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But it being Jovontae rings a bell. I mean its not hard to see how he got kicked off but was geniunely curious as I can't remember and maybe never really knew? I did hear ALOT of people in the 90s that knew him call him a "cry baby".
I would guess Steve would really not like a certain transworld interview of him dug up from the 90s. Its not a good look.
If I remember correctly Berra called Jovante "cool black guy" (I'm not sure of the context but it may have been in response to being called something like lame white guy) and Jovante smacked the shit out Berra. I don't know if that's why he got axed from 101 but I'm pretty sure it didn't help matters.
From Jovontaes Chromeball interview:
"So what did lead up to that altercation with Berra?
Basically he was just getting on my nerves that whole tour and by the time we got to Florida, tension was high. Honestly, like I said, nobody was getting along on that tour. It could’ve been any one of us getting into a fight at that point.
But I was laying on the bed and I could hear something going down but I wasn’t in the conversation. Berra comes and sits down beside me and I ended up saying something and he responds with, “Cool, black guy.”
In fairness, Kareem did say you called him a “white asshole”.
(laughs) Well, I was over it.
But I hopped to the side of my bed, put on my shoes, stood up and punched him. The next morning, he was gone. I guess he caught the first flight out."
https://chromeballincident.blogspot.com/2013/11/postscript-jovontae-turner.html?m=1Also:
"One story I’ve always heard about but have never heard your side of the story on was how things went down at Embarcadero with a young Ricky Oyola.
(laughs) I knew you were gonna bring this up. I always get asked about that and Steve Berra.
But the Ricky Oyola thing was crazy. He was taking photos down at Embarcadero one day while I was out skating. I didn’t even know who he was at the time. Nothing. But I remember he was trying to do the Gonz when, all of a sudden, I thought I heard somebody yell out the word, “Niggers!”
I thought I was tripping. I honestly didn’t even really pay any attention to it at first because there was no way that’s what was being said. But then I watched him try the Gonz again and when he bailed, I actually saw him screaming out the word, “Nigger!”
I was like, “What the fuck!?!”
But I still couldn’t believe it… and then he did it again!
That’s when I called him out. I walked him over to the other side of Embarcadero to talk and I ended up swinging on him. I swung my board straight at his head but he ducked. However, I just happened to be with one of my boys who had a pitbull with him… Ricky basically got chased out of Embarcadero. That was it.
I ended up seeing him a few years later at the Tampa Contest but he didn’t want to do anything. I heard he was talking shit but he didn’t want to do nothing when I saw him.
That shit’s crazy, though.
Yeah, Stevie was just telling me the other day another story about Ricky doing the same thing back at Love Park. Back when Stevie was a little kid and couldn’t do anything about it. He said that Ricky would do that all the time. Just punking people.
He couldn’t pull that shit in San Francisco. I think I was probably the last time he said that shit anywhere"
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