MERIWETHER COUNTY, Ga.
Ned Yost is calling the man in the seed truck a dumbass, and there are at least two things you need to know about this.
First, this is a term of endearment down here, like redneck. We’re all dumbasses in some ways, right? Ned knows more about baseball and hunting than anyone you are likely to meet in a month, but he’s still in awe of how those guys framed his hunting shack in three hours. When it comes to framing a hunting shack, Ned is an admitted dumbass.
Second, he’s kind of hoping the dumbass does this dumbass thing Ned thinks he’s about to do, because we’re standing near the lake on the 550 acres he owns an hour south of Atlanta, and if that big truck gets stuck in that deep mud, Ned gets to grab his tractor and pull him out and .