Wave just called in a full-blown panic

[Neutral 0bserver]

(Nu'Trelle's phone rings)

Neutral: Wotchu got man?
Wavebb: I needs help Neutral. I might be in a whole lotta trouble.

Neutral: You been in trouble all your life.
Wavebb: Yeah, but this time it's diff'rent.

Neutral: How so?
Wavebb: I mighta caught the virus.

Neutral: Good Lord. Thought you was hunkerin down like evry body else but SK.
Wavebb: I is, but they said on TV today the infection got started wiff bats.

Neutral: So what, you ain't been around no bats lately, has you?
Wavebb: I got some in a closet, but ain't touched them in years.

Neutral: How many we talkin bout?
Wavebb: 10, 11, maybe 12.

Neutral: How big is they?
Wavebb: They all different sizes, man. I ain't measured 'em. I ain't no weirdo.

Neutral: Listen up, Wave. Has you still got your haz-mat suit?
Wavebb: I believe I is.

Neutral: Put it on. Also your nomex gloves, your N-95, an your face shield.
(after a lengthy pause)
Wavebb: What I'm s'pose to do next?

Neutral: Don't ax stupid questions. You need to cremate all them damn bats, son.
Wavebb: Burn em up?

Neutral: Right. Burn the hell outta them. Drop em in a burn barrel. Add gas. Torch it.
Wavebb: Okay, I'm on it. Hold on. Don't hang up.

Neutral: (Nu'Trelle continue watchin the NFL draft as sound of flames roared over the phone)
Wavebb: Ain't gonna be nothin left of them damn bats. I used 5 gallons of gas.

Neutral: What's them sirens in the background?
Wavebb: Sound like emergency equipment.

Neutral: Your neighbors probably called the fire department. No outside burnin today. Nomsayin?
Wavebb: I ain't outside.

Neutral: Where you start the fire, fool?
Wavebb: Where the bats was at. Front hall closet.

Neutral: What about the burn barrel?
Wavebb: I put that in there too.

(After two hours Neutral's phone rung again).

Neutral: Where the hell your crazy ass at?
Wavebb: Jail. Call Morgan & Morgan, dude. They done charged me wiff arson.

Neutral: Lord have mercy. All this over bats which probably wasn't even infected.
Wavebb: You prolly right. Don't think I ever had got one bat that was from China.

Neutral: Was they all the same species? Only a certain type of bat carried the infection.
Wavebb: I might could be wrong, but I do believe the vast majority was Louisville Sluggers

 

[gatorman001]

One problem with your story.......Louisville Sluggers are made in the USA, not China...........Center brand on the bat label clearly says that......everyone knows that this virus originated in Wuhan, China......not Louisville, KY.......noimsayin?

https://www.slugger.com/sites/slugg...ilt_3_column/public/slugger.jpg?itok=4IPFXRrx

Go Canes Go!

 

[LAZL]

I believe there is cause to investigate gatorman’s claim that Louisville Slugger bats are only made in the US.
Louisville Slugger is owned by Amer Sports, a Helsinki based outfit. Apparently Amer sports was offered billions of dollars by Anta Sport, yes, a Chinese firm which would subsequently own Louisville Slugger.
I think we need a task force to investigate whether or not this means Louisville Slugger bats are not solely produced in the US but indeed may also be manufactured in China.
This is excerpt is from 2018:
“other media reported early Friday that a group led by China's Anta Sport has offered $45 per share, or about $5.2 billion, to buy Finnish sporting goods maker Amer Sports, which owns Wilson Sporting Goods, Atomic Ski, Salomon and Louisville Slugger.”
”The investment group of Chinese tech firm Tencent and a firm owned by Chip Wilson, billionaire founder of yoga-apparel retailer Lululemon Athletica, also were mentioned as taking part in the transaction, expected to come soon.”

 

[Neutral 0bserver]

UPDATE ON WAVEBB
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(Nu'Trelle's phone ring again)

Neutral: Go head an talk.
Wavebb: Listen up man. You ain't hepped me one damn bit.

Neutral: I called Morgan & Morgan jus like you ax me to.
Wavebb: Dey wouldn't take my case. Called me a damn fool.

Neutral: They sure nailed that one. So you still in jail?
Wavebb: Damn straight I is.

Neutral: Who you want me to call now?
Wavebb: Call me Mogan & David.

Neutral: Where you get that name from? A wine bottle?
Wavebb: Cellmates in here who really know they $hit.

Neutral: Yeah, them boyz sound sharp as needles off a artificial Xmas tree.
Wavebb: They s'pose to be experts which specialize on plea bargains.

Neutral: What they gonna bargain you down to?
Wavebb: I don't know. Murder 2. Maybe even Involuntary manslaughter.

Neutral: You ain't killt no body, son. All you did was burn haff your house down.
Wavebb: I jus wanna make for sure the deaf penalty off the table.

Neutral: Deaf penalty??? What the hell that is?
Wavebb: They strap you down. Give you a shot an you never hear another word.

Neutral: Son, go head an have them plea your a$$ out on temporary insanity.
Wavebb: Won't work.

Neutral: How do you know that?
Wavebb: 5 psychoanalyzers interviewed me and all agreed it's not temporary.

Neutral: Listen up Wave, don't call me no more. I'm binge listnin peezy's old H.S. podcasts.
Wavebb: Ok, you might have give up on me Neutral, but I'm makin progress.

Neutral: Yeah, I'll bet.
Wavebb: The corona virus had nothin to do wiff bats. An nothin to do wiff China.

Neutral: Really? Where it come from then? Your cellmates tell you?
Wavebb: Infected beer which was shipped from somewhere in Mexico. Let LAZL know.

 

[gatorman001]

I believe there is cause to investigate gatorman’s claim that Louisville Slugger bats are only made in the US.
Louisville Slugger is owned by Amer Sports, a Helsinki based outfit. Apparently Amer sports was offered billions of dollars by Anta Sport, yes, a Chinese firm which would subsequently own Louisville Slugger.
I think we need a task force to investigate whether or not this means Louisville Slugger bats are not solely produced in the US but indeed may also be manufactured in China.
This is excerpt is from 2018:
“other media reported early Friday that a group led by China's Anta Sport has offered $45 per share, or about $5.2 billion, to buy Finnish sporting goods maker Amer Sports, which owns Wilson Sporting Goods, Atomic Ski, Salomon and Louisville Slugger.”
”The investment group of Chinese tech firm Tencent and a firm owned by Chip Wilson, billionaire founder of yoga-apparel retailer Lululemon Athletica, also were mentioned as taking part in the transaction, expected to come soon.”

Wave indicated in the original dialoge, that the bats in his closet were bats "he hadnt touched in years". Meaning these bats were produced prior to the sale.....(which was actually completed in 2019). Additionally my correction to the story was that the bats were made in the usa, louisville KY not china.....which would have still been true, even if the ownership question you raised would have been appropriated from a timing standpoint. One more note, because of the virus that originated from Wuhan, China....the folks that make these bats in Louisville, have begun laying off a number of employees.......lets hope these folks are able to get back to work soon, and the economic impact of not being able to work isnt something these folks have to deal with much longer. Go Canes Go!

 

[Neutral 0bserver]

LATEST FROM WAVEBB
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Neutral: So the rest the inmates got you thinkin Corona beer started the virus?
Wavebb: Absolutely. Where the hell you think the name come from?

Neutral: You got a valit point. Plus poor folk some the mose hardest hit.
Wavebb: Right, when the last time you seen a rich man buyin one Corona at a 7-11?

Neutral: Hardly never.
Wavebb: ... or see him sit his @ss down on the curb and suck that mo fuggah down?

Neutral: Don't remember none a dat either.
Wavebb: Or see 8 landscapers get out a Lamborghini at a Speedway bout 4 pm?

Neutral: Naw, you hardly never see a Lamborghini wiff a weedeater rack, man.
Wavebb: An Tar-Reek, my furse cellmate, think Tocquitos accelerate the virus.

Neutral: Oh yeah, dey get em a Corona, 3 tacquitos, then maybe 4, 5 scratch-offs.
Wavebb: If you behind 8 of 'em, you could be in line for a half hour wait, son .

Neutral: But what about all these people dyin of corona in nursin homes?
Wavebb: You ever heard a Happy Hour?

Neutral: Don't they mosely drink some root beer floats bout that time a day?
Wavebb: Not for years. Hell no. MD-20/20 have been replaced by Corona.

Neutral: Make sense. If you ain't got no teef, you don't have to chew a Corona.
Wavebb: ... an suckin down them Coronas is killin em left and right. They droppin like flies.

Neutral: You never see that mention on a press conference.
Wavebb: Tar-Reek tried to see his gran-father lass week, but he was in a Corona coma.

Neutral: Too bad. Did he make it?
Wavebb: Tar-Reek? Naw, he did a arm robbery wiff his AK and now he in here wiff me.

Neutral: So rich folk who own Corona stock better bail ... is that the word on the street?
Wavebb: Naw. Corona still probably be safe to drink if you chase it wiff a shot of Clorox.

Neutral: Lord. I thought ingesting Clorox was lethal.
Wavebb: That's cause you not a farmicologist, son.

Neutral: And you is?
Wavebb: No, but I'm locked up in here wiff 500-600 of em.