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Jay-Z Roasts Stephen A. Smith About Botched Yankees Pitch Via Text

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Jay-Z reportedly texted Stephen A. Smith after his terrible first pitch at last night’s Yankees game. According to Smith, the rapper texted him a picture of an article discussing Smith’s picture with a collection of sad face emojis attached. “He’s supposed to be my guy,” Smith said sadly. Furthermore, Derek Jeter reportedly told Smith “don’t mess this up” before the pitch. After the pitch, Jeter called Smith back and told him to claim he was playing “cricket not baseball”.

Smith has attempted to deflect criticism of his terrible first pitch at last night’s Yankees game in a video posted this morning. In the video, Smith is seen to a child in catcher’s gear near the dugout. This was presumably the warm up for his first pitch. However, there are just a few problems with the video. Firstly, Smith’s form is just terrible for a pitcher. Secondly, he appears to be much closer to his catcher than the pitcher’s mound is to home plate. Thirdly, and most importantly, just because you through some strikes beforehand doesn’t mean your first pitch didn’t suck.

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Steve Harvey Roasts Stephen A.

However, Jay-Z wasn’t the only person dunking on Smith. “Brother, man, I love you, dog. But I could not believe what I saw. Listen man, I don;t know if anyone who has called in today has actually thrown out a first pitch. I have thrown out a first pitch, at a Cubs game. I walked up to the mound, I’m actually 10, 12 years older than you. I leaned up back, I put some pepper on it. What you did yesterday…oh my god,” Steve Harvey said during a minute-long rant at Smith.

What has made this incident all the more funny is just how confident Smith has previously been about acing his first pitch. Earlier this year, Smith went on a mini-rant on First Take in which he extolled the perceived excellence of his hypothetical first pitch. “I would throw a strike,” Smith told his co-hosts back in July. However, no amount of practice throws is going to make up for the fact that Smith choked about as hard as the Yankees have this year.

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Stephen A. Smith Defends Terrible First Pitch With Warm-Up Video

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Stephen A. Smith has attempted to deflect criticism of his terrible first pitch at last night’s Yankees game in a video posted this morning. In the video, Smith is seen to a child in catcher’s gear near the dugout. This was presumably the warm up for his first pitch. However, there are just a few problems with the video. Firstly, Smith’s form is just terrible for a pitcher. Secondly, he appears to be much closer to his catcher than the pitcher’s mound is to home plate. Thirdly, and most importantly, just because you through some strikes beforehand doesn’t mean your first pitch didn’t suck.

Smith’s pitch barely made it to the dirt in front of home plate, let alone anywhere resembling the strike zone. What has made this incident all the more funny is just how confident Smith has previously been about acing his first pitch. Earlier this year, Smith went on a mini-rant on First Take in which he extolled the perceived excellence of his hypothetical first pitch. “I would throw a strike,” Smith told his co-hosts back in July. However, no amount of practice throws is going to make up for the fact that Smith choked about as hard as the Yankees have this year.

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Stephen A. Happy To Be Single

In non-failure news, Smith also recently boasted about how he’s happy to be single. “I’m 55 years old. I’ve never been married and I’m happy about it. Now, one could easily surmise that a past rife with some degree of promiscuity might, dare I say, contribute to my desire to be single. But that’s not the reason. I am not upset about being single. Jeezy, how he filed for divorce from his wife, Jeannie Mai, after only two years, former friends are saying she’s after his money. If Kevin Costner’s monthly child support entitles the children to maintain their quality of life, why should he have to pay to maintain the quality of life for the wife that’s no longer with him?” Smith recently said on his podcast.

In classic Stephen A. fashion, he kind of loses his point towards the end of the rant. However, as best we can tell, Stephen is happy to be single. Furthermore, part of that is because he doesn’t want to get his bank account drained if things end in divorce. Smith has two daughters and was once engaged but things “didn’t work out”.

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Stephen A. Smith Throws Terrible First Pitch At Yankees Game

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Stephen A. Smith finally got his wish to throw out the first pitch at a baseball game. Unfortunately for the ESPN star, he embarrassed himself on national TV. Smith strode up to the pitcher’s mound with all the confidence in the world before delivering a pitch that barely made it to the dirt in front of home plate. In fairness, even Smith looked disappointed with his effort. The Yankees went on to beat the Blue Jays 5-3, ending a three-game slump for the team. The Yankees will play a home series against the D-Backs this weekend before closing out the season with road series against the Blue Jays and Royals.

However, what makes the situation even funnier is how much shit Smith has talked about what a great first pitch he would throw. Earlier this year, Smith went on a mini-rant on First Take in which he extolled the perceived excellence of his hypothetical first pitch. “Not only would I throw out the first pitch, I would throw a strike,” Smith told his co-hosts back in July. Maybe next time, Stephen.

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Smith Joins Victor Wembanyama In Bad First Pitches

Of course, Smith is not the first person to throw a bad first pitch. Hell, Smith isn’t the only person in the last few months to throw a bad first pitch. Prior to the NBA Draft, first-overall pick Victor Wembanyama was also invited to throw out the first pitch at a Yankees game. Wearing the home team pinstripes, and his giant hands dwarfing the ball, Wembanyama took up a position on the pitcher’s mound. While he attempted something of a wind-up, his lazy throw went wide left, almost missing the batter’s box entirely. Accepting his effort, Wembanyama smiled and embraced the catcher.

Both Smith and Wembanyama had bad throws. However, 50 Cent still remains the king of terrible first pitches. Infamously, 50 Cent sort of just threw the ball off to the side while throwing out the first pitch at a 2014 Mets game. Maybe it’s just something in the air in NYC?

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SOURCE SPORTS: Aaron Judge to Return to Yankees on NIne-Year, $360M Deal

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Aaron Judge Named American League Rookie Of The Year

Aaron Judge will remain with the New York Yankees. The major league slugger has agreed to a nine-year, $360 million contract to remain in The Bronx.

According to ESPN, Yankees general manager Brian Cashman, who recently inked a four-year extension with the Yankees, got Judge to agree to the deal at the winter meetings in San Diego. On Monday, Cashman spoke about bringing Judge back into the fold.

“We’d love to have our player back,” Cashman said Monday. “We would love to continue to call him our player every step of the way as he follows what looks like — as long as nothing happens — a career path that will lead him to Cooperstown. I would like him to be in pinstripes every step of the way.”

In his career, Judge has made the All-Star team four times, smashed 220 home runs and has 497 RBIs.

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