found on this blog, accompanied by a heartwarming story about Mr. Seate's reaction to receiving an award. [Edit: it also includes the first ever recorded use of the term "clenching the pennant. Remember where you were.]
Mike Seate is my new favorite sportswriter.
Did any of you read the section of that blog post wherein Big Mike Seate says:
ReplyDeletemany of the men in the audience are dressed like they're on their way to a high school prom and slapping each other on the back like the New York Yankees after clenching the pennant...
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I missed the malaprop entirely. But Tyler didn't:
A) Never mind the sound a mouse erection makes - I have NO desire to know what the New York Yankees look like "slapping each other on the back...after clenching the pennant
B) I submit that "clenching the pennant" needs to be a new tag.
Also - I'm having that photo of Big Mike enlarged and mounted. And possibly clenched.
Tyler, in honor of your excellent eye, and your slavish devotion to all things Mike Seate, I am hereby establishing the "clenching the pennant" tag.
Well done.
I am as always sir your most humble and devoted servant etc.
KT