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Originally Posted by IceGator8

I blame it on a long day at work. RIPKEN derrrrrr

fixed

Ice, take comfort in the knowledge that you are not alone:

..from the LA Times today:


Cal Ripken Jr. played in a record 2,632 consecutive major league games, but none since 2001. Evidently, some memories are short in the media.

Monday's edition of the New York Post ran a five-paragraph story about Ripken's endorsing an Australian bedsheet product, misspelling his name five times, including the headline: "Cal Ripkin's Clean Sheet." According to the story, "The Baltimore Orioles slugger has lent his name to an Australian wool company that's renamed its core bedding product the Cal Ripkin Underlay and Duvet." Impressive, really. Not only was the bedsheet renamed, but so was Ripken.


Another sentence reads: "Turns out Ripkin, known as the Iron Man for playing 2,632 straight games, really values a good night's sleep." Turns out the Post really needs to hire better copy editors.

The article finally spelled Ripken's name correctly in the last paragraph and in the photo caption. Ripken was a .276 hitter. The Post, going two for seven with "Ripken/Ripkin," hit .286.