A New Award

With this post, The Grandstander announces a new Award that he shall bestow from time to time, The Old Man Yells At Clouds Award.

The first awardees are Pirates announcers Greg Brown and John Wehner who more than earned this award with their excessive, over-the-top whining and complaining about the Reds' Derek Dietrich and his hot-dogging around the bases as he hit four, count 'em, four home runs in two games against the Pirates this past week.  

In an interview on 93.7 The Fan on Tuesday morning, Wehner said that he "hated" Dietrich, and invoked the name of Dietrich's grandfather, Steve Demeter, who had been a baseball lifer in the Pirates minor league organization.  Demeter was a "sweet guy" according to Rock Wehner, who is now rolling over in his grave over the antics of his grandson.  "He would not be proud of him" said Wehner.

That night, Dietrich tripled down on the Pirates and hit three home runs in that night's game.  With each homer, Brown and Wehner got deeper and deeper into baseball's hallowed Unwritten Rules and the ultimate dictum in the Get-Off-My-Lawn-ism, the need to properly "respect the game".  

In my own mind, here is the question that the Bucco Propaganda Ministers, aka, the broadcasters, should have been asking:  Why is an at best career journeyman infielder like Derek Dietrich turning the Pirates pitching staff into his personal punching bag?  And instead of wondering how the Pirates should "answer" Dietrich for his showing up the Pirates pitchers and not respecting the game by maybe planting a 95 MPH fastball in his ass cheek, maybe they should realize that the best way to retaliate is to be BETTER than him and maybe strike him out or get him to ground out to an infielder instead of serving him up fat juicy gopher balls to him time after time.  

By the way, Brown and Wehner were getting roasted across the country for their whining during the telecast, and deservedly so.

Derek Dietrich has now hit seven home runs against the Pirates in 2019, which causes me to say this to John Wehner (who in a career that spanned eleven seasons and 804 AB's hit exactly FOUR home runs):  I am betting that Steve Demeter, were he alive today would be very proud for how his grandson has been torturing the Pirates this season.