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“He's a good kid,“ Whit chimed in with a new photo of an oblivious Brady with a bubble gum bubble on top of his hat:
“He's a good kid,“ Whit chimed in with a new photo of an oblivious Brady with a bubble gum bubble on top of his hat:
There were two really fun storylines for Royals fans to follow this season: Salvador Perez hitting all the home runs, and the budding frenemyship between two-time All-Star 2B Whit Merrifield and second-year starting pitcher Brady Singer. The former is fairly self-explanatory, but I thought I’d retrace the timeline of the latter for my own enjoyment and the edification of anyone who might be interested.
When the Royals drafted Brady Singer out of the University of Florida with the 18th overall pick in the 2018 draft he was most famous for an incident that took place during game three of the Super Regional with Wake Forest. With a trip to the College World Series on the line, Brady was on the mound with a narrow 1-0 lead when the rain, which had already plagued the series with delays, began pouring in the second inning. The ensuing rain delay meant Brady's start was going to be cut short, and he was not happy about it. At all. He made this very clear in a full-on tantrum in front of the cameras on ESPN. (Don't worry, this story had a happy ending for Brady and his Gator teammates; after the rain, they came back to win this game and, eventually, the College World Series. Still, rain is his nemesis and this is his origin story.)
After Brady was drafted, this video got a little boost as it spread to people who don't follow college baseball but do follow the MLB draft. I was among those who discovered it at that time. Then it lay largely dormant in the back of my mind as Brady worked his way up through high-A, then AA, and even when he made the leap to the major league level in the shortened 2020 season. Then, as the 2021 season approached, Whit Merrifield, who led the league twice in hits and once in stolen bases, attacked a new challenge with the same intensity.
Things started small. Alec Lewis, Royals beat writer for The Athletic, tweeted that the weather smelled like baseball in Kansas City, and Whit Merrifield—still in Arizona wrapping up spring training—replied thusly: “As long as it’s not raining Alec. We all know how much![[twitter.com profile]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/e0caa790ec10/-/twitter.com/favicon.ico)
BSinger51 hates the rain.” Lest anyone miss the reference, he swiftly followed this with a quote tweet of a clip of the famous video with a little commentary of his own: “It’s the left handed, failed glove spike that gets me.”
“Forecast looks solid!! We’ll be good,” Brady responded brightly to the first tweet, ignoring the second.
On April 10th, the Royals' game against the White Sox was rained out. Whit debuted this gloriously low-resolution screencap of Brady's mid-tantrum face in reply:
( The rest of this is going behind a cut because it's very long and there are a lot of pictures and videos. )
When the Royals drafted Brady Singer out of the University of Florida with the 18th overall pick in the 2018 draft he was most famous for an incident that took place during game three of the Super Regional with Wake Forest. With a trip to the College World Series on the line, Brady was on the mound with a narrow 1-0 lead when the rain, which had already plagued the series with delays, began pouring in the second inning. The ensuing rain delay meant Brady's start was going to be cut short, and he was not happy about it. At all. He made this very clear in a full-on tantrum in front of the cameras on ESPN. (Don't worry, this story had a happy ending for Brady and his Gator teammates; after the rain, they came back to win this game and, eventually, the College World Series. Still, rain is his nemesis and this is his origin story.)
After Brady was drafted, this video got a little boost as it spread to people who don't follow college baseball but do follow the MLB draft. I was among those who discovered it at that time. Then it lay largely dormant in the back of my mind as Brady worked his way up through high-A, then AA, and even when he made the leap to the major league level in the shortened 2020 season. Then, as the 2021 season approached, Whit Merrifield, who led the league twice in hits and once in stolen bases, attacked a new challenge with the same intensity.
Things started small. Alec Lewis, Royals beat writer for The Athletic, tweeted that the weather smelled like baseball in Kansas City, and Whit Merrifield—still in Arizona wrapping up spring training—replied thusly: “As long as it’s not raining Alec. We all know how much
“Forecast looks solid!! We’ll be good,” Brady responded brightly to the first tweet, ignoring the second.
On April 10th, the Royals' game against the White Sox was rained out. Whit debuted this gloriously low-resolution screencap of Brady's mid-tantrum face in reply:
( The rest of this is going behind a cut because it's very long and there are a lot of pictures and videos. )
