Don Smith of Our Nation’s Capital Writes :
In high school we’d repeat this joke endlessly, but I was shocked to find no reference to it online. It comes from a David Letterman baseball quiz from Late Night with David Letterman.
“Q: What’s the difference between the Mets and Pond Scum?
A: Mets: Outfielder named Mookie
Pond Scum: Everyone named Mookie”
I particularly remember repeating this joke in a math class I had with these two kids in the grade behind me- for a programmer I suck at math- one was a very short Jewish kid who IDOLIZED Marv Albert and mimicked his every line. We’re talking, being up at the chalkboard and getting a right answer and he’d be all, “Yesss, he shoots he scores” blah blah. The other kid was the taller Drew Tagliabue whose sister was friends with my sister. Their dad went on to run the NFL.
Thank you, Don. When I was in high school, we had no nasty jokes to repeat about Washington DC’s baseball team, because as you know, it would be another 20+ years before the District would be awarded a franchise STOLEN from the good people of Montreal. So we had to settle for other typical teenage pastimes, like signing Kim Kane up for subscriptions to magazines he didn’t order, or trying to determine which member of the Urban Verbs had the smallest apartment.
The story about the Marv Albert obsessive and Paul Tagliabue’s kid is amusing, but I’m afraid I’ve got you beat on that one, too. During my school days, I once saw Bob Lobel and Wendy O. Williams in the same room.
Lobel (above) was just passing through, but I’m sure everyone will agree that’s the kind of thing that doesn’t happen everyday.
if you’d said wendy o williams and chet curtis i would’ve been impressed. was this by any chance at a police station?
So Gerard, your personal email address and your blog submission email address are the same now?
STOLEN?!?!? Have you ever seen that wretched stadium? The one with the blue astroturf and the retractable roof that doesn’t retract?!? We really need to stop putting American teams in that horrible place.
i’ve been there and it was certainly no less personable than the cell. the neighborhood was better too.
Don,
I’ve not called your letter a “blog submission”. It’s a piece of mail, hence the category “the mailbag”. My personal email address is no more or less a good way of placing something in CSTB than the comments section is a proper way of addressing a gripe when you can just as easily write to me directly.
In any event, if you’d like to have the above item removed, just say so.
please don’t remove this item before i can find out a) where bob lobel and wendy o. williams were, b) what were the circumstances surrounding this, and c) did susan wornick know?
re : Montreal. Yes, the stadium sucked. As did the last owner prior to MLB’s purchase of the club.
I think if you compare Montreal’s crowds prior to the ’94 work stoppage and the mood afterwards, there’s a little more going on than simply saying it isn’t a baseball town. The team’s lame duck status for years leading to the 2005 relocation wasn’t exactly the sort of thing that would spur season ticket sales.
W.O.W was making an appearance on WBZ’ “People Are Talking” in the spring of 1983. Yours truly was in the studio audience. Lobel, on his way to an important engagement (I presume), strode quickly across the stage and through the crowd on his way to the parking lot.
I don’t know if Bob caught a glimpse of the electrical tape, but he was moving pretty fast.
damn, i was hoping it would somehow involve Community Auditions and it’s host dave maynard.
I’m sure someone else has a good story about Dave Maynard and electrical tape.
i’ll bet bob gamere does.
I’ve got a good story about electrical tape, your mom and a candlepin (for cash). Fuck the both of you!