A Looper...You know, a Pro Jock

Tonight, Braden Looper is pitching for the St. Louis Cardinals.

Mud's act is nothing if not predictable.

With those two statements in mind, I am posting this preemptively, hours before first pitch, to explain what Mud is talking about when it comes to Braden Looper. When the name "Looper" is said aloud, Mud will say something about a "pro jock." What does this mean? Well, in case you haven't seen Caddyshack, here is Bill Murray's famous monologue about caddying.

So I jump ship in Hong Kong and make my way over to Tibet, and I get on as a looper at a course over in the Himalayas. A looper, you know, a caddy, a looper, a jock. So, I tell them I’m a pro jock, and who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama, himself. Twelfth son of the Lama. The flowing robes, the grace, bald… striking. So, I’m on the first tee with him. I give him the driver. He hauls off and whacks one - big hitter, the Lama - long, into a ten-thousand foot crevasse, right at the base of this glacier. Do you know what the Lama says? Gunga galunga… gunga, gunga-galunga. So we finish the eighteenth and he’s gonna stiff me. And I say, “Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know.” And he says, “Oh, uh, there won’t be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness.” So I got that goin’ for me, which is nice.