Bryce Harper "Clown Question Bro"
This will be the phrase that pays for the next few days or so.
What do you suppose is the over / under on the President using it in his next press conference?
My guess is he uses it before the weekend is out.
WH Reporter: Mr. President. Iran is taking provocative actions in the Middle East, threatening the world oil supply, to say nothing about the existential threat they pose to our good friend and staunch ally, the state of Israel. The American people want to know what are your plans for dealing with this threat?
President Obama: That's a clown question, bro.
Can you imagine if Sarah Palin had Bryce as her advisor before she met with Katie Couric?
Couric: Governor Palin. In order to prove to the American people that you ARE indeed the doorknob I believe you to be, could you tell us what newspapers or comic books you read?
Palin: That's a clown question, bro.
She would be hiding McCain's nitro-glycerin tablets if she had that kind of snappy retort.
Lost in all the hoopla was a pretty useful explanation for younger power hitters to emulate.
Once in a while, go up there with the idea that -- first pitch -- your going to just lay into it something fierce.
The kid doesn't get cheated when he turns it loose. He seems pretty media savvy as well.
from the Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/nationals/nationals-vs-blue-jays-bryce-harper-homer-punctuates-washingtons-fifth-straight-win/2012/06/12/gJQACh2kYV_story.html
Harper has reached base in eight of his last 10 plate appearances, the possible start to one of the monster hot streaks he has compiled each season since junior college. None of those at-bats resonated like his second Tuesday night, with nobody on base in the third inning.
In his first at-bat, Harper had rifled a ground ball through the right side for a single. He dug in now against starter Henderson Alvarez with the game still scoreless. He had been selective all series. Now, just because, he wanted to hack.
“I was going up there swinging out of my shoes, first pitch,” Harper said. “I made up my mind in the on-deck circle. It could have been a curveball, 54 feet. I was swinging.”
Alvarez threw him a first-pitch change-up, an off-speed offering to get over for strike one. Harper destroyed it.
“I don’t know why the outfielder went back,” Manager Davey Johnson said.
The ball came off his bat like a cannon blast, soaring to right-center field. It never stopped gathering speed until, suddenly, it thudded off the portion of Windows restaurant covered by a BlackBerry billboard. The place may have been 450 feet from the plate. The collision sounded like a manhole cover dropped from a skyscraper.
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