Who said this quote?

WeekendHacker · April 30, 2006 10:51AM

Baseball has been very very good to me? I've been trying to figure this out, but can't think of who said this - someone with a heavy Hispanic accent quoted this phrase, please help!!!

WinPitcher · April 30, 2006 10:57AM

Garret Morris on satyrday nite live.

as chico esqulea

Steve

iamthegreatcornholio · April 30, 2006 10:59AM

i think sosa has said it before

dontippet · April 30, 2006 11:20AM

Sammy Sosa during the end of the homerun race in 1998. I believe it was a press interview before a game in St. Louis.

Wabittwax · April 30, 2006 9:56PM

Winpitcher is right. I remember those SNL episodes as a kid. If Sosa said it, then he copied it from SNL.

WinPitcher · April 30, 2006 10:06PM

béisbol beeeen berry berry gooood to Chico.

Steve

dontippet · May 1, 2006 2:53AM

From www.baseball-almanac.com

"Beisbol has been very very good to me." - Sammy Sosa

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/feats/feats12.shtml

WinPitcher · May 1, 2006 4:20AM

Well I guess it comes down to what the original poster had in mind. Was it the SNL skit he was referring to? or what Sosa had said.

I'm sure that more MLB players have said it as well.

Steve

Petarded · May 1, 2006 5:50AM

Chico Esquela said that, hmmm, maybe just as Sammy Sosa was still wearing banana leaves for diapers.....almost what, 30 years ago that Garrett Morris said that.....

Southsider · May 1, 2006 6:02AM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrett_Morris

Cubfan · May 1, 2006 6:47AM

I agree. It was done on SNL more than twenty years before someone told Sosa it would be cute to say that. That was in the years before he all of a sudden forgot the English language in front of Congress.

Wabittwax · May 1, 2006 8:20AM

I was reading that article that southsider posted. I got to this part of it:

"Morris was degraded from years of small roles and racist sketches (at one point the writers were going to have him do a fake ad for "Tar Baby" toothpaste, which would make blacks' teeth stop glowing in the dark -- only when black crew members walked off the set in protest did SNL producer Lorne Michaels drop the idea)."

Could you imagine that happening today? Boy, times have changed, huh.

onlyanumber · May 1, 2006 9:26AM

<< <i>I was reading that article that southsider posted. I got to this part of it:

"Morris was degraded from years of small roles and racist sketches (at one point the writers were going to have him do a fake ad for "Tar Baby" toothpaste, which would make blacks' teeth stop glowing in the dark -- only when black crew members walked off the set in protest did SNL producer Lorne Michaels drop the idea)."

Could you imagine that happening today? Boy, times have changed, huh. >>

One of the most famous skits was Richard Pryor and Chevy Chase (?) in which Pryor was asked word association. Needless to say, half the words given Pryor would get this post deleted.

Wabittwax · May 1, 2006 9:13PM

Yeah, I remember that one too. That was actually really funny and the crowd laughed a lot too. Nowadays there would be rioting in the streets.

alnavman · May 2, 2006 8:03AM

Same would apply if the movie Blazing Saddles was new now...there's a lot of things that were said in that movie that wouldn't be said in movies now.......but still the best part is still the campfire scene...no matter how many times I"ve seen the movie that part still cracks me up!!

DirtyHarry · May 2, 2006 12:27PM

Barry Bonds.

Axtell · May 2, 2006 3:37PM

the Bad News Bears movie (the original, not the god awful idea of a remake)...some of the lines in that film, uttered by kids no less, would have no chance of being made today.

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