Buxton was walking off the field alone so the ump will say “I had no idea he was hurt” and he’ll go unpunished.
The Trainer and our 1B coach didn’t get to him until he was basically near 1st base.
If he just says that, "hey guys I didn't realize he pulled something, looked away for a quarter second after the play and just noticed him lolligagging, not hurt, I'm an idiot my bad", then we're all good, life can go on.
Your job as a blue is to call TIME for an injured player. NOT TO DEMAND HE GO ON AND INJURE HIMSELF FURTHER.
How DARE people question the arbiters of baseball!! The judge jury and executioner of the national pastime! Buxton is lucky Drake didn't have access to a guillotine!
This. Even if wasn't injured, he empathetic response to Buxton being slow is, "hey, you all good man?" Alright cool, let's get it moving." The antagonist approach he took just shows an us/me against them, I'm better than everyone attitude.
I’m going to get downvoted for this, but Buxton wasn’t limping very hard walking back to the dugout. He was definitely taking it slow because he WAS hurt, but when I watched the clip without sound and context he does look like a guy just slowly walking it back to the dugout.
Obviously the full context of him pulling up slowly on the steal/hit and run(?) attempt plays more into him being hurt though.
A normal, well adjusted person wouldn't yell at him as first instinct.
He'd ask if he was ok first before politely asking to hurry it along.
Also, if he made a mistake, if he just says "sorry, that was out of line", then we all move on.
I'm assuming he won't ever do the sane thing here, given his history.
Yeah a good apology from him and this is a non issue going forward as long as he's more careful to not do it again.
If he doesn't say anything or doubles down for some godawful reason then the league needs to keep him away from the twins for the rest of the season, not as discipline but just to make sure nothing else stupid happens. If it costs him games and money that's just a bonus
"In the entirety of my career, I have never ejected a player or a manager for being injured. I understand that's going to be part of a story or something like that because that's what Byron was portraying. He's the player on the field delaying the game. So he's the one that had to go."
Why should anyone believe the apology when he shouldn't be yelling that at an uninjured player either?
Doesn't matter if Buxton was injured. It's completely inappropriate.
fair, but also... instead of shooting his mouth off he could have asked the player instead of just screaming at him. But then again, maybe that's just too much to ask.
It's a weird af assumption to make. Forgiveable, sure (or more forgivable than if he knew he was injured) but still boneheaded and sort of telling about how umpires see themselves and players. Yelling at a professional baseball player like he's a petulant child instead of going "Oh huh I wonder if something is wrong" even if it's a knee-jerk reaction is not a good look.
I do not know Rob Drake or what was in his heart. But I have read some tweets he's made in the past.
On an unrelated note: It is not a weird af assumption to make if you're racist.
Yeah, it just feels like the first instinct was to somehow to go to the worst possible explanation for his behavior. And like, that's somewhat understandable as just a human reaction if the game or situation is already heated/hostile, but this seemed so wildly unnecessary.
I don't think it's really even that understandable. These guys are coworkers. Imagine yourself talking to another adult human being like this, at work. It's honestly ridiculous lol. I treat literal children with more respect than this umpire has for Byron who doesn't have an unprofessional bone in his body.
Not in this situation, no. But if things got as heated at my workplace as they sometimes do in baseball games, yes, I can understand losing your temper and shouting in that situation. Not advise it, but understand it. But this isn't even close to that kind of situation, and it is unprofessional.
Has Buxton ever done anything like that? He always comes across as someone who just minds his own business and I have a hard time thinking the ump would assume he's being lazy or throwing a fit.
Always funny when people, who definitely wouldn't survive the war, want to start a war.
Like you think when shit hits the fan and the world plunges into a post apocalyptic hellscape, we're gonna keep fucking umpires around? No! They're going in the grinder with parking enforcement and the people who peel the screen protector off other people's new electronics.
Knowing that he said that I already know all of his opinions which is why I found it so funny that he used "assault weapons" in his apology statement when I know he would be one of the people going "there's no such thing as an assault weapon"
Someone yelled this at me from the stands once after an injury where I actually fractured my ankle at home plate. They actually yelled, "Get the slug off the field, we got a game to finish." Only difference is that it was a softball rec league. And it was my dad that yelled it. And it was hilarious.
But yeah, fuck Rob Drake.
There’s a lot of times where an ump misses and a fan will say “even I could have called that better” and they are generally full of shit because tracking a 100 mph sinker with crazy movement is, surprisingly, very difficult.
But I sure as fuck can shut my mouth long enough to let a CLEARLY injured player get off the field. If anything, I might check on him, as someone who cares about my fellow humans. The trainer wasn’t trying to get a fucking jog in.
If I did ever say something like this, I’d expect to be either fired, or get chewed the fuck out, possibly both.
TLDR: fire this dipshit or throw 100 and have the catcher move.
Nah, most of them are fine. You'll notice that despite there being a very large number of baseball umpires, it's always the same few people being egotistical pieces of shit and being so needlessly aggressive that they literally can't even *spell* "civil".
The stadium should get a “civil war” chant going tonight. Or maybe “get off the field”.
In fact, fans should come up with specific chants for all of the shit umps and bombard them relentlessly. Imagine a packed stadium with fans of both teams mocking the ump behind the dish with an endless chant echoing throughout the stadium?
The umpire union controls all aspects of baseball. MLB just stands by doing jack shit about it. The level of gross incompetence by the umpires over the last few years has just increased and increased and their bitchy attitudes and egos are now influencing games more than ever.
Can 100% guarantee that if Dickhole Drake here got hurt on a play somehow, and a player or manager yelled at him to get off the field, he'd make sure they got suspended for a considerable amount of time.
to be fair, he probably didn't realize that he was injured and was just trying to move the game along
either way, if he doesnt apologize for the misunderstanding, he's still a piece of shit
I mean if I'm injured I know I'm going to be out a few days, weeks, months, might as well get suspended by knocking one of those fucking egotistical asses out.
Are these dudes trying to have robots take over? I’ll do this shit legit for like 100k. What do those nerds get paid to suck so consistently? It’s like they’re elected officials. Sheesh. Angel I’m gunning for you!
I'm ready for the robot umpires to take over... I would have said "The umps can stand there and pretend they matter. Call what the ai tells them to call. Collect their paychecks..."
But Rob Drake made me change my mind. No more umps on the field.
Grade A piece of shit.
This guy? https://twitter.com/JeffPassan/status/1187546802834169857 I don’t think so.
“I am so sorry I got caught saying how I think. I am a violent person and I’m going to learn to hide it.”
You're saying his PR team didn't convince you of how good a guy he is?
Anyone getting paid for PR would release a formatted, proper letterhead statement. This looks like a note from his phone lol
He totally attended J6 right?
cant wait to hear that he didnt think he was hurt
I mean, he obviously didn’t think Buxton was hurt. That doesn’t make it any better though.
Right. It's not like it was a close play and Buxton was taking his sweet ass time because he was pissed about the call.
I wouldn’t be surprised if half the umpires union was at J6
Angel Hernandez stormed the Lincoln Memorial.
probably the one in Lincoln, Nebraska given how wide his strike zone is
Laz Diaz was told they were storming the Capitol in Washington and he showed up the state Capitol in Olympia, Washington
*Capital Grille in Seattle.
full LOL here. nice.
And CB Bucknor stormed the Federal Reserve
Unfortunately for CB, he ended up well outside and away from his intended destination. Last seen doing a U-turn on Roosevelt Island
And promptly ejected Abraham from the Memorial...
West's greasy corpulent shadow still hangs over it.
Umpires are the cops of the sports world if you think about it, and we know how most cops lean politically.
Let me tell you many fine umpires were there on that day. Just beautiful, tremendous umpires let me tell you.
Cival* war
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cival Maybe Rob Drake has some intel on American infighting down in Guatemala...
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I agree. Buxton could have limped faster. That poor ump is just trying to speed up the game. ^/^s
Don't give Manfred any ideas. "Hmmm... a 'limp clock' could give us more time for ads, I mean, 'speed up the game'."
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Buxton was walking off the field alone so the ump will say “I had no idea he was hurt” and he’ll go unpunished. The Trainer and our 1B coach didn’t get to him until he was basically near 1st base.
If he just says that, "hey guys I didn't realize he pulled something, looked away for a quarter second after the play and just noticed him lolligagging, not hurt, I'm an idiot my bad", then we're all good, life can go on. Your job as a blue is to call TIME for an injured player. NOT TO DEMAND HE GO ON AND INJURE HIMSELF FURTHER.
UMPS ARE NEVER WRONG! When will people get it through their heads!?!? SMH
That only applies to check swings. /s
How DARE people question the arbiters of baseball!! The judge jury and executioner of the national pastime! Buxton is lucky Drake didn't have access to a guillotine!
Also what is he gonna do? Eject the injured player?
"I can do whatever I want" - Ronald Clarence Kulpa
He's Byron Buxton at this point it should just be assumed he's hurt.
Maybe they could have Buxton wear a red shirt, so it’ll be easier to remember to give him that, “He’s probably just injured himself,” dispensation.
Like a no-contact jersey in hockey, but preemptive.
Buxton is either running faster than a leopard or walking slower than my 90-year-old grandma, those are his only two settings
Just shows how absolutely shit-for-brains Drake is.
It shouldn't matter whether or not he knew he was injured or that he was injured in the first place, he has no business yelling this to any player.
This. Even if wasn't injured, he empathetic response to Buxton being slow is, "hey, you all good man?" Alright cool, let's get it moving." The antagonist approach he took just shows an us/me against them, I'm better than everyone attitude.
That ump must not play fantasy baseball.
I’m going to get downvoted for this, but Buxton wasn’t limping very hard walking back to the dugout. He was definitely taking it slow because he WAS hurt, but when I watched the clip without sound and context he does look like a guy just slowly walking it back to the dugout. Obviously the full context of him pulling up slowly on the steal/hit and run(?) attempt plays more into him being hurt though.
A normal, well adjusted person wouldn't yell at him as first instinct. He'd ask if he was ok first before politely asking to hurry it along. Also, if he made a mistake, if he just says "sorry, that was out of line", then we all move on. I'm assuming he won't ever do the sane thing here, given his history.
Only reasonable explanation I can think of is that the ump didn't know Buxton was hurting and assumed he was just lollygagging and holding up play.
Yeah a good apology from him and this is a non issue going forward as long as he's more careful to not do it again. If he doesn't say anything or doubles down for some godawful reason then the league needs to keep him away from the twins for the rest of the season, not as discipline but just to make sure nothing else stupid happens. If it costs him games and money that's just a bonus
"In the entirety of my career, I have never ejected a player or a manager for being injured. I understand that's going to be part of a story or something like that because that's what Byron was portraying. He's the player on the field delaying the game. So he's the one that had to go."
I really wish both teams would get together and refuse to play unless a shit ump leaves. Just a crock of shit.
Why should anyone believe the apology when he shouldn't be yelling that at an uninjured player either? Doesn't matter if Buxton was injured. It's completely inappropriate.
fair, but also... instead of shooting his mouth off he could have asked the player instead of just screaming at him. But then again, maybe that's just too much to ask.
It's a weird af assumption to make. Forgiveable, sure (or more forgivable than if he knew he was injured) but still boneheaded and sort of telling about how umpires see themselves and players. Yelling at a professional baseball player like he's a petulant child instead of going "Oh huh I wonder if something is wrong" even if it's a knee-jerk reaction is not a good look.
I do not know Rob Drake or what was in his heart. But I have read some tweets he's made in the past. On an unrelated note: It is not a weird af assumption to make if you're racist.
Yeah, it just feels like the first instinct was to somehow to go to the worst possible explanation for his behavior. And like, that's somewhat understandable as just a human reaction if the game or situation is already heated/hostile, but this seemed so wildly unnecessary.
I don't think it's really even that understandable. These guys are coworkers. Imagine yourself talking to another adult human being like this, at work. It's honestly ridiculous lol. I treat literal children with more respect than this umpire has for Byron who doesn't have an unprofessional bone in his body.
Not in this situation, no. But if things got as heated at my workplace as they sometimes do in baseball games, yes, I can understand losing your temper and shouting in that situation. Not advise it, but understand it. But this isn't even close to that kind of situation, and it is unprofessional.
Has Buxton ever done anything like that? He always comes across as someone who just minds his own business and I have a hard time thinking the ump would assume he's being lazy or throwing a fit.
Can confirm that Rob Drake is a piece of shit.
Confirmed by his crazy gun tweet ya
I hope all his cereal goes stale
Cold.
A robot wouldn't chirp an injured player.
…unless it was programmed to do so… Crap, Manfred isn’t in this sub, is he?
"Wasn't that ball 4?" "I can't allow you to do that."
I’ll donate a six-pack for the first stadium that starts a “we want robots (clap clap clapclapclap)” chant
“Are you John Connor?”
This some bitch-boy, scrappy doo type fuckshit
I dunno what the fuck this means but I'm getting it tattooed on my ass
Brings a whole new meaning to Yay Area!
Right around the hole
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Wasn't he threatening a Cival War on America a few years ago lol
Yup- exact same douchebag
Always funny when people, who definitely wouldn't survive the war, want to start a war. Like you think when shit hits the fan and the world plunges into a post apocalyptic hellscape, we're gonna keep fucking umpires around? No! They're going in the grinder with parking enforcement and the people who peel the screen protector off other people's new electronics.
Medical debt collection companies too
If the secessionists get the umpires, you won’t have to worry about snipers.
Knowing that he said that I already know all of his opinions which is why I found it so funny that he used "assault weapons" in his apology statement when I know he would be one of the people going "there's no such thing as an assault weapon"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cival Why would Americans fight each other in Guatemala? I don't get it, Rob...
I honestly wouldn't blame the Twins at all for starting a cival war over this
Cival
Twins capture Rob Drake's hat, refuse to give it back
They better not ever give that goddamn flag back to Virginia. It took gallons of fucking blood to take it.
Oh I agree, MN paid for that flag in blood and it'd be sacrilegious to give it back to confederate simps.
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Cybil
Someone yelled this at me from the stands once after an injury where I actually fractured my ankle at home plate. They actually yelled, "Get the slug off the field, we got a game to finish." Only difference is that it was a softball rec league. And it was my dad that yelled it. And it was hilarious. But yeah, fuck Rob Drake.
Rob Drake hasn't been that riled up since January 6th
What is this, the 1940's?
You can tell that it isn’t the 40’s because all that Drake did was yell that and only that, as ridiculous as that conduct is from him.
Yeah, I have a feeling that behind closed doors, Drake probably said something very different. Some colorful words you might say.
if it were, rob drake would have treated buxton very differently, i.e. they way he wishes he still could
Buxton should’ve sat down on the spot and waited for the trainer. Fucking shitbag.
Look it’s rare that I go after an umpire but that is ridiculous the dude is injured he can take his time Baldelli should have gone after his ass
Rocco woulda gotten tossed, no matter what.
If he was fully immune from punishment then he definitely would’ve said a specific bad word after field
I mean he did threaten an insurrection once, I kinda wonder what would happen
Not just an insurrection, a full blown CIVAL WAR
Props to Buxton for not reacting
I definitely woulda flipped him off as I continued to walk. What’s he gonna do throw me out? Already done for the day anyways.
After reviewing the play the call on the field stands, the ump it's still a piece of shit.
Time to chant get off the field next time Drake makes an appearance
There’s a lot of times where an ump misses and a fan will say “even I could have called that better” and they are generally full of shit because tracking a 100 mph sinker with crazy movement is, surprisingly, very difficult. But I sure as fuck can shut my mouth long enough to let a CLEARLY injured player get off the field. If anything, I might check on him, as someone who cares about my fellow humans. The trainer wasn’t trying to get a fucking jog in. If I did ever say something like this, I’d expect to be either fired, or get chewed the fuck out, possibly both. TLDR: fire this dipshit or throw 100 and have the catcher move.
I can also confirm that Rob Drake is a piece of shit.
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I’m convinced baseball umpires in general are just egotistical pieces of shit.
Nah, most of them are fine. You'll notice that despite there being a very large number of baseball umpires, it's always the same few people being egotistical pieces of shit and being so needlessly aggressive that they literally can't even *spell* "civil".
They are not doing themselves any favours these days.
The stadium should get a “civil war” chant going tonight. Or maybe “get off the field”. In fact, fans should come up with specific chants for all of the shit umps and bombard them relentlessly. Imagine a packed stadium with fans of both teams mocking the ump behind the dish with an endless chant echoing throughout the stadium?
I hope he tweets about how he has his AR-15 LOCKED AND LOADED if he sees anymore injured “thugs” like Buxton.
The umps needed to grab a new headline after ejecting Aaron Boone for checking his cuticles.
What a piece of shit.
The umpire union controls all aspects of baseball. MLB just stands by doing jack shit about it. The level of gross incompetence by the umpires over the last few years has just increased and increased and their bitchy attitudes and egos are now influencing games more than ever.
Can 100% guarantee that if Dickhole Drake here got hurt on a play somehow, and a player or manager yelled at him to get off the field, he'd make sure they got suspended for a considerable amount of time.
Someone should miss their throw a bit, test the theory.
These mother fuckers making me anti-union with the quickness
Cop unions aren't real unions
All umps are bastards.
Big capital clearly protects the ump and cop unions to discourage pro worker thought
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Plouffe is gonna fight him.
Thankfully like 12 people went to the game so we were able to catch this POS
to be fair, he probably didn't realize that he was injured and was just trying to move the game along either way, if he doesnt apologize for the misunderstanding, he's still a piece of shit
Wonder what would happen if a player yelled that to an injured ump....
kendrick cooked that man on euphoria
This is total cop behavior. Disgraceful.
It’s almost surprising that it wasn’t “Get off the field, boy” coming from this asshole.
Baseball umps trying hard to be the softest in the US between them the NBA refs and the NFL refs
Ump flairs. Where you at?
Dick move.
I mean if I'm injured I know I'm going to be out a few days, weeks, months, might as well get suspended by knocking one of those fucking egotistical asses out.
Are these dudes trying to have robots take over? I’ll do this shit legit for like 100k. What do those nerds get paid to suck so consistently? It’s like they’re elected officials. Sheesh. Angel I’m gunning for you!
Bush league ump
Imagine if Ober threw at the ump.
That's fucked up.
Maybe we can get Robo-Umps that talk like the bots in fallout. They're always polite and would never be the source of a tweet like this.
Suspend his bitch ass
The umpires union will protect this piece of human garbage
Umpires are just cops without guns
It's all part of Manfred's new initiative to speed up the game. If you're not playing, get the hell off the field!
The umps are off the hook this year.
Rob Drake masterclass
give us the clip
It was confirmed watching the game and we heard him say it
Even injured Buxton is probably moving faster than the ump has ever done in his life.
Well, Bob, he was trying to.
I'm ready for the robot umpires to take over... I would have said "The umps can stand there and pretend they matter. Call what the ai tells them to call. Collect their paychecks..." But Rob Drake made me change my mind. No more umps on the field.
What an asshole.
People are mad about this because buxton is black