Subject: Misspokements (Page 42)

You have really solidified the Mets' centerfield problem.

(1922 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

That’s how ya got your Chinatown, your Harlems, your Little Italy… all them grettos.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

I play football. I’m not trying to be a professor. The tests don’t seem to make sense to me, measuring your brain on stuff I haven’t been through in school.

Those amateur umpires are certainly flexing their fangs tonight.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

You have to have a catcher because if you don’t you’re likely to have a lot of passed balls.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

Ballesteros felt much better today after a 69 yesterday.

I don’t think there is anybody bigger or smaller than Maradona.

English football player & manager

I took my parents back to the airport today. They leave tomorrow.

(1905–1982) American sportswriter

Jacques Lafitte is as close to Surer as Surer is to Lafitte.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

It took me 20 years to memorize the deformaties of the room.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

Tempo… now there's a big word.

English football player & commentator

I’ve never seen a guy on the DL [Disabled List] with pulled fat.

professional baseball player

Who is sitting in that empty chair?

(1899 – 1985) Hungarian-born conductor & violinist

If (Pete) Rose’s streak was still intact, with that single to left, the fans would be throwing babies out of the upper deck.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

Me and George and Billy are two of a kind.

professional baseball player

That’s the trouble with directors; always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

The Spanish manager is pulling his captain off!

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

He just can’t believe what’s not happening to him.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

Do you think that suppository is gonna be safe from me there, Edith?

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

Outside of the killings, [Washington] has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.

(1936 – ) American politician, Mayor of Washington, D.C.

The tiger, he come up with the tigeress. The lion, he come up with the lionette. The zebra, he come up with the zeberelle.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)