Less than 48 hours after the Nationals' center fielder uttered the words, they were indelibly woven into our lexicon.Īs the Harper dust settles, I got to wondering how things might have turned out if Yogi Berra played in an era of social media. Sports Blog for the Washington Post, recapped the boomerang effect of Harper's response. Then we used the quotation in all sorts of non-baseball contexts. Within hours, everywhere you turned on the internet, on Twitter and on Facebook, there was "That's a clown question, bro." First we learned about the quotation. You can see the video here, if you haven't already. The give-and-take was captured on video and posted by The Score the next day. Harper, who is Mormon and doesn't drink, looked askance at the reporter and said, "I'm not answering that. A reporter asked Harper, who's 19, whether he planned to have a celebratory beer, since the legal drinking age in Toronto is 18. I was thinking about Yogi Berra and his famous quips in the aftermath of Bryce Harper's "That's a clown question, bro." Harper's remark came in response to a reporter's question after the Nationals defeated the Blue Jays 4-2 on June 12 in Toronto.
We use it in all sorts of contexts now, baseball and otherwise. The quotation was repeated enough, orally and in print, that eventually it became part of our everyday lexicon. Berra said it, someone wrote it down, and then reported the quotation. Berra supposedly said "It's like deja vu all over again" while watching Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris hit back-to-back home runs over and over again in the 1960s. Of course that's just one of many "Yogi-isms", quips from Yankee great Yogi Berra that seem nonsensical but perfectly capture an idea or emotion. I could be writing about stories describing a "toxic" Red Sox clubhouse, and the ensuing stories about the media getting it wrong just to build a poisonous narrative about Boston.īut I'm not writing about any of those things. I could be writing about umpire Jerry Layne getting hit in the head by the barrel of a broken bat, just a few years after Tyler Colvin, then with the Cubs, was impaled in the chest by a broken bat while running home from third base. I could be writing about Roy Oswalt pitching for a Texas team last night, but not the one with whom he pitched most of his career.
With that kind of title, this post could go in many different directions.
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