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10 September 2008
File Under 'Oops'
I'm serious. I don't make things up.
I wasn't sure whether I should laugh or cry.
I'm anal-retentive, I admit it. Mistakes pop out at me (the Blood-Horse website has been quite an offender lately). But generally those are spelling errors or a misplaced comma. If you're rushing to get your page and the news live, I can excuse that every now and then. But this one just blows my mind.
Maybe society has become so cautious that they don't want to just say the old boy isn't getting any anymore? Considering that I'm generally shocked / mildly offended by what I see on basic cable, I somehow doubt that.
Rather, I refer you to the post over at Railbird highlighting the issue that many newspapers have today: general sports writers who don't understand or particularly care about racing. The turf writer is becoming an endangered species.
While reading the article she refers to (for a different reason), I actually snorted the Diet Dr. Pepper I had been drinking at the time. This does a good job of clearing the sinuses, but isn't a method I'd recommend. The offending sentence is one that, even reading it today, I can't quite believe I'm reading correctly (emphasis is mine):
Breaking news ... Storm Cat has finally been retired from racing. The poor horse - he shouldn't have been forced to run for 23 years.
I'm serious. I don't make things up.
I wasn't sure whether I should laugh or cry.
I'm anal-retentive, I admit it. Mistakes pop out at me (the Blood-Horse website has been quite an offender lately). But generally those are spelling errors or a misplaced comma. If you're rushing to get your page and the news live, I can excuse that every now and then. But this one just blows my mind.
Maybe society has become so cautious that they don't want to just say the old boy isn't getting any anymore? Considering that I'm generally shocked / mildly offended by what I see on basic cable, I somehow doubt that.
Rather, I refer you to the post over at Railbird highlighting the issue that many newspapers have today: general sports writers who don't understand or particularly care about racing. The turf writer is becoming an endangered species.
While reading the article she refers to (for a different reason), I actually snorted the Diet Dr. Pepper I had been drinking at the time. This does a good job of clearing the sinuses, but isn't a method I'd recommend. The offending sentence is one that, even reading it today, I can't quite believe I'm reading correctly (emphasis is mine):
"the track's push for more speed resulted in "not more, but different" injuries, with more tenderness being found this year around the feet, hind-leg, back and bottom." [Los Angeles Times]Hind-quarters would be good. Bottom just doesn't read right to me at all. It sounds unprofessional, I suppose. And distinctively human. We do have a bottom to our axial skeleton. Horses do only while rearing or 'sitting' in the "you just try to make me move!" position. They have an ... end? The caudal region. Hind-quarters. I don't know... I give up.
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