Steven Schirripa was on Conan O’Brien’s TBS talk show yesterday and he talked about a recent encounter he had with Reggie Jackson. The Soprano star talked about the secret life of former Yankee Reggie Jackson and basically he said the right fielder struck out with him. But it wasn’t only with Schirripa, he heard it was other people too. Because Steven said a security guard came over to him after he saw how Jackson treated him and he told actor a story about Reggie. Back in the ’70s Jackson went to a restaurant and he was rumored to be nasty to everyone. So the security guard told Steven that when Jackson ordered a shrimp cocktail, all the guys in the back stuck a shrimp up their butts, served it to him and they watched as he ate it. Sounds like Jackson might been a great ball player, but he wasn’t good at detecting the taste of a$$ on his shrimps. I guess the cocktail sauce killed the taste or maybe the taste of a$$ gets washed away if it is an a$$ eating it.
Now we don’t know if this story is true or false, but everyone should take it as a warning to always be nice. You trap more bees with honey than you do with a shrimp cocktail.
