This is kind of funny, but not nearly as funny as Rickey Henderson himself, who constantly referred to himself in the third person, and once left this phone message on the answering machine of San Diego Padres General Manager Kevin Towers:
"This is Rickey calling on behalf of Rickey. Rickey wants to play baseball."
Rickey Henderson was an all-time great baseball player, and is an even better personality - here are the 25 best Rickey Henderson stories, including his pregame ritual for his entire quarter-century career, which consisted of standing naked in front of a full-length mirror and repeating the phrase "Rickey's the best" for several minutes. How can you not love a guy like that? David Cross does a fantastic Rickey Henderson bit on his album Shut Up You F***ing Baby - here it is. And here, as promised, is the Letterman video, with co-Hall Of Fame Inductee Jim Rice, who only refers to himself in the first person. Boring! Anyway, the clip is funny, but if the show's producers were smarter, they would have invited Rickey to sit down and start talking about Rickey. That's entertainment.
