{"id":48228,"date":"2021-11-03T23:50:12","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T03:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=48228"},"modified":"2021-11-04T00:19:27","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T04:19:27","slug":"fuck-you-ajc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=48228","title":{"rendered":"Fuck you, AJC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"border-image alignnone wp-image-48229 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/newspaper_fail.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/newspaper_fail.jpg 510w, http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/newspaper_fail-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The only thing I wanted to commemorate the Braves\u2019 World Series victory was a copy of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution with some sort of front page cover of the Braves\u2019 victory.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Unsurprising, so does just about every single fucking Braves fan in the Metro Atlanta area, or just people who want a slice of history.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">But I guess it\u2019s safe to say that misery loves company and that I am most definitely kept company, given the fact that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsbtv.com\/sports\/mlb\/atlanta-braves\/atlanta-journal-constitution-special-braves-edition-go-sale-this-morning\/PAA4AYDSBVFU7CQUSWMZC4IYZU\/\"><span class=\"s1\">the AJC printed a paltry 30,000 copies<\/span><\/a> of a commemorative November 3rd edition.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Also unsurprising is that there are <i>thousands <\/i>of disappointed and upset fans who were unable to get one because there were only 30,000 copies of a fucking newspaper to a metropolitan area that has a population of nearly six million fucking people to which obviously not all of them are going to be Braves fans, but a whole fucking lot more than 30,000 are sure to be.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">30,000 copies.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Only distributed at Krogers, Publixes, RaceTracs and QTs.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>That probably means each location got like, 20 copies, to which they were obviously all sold out instantaneously by those who were lucky enough to be at the right fucking places at the right fucking time.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>And me being handcuffed to a baby for 17 hours of every single day, I can\u2019t even have the chance to even try to get one of these fucking surprisingly Jesus-rare newspaper editions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Fuck you, AJC.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>You\u2019re not Nintendo withholding Switches.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>You\u2019re not Sony, artificially suppressing Piss5s.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>You\u2019re a fucking regional rag that somehow fucked up getting Willy Wonka\u2019s golden ticket, by pulling this kind of bullshit stunt.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>You could have printed 200,000 copies of this fucking paper, and they\u2019d have almost all sold for $3 a pop, netting an absurd amount of revenue for a piece of shit publication that nobody would give two shits about on any other given day, but it just so happened to luck into the regional baseball lottery with the Braves winning a World Series.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Sure, they\u2019re going to reprint a generous 70,000 more copies of it, but the cat is out of the bag now, and people now know the hot ticket these things are, and how many people want them.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>And when that happens, if it already hasn\u2019t, we\u2019re going to have motherfuckers buying up multiples to try and flip them for profit, because the world is fucked up, everyone sucks, and I fucking hate everything right now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">I only had one goal, and it was a colossal failure and not for lack of trying.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>In spite of my limited opportunities to leave the house, I still tried, failed, because the Publixes and Krogers I tried probably had like five copies.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Sure, there might be maybe 10 copies at each tomorrow, but I\u2019m in the same boat of not going to have any chance to go check, and I probably won\u2019t get them, and I\u2019ll have to settle for the bullshit Friday edition or the Sunday reprint, that I\u2019ll still get with hate and grudge in my soul.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The whole point of this was to get the paper on the fucking day after the World Series ended, and thanks to the AJC being a bunch of fucking fuck faces, dreams of traditionalists and Braves fans like me are all met with the same bullshit fate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Fuck you, AJC.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>I hate you more than COVID-19 right now, and I kind of hope that the Braves never win the World Series again, so that you\u2019ll never have another opportunity to fuck up the golden ticket again.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Better yet, I retract my hopes that the Braves never win again, I hope they do win again, but when they do, the AJC is out of business and replaced by some publication that doesn\u2019t fucking amount to toilet paper for the homeless.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The only thing I wanted to commemorate the Braves\u2019 World Series victory was a copy of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution with some sort of front page cover of the Braves\u2019 victory.\u00a0 Unsurprising, so does just about every single fucking Braves fan in the Metro Atlanta area, or just people who want a slice of history. But &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=48228\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fuck you, AJC<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,62,66,201,45,83,143,8,105,146,49],"class_list":["post-48228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-angst","tag-baseball","tag-braves","tag-cash-money","tag-fail","tag-observations","tag-ohatlanta","tag-ohgeorgia","tag-rage","tag-triggered","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48230,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48228\/revisions\/48230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}