Re: Okay, I normally have no beef with Howie Rose...

On 2008-09-10 01:14:14 -0400, connie876@xxxxxxx (Connie K.) said:

On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 01:39:43 GMT, Phil <phil@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

But delagado just hit his second homer of the night, and the scoreboard
just flashed "Domo Arigato, Carlos Delgado!"

Howie, who says he doesn't speak a word of Spanish, didn't know what
that meant, but he was sure it was something like, "MVP candidate
Carlos Delgado!"

He just caught me totally off guard with that one... it was lucky I
wasn't drinking a shot of Talisker at that moment.



Well, it is funny.

I thought so. I was picturing all these guys from Kurosawa Central Casting, sitting around drinking sake and scratching themselves through their kimono sleeves, listening to WFAN and saying, "Uh-Howie-ya... a-Rose... I don't speak a word of Spanish. I wonder what it means?"

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