AH HA!! "They've been right all along!"

[Kevin Finnerty]

I once edited a story on Carlos Delgado's four-homer game, in which the reporter (from a major baseball site) wrote the following passage: "It was the first four-homer game of Delgado's career." At that time, Delgado became the 13th player since the dawn of the modern era in 1900 to accomplish the feat. But the reporter actually felt the need to make it known that of the paltry dozen such occurrences in a 104-year period, not one was credited to Delgado.

It might have been the most memorable idiotic reference I have read. And it was from a major league baseball reporter writing for an elite entity.

The standard for the competence of a major league reporter has never been lower. There are 20 and 30-year veteran writers--real writers--who don't even speak to idiots like the young reporter of this Seattle story.