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Author: | J Kaufman [ Thu Dec 11, 2008 6:02 am ] |
Post subject: | Headline writers rejoice |
Three-team blockbuster nets Mets Putz Putz goes to Mets in 3-team trade with Indians Mets Add a Setup Man, the Mariners’ Putz |
Author: | jjmoney62 [ Thu Dec 11, 2008 3:09 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Headline writers rejoice |
If he's injured, can we expect a twist on the (apocryphal?) classic -- "Mets to play with Putz out"? |
Author: | Connfused [ Thu Dec 11, 2008 8:03 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Headline writers rejoice |
The Mets made a trade involving a Putz. And they got back a reliever from the Mariners. Signed, Mets fan who thinks Aaron Heilman is the worst pitcher to ever wear a Mets uniform. |
Author: | Phillip Blanchard [ Thu Dec 11, 2008 8:15 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Headline writers rejoice |
Yes. Let's encourage the sports guys to play with people's names. |
Author: | Bumfketeer [ Sat Dec 13, 2008 9:53 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Headline writers rejoice |
Sports guys in my "shop" certainly need no encouragement when it comes to that. It's pretty much a nightly event. And, better yet, some people's names actually rhyme with other words! |
Author: | jjmoney62 [ Sun Dec 14, 2008 10:14 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: Headline writers rejoice |
My brother back in Chicago was complaining the other day about how wearying it is to him, as a reader, to deal with Sports guys' "clever" wordplay on the backpage day in and day out. |
Author: | Crabby Editor [ Mon Dec 15, 2008 3:30 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Headline writers rejoice |
Perhaps sports headlines using whimsical wordplay is a limited, rare coincidence. I ranted about how tired I was of seeing and hearing sports reporters (and editors) making hay with "Lance in France," every year for several years only to be met with a bewildered response of "I have never heard or seen anyone using wordplay with Lance Armstrong and the Tour de France." Simply a testy response by the few to rare instances. (RIGHT!) |
Author: | ndugan1 [ Tue Dec 16, 2008 2:26 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: Headline writers rejoice |
I have already been asked twice by sports copy editors about the correct punctuation for "'Tis the Season." The first one was serious; I'm thinking the second wasn't. Either way, I'm about to strangle a kitten. |
Author: | J Kaufman [ Tue Dec 16, 2008 7:21 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: Headline writers rejoice |
Quote: Either way, I'm about to strangle a kitten. Umm, you may wanna rethink that sentence: 1. Quote: The North County Times fired an editor for altering an Associated Press story to read that a Los Angeles city councilman strangled a kitten at a news conference about his city's new pet sterilization law. 2. Killing kittens = Unprintable [usually] act. |
Author: | SusanV [ Sat Dec 20, 2008 10:49 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Headline writers rejoice |
jjmoney62 wrote: If he's injured, can we expect a twist on the (apocryphal?) classic -- "Mets to play with Putz out"? I hope that *was* apocryphal. (Nobody will ever accuse me of being a prude, but that one would not get past my desk.) |
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