Thanks again, AP

A touch of quality control would be nice before they send things out. The college football bowl glance was riddled with style errors, and one or two factual ones. They have the Orange Bowl as Florida vs. Georgia, and the locations of the Fenway and Pinstripe Bowls flipped.

 

Was going to say pics or GTFO, but a little googling found this;


How the hell does that happen?

 

Bob Marley wonders why police didn't shoot the deputy for taking people hostage and claiming to have a bomb.

"FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — A deputy shot and killed a man Tuesday after he took people hostage and claimed to have a bomb at a Florida bank, authorities said."

 

Dude, he shot the sheriff, not the deputy (oh no).

 

Am I the only person who delete's a team's AP ranking from the NCAA Tournament capsules? Feels absolutely meaningless in this setting...

 

If they were in El Paso (clap clap clap), they would've took the money and run.

 

Go on.

 

Never understood why he (and a few others) write so expansively in AP stories when the majority of other AP writers have their stories cut or summarized to the bone.

 

Fendrich's wheelhouse is tennis, right? Of course he's going to overwrite. Constructing a narrative only around what happened during the run of play - not the interminable off-court struggles in the walk-up to the event, the incessant health issues the winner has overcome, the in-match challenges (heat, humidity, dampness, dark of night, unseasonable cold ... take your pick, it's always something), the proving doubters wrong/supporters right ... - wouldn't require more than a few paragraphs.

As I recall, Steven Wine covered the Miami-area tennis events, and he was (is?) the gold standard. Doesn't try to turn every result into a performance worthy of Homer.

 

But first, they’d have fallen in love with a Mexican girl.

 

Not sure what happened here, but the AL and NL standings had scores and schedule, then they didn't, then they did, then they didn't, then they did.

 

Yeah, fortunately by the time the crap version appeared I only had to add the Rangers-Cubs score manually. Didn't have to worry about the west coast games.

Bugs me that tennis results always include countries. Unless it's Davis Cup, Billie Jean King Cup or the Olympics, it doesn't matter. And DP World Tour golf scores include countries, too.