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Whilst on the Subject…

by Tom Levenson|  October 10, 20135:25 pm| 38 Comments

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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.
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  1. 1.

    Mullah DougJ

    October 10, 2013 at 5:25 pm

    I was watching that game on tv, it was hilarious!

  2. 2.

    aimai

    October 10, 2013 at 5:31 pm

    “I want a whole Jewish Infield when Mel Gibson gets out.”

    I love Dennis Leary.

  3. 3.

    ? Martin

    October 10, 2013 at 5:32 pm

    Lagniappe is a great word. Haven’t heard it uttered since leaving NY.

  4. 4.

    muricafukyea

    October 10, 2013 at 5:32 pm

    The asshole song is something of a classic.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrgpZ0fUixs

  5. 5.

    Old Dan and Little Ann

    October 10, 2013 at 5:33 pm

    I would not want to hang out with anyone who doesn’t like Dennis Leary. Oh, and Fuck the red sox.

  6. 6.

    dedc79

    October 10, 2013 at 5:37 pm

    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.

  7. 7.

    Keith G

    October 10, 2013 at 5:40 pm

    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.

  8. 8.

    Trollhattan

    October 10, 2013 at 5:43 pm

    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

  9. 9.

    Trollhattan

    October 10, 2013 at 5:45 pm

    @Keith G:

    Aw man….

  10. 10.

    replicnt6

    October 10, 2013 at 5:47 pm

    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.

  11. 11.

    KG

    October 10, 2013 at 5:51 pm

    @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.

  12. 12.

    beltane

    October 10, 2013 at 5:52 pm

    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

  13. 13.

    AxelFoley

    October 10, 2013 at 5:52 pm

    Oh, shit this clip is hilarious. LOLOLOLOLOL

  14. 14.

    KG

    October 10, 2013 at 5:52 pm

    @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…

  15. 15.

    shelly

    October 10, 2013 at 5:55 pm

    Oi. For a moment I thought you meant Dennis Miller. Phew!

  16. 16.

    JPL

    October 10, 2013 at 5:57 pm

    That was hilarious when it happened and it still is. BTW where is Mel Gibson?

  17. 17.

    dedc79

    October 10, 2013 at 5:59 pm

    @KG: I often do the same thing with NY Giants broadcasts. Except this year, they’re painful no matter who is announcing.

  18. 18.

    KG

    October 10, 2013 at 6:01 pm

    @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.

  19. 19.

    Bubblegum Tate

    October 10, 2013 at 6:03 pm

    O/T: This picture is funny because it’s true.

  20. 20.

    handy

    October 10, 2013 at 6:12 pm

    @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.

  21. 21.

    superfly

    October 10, 2013 at 6:12 pm

    @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.

  22. 22.

    Punchy

    October 10, 2013 at 6:16 pm

    Whats wrong with Dennis Leary? Comedy genius.

  23. 23.

    lamh36

    October 10, 2013 at 6:16 pm

    https://twitter.com/BenjySarlin/status/388426750876999680

    @BenjySarlin 32s
    Woah RT @nytimes: Breaking News: Obama Rejects Republican Proposal for Short-Term Debt Limit Plan nyti.ms

  24. 24.

    opiejeanne

    October 10, 2013 at 6:18 pm

    @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.

  25. 25.

    ? Martin

    October 10, 2013 at 6:28 pm

    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?

  26. 26.

    Trollhattan

    October 10, 2013 at 6:30 pm

    This should be interesting.

    A for-profit college chain intentionally deceived prospective students and investors about the value of its degrees and sought out the socially isolated and disadvantaged, according to a lawsuit California Attorney General Kamala Harris filed Thursday.

    According to the complaint, Corinthian Colleges Inc. boasted of unrealistically high job placement rates — as high as 100 percent in some cases — while discussing in internal documents how to recruit low-income and disillusioned students who are “impatient,” have “low self-esteem” or can claim “few people in their lives who care about them.”
    Part of that strategy entailed “aggressive and persistent internet and telemarketing campaigns” and placing spots on daytime television shows.

    Corinthian Colleges Inc. tried to lure students with connections to the military by using the seals of various branches of the armed forces without government approval, according to the attorney general’s office.

    Originally organized under Delaware state law and based in Santa Ana, Corinthian Colleges Inc. manages more than 20 campuses around the United States. That includes Heald College locations in Fresno, Modesto, Rancho Cordova, Roseville and Stockton and a WyoTech campus in Fremont.

    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.

  27. 27.

    Trollhattan

    October 10, 2013 at 6:32 pm

    @Punchy:

    Agreed. And “Rescue Me” is right up there among the best series of the last decade.

  28. 28.

    daverave

    October 10, 2013 at 6:33 pm

    @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.

  29. 29.

    the Conster

    October 10, 2013 at 6:37 pm

    I watched that in real time, and it was hilarious. You can hear Jerry Remy coughing up his cancerous lung.

  30. 30.

    lamh36

    October 10, 2013 at 6:40 pm

    @samsteinhp 3m
    The NBC/WSJ poll shows the health care law becoming more popular since the shutdown began. Still at 38/43 good idea/bad idea. But was 31/44

  31. 31.

    handy

    October 10, 2013 at 6:45 pm

    @lamh36:

    Still at 38/43 good idea/bad idea. But was 31/44

    Oops.

  32. 32.

    ET

    October 10, 2013 at 6:46 pm

    @? Martin: One of my faves as well but I hardly ever hear it outside NOLA or at least Louisiana. I also like picayune.

  33. 33.

    handy

    October 10, 2013 at 6:46 pm

    Your comment is awaiting moderation.

    What’d I do Papa, what’d I do?!

  34. 34.

    opiejeanne

    October 10, 2013 at 6:47 pm

    @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.

  35. 35.

    daverave

    October 10, 2013 at 6:50 pm

    @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.

  36. 36.

    opiejeanne

    October 10, 2013 at 7:05 pm

    @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.

  37. 37.

    Phil Perspective

    October 10, 2013 at 8:55 pm

    @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.

  38. 38.

    Howlin Wolfe

    October 11, 2013 at 9:35 am

    @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.

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