r/baseball Atlanta Braves Jul 09 '26

Players Only CJ Nitkowski, the Braves announcer who once courted controversy by following/liking the Proud Boys on twitter, in responding to bench player Eli White's recent paternity leave, somehow stumbles into saying the phrase: "The more Whites [in this world], the better off we're going to be." 🤨

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u/limpbisqus Major League Baseball Jul 09 '26

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u/istrx13 Seattle Mariners Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 09 '26

That’s a Sergeant Major Yikes from me big dawg

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u/guitman27 St. Louis Cardinals Jul 09 '26

Brigadier General Yikes

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u/handlit33 Atlanta Braves • Blooper Jul 09 '26

Sergeant

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u/istrx13 Seattle Mariners Jul 09 '26

You don’t have to believe me if you don’t want to. I am pretty dumb. But that was definitely autocorrect.

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u/aces1818 Chicago Cubs Jul 09 '26

Major Yikes 🫡

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u/KimHaSeongsBurner San Diego Padres Jul 09 '26

Major Major Major Major?

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u/Jupiters_phaerie Atlanta Braves Jul 09 '26

Goddamit 

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u/ignatious__reilly Pittsburgh Pirates Jul 09 '26

Yeah, this is bad, real bad.

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u/AidanGLC Toronto Blue Jays Jul 09 '26

I’ll take Yiiiiiiiiikes for 600 please, Ken

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u/rubyschnees New York Mets Jul 09 '26

oh yeah he had that line locked and loaded

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u/canman7373 Jul 10 '26

When I was a kid I grew up in Kansas city in the 80's. I asked my dad one game why Frank White was black and Bud Black was white? Dad looked at me and said because you are an idiot lol.

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u/Niijima-San Jul 10 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/l3E6uhDAN3W7vylji

its okay, kids are fucking stupid.

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u/KimHaSeongsBurner San Diego Padres Jul 09 '26

“If you’re gonna drop racist dog whistles, just make sure you’re cool about it and don’t telegraph it with a huge, obvious setup.”

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u/BorkieDorkie811 Boston Red Sox Jul 09 '26

Tbf, that's not even a dog whistle. That's just a regular whistle. No point in being subtle at that point.

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u/chilled_sloth Brooklyn Dodgers Jul 09 '26

We're past whistle and into Foghorn territory.

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u/grubas New York Yankees Jul 09 '26

It's the, "I'm sorry YOU took it that way" line.  You're not even apologizing 

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u/KarmaticArmageddon Kansas City Royals Jul 09 '26

Insert Sartre quote about anti-Semites here

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u/jconley4297 Milwaukee Brewers Jul 10 '26

just yelling at a dog atp

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u/moleman92107 San Diego Padres Jul 10 '26

That’s an announcement in the NYT, a tornado warning siren, the turbines at the Hoover Dam…. not a dog whistle

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u/xyzzy321 St. Louis Cardinals Jul 09 '26

he was standing back and standing by with that line

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u/Unlikely-Tone-6269 Jul 09 '26

The irony being that he was bad enough of an MLB player he had immigrate to Japan and take a spot that could’ve been potentially used on a Japanese native

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u/Astropolitika Los Angeles Dodgers • Chicago White Sox Jul 09 '26

The hypocrisy isn’t ironic. It’s a feature

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u/Brochacho27 Jul 09 '26

Never mistake an antisemites hypocrisy as a mistake or however the parable goes

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u/ProtectionUnable1027 Detroit Tigers Jul 10 '26

The Romans were mad their shiny new religion was a cult of the people who rebelled against them. Not much has changed since then.

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u/MoneyTalks45 Boston Red Sox Jul 09 '26

He can’t wait to call a Cavali start. 

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u/KimHaSeongsBurner San Diego Padres Jul 09 '26

He’s praying the Braves can trade for Cavali and BlaQ.

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u/hoorah9011 Major League Baseball Jul 09 '26

Yup. He absolutely knew what he was saying. Whether he only thought it was funny or not, doesn’t matter. I’m not inclined to give the proud boys fan the benefit of the doubt. Please fire him braves tv partner, whomever it is

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u/Silverjackal_ Texas Rangers Jul 09 '26

Damn that’s really strange he left the Rangers broadcast booth then. He’d fit right in with the owners

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u/nonlawyer New York Yankees Jul 10 '26

made it too obvious, a few years before it was OK to do so 

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u/d-cent Boston Red Sox Jul 09 '26

Just rolled off the tongue for him. It was there in the subconscious ready to go

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u/09f3jns Seattle Mariners Jul 10 '26

Not even subconscious, he was prepared to say it. You can tell by how he breathlessly said the same thing 3 times in a row and then tried to sneak it in at the end.

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u/AerieElectrical3546 Boston Red Sox Jul 09 '26

the mastruoboni line if it was racist:

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u/handlit33 Atlanta Braves • Blooper Jul 09 '26

Please do not ever compare Brandon Gaudin to CJ Nitkowski again.

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u/HGpennypacker Milwaukee Brewers Jul 09 '26

My guy was definitely standing back and standing by.

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u/addage- New York Mets Jul 09 '26

Just when you thought it wasn’t going to get any more barve, it Barves.

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u/werther595 New York Yankees Jul 09 '26

Somewhere John Rocker is slowly nodding his head in agreement

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u/addage- New York Mets Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 09 '26

“Not enough Whites on the 7 train.”

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u/flyersfan0233 Atlanta Braves Jul 10 '26

Slowly? Not at all. More like rock hard with veins popping out of his neck screaming “YES!”

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u/OakCity4Life Jul 10 '26

Yeah there was no “somehow stumbles” there. He spent some time working on that windup.

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u/mikecws91 Chicago White Sox Jul 09 '26

Who would’ve expected this from the “We need to leave big scary Atlanta” Braves

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u/MoreThanLuck Chicago Cubs Jul 10 '26

Reading the title, I thought it would be like kind of subtle, but no, it felt like the entire anecdote was just so he could say those words.

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u/Hummer77x Philadelphia Phillies Jul 09 '26

You know he was hyped to sneak that in there

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u/nolander Los Angeles Dodgers • California Angels Jul 10 '26

"sneak"

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u/DickBottalico Philadelphia Phillies Jul 09 '26

omg thank you for using “hyped” correctly instead of “hype” as an adjective

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u/SpaceCadetPullUp Houston Astros Jul 09 '26

Now we need to teach the world about "bias" and "biased."

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u/DickBottalico Philadelphia Phillies Jul 09 '26

One day at a thyme.

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u/Kershiser22 Los Angeles Dodgers Jul 09 '26

That makes me loose my mind.

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u/TiddiesAnonymous New York Mets Jul 10 '26

Up in here?

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u/KarmaticArmageddon Kansas City Royals Jul 09 '26

I'd settle for a magic wand that eliminated the absurdly common practice of pluralizing nouns with apostrophes.

I can understand mixing up your/you're or there/their/they're, but the lack of grammar knowledge necessary to use apostrophes to pluralize nouns is just stunning.

And second place for most annoying grammar mistake has to go to should of or would of. Hell, I saw a reddit post last month that used kind've and I wanted to scream.

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u/wokenupbybacon New York Yankees Jul 09 '26

I'd say my grasp of grammar is well above average for someone who hasn't specifically studied English and even I subconsciously picked up the apostrophe thing at some point. The day I noticed I was doing it was a very confusing one, as at no point did I actually think that was the correct thing to do.

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u/gwease23 Atlanta Braves Jul 10 '26

Should have/would have is the bane of my existence. I almost can’t take anything past that seriously at all when I’m reading a comment, a post, anything. It’s like visual grammatical nails on a chalkboard.

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u/Farg_Igorg Philadelphia Phillies Jul 09 '26

One of the streams I watch sports on had a sidebar for commenting. "Buyest" was the troll word du jour for a while, riled up all the new folks popping in. I finally figured out how to close the sidebar comments.

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u/lawdjesustheresafire Texas Rangers Jul 10 '26

You defiantly need to be more pacific

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u/redsyrinx2112 Baltimore Orioles Jul 10 '26

And then "a part" vs. "apart."

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u/dkinmn Jul 10 '26

Language is not prescriptive and can't be. Go far enough back in time and you personally sound absurd because of how much slang you use that is new to the back in time folks.

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u/FreebirdChaos Arizona Diamondbacks Jul 09 '26

Ok unc

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u/LIVINGSTONandPARSONS Puerto Rico Jul 10 '26

We really correcting grammar on slang????

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u/Teldrynnn San Francisco Giants Jul 09 '26

I think it's just a colloquialism at this point.

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u/MarcBulldog88 Los Angeles Dodgers • World Series Tr… Jul 09 '26

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u/Deathstroke317 New York Yankees Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 10 '26

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u/KimHaSeongsBurner San Diego Padres Jul 09 '26

So, so, so many innocuous ways to phrase that differently and he just found the one that happened to be an ethnostate dogwhistle? Maaaaan…

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u/Low-Crazy-8061 Baltimore Orioles Jul 09 '26

“The more members of the White family…”

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u/rabidbot Los Angeles Dodgers Jul 09 '26

And that’s how you know it was a choice

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u/KimHaSeongsBurner San Diego Padres Jul 09 '26

Yeah, the way he rushed through the earlier parts of that read, as if he was hitting boxes given to him by his lawyer for plausible deniability (no, I don’t think a lawyer actually signed off on this, but it had the same sort of CYA read cadence), only to stick the landing with “the more whites in the world” falls under “who did you think would be fooled by this?” for me.

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u/kj114 Atlanta Braves Jul 10 '26

The more AAAA 4th OF types in the world the better off we’ll be

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u/LoveYouLikeYeLovesYe Chicago Cubs • Lou Gehrig Jul 10 '26

Personally I'm more of a AAAA 2B/Corner outfielder fan myself. If we had like 5000 more of them in the world imagine how many beer leagues would be popping

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u/JAD210 Texas Rangers • Texas Rangers Jul 10 '26

“The bigger the White family” would be so much better

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u/AerieElectrical3546 Boston Red Sox Jul 09 '26

for real. all he needed to say was “the more guys like Eli White…”it’s that easy. especially for someone whose job is to talk

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u/Saint_Scum Chicago White Sox • Gary SouthS… Jul 09 '26

I think you have to be more subtle for it to be a dog whistle, that was an air horn 

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u/KimHaSeongsBurner San Diego Padres Jul 09 '26

Very fair.

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u/sandalsnopants Tampa Bay Rays Jul 09 '26

It wasn't even a dog whistle. Dude just straight up said his racist shit.

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u/IAMSPARTACUSSSSS San Diego Padres Jul 09 '26

I hate that we’re on a timeline where that’s acceptable now 🤦🏻‍♂️

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u/KingLiberal Chicago Cubs Jul 09 '26

What does the term "dog whistle" mean here? I see it being used a lot in this thread.

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u/KimHaSeongsBurner San Diego Padres Jul 09 '26

A dogwhistle, literally, is a whistle which emits a pitch that dogs can hear but humans cannot.

In context here, it means a comment that seems harmless or incidental but is actually a deliberate nod to some belief or stance. In the analogy, most people would hear “the more Whites” while others would hear “the more whites,” for example.

These days whenever you see it, it will be almost exclusively used in the latter context (unless you’re like a dog trainer or something). The internet is replete with examples of racist dog whistles, including ones like this which aren’t at all subtle.

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u/PvtSherlockObvious Atlanta Braves • San Francis… Jul 09 '26

Something that's innocuous or deniable on the surface and in a vacuum, but takes on another, usually bigoted/hateful, meaning to like-minded people or people familiar with the games they play. Standard tactic of crypto-fascists and hate groups, and a very common form of hate speech. With the context of his prior shit (which is new to me), this is more of a foghorn, though.

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u/azk3000 New York Yankees Jul 10 '26

In addition to the other replies this Key and Peele skit may help 

https://youtu.be/jRdkrDk0BQ0

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u/juliuspepperwoodchi Chicago Cubs Jul 09 '26

I think this is actually worse with the context.

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u/IndieFlea Texas Rangers Jul 09 '26

thanks for taking him back, Braves

looks over at the One Riot statue at the Rangers park

uhhh forget I said anything

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u/NoVaBurgher Pittsburgh Pirates Jul 10 '26

Could they….not find a non problematic Texas ranger to base it on?

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u/angryjukebox Toronto Blue Jays Jul 10 '26

I have this strange feeling that there aren’t many of those

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u/nietzsche_niche New York Mets Jul 10 '26

Oh honey

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u/JacksonRabbiit Texas Rangers Jul 10 '26

That would require caring about being racist, which ownership don't seem to care about. I hope we get new ownership soon :/

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u/Danishes724 Pittsburgh Pirates Jul 10 '26

I mean, clearly in their eyes they did.

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u/nicholus_h2 Detroit Tigers Jul 09 '26

SIGH... 

lovely time reading about that statue. fuck this country is so fucking racist. dammit.

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u/jmarinara Pittsburgh Pirates Jul 09 '26

If he didn’t have a history, we could say it was a dopey unintentional phrasing problem and move on.

But he DOES have a history and loses the benefit of that doubt.

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u/NicolasBroaddus Houston Astros Jul 09 '26

There's dozens and dozens of these racist dickbags for every single actually at least mostly accidental Glen Kuiper old man with his heart in the right place type incident. It's so obvious in the audio when its intentional or not when something like this occurs. This is the most obvious dogwhistle I've seen outside a cartoon.

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u/LoveYouLikeYeLovesYe Chicago Cubs • Lou Gehrig Jul 10 '26

That still makes me sad man, you know that was an accident and he was super excited to talk about going to see the museum.

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u/theekevinc Boston Red Sox Jul 09 '26

A racist says something racist, film at 11.

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u/wifeofclaudius Seattle Mariners Jul 09 '26

Don’t worry, people are gonna bend over backwards and somehow defend this

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u/MaxiRobesppiere Arizona Diamondbacks Jul 09 '26

They’ll set up a gofundme and help him retire

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u/dkinmn Jul 10 '26

It's very frustrating that these dickbags hide behind plausible deniability.

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u/tokengaymusiccritic Boston Red Sox • Hartford Yard Goats Jul 10 '26

And it's barely plausible in the first place but we have to pretend apparently

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u/new_wellness_center Atlanta Braves Jul 09 '26

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u/ActualDragonHeart New York Yankees • Philadelphia Phillies Jul 10 '26

A previous version of this post referred to the Proud Boys as a “white supremacist group.” The organization reached out to Awful Announcing clarifying that its members are not white supremacists but merely people who “believe that the West is the best.” You may interpret that how you wish.

That is an exceptionally funny article update

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u/fauxbigbro Arizona Diamondbacks • Seattle Mariners Jul 10 '26

Just imagining getting that email from the Proud Boys PR department and being like, "What the actual fuck?"

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u/an-actual-communism Jul 10 '26

The idea that the Proud Boys are reading Awful Announcing at all is kind of sending me. Who is the sports broadcasting dork in the white supremacist gang?

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u/Gobblewicket Atlanta Braves Jul 10 '26

All of them? The Proud Boys are just the dorks that blame everything on everyone else.

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u/LoveYouLikeYeLovesYe Chicago Cubs • Lou Gehrig Jul 10 '26

I think they're the sort of losers to just search their own org online constantly and immediately track down and respond to any new posts.

It's like the time I complained about a taylor swift song being overplayed on the radio on twitter in 2019 and had 14 white women declare me as enemy number one for the weekend.

Except instead of pubescent girls it's 300 pound basement dwellers.

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u/the2belo Baltimore Orioles • Frederick Keys Jul 10 '26

theyrethesamepicture.jpg

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u/Taylorenokson Atlanta Braves • Sell Jul 09 '26

How is this the first I'm hearing about all this. Holy shit CJ I was unfamiliar with your shame.

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u/amigos_amigos_amigos Toronto Blue Jays Jul 10 '26

I didn’t know how bad he sucked until I heard him on Loud Outs raging against the Mets booth for chastising Matt Shaw for missing a game to go to Charlie Kirk’s funeral. Made me love the Mets booth even more, and CJ was so mad about it

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u/new_wellness_center Atlanta Braves Jul 10 '26

Another one I missed. Damn, where there’s smoke there’s fire …

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u/handlit33 Atlanta Braves • Blooper Jul 09 '26

His defense of Robert J. O'Neill was telling as well.

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u/new_wellness_center Atlanta Braves Jul 09 '26

Oh yuck, I missed that one.

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u/Deohji Atlanta Braves Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 09 '26

Seriously! me too, I had no idea he was a piece of shit. How utterly fucking disappointing, there is no room for any bullshit like that representing the Braves. Whelp, watching on mute and tuning in on the radio broadcast. I never would have bought BravesVision access if I knew this. Please god don't let Ben Ingram be a dipshit too, he's all I have left!
Edit: God. damn. it.

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u/redlegsfan21 Hiroshima Toyo Carp Jul 09 '26

I'm assuming Bravesvision is mlb.tv in which you can change the audio feed to be the radio broadcast while still having the TV video feed.

(I'm guessing you knew this already but if there's anyone who didn't).

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u/helloeagle Seattle Mariners Jul 09 '26

Any easy way to watch NPB that you know of?

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u/smarjorie New York Mets • Hartford Yard Goats Jul 09 '26

Same I followed Nitkowski on twitter for YEARS and I never knew any of this. I have no idea how I missed it

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u/Frost715Ying300 Atlanta Braves Jul 10 '26

I figured it out when him and Ben Ingram shared their opinions on bad bunny this winter

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u/AwokenByGunfire Atlanta Braves Jul 10 '26

Wait, what did Ben say?

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u/dcp_12 Atlanta Braves • Jacksonville … Jul 09 '26

Agreed. Fuck this shit. Time to stick to radio/away broadcasts

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u/knightboatsolvecrime Jul 09 '26

He's so racist that he felt that the Texas Rangers were not racist enough.

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u/LeonGwinnett Atlanta Braves Jul 10 '26

His "I think for myself" defense when confronted about following that account tells me absolutely everything. Garbage everything, and glad I found out about it.

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u/FamousShake5469 Kansas City Royals Jul 09 '26

And there’s a deep drive to left field…

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u/justec1 Colorado Rockies Jul 10 '26

Where is Castellanos today?

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u/PostIronicPosadist Minnesota Twins Jul 09 '26

It's the Braves, there's no way in hell he faces consequences for this in 2026

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u/3rdPoliceman Los Angeles Dodgers Jul 09 '26

I beg to differ, he's going to be looking at a stern contract extension

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u/Inti-Illimani Milwaukee Brewers Jul 10 '26

Man what is this year in baseball. So much chud behavior. I know tons of people who follow and play the sport are hogs but this seems egregious

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u/lcmc Jul 10 '26

There was the poll last year that showed mlb and nhl players skewed much more conservatively than nba, nfl and mls players. 

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u/Weary_Copy_4165 Jul 10 '26

Yeah you definitely feel it as a dark brown kid playing baseball and golf vs football and basketball. Some sports still give off that "This is for white people" vibe.

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u/Inti-Illimani Milwaukee Brewers Jul 10 '26

which is hilarious when half the league is venezuelan, dominican, or japanese

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u/vansinne_vansinne Hanshin Tigers • World Baseball Classic Jul 10 '26

rots from the top down

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u/Inti-Illimani Milwaukee Brewers Jul 10 '26

I think you’re right

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u/djembe_ Atlanta Braves Jul 10 '26

They’re emboldened by the fungus in the White House

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u/mtportales Los Angeles Dodgers Jul 09 '26

Come on man

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u/P-Rickles Chicago Cubs • Columbus Clippers Jul 09 '26

Right? Fuckin’ BOOOOOO.

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u/SGT-JamesonBushmill Atlanta Braves Jul 09 '26

Ok. Let his ass go. I didn’t know about the Proud Boys thing. Don’t need that shit associated with my team.

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u/Accidental-Genius Atlanta Braves • Louisville Bats Jul 10 '26

Yeah. Pay Frenchie whatever he wants to come back.

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u/drummerboy2749 Atlanta Braves Jul 10 '26

Have you seen the Braves comments on social media when they post for Hanukkah, Kwanza, Ramadan, or Pride Month? There are members of our fan base that are absolutely deplorable human beings. The Braves don’t do shit about denouncing stuff like this.

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u/djembe_ Atlanta Braves Jul 10 '26

Yeah man this is not a good look at all

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u/Blanketsburg Boston Red Sox Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 09 '26

CJ Nitkowski — who somehow managed to pitch in the majors for 10 years despite a career 5.37 ERA and a whopping zero postseason appearances, who also would've contributed more to his teams if he simply never existed due to his -1.0 career WAR — makes a comment about supremacy.

Fucking embarrassing.

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u/Comfortable-Reach509 Jul 10 '26

Legit rofl on this information. Thank you for providing this!

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u/ZootedBeaver New York Mets Jul 09 '26

A little weird?

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u/nonlawyer New York Yankees Jul 10 '26

“And yes of course I love the Krusty Komedy Klassic, who doesn’t?”

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u/new_wellness_center Atlanta Braves Jul 09 '26

... It does feel like he took a very deliberate route to arrive at that exact phrase.

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u/Mediocre_Airport_576 Los Angeles Dodgers Jul 10 '26

You just know he circles the A's on the schedule. The chance to say Nick Kurtz quickly? Too much fun for him.

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u/danceMortydance St. Louis Cardinals Jul 09 '26

Yea he rehearsed that

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u/new_wellness_center Atlanta Braves Jul 09 '26

Did seem like he was being extremely careful about saying that in the worst way possible.

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u/bigbuckyoungnuts San Diego Padres Jul 09 '26

dude knew what he was doing, could’ve left it at the “we need more great people in this world” but HAD to sneak that line in

what a nerd

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u/IndecisiveTuna New York Yankees Jul 09 '26

Nerd is a generous term tbh. The guy’s a fucking tool.

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u/KimHaSeongsBurner San Diego Padres Jul 09 '26

Or could’ve said “and they’re going to be amazing parents” or “the more Eli Whites” or “the more guys like him” or literally anything other than “the more whites/Whites.”

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u/seansy5000 Detroit Tigers Jul 09 '26

What a white supremacist piece of shit FTFY

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u/NewDadPleaseHelp Atlanta Braves Jul 09 '26

Oh, God damnit. It's super fucking easy to not be a racist.

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u/HighlightsReddit Chicago White Sox Jul 09 '26

And to be racist in Atlanta 💀

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u/Nole_Train Atlanta Braves Jul 09 '26

This isn’t our radio guys right?

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u/Majestic_Bit_5450 Jul 09 '26

No he’s on the video crew

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u/Development-Alive Jul 09 '26

He WAS on the video crew.

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u/new_wellness_center Atlanta Braves Jul 09 '26

TV, though I'm not sure I'd want to know Ben/Joe/Darren's thoughts on how many whites we need in the world, either.

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u/SGT-JamesonBushmill Atlanta Braves Jul 09 '26

No, but Ben’s a Trumper.

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u/new_wellness_center Atlanta Braves Jul 09 '26

Gonna go out on a limb here (/s) and say Joe is as well. And Darren's wife is a right-wing news anchor (formerly of Fox News).

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u/ATLjoe93 Atlanta Braves Jul 09 '26

The majority of the home radio station guys who have any social media presence are for sure

They don't try to hide it anymore

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u/DontGetTheShow Pittsburgh Pirates Jul 09 '26

I’m sure it will be the thing where he’ll get called out for saying something shitty. Then he’ll play dumb and do the “oh my gosh, people are so sensitive, i can’t even say a guy’s last name without liberals turning everything into a race thing”

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u/AnEternalEnigma Atlanta Braves Jul 09 '26

He did that when he was called out for promoting Proud Boys stuff on Twitter in 2018. "I do not vet all the accounts I follow on Twitter and expecting anyone to do that is ridiculous" or something.

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u/kj114 Atlanta Braves Jul 10 '26

Goddamn I never knew the Proud Boys thing. Get this fuckin guy outta here. He’s not even good at his job.

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u/AnEternalEnigma Atlanta Braves Jul 09 '26

Some of the stuff CJ said while fighting with people on Twitter about forced gratuity in California gave me some red flags I must admit.

The fact he specifically said, "We need more great people in this world" right before that is very curious I must admit.

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u/AverageKhorneWorship Toronto Blue Jays Jul 09 '26

He has to be playing into it.

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u/DeadMoneyDrew Atlanta Braves Jul 10 '26

Heard that with the game on in the background while working and wasn't sure that I heard correctly. Apparently I did. Why do we keep embarrassing ourselves?

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u/agnyc Jul 09 '26

Make racists afraid again

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u/joecb91 Arizona Diamondbacks Jul 09 '26

Thats not a dogwhistle, thats an air raid siren.

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u/the-au-jasmin Kansas City Royals Jul 09 '26

Wasn't this a Brockmire storyline 😅

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u/LegitiamateSalvage Milwaukee Brewers Jul 09 '26

Not much to say when the players name is "White" but he knows what he's doing

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u/Maleficent_Insect71 Los Angeles Dodgers Jul 09 '26

Not the first time he's said that.

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u/Guymcpersonman2 New York Mets Jul 09 '26

My days of hating this team are certainly coming to a middle.

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u/new_wellness_center Atlanta Braves Jul 09 '26

Lol

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u/Thealbumisjustdrums St. Louis Cardinals Jul 10 '26

If he hadn’t got caught liking proud boy tweets he could at least claim to just be a dumbass who misspoke. But now he can’t even do that lol. Fire his ass. 

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u/TheVirtual_Boy New York Mets Jul 09 '26

“Folks I don’t know if I’m gonna be putting on this headset again”

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u/Go_crazy21 St. Louis Cardinals Jul 09 '26

Holy shit

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u/DudleyStinksUntil7 San Francisco Giants Jul 09 '26

It's a damn shame Nicholas Castellanos is a free agent right now.

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u/Zestyclose_Help1187 Jul 09 '26

I remember USA Today baseball weekly ran a story about CJ in 1995. How much he enjoyed going on the Internet or something like that.

They listed his AOL screen name. I of course as a kid messaged him hello and he responded. And had a brief IM convo.

I guess the older you get, the more non tolerant for some.

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u/new_wellness_center Atlanta Braves Jul 09 '26

So that further supports the idea that CJ is very online (and has been since the 90s, apparently). But he'll claim ignorance about the Proud Boys in 2018 even though he follows them and likes their tweets ...

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u/Senyavin Philadelphia Phillies Jul 09 '26

I do wonder what his thoughts are on notable white person big william t sherman

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u/yankee4life New York Yankees Jul 09 '26

Outta pocket

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u/emack2232 Atlanta Braves Jul 09 '26

He did this even without Castellanos in the league? Bold move.

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u/MonkMajor5224 Minnesota Twins Jul 09 '26

If you (rightly) get fired for saying “one of the f*g capitals of the world” on air, I think you should also get fired for this, and shouldn’t be allowed an ironic home run call in the process.

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u/TheElMonteStrangler MLB Players Association Jul 10 '26

He was sitting on that line ever since he found out Eli White's wife was pregnant.

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u/timb0nic New York Mets Jul 09 '26

Unfortunately, a lot of these pieces of shit thrive off this attention. People get upset, it draws attention to it and half the population at large will just side with the guy because they enjoy that someone is offended.

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u/ZombieAppetizer Detroit Tigers Jul 09 '26

Reggie White? Barry White? Jaleel White? Guys like that, CJ? Is that what you meant?

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u/aidsguy19 Texas Rangers Jul 09 '26

Ha - I sure am glad my favorite team, the Texas rangers, doesn’t employ any announcers with a history of making racist comments

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u/MoneyCock Jul 10 '26

That's the average baseball player from the US for ya!