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"It is my theory that Yao Ming is, in actuality, three wiley Chinamen atop each other's shoulders. Chinamen. Wiley to the end. Not to mention sallow."

Sports Illustrated recently listed what they consider to be the Top Ten Most Embarrassing TV/Radio Interview Moments in sports, and I must say, they picked some doozies. However, I'd like to add a few that they neglected to mention:

1. Immediately following their stunning game 6 victory in the 1986 World Series, the New York Mets inexplicably and collectively drafted an impromptu document in their clubhouse entitled "Jewspiracy", which Lenny Dykstra and Mookie Wilson then attempted to read on the air during Kiner's Korner. The then mentally acute Ralph Kiner thankfully stopped the duo just as they came to the end of the first sentence of the Sharpie-on-jockstrap screed: "...through Buckner's legs, with the tenacity of a Jew."

2. Upon breaking Mark McGwire's then record of 70 homeruns, Barry Bonds declared to ESPN anchor Dan Patrick: "Each homerun to me is like a tiny orphan white boy that I am spanking until he cries and then dies. That's all I'm thinking when I'm up there. Well, two things, actually - 'wait for my pitch', and 'let's kill some white baby boy orphans'."

3. Howie Long used "The N Word" 43 times during one Radio Shack commercial. Though technically not an interview moment, it deserves to be included here due to its sheer astoundingness. The commercial never aired, but bootleg tapes of the raw footage (amazingly these tapes include multiple, multiple takes during which the director never once chastises Long for peppering his speech randomly with "The N Word") are currently in circulation on e-Bay and used for college drinking game purposes. In fact, Long's language is so horrifying that Terri Hatcher's exposed left ass cheek often goes unnoticed. The commercial was for a radio-controlled toy motorboat/waffle-maker.

4. After getting the game-winning hit in the 2001 World Series, Luis Gonzalez tried to pick Len Berman's nose.

5. Another crazy random thing that didn't really happen!

6. And another!

7. Hey folks it's Friday and I've got people to place and things to people.

Posted on August 06, 2004