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Late Night Open Thread: Only in America

by Anne Laurie|  December 27, 20192:52 am| 22 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Sports

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Stay for the comedy twist ending here. No brawls or pogroms occur. https://t.co/qR2D3m7hbd

— Mig Greengard (@chessninja) December 25, 2019

Finally they left and I turned to J and said I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS WHAT DO WE DO THESE ANTI-SEMITES WHAT THE WHAT

— Kate Havard Rozansky (@KateHavard) December 24, 2019

I am not well versed in basketball but @JRozansky is never letting me live this one down

— Kate Havard Rozansky (@KateHavard) December 24, 2019

Omg my husband just reminded me that once he was watching a game and I was like “WHY ARE THEY SCREAMING WHITE POWER?!!”
It was Dwight Howard. They were screaming for Dwight Howard. ?‍♀️

— Beth Ilyssa (@bethilyssa) December 24, 2019

there’s an even more apropos story about Kevin Youkilis; the baseball-reference ID for most players is constructed from the first 5 letters of the last name followed by the first 2 of the first name, but for Youk this is… unfortunate. so they changed it

— my wife is also named borte (@kushnerbomb) December 26, 2019

Funny, he doesn't look Jrueish. pic.twitter.com/CCwLMOUtDf

— Joel M. Petlin (@Joelmpetlin) December 24, 2019

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22Comments

  1. 1.

    NotMax

    December 27, 2019 at 2:57 am

    Absolutely no idea what any of the above refers to.

    And am completely happy to keep it that way.

  2. 2.

    sab

    December 27, 2019 at 3:02 am

    @NotMax: D’accord.

  3. 3.

    sab

    December 27, 2019 at 3:24 am

    NE Ohio. Planning yardwork today. That should be shoveling snow. Instead I will be weeding and raking leaves. The trees are budding. At the end of December!

    There is no global warming. (//)

    Have three stepkids. Two are sensible. The third isn’t . She is the only one who risked having kids in this world. The other two say “No way.

    ETA as a potential grandparent that is so sad. But gotta agree.

  4. 4.

    opiejeanne

    December 27, 2019 at 3:45 am

    Those stories are pretty funny. When I was a kid, my mom had to explain that the fans weren’t yelling “Boo!”, they were yelling “Moose!”. I’d never heard of Bill Skowron.

    We repeated this with our kids when Youkilis played. There’s another player in recent years that the cheers for him sound like boos, but I can’t think who that is.

  5. 5.

    Amir Khalid

    December 27, 2019 at 4:14 am

    @opiejeanne:

    I am reminded of Springsteen fans shouting “Bruuuce!”

    By the way, there’s a jackal by that nym, who I haven’t seen here in a while. I hope everything’s okay with him.

  6. 6.

    Raven

    December 27, 2019 at 4:17 am

    @NotMax: the rock ain’t your game

  7. 7.

    NotMax

    December 27, 2019 at 4:39 am

    @Raven

    Hell, at this point the game ain’t my game.

    ;)

  8. 8.

    JPL

    December 27, 2019 at 4:51 am

    Stomach viruses are not fun.  Chills, cramps, nausea, etc. etc.

  9. 9.

    Betty Cracker

    December 27, 2019 at 4:52 am

    Testing!

  10. 10.

    NotMax

    December 27, 2019 at 5:00 am

    @Betty Cracker

    Wow, someone’s up at the crack of dawn dark!

  11. 11.

    SFBayAreaGal

    December 27, 2019 at 5:11 am

    Years ago I was at a SF Giants game with my sister when Vida Blue was pitching for the SF Giants. I thought the fans were yelling booooo. I was getting pretty upset and asked my sister why are they booing him. She told me it’s not booo they were yelling it’s Bluuuuu they were yelling.

  12. 12.

    rikyrah

    December 27, 2019 at 5:30 am

    @JPL:

    get better??????

  13. 13.

    Gin & Tonic

    December 27, 2019 at 5:53 am

    So we are dog-sitting while my daughter and her husband visit his parents. Ask me why I’m up at this hour.

  14. 14.

    Kathleen

    December 27, 2019 at 6:17 am

    @SFBayAreaGal: Also Giants had Matty and Jesus Alou on the roster and when fans chanted “Alouuuuu” it sounded like boos.

  15. 15.

    JR

    December 27, 2019 at 6:55 am

    Really, who would root for Dwight Howard? That guy has burned bridges in every town he’s played.

  16. 16.

    JR

    December 27, 2019 at 6:55 am

    Really, who would root for Dwight Howard? That guy has burned bridges in every town he’s played.

  17. 17.

    Barbara

    December 27, 2019 at 7:33 am

    I would certainly be confused if I thought people were screaming “white power” at an NBA  game.

  18. 18.

    RSA

    December 27, 2019 at 7:44 am

    At Memorial stadium in the 1970s, you could hear Orioles fans cheering for Boog Powell: “Boooooooog!”

  19. 19.

    RobertDSC-Mac Mini

    December 27, 2019 at 8:28 am

    @JR:

    He has had a renaissance as a role player on the Lakers. He was signed with a strict warning against any further drama and his contract is non-guaranteed.

  20. 20.

    Major Major Major Major

    December 27, 2019 at 9:51 am

    testing

  21. 21.

    Hungry Joe

    December 27, 2019 at 10:05 am

    On a road trip in the Southwest many years ago, after noticing a sign on a country store, I went off on a soliloquy to my then-girlfriend about Chinese contributions to the settling of the Old West. The sign read:

    HU TING

    FISHING SUPPLIES

    We drove a few more miles, and she said, “You idiot. The sign was missing a letter.”

    HUNTING

    FISHING SUPPLIES

  22. 22.

    JAFD

    December 27, 2019 at 12:34 pm

    Also Bob Boone, catcher for the great Phillies teams of the 70’s

    ‘Twas a big neon sign atop the old

    HOTEL

    WALNUT PARK

    PLAZA

    that, in its twilight, had only three letters of the middle row functioning…

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