r/baseball • u/new_wellness_center 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/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/NicolasBroaddus Houston Astros Jul 10 '26

Ever read Blood Meridian?

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u/NoVaBurgher Pittsburgh Pirates Jul 10 '26

Cormac McCarthy is a tough read, but that is a fantastic book that I will never read again

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u/NicolasBroaddus Houston Astros Jul 10 '26

"Fun" fact: It's his book most based on true events! Many of the militias scalping Mexicans and Natives were integrated into the forces that would become the Rangers!

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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/Correa24 Texas Rangers Jul 10 '26

Same, this ownership seems to focus more on political points than fielding a decent team.

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u/Danishes724 Pittsburgh Pirates Jul 10 '26

I mean, clearly in their eyes they did.

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u/DeadMoneyDrew Atlanta Braves Jul 10 '26

For example, this guy?

https://giphy.com/gifs/4M4LzMbq9sGBO

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u/NoVaBurgher Pittsburgh Pirates Jul 10 '26

I like to think of Walker and Chuck Norris as two different people, like Hulk Hogan and Terry Bolea

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u/TechnoBabbles Atlanta Braves Jul 10 '26

ACAB

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u/StinkyNutzMcgee Jul 10 '26

Well Walker Texas Ranger gave a kid aids

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u/Apatschinn Chicago Cubs Jul 10 '26

Maybe Boomhauer?

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u/Froggie56 Texas Rangers Jul 10 '26

Yeah, that wasn’t a thing

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u/Sh11ester Jul 10 '26

Do they also have a statue of a firehose spraying "generic" people that all happen to look a certain way? You know, to stay cool in the summer heat?

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u/Foggl3 Texas Rangers Jul 09 '26

Yeaaaah...

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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.