Entitled, Maniacal Staten Island Little League Coach Blasts Aaron Judge For Not Hanging Out With His Team Yesterday In Williamsport
Bob Laterza may be the most Staten Island man of all time. He bleeds it and will fight tooth and nail to get what he feels he's deserved to represent his borough the right way. It almost seems like his character was written for an old SNL skit as someone who would bully Pete Davidson. Well, Bob's little league squad has made a nice run at the LLWS and is positioned to do big things in Williamsport. They're in the spotlight, and by that I mean Rico was counting down their outs on Twitter the other day.
With the Yankees in town yesterday to face the Tigers, Coach Laterza was looking forward to his boys meeting their idols before Sunday Night Baseball got going. While that did happen, it wasn't exactly how he envisioned. This article reads like something straight out of The Onion.
(S Live) While Yankees players DJ LeMahieu and Tim Hill showed up -- not many others did. Laterza noted that Yankees stars Gerrit Cole, Nestor Cortes and Jasson Dominguez, as well as manager Aaron Boone and former outfielder Nick Swisher, met with the team later on at Bowman Field, but there was still one notable omission, in particular.
Laterza admitted his boys were bummed to miss out on the big man, who he alleges never showed face with his team, despite being seen with others. They had hoped that their seats behind home plate would allow them an interaction with him in the on-deck circle, but Laterza says No. 99 ignored the youths bellowing his name from some 10 to 20 feet away.
To a degree I get his frustration. You're told your meeting the Yankees and instead you get the corpse of DJ LeMahieu and lefty reliever Tim Hill, who could easily pass as a guy who runs a gas station in a Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie. Later on though, they did link up with Cole, Nestor, Jasson Dominguez, and Boone. Sounds like a sick day to be a kid if you ask me.
I'm aware Gerrit Cole isn't Aaron Judge, but come on that's awesome. Not enough for Laterza however. He was furious Aaron Judge wasn't there before the game and that he didn't turn around mid-game to interact with the team. The coach reminded us that these are the kids who pay his salary, simultaneously revealing his players are being put through illegal child labor. They start em' young over there.
“How about turning around or wave to New York and the kids that think you’re a hero?” chimed Laterza. “They are the ones who pay your salary. They were disappointed,” he added. “Maybe he’ll want to make up for it and come and see them.”
People forget without Staten Island Little League there's no $360M contract for the Yankees' captain. I'm curious, are these children willing to shell out some cash for Soto as well? Asking for a friend.
While Laterza wants to paint Judge as a war criminal, I'm here to report Judge was out there hanging with the kids, just not Staten Island's unfortunately.
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Seems like this tyrant's anger is misplaced. Shift that hate towards whatever little league official promised you Judge and botched where he was going to be. Seems like plenty of kids got to hang with 99.
The best part of this Laterza tirade came when he didn't recognize David Cone.
“He says ‘hey coach Bob, how you doing’? I didn’t know who he was, he knew who I was,” laughed Laterza. “He’s a nice man. Out of place, out of mind, I was like who are you?”
Guy had no time for Conie. Might as well have been the groundskeeper. Keep it movin' fella, we're here for the big guy.
I'm pretty bad at predicting things (see my Gerrit Cole video) but I'm certain on one thing —Rico Bosco is for sure texting this guy. Staten Island, little league baseball, older coach, anti-Yankees. You couldn't build a more perfect Rico guy in a lab if you tried. I didn't see Bosco in the office today. Wouldn't shock me if he's on a bus to Williamsport as we speak to get some merch and fire up the kids before strangling a LLWS official for not paying the umps. #Somethings
P.S. Judge is definitely going to do something really nice for these kids now so I guess this maniac coach is going to end up being a hero.