Max Scherzer ejected because his hands were too sticky, a breakdown 

Yes, please try this Jimmy!!

This needs to pinned to the top!

it won't, the alcohol may spread the rosin out more on the hands if they don't actually wash it off and just let it dissolve the rosin and then evaporate. but if they wash the rosin off leaving only alcohol on the hands then they won't be more sticky. this outrage for being held to the rules followed by admissions of guilt for cheating after a season or two passes are really getting old in baseball. don't know how jomboy isn't tired of it yet

Alcohol does expire though

​@@kingkarlito incorrect your hands naturally produce oils and alcohol will clean those off as well, the result being your hand having less oils on it.

It's because he knew he got caught so why try to fight it and make it worse.

​@@zachsutton8687caught with what exactly?

Actually stuff of nightmares

@Zac's DIY Guns and sweat.

@@zachsutton8687 he did fight it? Literally watch the video he reads his lips….

In a memo sent out to MLB teams and umpires in 2022, the league said that, in light of the crackdown on sticky substances, pitchers are allowed to use the rosin bag on their hands, wrists and forearms. However, they are “prohibited from applying it to their gloves and uniforms, nor are they allowed to combine rosin with any other substance, such as sunscreen.”

even stickier when you wash it with alcohol. certain types of alcohol alone can make your hand stickyZ

Yeah but he’s also a r*pist

Literally

@@JCass954 Right but it is quite literally impossible to police sweat lmao. You sweat everywhere, including your hands. It is naturally going to mix. What needs to be done is the level of stickiness allowed with the rosin+sweat, but that’s where things start to get tricky.

That combined with sweat and rosin could be what the umps felt on his hands.

😢

They need to run a proper investigation here. If Max washed his hands like three times in front of the umpires who told him to and they still tossed him, there’s something iffy going in with major league officiating. 🫤

If they do not want pitxhers having rosin go ahead and ban it. Then when these sweaty ass palm pitchers start throwing upper 90's at peoples head maybe they will go back on thenstance they are taking. Now we know Scherzer will dial it to 11 but rosin is not an illegal substance and I do not think there is a rule on it. He could litterly just break a sweat going to the mound rosin up and do the same thing. This is another case of umpires wanting to be to involved in how games are played.

@@michaelsaville9985 Not iffy--they are DEFINITELY stupid.

@@michaelsaville9985 "there’s something iffy going in with major league officiating. " you think? 😉

haha good one.

I sing my “happy birthdays” Thank YOU very much 😤😤

One does not have anything to do with the other, unless you realize that the pitchers created both problems.

And they have to walk out in front of the plate pointing to an imaginary watch. Yeah sure saves time.

@@jlambe19 Nope. Anabolic steroids (SS’s hitting FORTY homers in a season) caused this. Small ball has always existed…

Not even close

His lip reading accuracy is atrociously overrated

@@joshx413pretty weird thing to call overrated

his reports wouldnt be what they are without the lip reading. you get to get a inside perspective instead of the "overall" story@@joshx413

@@joshx413he absolutely got the majority of the reading right. even if it wasn’t word for word, the sentiment was expressed perfectly

If he came out with a leash and a 5 point harness, I wouldn't even be surprised. Give him a spiked collar too

'Brown eye' means something else where I come from.

It’s the blue eye

He's such an overrated manager

​@Joe Callahan He's rated right where he needs to be. Can make a team better but will never get you over the hump. 😅

@@burtch9990 completely and totally...never get the big deal with Buck

Showalter was mumbling to himself on the whereabouts of Zack Britton. Couldn't find him at Rogers Centre or anywhere else to this day!

Lol I've been ejected from my vehicle twice in my time..... not proud of that lol.

@@ndrenckhahn4411 I mean what else you gonna blame it on lol? I don't take responsibility for my actions so it must be the alcohol!!!! The audacity of the people taking accountability for their own actions, what losers!!!

😂

seemed kinda friendly to me like "ok kid here ya go" kind of action

@@victortachiquin4965 or like jomboy said "GET AFTER IT!"

@@fifiwoof1969 definitely the vibe I got was mutual respect all around, like the umps really did all they could to help Max stay in the game

He won’t make the Hall now, he’s a cheater

​@@Justice_HammerHe's not a cheater. He only had rosin on his hands, a legal substance. This BS needs to be addressed before more problems occur.

when MLB doesn't even understand the rules they're implementing, why should the officials learn? 🙃

It also helps when you employ the most stupidly stubborn guys you can find too.

Astros fans better not start calling anybody a cheater 😆

@@strange-universe I don't even want them calling balls/strikes to be honest. Certainly not when Angel Hernandez is in the mix. Bring on the robots!

Our grandkids are going to think it's hilarious that it used to be a human's job and look at these clips and laugh about how stupid baseball used to be.

The exasperated sighs he adds are my favorite part.

He deserves a Webby

It was so easy to see becasue he was so adamant he was acting the words and enunciating when he was talking to the umpire

The Showalter "hrm, well..." was on point.

it sounds like hes trying to be angry but his parents are in the next room sleeping so he gotta be kinda quiet

No one’s finger tips prune after washing your hands for 30 seconds. And if they did, how would it make it worse? Pruned fingers are grippier.

Also, it's difficult to apply other substances to one's hands when you're in a 360 degree view of other people.

@@esseeedee yeah thats probably why they cant wash their hands

Wait for real?

@@albertsautter4077he got inspired by Bauer and tried everything legal + rosin to try and find a legal combo

He protec He attack But most importantly He use too much tac

Moises Alou pre-game routine confirmed.

@@KingOrpheus ..."Almost" Moises Alou's pre game routine...

Teammates: "Why are your hands so damn sweaty?"

Not half as incredible as watching a rosin bag on the mound not move.

@@carlodave9 ur a 🤡

Max will be caught again. Cuzzi (as weak an umpire as he is) is right. Scherzer is one of the only pitcher full of himself enough to reapply after being checked. And I bet he thought he was invincible after the first check. Greatness doesn’t override cheating

@@rustyrapp5673 we don’t even know if he cheated or not because sweat and Rosin can be incredibly sticky as proved by Trevor Bauer so let’s wait to make assumptions till the evidence is fully available

@@rustyrapp5673 reapply rosin like every other pitcher does? What a smug bastard thinking he can follow the rules and still get tossed! I don’t think Max was cheating here, especially after getting checked just about every inning. I think the dude cares more about pitching and not get suspended than he does trying to skate the rules… lol

​@@rustyrapp5673 Spoken like someone who truly has a touch of the 'tism. Grow up.

He did that so hed get favorited calls on the mound (balls/strikes) not to "descalate" the situation. Getting pissy at an ump isnt a good idea.

that was some high quality voice acting right there, yep.

The Showalter impression really made it.

Jomboy will be in MLB hall of fame

@@Coronet_shop as a pinch voicer - HELL YEAH!

I was a little afraid of this one since I'm a Mets fan, but love everything Jomboy does. I definitely approve though.

Not even fucking close. Not even in Jomboys top 100 breakdowns.

Brett Philips walk off in the WS was my most anticipated

Literally was my first thought when it happened 😂

When I hear about stuff like this I don't even bother to try to see what happened through twitter or whatever I just think "I'll wait for Jomboy to break it down" because I know he's gonna give the best take on it

I was thinking the same thing - either it's allowed, or it's not. The only solution I can think of is that they have to come out with clean hands and then they can do whatever they want on the mound with the rosin they have available there.

@@David-ql1hd I was thinking the same thing. Possibly even have gloves provided by MLB that get surrendered to an official between innings and returned when they go out to pitch again. Then of course you would have to extend it to hats and belts and we might even have to start shaving pitchers’ heads just to be safe but that might be further down the line lol

Yeah I remember watching the video and just questioning the whole MLB sticky substance thing because things that are legal is still considered sticky so it’s weird. Free Bauer

@@David-ql1hd agree. They should check them on the way to the mound and the rosin should be the bags on the mound only. No clubhouse/dugout stuff should be allowed.

He got that from pedro martinez !!

I wonder if there are supplements people could take to alter their sweat/response to it

If you have high blood sugar, your sweat will have sugar in it. Like how diabetics can have a sweet smelling body odor. He could be pre-diabetic or could have consumed too much sugar before the game. Gatorade has a lot of sugar, 34g in a 20 oz. which is more than half of what's in a Mountain Dew.

​@Giuseppe Sabatelli mountain dew has 80g of sugar and a lot of added sugar It would be less than half of a 20 Oz of dew

Well it’s his livelihood. Not just a game.

I wouldn't want anything less from my ace.

I mean wouldn't you if you know you are innocent? I mean like he said, he knows he's going to get checked after the 4th. He would have to be the dumbest guy in history to use sticky stuff in the 4th.

There's nothing wrong with swearing on your children's lives if you're telling the truth.

@@arandombard1197 lol right. It's like the point of an oath

And cheating. *😉*

He’s got dem crazy eyes

@@a.grimes4202 how do you know? Do you have lab results of samples taken from Scherzer and his equipment that was tested against all combinations of legal substances? What are those results please?

@@fifiwoof1969 Hush, *🤡* . Adults are talking.

@@a.grimes4202 did u even watch the video?

If anyone deserved to have seen mad max it was that umpire. That umpire felt really big with the power to watch balls and touch hands 😂 did you see the way he gave max the glove? With an oomph.

@@rolandquilente9318 Yeah immediately at the glove to the chest I got angry. I was surprised Sherzer didn't react to that. I'm a super calm guy but that was disrespectful and woulda set me off after already going through all that.

😂

Some kind of an alien....I just know it.

Probably because the guy is an absolute lunatic and in a constant state of fight or flight.

He drinks a rosin based cocktail :D

Bauer and Martinez must have the same type of sweat.

Ya, from cleaning pipes of sticky stuff, using alcohol won't clean your hands, just move the sticky stuff all around(I don't know what they use, but you'd need a wash basin full of alcohol to wash properly). It does not have something like soap to bind to it and move it away, it' slike washing muddy hands with just water, the dirty parts get cleaner, but everywhere else gets dirtier.

So what are the list of legal substances? Sweat, rosin, alcohol, soap and water? Swab Scherzer and test samples against any and all combinations of legal substances and continue the game under protest. If I was Scherzer I would have insisted on being swabbed by a QUALIFIED lab technician before leaving the field. Results may take time so continue the game under protest.

@@fifiwoof1969 According to Jomboy's last breakdown on a very similar situation, there is a rule which says an ump can tell you your hands are too sticky even if everything you used on them was legal.

@@3xceIIent and where do I find more information on the stickiness test these umpires sat in order for them to determine what's legal or not? Scherzer should have demanded his equipment tested before he left the field and continue the game under protest.

@Cory Amatuzzo I never suggested dugout, I suggested them as part of the umpiring crew. Umpires ejected for sticky foreign substance so the onus SHOULD be on them to prove it's sticky because of illegal mixture of legal substances. They've used their judgment here and Trevor Bauer was blacklisted for demonstrating legally sticky substance mixtures. Is Scherzer off to Japan next?

yuuuuup... also the guy that said "it really didnt matter to us what it is. All we know that it was far stickier than anything that we felt...." my man the only thing that should matter is WHAT it is haha.

he probably gets yelled at by his wife at home and has to feel tough at his job

@@amu2323 lmfao

@@Cubs1719 Not saying the facts don't matter. Just found it to be a funny coincidence.

Welcome to the ump show.

Yeah, there’s totally no way they would’ve made him dry his hands immediately after washing them (which means he had no excuse for his hands to be sticky afterwards). *🙄*

​@@a.grimes4202 lmao this mf missed his science classes Alcohol evaporates quite quickly

Did I just receive a chemistry degree?

They should use "Gojo" pumice hand soap. It's what mechanics use, it has very fine sandy particles that strip away every bit of substance off your hands.

​@@a.grimes4202 alcohol evaporates into air requiring no drying...

It's the same thing that happened to the Yanks the other day and he only used the rosin in the dugout and they made him wash his hand and came back continued with no problem

Sorry forgot to put Germain the pitcher in there

That reaction didn't last, as the Dodgers ended up losing anyway lol

​@billy fraiser I was there and the reaction i loved was when the Mets went up 5-2 dodger fans couldn't storm outta of there faster 😂😂😂

People take this game way too seriously

@@pukes6273 better than not serious at all, let people enjoy things

@@pukes6273 The shitty thing about seeing a game in LA is they simultaneously don't take it seriously and take it far to seriously. Was at a game with the same D-bag walking in front of me every half inning getting food or drinks, two guys next to me having a loud conversation while never looking up from their phones, and it was the worst crowd atmosphere of the 20+ stadiums I've been to. At the same time, constant bitching about the calls. If I lived in LA I'd never take my kids to a game because of the hostility and language. Doesn't help that Chavez Ravine isn't in the safest area of LA either. I'd chalk it up to an isolated incident, but my buddy who is a Cubs fan went to a playoff game in LA since it was closer with us being here in AZ. After the Cubs won the series in LA (en route to them winning the series that year) the security was telling Cubs fans to join the celebration down on the first level. It was so they could clear out any Dodgers fans loitering after the game so they didn't kill anyone. I believe it to given some Dodgers fans attacked a San Fran fan at a game a couple years back and put him in a coma in front of his kid. It's the only game of the hundreds I've been to that I didn't feel that safe walking out to the car afterwards and was very glad I didn't wear another teams hat/jersey.

Trevor Bauer was too.

I wouldn’t get my hopes up on the MLB addressing this. They have far more important things to do than to help peasants like you, me, and Scherzer understand the rulings of their minions.

Just because every year they make a F'd up rule that makes no sense? Come on man!

You can look it up for yourself or believe me when I say the rule book says it’s legal until an umpire says it’s excessive and you’re not supposed to put it anywhere but your hand

Mlb is the problem. Manfred runs it like a mafia capo.

If there was alcohol as part of the mix then isn't Cuzzie actually right in thinking it was different then what he normally feels when he checks pitchers hands?

@Sam0 B00 my dude, all rosin does is make your hand sticky

@Sam0 B00 Pure natural rosin is finely ground up gum from trees that weep the gum from within the wood. Synthetic thermal equivalents that become tackier with generation of body heat have been in existance for decades and used, for example, by tennis / squash players on racquet handles.

The way the rule is written, they can definitely still eject you even if it’s just rosin. You can’t apply rosin to your glove or anywhere else… only your hands or arms. So it could be only rosin and still be against the rules.

no one knows the rules- its all random there making it up on the fly

German was told to clean his hands. He did, was inspected again and was cleared. Scherzer was told to clean his hands, was inspected again and they still found sticky stuff. One complied with what they were told, one didn’t.

​​@@someoneyoudontknow7705 what about washing his hands in front of the ump isnt complying? Edit just rewatched the other breakdown. German also had the umps tell him multiple times to wash his hands. German actually complied less. Max made sure they saw him wash his hands

@@someoneyoudontknow7705 wrong

Mets are cheaters. Max is a cheater. Not HOF in my book.

Lol mets can breathe one day without mentioning their big brother.

It makes no difference how adamant he is. Lazybones who don't put their shopping carts back insist they have a medical condition. I've had students cheat, and they swear they didn't. People self-righteously double-down and lie through their teeth. Swab and test his hands. I trust scientists, not pitchers.

German cleaned his hands. Was checked again and the umps okayed him. Scherzer was told to clean his hands, was checked again and apparently they said one hand was still sticky.

@@someoneyoudontknow7705 Except that isn't what happened

@@someoneyoudontknow7705 According to German that wasn't the case. The umps continued to give him trouble until he explained to them he has his own rosin bag in the dugout, which is why his hands still had rosin when he came back out, then they accepted that and let him pitch.

Absolutely. These umps are getting mighty umpity.

One day Max will be in the Hall of Fame and that umpire will be some nobody...

For real. I'ma keep my eye on this Scherzer cat. He's gonna turn out to be pretty good.

@@MU_STL_FAN1 someone didnt watch the video

​@@ryank3 what? His hands were sticky. No ones disputing that

@@a12shotman the video is literally abt how he didn’t cheat

@@ryank3 how he claims he didn't cheat* there's no proof either way

German stayed because the ump wasn't Phil Cuzzi

I feel like with German there was a language barrier the first time which is why they had the team interpreter out there the second time to make sure the message was delivered. As a Yankees fan I feel you tho. I’d probably be pissed off in your shoes. I also have a lot of distaste for German.

That was because he had to move the pitch com onto the new glove

@@brettrevet9864 that makes sense, I'm just wondering if that tape left extra sticky stuff. Not saying Max was cheating or trying to

On his glove hand, not his pitching hand

@@AG-fv4yb it was on his glove hand.

@@chrisledbetter9278 yes. I already said that, "left hand"

rosin is hard to get off with just soap and water, but alcohol does the trick (via mets broadcast). implied because i believe german did the same.

My understanding is that he did it in front of an official and they're instructed to wash it off with alcohol.

It was good enough for the official that was supervising him while he washed his hands.

Yeah- Japanese baseball is real baseball. Played for the love of the game.