When a coach says a naughty word (GASP!) ...

[budcrew08]

I believe Ty is referring to Schultz's column in the AJC in which Jim Leyland is quoted several times, and all the quotes seem to feature a naughty word or two.

http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/ajc/sportscolumns/entries/2007/06/24/braves_have_big.html

As an aside, I think Jim Leyland is a great manager, and not afraid to speak his mind.

 

[TyWebb]

Is there any conditions given to the fact that its a column and, if you read Schultz enough, he tries to get a laught out of every graph?

 

[John]

Is there any conditions given to the fact that its a column and, if you read Schultz enough, he tries to get a laught out of every graph?

I think that because it is a column, he can take a few more liberties with it. It's also a major metro paper, which might give him a bit more leeway. I don't think I could do that in a column at my paper.

 

[TyWebb]

Agreed, I cringed when I first read it. I usually like Schultz, but he does stupid stuff like that all the time. It is resorting to toilet humor, which I'm also a big fan of, right in the middle of a serious column.

 

[amraeder]

We're slowly easing our readers into the minor cuss words. I was able to keep "crap" in a quote the other day ("I'm a big guy and they were giving me crap about not hitting any home runs") [a hard time] or something like that probably would have worked, but it was nice not to have to change it.

 

[Songbird]

but the quote is a good one that needs to make it in, how does your paper handle it? I read in a major metro today a writer replace the dirty word with a funny synonym. Instead of shirt, he used [doody]. I found it a little strange and immature.

[expletive]

I (expletive) in the milk of your cursing quote [/Hemingway]

 

[huntsie]

I've seen the word "fork" in the Globe and Mail, Canada's National Newspaper, several times. We can't get away with it at our paper...we're small town conservative. Pointed it out to our editor and he said "It's a different kind of reader who reads the Globe. They wouldn't be shocked by that language."

 

[GB-Hack]

no self-respecting newspaper should print the word "fork" without a forking good reason.

Well played sir.

 

[SF_Express]

We're not a newspaper, so our take might not mean much, but we once had a great quote to end a story, and a key word was "shirt," and after some discussion, we went with it and all four letters.

Got a couple of complaints, but it really was a good quote and seemed worth it.

Case-by-case decision; and again, I realize it is less so for a typical "family" newspaper.

 

[RossLT]

I have had coaches say "We played a heck of a game" and in the little shirtburgh I live in we have readers complain

 

[wickedwritah]

When The Washington Post puts "fork you" on the front page, anything's fair game.

Generally, I think the seven Carlin words should be avoided, though as The Post proved, there is a time and place to bend that rule, too.

 

[fishwrapper]

You lost me at...

We're not a newspaper, so our take might not mean much...

But had me at...

Case-by-case decision.

There are no hard rules for these cases. Nor should there be.
If you have a question -- if the internal flags go up -- run it up the flagpole.