{"id":1328,"date":"2015-08-05T00:39:33","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T04:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/?p=1328"},"modified":"2015-08-05T00:42:03","modified_gmt":"2015-08-05T04:42:03","slug":"braves-an-open-letter-to-i-shaun-keay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/05\/braves-an-open-letter-to-i-shaun-keay\/","title":{"rendered":"BRAVES: An Open Letter to I, Shaun Keay"},"content":{"rendered":"

Late last night, I, Shaun Keay, wrote the article\u00a0\u201cWhy Are You Running?<\/a>\u201d that among other things recapped our game from last week against the Braves.\u00a0 Now I\u2019m not one to mislead, embellish, or fabricate anything just for the sake of clicks; in fact I pride myself on my 100% accuracy rate ever since I took over this website many, many years ago.\u00a0 So imagine my surprise when earlier today I received an open letter from someone on the Braves questioning my journalistic integrity.<\/p>\n

The SweatSox have always been willing to give any<\/strong> team out there a forum to get their thoughts, opinions, or views out to the rest of the league \u2013 all you have to do is ask.\u00a0 In the spirit of equal opportunity, the following is the actual letter, presented as originally written without any edits or commentary.\u00a0 Enjoy.<\/p>\n

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Dear Sean Keay,<\/p>\n

I, Jos\u00e9 Hern\u00e1ndez, of the Braves, wish to respond to you, Sean Keay, for your grossly inaccurate recount of the events during our last game.<\/p>\n

[By the way I find it quite narcissistic that you have to preface every phrase in your rants with \u201cI, Sean Keay\u201d \u2013 didn\u2019t you get enough attention as a child? Or is it that you heard it so much it got hammered down in your brain: \u201cNO SEAN KEAY, YOU DON\u2019T PICK YOUR NOSE IN CLASS\u201d or \u201cSEAN KEAY, WHY DO YOU LICK YOUR FINGERS AFTER POO POO\u201d? or something similar\u2026anyway, I digress (signs of old age)!]<\/p>\n

You call us: slow, old, which we are. It\u2019s true some of us have been playing in this league and elsewhere way longer than some of you may have been around \u2013 in fact, it\u2019s possible that some of you may have been the result of one of those hijinks nights when not just boys participated \u2013 I know we are possibly closer in age to your parents that to you!!)\u00a0 By the way, I challenge you to outrun me at any distance (I\u2019m willing to give you in meters our age difference, whatever that may be: I\u2019m 46 ;-).<\/p>\n

I may have not been at the same game \u2013 in which case, my apologies \u2013 because I don\u2019t recall Braves management requesting the game be called due to some \u201cinvisible storm\u201d. By the way, like you said, it wasn\u2019t until the last inning that the game completely got out of our hands \u2026 so why would we be pushing for the game to be called?\u00a0 Who knows, I\u2019m sure my hearing is failing me too.<\/p>\n

You go on to say that the Braves were intentionally delaying the game \u2013 again same argument as above applies. Also, how do you figure we would all use the excuse of tying our laces with the intention of delaying the game? Haven\u2019t you notice we all use Velcro? It\u2019s easier for old farts like us rather than having to bend down\u2026btw, old and slow people don\u2019t get their laces undone\u2026and if they do, there\u2019s no risk in tripping over. You say we all went chasing foul balls?\u00a0 That one anyone will have a hard time swallowing, so I\u2019ll leave at that!<\/p>\n

I see the lure of using the veil of the Internet \u2026 in our days (gosh, there was no Internet then) we would have walked up and spoken our issues face to face rather than blurting a bunch of half-baked falsehoods in an attempt to entertain your own ego and a couple of others. Spreading online rumours like children is not our way.<\/p>\n

By the way, one big omission in your account is the fact that one of your players decided to steal third base when you guys were up by ten runs quite late in the game (again, maybe due to early signs of old age I can\u2019t recall the exact moment). It may be a generational misunderstanding, but in our times you would have gotten seriously plunked\u2026unfortunately neither of us can throw that hard to make it worthwhile! So, yes, Shawn Keay, WHY are you running?<\/p>\n

And finally, congratulations for the \u201c*\u201d – you deserve it. Wouldn\u2019t it be nice we would see each other again on the baseball field, playing ball, enjoying a nice summer day and a few drinks after?!<\/p>\n

Chao for now, Sean Keay!<\/p>\n

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