Regular Morning Joe viewers are all too familiar with Joe Scarborough’s annoying habit of working the fact that he used to be a congressman into conversations.
But for a bragging change of pace, Scarborough somehow managed to slip into his Mother’s Day reminiscences that in high school, he apparently was a multi-sport star.
In baseball: “I played baseball. All-Star, had a high average, all this stuff.”
In basketball: “I was scoring like 30, 35 points a game.”
Honk if this makes you think of another famous Joe who brags about being a football legend in high school in Delaware.
The irony is that, for Scarborough, on those rare occasions when he failed in sports, his mother was anything but sympathetic.
When he struck out to end a game, she told him: “If you can’t do any better than that, Joey, you’d be doing yourself and the family a great service by never…
