Jay Z confused David Wells for Curt Schilling at SNL party
The SNL 40th anniversary special — which naturally aired Sunday night on NBC — was what you’d call an all worlds collide event, with music, sports, comedy and basically all forms of entertaining not only co-existing under one roof, but interacting on the same stage. It made for three-plus hours of humorous, bizarre, but above all else intriguing television. But apparently it paled in comparison to the humorous, bizarre, and, well, we can probably leave it at bizarre happenings at the post party.
One post show story that emerged this week confirms the wackiness, and it also involves baseball. More specifically, it involved a pair of the game’s most recognizable pitchers over the past three decades — one who was in attendance and another who was not — the king of hip hop, Jay Z, and a case of mistaken identity.
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A bad case.
Perhaps even an insulting case for the pitchers involved.
Former Yankee David Cone was not one of the pitchers in question, but he was a witness, and he’s the man who got the ball rolling on this story. Here’s his initial tweet.
The Boomer Wells in question is of course David Wells, who like Cone pitched a perfect game with the Yankees. In other words, he’s famous around those parts. Curt Schilling is Curt Schilling. We’ve mentioned him a time or two before, and you’ve probably heard his bloody sock story.
Well, apparently so has Jay Z, but it seems the part-owner of the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets never watched Schilling long enough to realize he looks nothing like David Wells. If he had, this confusion would never taken place. Of course, if he had watched Schilling, neither of these outstanding reactions would have hit social media either.
First, from Schilling.
And now, Wells.
We’re sure Jay Z is a man of few mistakes, but we’re kinda glad he made this one. If only we could have seen the look on Wells face. Then it would be perfect.
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It’s not clear if Wells or Cone ultimately called him out on it or went along, only to be exposed now. But it seems like the conversation carried on nicely.
Parting shot. Advantage, Wells.
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