Audio of Mets Pitcher Noah Syndergaard and Manager Terry Collins Getting Ejected From a Game Last Year

I don’t know why this is only going viral now, because it’s a game from last year, but this is amazingly entertaining. The backstory: in the 2015 playoffs, Dodgers second baseman Chase Utley slid hard into second base and Mets second baseman Ruben Tejada wound up with a broken leg. It was an ugly but legal play and it resulted in MLB changing the rules on how you could slide into bases. This is the first game the Mets played against the Dodgers last year, and pitcher Noah Syndergaard — one of the hardest throwers in the history of baseball — threw a pitch at Utley.

The umps ejected Syndergaard and manager Terry Collins from the game. Umpire crew chief Tom Hallion was wearing a mic. The audio is fantastically compelling and profane. If MLB mic’d every ejection their TV ratings would soar. I’d pay double to MLB for my annual At Bat subscription if I could listen to the audio of ejections.

Update: I keep changing the URL to one that still works, because MLB’s copyright lawyers are trying to put the toothpaste back in the tube with takedown demands.

★ Wednesday, 13 June 2018