I was very pro-umpire (even though they sometimes disappointed me) until this year. I'm a hard on anti-umpire advocate who wants robot umps. I don't like the concept of artificial intelligence replacing so many jobs, but umpires deserve to be replaced.
@@andrewneidhart3899 didn’t they gain fans this year? I thought I heard jomboy or someone else say that. I’ve never been an avid watcher, but because of jomboy it’s peaked my interest
Yeah and he should’ve been tossed. If he doesn’t want a balk called he shouldn’t border on it. It’s a judgment call by the umpire, and there is definitely an argument to be made that he balked. He’s acting like a 12-yo turning around like that
@@brendonbuffaloe8830 Because the 3rd base ump never had a view of anything and called a balk on a legitimate pickoff attemp. It's a free fucking country and he can look wherever he wants. end of story
@@brendonbuffaloe8830 and tossing someone for such a benign act somehow wouldn't be equally childish? more so because they just got their feelings hurt and the only way they could deal with that is to toss someone from the game?
Home plate umpire looks like a sitcom dad. He calls his teenage daughter "out" when she breaks curfew -- and says her excuse about "Becca's emergency" is "a bunch of crap." His younger son wants a dog, which the mother vetoes. The kid tries to reason with his Blue, who maintains it wasn't his decision while crushing beers.
I gotta hand it to you Jomboy, as a deaf guy who’s good at lip reading, your videos are fun to watch. If you ever need help with it I’ll do it for beers.
hey genuine question as a customer service worker, do yall prefer/appreciate when people learn basic ASL? or do you prefer lip reading, it probably makes it super difficult with masks, but for most people like me i speak at a kintergarden level in ASL so hahaha
I agree. The call on that play at third was pretty good as well. Jomboy had to dissect it frame by frame and it was only one frame away from being safe or out.
That was 100% a balk. His move was to home and just whipped it over last second, he even had to side-step after throwing because his momentum was taking him toward home. Not really even questionable
@@Cerberus_360 Really does it matter who makes the call? Why not the 3rd base ump, he has a clear line of sight to the pitcher here. The 1st base ump should be more worried about reacting to the throw. Isolation of duties makes for better calls, and that was 100% a balk.
@@ArcadicGamer I don't think it really matters WHO makes the call as long as it's the right call. But it is important cause it shows that the umpire isn't paying close enough attention. 3rd base umpires usually don't make that call because the 1st base umpire can see left handed pitchers movement better at their angle.
The fact he is falling over basically confirms that his momentum was heading towards home while snapping it to first. That is a pretty textbook balk, which they are normally more murky. Easy call to me.
I agree. The first call was blown, but the second call was close enough to give him the benefit of the doubt and the third call (the balk) he clearly got right, so he did okay. Umpiring is not easy.
he didn't necessarily miss it, if another umpire has already called it there's no need for every umpire to chime in; sure it's ideal if everyone calls it at the same time, but that's not how it works in reality. also, U1 is looking at the throw as it leaves his hand more than his foot.
I second that, should do the Memphis Redbirds triple a team too. The game took place on Tuesday august 24th if possible, hit 3 home runs in the first inning one of them a 9 hole grand slam. Very cool stuff
The two plays at third were close enough that the umpire can be forgiven for getting them wrong using the naked eye at game speed. Funny that they balanced out. Nestor stepped well beyond the 45-degree mark toward home, so the balk call was correct.
This one was a classic with that ending. The combo of the Brett the Hitman glasses, the "that's a bunch of crap" repeated just enough, into jomboy lips taking over. ART
@@salvadorfonseca7 I will say watching managers get tossed after a review will never not be funny, if there’s anything positive to take from that shit show
Yeah, I mean balks seem to imply movement towards home and and not disrupting or stopping a pitch in motion. That looked like a pitch he suddenly wanted to throw to 1st.
The moment I watched the pickoff play I instantly thought "that's weird, definitely think he balked and got away with it" then boom 3rd base umpire coming up clutch.
thats not even what makes it obvious, it's the fact that his momentum made him fall towards home plate. Meaning he was traveling home and not too first.
Good balk call. Nestor was clearly less than 45 degrees with the pickoff move. It’s difficult enough to get a lead on a lefty, let alone letting the pitchers dictate how far they can go in the same path with their landing leg. This needs to be addressed more in baseball.
or just eliminate the balk call entirely. and lets get the sticky stuff back while we are at it. And feel free to swing on a 3-0 call all day long. Send a homer
Boone is hilarious 😂 He gets mad when the umpires get calls wrong or just ignores him, yet he’s so used to it at this point that all he knows he can do is get angry and complain.
could be but it's typically the first base ump's call not the third base ump. Especially with a LH pitcher. That is what Nestor was complaining about. If I balk and the first base ump does not call it then it probably was not a balk. Sometimes the home plate ump will call it but I have never seen it called by the third base ump with no support from home or first.
@@dannybailey3720 yes, normally the first base ump should call that. But he also has to worry about the runner. But he is also a AAA guy so probably would like to not draw attention to himself
The balk rule is way to subjective without contols in place. Easy fix, start painting mound with chalk lines (or something else) and have clear lines that can be used to determine a balk. Then, and only then will balks be more understandable.
nestor lost his balance during the toss. he shifted towards his right hand-side instead of striding towards 1st. that’s why he got caught. this happened to me during a game because i failed to motion towards the target. first and last time i’ll ever make this mistake. 1st base ump missed it, though.
We had just gotten to the restaurant and I saw the game on the big screen. I told my gf, “Nestor Cortes is on the mound, there’s gonna be some funny shit going on, just wait”
A huge part of sport is the "common law" definition of rules. The rules are written one way but are often insufficient to cover new scenarios. So baseball in general has some agreements on what the rule means until the rule is changed. A perfect example was the slide-into-the-shortstop double-play rule where the common law was to slide hard but CLEAN; that was good until someone broke a leg. Balks are that thing were it's kinda understood you have to aim your body at first but it doesn't have to be that obvious--until someone gets cute with the enforcement bc they want to be part of the game. To my understanding, the 45 degree thing is not in the rule book so this "interpretation" will keep happening until they make a hard rule change.
There are very specific rules about balks. That he was surprised he got called is absurd. Not only was his momentum not going toward first, he was straight up falling back toward third. That's a balk and a half, plain and simple.
@@mcassady46 Thank you for your interpretation of the rule. How many years have you umpired? My question is 100 in good faith btw. I'm not dismissing you just bc I do not know if you have any umpire experience. I just want to know how much you have, if any---I have NONE, I only played in highschool and of course only catch MLB games as experience.
The HP ump yelling "That's a bunch of crap!" Looks exactly like that one friend's dad that everyone had in junior high that would come in the room while you and your friend were both busy playing "Ken Griffey Jr. Presents Major League Baseball" on the SNES and be pissed off and yelling at your friend for something, like he forgot to feed the dog or something like that, at least once every time you spent the night. Don't act like y'all don't know what I'm talking about.
Pitcher: Plants his lead foot in between home plate and the rubber. 3rd base umpire: Calls a balk. Jomboy: We don’t know what a balk is, clearly there’s some gray area. Dude, that was the worst balk I’ve ever seen. It was so bad even the 3rd base umpire saw it. 1st base ump was just sleeping, don’t bring s**t on third base lol. Love the channel BTW.
@@bsktballman08 yeah you were doing a "meme" memes are jokes for people who aren't funny. you just use a format and insert your current situation. this meme is writing something out like a screen play basically just repeating what you heard and saw. super cringe matey so to right this non cringe just do what the other 500 comments about the balk discussion said. "it was a balk".
"I have nothing to do with that" is a quote all of us umpires can relate to too well. 50/50 chance it ends in an ejection because the coaches don't realize the home plate guy doesn't make all the calls, and its the calling official who does
It's a valid defense, but at the same time, I don't think I'd toss the manager over that play. You gotta let managers whine every now and then. Toss 'em only when they get belligerent and/or abusive.
@@Turamwdd Well when the league employs Angel Hernandez as an umpire I don’t think the league or any umpire that has not spoken against Angel being employed has any leg to stand on.
@Admiral agreed, definitely a balk. I just don't like that the 3rd base ump made that "his" call. Thats for the home plate or 1st base ump to be watching that.
@@916mw it's any of the umpires jobs to call it. It should have been pretty easy for the first base ump to call by himself though. He clearly has moment going home even after he plants his leg to throw.
I dont understand the argument that the first base umpire is the only one who can call it. Sometimes umpires see different things and it may not have looked like a balk from first, but definitely was from third
As a lefty pitcher that’s not actually a balk. Just because I’ve had an umpire who’s a minor league say that if he were to go home on that then it’s a balk. Because his leg went towards first then it’s not a balk. That’s just what he said and the other umpires agreed so
I'm happy we got two breakdowns from this series, but my kids really wanted one about Manaea's glove from Friday night. The second it went down my son said "I can't wait to hear Jomboy talk about this" lol.
I’m all my years playing Jomboy nailed this one on the balk call specifically. Lift leg cannot crossover your push leg, however more now than ever you see lots of pitchers picking straight up, so umpires tend to look to the 45 degree angle of of the push leg towards home plate. Keep them coming man
Graham Boyd, "Lift leg cannot crossover your push leg" is not part of the rule and is not a balk if you throw to first. The rule is that when the entire free foot goes back beyond the back edge of the rubber, the pitcher is required to deliver a pitch or a throw (or feint) to second base. Lift leg cannot crossover your push leg is not found in the rule book.
watched the whole game today as well as the umpire ball strike disaster yesterday. If you watched both games you'll understand why horse shit is Boone's favorite word. Umpiring in the last two A's Yankee's games was truly horse shit.
Well we as a society of baseball fans and technology advocates can forcibly eject umpires from the game of baseball by popularizing robot umpires, which exist and just need a couple flaws to be fixed.
Nasty Nestor is hilarious, actually seen him tonight after the game at the hard Rock cafe at the stadium! Great narration too letting us know what was being said. Good stuff.
I know, if something interesting happens in a game not involving his favorite team, it hardly ever gets covered. But once it's a Yankees game, he always covers even the smallest, insignificant things.
he surprisingly has done the a's a few time this year. one was Canha vs Ohtani, the other was Lowrie vs Alex wood. it's very clear to me he doesn't like the a's at all by the way he talks about them and clearly took both instances out of context. he also did a video on Marcus semien vs Marcus stroman a few years back where he framed semien like the bad guy exactly like he did Lowrie earlier this year. he just doesn't like the a's as he bitches about their batters taking too much time between pitches even though his team is filled with the league's biggest cry babies ever.
@@EulogizingSleep yeah I follow the podcast and it’s a known thing that he admits to. Pretty sure it’s protagonist syndrome due to Moneyball and how much coverage the A’s got for the streak and Billy Beane. Frustrating to watch
@@carterkulm2306 Yeah, and teams like the Yankees and Dodgers ALWAYS get attention. I’m a huge fan of the small market team, and I think clubs like the A’s & Rays deserve more credit than they get.
Why does he have to do content the way you want? You choose to watch it or not. It’s his channel. Isn’t that obvious? I don’t think you know what simp means.
I just love when Umps get pissy about someone looking at them but then will also stare down an entire dugout looking for a reason to eject someone😂😐 it’s one of my favorite things about this sport*SARCASM*
@@Zaneferguson1 "Zane complains about the comments, another yankee fan" And yeah, when you expect real content from a generally reliable source, then get this biased crap, you're allowed to call it out. Were you forced to read the comments? Were you forced to be a sportsfan? No? Then stop whining.
I like Jomboy, but he is incredibly Yankee biased in these breakdowns, which is fine if you understand that, but I’m sure non-baseball fans just assume the Yankees are very discriminated against by umps and other teams 😂
absolutely a balk....and I love how we can spend 5 minutes looking at frame-by-frame so that we can criticize the ump for a bad call even though he gets to do it one time in real time.
I'm a proponent of real time-only video review: if you can't make the determination in real time, stick with the original call. Rules were written to be arbitrated in real time, so the right call has to be made in real time. Multiple viewings, multiple angles to make up for human deficiency? Fine. Slowing down to try and determine something frame by frame? Not.
Hey JomBoy, any umpire on the field may call the balk. And yes my friend, that was a balk. His body positioning clearly tells you when the pitcher is off balanced on his throw to first base.
Honestly, technology itself is making these calls worse. 30 years ago these would have been non-issue or maybe a bang-bang play or a questionable call. But now with super HD slo mo and freeze frames it can call into question every human decision. The game as it was played for 130 years wasn’t meant for this level of scrutiny. I’m all for getting the calls right and we know the technology isn’t going away. Time to remove the human element and go all in on the tech.
They have all these technologies, but half-heartedly tried to use them, thus still making bad calls anyway. What’s the point of technology then? If they still make terrible calls? Either, make sure the technology is used efficiently with more referees on camera, or get rid of the entire thing and let the fans and players howl at referees making bad calls, costing players, coaches, GMs their entire life’s works and salary.
Chad Pinder hit a 483 footer there in 2017 that made Stantons look like chump change and was hit further in the coliseum :) ruclips.net/video/aPbQz1_6omw/видео.html
I'm ngl, Jomboy is making the balk call sound way too complicated. As an umpire the pitcher makes a clear motion towards home before then making a pick off. By my pov I'd call that a balk too.
On the balk, it seems like the 1b ump's sightline might have been blocked by the first baseman. Hard to tell from the replay, but maybe that's why the 3b ump made the call instead.
The Umpires have been absolute trash this year. I am very confident that the Players will lock out until the challenge system is reworked. And a robotics strike zone is implemented.
@@seymourglass26 I don't believe the Umpires earn their pay. There should be penalties on them when they blow a call and it gets overturned. More than once a game. After Angel Hernandez blew 4 calls in a World Series game he should have been fired. But the league refused to make an example out of his incompetence. Now we are to the point the replay booth in NY can't get it right.
Although, there are still players/coaches arguing with robot umpires (yelling at the human HP umpire for making the call the computer told them to make) in the minor leagues
That balk call in the 2nd was the easiest balk call in history to make. His foot never came close to going to 1st base and he was practically falling backwards, which was clear as day to the 3rd base ump. Jomboy's got his Yankee glasses on again.
I would say even though it's inside the glove, he has to have possession. I've always played it as the ball has to be caught. Not breaking the glove "barrier".
That was my thought too...What if it hits the inside of the glove and falls out, would you still consider it a out because he almost caught it? That in the cradle of the glove in slow mo was horrible depiction.
@@Hailfire97 Sadly....but if you listen to Jom boys explanation of a rule id never heard of, that it just has to be within the cradle of the glove not even touching the leather and it can be ruled an out. Thats crazy to think.
Can you imagine a game 7 all tied up in the World Series and a call was made like the one on 3rd then he scores home team or not it would be chaos… this channel is solid thanks for sharing…
I love how jomboy knows and researches all the rules until it goes against the stankees then he's like "eh, muh, blah, I dunno..." Clearly that was a balk if you even know the basic rules of pitching with a runner on. His front leg moved towards the plate. To pick off a runner the leg needs to come straight up, then down towards the base. Not even close, that was a balk.
This isn't so much a Jomboy breakdown but more of a Yankee's fan being salty. The whole 3 minute dedication to explaining how the ball was in the glove to make Marte out and the right call just says it all.
It's much more blatant because he takes the time to hem and haw about the most obvious balk call I've seen in a long time, and then for once gives the umpire the benefit of the doubt on a tough call. Like you're really gonna be mad at the umpire on the one call he got absolutely, 100% right?
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Watching Nestor Cortez is such a delight, it's like we've got Mario playing baseball irl
Racist? Jk
🤣🤣🤣🤣
"It'sa me, Nestorr!" 😂
Mario baseball on the GameCube was so sick!
Late night with the cousins n pizza. Thank you
Cleveland Brown is more like it.
As long as baseball has human umpires, we will have a near limitless amount of Jomboy breakdowns.
Imma be honest with you, I'll accept that.
oh come one, some of these calls are so fucking difficult in real time
I was very pro-umpire (even though they sometimes disappointed me) until this year. I'm a hard on anti-umpire advocate who wants robot umps. I don't like the concept of artificial intelligence replacing so many jobs, but umpires deserve to be replaced.
And baseball will continue to lose fans. Such a boring sport at the moment
@@andrewneidhart3899 didn’t they gain fans this year? I thought I heard jomboy or someone else say that. I’ve never been an avid watcher, but because of jomboy it’s peaked my interest
When Nestor spun around to the third base ump later I lost it 🤣💀 nestor is so much fun to watch 🙏
As a Tribe fan, I want Nestor in Cleveland so bad haha
Dude's hilarious
Funniest part of this breakdown. Hilarious!
Yeah and he should’ve been tossed. If he doesn’t want a balk called he shouldn’t border on it. It’s a judgment call by the umpire, and there is definitely an argument to be made that he balked. He’s acting like a 12-yo turning around like that
@@brendonbuffaloe8830 Because the 3rd base ump never had a view of anything and called a balk on a legitimate pickoff attemp. It's a free fucking country and he can look wherever he wants. end of story
@@brendonbuffaloe8830 and tossing someone for such a benign act somehow wouldn't be equally childish? more so because they just got their feelings hurt and the only way they could deal with that is to toss someone from the game?
Nestor laughing at and calling out the umps is what MLB needs. He's so fun to watch
Home plate umpire looks like a sitcom dad. He calls his teenage daughter "out" when she breaks curfew -- and says her excuse about "Becca's emergency" is "a bunch of crap." His younger son wants a dog, which the mother vetoes. The kid tries to reason with his Blue, who maintains it wasn't his decision while crushing beers.
He looks like John Goodman, who WAS a sitcom dad. So your point stands strong.
He looks like John Goodman, who... oh, nevermind.
Well done
Man. What?
@@ronnieturner6820 Watch a sitcom.
I gotta hand it to you Jomboy, as a deaf guy who’s good at lip reading, your videos are fun to watch. If you ever need help with it I’ll do it for beers.
JOMBOY HIRE THIS MAN
hey genuine question as a customer service worker, do yall prefer/appreciate when people learn basic ASL? or do you prefer lip reading, it probably makes it super difficult with masks, but for most people like me i speak at a kintergarden level in ASL so hahaha
@@Ask_reddit_shorts69 I'm also deaf guy here too. Try your best with ASL, we all appreciate at any effort you willing to do. Cheers!
man.. that was kinda desperate sounding bro..
@@italianmiltyfriedman6264 nahhhh it wasn't
Ok the ending with “that’s a bunch of crap” was just golden.
Not really. The umpire is a real one for standing up for his coworkers.
@@alexdorfler7778 just meant it was funny dude.
HEY!
Oh yeah, gotta protect those grown men from someone looking at them.
especially that it was followed by a erectile dysfunction ad 🤣
The balk actually looks like a good call. The step was much more toward home than 1st.
I agree. The call on that play at third was pretty good as well. Jomboy had to dissect it frame by frame and it was only one frame away from being safe or out.
I agree it was a balk.
And anyone can call a balk, so Nestor needs to shut up.
Bump
Im probably wrong, but doesn’t the pitcher also have to take his foot off the rubber?
*edit* I appreciate y’all
@@Krawberry this is what I thought too. Once that leg comes up, and the foot is on the rubber, doesn't he have to complete the pitch?
Nestor Cortes has me dead. Dude is hilarious. The head snap was comidec genius.
That was 100% a balk. His move was to home and just whipped it over last second, he even had to side-step after throwing because his momentum was taking him toward home. Not really even questionable
It was a balk but really the 1st base umpire should be making that call.
@@Cerberus_360 Really does it matter who makes the call? Why not the 3rd base ump, he has a clear line of sight to the pitcher here. The 1st base ump should be more worried about reacting to the throw. Isolation of duties makes for better calls, and that was 100% a balk.
@@ArcadicGamer I don't think it really matters WHO makes the call as long as it's the right call. But it is important cause it shows that the umpire isn't paying close enough attention. 3rd base umpires usually don't make that call because the 1st base umpire can see left handed pitchers movement better at their angle.
The fact he is falling over basically confirms that his momentum was heading towards home while snapping it to first. That is a pretty textbook balk, which they are normally more murky. Easy call to me.
I agree. The first call was blown, but the second call was close enough to give him the benefit of the doubt and the third call (the balk) he clearly got right, so he did okay. Umpiring is not easy.
His leg went almost directly to the plate, I can't believe the 1st base umpire missed it
he didn't necessarily miss it, if another umpire has already called it there's no need for every umpire to chime in; sure it's ideal if everyone calls it at the same time, but that's not how it works in reality. also, U1 is looking at the throw as it leaves his hand more than his foot.
He almost fell over the first time because of his foot location being toward home plate vs the second one he stepped forward because it wasn't a balk
@@davej3781 he wouldn’t be watching the throw at all. He’d be watching the pitchers hips just like a base runner is told to do.
Yea that was clearly a balk. Cant believe anyone is arguing that
@@matthewm4336 so clearly a balk that as a batter, I would have had to check my swing lol. My reflexes aren't what they used to be.....
Always love when Jomboy’s mouth makes a guest appearance
Almost made me wish I had erectile disfunction.
this particular ending had me in tears
There’s certain times that would be undesirable
That's what she said
..... and talks about erectile dysfunction
Jomboy I know you don’t usually do breakdowns of minor league games but could you breakdown the Buffalo bisons game from tonight. It was fun to watch.
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Agreed. There were so many crazy things that happened. I need a breakdown.
I see Rafael Dolis is blowing games in AAA as well...
I second that, should do the Memphis Redbirds triple a team too. The game took place on Tuesday august 24th if possible, hit 3 home runs in the first inning one of them a 9 hole grand slam. Very cool stuff
The two plays at third were close enough that the umpire can be forgiven for getting them wrong using the naked eye at game speed. Funny that they balanced out. Nestor stepped well beyond the 45-degree mark toward home, so the balk call was correct.
This one was a classic with that ending. The combo of the Brett the Hitman glasses, the "that's a bunch of crap" repeated just enough, into jomboy lips taking over. ART
I snorted big time at the end. Was not prepared.
That bunch of crap at the end had big Sandlot "forever" energy.
Nestor is slowly becoming my favorite Yankee. Dude is fun to watch.
IM NOT A PROFESSIONAL UMPIRE but in real time that looked like a balk to me, no matter who’s supposed to make the call
Shit was messy af. Marte at 3rd looked 100% safe from the angles we saw at the coliseum
@@salvadorfonseca7 I will say watching managers get tossed after a review will never not be funny, if there’s anything positive to take from that shit show
IMO it looked like he made a move towards home and then threw the pick off so I agree it looked like a balk.
I have no idea what a balk rule actually is, but that looked like a balk to me too.
Yeah, I mean balks seem to imply movement towards home and and not disrupting or stopping a pitch in motion. That looked like a pitch he suddenly wanted to throw to 1st.
This is a pretty good breakdown, but let’s keep it a stack Jomboy. That was a balk lmao
It was a balk. And yes this was a good breakdown. This game had a lot of stuff to go over lol
The moment I watched the pickoff play I instantly thought "that's weird, definitely think he balked and got away with it" then boom 3rd base umpire coming up clutch.
That hysterical laughing of Nestor is about to become a meme, watch 😂
I’ll make it one
This is just the surface of the shit he pulls lol
He actually got the balk call right. Not sure how first base ump missed it.
I was thinking that too, pretty obvious that was a balk
Our ace does that all the time & never gets called
@@landonhaddock27 getting away with a balk does not make it right.
@@landonhaddock27 I mean I don't expect beer league umps to be making great balk calls yknow?
@@CCtheRapperman no high school baseball
That’s a balk. His step went towards home plate.
thats not even what makes it obvious, it's the fact that his momentum made him fall towards home plate. Meaning he was traveling home and not too first.
Absolutely the correct call
Absolutely a balk. And the other 2 "missed" calls were at least close enough to not call him another angle hernandez.
@@provalettrash7 not to mention one of the “missed” calls was upheld under replay review
@@blake60ah41 Your comment gives me flashbacks to when Hernandez had three calls in a row overturned on review.
OMG!! I laughed my balls off when the pitcher swung around to stare down the third-base ump!! Classic!!!!
Pitcher Nestor Cortez Jr is perfect example of someone who clearly enjoys the game of baseball & not shy to show it,, bravo bravo bravo young man !!!
Good balk call. Nestor was clearly less than 45 degrees with the pickoff move. It’s difficult enough to get a lead on a lefty, let alone letting the pitchers dictate how far they can go in the same path with their landing leg. This needs to be addressed more in baseball.
agreed definitely a balk. i think the 1st base ump was looking at the runner
@@av1204 or more likely the ball being thrown towards him
or just eliminate the balk call entirely. and lets get the sticky stuff back while we are at it. And feel free to swing on a 3-0 call all day long. Send a homer
@@bermchasin I agree to an extent, I think balking towards the batter should be kept but towards people trying to steal plates seems unnecessary.
Boone is hilarious 😂 He gets mad when the umpires get calls wrong or just ignores him, yet he’s so used to it at this point that all he knows he can do is get angry and complain.
Let him have this.
It's the only thing he's good at.
Isn't Boone pretty much mad and angry almost all of the time anyways lol?
That is pretty much the definition for being a manager these days 😂
He’s kind of whiney.
100% a balk. Momentum and his foot went towards home plate
definitely not 3rd base ump's call. 1st is staring right at it and even says it isn't a balk to the player in the dugout. Just bad all the way around.
could be but it's typically the first base ump's call not the third base ump. Especially with a LH pitcher. That is what Nestor was complaining about. If I balk and the first base ump does not call it then it probably was not a balk. Sometimes the home plate ump will call it but I have never seen it called by the third base ump with no support from home or first.
@@dannybailey3720 yes, normally the first base ump should call that. But he also has to worry about the runner. But he is also a AAA guy so probably would like to not draw attention to himself
@@dannybailey3720 So what. It was a balk and the third base umpire CAN and DID call it.
The balk rule is way to subjective without contols in place. Easy fix, start painting mound with chalk lines (or something else) and have clear lines that can be used to determine a balk. Then, and only then will balks be more understandable.
nestor lost his balance during the toss. he shifted towards his right hand-side instead of striding towards 1st. that’s why he got caught. this happened to me during a game because i failed to motion towards the target. first and last time i’ll ever make this mistake. 1st base ump missed it, though.
Nester from the Yankees is also hilarious!!!
I love Jomboy for all of the work he puts in! 👏🏽
All I gotta say is I love watching nestor. There’s always going to be something funny happen when he’s pitching lol
We had just gotten to the restaurant and I saw the game on the big screen. I told my gf, “Nestor Cortes is on the mound, there’s gonna be some funny shit going on, just wait”
The dude cracks me up.
This is still true in 2022 XD
Balks are like travels in basketball. Done on almost every play and called so infrequently folks get pissed when they’re called.
A huge part of sport is the "common law" definition of rules. The rules are written one way but are often insufficient to cover new scenarios. So baseball in general has some agreements on what the rule means until the rule is changed. A perfect example was the slide-into-the-shortstop double-play rule where the common law was to slide hard but CLEAN; that was good until someone broke a leg. Balks are that thing were it's kinda understood you have to aim your body at first but it doesn't have to be that obvious--until someone gets cute with the enforcement bc they want to be part of the game. To my understanding, the 45 degree thing is not in the rule book so this "interpretation" will keep happening until they make a hard rule change.
There are very specific rules about balks. That he was surprised he got called is absurd. Not only was his momentum not going toward first, he was straight up falling back toward third. That's a balk and a half, plain and simple.
@@mcassady46 Thank you for your interpretation of the rule. How many years have you umpired? My question is 100 in good faith btw. I'm not dismissing you just bc I do not know if you have any umpire experience. I just want to know how much you have, if any---I have NONE, I only played in highschool and of course only catch MLB games as experience.
Lmao Nester’s reaction was priceless
The HP ump yelling "That's a bunch of crap!" Looks exactly like that one friend's dad that everyone had in junior high that would come in the room while you and your friend were both busy playing "Ken Griffey Jr. Presents Major League Baseball" on the SNES and be pissed off and yelling at your friend for something, like he forgot to feed the dog or something like that, at least once every time you spent the night.
Don't act like y'all don't know what I'm talking about.
Lol home umpire says he has nothing to do with that and then warns he pitcher for just looking at 3rd base ump. That snap look was delightful too 😊
This game had it all:
Missed calls ✅
Botched reviews ✅
Unprovoked yelling at players ✅
A bunch of crap ✅
@@justinmraap or "horse shit" if you asked Boone!
When did it have a botched review?
Bob Melvin got thrown out pretty early lmao
Jimmy Mouth Cameo ✅
The real mvp has gotta be jomboy's lip reading skills.
And those editing overlay skills
Pitcher: Plants his lead foot in between home plate and the rubber.
3rd base umpire: Calls a balk.
Jomboy: We don’t know what a balk is, clearly there’s some gray area.
Dude, that was the worst balk I’ve ever seen. It was so bad even the 3rd base umpire saw it. 1st base ump was just sleeping, don’t bring s**t on third base lol. Love the channel BTW.
ok but why did you have to type the cringe shit lol, yeah it was a balk.
Ryan: Types a bunch of cringey shit
@@krebgurfson5732 you yankee Stans are way more cringe
@@krebgurfson5732 sorry mate, just trying to speak current internet lingo. Please translate to non-cringe language for me.
@@bsktballman08 yeah you were doing a "meme" memes are jokes for people who aren't funny. you just use a format and insert your current situation. this meme is writing something out like a screen play basically just repeating what you heard and saw. super cringe matey
so to right this non cringe just do what the other 500 comments about the balk discussion said. "it was a balk".
Jomboy is a Yankees fan so he's going to try to give them the benefit of the doubt.
"I have nothing to do with that" is a quote all of us umpires can relate to too well. 50/50 chance it ends in an ejection because the coaches don't realize the home plate guy doesn't make all the calls, and its the calling official who does
It's a valid defense, but at the same time, I don't think I'd toss the manager over that play. You gotta let managers whine every now and then. Toss 'em only when they get belligerent and/or abusive.
@@jasonbaird1645 If the manager is too stupid to know which umpire to argue with, then there is no harm in tossing him.
@@Turamwdd Well when the league employs Angel Hernandez as an umpire I don’t think the league or any umpire that has not spoken against Angel being employed has any leg to stand on.
@@jasonbaird1645 The rule is clear that arguing a review requires an ejection. The umpire was following the rules.
@@Turamwdd you will never be a woman so stop thinking like one
I like how the home base umpire is like the dad at home reading the newspaper.
"Knock it off!"
"That's a bunch of crap"
As a Yankee fan, and a Pitcher that was a balk. His motion was so going home.
who the F cares?? of course he was going to throw home. hes a pitcher...
@@bermchasin ??????
@Admiral agreed, definitely a balk. I just don't like that the 3rd base ump made that "his" call. Thats for the home plate or 1st base ump to be watching that.
@@SirGreyy Lmao, what's this dude talking about. I swear he's someone that went to a game irl and now thinks he's a baseball expert.
@@stateIine I lost a few brain cells reading his reply
That was an obvious balk. All you have to do is see that his body's momentum took him toward home plate, not first base.
But the point the players were making is that it’s not the third base umpire call to make
@@916mw it's any of the umpires jobs to call it. It should have been pretty easy for the first base ump to call by himself though. He clearly has moment going home even after he plants his leg to throw.
Agreed. Definitely a balk.
I dont understand the argument that the first base umpire is the only one who can call it. Sometimes umpires see different things and it may not have looked like a balk from first, but definitely was from third
As a lefty pitcher that’s not actually a balk. Just because I’ve had an umpire who’s a minor league say that if he were to go home on that then it’s a balk. Because his leg went towards first then it’s not a balk. That’s just what he said and the other umpires agreed so
If I didn't know any better, I'd think Jomboy was a Yankees fan. 🤔
He is
lol what he literally did nothing to discern bias towards the yankees in this video whatsoever and i hate the fucking yankees
Settle down Francis, it was a joke. 😘
@@boppob1343 I love the Yankees and Jomboy is an absolute homer, showed it in this video.
I'm happy we got two breakdowns from this series, but my kids really wanted one about Manaea's glove from Friday night. The second it went down my son said "I can't wait to hear Jomboy talk about this" lol.
I’m all my years playing Jomboy nailed this one on the balk call specifically. Lift leg cannot crossover your push leg, however more now than ever you see lots of pitchers picking straight up, so umpires tend to look to the 45 degree angle of of the push leg towards home plate. Keep them coming man
Graham Boyd, "Lift leg cannot crossover your push leg" is not part of the rule and is not a balk if you throw to first. The rule is that when the entire free foot goes back beyond the back edge of the rubber, the pitcher is required to deliver a pitch or a throw (or feint) to second base. Lift leg cannot crossover your push leg is not found in the rule book.
"That's a bunch of crap." Sounds exactly like my high school wood shop teacher.
I was watching this live and was dying because even Michael Kay was pissed
watched the whole game today as well as the umpire ball strike disaster yesterday. If you watched both games you'll understand why horse shit is Boone's favorite word. Umpiring in the last two A's Yankee's games was truly horse shit.
Oh my god I have never seen him that mad
Michael Kay is so whiny and obnoxious.
Where’d u watch it live? Because for some reason it wasn’t where I usually do
@@thecaynuck4694 Michael Kay sucks so bad
Fact: umpires can not eject them selves. Even if they make a bad call
Can an umpire eject another umpire?
@@cagedtigersteve only if the ump is Enrico Pellazzo.
Well we as a society of baseball fans and technology advocates can forcibly eject umpires from the game of baseball by popularizing robot umpires, which exist and just need a couple flaws to be fixed.
@@FloridaCatholicGuy or angel hernandez
@@thecaynuck4694 its as if saying oh lets remove all the bad cards from this deck over here but what are we agreeing on is what the bad card is ?
Nasty Nestor is hilarious, actually seen him tonight after the game at the hard Rock cafe at the stadium! Great narration too letting us know what was being said. Good stuff.
That was 100% a balk
the balk is because his foot is headed towards the plate and then he released the ball towards first
I don't know much about baseball, but i have learned a lot watching Jomboy. Baseball is actually a game of 3 teams. Home, Away, and the Umpires.
I started cracking up when I saw Nestor laughing 😂
You sir… are on a league of your own! Thanks Jomboy!
That was the clearest balk I’ve ever seen
Yeah, that's a balk. Line-of-sight from the 1B Ump is obscured by 3 holding the runner
Nestor's belly laughing is how happy I strive to be
Cortes is probably my favorite personality to come out of baseball this year. Every game he does something to make me laugh
Same here, he just seems like he's out to have fun which is pretty refreshing
For us yankee fans this isn’t anything new!
Love the lip reading JomBoy. I have no idea about the game of baseball. But always watch your videos JomBoy because the lip reading cracks me up
I've only just found this page. But it's so hilarious I love it.
"Jomboy doing the A's??? Oh... the yanks are playing... simp"
I know, if something interesting happens in a game not involving his favorite team, it hardly ever gets covered. But once it's a Yankees game, he always covers even the smallest, insignificant things.
he surprisingly has done the a's a few time this year. one was Canha vs Ohtani, the other was Lowrie vs Alex wood. it's very clear to me he doesn't like the a's at all by the way he talks about them and clearly took both instances out of context. he also did a video on Marcus semien vs Marcus stroman a few years back where he framed semien like the bad guy exactly like he did Lowrie earlier this year. he just doesn't like the a's as he bitches about their batters taking too much time between pitches even though his team is filled with the league's biggest cry babies ever.
@@EulogizingSleep yeah I follow the podcast and it’s a known thing that he admits to. Pretty sure it’s protagonist syndrome due to Moneyball and how much coverage the A’s got for the streak and Billy Beane. Frustrating to watch
@@carterkulm2306 Yeah, and teams like the Yankees and Dodgers ALWAYS get attention. I’m a huge fan of the small market team, and I think clubs like the A’s & Rays deserve more credit than they get.
Why does he have to do content the way you want? You choose to watch it or not. It’s his channel. Isn’t that obvious? I don’t think you know what simp means.
I just love when Umps get pissy about someone looking at them but then will also stare down an entire dugout looking for a reason to eject someone😂😐 it’s one of my favorite things about this sport*SARCASM*
yeah a lot of ump seems like petty tyrants.
Jomboy's deep fakes are getting so good they're scary
MLB should pay Jomboy. I'm more interested in games now than I ever have been. Just because of this channel. Thanks JB
I yelled at the screen “THATS A BALK” as it happens on the TV..
Glad to see it here :) good job guys :)
"That's a bunch of crap" is the only accurate thing I've ever heard an ump say.
You can clearly tell he was going home, all his momentum took him forward instead of towards first base
Jomboy, I find baseball incredibly boring, but these breakdowns make it so interesting and fun. Keep doing what you do
Jomboy! Thanks for the laughs!! Keep up the good the work!
seeing all those FTX badges on the umps are funny
That was definitely a balk. Plus his foot was still on the rubber when he released the ball to first. I'm surprised the first base umpire missed it.
You are the fucking Grinch that Stole Christmas. Who cares if it was a balk or not? I'm here to be entertained by people with personality!
It was a balk, but what does his foot being on the rubber have to do with it?
"Jomboy Complains About the Umpires Against the Yankees, a Breakdown"
ding ding ding ding
"Newton complains about video nobody forced him to watch, a comment"
@@Zaneferguson1 "Zane complains about the comments, another yankee fan"
And yeah, when you expect real content from a generally reliable source, then get this biased crap, you're allowed to call it out. Were you forced to read the comments? Were you forced to be a sportsfan? No? Then stop whining.
I like Jomboy, but he is incredibly Yankee biased in these breakdowns, which is fine if you understand that, but I’m sure non-baseball fans just assume the Yankees are very discriminated against by umps and other teams 😂
absolutely a balk....and I love how we can spend 5 minutes looking at frame-by-frame so that we can criticize the ump for a bad call even though he gets to do it one time in real time.
I'm a proponent of real time-only video review: if you can't make the determination in real time, stick with the original call. Rules were written to be arbitrated in real time, so the right call has to be made in real time. Multiple viewings, multiple angles to make up for human deficiency? Fine. Slowing down to try and determine something frame by frame? Not.
underrated comment
Man Nester makes me laugh. He is always doing something silly on the field XD lol
I enjoy the players who seem like they actually enjoy their job.
Hey JomBoy, any umpire on the field may call the balk. And yes my friend, that was a balk. His body positioning clearly tells you when the pitcher is off balanced on his throw to first base.
Honestly, technology itself is making these calls worse. 30 years ago these would have been non-issue or maybe a bang-bang play or a questionable call. But now with super HD slo mo and freeze frames it can call into question every human decision. The game as it was played for 130 years wasn’t meant for this level of scrutiny. I’m all for getting the calls right and we know the technology isn’t going away. Time to remove the human element and go all in on the tech.
I think they should get rid of the reviews. Takes too much away from the game. Bad calls are part of the game.
@@brianwright9514 also 90% of the time nothing happens from the reviews
@@brianwright9514 idk once in a while, a bad call can change the outcome of a close game...
@@brianwright9514 not with how untouchable and sensitive umps are rn.
They have all these technologies, but half-heartedly tried to use them, thus still making bad calls anyway. What’s the point of technology then? If they still make terrible calls? Either, make sure the technology is used efficiently with more referees on camera, or get rid of the entire thing and let the fans and players howl at referees making bad calls, costing players, coaches, GMs their entire life’s works and salary.
I was at the game last night. I’ve been to a lot of games at that yard. The ball Stanton hit out. Left the park faster than any ball I’ve seen
Was at the game as well ;) 472 foot shot upper deck! Let’s Gooooo Yankeeees!!
Umpire crew has been shotty in the series if anybody hasn’t noticed Lol.
Ya furthest ball I’ve ever seen hit at the Coliseum.
Chad Pinder hit a 483 footer there in 2017 that made Stantons look like chump change and was hit further in the coliseum :) ruclips.net/video/aPbQz1_6omw/видео.html
@@EulogizingSleep Pinders my guy but I wasn’t there for that
@@EulogizingSleep We’re you at the game lmao
the balk was because we didn’t walk it off to first and fell towards home after he threw to first
Not true.
Wow that last lip reading where the ump was talking ab Roman was spot on
That is 100% a balk and for some reason umps just let Nestor get away with it. It’s so annoying.
Hell yeah another breakdown
if you watch Nester on that balk, he actually stumbles towards home after the pick off. definitely a balk
This breakdown, compared to the one of Jimmy as an A's fan in a different universe, would be funny.
Jomboy is the only baseball I watch. He does better breakdowns than the MLB replay crew.
Wow!!
You have got to be the BEST mlb/ sports youtuber ever!
Awesome job!
Keep up the great work!!
Balk was a good call. He was stumbling toward home after the throw indicating his weight clearly headed home.
Nestor is becoming one of my favorite players. 😆 🤣 😂 😹 😆
I'm ngl, Jomboy is making the balk call sound way too complicated. As an umpire the pitcher makes a clear motion towards home before then making a pick off. By my pov I'd call that a balk too.
On the balk, it seems like the 1b ump's sightline might have been blocked by the first baseman. Hard to tell from the replay, but maybe that's why the 3b ump made the call instead.
That Clutch Cargo thing at the end was especially strange this time…love it
The Umpires have been absolute trash this year. I am very confident that the Players will lock out until the challenge system is reworked. And a robotics strike zone is implemented.
Here's hoping.
I don't see why we can't have a robot strike zone and still let the umps get paid to watch other parts of the game. Why make baseball suffer?
@@seymourglass26 I don't believe the Umpires earn their pay. There should be penalties on them when they blow a call and it gets overturned. More than once a game. After Angel Hernandez blew 4 calls in a World Series game he should have been fired. But the league refused to make an example out of his incompetence. Now we are to the point the replay booth in NY can't get it right.
Although, there are still players/coaches arguing with robot umpires (yelling at the human HP umpire for making the call the computer told them to make) in the minor leagues
That balk call in the 2nd was the easiest balk call in history to make. His foot never came close to going to 1st base and he was practically falling backwards, which was clear as day to the 3rd base ump. Jomboy's got his Yankee glasses on again.
I would say even though it's inside the glove, he has to have possession. I've always played it as the ball has to be caught. Not breaking the glove "barrier".
Yeah I never heard of the ball having to cross some imaginary line. It has to touch the glove to be caught and by then the foot was off the bag.
I always thought you had to have possession of it lol
That was my thought too...What if it hits the inside of the glove and falls out, would you still consider it a out because he almost caught it? That in the cradle of the glove in slow mo was horrible depiction.
@@lodrbyroni are we actually to the point of rule lawyering that we're asking "if he didn't catch it is it a catch?"
@@Hailfire97 Sadly....but if you listen to Jom boys explanation of a rule id never heard of, that it just has to be within the cradle of the glove not even touching the leather and it can be ruled an out. Thats crazy to think.
Can you imagine a game 7 all tied up in the World Series and a call was made like the one on 3rd then he scores home team or not it would be chaos… this channel is solid thanks for sharing…
Nestor is a goldmine for Jomboy media 🤣
The balk was legitimate. Once he makes a pitching move toward home plate, even with his body or legs, he has to throw that pitch toward home plate....
I love how jomboy knows and researches all the rules until it goes against the stankees then he's like "eh, muh, blah, I dunno..." Clearly that was a balk if you even know the basic rules of pitching with a runner on. His front leg moved towards the plate. To pick off a runner the leg needs to come straight up, then down towards the base. Not even close, that was a balk.
That's until you realize that it's a balk and balks are weird. He's never deviated from that regardless of the team
This isn't so much a Jomboy breakdown but more of a Yankee's fan being salty. The whole 3 minute dedication to explaining how the ball was in the glove to make Marte out and the right call just says it all.
It's much more blatant because he takes the time to hem and haw about the most obvious balk call I've seen in a long time, and then for once gives the umpire the benefit of the doubt on a tough call. Like you're really gonna be mad at the umpire on the one call he got absolutely, 100% right?
Your slow mo replay/lip sync is the best in the biz
So much energy in these unpire confrontations.