You Stink!
Story★★★★On one uncharacteristically awful afternoon during the 1950s, the Yankee superstar Mickey Mantle struck out three times in a row, and he was badly depressed. “When I got back to the clubhouse,” he remembered, “I just sat down on my stool and held my head in my hands, like I was going to start crying. I heard someone come up to me, and it was little Tommy Berra, Yogi’s boy, standing there next to me. He tapped me on the knee, nice and soft, and I figured he was going to say something nice to me, like ‘You keep hanging in there’ or something like that. But all he did was look at me, and then he said in his little kid’s voice, ‘You stink.’ “
The point
Young Tommy Berra innocently tells a depressed Mickey Mantle who struck out three times that 'You stink,' which paradoxically gives the star a humorous perspective on his failure.