By FITSNews || U.S. Senators Johnny Isakson (R-Georgia) and Jay Rockefeller (D-West Virginia) teamed up to throw a party on Capital Hill for Atlanta Braves manager Bobby Cox, who is retiring from baseball this year.
The party took a humorously profane turn, however, when the cake commemorating Cox’s fifty years in the game arrived with a rather interesting misspelling on it …
Yeah … it says “Thanks for 50 Great Years Bobby Cocks.”
Cox, 68, has been a big league manager for nearly three decades. He won the World Series in 1995 and guided the Braves to five National League pennants. He currently ranks fourth on the all-time managerial win list and has been named Manager of the Year five times in his career.
And even if none of that were true, who the hell spells their name “Cocks?”
Courtesy of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, here’s what went down:
“Bobby and the players came to the Hill and spoke at our staff meeting. Immediately after the staff meeting, he and players posed for pictures and signed baseballs for our staff members. The scheduler and I then went to the Capitol to get ready for the reception. The catering company had delivered the cake and we immediately realized his last name was spelled incorrectly. The only people who saw it were me, the scheduler and unfortunately some media members who had arrived early and took pictures. We immediately started cutting the cake.”
(Isakson spokeswoman Sheridan) Watson said she informed a Braves spokesperson of what happened. She wasn’t sure if Cox ever was told.
And what happened to those pieces of cake that were cut out?
“We smeared the icing so you couldn’t make out what it said,” she said.
And then they were served.
Watson said officials from the catering company, Restaurant Associates, explained that they ordered the cake from a bakery that they don’t normally use and gave the order over the phone, but never specified how to spell the last name.
She also said the company plans to write a letter of apology to Cox.
Nice … here’s a picture of the cake after the Senate cut the “Cocks” off (ouch) …
Cake Pics: AJC
By OhNoNotAgain May 5, 2010 at 7:02 pm
You missed a chance for a better joke.
“Here’s what the cake looked like after it was “circumcised.”
By Glen Danzig May 5, 2010 at 7:10 pm
wonder who ate the cock?
By fitsnews May 5, 2010 at 7:29 pm
Glen,
We’re guessing it was Christy “Cocks.”
-FITS
By BobbyCocksFan May 5, 2010 at 8:49 pm
Oddly, Bobby Cox never managed former major-league player Pete LaCock.
By Darth May 6, 2010 at 9:38 am
Was Barney Flit there?
By sid May 6, 2010 at 11:31 am
As the misspelled piece was handed to a young lady, she was overheard to say, “Hmmm, I was hoping for something bigger. Do you have one that’s chocolate?”
By preston crisp September 7, 2010 at 9:42 pm
get rid of derick lee the braves have done nothing since they got
him bad apple i am a braves fan but he is not a pimple on
chippers ass