Fox cameras caught Cubs’ Kyle Schwarber telling teammates to “suck my d—“

There are few things quite as thrilling as hearing someone say bad words when they’re not supposed to. There’s that moment of uncertainty when you’re not sure what you actually heard, then a surge of juvenile giddiness when you realize that, yes, you heard that correctly.

"You suck my dick." Welcome back, Kyle Schwarber. https://t.co/PBXo8PdmdA

— Jared Carrabis (@Jared_Carrabis) October 27, 2016

Here’s the full video of the hit and Schwarber’s color commentary:

This was particularly funny because the Fox broadcast team had just been talking about how mature and cerebral Schwarber is and how the Cubs brought him into their draft war war room and on and on. Of course, even the most sophisticated baseball player is still a baseball player at heart, so some level of meathead dorm-room humor is almost part of the deal.

It turns out, reports Yahoo’s Jeff Passan, that the recipient of Schwarber’s, er, instruction was Cubs catcher David Ross, who had teased the 23-year-old about not contributing enough in Game 1.

Ross, you see, is not just the lovable grandfather figure in the Cubs’ clubhouse, a 39-year-old hoping to ride into retirement with a ring. He is also a habitual line-stepper. After Game 1, he rode Schwarber hard. “One hit? That’s all?” he said. “Do something to help the team. Drive in a run or something.”

Schwarber did. And he made sure Ross and the entire Cubs’ dugout knew about it.

“I almost passed out laughing,” Ross said. “I love that guy. He is so tough mentally. He’s stayed with the team and been in every at-bat with us. That’s why he’s having success. He’s a natural-born hitter. But he has stayed engaged.”

It’s hard to know whether to laugh or shake your head at a grown man shouting, “Suck my dick” on national television, but the lesson, as always, is to keep the field microphones turned up.