Olbermann just dropped the "You're With Me Leather" joke

[Freelance Hack]

Countdown's top newsmaker tonight was Rawlings, which announced at a presser today it will create an all-time Gold Glove team.

The Gold Glove awards as you may know celebrate great defensive play, or those who flash the leather.

The emcee of the news conference, according to KO, was Chris Berman.

Priceless

 

[tommyp]

Very witty, that Olbermann guy.

 

[Birdscribe]

Countdown's top newsmaker tonight was Rawlings, which announced at a presser today it will create an all-time Gold Glove team.

The Gold Glove awards as you may know celebrate great defensive play, or those who flash the leather.

The emcee of the news conference, according to KO, was Chris Berman.

Priceless

Room Service! I'd like a ****-high fastball out over the plate, please...

 

[Inky_Wretch]

KO has dropped the YWML line before. Each time he does it, I keep expecting him to be booted from Dan Patrick's radio show.

 

[D-3 Fan]

Please forgive me for being naive and dumb, but after hearing the phrase so many times over the years, I have never heard about how Berman and that phrase came about.

I'll be a good little boy and sit down while someone tells me the Leather story. Thanks!!

 

[Freelance Hack]

Please forgive me for being naive and dumb, but after hearing the phrase so many times over the years, I have never heard about how Berman and that phrase came about.

I'll be a good little boy and sit down while someone tells me the Leather story. Thanks!!

From the fine folks at Deadspin

 

[PTSportsWriter]

Please forgive me for being naive and dumb, but after hearing the phrase so many times over the years, I have never heard about how Berman and that phrase came about.

I'll be a good little boy and sit down while someone tells me the Leather story. Thanks!!

Google and Wikipedia are your friends.

 

[D-3 Fan]

PT, I think I'll pass on your advice (in a kind way). Leave it to a veteran like Freelance to dust it off with ease.

BTW, it's you turn to bring donuts for Freelance and the Full Members on the message boards. That's waht newbies do! I usually pour the coffee.

 

[D-3 Fan]

Wow. The fat-assed orca is a smooth operator.

 

[FishHack76]

For people who don't want to search ... From our friends at Wikipedia. I didn't know what it meant either, but it's freaking hilarious

"You're with me, leather" is a pick-up line reportedly used by ESPN anchor Chris Berman in Scottsdale, Arizona, in the mid-1990s, according to an anecdote submitted by a reader of the sports website Deadspin and made popular on the site after it was posted on Deadspin on April 11, 2006.[1]

Origin
According to the story, an anonymous contributor, whom Deadspin editor Will Leitch calls "a respected journalist," was flirting in a bar with an attractive woman wearing leather pants. However, his efforts proved unsuccessful when Berman, who was in Scottsdale to cover baseball spring training, walked by and told the woman "You're with me, leather." The woman immediately got up and left the bar with Berman.[2]

Berman's reaction
The relationship between Berman and the woman is unknown, although he was married with two children at the time of the story. While Berman has not publicly commented on the story, he allegedly responded angrily when he was asked whether he had ever visited Deadspin by a 15-year-old fan during the 2006 NFL Draft, where he hosted ESPN's coverage. Berman reportedly told the fan, "Why would I go and do that? That is such a stupid question. What are you, stupid? That is so stupid." [3]

This response was referenced in a June 19, 2006 column by DJ Gallo of ESPN.com Page 2. In a fictional diary entry of golfer Phil Mickelson at the 2006 US Open, Gallo wrote, "But I can't believe I got a double bogey on 18. Why would I go and do that? That is so stupid. What am I, stupid? I am so stupid." [4]

 

[FishHack76]

All I got to say is dude keeps his pimp hand strong apparently.

"The Force is unusually strong with this one."

 

[tommyp]

Any inside info on the KO-Berman relationship? I'm sure there's gotta be some lingering feelings there, with KO eclipsing Berman's popularity at the Leader during KO's tenure there.

 

[Football_Bat]

I always thought it was a "Happy Days" reference — Fonzie to Leather Tuscadero.

Oh well. Must be one of those phantom quotes like Cagney's "You dirty rat" or Shatner's "Beam me up Scotty."

 

[Webster]

As funny as the story is -- and it is awesome -- I'm a little uncomfortable how widespread a classic "guess what a friend of a friend told me happened in a bar years ago" story about a married guy with children has gotten.

 

[MileHigh]

Berman told the San Jose Mercury News during the Pebble Beach Pro-Am he doesn't know what the term means, but then added:

"A lot of people are very mean-spirited, apparently. You’re talking about something that happened nine years ago, some people want to dump on a guy that’s been pretty nice to people for 27 years.”


http://www.mercextra.com/blogs/buzz/2007/02/09/from-pebble-beach-chris-berman-doesnt-appreciate-his-place-in-cultural-history/

 

[Captain_Kirk]

As funny as the story is -- and it is awesome -- I'm a little uncomfortable how widespread a classic "guess what a friend of a friend told me happened in a bar years ago" story about a married guy with children has gotten.

Definitely. Not good when your pick-up line and extracurricular activity makes Wikipedia.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

"A lot of people are very mean-spirited, apparently. You’re talking about something that happened nine years ago, some people want to dump on a guy that’s been pretty nice to people for 27 years.”

Wow, he remembers it happened nine years ago?

 

[Ace]

Perhaps she wasn't a fling for Berman at all. Maybe she was a tailor who he was meeting to design a tight, leather suit for him.

Wrap your mind around that.

 

[Montezuma's Revenge]

Is it really priceless the 100th time you hear a variation of the same old joke?

It's like the "fetch me a beer, newbie" stuff here. Yeah, that's real fresh. :

I'm as worn out with Berman as the next guy. But it's kind of getting to be as tired as Joan Rivers making jokes about "Fang."

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

Is it really priceless the 100th time you hear a variation of the same old joke?

It's like the "fetch me a beer, newbie" stuff here. Yeah, that's real fresh. :

I'm as worn out with Berman as the next guy. But it's kind of getting to be as tired as Joan Rivers making jokes about "Fang."

Fang was Phyllis Diller's gag-line about her husband.
Jesus, Monte, it's 1965. Try to keep up.