A Lip Reader Tries to Decipher Charlie Manuel, Jimmy Rollins and Chase Utley Yelling at an Umpire
Deadspin has once again brought on lip reader Evan Brunell to help decipher MLB manager-umpire confrontations. One he tried to make sense of was from a game last year when Charlie Manuel and Jimmy Rollins were ejected by umpire Vic Carapazza.
Brunell notes that Charlie was easily the most difficult manager to lip-read and that he’s happy he’s gone.
Here’s the full exchange:
Vic Carapazza: Hold on.
Charlie Manuel: Come on, the fuck you calling him out?
(OBSCURED)
CM: (around 0:29)—go ask him?
CM: (OBSCURED)
VC: Yes!
(Walks over to Gary Cederstrom.)
(Cederstrom ejects Manuel.)
CM: …fucking terrible. (OBSCURED) fucking that high!
(Honestly, the only thing I can catch that Manuel says throughout here is “Goddamn” and “Fuck”.)
CM: (1:08) Goddamn it!
CM: (1:18) We’re trying to win a fucking game, Gary. You’re getting on our godddamn case here, again (? not sure on again). What the fuck (OBSCURED). —Fucking matter?
GC: I’m sure it does.
CM: Goddamn right. You gotta be shitting me. You fucked me in the ass. That’s not (OBSCURED) fucking horseshit.
VC: That’s it! (Ejection) Get outta here, Jimmy! You’re gone.
Chase Utley: You’re a piece of—(stops, smirks). What? What’d he do? Did he say something?
(OBSCURED)
Jimmy Rollins: For what?
CM: (OBSCURED) Fucking horseshit! (OBSCURED)
I can watch Chase calling someone a “piece of shit” on loop and never get tired of it.
You can see the video and other manager-umpire exchanges here.