Posts Tagged humor
Twitter!
Posted by Pork Flu Ribs in Uncategorized on July 7th, 2009
Does there exist elsewhere such an inappropriately sparse medium for a writer as overstuffed as Pete? Yes, Abraham has a twitter, and though its only real purpose is to link to blog updates, he sometimes uses it to gripe. Like this:
Hey, some Letterman monologue writer stole my Twitter comment on the hot-dog eating contest. Send me royalties.
Pete Abraham made a hot dog eating contest joke? Irony sirens are blaring in my ears as I write. What comment of his was “stolen” though?
The hot-dog eating contest is why other countries hate America. We’re a nation that finds gluttony entertaining.
Oh. It was just some boilerplate joke about the Nathan’s hot dog eating contest — the equivalent of bitching about airline peanuts. Were Letterman writers really scraping the bottom of the barrel?
Never mind that the guy who dominated the contest for several years is Japanese.
And more to the point, it’s just the latest in Pete’s long running war against anything fun or interesting. He takes exception to just about every ballpark tradition, from throwing the ball back when an opponent hits a homerun to the groundscrew doing YMCA.
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Okay, so maybe he has a point about that last one. But still, he’s only in his 30s and he already has the “curmudgeonly journalist asshole” personality down pat. And it’s not like he covers politics and so has been rendered cynical by Washington horse trading — he covers a god damn sports team. Lighten up a bit, Pete.
Angel Berroa … Again
Posted by Pork Flu Ribs in Uncategorized on May 28th, 2009
UPDATE, 11:15 p.m.: In what should be his final appearance as a Yankee, Angel Berroa is pinch running for Matsui.
I heard he’s on the juice anyway. Prune juice.
(I didn’t come up with that, somebody else in the press box did. But I will not divulge who.)
No. No one else in the press box came up with that. You are the only one propagating this stupid joke. It has never been funny, and it’s never made any sense. Angel Berroa looks exactly 31 years old.
You may think he looks like Uncle Remus from Disney’s foray into minstrelsy, Songs of the South, but we’ll say this again: growing up in Boston should not be an excuse for racism anymore.
Maybe Gannet Media should furlough you again, this time for sensitivity training. Or just to stop you from making dumb jokes.
Not Angel Berroa, Pete
The many faces of Papelbon
Posted by Jalapeno Cheddar Stuffed Enchiliditos in Uncategorized on May 11th, 2009
Papelbon is a huge douche on mother's day
We here at the Buffet are on the edge of our seat waiting to hear what Aubrey Huff has to say about this positively Jobaian display.
Ham extra spicy after devastating loss.
Posted by Jalapeno Cheddar Stuffed Enchiliditos in Uncategorized on May 7th, 2009
Leave it to the LoHud Journal’s finest beat writer to pick up the spirits of Yankee fans everywhere, or at least maintain some semblance of impartiality towards the team’s marquee player, in a time of need:
We have a winner! Funniest comment in LHYB history is revealed
From “Kingdome” at 11:21 p.m. this evening:
A-Rod will provide the leadership and heart this team needs. He is a winner and a leader. He will show us why he is the best player in baseball and what we missed the past month.
Congratulations. We’ve asked the Yankees to provide a prize and they said Kingdome can buy the $2,625 seat of his or her choice for the next game.
It is all there. The derision of his own readership, the scathing wit regarding the Yankees front office, and the smouldering hatred for Alexander Emmanuel Rodriguez.
Intrepid reporter Peter Abraham risks life and corned beef sandwich to get a picture of the Great Leader
Update Friday May 08th, 9:46 PM - WELL, WELL, WELL, look who showed up and decided to tell CC how to fucken pitch and also won the game with a HR!
Now I’m Not Calling Peter Abraham a Racist …
Posted by Pork Flu Ribs in Uncategorized on May 2nd, 2009
Scrappy little non-hitter Angel Berroa, inexplicably a member of the present Yankees bench, is currently the main object of Peter Abraham’s brand of ‘humor.’ For some reason (possibly because he’s Dominican) Abe decided that Angel Berroa looks old as the oaks and decided to make a running unfunny joke of it. But witness his latest variant on that joke:
Peter Abraham Thinks Racist Jokes Are Funny
Oh the Yucks! I know, Pete, black people DO all look alike. I can’t believe I never noticed the resemblance before.
Other things Angel Berroa looks like, according to Peter Abraham: Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, Sambo, and Harriet Tubman.
Seriously, Pete, you run a major blog covering a team in America’s most culturally diverse city. Just because you grew up a Boston Red Sox fan does not excuse racist humor. How did your common sense filter let this one get through?
Update: 5/2/09 4:34 PM
Abe and Matt Vasgersian must be chartering in some kind of casually racist comedic revolution. During today’s YES broadcast, Michael Kay took some time to awkwardly make Paul O’Neill and John Flaherty guess what black person Chone Figgins looks like! Not surprisingly, Kay’s declaration (a young Willie Randolph) drew groans from his boothmates and presumably from a large chunk of the viewing public.