Did Leary steal this rant from Bill Hicks as well???

No, Dennis can shove it.

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a sweaty creep. Did you see the episode of 'Rescue Me' where he gets in the cab with the Muslim driver? He sits there and has a moronic dialouge about 72 virgins with the cabby and when it's said and done, you think what was the point of that scene? I guess the point is that Muslims are dumbass backwards and kill themselves so they can have 72 virgins. Dumb rednecks are so stuck on the 72 virgins crap because it's a way for them to belittle Muslims. Keep in mind these are people who think Jesus is going to show up any day now and take them to Heaven, on a white horse no less. The fact is I don't belive anyone blows themselves up for 72 virgins. That is a cariciture that has nothing to do with the reasons for terrorism or with Islam. 72 virgins has been interpreted multiple ways and it's doubtful that anyone takes it literally except for Muslim haters of course.

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I despise Mel Gibson. Do you ever notice that almost all right wing a-holes are deep down secretly very prejudiced against Jews, blacks, and ALL minorities? It is a coverup for ignorance and prejudice-which is one of the reasons they cut education and want private schools-so they can control freedom of thought. I believe they would have made splendid Nazis.

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Take Dennis Leary, and Mel Gibson, both hacks and like the sports heros, Ha, most can't form a complete sentence without the know what im sayin thing in the middle and end of the sentence. Please lets give credit where it is due, but to listen to either one of these asshats gives more credence where none is due. If Dennis had said it to Mel's face then the ensuing match might be worth noting but if he says it over the loudspeaker just to provoke something he is about as noteworthy as any of the other crap stirrers in media, ann coulter, bill oreilly, or any of a half dozen you could name including the vice president another asshat.

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I have to say that I find Mel Gibson to be excreble, retrograde, and a really bad actor in the bargain. But I can't help thinking that if his rant had been about say... blacks or Arabs, or homosexuals, that very little would have been made of it - certainly not this ritual pillorying that he's been the object of since his certainly foul, but never the less drunken rant.

If you're so worried about a rise in anti-Semitism, wouldn't it be a good idea not to make a martyr out of someone like Gibson. That only gives fuel to real anti-Semites. Enough already. Who bloody cares about Mel Gibson?

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The Sox announcer says: "I hope Mel Gibson doesn't come into this park... we'll run him outta here on a rail."

I don't think the Sox announcer said that, I think it was Lenny Clarke, who plays Leary's uncle in "Rescue Me."

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...he says he can't have hatred for Jews because 'it's against my faith.' Ok,...what does his faith have to say about drunk DRIVING? Where was his faith then, huh? When he decided to get behind the wheel of a ton heavy murder weapon shit-faced, where was the angel on his fucking shoulder THEN? Apparently, vehicular manslaughter is no problem to a man of faith.

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In response to the attack on Dennis Leary about him ripping off Bill Hicks. First of all I want to go on record in saying I think Bill Hicks was a great and funny man revolutionary evan.
But he is dead and that was in january of 1994 also if you are a fan of his how can you acuse Leary of "ripping" him off two different styles of comedian there.
Did Carlin rip off Lenny Bruce does that make Carlin a hack?
Did Eddie Murphy rip off Richard Pryor does it make Murphy a hack?
Also if you were offended by the 72 virgins bit on Rescue Me theres a little button on the remote that says on/off and in America you have the fredom to turn it off or swtchthe tv to another channel.
Leary had the balls to say it because he says what he thinks.
Theres something new in this country speaking your mind and if offends someone suck it up people.

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In reading some of the related postings, I'd just like to add something here... if you analyze the way the dialogue between the 2 announcers and Denis and his pal / uncle (Jimmy McCaffrey?) from "rescue me" - the timing is like a script, it does NOT get any better. If that were on the TV show - you couldn't write better dialogue...!

Being in the moment and being able to appreciate the linking of of these vaguely unrelated thoughts and events - and putting them together with such great timing and delivery... Jimmy McCaffrey mentioning Mel Gibson right before Youkillis makes that great first play... it's like it was the universe setting up the joke for these guys...! The Batter could have easily popped out or grounded to the pitcher... but he hit it right @ the player being discussed.

And it's not only Denis and Jimmy's comedic talent... but the circumstanses, the serindipity of the dialogue... there are no coincidences...! I think it was a miracle of a perfect moment of the universe's ultimate sense of Irony and... yes, Sense of Humor.

Remember watching the Carol Burnett Show? That's what it reminded me of - when not only the joke, but the Relationships and Affection between the actors leaked out from behind their personas and they could not control their laughter - seeing the Red Sox play-by-play guy completely unable to get it under control - that is the best, the greatest feeling if you are involved with that type of humor situation, THAT... is what life is all about.

To mount my soapbox, this is what is wrong with us all here in this reality we all share - we are unable to recognise that the fact that we being alive at all is, in and of itself, absurd... and we need to teach, cultivate, reinforce, reward, acknowledge... this "Sense" of and our "Sense" of humor... Denis and Jimmy turned what usually is analysis and play-by-play into one of the funniest things I have seen in quite a while... and yes, they might have been trying too hard at times, and yes, Leary does "borrow" from Bill Hicks - but I am SURE Hicks endorses Leary from his cloud condo in heaven - hell he probably set the whole thing up for him...!

It's the way we look at things that shape this world we live in... it's either hits, runs standings and statistics - or it is Hilarious Comedy of connecting unrelated events in a smart, unique way... (It's either "Terror" or "Peace"... right?)

"Change the way we look at things, and the things we look at change"

The Planet as a whole KNEEDS this kind of "Sense" to permiate each and every part of our collective conscience... what a better planet in this, the physical realm, we can AND WILL make earth be.

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In reading some of the related postings, I'd just like to add something here... if you analyze the way the dialogue between the 2 announcers and Denis and his pal / uncle Lenny Clarke from "rescue me" - the timing is like a script, it does NOT get any better. If that were on the TV show - you couldn't write better dialogue...!

Being in the moment and being able to appreciate the linking of of these vaguely unrelated thoughts and events - and putting them together with such great timing and delivery... Lenny Clarke mentioning Mel Gibson right before Youkillis makes that great first play... it's like it was the universe setting up the joke for these guys...! The Batter could have easily popped out or grounded to the pitcher... but he hit it right @ the player being discussed.

And it's not only Denis and Lenny's comedic talent... but the circumstanses, the serindipity of the dialogue... there are no coincidences...! I think it was a miracle of a perfect moment of the universe's ultimate sense of Irony and... yes, Sense of Humor.

Remember watching the Carol Burnett Show? That's what it reminded me of - when not only the joke, but the Relationships and Affection between the actors leaked out from behind their personas and they could not control their laughter - seeing the Red Sox play-by-play guy completely unable to get it under control - that is the best, the greatest feeling if you are involved with that type of humor situation, THAT... is what life is all about.

To mount my soapbox, this is what is wrong with us all here in this reality we all share - we are unable to recognise that the fact that we being alive at all is, in and of itself, absurd... and we need to teach, cultivate, reinforce, reward, acknowledge... this "Sense" of and our "Sense" of humor... Denis and Jimmy turned what usually is analysis and play-by-play into one of the funniest things I have seen in quite a while... and yes, they might have been trying too hard at times, and yes, Leary does "borrow" from Bill Hicks - but I am SURE Hicks endourses Leary from his cloud condo in heaven - hell he probably set the whole thing up for him...!

It's the way we look at things that shape this world we live in... it's either hits, runs standings and statistics - or it is Hilarious Comedy of connecting unrelated events in a smart, unique way... (It's either "Terror" or "Peace"... right?)

"Change the way we look at things, and the things we look at change"

The Planet as a whole KNEEDS this kind of "Sense" to permiate each and every part of our collective conscience... what a better planet in this, the physical realm, we can AND WILL make earth be.

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That diseased lunger will do anything for work and we all know who ass needs to get smooched in order to work in that biz don't we bubbie?

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I'm sorry, Dennis Leary is a typical loud-mouthed, Northeastern Irish-Catlick, Troglodyte.... no different than, and just as odious as Mel Gibson. Trust me, as another devout Irish 'Papist', Mr. Leary was bred to hate Jews just as thoroughly as Mr. Gibson was.

Take a look at an earlier Alternet article (June or July?) on Mr. Leary's TV spousal rape scene.

No, Mr. Leary is just another opportunistic knuckle-dragger, who knows which side his bagel is schmeered!

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WELL....from Judgement Night , Gunmen, The Ref, a small part in The Sandlot, and his hit series FX airs Rescue Me.... i think he is a great actor, not to mention balls of steel!!!

He just has the guts to say what he is thinking , all the time!!

I hardly think that any of these clowns who are posting negative comments about Leary could act one scene as an extra, much less produce a hit series for three seasons in a row...

I dont miss an episode, and I dont like TV!!!

Leary is a man of few words....that can be aired on public television!!!! Gotta love him!!!

Anyone who knows Irish Catholics, or even Italian catholics for that matter, know that he also keeps it real....

I have nothing negative to say, oh yeah, and the Mel gibson thing.... Mel is a great actor, The Patriot for example, and Leary knows it..... he was just giving him a hard time

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The Sox announcer says: "I hope Mel Gibson doesn't come into this park... we'll run him outta here on a rail."

That's not the Sox announcer, its Leary's comedy partner, Lenny Clark

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I would just like to say that although Leary may appear arrogant, uncaring, unforgiving, and ruthless, he is at heart a great, great man. On December 3, 1999, a 5-alarm fire at the Worcester Cold Storage & Warehouse Co. building in Leary's hometown of Worcester, MA, took the lives of 6 of the city's firefighters: Lt. Thomas E. Spencer, Timothy P. Jackson, James F. Lyons, Joseph T. McGuirk, Paul A. Brotherton, and Jeremiah M. Lucey. I, personally, knew Jeremiah Lucey and Joseph McGuirk, both from my hometown of Leicester, a suburb of Worcester. Jeremiah's son, Jeremiah Jr., played youth soccer with me. I'm 17 now, and I've learned to appreciate firefighters and what they do much more since the days of my immature past as a 10-year-old boy, watching the memorial service on TV in school, seeing my best friend cry for the first time in my life, and bursting into tears myself because of it.

In Denis Leary's case, Jeremiah Lucey was his first cousin, and Thomas Spencer was his childhood friend. Following the tragedy, in the spring of 2000, Leary created the Leary Firefighters Foundation which, through the "Jerry Lucey Fund", has raised about $4 million to date to support the Worcester Fire Department in the wake of the warehouse tragedy, the Boston Fire Department, the Fire Department of New York in the wake of September 11th, and for the New Orleans Fire Department in the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. He's an amazing man with a lot of substance; a man with a hard-nosed appearance but a sensitive core. For the people that still despise him, I really couldn't care less. Because Denis Leary is still my favorite comedian, and one of my heroes, and nothing anyone says or does can change that.



For more information on the Leary Firefighters Foundation, or to donate to the Jerry Lucey Fund, go to: www.learyfirefightersfoundation.org.

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the perfect timing on the first baseman's plays is the sort of luck w is praying for every 4 hours.

the comments here are amazing!!!... "on either end of the political spectrum, there lies the humorless" i think yogi berra said that.

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Rescue Me is the best show on television. (I also loved his first show on network TV, the one where he was a cop.)

Leary and Clark deserve a medal for the outrage they displayed towards an alleged "Hollywood establishment" who's in reality an ignorant fool.

My heart is bursting with pride (plus it's so damn funny!) at the booth antics of these two wonderful men!!!

Whoever made it happen so that we could see it and hear it, THANK YOU!!

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