


Blue Jays manager John Schneider would like everyone to believe he was yelling “shut up, fat boy” into the void.
After television cameras caught Schneider yelling “shut up, fat boy, shut up” on Tuesday during a dispute over where Yankees third base coach Luis Rojas was positioned, Schneider was asked before Wednesday’s Yankees-Blue Jays game if he was directing the comment at a particular person.
“No. Heat of the moment,” Schneider said, according to The Post’s Greg Joyce.
Blue Jays pitching coach Pete Walker was seen pointing and screaming at Rojas, and the game was briefly paused before Schneider appeared to utter the insult as Yankees manager Aaron Boone emerged from the dugout.
Boone intervened as Rojas grew frustrated during a discussion with umpires about the Blue Jays’ belief that he strayed from the coach’s box down the third base line.
However, it remains unclear who Schneider was yelling at.
Toronto grew suspicious of Aaron Judge’s wandering eyes Monday night before he hit a monster home run in the eighth inning, which was spotlighted by Sportsnet broadcasters Dan Shulman and Buck Martinez.
Before Tuesday’s game, the Blue Jays complained to MLB about the positioning of the Yankees’ base coaches, but the league absolved the Yankees of any wrongdoing.
Judge said that night he wasn’t happy people in the Yankees dugout were still chirping the home plate umpire about his strike zone while Judge was at-bat, and he was clearly displeased Tuesday by the Blue Jays broadcasters’ insinuation that he may have been cheating.