the umpire continues to challenge him, saying, "Go ahead and play your fucking game. There you go. Make it bigger. Make it bigger." The exchange becomes increasingly personal, with Diaz questioning Boone's accomplishments in the game of baseball and Boone insisting that Diaz "stinks" and has missed numerous calls throughout the night. The two men continue to trade insults, with Diaz telling Boone, "You stink, Aaron. You stink," and Boone responding, "You fucking stink. You stink." As the argument escalates, Boone draws a large line on the ground, seemingly at Diaz's suggestion, to demonstrate the missed pitches. Diaz encourages Boone to "make it bigger," and Boone obliges, adding an extra flourish to the line to emphasize his point. The heated exchange serves as a testament to the intensity and passion of the game, with both the manager and the umpire unwilling to back down in the face of perceived injustice. , which features audio and lip-reading of the heated dialogue, provides a unique insight into the behind-the-scenes drama that can unfold during a high-stakes baseball game.
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And Laz Diaz, the umpire, is just botching the outside corner all game
because his head is on the inside, so he's got no angle on the outside.
And strike.
And all game, all Dylan Cease had to do, and smart that he was doing it,
was just go outside.
A whole ball length, maybe two balls off the plate.
Strike, strike, curveball, strike.
Yep, Laz, his head's off.
I mean, look where his head is.
That's just not a good angle at where the pitch is coming in.
I've done videos on that before.
All the old-school umpires that do that have not great strike zones.
The younger umps that don't do that have better strike zones.
So Boone finally snaps, and he snaps on that pitch, which wasn't even a ball.
But either way, Laz, what the fuck are we doing?
What are we doing?
And Laz is like, well, you're gone.
You're out.
He's like, oh, you threw me?
Okay, good.
Now I'm going to tell you what I think.
And we do have some hot mics.
So I'm going to let this play with the hot mics first,
and then I'll slow it down and read the lips because it's kind of a mixture.
I'm sure that Boone's been thrown out.
Okay, so if you couldn't hear that, you might need headphones on.
But it is there just to let you know that it's not all lip reading.
There is just a lot of good audio on here.
He comes out, and he says the stuff about you messed up DJ, and you messed up Glaber,
and then his finale is, you fucking stink.
You fucking stink.
And Laz responds with, no, you stink.
Yo, you stink.
You fucking stink.
You stink, Aaron.
So then Boone goes to walk towards the plate to show him where the pitches are missing.
And Laz knows what he's doing.
So Laz says, oh, play your fucking game.
Play your fucking game.
Play your fucking game.
Play your fucking game.
Play your fucking game then.
Go ahead.
Go ahead.
Show me where I missed.
Do what you're going to do.
Go ahead and play your fucking game.
There you go.
There you go.
Yeah, make it bigger.
Make it bigger.
Make it bigger.
Now make it bigger.
You stink.
Make it bigger.
So we had some hot mics again, but what happened there was Laz is basically like,
you should go look at your mic.
You should go look at your mic.
I think I stink.
And Boone says, well, yeah, I hear about it every fucking day.
And then Laz says, what the fuck have you done here?
You haven't done a fucking thing here.
And I stink.
And I stink.
You've missed so many fucking calls.
I stink.
What have you done here?
What have you done here?
And I stink.
I don't think so.
I stink.
Just go.
I don't want to talk.
Just go.
You're calling pitches two inches off the plate.
So many fucking pitches tonight.
Go.
Go.
So Boone goes and walks away.
I don't know.
Laz got kind of personal there.
What have you ever done?
Thinks he's bigger than Booney in the game of baseball?
Boone just trying to let him know that he stinks.
And he missed a lot of pitches that night.
I mean, he even was kind enough to show him.
I do like Laz saying, go play your game.
Yeah, draw a line.
Play your game.
So Boone has to draw the line.
Because Laz is telling him, draw your line.
And Boone draws a pretty big line.
Because he's getting permission from the umpire to do it.
It's real big.
Meanwhile, the ump the whole time, make it bigger.
Make it bigger.
So now Boone's like, oh, shit.
Well, he, I mean, this is everything he's asking me to do.
I got to add something extra here.
Let me, and this is what you look like.
Strike.
And then you stink right in his face.
And he did get Laz's ump call.
Pretty, you know, that's.
That's there.
That's on point.
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And if you want to listen to Boone, he talked about this ejection.
We had him on Talking Yanks.
So we actually acted out parts of it for him.
You fucking stink.
You fucking stink.
No, you stink.
No, you stink.
You stink.
You fucking stink.
You stink, Aaron.
You stink.
And now.
Scene.
Scene.
That was.