He probably said - How DARE you call me out for slacking when I was slacking!

"You try to play the angles off of those outfield walls!" That would be my retort.

BJ was one of the worst cancers to ever play.

@@bigtalk2598 that was my first thought, didn't want to get too close and commit not knowing where the ball was going to bounce, but then after it bounced he still didn't try lol

"You only yelling cause im black!"

He caught it in the heal and it bounced a little bit stuck so he got away w the non-chalant.

He said that was pretty cool. But he thought about letting it drop because they didn't call the infield fly and he thought he could get two

You’re exactly right. That was one of my favorite plays of all time

@@barbaryn7899definitely could’ve nobody moved easy turn

@@AMWOLsame lol

That was one hell of a blown call.

@@TheDogGoesWoof69 Bold of you to admit being a scumbag.

Did you just say "cover my basis" on a baseball video?

doesn't matter. the play was live, you don't just quit while runners are advancing and scoring lmao. he gets paid millions to do a job and he declined to do it. sure he probably got fined like $100K for this little stunt. Still an overpaid "athlete"

That’s fine for the first run but two is absurd

Didn’t ever get through though. Those people are taught nothing is their fault and they’re poor wittle oppressed babies from birth. So they don’t have to try hard or hustle.

Major League baseball has NOTHING to do with fair play and competition. It's all about entertainment and profits.

@@tjmmcd1 if you’ve ever watched NBA you’d realize how ridiculous that is. MLB is as pure and clean as fresh snow compared to other sports

@@zingamaxkettlesteinjudaism6069 By officiating, or in general? Salary caps would say otherwise

BJ was a waste of talent

@@shellac23yeah.. basically. He had one good year.. If I’m correct?

Because its racist to confront black people about anything they dont like

He was pissed because he got called out, and has a 0 accountability attitude. So he saw being called out as an insult, even though it was 100% on point by longoria that he was phoning it in. And in a tie game no less. As darryl strawberry said in the simpsons. "Some of these guys got a bad attitude skip"

@@braddorcas9363 Longoria could’ve told him to go shove a shovel up his arse and BJ shouldn’t be able to complain after that play. I think hustle shows a lot about the player imo

He had money on that game lol

Saturday morning cartoons? It sure as hell wasn't the game.

If I were manager I would have insta-benched his ass

Notice how he became more aggressive after dude came to hold him back 😂 he really didn’t want any smoke, tough guy act

Because you don't know anything about playing outfield. With those crazy corners, he has to anticipate which way the ball will carom. Overrun and overplay it, and it's an inside the park home run. Don't second guess elite athletes. He actually should be commended for his approach to this ball. Held him to a triple, not a HR on a bad carom.

@@bigtalk2598he was jogging while the ball was rolling, it wasn’t anywhere near the wall yet

@@Dsorg28 Not denying he could have pursued it a little better, but it’s nothing like not running out a batted ball or arguing with the umps while runners round the bases and score. Worst case scenario, he played a double into a triple. Best case scenario, he prevented a triple from being an HR. Certainly not the worst offense in baseball history.

@@bigtalk2598what a load of crap that is

​@@bigtalk2598 hahahahaha if he sprints to the ball, he gets it before the carom even happens. Also, the carom was tiny and he had every reason to know that it would be tiny. Your brain is off if you think that wasn't sheer laziness.

the yankess dropped the ball, ok, then they just stood there until the left fielder ran in and picked up the ball that was 3 ft behind them. superstars being assholes.

The guy is one of the most overrated jokers to ever play.

Could have easily been a great but just wanted a paycheck instead

Just think of all the guys who played with heart whom he beat out with his waste of natural talent.

@@KBP120 Lifetime .240 hitter who was making 14 mill a year. Holy cow.

@@timb4248reminds me of Byron Buxton. Not in the attitude, Byron is a lot nicer… but being overrated and overpaid because of reasons… which let’s just call it like it is, MLB loves to promote certain demographics that aren’t represented enough in baseball. Almost all of them are overpaid and overrated recently. Jazz Chisholm is another that comes to mind.

There is a play that would qualify, but it isn't here.

Garrett Anderson made a career out that type of effort claiming he didn't want to "get out of control" by "leaving his feet" so we got over a decade of "Jogging G" out there.

Sometimes guys make their money and just want to retire. It is what it is. And it's pretty easy to do when teams just throw millions at you

He was probably mad all the time because everyone didn't acknowledge his greatness.

@@0tt0z He was out there for 14 season and not one glove glove vote. He was a loaf

Says another person who never played outfield on a field with oblique angles on the outfield fence.

​@@bigtalk2598wut? That has absolutely nothing to do with Upton's lack of effort retrieving the ball.

@@Fools_Requiem it literally did lol he didn't want to over-run the ball. ya damn scrub

Yeah. Definitly worthy of the blooper reel but it wasn't lazy

Wrong! You run out every hit no matter what. You learn that in little league.

@TimCarter even when you're out which he thought he already was

@@blazingbattlehawk9626 he thought wrong, so unless you know for sure, yes.

​@@TimCarterDid you even play little league? It's a natural reaction to stop running if you think your line drive is caught by an infielder. You're taught to run out ground balls, not line drives. Lol

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/n5uKdpZ0tNW0fIU.html That kind of stuff pisses me off.

Funny how that play exists and the two that make it in aren't him putting a bad effort.

@@generatorx That's fucking hilarious!!!

5-7-3, the third baseman touched it

I once did a 7-5-4-1-3-6-7

​@@wilburwood8261I once counted down from 10. Then I came.

Yes it was lazy. You learn in little league to run out every hit.

And Casey was slow as molasses. Perfect storm of "oops".

@@TimCarteryeah but he thought it was already caught so there was no point

Tim only played little league@@jacklaker1939

no, YOU are missing the point. you run until you know the play is over. the play wasn't over, but yet he did in fact cease to run. this is pretty straightforward. if he had been running, he would presumably made it to the base before the outfielder could return the ball all the way to first base. hence why you typically run after hitting the ball into fair territory. at least most major league players do. @@jacklaker1939

That was ARod's ball. Right at him. Jeter kept the shortstop role even though ARod was the better shortstop, then botched this play and stared him down behind his back. Nobody notices because Jeter's the handsome one and ARod is a hated grotesque.

Right on, was gonna say first Jeter takes A-Rod's position at SS, and then Jeter tries to cover 3rd base too anyway. Poor A-Rod probably just wanted some space to himself. The chemistry of those two was something.

@@user-of9qq6op5u Um, Jeter (the SS) obviously called for it, at which point A-Rod (the 3B) was obligated to get out of the way. Baseball 101.

even when the ball was hit right to 3B? A Rod didnt chase the ball down, it was hit right to him. Im not getting out of my area just so another guy can run into my area to catch it. @@norwegianblue2764

​@@user-of9qq6op5u If the SS calls for a ball it's his ball, period. The SS is the captain of the infield and gets to make that call. A-Rod's job on that play was to get out of the way.

And the crowd goes wild: yaaaaaay.

That psychopathic apathy.

@@johnrotten3268 he gets paid millions to catch that little ball

@@Vicman006 , the runner was left of the base path. I've seen many other runners called out for interference.

Yeah, if the throw hits a part of the B/R that is left off the line, which in this case was his entire body, it’s interference. B/R is out, dead ball, runners return to bases.

😂😂😂​@@JohnM3665570

The runner was running out of the base path, however the ball doesn't hit the runner until Fryman's foot is touching first base. At that point it doesn't matter where he was running; he's safe.

You still don't start arguing while runners are circling the bases. I mean 2 runs scored on that play.

@@Rockhound6165 Those 2 runs shouldn't have counted, that ump was obviously corrupt or something cause the 1st baseman tapped the bag and took his leg of it before the runner even reached the bag, there is no way you call that safe unless you are just cheating.

@@Rockhound6165 if that play wasn't reversed, the team should have just walked off the field and called out MLB to fire those Umps.

@@tomatoisnotafruit5670 shouldn't have but they did. You simply can't allow 2 runs to score because you're whining to the umpire.

@@tomatoisnotafruit5670 so in other words act like a bunch of babies because of a bang bang play. Yeah, real professional. I bet you're the type who flips the table when you're losing a board game.

Knoblauch means garlic in german!

@@spirou2012 Knoblauch means 4 rings, 4 all star games, a gold glove, and a Rookie of the Year in Baseball. Great player in his day - mental lapses notwithstanding.

And so his "hustle", or lack of it, meant what? Absolutely nothing. In my opinion, he was checking up to read the carom off of the oblique walls in the outfield, hopefully preventing an inside the park home run by overplaying the ball. Too fast of a pursuit, too close to the carom, missing it means an automatic HR. Played it conservatively, held him to a triple. Blame the pitcher for the gap shot and the two run homer and the loss.

@@bigtalk2598 It was somewhat of an interesting game in general (at least according to the box score). Wade Davis went 7.1 for the Rays but still wound up with the L thanks to the two run shot. Up to the 5th he had been somewhat dealing with only 3 baserunners allowed. He led off the inning with a swinging K by Adam Laroche, but then gave up the hit to Ryal and the rest is history. In the grand scheme of things this game didn’t matter much as the Rays won the division that year and the Dbacks were last.

@@bigtalk2598 there are times when an outfielder may want to play a ball conservatively so as to not have it carom back past him. this was most certainly not one of those times. that ball was clearly past him and rolling into the corner. he just didn't want to strain himself. he was being lazy. we are essentially giving him the benefit of the doubt and calling it laziness. because if he had in fact misread that ball so badly as to think the proper play was to slow down, then that is actually way worse than one fluke instance of laziness as it would show him to be a far inferior outfielder. so any Upton fans, if such a thing exists, should all be agreeing that it was laziness and not a total lack of awareness of how to play his position

I didn't feel like that was laziness, just a brain fart

Alot of the issue was he thought the Shortstop caught it, and didn't run, until he realized the ball was still live.

Larry Walker used to throw runners out from right field at first base.

and dude's a left handed batter. lol

This exact same logic for everyone of those video's and people yelling at/fighting with cops. If you want to fight the charge, take it to court, right now isn't the time.

@@GeorgeOrwell-tp8dw 100% this. You can either keep cool and make the cop look like an asshole in court or be an idiot and look like an asshole in court.

In my opinion, that last call was so bad it deserved to be called out instantly. There's no way in hell you should have to put up with a bullshit play.

Ikr I got yelled at for not running full speed when I hit a little pop out to the first baseman

the Cone play or the missed runner interference call?

😂

That call WAS pretty astounding

For some reason the baseball gods blessed him with a first half where he hit .273/.320/.535 with 23 dingers and 8 stolen bases.

@@sethadamson2395 talk about a bust. I wonder who we missed out on because they didn't want to part with Brown.

Not to nit pick but Entertainment & Leisure Activities have always been essential in any first world civilization. Otherwise the population goes insane like in commie countries. That being said, they should absolutely give 100%

he just literally can't give more effort without getting hurt. He doesn't run 100%, not due to lack of effort, but due to a business decision to not risk injury. It's pathetic to watch, in all honesty. Drives me nuts Lost a ton of weight this off-season though, in order to combat his injury-prone nature, so hopefully that'll improve his running a bit

He's just that slow now

@@voncornhole He can't be THAT slow. He's always been a ridiculous athlete - never a bolter on the basepaths, but Stanton had passable speed when he was younger. With such a massive build and inclination towards injury, he clearly tried to take it easier on his body, especially with running, for the sake of availability (last season). I agree with that decision, although his speed is 100% embarrassing and an issue (and his range defensively) Given how he slimmed down and performed towards the end of spring training, hopefully both his speed, defense, and injuries are less of an issue this year. Truly one of the only players in baseball where I think losing weight is a (potentially very) good thing, because it's not like it'll be a big sacrifice in terms of power ---- whether you're 6'6 230lbs or 6'6 245 lbs - you're a strong MF! What I love most - even towards the end of his career, with tens of millions of dollars guaranteed and 5 All-Stars under his belt, he still really cares about performing, being available, and winning. Would love to see him bounce back this year

And paints his nails. Who gives a shit about that freak weirdo

BTW notice how every single veteran infielder, at the same time and with zero hesitation or coordination between them, instantly signaled that that should have been called interference.

@@jhanks2012 I think the rule wasn't enforced for a long time. Recently it's being enforced, but not as much in the early 2000s. Glad it is enforced now though so there are fewer cheap errors.