Jo Adell vs. the Giants Heckler

The weekend in baseball gave the Rich Eisen Show two perfect bits. One was an outfielder making a catch so good it looked staged. The other was a Giants fan who had receipts.

Jo Adell of the Angels went over the wall on Saturday night and came back with a ball that saved three runs. Rich notes it was the third home run-saving catch of the night for him. Adell came up holding the ball over his head standing among the fans in a scene that looked like someone from fantasy camp pretending to have caught a homer. The bit on the show was that the Anaheim Ducks lost 5-3 the same night, which means their goalie let in five pucks while Jo Adell was out here stopping home runs.

The call looked borderline because Adell's momentum carried him over the wall, but his foot was on the field of play when he caught it. Same rule as catching a ball over the railing into an opposing dugout. Caught in the field, then going out, is an out. Leave your seat before the catch, that's a homer. They ruled it an out.

The Mariners reportedly put a note on their whiteboard for the next game. Don't hit the ball to Jo Adell. Fair.

Then the show rolls the Mets-Giants clip. Mets broadcast, one of the best booths there is. The audio is clear enough to pick up a Giants fan heckling his own team. The Yankees swept the Giants to open the season. Now the Mets came in and took the series. The heckler's line lands clean on the broadcast mic. The Yankees left town last week. This is the B team.

Rich loves it. The crew wonders if the guy was drunk, maybe a little lit. Rich says no, he was just locked in. The line turns into a segment-long debate about who the B team in New York actually is. Juan Soto said New York was a Mets town when he left the Yankees. Rich disagrees on multiple levels.

The Red Sox fan in the room tries to stay out of it, which is fair because Boston stinks in the first month. Rich ribs the Red Sox anyway. Ranger Suarez has been awful. The hitters they signed aren't hitting. Maybe they should have spent the money on Alex Bregman and Pete Alonso. Sell the team chants broke out at Fenway over the weekend.

Then comes the hose job. In the Boston game, Manny Machado got a pickoff throw at first base bounce to the bag. He stepped back and appeared to kick the ball into foul territory on purpose. The umpire ruled it a live ball and let the runners advance. Rich thinks it's obvious and should be reviewable. If MLB is going to review whether a ball was a millimeter off the strike zone, it should review whether a runner intentionally booted a live ball.

The show sides with Adell and the heckler. Two perfect weekend moments. One made the ESPN highlight reel. The other made a segment.