Earl Weaver argues with Umpire Bill Haller in 1980 at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore. 

They’re smiling up at us, having another argument for ol time’s sake.

"YOU FUCKED US EVEN IN THE AFTERLIFE, BILL!" "Awwww, yer full o' shit, Earl."

RIP Both of them.

These were two good men. Earl was a fierce competitor. God how I wish they look at an appreciate this as they're having a cold one in heaven.

I'm sure they shook hands and made up in God's house.

Before umpiring ken was a pro wrestler fun facts

Ken Kaiser was from Rochester, NY. He was a total a-hole

That's a good one.Never heard that.LOL.

If that’s the case, I nominate angel Hernandez for president

@@HipsterDoofus100 Forget it. He'd be ejecting everybody. 😆😆😆😆😆😆

I’m a baseball novice & just now heard about Earl weaver & his infamous fight. I watched this for the 1st time with the sound •off•. It looked like Earl was an old woman wagging his finger & ranting while the umpire was just an old henpecked guy trying to avoid “the crazy” ! Lol 😂

Big Bill has the patience of a fucking Buddhist monk here.

Are you kidding? Obviously the highlight is "What are they gonna put you in the Hall of Fame for? For fucking up World Series'?" Absolutely savage.

Bill Haller is a good friend of mine n is retired in the Vandalia IL area! Bill is a modest n down to earth person! He is all about his fellow Veterans, besides telling some great MLB stories! 😜

@@lucken13 that is awesome!! 😎

I'm not sure if this is the same incident, but there was one instance of one of his pitchers getting called for a balk and as Earl ran out, he asked the guy, "Did you balk?" and he said, "Yes." That didn't stop him from doing another violent argument with the umpire who called it.

​@@pronkb000 That would happen to be this exchange.

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I noticed from the scoreboard in the background and the time displayed on it. Lol.

@@pronkb000 this is the incident 😊

He had practiced that one. Created just for Earl I bet.

That was one hell of a sell

What's even funnier is that the Ken Burns documentary did a segment on Weaver, which showed this fight. On the "Boom!" part, you hear a boxing bell ding immediately after it. 😂

Is this true that he just passed away?

But he was there just to fuck Earl Weaver and the O's.

@@DavidSilva-fq7nt yes.

That was enjoyable between those two.

Was a great friend to my aunt as well. Bill was a great man.

The funniest line which is not on this particular video was when Rick Dempsey asks Kaiser just as it ends, "did he get thrown out?"

@@Dana-wq5tp not sure how Rick could have missed Haller's ejection move. If he wasn't looking he surely heard, "BOOM".

The games never ended for Earl. Different era. Labor of love and umps were in the way.

I saw a very similar situation where Bobby Cox was ejected in the first inning for arguing a balk call against Greg Maddux.

What team did YOU like??

@@Getrealpeeps probably a Dodgers fan 🫣

You’re a Phillies fan. There’s some who live in O’s county.

He knew he was mic'd. He's a fraud.

Yes. He tried to set up Earl & only served his pompous self on a platter as a foil. Oh, he did get one thing right: Earl is in the HOF.

Earl and Haller went way back to the beginning of Weaver's managerial career. This was hardly the first argument they ever had. What's funny to me is how he never calls Earl by his last name. Like they're family relatives that can't get along. And on a side note- the funniest part of this video was cut off at the end when Rick Dempsey says to Ken Kaiser, "did he get thrown out?" (LOL)

I come back to this when I need a good laugh. Not of derision, but of delight.

Earl liked to get his rants in as soon as possible.

I don’t think Earl even mentioned the balk call. Maybe he had some place he had to be.

@@johncronin9540 he may have also wanted to keep Eddie Murray from getting ejected. But that too.

That has to be a record for the earliest ejection!

that's why Earl was so calm

The Ripken run was great to follow. What a gentleman. That’s coming from a NYer. Gave class to back Baseball.

Well guess what cutie your around for my days .u wanna go to the strip club .

I was & it was wonderful

Are u a cop?

@@timmyfay4187 What an odd question. Irrelevant and odd.

@@venisin Are you a cop?

@@Thomas-fk3cw Nope. You?

@@venisin I may or may not be a cop. Can't disclose.

I think everyone would

Except of course Earl sailed right into the HOF, in Cooperstown. His 1-3 WS record not his best, but the one, plus the overall record, meant he was in fact a sure thing. Wonder if Haller attended the ceremony? Weave did admit umps are usually good. Audience roared at his self-aware humor. Epic.

It was good quality video for the time. Not HD though. There was no such thing in 1980.

This is how men argue and it’s not pretty 😂

I’m still bitter about the 79 collapse.

Must have been a painful thing to hear, considering the Orioles had a 3-1 lead in the series.

That is an absolutely savage line. So quick on his feet.

Savage enough to be true. Earl is in the HOF. Self-own (preplanned) by sneaky ump.

Yes

Lou pinella in Seattle with his hat

HA…..BOOM!

If you're gonna toss the manager make it fun. lol Bill and Earl argued a lot so it was more in jest more than anything.

@@LinkRocks I don't know about that, from what I've read and heard, they really couldn't stand each other. Not that Earl ever had a lot of affection for any umpire.

His other gem here: Earl's ranting about calling the league office and demanding that Haller never work O's games, and Haller's reply was perfect--"what do I care?"

That hit him where he lived.

Well his plaque lives in Cooperstown, so yes, Earl did make the HOF. Another great call by Haller. Got it right in spite of himself.

And to think these modern Sabre metrics nerds want to get rid of these interactions for robots. No thank you. These fucking kids ruin everything

@@Furry67… in cooperstown?

Haller was a pretty good hitter with the Giants. i heard he was a jerk as GM or other executive. Frank Robinson kind of trashed him in his book Extra Innings

I think Rawlings once sold an autographed Tom Halker model. At here’s mitt. I had such a thing in my youth.

Tom Haller was a Tiger for one year. Supposedly that's when Weaver developed a grudge for Bill Haller, as Earl thought he was screwing them in favor of their AL East rivals.

@@jimwerther thanks I didn’t know Haller played for Tigers briefly in 72. but now I can see how the problem started. He should not have been allowed to do a game that his brother played in.

@@loyaldude10 Agreed. But it would be far easier for MLB to figure it out now, as they could rotate that umpiring crew to the NL. Not an option back then.

Pride and ego on the line. lol

So, why is crap like this tolerated in baseball

@@erose964 It's not anymore. Angel Hernandez and the rest of the merry little men of modern umpiring have seen to that. Watch some Jomboy clips of umpires not taking this shit anymore. XD LOL

@@BigBlack81 What do you mean, "taking this shit?" He threw weaver out 6 seconds after he opened his mouth.

That's because the call didn't matter. What mattered was team morale... so Earl hauls out of the dugout to put on some gorilla theater for the fans and the team. He's out there fussing at the ump for them... Instead of thinking about the balk, or thinking, "Damn... what ELSE is gonna go wrong?" Everyone's drawn into this animated back and forth between the ump and the manager. Usually, nobody by the people closest to the ump and the manager can hear what's being said anyway. Never in the history of the game, was a call made by an ump, ever changed, because players or managers threw a fit about it. NEVER. Everyone involved knew it going in... So 99% of the time, umps didn't even take these arguments seriously... and neither did the managers or the league offices... It was gorilla theater and it added some zing to the game. Watch Billy Martin, Lou Pinella, Tommy LaSorda, Sparky Anderson, Earl Weaver and more, venting their spleens to the umpires... and then, listen to the fans... look at the players and how they play. The game goes from "ho-hum... only 160 more of these to go..." to players playing just a smidge harder and fans even more into the game than they were before. We need to ditch the replays and crap from the game, and get back to stuff just like we see here in the video. It all was part of the magic of the game.

Lol ohh the old days. It's not as long of a argument now. How many times did he walk back. This is gold haha

Today's game just isn't the same. That's why I stopped watching MLB over 20 years ago.

Any Marylanders here? For me the golden years were 69-83…. Wild Bill (?) in the stands at Memorial Stadiums, Eddie Murray, Ken Singleton, Rick Dempsey, Jim P & the 4 other 20-win pitchers that year….? Well, damned never thought I’d forget that. Was it 75?

Can't stand how they watered down baseball with rule "changes" and calling New York for instant replay reviews. Let the umps do their job. If ur gonna use replay let the actual umpires make the call. Like the NFL.. Not calling clear across the country. SMH.....IF IT AINT BROKE DONT TRY AND FIX IT!

@@thomasexler7127, I knew when they allowed the last expansion and started inter-league they'd ruin it. The silly rule changes just made it worse.

Well, Earl DID make the HOF. Bill hasn't yet.

@@bowlersinger Bill's got as much chance of making the HOF as Angel Hernandez.

That's a GREAT clap back. And even the 'count games, stupid' is wrong since 69 and 70 cancel each other out and he lost in 71 and 79 to Pittsburgh.

@@manuginobilisbaldspot424 Losing to Pittsburgh is always embarrassing.

@@dalethelander3781 Or Joe West.

He knew the Haller clan were total Det. biased

He was actually a very intelligent and well rounded guy. He loved gardening and was a Shakespeare buff.

Ranks up there with "What did I think of Kingman's performance?" Which, sadly, is audio only.

More like the Jerry Springer Show!!!

Me also

Pee Wee Herman: "I know you are, but what am I?"

except for the weird fashions.

And the 1970s

That must have been so much fun, I envy you.

Earl was tossed so many times, that when Cal Ripken Sr. finally took over, he had more than half a season's experience as O's manager, lol.

Maybe Earl had an early dinner reservation. There was a story about one catcher back in the day, last game of the season and his team eliminated by Labor Day, who asked the home plate ump to run him early in the game, so he could catch an earlier flight home.

A great time for all pro sports.

Except there was hardly anyone in the stands! The place looks empty.

@@jah0524 and if everyone in the stands could hear the audio, they'd realize that Haller was making Earl look like a clown.

He went out there to save Eddie from getting ejected. Eddie was about to get into it with Haller, and Weaver went out to one-up any protest that Eddie had. Earl knew that he was more likely to win if his players weren't tossed, and if that meant he was, that was a better outcome.

@@jah0524 but this was everyday. It wasn’t just to show off! He knew baseball. What he lacked in size he made up for in temper in we all loved it.

@@finewinematt what made him a great manager! 👍

Better keep at it. It’s only at 33k.

@@TheDizzleHawke 🤣🤣

And his finger never came withing 4" of Earl, lol. He was also correct that Earl lost more WS games than he won.

Right. You’re full of s-- F you. Love it!!f

That's Kenny Kaiser. As Luciano said in his book he looks like humpty dumpty and they put his arms on backwards. Didn't put up with anything.. Passed away from diabetic complications in 2017.....

Wrong about Haller touching him, tho. Earl came closer to poking Haller in the face, than Haller's finger came to Earl.

For fucking up the World Series.

It was an act. Earl loved being the center of attention and fed off the crowd’s cheers. If the stands were empty, none of this extended silliness happens.

Leo Kleman - THE PLATE UMPIRE SEEN IN VIDEO WAS THE LATE KEN KAISER WHO WAS ALSO A FORMER PROFESSIONAL WRESTLER.

@@claymarston8764 And you can find a slightly longer version of the ending of this where he says, "J.... C....! We've just started this goshdarn thing!"

He and Nestor Chylak were considered to be the 2 best AL umps of their era.

"Hah! BOOM!"

Wrong. One of the most overrated managers ever. Lost 3 out of 4 World Series. Not much of a winner given the talent he had to work with. A crude, very profane man.

@@Stingball22 love that guy. Maybe not a true genius of the game but a real fun guy to watch. Entertaining to the hilt. Baseball is entertainment.

When one of his players told him that he needed to walk with the Lord, he told that player that he’d rather walk with the bases loaded. I’m probably going to go to hell for laughing.

@@davidbrandel1311 we dont know if he walked with the Lord. Moses had a temper.

Earl will be greeting Bill when he arrives at the Field of Dreams.

@@rickarmpit know Bill well, his first words to Earl will be”F-k you Earl”. 😇

One of the most underated sports quotes of all time 😀😀😀

😂😂😂

That should have been it after he was asked that he should have just went into the clubhouse and taken the L

@@KeithFroehlich07 instead he comes back with "games, count games, stupid" when even there, he lost more than he won. LOL.

Thanks

That's because Earl got thrown out before you got there! 😉

Looking at that list Yes yall have I agree 🤣

It was Ken Kaiser behind the plate.

McSherry was an NL ump, not AL.

Getting the call right ruins their game?

@@bitternarwhal5126 no of course not. But replay takes the human element out of the game. It slows the game down. I love baseball and love the history of baseball. They have made way to many changes to the game to the point mlb has lost me as a fan.

@@bigdaddyj452 technology has advanced, I’m sure if you offered replay to players and coaches in 1900 they would want it in the game, baseball in particular has this “it’s America past time and it’s been played this way for centuries so we refuse to advance” it’s why the game is dying, sure Covid but Baseball has been on a decline for awhile now, personally I think the time it takes for replay was counter acted with the extra inning man on second rule, no one wants to watch a 17 inning regular season game so why not save time in extra innings to compensate for replay?

@@bitternarwhal5126 the game is dying simply because the players swing and miss at an incredibly high clip. It's been like that since the 90s. Teams don't run anymore, everyone looks to hit a home run at every at bat and players have no idea how to hit to the opposite field so now they want to take the shift out. These guys can't bunt for crap or move a guy over. Go watch a game from the 80s and before. See how quick it moved. Pitchers stayed on the mound and batters in the box. Now they gotta adjust all the armor they wear up there. No more pitching inside to batters for fear of hitting them. No more taking out the second basemen trying to turn a double play no more knocking over the catcher to try and knock the ball out. It's boring now. To many delays and nobody truly focused on playing hard anymore. Each ab goes 3-2 and he works a walk. It's boring. I love baseball but it's so dumb how it's played today

I got a kick out of how he used to insert a pitcher who wasn't being used that day as his DH. That way, he would guard against the opposing pitcher getting knocked out early being on the wrong side of the matchup (LH vs LH or RH vs RH). He'd just wait until the DH at bat then announce a "pinch hitter" for someone who wasn't going to be used anyway. Lowenstein, Roenicke, Benny Ayala, Dwyer, Ford, Gulliver, Sakata, Joe Nolan...........the guy would match-up you to death. A real piece of work.