Showing posts with label Big League Stew. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Big League Stew. Show all posts

Saturday, June 16, 2012

Yahoo!'s writer's could benefit from a punctuation seminar

There shouldn't have been an apostrophe in teammates. From "Bruce Chen interview interrupted by teammate Humberto Quintero making ‘slanted eyes’ gesture" on Yahoo! Canada Sports on June 10, 2012.

Monday, August 22, 2011

Facts shmacts

Just like this recent post, the error here can be discovered by watching the video that's embedded in the article ("Video: Young fan catches foul ball, gives it away to older fan" on Yahoo! Canada Sports on August 10, 2011). As the article states, earlier in the game the older fan had obtained a foul ball and given it to the younger fan. Later, when the younger fan caught a foul ball of his own, he quickly handed the first foul ball back to the older fan. Even the headline is wrong. There were many comments on the article stating what actually happened, but no change to the article or the headline was made, and now - mysteriously - there is no comment section. Click the image to enlarge it.

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Jeff Parent is not right

Anyone who gets paid to write about baseball should know the difference between the right-field line and the left-field line. It's clear from watching the video embedded in the article that the ball was hit down the left-field line. From "Awkward: Shane Victorino’s homer sails foul, no one tells him" on Yahoo! Canada Sports on July 18, 2011. Also,

someone in the comments section wrote that the manager's name is actually Mark Parent. I checked it out and the commenter is correct. Click an image to enlarge it.