26 minutes of CB Bucknor umpiring incidents, a breakdown marathon

Who gets ejected first, Holly? Yeah, I'm kind of with you on that one. Let's see what happens though in this at-bat. Let's see what happens in this at-bat. Maybe CB Buckner misses a couple more pitches because that's what he's been doing all game, all career, and the announcers know it so bad they're making bets on which manager's going to get ejected first. Let's watch what happens outside. Sure, one-and-one count for Merrill Kelly. That one's low. Two-and-one. That one's low. No, that's a strike. Batter's like this. Umpire looks at the manager like, got something to say about that one? Holly's like, no, but yes, that one is a ball. Pitcher and catcher are like, what? He's like, got something to say about that one? And Marmol's like, no, but Torrey Lovello's like, I think I do. I think I'm mad at you here, and now you understand what the broadcasters are saying when they're saying which one's going to get ejected first. Because he's just missing calls wildly on both sides, and that's ball four. So we got a lead-off walk, and Kelly the pitcher is like, we shouldn't have a lead-off walk. This stinks. All right, CB looking at St. Louis bench, and Torrey Lovello's like, I got a problem with you. Look at me. Look at me. Why are you picking it with him? I'm mad at you. That's outside. That one breaks away. That's outside. Two-and-oh is the count. The next pitch, that's up. It's a good pitch, but it's up. It's a three-oh. There you go. You got a strike, and then outside. They wanted that call. Maybe it's outside. Ball two, and Torrey Lovello's like, quit picking a fight with him. I'm trying to pick a fight with you because it's back-to-back walks, and now Goldie's up MVP. Oh, okay. Goldie's out, but Arenado's up. That pitch is a ball-inside strike. What? Arenado with a double-take, just a fabulous double-take. Hey, you're gone. F***ing leave. Marmal's going to come get his money's worth. He's going to say, you've been f***ing horse s*** the whole game. CB's just going to stand there, smirk, wipe the sweat off, let him yell at him a little bit. It's just 0-3 the whole game. Horrible. We got a f***ing database on you. We don't know what you're doing. Those guys over there, they don't know what the f*** you're doing either. That's why you're not in the game anymore. You need to get the f*** out of the game. Just as much as you. You know why? Just as much as you. Because your time is done. Your time is f***ing done. You need to go home and f***ing retire. You just f***ing got here. Because you're horse s***. You just f***ing got here. I don't ever want to see your face again. You just got here. It's time for you to f***ing go. You just got here. Your time is off. You think you're somebody? You just got here. You just got here. Kids waving goodbye in the back. He's got here. Armahl walks off. CB gets his pad out. His pen out. Armahl goes to the clubhouse. He says, okay, hmm. What just happened? What was it again? Oh, yeah. I missed some calls. And we debated over who is more involved in the game. Umpires or managers. And here's the pitch a second time with the announcers and their reaction to an Aronauts double take. You got Cal Riley is the catcher. CB Buckner is the umpire. They're warming up. Catcher just came out. You can see CB Buckner right here saying, one more. One more. One more. You can see the infielder ready for the throw coming down. But Cal throws it back to the pitcher. And CB says, no. No. That's it. That's it. I said one more. You know? And Cal's like, I said one more. I told you. You got one more. Throw it down. And now they're arguing. And CB Buckner's like, nah. Nah. Enough. You know the rules. And he's going to say, it's only one more pitch once you come out here. That's it. That's the rules. Turns. Knows the manager is coming. Manager comes out. He says, every time the catcher comes out, he gets three. Everybody does the same. No. No. No. No. No. No. Oh, wait a minute. The time doesn't stop. The time doesn't stop. No. No. No. No. No. No. They write the clock down and the catcher comes out. He gets one pitch and he throws it down. CB, every time it's the same. No. No. They stop it when the catcher comes out. Everybody waves the clock off, CB. Yeah, but once we wave the clock off, you only get one more pitch. Cal's shaking his head. Rowdy just shaking his head. But it's once you come out, one more pitch. That's all. Managers can't even respond. Just walks away. Licks his lips. CB licking his lips. Tossing the ball. Feeling good about himself. No ejections. Just a dispute over warm-up pitches. Necessary? Probably not. What's the actual rule? Gonna have to check somewhere else. I didn't deem this one worthy of me checking. Who cares? Top of the fourth inning and Walker Buehler, my moxie king, is locating his pitches. First pitch. Fastball. We'll cut fastball maybe. Right in there. Next pitch. Curveball. Got him. 0-2. Back to the curve but inside. Doesn't bite. Okay. 1-2. Little cutter inside. Doesn't bite. And then curve on the outside. Boom. Walker Buehler thinking, I'm nasty. I'm nasty. That was nice. Walking around the mound feels good, right? Next batter. Slider. Cutter. Whatever he calls it. Away. 1-0. Fastball. Up and away and nice piece of hitting by Robles, I believe, who goes with it for a double. So, okay. First batter looked good. Next batter whatever. He went with the pitch. It was nice. Get him. Walk. Walker Buehler. Ooh. The eyes of J-Rod. Beautiful. Beautiful eyes. First pitch. Oh. Let's watch that again. That's, I don't know what he calls it. Cutter. Slider. Whatever it is. Just a little, excuse me. That's such an odd such an odd swing first pitch. Because you want to be like fully committed. It's almost like a two-strike protect swing out of J-Rod there, but I think he thought it was going to go be a ball at the last second. I don't know. He's got him 0-1 on that swing. He follows it up with a sinker. So, fastball. Two-seam fastball. Hard. 95 runs down. That's nice, right? Let's watch it again. I'll drag it slow. Boom. You can see the way his fingers are going to just slide off it. Almost underneath it a little bit to get that run. And look at that. Just trailing and trailing and diving. Got him 0-2 again. He's thinking I'm nasty. Look at me. I'm doing everything I want to do out here. This is a great inning. Screw the double. I don't care. Alright. I went 80 miles per hour sweeper. I went 95 fastball. Let's go into another decade. Let's go into the 70s. Let's back him up with a curveball. Here we go. Right where he wants. That's a strike, CB. Not even close. CB Buckner's saying, it went around. It went around. Screaming back at him. Hey! What are you doing? What's the yelling about, CB? Huh? What's that? I'm trying to protect my guy. So am I. So am I. I don't want to get him ejected either. That's why I'm letting him know. That went around. I'm CB Buckner. People thought I was going to be the worst dump ever after Hernandez retired, but actually no. Laz is taking a lot of heat off me. Gotta give credit to Roberts. He's always real quick running out there to protect his guys. One run game in the ninth inning. Strike one. Strike on the swing. Next pitch. Tries for the same thing. Below the zone. One and one count. Then comes back away with it. That's a nice pitch for strike two. Both of the strikes swinging. Chicago gets on their feet. One more, baby! Let's do it. This guy, he's like, okay, might as well videotape it. Some cool might happen. The one-two pitch. Way away. Non-competitive waste pitch. CB Buckner looks at his ticker. Says, okay, the count is two and two. It's not what he actually said. That is a ball low, but they like the pitch. Looks at his ticker again and he says, okay, the count's two and two. The three-two pitch. Outside! And no one does anything. He looks at his thing, and people from the dugout are like, hey, that's ball four. The batter has no idea. The catcher has no idea. The pitcher thought he had the strikeout. He has no idea. No one has any idea. Besides everybody, besides the main participants, nobody has any idea, and probably because CB's been yelling out the wrong count. So he gets with his people. Says, what do you guys got? He's like, I had two and two, but they're saying up there that it was actually three and two, and that was ball four. Are you sure? What do you got? Anyone else know? They're like, well, it's kind of your job, CB, and you yell it out and show us, and then we go off what you say. So... What? All right, let's just go ask the replay people if they can piece this puzzle together. They got all the pitches. Meanwhile, here's a review, and no, no, no. Not a strike, not a strike, but no one moves. No one even thinks about it. The crowd kind of does. This guy wants the strike real bad. Strike! Strike! What? Thought the game was over. The pitch is ball four. No kidding. Yeah! How about that? I'm going to bat flip this walk. I knew it the whole time. Wouldn't they be by me? Taking pitches, laying off. Can't hold me back. The catcher's like, well, if you thought it was 2-2, and we thought it was 2-2, and he thought it was 2-2, and we all act as if it's a 2-2 pitch, and we got one to waste, I feel like it should be 2-2. I don't think that's what Jon Gomes said, but if this was like a backyard barbecue wiffle ball game, I think you would make that argument. Like, dude, we all thought it was 2-2, so doesn't that kind of make it 2-2? You know, we were all treating it that way. Anyway, now, the tying run is on first, and you got Adley up. He's pretty good. Fastball away. Next pitch, fastball right down the middle. One and one, and then a little cutter or slider outside, and Seabee calls it a strike, and Adley's like, come on, man, really? He's like, oh, I do that. I do that. And I talked about this in the perfect game that the umpire called in the World Series, and I specifically pointed out Seabee Buckner. See how his head is on the inside? The umpires that do this, their consistency on the outside is, for lack of a better word, dog ----, because they don't have the proper angle. They're setting up inside on everything, so the outside edge is always a dance. So he calls that one a strike. Now he's one strike away from this game ending, and Seabee's like, yeah, that's what I want. I just need to get out of here. In play, gobbled up at second, throws the first for the out, and then you go, vamos, coño! Fired up. Always is. Hat backwards. Fly the W. The Cubs win. Umpire forgot to count. Seabee Buckner had himself a day. Whenever anyone asked me, what umpire do you think is gonna suffer from the automatic ball strike system? I said, Seabee Buckner. Him and the low strike don't get along ever. Never have. So we had a lot of challenges. Elie Delacruz in the bottom of the six challenges this one. Raspy voice from Seabee. I don't know if that's always his voice, but here we go. In the sixth inning, this is the first challenge. It is a ball. We missed by 2.4 inches. So that's pretty decent of a miss. Not really on the edge there. Way off it. And that led to a walk in the bottom of the sixth inning. It's a two-run game. There's a runner on first already. You never know. Go look at the differences between counts. Like a 1-0 count and a 0-1 count. The end results are drastic. So every pitch really matters in baseball. That's how it works. The Reds have bases loaded. Runner on first. Runner on second. Runner on third. Ready to go. Geared up. Ah, Eugenio Suarez. He's coming up a lot these days, huh? He's up. First pitch he takes for a strike. Just a little spinner down the middle. Then we're gonna bend it in the other way. 0-2. He's gotta stay alive. He's battling. He's fighting. He's fouling. Ball's off into the crowd. Is the wind blowing or is the cameraman slow? Another one on the inside. Sebi says ball. Great call. And then gets him again. Strike three. Suarez says, I tap. I tap. I challenge. I want to challenge that. I think you got it wrong. Immediately, he heard Sebi winding up his call. Whoa, down! No, no, no, no, no, no. Yeah, yeah. I want to challenge it. Yes. So we got another one. We're looking at strike three here with the bases loaded. No, we're not. We're looking at a ball that missed low by 0.3 inches. That's at least closer. Like, a human can't do that. The very next pitch, Sebi rings him up again. He says, no. No, Sebi. That's twice. Right away, the crowd is going crazy as this comes on the jumbotron. Oh my god. That one is outside again. It's not strike three. It's 1.1 inches off the plate. The crowd erupted. Sebi's just got to stand there and eat it as the crowd is just going crazy at his demise. And again, we had an instant challenge. Sebi couldn't even finish his call. He's trying to punch him out. Before he can even do it, Suarez taps his helmet. Look at these two punch outs. The one on the left is the first one. Sebi does it very emphatically. The one on the right is the second one, and it's just a little sadder. A little like, do I even trust myself anymore? Bam! That's the first one. Alright, now watch the second one. He never even takes his eye off Suarez because he knows it's coming. Like, look at the first one. He turns his head completely and gets into it. Bam! Bam! Bam! And then the second one, he is just kind of a little more sad, and he never turns his head into his usual call. He just looks at him the whole time and then goes, oh ----. Alright, so it's a 3-2 pitch. This could be game changing. We could break it open. Instead, we get a ground ball, ground out for the third out. So it didn't change much besides the pitch count and the momentum in the stadium a little bit. We go to the bottom of the seventh inning, and now Benson, another tall player, immediately challenges the 1-0 pitch. CB's like, what? He's like, yeah, I want to challenge it. Please? Uh-oh. CB, your voice sounds raspy. I don't know if that's how you normally sound or not. That's a ball low. So it's a great challenge by Benson, who has been getting that call to strike at him all game. I'll show you those in a little bit. It's almost an inch below the zone. Now CB's like, this isn't fun. The 2-0 pitch, that's way below the zone. The 3-0 strike. He's like, no, I'm going to challenge that one, too. Yeah, yeah, I'm going to challenge it. Yes, I'm challenging it. CB's like, it was 3-0. I opened the zone up. He's like, well, that's not part of the game anymore. The strike zone is the strike zone, and you can't change it. And CB's like, please, please, please. Oh my god, that one missed low and away. Whenever they have to do this horizontal line, that means you done botched it. Bad. Two and a half inches. It wasn't high enough, nor was it over the plate. It missed two ways. Ooh, the little kid's just giving him a ton behind his back, and he's just sitting there thinking like, this, I have no control anymore. I'm supposed to have control of the game. And now all the control, I just feel like, where's my control of the game gone? I need to do something to make me feel in control of this game again. And now Trevor Story comes up. We're in the eighth inning of a one-run game. There's two outs. There's two on. Trevor Story looking to do some damage here, give his team the lead. He fouls that one down the third baseline, so already in a hole. 0-1. Then swings and misses at that one up top, so he's 0-2. Staying alive. Fouls it back. Going, going, going. Wind or camera? What do you think? Because the balls are outpacing the camera. Now Trevor Story, 0-2. Gotta battle. Gotta battle. What's he looking at? Gotta battle. Stays alive. CB says, no, you went! You went! He doesn't ask for help, he just says, he says, I'm telling you, you went all the way! He says, your bat went all the way out there! There's no way I swung! Your bat went all the way out there! No ******* way, bro! Come on! Story is pissed, because it's the second time CB rung him up this game without asking for help. I'll show you that in a second. Cora comes out and he said in his postgame, you have to check with the first base umpire. Cora's saying, so check with him! Your job is to put calls in place, so check with them! I had him going all the way! And he gets ejected. And it's just a soft toss, and Cora's pissed, and yeah. So here's all the other check swings in the game, where CB Buckner decided, I'll check with the first base umpire. That's his job. I call balls and strikes. He's the one that does that. And he went down there a lot of times, besides twice. One on Trevor Story and another on Trevor Story. The first one, then that's the second one we just watched later on in the game, another. And had he gone to the first base ump to get the call, let's see what he's been saying. First base ump said that this one, he said no. No swing. And this one, also first base ump said, no swing. And then we keep going. On that one he said, yeah, I gotcha. On this one again, right away he says, gotcha, you swung. Now this one, we'd only get it asked. That's the first story one, no ask. Second story one, the one we're talking about, no ask. And this one, first base ump says swung. So let's look at these back to back. The one on the bottom, the first base umpire said, no swing. So if CB had gone to the first base umpire, the top one, which is the one CB did not ask for help, and the one that they're arguing about, what would it have been called? Because the bottom one got called, no swing. They're very similar. I think if he goes to the first base ump, and if the first base ump is consistent, that's probably not a swing. Now this is the Ellie one. That was no swing. And the top one again, the one that CB did not ask for help. And they're standing over the plate in different areas. It's hard to see where the plate actually is, but yeah, they don't really come forward that much. Now here's an overlay of those. And very similar. And here's an overlay of Ellie in story. And very similar. Now, to be fair to CB, the first time he called it, and he didn't ask for help, that is on the bottom here, and it is much more of a swing, because the bat head is all the way out there. There's no real rule here at all. It's not. It's just subjective like the strike zone used to be. The strike zone is not that way anymore, and CB is missing those days when it was subjective. It was just his decision. He had control, because want to know something? They could have overturned 15 other calls in this game. They got 5 overturns. They could have had 20 if they wanted. All of these were called strikes, but had they been challenged, the system would have said no ball. And you can't argue. You can't be like, well, Jimmy, I don't know. That's kind of close. Like, I don't think he does that. The strike zone's the strike zone now. Per the numbers, these would all have been overturned. I think MLB has to allow them 3 chances at this, because people are so scared of getting that first one wrong. We want pitches called correctly. If it's too hard for a human to do it, put the system in play. That's my take. I'm getting frustrated how many times they're not challenging. CB was awful all game. They didn't hold him accountable until the 6th inning. He missed 15 that they could have overturned. They overturned 5. There were only 80 pitches that did not get swung at in the shadow zone, meaning balls on the edges that did not get swung at in the shadow zone. There were 80 of them. He missed 20. That means calls that we need an umpire. Again, if the batter swings, you don't need an umpire. If the ball hits the dirt, if it's way above the head, way inside, way outside, you don't need the umpire. If it's right down the middle, you don't need the umpire. We need an umpire to call balls on the edges that are, you know, right there or right not there. It's so hard for a human to do. There were 80 of them. CB Buckner missed 20. 1 in 4 calls. That's so bad! CB 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. Let's dive in. We're in the 6th inning of a 2-run game. There's two outs. Brewers and Rays. Remember they had a big brawl a couple years ago? That was fun. 2-0 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 CB Buckner calls him out. The first baseman ha! 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. CB Buckner says out. First baseman is like, what? 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 asks the home plate umpire. He says, did he touch the bag? Did he touch the bag? Did you see him touch the bag? Home plate 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 and 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? Wow. Bowers like, come on, CB. You crazy. What do you what? You say you 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? He's getting in position. He's looking at the throw goes away and he goes, Oh, look, it's so funny. He just gets distracted by the ball going away right there. He just starts following the ball. 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 they show the replay and you're like, Oh, because he didn't look at it. So he's getting the position, getting in the position. The ball is awry 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 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 there. So they quickly come back from replay. He's safe. The call is overturned. Milwaukee retains their challenge. And Bauer's 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 is looking at it. You're like, what? I mean, look at these like serious faces. The icon of 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 hats 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 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.