Honest Livin' (The REAL reason ole boy snitched on Jackie Robinson West)

"You can't erase the memories playboy!"

Franklin D. Roosevelt once said, “Confidence…thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.” The big homie, Benjamin Franklin, stepped in the spot with some Detroit gators and a wide brim gangsta on and said, “Honesty is the best policy.” Then Robert E. Faust, the famous writer, stood up and shouted, “Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.”

Well playas…since we’re speakin’, livin’ and lovin’ the truth let’s be honest and just tell it like Big Momma used to say, “Like it sho- nuff T.I. is!” Little League Baseball has officially stripped the Jackie Robinson West Little League of both the Great Lakes Title and the United States Title because they had three players that lived outside of the little league’s boundaries. As a result, the title will now go to the Las Vegas team that was beaten by the little homies from the Chi!

Now let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1^st! Everybody and their momma’s momma that has ever been around All-Star Little League Baseball knows that it’s standard operatin’ procedure for boyz to find the best players available to play on their teams. And guess what playa? They don’t always live within the boundaries of the league. I’ve been around this game for a long time because my older brother played little league baseball while I was a shorty and now my son who is about to graduate from high school has been playin’ since he was 6.

I’ve seen with my own eyes the foolishness that goes on. Every year durin’ All-Star selections there are kids added to teams that don’t live within the boundaries of the league. So to think for one minute that Jackie Robinson West did something unusual would be ignorant. Now did they break the rules? Sure they did! However, did Little League Baseball investigate all of the teams or did they only investigate the duns from the South Side of Chicago?

Here's the diehard idiot sreamin' from the roof tops, "They broke the freakin' rules Jay!" Listen here playa, what they did was the equivalant of J-walkin', spittin' on the sidewalk or speedin'! Sure, it's against the rules but nobody abides by them. And this same fool holloerin' about the rules was speedin' to work this mornin', jumped out of the ride, J-walked across the street and spit on the sidewalk before he went into the office! It would be different if they had a dun that was 15 or 16 years old strikin' boyz out like crazy! That's a competitive advantage! But to have a cat that live six blocks away doesn't change a thing.

So you're tryin' to tell me that the cats from South Korea that won it all came over here with a bunch of kids from one neighborhood? You're out of your freakin' mind! They brought the very best from the South Korea because who's gonna know?

Let me put it where the goats can get it playa! Some cat named Chris Janes, who is the Vice President of the Evergreen Park Athletic Association, which is in the neighborin’ south suburban league, pulled a haters move and dropped a dime on them. Ole boy sent an email to Little League International back in October and that started the investigation. Why do I say ole boy was hatin’? Because Jackie Robinson beat the brakes off of his team 43-3 last summer in route to a championship! Here’s the deal though bruh, if they beat them 43-3 they had no shot of winnin’ that game with or without those three players pimpin’!

This is a prime example of an adult tryin’ to re-live his childhood through his kids. Now what fully grown adult is still simmerin’ over his kid gettin’ the breaks beat off of him last summer. The same dun that felt like he could no longer turn his nose up at some poor black kids again this spring when baseball season starts.

If we’re gonna be honest playboy then let’s be honest. Not very many black kids are playin’ baseball anymore and it’s one of the few sports that at a little league level is still predominantly white. So when a bunch of poor south side black kids show up and completely destroy the snooty Evergreen Park kids 'some' folks are gonna have a problem with that. Don’t tell me that race and socioeconomics doesn’t play a factor in this equation playa because it does. I guess you need to know the stark differences between the south side of the Chi and Evergreen Park. It’s old school crossin’ the train tracks bruh!

If the freakin’ guy really only had a problem with the team “cheating” he would have sent the email in July when he got blasted instead of waitin’ until October. He figured like most folks, that an all-black baseball team from the ghetto had no chance of winnin’ it all.

Then they win the joint and become national heroes! Not only do they become heroes they make the mornin’ talk show circuit, get their very own parade and they end up at the White House hangin’ out with the freakin’ President.

"Now I can still look down my noses at them!"

So if they were National Champs when spring rolls around this year, the duns in Evergreen Park would no longer be able to look down their noses at the poor little black kids from the south side. So ole boy sent the email just to make sure that Jackie Robinson West didn’t turn into some uppity kids from the ghetto with the hardware to prove it. Now you can act like it ain’t what it is all day but the reality is written all over this. 

I doubt very seriously that if this team were all-white they’re would have been an email sent out or an investigation launched! Why? Because stackin’ teams in little league baseball is normal operatin’ procedure.

I’m not tellin’ you what I’ve heard I’m tellin’ you what I know! I know that there are SOME people in this world that just can’t stomach the success of folks that they don’t see as equals to them. Not only was what he did petty but it was selfish.

The duns in Evergreen Park know that every team in America stacks All-Star teams and find kids that don’t live within their boundaries. If they’re honest with themselves they did it too! There are only so many studs per square block playa so if you’re gonna compete with the best teams in America you’ve got to find a kid or kids that can pitch because you’ve only got two pitchers in your entire league and that's real talk.

Fortunately, there is a lesson to be learned here for the Jackie Robinson West Little Leaguers. I’m gonna tell you boyz what my daddy always told me and his father before him. “Son, you can’t do what everybody else does! When you’re black you’ve got to follow EVERY letter of the law and always dot EVERY ‘I’ and cross EVERY ‘T’. Always be an example of integrity! Because when you’re great folks will ALWAYS check behind you to make sure that you earned it! So don’t give them any reason to doubt your ability to succeed.”

The cats runnin’ the Jackie Robinson Little League forgot who they were playa! If you’re gonna show up you gotta show out but if you show out you can’t have anything to hide! Stop me when I start lyin’!

Playas Thesaurus:
1) Detroit Gators: noun – Alligator shoes playboy! Cats in Detroit are famous for wearin’ gators. So therefore anytime you mention alligator shoes you throw Detroit in there.
2) Wide Brim Gangsta: noun – a hat similar to a fedora but the brim floats up all the way around. Instead of the front bein’ tipped downward. Only the true playas in the ghetto can wear these. You gotta have a ghetto pass to even buy one.
3) Dun: noun – the person in question, dude, guy etc.
4) Let me put it where the goats can get it: Let me break it all the way down for you. Goats eat off of the ground so this is as simple as I can put it playa.
5) Dropped a dime: verb- snitched
6) Pimpin’: noun – the person that I’m passionately tryin’ to get me point across to.

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