Barry Bonds headlines

yes, it's a fucking conspiracy. there's a secret handshake and all that shit, too.

dumbass.

 

Pedro Gomez Freed

 

I posted this on the other thread last night but ...
I had "Bonds voyage"
editor didnt get it. went with Bonds slugs record-breaking home run
I wanted to drive off the road going home

 

In hindsight, how about Uncommon Bonds

 

Deskers everywhere rejoice, will design only one front page a night again.

 

Winner in my book!

 

The NY Post's headline made me laugh...
http://www.newseum.org/media/dfp/pdf8/NY_NYP.pdf

If you don't want to click on the link, it is 756, but they used syringes to make the numbers.

 

that will so be my desktop come thursday.

 

Moddy, you can delete this if you think I'm being too crass by posting my own stuff, but here's what I posted today.


Night after crafting perfect Bonds subhed, copy editor taking day off

If Barry Bonds hits No. 757 tonight, Jim Williams will be able to enjoy it stress free.

Williams, a 22-year sports copy editor for the Washington County Globe, is taking Wednesday off after kicking out what he called “the subhed of a lifetime” last night denoting Bonds’ record-breaking 756th home run.

“I went with 756 with an asterisk for the headline,” Williams said, “but that’s like shooting fish in a barrel. As I like to say, headlines for show, subheds for dough.”

His pride in what came next was evident in a phone interview conducted early Wednesday.

“For the sub, I went with — and this was seconds before our deadline, mind you — ‘No hippies, but suspicous minds and immortality join Bonds on record trip around bases.’ ”

It has everything: imagery, unwasted words, and what I like to call ‘the bedroom wall’ factor. From now until they go to college, every kid in town will have the sports page of the Aug. 8, 2007, Washington County Globe on his wall.

“For me, this was like 9-11, Election Night and Pearl Harbor all wrapped in to one, so, yeah, I’m kicking back tonight.”

 

Is this fictitious, like The Onion? If not, that's the dumbest fucking subhed I've ever seen.

 

You beat me to it.

 

I now have that damn song stuck in my head.