Sammy Sosa Jr.
Written by Paul Hauss- April 22, 2019
Today was initially
slated see the long-awaited
debut of the American
League's Next Big Thing,
Vladimir Guerrero Jr, but
the Blue Jays have announced
they will wait a little
longer to bring up the
second generation phenom. No
matter when he is called up,
the time of Vlad Jr. is
coming sooner rather than
later, and his prominence
will serve as a constant
reminder to our
nostalgia-addled brains that
we are all fucking old and
will die soon.
Since we are
reaching that point in time
where the stars of today are
the children of the stars of
the Steroid Era, you might
be wondering if Vladimir
Guerrero is alone in the
camp of Dominican-born,
1990s-tenured,
power-hitting,
right-fielders with rocket
arms whose children will be
destroying pitchers' souls
in the near future. The
Playhouse lacks the banana
phones required to speak on
behalf of Manny Ramirez's
hatchlings, but we can
assure you that Sammy Sosa
Jr.'s whereabouts do not put
him in any position to be
caught with a corked bat.
Sammy Jr., whom
you may remember as the
Cubs' replacement batboy
after Darrin Baker was
indicted for his Angelic
collusion during the 2002
World Series, is presently
an Audio Engineer, Music
Producer, Disc Jockey, and
Roman Reigns cosplayer. You
can find his trap music
compositions on Soundcloud
at https://soundcloud.com/central-sound.
The Playhouse
admits to being uncertain of
what exactly trap music is.
The extent of our knowledge
is that it is popular
subgenre of hip hop, but we
disavowed the entire rap
game for selling out once
Snoop Doggy Dogg decided to
drop his middle name in
order to appeal to Middle
American Cardinals fans. We
attempted to research trap
on Lycos, but the only
conclusion we could
interpret from the
impressively large yield of
transgender anime characters
was that our Sailor Moon
library is not as complete
as we thought it was.
Some baseball fans
might be disappointed that
Sammy Jr. didn't follow in
his father's hop-steps, but
The Playhouse wants to
remind Sosa Fans not to
downplay the importance of
music to the Dominican
Republic's favorite
mammalian chameleon. Sammy
infamously kept a large
boombox in the Chicago Cubs'
clubhouse, which should have
been called the Cubhouse,
from which he loudly blasted
salsa music. At the end of
the 2004 season, an
anonymous Cubs player
destroyed this boombox with
a baseball bat out of
frustration for Sammy's
behavior during a stressful
Cubs season. This act is
frequently attributed to
pitcher and Dr. James
Andrews experimental
subject, Kerry Wood, but the
former Indians and Yankees
reliever has repeatedly
denied these allegations.
Kids These Days
know the thrills of fixing a
ghetto blaster about as
Sammy Sosa These Days knows
the thrill of getting
blasted in a ghetto, but
Sammy Jr.'s phat beats are
perfect for boombox
house-play, and The
Playhouse approves of his
contributions to the canon
of the Sammy Sosa name.