[flashback:]
Marshall: Barney, I'm on hold with Sports Talk AM to talk to my childhood hero from the Minnesota Twins. Who's your childhood hero?
Marshall & Barney: Frank Viola
Barney: Jinx!
Frank: [over phone] Hello, this is Frank. Anyone there? Hello? I can hear you breathing, you coward.
Future Ted: [v.o.] So, when someone finally jinxed Barney for the first time in years, we were pretty psyched.