E95 - David Bell Ejected After Running Todd Tichenor's Stop Sign Warning Over Balls and Strikes

[@theadamweissbergershow1441]

Lindsay doing her best Jomboy on the lip reading.. I think she did a great job!

[@kinkaid7477]

I was thinking the same thing, lol.

[@donaldthomas7070]

While scrupulously paraphrasing the profanity.

[@Renegade605]

I actually find it harder to decide a swing in slow motion. There's too much desire to pay attention to how far the bat goes and nothing else but since that doesn't matter I feel better off with real time to judge the batter's intent.

[@TPinesGold]

My favorite when I used to umpire. Catcher sets up outside the Zone on the horizontal and the pitcher Nails the Target and I call it a ball. Looks perfect from the dugout.

[@ronpeacock9939]

I was actually taught to call that pitch.. never did because I knew it was off the plate (in a few cases.. by a foot) but their attitude.. Hey, he hit the target- reward him.... No.. the zone is over here.. not my fault the catcher put up a faulty target.. But yeah, I see that all the time and hear it... don't care.. Not calling that pitch in the batters boxes just because F2 set up there.

[@teebob21]

​@@ronpeacock993917 inches. The plate is 17 inches wide, and if the pitcher can't hit it, do we reward him? No! We send him down to Toledo.

[@JoeyD_AU98]

As a pitcher in the 90’s I was taught an 0-2 pitch should be 6 inches off the plate. Only once did I get that call and I was perfectly fine with that. My coach knew it too and didn’t expect that call.

[@ronpeacock9939]

@@JoeyD_AU98 I believe that fully.. an 0-2 pitch should NEVER be thrown in the zone... but a good slider that ends up off the plate by 6" can induce a swing and miss.. which is the real object of an 0-2 pitch..

[@1969EType]

I don’t understand umpires who will “reward” a pitcher for “hitting his spot” when the pitch is not a strike. I call the pitch to the zone. What the catcher does is immaterial. Including if he drops it. Strikes and outs get us home. A pitch is a strike…until it isn’t. Why? Because that is what the rulebook says. Nowhere does it say the umpire can expand the zone for a pitcher hitting his spot. Nowhere does it say a pitch is not a strike if dropped by the catcher. If the rules are ever rewritten to reflect that? I’ll call it that way.

[@Thirdbase9]

I do like the Umpire holding his hand out and straight up. Everyone can see that and it's a very definitive sign for the person to STOP. No did he or didn't he.

[@robertmcnearny9222]

I do tire of players and managers behaving like 2 year olds who didn't get the piece of candy at the grocery store.

[@closethockeyfan5284]

Right? Pretty damning of our culture when those are largely viewed as the "justified good guys with a gripe"

[@caras2004]

When Bell starts chasing after an ejection, start The Benny Hill Show Theme

[@dougr188]

David Bell is the Bryce Harper of managers.

[@RWtheCarGuy2024]

He’s been thrown out twice in the span of 8 days

[@1969EType]

Very well said…all bark from both and ZERO rings. Zero rings.

[@foley256]

Classless

[@Saltcracker007]

Gettin his moneys worth😂 That always cracks me up !

[@mikeprevost8650]

Baseball has always been a game of announcer cliches, and this one is especially stale and overused.

[@Stormsfury777]

Not used to saying this but 4 consecutive correct calls leading to this ejection...

[@mikeprevost8650]

And of course, Bell thinks that he has a better gauge of the strike zone from the first base dugout, lol. Especially outside pitches to a LH batter. 🙄

[@anthonyvega-fujioka4464]

The crew chief did warn him and told him to stop. And ignoring the crew chief’s warning is the definition of a death wish. Not only that, those pitches were the correct calls.

[@DJTexan]

Wasn’t the crew chief. That was the one that made him spin 360.

[@anthonyvega-fujioka4464]

@@DJTexan, Todd Tichenor is actually the crew chief.

[@DJTexan]

@@anthonyvega-fujioka4464 Well then he shouldn’t have had a second umpire double team Bell.

[@PapaVanTwee5]

Why are you kicking me out? The rules. **RAGE MODE ENSUES**

[@vincentwendt720]

Does Bell ever heed a warning to stop arguing? Maybe he does, but it doesn't seem like it. He seems to get set off really easily.

[@KorpseTE]

He gets a stop sign clearly visible from the dugout unless you can't see home plate from the Reds home dugout.

[@SOXGATORS]

2:48 😂

[@jimtoms7591]

Another David Bell ejection? (applies shocked face) 🙄

[@MwD676]

Can we get data on the 3-2 pitch to Devers that started the 4th inning?? I think that’s when the issue started, even though the rest of the pitches were called accurately.

[@holmj12]

2:30 the third pitch or ball 1 is barely on the screen peaking out in the bottom left corner

[@AFKAJabroniJabberBrody]

Did he get the stop sign after asking was that outside? If he did, that's a quick stop sign. Maybe its because I am a hockey ref as well but i feel like umpires as a whole are way quicker to run someone than in hockey.

[@teebob21]

Hockey has penalty box options. Baseball just was warnings and ejections.

[@AFKAJabroniJabberBrody]

​@teebob21 I was more referring to the language used between a coach and a official. You rarely ever see bench minors for swearing at an official let alone a game misconduct

[@juan833blue]

David Bell is a Cry Baby!! The Reds need a better Manager than that.

[@nwbluezebra]

David Bell is such a baby. Quit following the umpire around like a child and just get off the field.

[@rayray4192]

Little Davey is a petulant child.

[@ronpeacock9939]

I still think that when the manager is EJ'd, the pitch clock should start immediately.. and if that team is at bat.. strikes every 8 seconds or balls if the defence every 8 seconds.. I bet they'll get out of there once they are told they are no longer needed.

[@vincentwendt720]

He likes to do that for some reason. I seem him do that almost every time he gets ejected.

[@vincentwendt720]

@@ronpeacock9939 College has a rule that prolonged arguing like this would cause a two game suspension to be added to the ejection. It may not be a bad idea for MLB to consider that.

[@ronpeacock9939]

@@vincentwendt720 That and many lower level rulespec's also suspend for 1 game for every EJ.. that would shut players down from starting the crap..

[@AHeadlessChicken2008]

Sound messed up for anyone else?

[@Ghostrider6A]

1:50 Send this video to Stanley Roberts as David Bell was caught behaving badly, er, I mean caught misbehaving. (I saw the KRON video at that time indicated.)

[@jametz66]

Dude needs medication!

[@NarcissisticTree]

I got no swing

[@donaldthomas7070]

Lin, you're getting the lip-reading down as well as Jomboy, but also (unlike him) keeping it at a PG level.

[@garygemmell3488]

I wonder if these clowns pretending to be MLB managers ever review the numbers and come to realize that they are wrong about 75% of the time when it comes to balls and strikes. Then again, it all comes under the insane heading of "protecting\fighting for your team", so they just chug another shot of whisky and convince themselves they were right.

[@mattgoldberg4335]

Seemed liked a worthy ejection -- umps were fine here. I'm not sure why the foul ball had to be explained, as it wasn't too unusual.

[@doohuh]

If Bell didn't have an audience he wouldn't act like this. Such a drama queen

[@justinbuford4416]

I swear, Bell is getting just about as bad as Aaron Boone.

[@mbdg6810]

Bell is way worse. Boone does it to protect his player. Bell basically harasses umpires.

[@griffenberg]

Boone is actually correct every now and then I have yet to see Bell be correct about anything he complains about. But yeah they are still the 2 worst managers in baseball

[@DJTexan]

Boone got ejected for saying nothing. The umpires are bad.

[@justinbuford4416]

@@DJTexan that happened one time...

[@mikeprevost8650]

@@mbdg6810 Weaver did it to harass umpires too, but he also won 4 pennants, several other ALCS, and a WS. What's Bell won?

[@davidswift7776]

Reds were horrible fundamentally. David Bell is a lunatic, I’m shocked he hasn’t been fired. Tied Sparky for all time Reds ejections.. and that’s with the replay Sparky never had 🤪

[@GavinKeough-n1c]

He’s a bad manager anyway. He is Aaron Boone of the NL and that’s not saying much.

[@BasilRüegg]

Bell is a shame. Not a good example for the kids.

[@ME-im3ui]

You hate david bell it's hilarious

[@Johnny-Michael]

David Bell was unhappy with a ball call on a strike 3 call that led to a 2 run homer earlier in the game! This video is a half-truth.

[@DStew88]

For real. Definitley missed some context here

[@MwD676]

Missed call is ball 4 instead of strike 3. So missed call lead to a base runner. (Devers scored on the home run by Wong.) The call did not directly lead to the home run by the next batter. But after a double and then another walk, Bell decided to complain his pitcher back to effectiveness.

[@austin.draude]

Here's the whole truth: David Bell looks like an idiot when he argues with the umpires. Get off the field.

[@mptr1783]

David Bell continues to show what a clown really is

[@mauriel133]

Bell wasn't complaining about these two pitches shown in this video, but ones before that at bat...

[@timothystamm3200]

Okay, you want to tell us which?

[@davidschantz5363]

Bell is a drama queen.