Dodgers Dalton Rushing claps back at Jomboy Media: Least of my worries

When it comes to Dodgers catcher Dalton Rushing this year, there have been two common, almost certain occurrences.One: That Rushing will lose his cool over a bad at-bat, a frustrating sequence behind the plate, or a contentious interaction with an opposing player.Two: That Jomboy Media, the popular online baseball content factory, will clip such moments and spread them wide on the internet, contributing to Rushing’s new reputation as one of the bigger antagonists in the game.On Tuesday, during an interview on AM570’s “Petros and Money,” Rushing called out that dynamic for the first time publicly.

While he said he is off of social media, and doesn’t “really care to see” the way his outbursts have repeatedly gone viral, he does “know Jomboy has made some money off me” with all the content of him they’ve posted.“I will throw that out there,” Rushing said.“He gets a kick out of it for sure.

But in all honesty, he’s the least of my worries.”Jomboy Media was founded by a baseball fan named Jimmy O’Brien in 2017, starting as a small company producing lip-reading videos from MLB games that has now flourished into an influential and far-reaching outlet that even has a “strategic partnership” with the league itself.This year, videos of Rushing have become one of their go-to content subjects.Using footage from game broadcasts, they’ve published videos of him breaking bats in the dugout, jawing with opposing players and battling emotional outbursts that have dogged an otherwise strong season from the second-year backup catcher.“I wouldn’t say I try to do it,” Rushing said of such moments.

“I think it just kind of is a little second-nature, competitive side of the game.When the competitive juices start flowing, it’s kind of a like a third-person view.

Your body takes over and you just play the game as hard as you possibly can.”While Rushing and the Dodgers have both emphasized his need to control such tempers, they’ve also ...