The New York Yankees and Toronto Blue Jays just played in the “boy, that escalated quickly” series, a set of four games that started with a non-controversy that turned into a whole back-and-forth war of words, complete with expletives thrown between dugouts.
Along the way, we got a lot of Aaron Judge side-eye, some pretty hilarious memes that resulted, and some serious Aaron Boone anger. Oh, and there was name-calling. It was a whole thing.
So before we move on (and before we end up with what I expect will be a big lip-reading video recap), let’s run through this whole thing from beginning to end:
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Act I: SIDE EYE!
“You don’t wanna go throwing allegations around without knowing but…”
Aaron Judge homers as the Toronto broadcast says he’s being suspicious pic.twitter.com/XWzoNrkvB4
— Talkin’ Baseball (@TalkinBaseball_) May 16, 2023
Was Judge stealing signs? It was more likely that the Yankees first-base coach could see what Alejandro Kirk was signaling and Judge was getting some help right before he he hit a dinger.
The memes were great, right?
When I’m in a Zoom meeting but the puppy just picked something up off the floor pic.twitter.com/rBX315VLS9
— Caroline Darney (@cwdarney) May 16, 2023
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Act II: "Shut up, fat boy!"
Blue Jays manager John Schneider was yelling at Yankees' third base coach Luis Rojas for leaving the coaches box. He also yelled "shut up fat boy" to someone on the Yankees side pic.twitter.com/MUUzhxzwND
— Jomboy Media (@JomboyMedia) May 16, 2023
In Game 2, the Blue Jays called out Yankees third base coach Luis Rojas for not being in the coaches box. And then lip readers think the team’s manager called out someone in the Yankees dugout as “fat boy.”
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Act III: Judge gets his revenge
Aaron Judge broke the maple leaf in center field pic.twitter.com/vwQtlyod91
— Talkin’ Baseball (@TalkinBaseball_) May 17, 2023
Judge broke a maple leaf sign with a home run. He also came up with a trolling new celebration:
New celly goes CRAZY pic.twitter.com/aPYgzERGai
— Talkin' Yanks (@TalkinYanks) May 17, 2023
Get it?
Get it?
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Act IV: More dugout shouting
Aaron Boone giving Pete Walker a complimentary psychological evaluation and invitation to sit 😂 pic.twitter.com/QX7pjZl7nI
— Codify (@CodifyBaseball) May 19, 2023
Aaron Boone appeared to have some choice words for opposing coach Pete Walker.
Fin. (For now.)
