Joke: Did I ever tell you about the time I got to welcome Robert Preston to a baseball game in Reading, PA? I was there to greet him when he got out of his limo and I asked him, “Who is your favorite minor league ball team?” and he replied, “Fightins, star greeter.”
Explanation
There is a lot of background information needed for this joke.
Fightins
The Reading Fightin Phils (a.k.a. the “Fightins”) are the minor league baseball team in Reading, PA.
Robert Preston
Robert Preston is an actor who played among other roles, Centauri in The Last Starfighter.
The Last Starfigher
Centauri in The Last Starfighter had an iconic line
Greetings, starfighter
and in this story, he says “Fightins, star greeter.”
Joke: Did I ever tell you about the time I got to welcome Robert Preston to a baseball game in Reading, PA? I was there to greet him when he got out of his limo and I asked him,
"Who is your favorite minor league ball team?"
and he replied,
"Fightins, star greeter." pic.twitter.com/BONJprgBgw— Sal Ferrarello (@salcode) September 13, 2022
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