I completely agree with you MS. In fact, to call it "embarrassing" is a gross understatement, to say the least!

Whether true or false, (and I would tend to believe that there's more truth to it, than not,) NO self-respecting wiseguy would EVER make such a self-deprecating statement, let alone in a public forum so as to embarrass himself as well as his entire borgata by showing that he's such a bust-out and loser.