As Minnesota Twins manager Derek Shelton argued about his ejection with home plate umpire Nic Lentz during the team’s game April 18 against the Cincinnati Reds, the Reds.TV broadcast made Jomboy’s job pretty easy.
Most of Shelton’s seventh-inning tirade, which included some NSFW language, was shown live and unedited shortly after Reds shortstop Elly De La Cruz’s RBI single.
“Shelton thought (Elly) De La Cruz swung at the pitch, and he is upset with home plate umpire Nic Lentz,” Reds.TV analyst Jeff Brantley said during the broadcast.
Then it was all Shelton. The curse words are bleeped out in the MLB.com video, but weren’t during the Reds.TV live broadcast.
“I did not say anything to you,” Shelton yelled at Lentz. “I said, ‘Let’s f—ing go.’ God d—it, c’mon. I didn’t say anything to you. I said nothing to you. I said nothing – I did not say that. I did not say that. No. No. No I didn’t. I did not say anything to you. All I said was, ‘Let’s f—ing go.’ No, that’s bulls—. You did not. God d—it. C’mon.”
Shelton then turned to third-base umpire Vic Carapazza as Lentz walked away from him.
“Let’s go,” Shelton continued, to Carapazza. “I didn’t f—ing say anything. I said, ‘Let’s f—ing go.'”
This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: Twins manager Derek Shelton’s NSFW ejection audio airs live on Reds.TV
Reporting by Dave Clark, Cincinnati Enquirer / Cincinnati Enquirer
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