I'm watching the game and all I can think about is will that person challenge.

It's all I can think about. Like, when are we going to see the first challenge, the first ABS challenge in MLB history? Right, I missed it by a long shot. Yeah, we all did, which we'll play in a minute. And maybe it's because during spring training there were so many challenges. It was happening all the time. The Yankees were challenging willy-nilly

that I assumed, not that it would be quite like that, but that you'd be aggressive. Like in

the first inning, there was a pitch to Aaron Judge, and maybe it's because I predicted it,

where I'm like, dude, you can challenge that. There were a lot of them in the first few

winnings. And so Jose Caballero a lot of them in the first few winnings. Right.

And so Jose Caballero was the one who broke the seal, and he did that in the fourth inning on, I think it was the first pitch of an at bat, if I'm not mistaken. Are you sure? I thought it was the pitcher or catcher. It was Caballero? I thought it was Cabo. It was, I think it was Caballero. This goes back to the broadcast problem.

It was Jose Cover-Yo.

It was high inside.

Without the box, it looked like it was Caboero. This goes back to the broadcast problem. It was Jose Caballio. It was high inside. Without the box, it looked like it was a ball. It looked like a ball. Caboero immediately challenged it and was immediately shut down. It was wrong. So the Yankees lost a challenge in the fourth inning on a pitch to Caballero, to which my reaction was, what a stupid-ass challenge. Right. They were talking to the manager, Sean. That might have been why you were distracted by it.

Okay, so I'm pretty sure the broadcast also went from one-0. Like, I thought it changed the other way, not in favor of Caboero, which made me think that the pitcher or catcher challenge.

No. It was a strike to Caboero. He tapped his helmet. Thought it was a ball. He immediately tapped his helmet. Yep. They reviewed it and it was a strike. And we all moved on with our life. Very anti-cladmacked. But that was it. Like that was almost stunning to me. And there were other plays that you could have challenged or other balls

and strikes that one could have challenged on. Max Fried got a bunch of low strikes. Yeah. A ton of

them. So what's going on? Like is that, is no one actually going to challenge? Is it really

going to be safe for special occasions? I think it's what our instinct was when we first started

talking about this at the beginning of spring training is that you're only going to see this in practice in high leverage end-of-game situations. I don't know why Jose Caboero challenged that. It was the first pitch of the at back. Yeah, it was a weird one. And so it was like, you're just looking for a walk? So I think it was weird. It was an instinct thing. I think because if you remember back to it, Patrick Bailey, who's a catch for the Giants, I think he's one of the best pitch framers in baseball, he reached back over. And so for Caballero, it probably felt like, oh, my God, that was such an awful call. And so the gut instinct is to say you're full of crap. Yeah. But now your gut instinct is, let me tap my. Right. Because I got a chance to prove this umpire wrong.

And so my gut is,

Kawhiara did not think of the situation, did not think of Aaron Judge potentially coming up in the ninth inning. Right. And it was just like, that's BS. I'm going to tap my hat and I'm going to get the call to go my way. That's the only thing I could think of on why he challenged it, but it wasn't close.

And it was the only one.

Maybe there was a, I don't know. That's the only thing I could think of on why he challenged it, but it wasn't close, and it was the only one.

Maybe there was a, I don't know, I don't even want to go there. I'm not even going to say what I was going to say what I was going to say. What were you going to say? The wagering on who was going to have the first challenge. Oh, stop. Because they said it. They said it on a broadcast. It's just for those of you who thought that the first challenge would come at blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, you got a winner.

Well, let's see how we did, because we actually did this a few weeks ago where we were guessing who was and when was the first challenge in Major League Baseball history going to occur. So let's go to our prediction desk with Sean Morash. Let's start off with you, Sean.

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