OH THOSE ‘PESKY’ BRAVES
This is a public service announcement to help people understand all things baseball.
Mark this down to understanding baseball ‘talk and seeing the total lack of integrity, honesty and honor in the ‘sports announcers’ world.
Yesterday the Atlanta Braves were in Toronto to play the Blue Jokes in an afternoon tilt. Going into the game the respective records for the teams were 14-21 and 17-22. Hardly the records of champions irrespective of the time of the year.
The day before – Monday – the Braves defeated the Blue Jokes 10-6 spawning one of the most understated comments in all of sports history by the Blue Jokes ‘manager’ John ‘I did so beat up Ted Lilly who was one of my players’ Lilly. It went something like this “well, we are going to lose a game again”. The implication being for the Toronto lap dog, knee pad wearing, sycophantic ‘sportsmedia’ not to get their panties in a knot with a Blue Jokes loss. For the Blue Jokes had just swept 4 games from the might Seattle Mariners – they of the 10 plus players on the DL including 4 starters and their best player – and this was the turnaround that the sycophants desperately wanted to go on with their vicarious life. Gibbons was forced to cool their jets just of a day since it was, dare we say – inevitable, that the Blue Jokes would swat away the woeful Braves easily enough over the next 3 days.
However, the Braves miraculously defeated the Blue Jokes yesterday 9-5. How can that be? Against the team that believes it is ENTITLED to win every game and ENTITLED TO WIN THE WORLD SERIES. How dare the Braves kick sand in our face. What an affront. Like it is every time any team beats the Blue Jokes – how dare they. Don’t you people know who were are? This is the mindset of the team, the players, the cheerleaders – sorry, announcers, the Toronto ‘sportsmedia’, the clueless fans.
OUT OF UNIFORM – NO TUTU
When the Braves had retaken the lead in the 7th inning on a dinger by Dansby Swanson, the announcers for the Blue Jokes – the execrable Buck Martinez and Pat Tabler – said something like this – “those pesky Braves just don’t quit’. Those pesky Braves that have very solid players Nick Markakis, Brandon Phillips, Matt Kemp, Freddie Freeman and the aforementioned Swanson in their daily lineup. With the exception of Swanson, all have been good players and multiple year All Stars for many years. Nothing to sneeze at there. The Braves pitching has been another matter though which was pointed out by the announcers of the game of the ‘analysts’ after the game keying on the 40+ year old lump of flesh Bartolo Colon.
So here is translation – ‘those pesky Braves’ is baseball code for: man this team is shite and how the hell are we losing to these stiffs. That is what ‘pesky’ means in sports talk. Here is the smarmy cheerleaders Martinez and Tabler slagging the Braves for their nerve in beating the Blue Jokes. Martinez and Tabler are without honesty, honor, and integrity. They are just bloody cheerleaders to an arrogant team that lacks a key element that athletes must possess: humility. Those guys are to be ridiculed at every turn for their shameless cheerleading.
For the record, the Blue Jokes have lost more games than the Braves. For the record, the Blue Jokes are no better than the Braves. The question is when are the cheerleaders going to start referring to the Blue Jokes as those pesky Blue Jokes.
There is the baseball lesson for the day.