Watching this video is like watching the birth of a beautiful child.

Via D.C. Sports Blog:

As you can see, one zealous Toronto media member in the postgame scrum asked Harper if he’ll be enjoying a “celebratory Canadian beer” after his monstrous home run. Nats PR quickly shut down the question, but not before Harper uttered the phrase that is sure to end up on a T-shirt by noon:

“That’s a clown question, bro.”

I hope you like that phrase. You’ll be hearing it a lot.

Because that is absolutely right, here are a few of my favorite #thatsaclownquestionbro tweets from this morning’s GET THE JOKES IN AS FAST AS POSSIBLE bonanza. Do you want to read them? That’s a clown question, bro.

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At first, when I saw the above picture of Penny Marshall at Tuesday’s Los Angeles Lakers game at The Superficial, I was like, “Slow down girl, you’re decreasing the space in my Jordaches.” But then I started to think about it and I’ve put the spotlight on plenty of celebrity sports fans in the past, and while she’s certainly no Kate Upton – she’s not even BJ Upton – Marshall deserves plenty of credit for her efforts as a Los Angeles NBA superfan. Also, “Laverne & Shirley” was a pretty great show back in the day.

This brings us to the question of the day, though, and I thought maybe we’d use this Thoughtful Thursday to open up an intellectual debate about one of the most heated aspects of sports fanfare. Marshall is famously a fixture at both Lakers and Los Angeles Clippers games. Nobody has ever really questioned her for this, because nobody really ever gives a squirt about the Clippers aside from celebrity super-bandwagon-fan Bill Simmons.

I ask the With Leatherites and sports fans everywhere – is it cool for Penny Marshall to be a celebrity fan of both L.A. teams? What happens if the Clippers win a NBA title? Is she allowed to cheer for a championship by either? Is Ice Cube gonna have to lay waste with his AK? Is asking a question about the Clippers winning a title the most absurd thing I’ve ever written here? These are the questions that plague our lives.

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