Re: [bomp] Re: the object of the game is to come home

["BlackMonk" <Blackmonk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <NankerPhlg@aol.com>
To: <bomp@router.xnet2.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 11:23 AM
Subject: [bomp] Re: the object of the game is to come home


>
> Domenic sez:
> <<< George Carlin's whole routine about why baseball is cool, and football
is not >>>
>
> Nanker answers:
> << Uh Dom...I think ya might wanna go back and watch that bit again, if
that's your interpretation of what George was saying. >>
>
> Sknoof sknoofs:
> <<< Careful -- Carlin has TWO recorded baseball/football routines. I don't
> think you two guys are talking about the same one.
>
> Domenic replies:
> <<< I'm talkin' about the one in the Ken Burns documentary...>>
>
> If that's the one from where the title of your (and this) post comes (I
didn't see the Ken Burns doc), then yes, that's the one I meant too...where
he goes down a list of comparisons between the two sports...first citing a
football factor in an exaggerated tough assertive voice:
>
> "In baseball you wear a helmet!"
>
> ...and then giving the baseball equivalent in an equally exaggerated wimpy
voice:
>
> "In baseball...you wear a cap."
>

Having heard it probably decades ago, I only remember one line,

In football, you score a touchdown
In baseball, you run home.

I used to like Carlin, but I still haven't forgiven him for that awful
sitcom about ten years ago. Besides, while I usually have no problem with
comedians/musicians/whatever becoming corporate shills, there are a few
people who've built their careers around NOT being the kind of person who
does that, Carlin being one of them. I thought the Simpsons episode where
Krusty becomes a stand-up comic was a direct shot at Carlin.

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