‘Everybody Stop!’ Mika Brzezinski Absolutely Mortified by Co-Hosts Marveling at ‘The Big Dumper’
MNSBC’s Mika Brzezinski was utterly bewildered by a Tuesday conversation about the Seattle Mariners star known as “The Big Dumper.”
On Monday night, Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh won the All-Star Home Run Derby. He was the first catcher to ever win the event.
Prior to his participation in the derby, Raleigh had become a household name for his power hitting display in the first half of the regular season. Going into the All-Star break, Raleigh hit 38 home runs — a figure made even more astounding by the fact that he plays a position that historically doesn’t produce many prolific power hitters.
As the baseball world got to know Raleigh more, it also became aware of his unusual nickname: “The Big Dumper.” That nickname, as one might expect, stems from the size of his rear end.
On Monday’s episode of Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough and Jonathan Lemire couldn’t stop raving about Raleigh and his nickname. Brzezinski could only sit and watch in horror:
SCARBOROUGH: Jonathan Lemire, we haven’t talked yet about the home run derby last night.
LEMIRE: Yeah, you slipped in an early reference to “The Big Dumper,” but now it is time to spend a little more with that.
BRZEZINSKI: What?
LEMIRE: Yes, Cal Raleigh–
SCARBOROUGH: You wanna explain who that is?
BRZEZINSKI: Some people don’t know what that means.
LEMIRE: I’m getting there. That was called a tease. That was called a tease. Cal Raleigh, there he is right there. Seattle Mariners catcher. Good player until this year, where he’s become a superstar. He is indeed nicknamed “The Big Dumper,” in part due to the size of his hindquarters, his teammates say. But he leads the league at home runs right now during the season; and last night, put on a show at the Home Run Derby in Atlanta, where he emerged victorious.
Scarborough then asked Brzezinski if she had “any questions about the nickname,” prompting her to drop her head in disappointment and tell him, “No.” He also attempted to provide the origins of the nickname.
“I think the dad may have said, ‘If you wanna get better, you gotta get that big dumper out there and work it a lot harder,'” he said.
Lemire noted that those were “words to live by for us all.”
Then, Scarborough asked if Lemire knew who first said that quote. Picking up that Scarborough was making a joke, Lemire guessed that it was Winston Churchill. Scarborough claimed it was actually the philosopher Aristotle.
“Everybody stop!” Brzezinski said.
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