Today’s Topic: The man, the myth, the legend: NATE MCLOUTH
Mood Music: Walk On by Neil Young
For those of you that don’t know (yet)…….the starting centerfielder for the Atlanta Braves is NATE MCLOUTH. That’s right, I said it…and no, he’s not a Pirate, he actually plays in Atlanta now…..and has since last season. I know, that can’t be the guy that’s hitting .179 as of June 1st…..yes….that’s Nate…….but before you start compiling your stats, photos, reasons (potentially convincing nonetheless) for benching Nate for someone else…..like Kawakami or any of the other Atlanta pitchers with higher batting avgs this season…..I need to open your eyes to the altruistic nature of the guy that some call “Mighty Mouse McLouth” aka “Nate the Great”.
For starters:
- In high school, Nate successfully stole 179 out of 180 bases……the 1 that he didn’t steal…..he actually allowed himself to be tagged out because it was the opposing catcher’s birthday and he hadn’t thrown out a single runner all season (Nate also had to leave the game early that day to compete in the Michigan state spelling bee….which he proceeded to win……the winning word…..altruistic…..fitting……Nate gave his trophy to that catcher).
- Every year at Thanksgiving…..Nate kills a turkey, cooks it, carves it, and serves it to his family……he then does the dishes
- Nate once pitched a perfect game, from centerfield
- He only walks to raise awareness for various foundation research, including leukemia (he occasionally breaks this trend by striking out 3 times a game to remind people of the dangers and misinformation regarding the racial divide that still exists in this country)
- Nate’s the only player to steal first base (and he did it twice in 1 game)
- Nate gives up hits for lent
- He’s a notary public
- Nate gave up his number, 13, to Billy Wagner earlier this season
- He occasionally grows a mullet, simply to donate the hair to “locks for love”
- Nate received the 2008 Roberto Clemente award for the “Pirates plater who best exemplifies the standard of excellence achieved by Clemente”
- Nate hit a walkoff home run earlier this season and prior to the hit…..asked his teammates to abstain from celebrating said hit if it were to occur….out of respect for the opposing team (they all proceeded to leave the dugout once Nate hit the homer)
AND THAT’S JUST FOR STARTERS……I WANT YOU ALL TO SUBMIT YOUR BEST “NATISMS” TO ME ON THE BLOG AND I WILL COMPILE THEM HERE AND ON THE FACEBOOK GROUP:
Nate McLouth (Chuck Norris’ “altruistic”-ego)…..Honorable All-Star
IT’S ONLY RIGHT TO LET THE WHOLE COUNTRY KNOW WHAT’S GOING ON WITH THE LITTLE GUY WITH THE HUGE HEART IN CENTERFIELD FOR THE BRAVES!!! AND IN ALL HONESTY…
…LET’S GET NATE FIRED UP TO TEAR IT UP THE REST OF THIS SEASON CAUSE IT WILL SERIOUSLY HELP THE BRAVES’ STRETCH RUN IF THEY CAN HANG AROUND!!! HE DESERVES OUR SUPPORT.
I’ll talk at you all again later.
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June 2, 2010 at 8:24 pm
Brien
Nate takes batting practice and shags his own fly balls while doing so.
June 9, 2010 at 2:36 am
Jake
Nate once challenged his own reflection to a staring contest. On the 4th day, he won…
June 13, 2010 at 8:48 pm
Jenks Meyer
Nate once hit a walk off homerun in the 3rd inning.
July 20, 2010 at 12:45 am
stan
nate once recorded an inside the park homerun….after hitting a single.
July 20, 2010 at 1:20 pm
bish
when Nate does a push up he pushes the earth down.
Regardless of stats, and strugles good things happen when Nate is in the game. The guys is charlie hustle. He is all heart and all Brave. I love the guy, I just wish he could get his bat going.
BTW: Did yall realize we are paying Kawakomi 7+ Million dollars this year. It’s like Mike Hampton all over again. He and Sito need to hit the bricks.
Please touch base with me if you want to hit the bobby cox retirment homestand. They are playing Philly the last home games of the year. Would love to pay my respects!
Congrats on the little one Will, Please post some photo’s of the new Meyer life changer… We all wish you and Ellen the best. Now go take a nap, I know you need it. -Bish
July 22, 2010 at 1:23 pm
bish
Well it got real last night when Nate found himself in the line up for the first time in a month.
It was good to see him bouncing around the dugout, pumped to play. That all changed as he failed to get to a well hit ball that ended up scoring some late game run’s for the Padres. Nate also went on to get the first out in a true position of opertuinity. Ganzales got a leed off base hit in extras and Nate couldn’t even move hime over. Not thinking bunt or hit the ball deep, Nate just poped the ball into shollow short.
We need the guy on both sides of the ball, and last night he was neither.
Sorry Nate but we are on a roll here and I don’t want to loose another game do to your lack of ability.
You also have to put blame where it is do. Billy Wagner hit the showers early after giving up a two run lead in the bottom of the ninth. I don’t know about yall, but i’m chalking that up to some good hitting, and a bad night for my man. I can tell you one thing there is no one more pissed about it than him. He wouldn’t even talk about it after the game. He just said, I have a few location issues I need to address. Rest asured, Billy Wag most deffenently still has that Swag!
July 27, 2010 at 8:42 pm
stan
Nate to AAA….guess all the superhuman feats on the diamond can’t keep him outta the minors….
July 29, 2010 at 6:01 pm
willo
Actually….he gave up his spot in the Majors so Brett Clevlen could get some PT