- Todd Zeille when being asked about his two run homer in the first inning of an 11-4 loss to the Cardinals at Shea Stadium on Thusrday
Rather than harp on all of the things that went wrong yesterday (I could be here all day if I did that) let's hit a different topic.
One of my pet peeves is when the so-called professionals seem to mess things up. I'm talking mainly about newspapers, their writers and editors. Few things annoy me more than trying to read a newspaper and finding misspelled words, bad metaphors, incorrect facts and just plain bad writing. While it's true that nobody is perfect you'd figure that there are so many layers between writing the story and printing it that someone would catch the bad stuff and have it corrected. Here is one such example from today's New York Post:
...(Karim) Garcia robbed Scott Rolen of a two-run homer to end the fifth, scaling the right-field fence and reaching into the bullpen to take a souvenir away.On the surface this sounds fine. But I have one question. The ball was hit by a Cardinal and was headed into the Mets bullpen. So who exactly did Garcia take the souvenir away from? Very annoying.
Here's another example, also from today's Post:
...David Weathers, just returned from seven days off because of triceps tendinitis, made matters worse by surrendering three extra-base hits in his first appearance in a week.Thanks for telling me it was his first appearance in a week. I wouldn't have figured out that a 7 day layoff was a week long. This one sounds like it was written for a 5 year old.
Enough about my pet peeve for now. I'm sure I'll share some more of this with you at a later date.
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