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Happy Birthday to Frank Sobotka (Chris Bauer)! Today we’re celebrating the ultimate blue-collar kingpin of the Patapsco docks🎂 Man, if you don't like S2 because it wasn't about Avon and his crew, please go back and do another rewatch of S2 and focus on Frank only, then you will come back to thank me. He wasn't some greedy drug lord chasing a lavish lifestyle; he was just a desperate dock worker watching his union, his people, and his family's way of life slowly fade away into nothing. He made a deal with the devil just to keep the dock alive again. He went out like a real soldier, trying to do right by Nick and Ziggy. Did you know Frank originally showed up to the auditions trying to land the role of McNulty? The writers ended up going a completely different route for Jimmy, but they loved Frank so much they kept him in mind for the dock-worker storyline in S2. And when the offer finally came in, Frank was already working a steady gig on Third Watch. He almost turned down the role of Frank entirely because of the schedule, but his wife literally pushed him out the door and insisted he take it😂 He had to beg his other boss for permission to slide down to Baltimore🤝 #TheWire #FrankSobotka #ChrisBauer #ZiggySobotka #Nick

Many never realize how important Fruit , arguably a nobody compared to the major characters was to the show. He is practically the domino effect from S3 to S4. He rips off Cutty on a dope package and pulls a gun on him, but later during a Barksdale raid on his corner, he gets completely spared by Cutty. It was in that moment Cutty realizes he just doesn't have the heart to be a hitter anymore. That exact moment forces Cutty to walk away from the game entirely, which leads to him asking Avon for the cash to start up his boxing gym. That gym completely changes the landscape for the corner kids. Then in S4, Fruit gets dropped by Lex outside a nightclub over a girl, which completely kicks off the entire chain of events for the rest of the season. Because Lex clears Fruit off the board, Marlo has Chris and Snoop set a trap for Lex using Little Kevin to lie to Randy to pass the message. That single phone call entirely ruins Randy's life, branding him a snitch on the street, leading to a massive stack of bodies in the vacants, and eventually forcing Randy straight into a broken foster care system. If Cutty had put a bullet in Fruit back on that corner in Season 3, Lex never would have had to shoot him. Cutty doesn't leave the game, so he doesn't build the gym, Randy would still be in school, Little Kevin would be alive, Bodie would be alive, and the entire West Side map would have rolled out completely differently. Cutty's mercy caused the death of so many lives💔 #TheWire #Fruit #Cutty #Randy #Marlo