MLB Playoffs

Fricking Cardinals. I am not enjoying this game as much as I did the Detroit one.

 

Mitch Albom's column contains a 124-word sentence. Yikes.

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"And here, after a shaky start and a three-run deficit and a bases-loaded blown opportunity and a bases-loaded escape, here after almost every chance imaginable and the score still tied, here came the bottom of the ninth, two outs, two on -- I mean, come on, is this perfect or what? ----and here came your something big, folks, here came Magglio Ordonez, one of those free agents who a number of years ago might never have signed with the Tigers, and he smoked an 1-0 pitch so high and so far into the leftfield seats that he had time to watch, walk, raise a fist, then raise another fist, then run the bases pointing the new direction for this new era of Detroit baseball."

 

No shock there. We already know no copy editor at the Freep, or any other paper for that matter, will touch Albom's copy. After all, he once pushed through a column that was clearly wrong, yet it ran untouched in every newspaper in which it was syndicated. No copy editor or editor at any newspaper did anything to improve it even though it was clearly wrong.

 

Doesn't the Freep give Mitchie Poo a no-edit policy?

 

If they do, they won't admit it. Love that non-existent transparency newspapers keep trumpeting.

And even if they do, that leaves only every other paper that didn't touch it. It ran unimproved in every newspaper where it was syndicated. No copy editor or editor at any level did anything to fix the problem.

The Freep may have created the monster, but it was allowed to roam in a lot of places.

 

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way -- in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only."
Hope that clears things up.
Joe

 

"It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents--except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in Detroit that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness."

 

Let us never forget the author in question tends to follow the 124-word sentences with a catch phrase....One of his shortcomings.

 

So, when do the Mets earn FRAUD status?

 

Awwww what's wrong, ya old dickhead? Getting a little hot under the collar now that your beloved Mutts are down two games to one with OLIVER FUCKING PEREZ, a Triple-A castoff from the 90-SOMETHING LOSS PIRATES, on the mound tomorrow with no one at all behind him in long relief?

You must be a little worried to speak so ill of Steve Trachsel. MUAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! SUCK IT OLD MAN!!!!

Sure seems the Mets are paying for their complete lack of starting pitching and Slick Willie's liberal usage of the pen thus far (except last night of course when he left John Maine in to completely blow that lead). Tee hee!!!!

He pretty much gets pissed at anything.

 

Great collapses Spnited has witnessed:

1) Walls of Jericho.
2) Steve Trachsel.
3) Billy Wagner.

 

Go Cardinals!