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Monday, June 15, 2009
Burnett and Chavez Are Burning Mad at ESPN
One of the most primary strategies is pfucking. One must know who to pfuck and in what suit to pfuck.
Buried in a Trib story by Rob Biertempfel….
• Relievers Sean Burnett and Jesse Chavez are fuming over how they’ve been portrayed by ESPN and other media for supposedly setting up a candle and “shrine” to Nate McLouth.
“It’s ridiculous. Blown way out of proportion,” Burnett said. “I’m waiting for an apology.”
Chavez said the candle was set up two weeks before McLouth was traded as a running joke about the players’ daily card game of Pluck. As long as Chavez and Burnett kept winning, the candle stayed lit at their lockers.
“It had nothing to do with the trade,” Chavez said. “It’s a friendly thing we had going on, an inside joke.”
Neither player was disciplined by the team and the candle and Pluck scoreboard remain at their lockers.
Isn’t it hilarious how so many people in this town portrayed the Pirates clubhouse after the Nate McClouth trade? I trust Burnett and Chavez get an apology, but I seriously doubt it will happen.
Repoz
Posted: June 15, 2009 at 08:12 AM | 37 comment(s)
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I wounder how many more Bucs could you add to the headline before anyone thought, "Hey they're all Pirates." Young, Sanchez, Diaz, Burnett and Chavez are Burning Mad at ESPN. Nope, still wouldn't have worked for me.
Is this like huffing? I thought the MLB minimum would take care of this problem and let guys move up to safer bad habits (like oxycontin or meth).
The real surprise is that ESPN spent long enough talking about the Pirates that they could become upset about the coverage.
Well, part of the confusion is that most people can't remember that the Pirates have both a Burnett and a Chavez.
But...it's true.
Maybe they should be trying to attract more inaccurate ESPN coverage rather than less, so people will know who they are.
It's not a matter of being obscure. It's a matter of these two players having the same last names as two more famous players who have also been in the news recently (Chavez with the injury and possible finish to his career, and Burnett being a disappointment with the Yankees). The Jays have a Chavez as well but, when I see that name in the headlines, I don't assume that it's the Jays' backup catcher who is under discussion.
Really, the headline should have included the team name.
The story comes from a Pirates-centric blog, citing a report in a local Pittsburgh newspaper. I don't think it's all that ambiguous, within context.
Fair enough, but I have no idea what "rumbunter" is, or what area the Trib covers. For whatever reason, I thought that was a Cleveland paper.
I probably still would have thought it was about the situation off the coast of Somalia.
The headline should have included the word "yinzer."
That would require people to read more than the excerpt posted here.
A minor league tag would have sufficed.
Yeah; they've got uniforms and everything!
I'm going to attempt to avoid their website, because I go there in knee-jerk fashion too often. Visiting their site perpetuates it.
Who has time to RTFAs?
Like "grit", only for 19th-century schoolgirls instead of ballplayers.
Career 117/110 at AAA, too. Proof positive that you need at least a little bit of stuff to strike people out.
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