San Francisco Giants rook Buster Batman Posey is doing exactly what everyone (media, fan and foe) thought he would if given a chance in the majors; Posey is giving life to a team that would otherwise be .500 or less this season.
Bay Area sports radio has created a commercial for Posey using the childhood jingle from "Ring around the Rosie." The commercial attempts to explain the pent up childhood anger of a kid named Posey being consistently teased by other kids singing the jingle. The kid Posey grows up to be the Giants slugger who's now letting out all that angry emotion on pitches.
Today Buster Posey had four hits in five at bats in helping the Giants defeat the Arizona Diamondbacks 3-2. He's on an eighteen game hitting streak which puts him second on the Giants rookie list behind Willie McCovey who had twenty-two straight games with a hit as a rookie. Also, its been mentioned that his sweet swing resembles that of former Giant Will "the thrill" Clark.
So let that be a warning to kids who are always teasing other kids with unusual names. Someday that kid you teased may grow up to beat your team up, break your heart and make you cry.
"The American version of the Mother Goose rhyme goes as follows:
Ring-a-ring o' roses,
A pocket full of posies,
Ashes! Ashes!
We all fall down.
Here's a link to a bit of history on the rhyme which also states that any association of the rhyme to the Great Plague is far-fetched. Ring-a-Round a Rosie
