Check out Barney Frank's funny dig at McCain

[Onlooker]

http://thinkprogress.org

When asked by the Washington Post whether McCain "will be able to spin the idea that he swooped in and saved the bailout bill," House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-MA) replied:

It depends on whether you guys get fooled or not and write that (bleep). ... Before McCain came in, we thought we were working. McCain comes in, it gets screwed up, now McCain leaves -- I dunno, it's like Jimmy Piersall.

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

On May 24, 1952, just before the game against the New York Yankees, Jimmy Piersall engaged in a fistfight with Yankee infielder Billy Martin. Following the brawl, Piersall briefly scuffled with teammate Mickey McDermott in the Red Sox clubhouse. After several such incidents, Piersall was sent to the minor league Birmingham Barons on June 28. The final straw came when Piersall spanked the four-year-old son of teammate Vern Stephens in the Red Sox clubhouse during a game.

In less than three weeks with the Barons, Piersall was ejected on four occasions, the last coming after striking out in the second inning on July 16. Prior to his at-bat, he had acknowledged teammate Milt Bolling's home run by spraying a water pistol on home plate. Piersall then moved to the grandstand roof to heckle home plate umpire Neil Strocchia.

Receiving a three-day suspension, Piersall entered treatment three days later at the Westboro State Hospital in Massachusetts. Diagnosed with "nervous exhaustion," he would spend the next seven weeks in the facility and miss the remainder of the season. According to his autobiography, Piersall blamed much of his condition on his father, who pressured him to succeed as a baseball player as a small child.

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He once stepped up to bat wearing a Beatles wig and playing "air guitar" on his bat, led cheers for himself in the outfield during breaks in play, and "talked" to Babe Ruth behind the center field monuments at Yankee Stadium. In his autobiography, Piersall commented, "Probably the best thing that ever happened to me was going nuts. Whoever heard of Jimmy Piersall, until that happened?"

[billyoc]

1. Oh, man, Frank is brutal!

:rofl:

[central scrutinizer]

2. John McPiersall- too bad the reference is too obscure to catch on

LOL

[baldguy]

3. Who updated the Wiki page?

"Doing a Piersall" is a regional colloquialism used in Ohio and the Northeast to refer to an individual who attempts a routine task in a showboating manner, or one using the antics of the Marx brothers. It is related to the colloquialisms "hotdog" or "snatching defeat from the jaws of victory". It derives from Piersall's on field antics, e.g., during his time with the Cleveland Indians, Piersall would play outfield very shallow, turning otherwise routine fly balls into fingernail-biting over the head catches. This colloquialism was most recently used by a Congressman to describe the last minute efforts of a fellow legislator.