I’ve read Richie Whitt’s post on Sportatorium from yesterday a couple times. It came after the Texas Rangers’ Sunday Night Baseball loss to the Yankees but before they bounced back against the Angels last night.
I’d like to think he’s being ironic when he says this, but I don’t think he is:
In Game 2, Colby Lewis is scheduled to start after missing his last regular turn in the rotation because — I’m not making this up — his wife, Jenny, was giving birth in California. To the couple’s second child. …
Don’t have kids of my own but I raised a step-son for eight years. I know all about sacrifice and love and how great children are. …
Departures? Totally get it because at a funeral you’re saying goodbye to someone for the last time. But an arrival is merely saying hello to someone you’ll see the rest of your life.
Dave Bush filled in for Lewis last week in Detroit and threw three scoreless innings of a game that Mark Lowe and the bullpen eventually coughed up. But that’s not the point. Baseball players are paid millions to play baseball. If that means “scheduling” births so they occur in the off-season, then so be it. Of the 365 days in a year, starting pitchers “work” maybe 40 of them, counting spring training and playoffs.
If it was a first child, maybe. But a second child causing a player to miss a game? Ludicrous.
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He’s was trying to drum up fake controversy to burn segments on his failing radio show. He’s a hack.
Richie is a douche-nugget. I didn’t realize just how much until I heard his voice on the radio, to augment the words I see in print. I think if he ever got a TV show, to add the visual, my head would explode.
@mm took the words right out of my mouth. He is a doucher. I stop reading his stuff over a year ago, and can’t handle more than a few seconds of his radio show.
much like westboro baptist church, if you turn your head and don’t look, they don’t get that sweet attention they crave. everything’s gonna be just fine.
I actually enjoy his radio show (mostly because of Greggo and Sybil), but he’s absolutely wrong on this one. Scheduling births for the off season? Does he think babies are ordered from a catalog? Some people don’t get pregnant like clockwork. And saying hello? No, you’re there because having a child is a major event in a family’s life, plus you need to be there to support the mother, who is going through a major physical and emotional experience. Baseball is work for major league players, and everyone can miss a day of work now and then. Besides it’s just one in 162 games.
This is exactly what is wrong with professional sports today. I’m glad to see a player put his family FIRST. I suppose if he had missed a game due to breaking the law or committing a immoral act then it would have been excused. At the end of the day when his baseball career is over and you all have forgotten who he, it will be his family that will be there for him. You sir are ludicrous!
Richie Whitt is a douche bolus, having a child isn’t cheap, you should damn well get to see his head pop out for your $, but at the last minute you’ll have to look away because it’s just unbearable talk about a staring contest! Richie Whitt is a douche aircraft. He is a douche boulder and a douche steel-reinforced support infrastructure.
Thank God he never procreated.
Since Richie has never shown he values the same things as I, I ignore what he has to say about things that pertain to God and family. I pity him.
Since he obviously “doesn’t get it”, there’s no use trying to explain it!
Thanks, Daniel. I now have a new word, bolus, one that I really like!
The worst writer/radio personality in DFW got what he wanted, people talking about him. I would like to see him & Ric Renner do a TV show together.
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I find it a good all-purpose word that’s useful in a pinch — say, for instance, guests arrive unannounced and you unexpectedly have to whip up some insults in a jiffy.
A complete tool………….