Rick Reilly is Not a Welcher
1-liner, Baseball, ESPN October 6th. 2009, 1:45pmRick Reilly: “On April 10, 2009 during a guest appearance on 850 KOA’s Colorado’s Morning News, ESPN Sports Columnist Rick Reilly promised Steffan Tubbs and April Zesbaugh he would ‘tongue bathe the Capitol dome if the Rockies make the playoffs.’” [Westword]
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October 6th, 2009 at 1:50 PM
As deadspin pointed out this morning the “tounge bath” meme is something Reilly pulls out from time to time because he’s been mailing in his column for a decade now.
October 6th, 2009 at 1:52 PM
Rick Reilly is shitty.
/has nothing to offer
October 6th, 2009 at 1:53 PM
WACKY RADIO BETS!!!
October 6th, 2009 at 1:54 PM
Rick Reilly couldn’t carry Cap Rooney’s jock.
/TBL’d
October 6th, 2009 at 1:57 PM
What the hell? It’s a news station, not “Morning Zoo”.
/I have to defend Clear Channel
October 6th, 2009 at 2:02 PM
Wasn’t there Pirates announcer in the 70s or 80s who said he would walk back to Pittsburgh if the Pirates lose the game he was calling. They were up several runs, 5 or 6 I think, against the Phillies I think when he said this. When the Phillies came back to win he followed through on his bet and did a charity walk from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh after the season was over.
I just butchered that story because I don’t follow the Pirates, so someone from Pittsburgh help me out with the details.
October 6th, 2009 at 2:03 PM
Couldn’t he just sit on a billboard until something like the Browns win a Super Bowl? Or the Royals win a World Series?
October 6th, 2009 at 2:03 PM
I remember when Salisbury made some bet like that where he said he would do something like walk nude from Bristol to FL or somewhere.
I guess he figured a celly pic of ‘lil Sean got him off the hook
October 6th, 2009 at 2:06 PM
Maybe he’ll just stop writing for a while. That would be acceptable
October 6th, 2009 at 2:07 PM
Yes, that was Jim Rooker. The Pirates were actually ahead 10-0 at one point. This was later immortalized in a beer commercial, which was kind of ironic in that Rooker was a notorious saucehound.
October 6th, 2009 at 2:07 PM
I gotta say I’m a lot more interested in “OMG! Douglas County Teens face the horrors of Sexting”
October 6th, 2009 at 2:07 PM
Rick Reilly only does inane stunts if he can write a column/book about it.
October 6th, 2009 at 2:08 PM
They have a guy on “Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader” who had a high school GPA of 1.8
/I hate daytime tv
October 6th, 2009 at 2:13 PM
Thanks 412, that’s a cool story.
October 6th, 2009 at 2:17 PM
What baseball announcer isn’t a lush?
/should have been a baseball announcer
October 6th, 2009 at 2:17 PM
Has “30 for 30″ been discussed here yet? The first episode is on tonight. Just listened to the Simmons podcast w/ Peter Berg (he directed tonight’s piece about the Gretzky trade to the Kings). Sounds very promising…even for those who aren’t hockey fans.
October 6th, 2009 at 2:20 PM
There simply isn’t enough alcohol to make sitting through 162 games of Pirates baseball tolerable.
October 6th, 2009 at 2:44 PM
might check it out on re-runs.