“black Boston .. uh... current pat?”

Why didn’t you tell me sooner?!?!

No worries. Based on the professional Deadspin judges and their comments, it seems I am the only one who found the piffle I typed to be amusing. I formally apologise for not living up to the expectations of this very professional sports news website and those who comment on it.

Can’t we just agree they should ban Jerry Remy? Dude got Don Orsillo fired...

WOW! Just looked it up and all three of his kids have domestic incident arrests (Jared: murder, life without parole; Jordan: indecent assault and battery; Jenna: disorderly conduct, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, resisting arrest, wanton malicious defacement, and misdemeanor breaking and entering).

> I think all he’s saying here is that he doesn’t want more time at the plate to eat into the game.

At least his son wasn’t stabbing anybody

Nope. He is an air guitaring meathead that resonates with the meathead fan base. They released the wrong broadcaster. He doesn’t bring a fair or nuanced voice to the booth. He actually played and brings in the occasional insider nugget but he’s terrible to listen to (unless you are one of the meatheads). But…

It’s almost as if THAT was the point of my joke.

This is a horrible argument. It’s the equivalent of the guy who drops the N bomb during a joke saying, “I love black people. Some of my best friends are black.”

As a black Boston “ex pat” I can’t tell you wonderful it is to see Bostons bullshit, backwardsass racism get exposed like so many vampires to the equatorial sun.

Well of course he wasn’t doing that. He’s in the booth behind the plate. He has to wait for them to come in from the outfield inbetween innings for that.

Between this and Schmidt, it was a banner day for old white baseball dudes telling foreign players to SPEAKA DA ENGLISH WHEN YOU PLAY IN GOD’S COUNTRY.

Tanaka [in Japanese]: What is ‘baseball language?’

It shouldn’t be too difficult, there aren’t any letters to learn with unwritten rules.

Yeah, he’s a racist wingnut apparently. I think that’s been well known in the players’ circles for a long time now.

Neighbors.

Between these two, Rose, and Bowa, I’m thinking the Phillies teams from my childhood were chock full of assholes.

Kill yr idols

Sadly when Mike Schidt tried to engage with Herrera and tell him to run that out by speaking his language of “Arriba, arriba, andale, ariba,” all the outfielder did was punch him in the face.