He refers, of course, to a basketball bat...

Noted, highly partisan, and very self-impressed Pundit A, speaking disdainfully of the intolerably partisan (for the Wrong Side) and self-impressed Pundit B who has somehow come to have much more influence than Pundit A despite having, so far as Pundit A can see, only one-tenth Pundit A's IQ:

"I'll tell you another thing about [Pundit B]: he wouldn't know the difference between a football, a bat and a hockey court."

HT: James Taranto.