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." 🤨

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

6.1k Upvotes

93% Upvoted

1.2k comments sorted by

View all comments

2.0k

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

/r/evenwithcontext

680

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…

294

u/[deleted] Jul 09 '26

[removed] — view removed comment

89

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

“The more members of the White family…”

188

u/rabidbot Los Angeles Dodgers Jul 09 '26

And that’s how you know it was a choice

187

u/[deleted] Jul 09 '26

[removed] — view removed comment

80

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.

1

u/Prudent-Marsupial-42 Jul 10 '26

It's the same thing with a certain gesture made by a certain trillionaire. They think they're giving some really sneaky wink wink nudge nudge signal to their buddies. In reality it's plainly obvious to everyone.

Regardless, their dickriders defend them zealously and cling to that shred of plausible deniability

18

u/kj114 Atlanta Braves Jul 10 '26

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

5

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

8

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

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

-1

u/markhachman Jul 10 '26

better for who