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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Bobby Cox
May 5th, 2010
5:16 pm
The guy got good squeeze on the tube, it could have been an X easily, but that wind got it and it landed as a C-K-S. What can you do?
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cobb parent
May 5th, 2010
5:22 pm
This would have been so easy to fix with just a toothpick. The “ks” could have been lifted off with the end of toothpick and a small piece placed back down crossing the “c”. What idiot decided to start cutting instead?
Payton
May 5th, 2010
5:23 pm
Only government/government employees could possibly make such a dumb and egregious mistake.
Pun
May 5th, 2010
5:24 pm
What do you call three dead roosters floating in the ocean?
Bobby Cocks.
longballer
May 5th, 2010
5:41 pm
Wow. Great “get” Jeff. Great example of our “crack” senatorial staff at work. Keep in mind we pay these people with our tax dollars. I like how they passed the buck and put the blame on the cake company. Classy move. BTW, I have a family member named Harry Cox III…yes the third. Stop the madness.
Mitchell
May 5th, 2010
5:41 pm
Well said Bobby.
CAPPY
May 5th, 2010
5:56 pm
@CARLTON,
HERE I AM! HAHA WHAT A FUNNY WAY TO SPELL THAT, NOBODY SPELLS IT LIEK TAT
oldmanrickey
May 5th, 2010
6:01 pm
maybe we should have congressonal hearings on this, this has to be aa right wing, nazi, raccied, teabagger,bigot, plot to bring down the might sports world, this is more important than anything going on in the world today. We need to take all the bakers in that state and waterboard them untill they talk, send them to gitmo for a month and tap their phones, bug their GPSs, and consfate their Iphones, MP3s, Webbooks, laptops, and home computers. We cannot let this happen again in this great nation, It might happen to a black coach next and that would set off ww3. total destruction of the sports world.
jeffrey d
May 5th, 2010
6:06 pm
At least Cox/Cocks still pronounced the same. I think it would’ve been really bad if they had thrown an extra O into his first name
MargieB
May 5th, 2010
6:07 pm
That was a lame cake if I ever saw one. They should have called the Ace of Cakes or the Cake Boss. The cake would have been far superior and they would have spelled his name correctly. What a bunch of pricks.
Mariah
May 5th, 2010
6:16 pm
Ha ha, the update includes the uncensored cake with no digital blackout. Excellent!
Idot
May 5th, 2010
6:17 pm
There used to be a NASCAR driver named Dick Trickle.
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MightyQuinn
May 5th, 2010
6:17 pm
Until now, I hadn’t considered the fact that we had a “Cox” and a “Woody” for coaches in the ATL. But at least they aren’t Kitty or Katt.
Idot
May 5th, 2010
6:21 pm
kaslopis
bushwacker
May 5th, 2010
6:21 pm
Jeff,I telling you its the damn blue jerseys!!!
We lose 8 or 9 in a row on the road in the blue jerseys.
Come home, win 3 straight.
Go back on the road, blue jersey Tues, we lose.
Just keep track of this road trip and see, I swear we lose every time we wear blue and win when we wear gray.
I wonder if anyone keeps those stats, won loss record with different color jerseys.
Get rid of them, they look like softball uniforms and thats how we play in them, like beer league softball players!!
Go back to the classic home whites, (get rid of the red ones too) and classic road gray, they will feel like major leaguers and guarantee they will play better.
Ask Bobby which uni’s he prefers.
oldmanrickey
May 5th, 2010
6:26 pm
We will have a new senate bill next week aginst missplled cakes, it will be call the (COX Cock’s bill), They will debate on it for weeks. sure hope all them teaparty members don’t slow it down, We need correct spelled cakes for the coaches. This is a world issue.
MyPatooti
May 5th, 2010
6:26 pm
True story: I was in the US Army and had basic training at Ft. Benning in the late 60s. On the first day there I saw another guy from my home town who I knew of, but was not friends with. His dad was a lawyer in my home town and their last name was Short, S-H-O-R-T. He was in the company barracks next to mine, and the next morning when we fell out for formation at 5AM, I heard a tremendous uproar of laughter from the group next to us during our roll call. The next morning I heard the same thing, so decided to pay attention and listen intently on the following morning. I noticed while listening that even though our DI was calling names out in correct order (first then last), theirs was calling the roll by last name, then first. I looked over just before he called out the name of the guy from my hometown, and saw this huge grin break out on the DI’s face. He paused, called out his last name, then his first name which was Peter, immediately followed by another outburst of laughter. Poor guy, I thought, he will have to endure that for 8 weeks. Little did his parents realize what embarassment they would cause their son later in life.
Idot
May 5th, 2010
6:27 pm
It’s either those blue jerseys or the almost complete lack of firepower in the middle of the lineup. Or maybe the blue jerseys are the cause of the power outage in the middle. I know something ain’t right, somewheres.
Mariah
May 5th, 2010
6:29 pm
MargieB is right. Ace of Cakes in only a few miles away in Baltimore.
Idot
May 5th, 2010
6:31 pm
And about 1 or 2 thousand $ more than the Walmart cake they got for Bobby Cocks.
Idot
May 5th, 2010
6:36 pm
ACE of Cakes is about 40 miles away and about 1 or 2 thousand $ more than the Walmart cake they got for Bobby. But he probably would have delivered it, and give it to Bobby for free, if they are in the middle of shooting his show.
Agnes Pace
May 5th, 2010
6:46 pm
No cmment
james
May 5th, 2010
6:52 pm
Cox ejected. Hopefully, they never mess that one up.
shane
May 5th, 2010
7:04 pm
are we really discussing a cake?
dan
May 5th, 2010
8:21 pm
Maybe Isakson should do a little more working and less goofing off. Lazy
Darren
May 5th, 2010
8:34 pm
Saddens me that the Isakson camp would think this funny.
Shame.
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Norbert Finch
May 5th, 2010
8:58 pm
Wasn’t this the name of a British porno from the 70’s about randy cops?
Kay
May 5th, 2010
9:10 pm
the government will control all bakeries soon – and well, they won’t care if things are spelled correctly as long as they can milk the owners of the company out of excessive amounts of taxes and then put them on the FDA’s most wanted list for the worst bakery around…..
henry moss
May 5th, 2010
9:16 pm
why can’t we at least have one powerhouse team in ATLANTA? all our teams are so weak compared to their competetion. why will not one of our owners and gm’s be willing to outspend their opponents and bring us a winner? when any of our teams do make the playoffs we (fans) know they will not go past the first round.
Traver
May 5th, 2010
9:30 pm
Good luck Mr. Cocks. Your the best,
Dick Trickle
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dawgma
May 5th, 2010
10:18 pm
AND THEY WANNA RUN OUR HEALTHCARE?
Gil In Mechanicsville
May 5th, 2010
10:53 pm
I guess they used the same bakery that normally caters for Barney Franks…
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An Adult
May 5th, 2010
11:52 pm
Kwa Kwa, and the rest of you ‘Firsts’ — I bet you are really looking forward to graduation from middle school this year. You likely won’t be able to hang around on line all the time in high school waiting to be ‘first’ on blogs. You might have to start having a real life and maybe studying. Don’t worry though, you will enjoy the prom
Reid Adair
May 5th, 2010
11:57 pm
Given how they chose to misspell the name, I would say someone did that on purpose. What a shame.
Payton 2
May 5th, 2010
11:58 pm
Has to be a teabagger on Johnny Isakson’s staff…probably one who wrote that sign: NO PUBIC OPTION!
Mema
May 6th, 2010
12:04 am
LOL I have to side with Payton 2 – they are dumb-as*es. I saw that one video of them going after the guy with parkinson’s disease who was lobbying for more awareness of the disease. Apparently, they all got caught up in the bagging moment and lost their heads – thought the guy was looking for hand outs. Nut bags!
Michele
May 6th, 2010
12:20 am
“They never specified how to spell Cox, as if that would seem necessary.” Obviously, they have never checked out Cakewrecks.com or they would have known better!
LydiasDad
May 6th, 2010
12:47 am
I’ll tell you how it happened. The cake decorator was an illegal alien who has no grasp of English names.
Retiring teacher
May 6th, 2010
12:52 am
Press 1 for English. Guess the person who did the decorating did not speak or spell English.
Coach (2011 or Bust)
May 6th, 2010
1:35 am
The baseball Gods do have a sense of humor after all!
peggy
May 6th, 2010
1:54 am
Most likely a bunch of damn illegal aliens working at the bakery. Don’t read or speak English, much less spell it.
Joe Cocks... I mean Cox
May 6th, 2010
2:19 am
I finally stopped sitting by my phone waiting on the NFL to call and got a great job at a bakery in DC. Best part is I get to decorate the cakes and hand out samples. My first cake was a pretty big deal hopefully it whent well!
Pedro J Lara
May 6th, 2010
4:05 am
Oh man how bad Bobby must of felt when he saw the cake. I am shure they all got a big laugh out of this.
Pedro J Lara
May 6th, 2010
4:16 am
Payton 2. I know that you are kidding that a teabagger caused this.It was someone with no idea who Bobby Cox is and just screwd up. I seriousley dought that it was a illegal alien that made the mistake.
Glenn Sanders
May 6th, 2010
4:31 am
Thanks Bobby for all those consistant winning years at least we had a chance to try and win each year, where as the other teams would be in last place the next year. I took my Mom to see the new stadium before she passed away and as a young ball player myself she loved the game and cried like a baby when she seen it, thats TRUE BLUE LOVE of the game. My favorate memory is her saying alright Bobby there not hustling on and off the field, like Lemke or Furcal them boy are hustlers and you made her last ten years very happy. THANKS Bobby from one loyal fan from worst to first to the end . ENJOY was your first thought on Sid slide into home plate (Safe OR- out)?