This is just a lagniappe for the comment thread on DPM’s mascot post, but no ramble through the glades of a Jews and baseball snarkfest is complete without this great Dennis Leary moment*:
*Yeah, I know. Lots of folks have lots of reasons (most of them good, I’m sure) for dissing Leary. But “Where’s Mel Gibson now?” has a permanent place in my heart. So there.
Talk amongst yourselves, friends.
Mullah DougJ
I was watching that game on tv, it was hilarious!
aimai
“I want a whole Jewish Infield when Mel Gibson gets out.”
I love Dennis Leary.
? Martin
Lagniappe is a great word. Haven’t heard it uttered since leaving NY.
muricafukyea
The asshole song is something of a classic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrgpZ0fUixs
Old Dan and Little Ann
I would not want to hang out with anyone who doesn’t like Dennis Leary. Oh, and Fuck the red sox.
dedc79
Football is unlikely to be copying much from baseball these days, but how i wish they’d allow local broadcasts of NFL games with announcers who root for and know the team.
Keith G
I see that one of my boyhood heroes, Scott Carpenter. passed away today. Those astronauts meant to much to me as a young’un in the very early 1960s.
Cheers, my friend.
Trollhattan
Here’s a video of a fireman rescuing a li’l kitteh. Tough guys might want to start cutting onions before viewing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjB_oVeq8Lo&feature=youtu.be
Trollhattan
@Keith G:
Aw man….
replicnt6
One of the happiest nights of my life was seeing “No Cure for Cancer” off-broadway wherever it was, in, it must have been, 1992.
My parents used to go to a ton of theater in NY and asked me if I wanted to go with them to see this guy Denis Leary. The name sounded vaguely familiar, I said sure. Soon after, I saw a clip of him on TV and remembered I seen him before and looked forward to seeing him again.
It was a very small theater, and we were in the front row. Well within spitting distance. We probably caught some spray. I laughed so hard, for so long, I got dizzy and was literally concerned about passing out from lack of oxygen. It was just the icing on the cake to have my parents on either side of me, my father completely clueless, and my mother somewhat clueless.
I never laughed so hard in my life.
KG
@dedc79: as the Saints’ radio announcers always say, “turn down the volume on the TV and turn up the volume on the radio.” I’ve had the unique joy of listening to them via satellite radio, and if I ever actually stayed home to watch games anymore, I’d probably do that. But going to sports bars on Sunday’s during football season is usually too much fun.
beltane
Cory Booker’s father has just passed away: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/10/10/1246096/-NJ-Sen-BREAKING-Cory-Booker-s-D-Father-Has-Died
AxelFoley
Oh, shit this clip is hilarious. LOLOLOLOLOL
KG
@replicnt6: heh, my folks say him a few years back, knew him from Rescue Me but not from any of his stand up. I didn’t have the heart to tell them ahead of time…
shelly
Oi. For a moment I thought you meant Dennis Miller. Phew!
JPL
That was hilarious when it happened and it still is. BTW where is Mel Gibson?
dedc79
@KG: I often do the same thing with NY Giants broadcasts. Except this year, they’re painful no matter who is announcing.
KG
@dedc79: i’m probably going to start doing it for the Dodger games the rest of the playoffs… Vin Scully vs anyone else? Yeah, that’s an easy question.
Bubblegum Tate
O/T: This picture is funny because it’s true.
handy
@KG:
Vin was great in the 80s when he did the national broadcasts on NBC. It’s funny I was watching his two most memorable World Series calls from that era, the Buckner game and the Gibson homer, and despite being a Dodgers guy he sounds way more enthusiastic about the Mets pulling that one out.
superfly
@dedc79:
Turn your local radio station on and turn the TV sound down (if you have a local team), or might be able to find local radio on the internet, if you are watching a team from another city, though the 1-2 second delay would probably be distracting while watching the game, but give it a try.
Punchy
Whats wrong with Dennis Leary? Comedy genius.
lamh36
https://twitter.com/BenjySarlin/status/388426750876999680
opiejeanne
@superfly: I don’t mind the slight delay. We do that when ESPN or FOX Sports foists their clueless announcers on us, guys who never bother to learn how to pronounce the players’ names.
? Martin
MLB At Bat used to allow you to pick the radio broadcast (home or away) to overlay on the video. Do the NFL thingers allow you to do that?
Trollhattan
This should be interesting.
http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2013/10/california-kamala-harris-sues-for-profit-corinthian-colleges-inc.html#storylink=cpy
“Intentionally deceived…about the value of its degrees.” You don’t say.
Trollhattan
@Punchy:
Agreed. And “Rescue Me” is right up there among the best series of the last decade.
daverave
@Keith G:
My childhood home was a couple of houses away from Wally Schirra’s old house and he was in the same Boy Scout troop I was in! It always made me feel like I was invested in the space program somehow.
the Conster
I watched that in real time, and it was hilarious. You can hear Jerry Remy coughing up his cancerous lung.
lamh36
handy
@lamh36:
Oops.
ET
@? Martin: One of my faves as well but I hardly ever hear it outside NOLA or at least Louisiana. I also like picayune.
handy
What’d I do Papa, what’d I do?!
opiejeanne
@daverave: My parents knew Steve Lindsay and his parents from the Methodist church we all attended, and they insisted for nearly 20 years that I knew Steve too, but I didn’t. He was 10 years younger than I was, but they knew a by-God Astronaut.
When we visited Cape Canaveral I tried to buy Linday’s patch for Dad but couldn’t find one.
daverave
@opiejeanne:
Funny thing, I did a Wikipedia on Schirra before posting to make sure that it wasn’t just some neighborhood legend that it was Wally’s house and I confirmed it. At the same time I discovered, much to my chagrin, that the one and only Lynn Forester de Rothschild is also a former resident of my old hometown and in fact was in the same high school graduating class.
opiejeanne
@daverave: @daverave: I am embarrassed to admit that I misspelled Lindsey.
The only other person of interest from my HS is Kent Cullers. He was in the year ahead of mine, but I ate lunch with him and several other brilliant jokers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_Cullers
My parents served cake and punch at his wedding to his first wife, and my mother, my dear provincial, mid-western mother, remarked to me that Carol could have done better, because of Kent being blind. I was gobsmacked by that, and I tried to gently explain what a freakin’ genius he was and that, no, Carol could not have “done better”. Carol was a friend from the church youth group. Her dad was an atheist but had no problem with her playing volleyball and going to the beach with our group. We all liked her dad and especially her.
I haven’t thought of them in years.
Phil Perspective
@handy: I only realized yesterday that Vin Scully also used to do football. In fact, he was the broadcaster for one of the most memorable moments of my childhood:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9y_KZwOq9g
Yes, Earl Campbell knocked Isiah Robertson(who was a Pro Bowl-ish LB at the time) into retirement.
Howlin Wolfe
@dedc79: one can always turn off the sound of the tv and turn on and tune in the local radio broadcast which features booster announcers and color comment.