Seems like Yogi’s mysterious informant isn’t actually as dubious as one might have expected. Lord Varys is a highly regarded information broker and a member of the small council, after all. His information is normally of high quality – and since Yogi isn’t really engaged in any campaign to get himself* onto the Iron Throne, he’ll probably not get fed any false information for manipulative purposes either.
Seems like Varys tripped himself up with his selection of an euphemism, though. The people in Westeros care more about children than about animals, it seems, so an euphemism that makes perfect sense in that context obviously can’t work that well in the context of our own culture.
Although it’s hard to say whether Vary’s information was really wrong** or whether it’s wasn’t Yogi’s own interpretation of that information that is to blame. That pitcher looks plenty neurotic and wishy-washy, doesn’t he? Perhaps Yogi was just jumping to conclusions when expecting somebody else. Sometimes, his encyclopedic knowledge of cricket can trip him up in that way, since he simply knows too many people.
What we can say with certainty is that this pitcher is not the man Yogi was expecting: Jimmy Valiant. But who is he?
Find out on Thursday.
*Or themselves, since I guess Riko would not have much of a choice but being part of it, as well.
**Don’t be fooled by the fact that he’s apologizing, that might only be pretense, of course. You never know with him. ._.