They’re doing a Netflix documentary about the Trea Turner standing ovation, and Jack Fritz is here to clear some things up:

“So I wanna come on and talk about the Trea documentary that’s coming out on Netflix in October. Of course any time anything comes out about the Trea ovations, it turns into a whole divisive thing online, which again, was never the point. And I would like to be able to put that to bed. The Netflix documentary is gonna be awesome. It’s about The Philly Captain. It’s about his mental health journey, mental health struggles, and his story. It’s gonna be awesome. So I just, every time something comes up about it, its’ ‘stolen this, stolen that.’ The truth is that it doesn’t happen without everyone involved. Again, I didn’t steal it from him, he didn’t steal it from me. The first I saw of it was from Mitch Rupert. It doesn’t always have to turn into credit wars. Frankly, it’s gotten annoying. It was a great moment, a truly great moment….” 

Never heard of Mitch Rupert, but it looks like he’s a Bloomsburg guy who did some Phillies minor league stuff back in the day.

But yeah, this entire thing has jumped the shark. Completely annoying. Philly Captain is getting a documentary (that was picked up by Barack Obama’s production company). Fritz got a feature story in the Inquirer. People have been arguing for a full year now about who came up with the ovation, but it seems obvious now that it was an organic, groundswell type of idea that a decent portion of the fan base took and carried to the finish line together.

Fritz had the WIP engine behind him, so he benefited from the victory lap that I don’t think he embarked on or even necessarily asked for. Captain was telling people on Twitter it was his idea, maybe in response to Fritz . Whatever. “I really don’t give a flying fuck,” as Charles Barkley once famously said. We like both guys. They should ask someone at the production company if Obama is available, because what we need is another beer summit. Jack and Captain can decide who wants to be Henry Louis Gates and who wants to be Sgt. James Crowley. I’ll be the President. No shitty beer though, like IPA. We’re a Miller Lite blog.