Brett Gardner Was Hilariously Ejected Last Night While Not Saying One Word And Then Proceeded To Lose His Fucking Mind
Last night in the 4th inning of a 3-0 ball game, a few Yankees began chirping home plate umpire Chris Siegel because his zone was utter dog shit. Boone said some things. Maybin said some things. Brett Gardner said nothing. Not one word, as he would repeat. All he did was bang his bat against the top of the dugout, a move that has become synonymous with him as he lets out anger. Chris Siegel had enough of these side comments, looked in the dugout, saw Brett Gardner’s enormous bald head and tossed him. That’s exactly how this went down. Siegel tossed out the wrong guy. It was legit impossible for him to be hearing the chirping and know who was saying it from that far away without looking. If you’re going to eject someone you have to be sure who you’re ejecting. That’s kinda ejecting 101 no? Imagine this happened in the playoffs?
Boone immediately came out to find out who was thrown out because he was genuinely curious. Was it him or Maybin? Nope, it was Gardy. You can see the utter shock Gardner has the moment he discovers he has to hit the showers. I mean he legit didn’t say anything. He was probably thinking a few things, but I’m willing to bet Siegel does not have telepathic powers, and if he does we need him in an Area 51 lab ASAP. Gardy, rightfully so, proceeded to lose his fucking mind.
Boone found himself in a fight with Gardner to prevent him from ripping Siegel’s head off. This wasn’t just an NBA “hold me back” situation. Gardner wanted blood. Boone had to exert all of the force in his body to stop the bald man from committing murder. Tauchman looked on, unsure of what to do because that’s perfect Tauchman for you. After a few attempts to get away Gardner walked off, furious.
After the Yankees 8-2 loss, snapping their 9 game winning streak, Gardner let loose on the media. He hilariously called Siegel a liar and didn’t care one bit about receiving an apology or any future words, for that matter, from the home plate ump.
I wish we could get umpire interviews after the game. Hey pal, you know you ejected the wrong person right? Run me through that reasoning. Hold them accountable for being terrible at their job.
I love Gardner’s main reasoning for being pissed about the ejection. It forced Aaron Judge, a man struggling badly at the plate of late, to come into the game on his scheduled off-day. Judge needed a full day off to reset. Instead he had to come into the game in the 4th and went on to strike out twice. Now do you give him Saturday off? I think I would. The guy needs a mental break. He won’t physically be 100% the rest of the way because of how bad the oblique injury was, but still Judge at 80% isn’t like this. He’s lost at the plate. Zero approach. Zero confidence. He’ll come around, but give him his time to do that if you’re getting on the big guy right now. He’ll be fine.
As for the game, it really ended the moment LeMahieu lost that foul ball in the lights/roof. Immediately after came the 3 run homer to make it 6-1. Just a meh game. They had to lose some time right? Happ stinks. We knew that. I’ll never trust him in October and not much can change that at this point. Bullpen game today, let’s get back on track.
P.S. This ejection reminded me of Tim Duncan getting tossed by Joey Crawford for laughing.
