Dear dimwit on the phone

And it gets even better:

Spoke to the guy who was supposed to send me the photo of overly muscular fisherman, turns out his wife was in the emergency room and he couldn't send me the photo. I will wait from an apology from overly muscular guy. When I get it, I will post a story here of pigs flying and a snow ball fight in hell.

 

Assuming this is sarcasm, why run stuff like it?

 

I'm in a small town and we regularly do stuff like this. If I was in a bigger market, this would have been ignored. But it's local faces that we get to show off winning a regional competition. My sarcasm comes from how entitled this guy felt that his holding of a fishing pole should be in the paper. I don't have a problem running this because it should be the goal of a small, under 5,000 circ, daily paper to show off local people even for quirky reasons, but this guy was just so unrationally pissed that his picture wasn't in the paper that it boggled my mind.

 

Had a case at a regional game on Wednesday where the home scorer wore the vest, but the visiting scorer sat, not at the table, but on the bench, keeping a

Had a situation in a regional game Wednesday where the home scorer had the vest, but the visitors didn't sit at the table, but kept the "book" on an iPad. Visiting coach had questions about fouls in the 3rd quarter and their scorer kept showing the iPad. Ref went with the home book, as he should have ... but one would think, in a state playoff, both books should be at the table?

Home coach kept saying ref should charge visitors with a TO ... and I think he was right!

 

One of the things we would always agonize over was when there was a big upset and we didn't have a writer or photog to cover it. Readers couldn't understand that we had 20-something schools in the coverage area, most playing at the same time. And we had to decide IN ADVANCE where to send our limited personnel.

They just figured if Podunk suddenly jumped up and beat Shitsville for the first time since the Carter Administration, we would have all seen it coming and had the entire damn staff out there.

 

Your post has been reported to the Department of Redundancy Department. The grammar police will be in touch with you shortly.

 

Related to absolutely nothing...two stops ago, had a guy on the copy desk always refer to the Department of Redundancy Agency. I didn't have the heart to tell him he wasn't quite redundant enough.

 

that's outstanding, lobster.

 

Dear dimwit on the phone, just because you don't like a particular pro sport doesn't mean we're going to stop running stories about it because you asked.

 

Not much of a dimwit on the phone, but an email tirade.

I absolutely can't stand when parents/youth coaches/whatever turn in a team photo after the season but fail to send in results during the season.

 

Eh, don't run it. When they call to complain, it's your perfect opportunity to explain how they can be a bit more helpful in the future.

 

Oooor. OOOOOR just run what they submitted and send a note explaining that you would have accepted submissions all season.