Cake honoring Bobby Cox has unfortunate misspelling (UPDATE II)
Here is Bobby Cox's cake in its original form. And . . .
(Updated with details and comments from Bobby Cox and Johnny Isakson’s spokesperson.)
Bobby Cox’s final season as Braves manager is not quite going as expected. The team is struggling and even a cake ordered for his honor on Capitol Hill spelled his name incorrectly.
I mean, REALLY incorrectly.
. . . here is the cake after some nifty editing by Isakson staffers.
Cox was being honored for his 50 years in baseball. Senators Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) and Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) hosted a ceremony, inviting the Braves’ manager, as well as players and officials. But the cake, which was to read, “Thanks for 50 great years Bobby Cox” had an unfortunate and profane misspelling of his last name.
Come on. I know the Braves probably should have won another World Series or two during Cox’s reign. But isn’t this a little harsh for a sendoff?
Sheridan Watson, Isakson’s spokesperson, confirmed Tuesday’s gaffe and gave this accounting of the day’s events: “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.”
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.
Cox said he didn’t find out about CakeGate until somebody from the Braves told him Wednesday.
“That’s funny,” Cox said. “What bakery did he get that cake? That’s what I want to know.”
A Washington area reporter in the visiting manager’s office had missed the story and asked Cox how they spelled his name.
“The wrong way,” Cox said, drawing a round of laughter.
Cox said he did eat a piece of the cake: “It was good.”
Nonetheless, Watson said the manager will be getting an apology from Restaurant Associates, the catering company used at the Capitol.
How does something like this happen?
According to Watson, Restaurant Associates ordered the cake from a bakery that they don’t normally use and gave the order over the phone. They never specified how to spell Cox, as if that would seem necessary.
“I’m sure one day I’ll be able to laugh about this.”
Staff writer Carroll Rogers contributed to this story.
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Johnny Kakes
May 5th, 2010
3:48 pm
Just read a great Wiki page about the Braves and Bobby; it gives facts on the 09-10 Braves already, including the following: “Bobby Cox (in white) holds Major League Baseball’s record for managerial ejections”
Honestly, that’s a direct quote!
All Cupcakes Conference
May 5th, 2010
3:49 pm
I mean, the spelling aside, that is a pretty sad looking cake. You’d think 50 years would warrant better than an $8/hour bakery drone whipping up that mess.
The Fact
May 5th, 2010
3:50 pm
Brilliant, Johnny Kakes. So comparing someone to Nazis (on a sports blog, no less) is stretching it “a little … just a little?” LMAO. Quite a regressive mentality you have there. Congrats on displaying it publicly!
soup guy
May 5th, 2010
3:52 pm
agreed. that was a pretty shabby cake to begin with.
Miller Huggins
May 5th, 2010
3:52 pm
Have any of you louts ever heard of the journalist/screenwriter Jay Cocks? I calculate not. But that’s to be expected from those afflicted with tobacco-chewing minds.
Johnny Kakes
May 5th, 2010
3:54 pm
Chill out The Fact… the fact is he stretched it a little.
kooper
May 5th, 2010
3:57 pm
kakes, are you serious? wow. some scary people out there.
Mike
May 5th, 2010
3:58 pm
Whatever. At least his first name wasn’t “Sucking”…another word people try to avoid for no good reason.
Johnny Kakes
May 5th, 2010
4:02 pm
I have seen those tea folks at events – with their signs – attacking a man with parkinson’s disease who was trying to raise awareness on the disease? The dumb-as* partiers throwing money at the guy thinking he wanted hand outs – like a bum? They are scary.
Jim Gaffigan
May 5th, 2010
4:05 pm
Did somebody say cake?
shelbydawkins
May 5th, 2010
4:06 pm
We had a person at work several years ago and his name was Dick Cox. No lie.
that didn't long
May 5th, 2010
4:09 pm
And there it is. Kakes, you haven’t seen squat. You’re a lying racist liberal who hates those you disagree with and panders to those you fear. It’s the left-wing M.O. You’re a bigot and a loser. And yes, it is a fact that your extreme regressive mentality should be considered dangerous.
WreckinBall
May 5th, 2010
4:09 pm
oh
David C
May 5th, 2010
4:10 pm
Someone should get fired over this. Unexcusable and deliberate.
Johnny Kakes
May 5th, 2010
4:11 pm
… and you see no hate at those gatherings…. lol You sir, are completely blind!
WreckinBall
May 5th, 2010
4:12 pm
If cocks is profane, is kaslopis also profane?
the truth
May 5th, 2010
4:12 pm
The government probably paid $250 for that POS cake. Sad but true.
Doggy
May 5th, 2010
4:12 pm
I agree with Johnny that they are extreme… just like those who are radicals on the left. There. Now let’s move on!
Royal
May 5th, 2010
4:13 pm
TO “that didn’t take long” -
Do not bother trying to rationalize with Johny Kakes. Intelligent discussion does not seem to be his thing or those he apparently worships.
JSD
May 5th, 2010
4:14 pm
I thought that spelling was correct. Looks like I’m gonna have to order another jersey. Dang man!
WreckinBall
May 5th, 2010
4:14 pm
It was the people that ordered the cake at fault. They probably never heard of Bobby before the event, anyway.
EmberG
May 5th, 2010
4:14 pm
1. What does this say about the state of education?
2. What does it say about the catering company’s professionalism to not check that things were correct?
3. What does it say about the capital staffers to not check that things were correct BEFORE allowing media to photograph the goof?
4. How would Bobby Cox want to hear about this…from an apologic staffer at the moment it was discovered or tonight when the sports shows/talk shows are laughing it up about the incident?
HA HA
May 5th, 2010
4:15 pm
You people really need to grow up
WreckinBall
May 5th, 2010
4:16 pm
Can’t we all just get along?
Al
May 5th, 2010
4:16 pm
Hahaha…..c’mon people, those “racist” tea party “protesters” are liberal extremists! Everyone knows it. The left is obsessed with playing that card. Anyway, kudos to the cake company. (Good luck landing another gig like that any time soon.)
Bill Mc
May 5th, 2010
4:17 pm
Good thing they didn’t ERECT a statue for him.
WreckinBall
May 5th, 2010
4:18 pm
What we have here is ‘FAILURE TO COMMUNICATE’.
"Chef" Tim Dix
May 5th, 2010
4:20 pm
Think it’s ever happened to me?
WreckinBall
May 5th, 2010
4:21 pm
Someone asked earlier about being censored, I know one word that will get censored on this page.
Doggy
May 5th, 2010
4:22 pm
LOL – The left plays the racist card more often no doubt… and the nuts in that teaparty do hate and fear things. OK – let’s move on!
Redneck
May 5th, 2010
4:25 pm
Well, this is what happens when you loose a few more games than you’re suppose to or you just win one World Series in all those years.
No wonder they’re laying off so many English teachers. I bet the guy that decorated the cake got a A in English at UGA.
Tick Tock
May 5th, 2010
4:26 pm
Let’s all get back to the subject at hand – gameCOCKS
Tick Tock
May 5th, 2010
4:27 pm
I tried writing the name of the college team from South Carolina – you know – the one Spurrier coaches? And it was censored! lol
Geezus...
May 5th, 2010
4:28 pm
they coulda just taken a spoon or knife and shaved off the word COCKS from the cake before cameras got there. Rediculous…
Football Fan
May 5th, 2010
4:29 pm
Reminds me of when a cake was ordered over the phone and the girl at the cake company put “Happy Birthday And Then Put From All of Us”…obviously she should not have included “and then put”
the truth
May 5th, 2010
4:32 pm
Probably some undocumented alien who made his way up from Arizona and is now employed at a DC cake company.
Shankit
May 5th, 2010
4:35 pm
Let’s get the cake company to bake a cake for
Jeff Schitz, er I mean Shultz. We all love him.
Cake Man
May 5th, 2010
4:35 pm
This cake decorator–a product of georgia’s sorry schools.
Shankit
May 5th, 2010
4:36 pm
Make that Schultz, typo error
Da Truth
May 5th, 2010
4:36 pm
funny how we rip those undocumented workers when we joke or get annoyed… but man did businesses do anything they could do over the past few decades to get that cheap labor here to increase profits.
Lou Dobbs can tell ya!
Bill Mc
May 5th, 2010
4:38 pm
Is it true that you can’t have your Cox and eat it too ?
Big Carolina Fan
May 5th, 2010
4:46 pm
Who knew “Cocks” is profane. I’ve been yelling “Go Cocks” all my life!
Yep
May 5th, 2010
4:50 pm
Can we say slap in the face??? Somebody might get fired for this one. Maybe George Costanza? Wait he works for the Yankees.
dwaynerice
May 5th, 2010
4:51 pm
And how about that pitching coach named Dick Pole?
Mr. Speller
May 5th, 2010
4:58 pm
I doubt Bobby would have noticed the misspelling anyway. “We played real good” and “we want to win real bad” are about as good as his grammar gets.
MeaneyMouse
May 5th, 2010
5:04 pm
Cox,Coxx,Cocks,Kox,Koxx…THEY ALL SPELL COX /(*. .*)\
dood
May 5th, 2010
5:04 pm
Maybe spellcheck corrected it.
Amy
May 5th, 2010
5:09 pm
There is an entire website devoted to misspelled cakes. This isn’t that shocking or funny, grow up.
dawginDC
May 5th, 2010
5:09 pm
funny …lol…at the same time, someone is a big time moron
Sincerly
May 5th, 2010
5:10 pm
Kelly Johnson & Adam LaRoche