I generally hate pranks except in a baseball clubhouse and dugout. Those are the only venues in my life where I find pranking appropriate. Otherwise I think youtube pranksters belong in one big dumpster at the bottom of Lake Michigan. And the people who enjoy and support prank culture can follow them right in a single file line to the lake floor. Take all of them and we’re instantly a more just and orderly society.
That said, I always thought Chase Utley was a sharp guy. I’ve always seen him a step ahead of everyone else and I’m not realizing that we’re both gigantic morons.
Funny because I have conviction that the dumbest guys in America are from Philly. It’s a layered take based on personal experience but the general premise is that all the good talent goes somewhere else. Whatever’s left in Philly is the same that’s left in your hometown after college. Those that remain might say it’s a choice but there’s also a lot of circumstance.
That’s Philly to me and I guess UCLA educated Chase Utley is another one of those rocks.
And I didn’t see it coming.
You’d think John Kruk being serious even for a moment would be a dead giveaway. Or that MLB could just drop $250,000 fines about roster moves while completely overlooking a decade of rampant steroid abuse.
It takes a special kinda stupid and that puts a smile on my face worth sharing. So hopefully you enjoyed and if not, allow me to introduce my favorite 2-parter baseball prank sequence in recent memory.
Kris Bryant Part 1
Kris Bryant Part 2