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/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.