Idiots Write About Sports

Actual conversation from an actual Oakland Athletics telecasts, as Chris Singleton legs out an infield single and momentarily mulls turning it into an infield double:

Ray Fosse: Oh, to have speed. The speed of Chris Singleton forced the play, forced Brett Boone to charge to try and make a spectacular play… that’s just the great speed that forced the issue. Love to talk about it, never had it.

Greg Papa: Count is 1-0 on Miguel Tejada. You never had speed, even when you were a young guy, huh?

Fosse: First year.

Papa: First year as a rookie?

Fosse: And then I lost it.

Papa: You mean when you were this young good looking guy back in 1969 (showing Fosse’s rookie card on the screen), you had speed?

Fosse: Yes. (awkward pause) Until Pete Rose crippled me.

OK, he didn’t say that thing after the awkward pause, but still.