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Denis Leary - Kevin Youkillis - Mel Gibson

soupcan Aug 18 2006 09:27 AM

Just heard the funniest thing on the 'FAN - Denis Leary was in the booth on NESN sometime recently and they were discussing Youkillis. Someone said he was Jewish and Leary got all excited and went off on a whole Mel Gibson rant. Hys-ter-i-cal. Went to YouTube to find it and it was there but when I clicked on it I got a message that said it had been removed. Any tips on finding that clip elsewhere? It's priceless I tell ya.

MFS62 Aug 18 2006 09:37 AM

I heard it the other day on the Mike and Mike show on ESPN radio. It was very funny. They sometimes save sound bytes from their show on the espn radio site. But since it was originally aired on a NESN telecast, it might be on their site (don't know if they have one). Leary was in rare form, and when he was told that Gabe Kapler is Jewish, he went into overdrive. He said something like "You mean we have TWO Jewish ballplayers? Take THAT Mel, and your dad, too." Later

soupcan Aug 18 2006 09:54 AM

[url=http://www.deadspin.com/sports/top/denis-leary-tells-mel-gibson-to-shove-it-194559.php]Found it![/url]

ScarletKnight41 Aug 18 2006 10:01 AM

OMG - that was hysterical! Thank you for finding it soup.

Diamond Dad Aug 18 2006 10:23 AM All-Time Jewish Team

With apologies to Kevin Youkalis, he doesn't make the all-time Jewish team at first base. That one goes to Hank Greenberg. Perhaps Youkalis makes it as a third baseman? Who else makes the squad?? 1B -- Hank Greenberg 2B -- Mike Mordecai 3B -- Kevin Youkalis SS -- ?? C - Mike Lieberthal/Moe Berg LF -- Shawn Green CF -- Art Shamsky RF -- ?? DH -- Ron Blomberg SP -- Sandy Kaufax SP -- Ken Holtzman SP -- Steve Stone SP -- ?? SP -- ?? RP -- ?? RP -- ?? RP -- ?? RP -- ?? Mini Knight has a book on jewish sports heros, so I'm sure we can come up with many more

sharpie Aug 18 2006 10:32 AM

Shamsky is the right fielder, not the center fielder. For instance, he never once played CF as a Met.

soupcan Aug 18 2006 10:33 AM

There was some guy named Rosenberg who pitched for the White Sox a few years back.

Willets Point Aug 18 2006 10:35 AM Re: All-Time Jewish Team

Diamond Dad wrote: Mini Knight has a book on jewish sports heros, so I'm sure we can come up with many more Must refrain from repeating joke from Airplane. I like the line "that's one bottle of whiskey away from being Irish Catholic."

seawolf17 Aug 18 2006 10:37 AM

[url]http://jewishmajorleaguers.org/[/url]

MFS62 Aug 18 2006 10:50 AM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Aug 18 2006 11:11 AM

Sorry again, Kevin, but you've been bumped from third by former AL MVP Al Rosen. Fillin' in some other blanks: 1B -- Hank Greenberg , Mike Epstein 2B -- Mike Mordecai 3B -- Al Rosen SS -- very rare - the only one who played even a few games there was a guy named Andy(?) Cohen who did it for the NY Giants. C - Mike Lieberthal/Moe Berg and the Mets' own Joe Guinsberg LF -- Shawn Green CF -- Paul Blair Elliott Maddox (see my post below) Cal Abrams (Also- someone told me that Reds centerfielder of the 40's named Ival Goodman was Jewish, but haven't seen his name on any "official" lists. He was a pretty good ballplayer.) RF -- Art Shamsky (moved him to right) DH -- Ron Blomberg SP -- Sandy Kaufax SP -- Ken Holtzman SP -- Steve Stone SP -- Ed Ruelbach (won over 200 games for the deadball era Cubs) SP -- Bo Belinsky MP -- Jose Bautista (see later post) RP -- ?? RP -- Larry Sherry RP -- Mo Drabowsky Edit: Guess you could add Norm Sherry to the list of catchers, roo. Later

Willets Point Aug 18 2006 10:52 AM

No David Cone and Mike Jacobs? SC=100

MFS62 Aug 18 2006 10:58 AM

Willets Point wrote: No David Cone and Mike Jacobs? SC=100 No, but I remember when Jerry Koosman first came to New York. A reporter wondered about his name and asked him if he was Jewish. Jerry asked him why he had asked. The reporter said that a Jewish ballplayer in New York could make a lot of money. Koosman replied , "Then you can say that I'm Jewish". (true story) EDIT" some more thoughts. As a SP/RP add Jose Bautista. His father married a Jewish woman from the Bronx, and he was raised in the Jewish faith. Centerfielder could be Elliott Maddox, who converted to Judiasm, as did Paul Blair. (I'm going to add those above). Rod Carew married a Jewish woman, and his children were brought up Jewish. There were stories that he had converted to Judiasm, but they were never confirmed. Jim Palmer was adopted by a Jewish family at a young age (2?), but never converted. AND - when I was listening to the radio for the players the Mets had drafted when the franchise was started, I thought the announcer said "Eliosha Cohen". I later found out it was Elio Chacon. He would have been the shortstop on our list. :) Later

Yancy Street Gang Aug 18 2006 11:15 AM

MFS62, Are you David's grandmother?

MFS62 Aug 18 2006 11:24 AM

Yancy Street Gang wrote: MFS62, Are you David's grandmother? No. LOL! If you read on down that page, someone named "jmb" had similar thoughts. I guess I wasn't the only one who mis-heard it. Either that, or you hear what you want to hear. Later

seawolf17 Aug 18 2006 11:26 AM

Shortstop's gotta be Lou Boudreau.

Frayed Knot Aug 18 2006 12:00 PM

Personally, I though the whole Leary & friend act was juvenile and not particularly funny.

Iubitul Aug 18 2006 01:59 PM

Frayed Knot wrote: Personally, I though the whole Leary & friend act was juvenile and not particularly funny. yup ©

soupcan Aug 18 2006 04:18 PM

Frayed Knot wrote: Personally, I though the whole Leary & friend act was juvenile and not particularly funny. ="Iubitul"]yup © [url=http://www.sitcomsonline.com/sounds/diffrentstrokes-1978.wav]Diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks...[/url]

Edgy DC Aug 18 2006 05:42 PM

Washington All Star Buddy Meyer came up as a shortstop, but spent most of his career at second. Moe Berg also came up at shortstop, but, in the end, played only 84 games there. I also thought the performance was eh. I might feel differently if I was a Jew angry about Mel Gibson, though. But it's kind of silly that Leary didn't know and was fishing after ethnic information in the booth.

ScarletKnight41 Aug 18 2006 07:35 PM

Edgy DC wrote: I also thought the performance was eh. I might feel differently if I was a Jew angry about Mel Gibson, though. Perhaps that's it, because I found the routine hysterical.

Frayed Knot Aug 19 2006 01:55 PM

I'm certainly now offended by anything said, just found it all to be pretty unimaginative. The whole 'Hey cool, an athletic Jew!!' thing is on the level of the stuff kids find funny when first discovering ethnic humor at about age 13 or so; and the, 'Take that Mel Gibson' line, while not bad, was kind of sitting there on a platter and then lost it's appeal after they beat it into the ground again and again.

ScarletKnight41 Aug 30 2006 03:50 PM

In all seriousness, I like the NESN announcers. Comical accents and ramblings aside, they're a knowledgeable crew and they aren't horrendous homers.