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Berry, Berry Good . . . Not!

Back on 11/11/78 there was a classic SNL skit involving Garrett Morris and John Belushi. For those of you who were not watching Saturday Night Live back in 1978 or those of us who cannot remember back that far, the following us a summary of one of SNL’s classics:

Belushi then introduces this special guest: “the immortal” Chico Escuela, a former all-star baseball player for the Chicago Cubs who came to the US from the Dominican Republic.

After being introduced, Chico — portrayed by SNL cast member Garrett Morris — gets up, stands at the podium and says in a thick Hispanic accent:

“Thank you berry much. Baseball been berry, berry good to me. Thank you. God bless you. Gracias!”

Then he sits down.

Astonished by the brevity of this $900 “speech,” Belushi’s character asks: “Is that it Chico?”

Chico thinks about it a second, gets up again and adds: 

“Keep you eye…keep you eyes…on de ball.”

After which, he sits down again.

Belushi says sardonically: “Thank you, Chico. You’ve been an inspiration to all of us.”

Carry that skit forward to 2021. How out of place is it?

First of all it would not P.C. to substitute “berry berry” for “very, very” in an Hispanic speaker. It was funny back then and could be funny today if it were not for the woke P.C. police.

Again for those of you not familiar with Garrett Morris, he was black, and ironically baseball has recently been far from berry berry good to African Americans … especially in Atlanta.

For those of you who are not aware Major League Baseball pulled it’s All Star Game from Atlanta and relocated it to Denver. This is especially ironic because Atlanta’s population is largely black, whereas Denver has only a small percent of its populace that is black. MLB, in its wisdom, pulled the game from Georgia because of some phantom idea that Georgia’s voting law is anti-black … it isn’t. It seems that Democrat Stacey Abrams was still mad over losing an election, and decided to partially take out her vengeance on those it would hurt the most, namely the black business owners in Atlanta.

The mlb all star game (purposefully not capitalized) was held  on 7/13, and the TV ratings were not berry good for NBC, in fact they were berry berry bad.

From Townhall:

MLB’s All-Star Game, played Tuesday night, predictably tanked in the Nielsen ratings, delivering the second-lowest official total in the sport’s history. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the game narrowly avoided “a third straight all-time audience low” with 8.24 million viewers, “about 100,000 more than the 2019 game’s 8.14 million.”

Except, it’s quite possible that this could indeed be the game’s lowest ever viewership. Why? According to THP, “It’s also worth noting that the Nielsen figures for Tuesday include out of home viewing and 2019’s do not.” Ouch!

No I did not watch the mlb all star game along with millions of other baseball fans.

Perhaps woke mlb should have followed the advice of Garrett Morris, aka Chico Esquela, “Keep you eye…keep you eyes…on de ball,” as obviously it took its eye off the ball, and a  fastball hit mlb directly in the pocketbook. GOOD!

7/15/21

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