Joe Posnanski Blog: Not Especially Safe For Work (or anywhere else)

Is this funkooler than ‘Grandpa’ Al Lewis screaming #### THE FCC!!! during Stern’s anti-censorship rally ...it might be, it just might be.

I have been writing this blog so I could referee the official Scott Raab vs. Pat Jordan Swear-Off.

Now is the time when you can hide the kids. As you may have noticed on the last blog, I wrote that some people are good at swearing and some people, like myself, are not. In there, I wrote that Pat Jordan was the best swearer in journalism today. And I wrote that my good friend, Esquire’s Scott Raab, was second best. I will admit now that I did not really consider the ramifications of that statement — in other words, I badly, badly underestimated Scott’s singular pride for the expletive.

He wrote this comment, which I’m sure you have already seen:

“All due respect, but I’d kick Jordan’s ancient, bony, hairless ass in a curse-off any day of the ####### week (Except on Shabbat, when I go to synagogue and pray for Joe Borowski’s piece of #### right arm to fall off.“

At this point, as you have no doubt guessed, it was only a matter of time before Pat Jordan responded:

”Polski, tell Raab i got more muscles in my ####### hair than he has in his ####### body. Also, i stopped shaving my body when i stopped competing in bodybuilding contests when I was 53. I’ll bury the ####### wimp in a curse-off. i got mine the old fashioned way, in the locker room. Where’d he get his, the ####### press box?“

Thanks a ####### lot to the great Belth.