Monday, November 26, 2007

Hot Dog

HOT DOG, as described by the author Rickey Henderson in his 1992 memoir, Off Base: Confessions of a Thief:

People labeled me a hot dog long before I became known as the game's greatest base stealer in 1991...An old teammate of mine once said in my defense, "It's hard to make a Jaguar look like a Volkswagen." I like that. A Jaguar has too much style to be covered by the body of a Volkswagen. In other words, I'm not going to hide what I am. Maybe that's bad. I don't know. If my actions offend anybody, I'm sorry. I mean no harm to anybody. But I'm not a conformist...Call me a hot dog, but don't call me a conformist."

8 comments:

Matthew said...

Kind of like how I keep my baby pet-jaguar in my Volkswagen.

gdub said...

is that code for 'how i have sex with my girlfriend?'

Matthew said...

Brain is for lovers (jaguars bite brains).

gdub said...

too painful for my tastes.

gdub said...

Back to Henderson: can I call him an idiot?

JDot said...

"A Collector's Choice"

JDot said...

Will Clark says, "Yay."

gdub said...

Greasetreats says, "Gay."