Then came the turning point that would catapult the copypasta to Twitter stardom. The “drive into deep left field” looked like a two-day wonder that would be buried under a deluge of competing inanities and 2020 terrors. For more than a month, the would-be meme was on life support, with no more than a few tweets per day quoting the Castellanos call. Torre August 20, 2020īut after a flurry of Castellanos tweets in the day or two after the dinger, activity died down. And there’s a drive into deep left field by Castellanos.- Pablo S. But as President, I must put the interest of America first. To leave office before my term is completed is abhorrent to every instinct in my body. But the broadcaster’s offense was still fresh, and the meme’s massive potential was still largely untapped. Several videos of the hot-mic moment and of Brennaman’s apology garnered thousands of retweets apiece, and many account owners condemned his use of the slur. In the aftermath of the incident, Brennaman became Twitter’s main character. … If you want to call bullshit on someone, this is how you respond.”Īlthough Brennaman’s words were bound for meme immortality, it took multiple missteps to cement their status. Rosanna Guadagno, a social psychologist at Stanford who studies online influence, says, “There’s an interesting group cultural phenomenon going on underneath this that I find fascinating. It’s become a common rejoinder used to skewer the sources of all sorts of screwups, scandals, and transparently self-interested public apologies. But more so than the timeless practice of siccing ’80s pop star Rick Astley on unsuspecting readers, the Castellanos prank expresses a point of view. “It’s kind of like this decade’s Rickroll,” says journalist Jen Mac Ramos, one of the foremost copypasta practitioners.
“If you want to call bullshit on someone, this is how you respond.” -Dr. Except the band was also somehow the iceberg.” “And so that’ll make it a 4-0 ballgame.” The mid-apology play-by-play, ESPN’s Pablo Torre says, “was like listening to the band play on as the Titanic was sinking. “I pride myself and think of myself as a man of faith, as there’s a drive into deep left field by Castellanos and that’ll be a home run,” Brennaman said.
Almost unbidden, a home run call came out, surreally spoken with the same sober intonation as the self-castigation. But rather than finish the thought, he reverted without pause to the TV patter ingrained by 33 years of calling major league games. In the booth, Brennaman’s next somber sentence had already started. Bat hit horsehide hard, and the ball began a 410-foot journey over the left-center-field fence. The result of this swing was a fly ball that would be one of the sweet 16 percent. Castellanos missed much too often on his hacks last season, but when he made contact, he barreled the ball 16 percent of the time, a higher rate than 95 percent of other hitters. 650 slugging percentage, swings at pitches over the inner part of the plate more often than the average batter, and after being burned by Navas on strike one, he wasn’t about to take another. Castellanos, a hot hitter who entered the at-bat with a. The righty’s second consecutive four-seamer, approximately the same speed as the preceding pitch, also sailed inside, but this one was higher and hittable. Again Holland’s offering went wide of its target. Again Viloria called for a fastball on the outside corner. On the field, oblivious baseball men stuck to the script, and play proceeded. “If I have hurt anyone out there, I can’t tell you how much I say from the bottom of my heart I’m so very, very sorry.” “I made a comment earlier tonight that I guess went out over the air that I am deeply ashamed of,” he began, seconds after the strike call. But before he did, he made a doomed attempt to restore his reputation and rescue his career. His comment made the rounds on social media, and by the middle of the second game, the pressure and scrutiny had intensified to the point that Brennaman was forced to sign off. About two hours earlier, in the seventh inning of the first game, the 56-year-old Brennaman had casually uttered a homophobic slur on a hot mic, not knowing that the broadcast was back from commercial. Frick Award–winner Marty-geared up for his own delivery in the broadcast booth back at Great American Ball Park. As Castellanos looked back at Navas to lodge a complaint, Fox Sports Ohio’s veteran Reds broadcaster Thom Brennaman-son of Cincinnati institution and Ford C.
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