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Bartolo Colon is a pitcher for the Anaheim Angels. (Baseball, if you didn't know it.) He pitched poorly against the LA Dodgers -- allowed seven runs in one inning (that's very, very bad for a pitcher), and they finally pulled him from the game.
This is the kind of sports writing that drives me nuts. It tries to be too slangy and plays to the in-crowd instead of trying to make clear what happened. Sports writing is the worst for this kind of prose abuse.
I used to work there and know some of the editors that write the headlines. Believe me, it's deliberate. The politics of the paper's editorial side has no bearing on how the slot and rim editors in the sports department amuse themselves late at night.
Yeah, I think there's a whole double-entendres section in Headlines 101 back at J-School. At least this one was funny -- my local paper can't do anything but WTF?s and groaners. That is, win their knot misspelling Eminems homonyms.
"Everybody was always pretty hard on him because of the expectations. But now he's showing what he's capable of."
Aww yeah.
Regarding the Register, my college newspaper advisor had worked there for many years and enforced a standard of professionalism over at our paper that I've almost never seen at any other organization. Hands down. I admire her like crazy.
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