Headline on the front page of the NY Times:
[He] built his stardom 90% on skill, half on wit. I assume any American Doper will know who that was. And the headline is, of course, a takeoff on the wit.
The headline didn’t actually name him either. The first word was “Yankee” and of course it was Yogi Berra who died two days ago.
Yogi Berra died? 
:eek: 
Holy crap! It’s always the good ones God takes young, innit?
Sorry. That should have read “It’s not always the good ones…”.
I knew who it was about without opening the spoiler. Yogi’s actual quote was “90% of the game is half mental,” which I think is more hilarious.
He was 90 years old. Not really taken young.
You assume incorrectly. Berra retired from playing before the vast majority of Americans were born, and last won a World Series as a manager before the majority of us were born. I knew who you were talking about, but only because he’s been in the news and I heard the quote on Mike & Mike the other day.
Yes, but he was still moderately famous for his “sayings”. “When you see a fork in the read, take it.” “You can observe a lot just by watching.” And finally, “It ain’t over till it’s over.”
It’s over.
Never won a WS as manager.
Sounds like the NY Times is calling Yogi Berra a half wit.
It 's a take-off on one of his “Yogi-isms”: “90% of this game is half mental”.
But you probably knew that.
Of course, you know that Yogi Berra really didn’t say half those things he said.
I was really, really surprised to learn he’d lived this long. I assumed he’d been around since forever and died long ago.
I knew, it’s just that he NY Times line is very awkward.
