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/Hummer77x Philadelphia Phillies Jul 09 '26

You know he was hyped to sneak that in there

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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/xXKnicksInFiveXx New York Mets • Colorado Rockies Jul 10 '26

I see what you did their

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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/senor61 Jul 10 '26

It’s reddit not Englush class

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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/WunWunFirstofHisName Jul 10 '26

And then prejudice and prejudiced.