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March 29, 2007
Daisuke Can Win Games All By Himself
Dan Shaughnessy gave us something to look forward to yesterday:
The result of all this [what 'this' is isn't worth getting excited about; trust me] will be a five-day frenzy of Dice-K speculation on two continents. Is he hurt? Is he frustrated? Is he a diva? Is he physically and mentally prepared for his first big league start next Friday in Kansas City?
The problem with this is that the rest of the Red Sox are scheduled to be in Arlington, Texas, on Friday.
Will Daisuke be traded to Detroit by next week? (I used the Internet to check the Royals' schedule, but then again I'm a basement-dwelling loser who uses the Internet to look stuff up, and not some hotshot sportswriter.) Or is he planning to beat Kansas City all by himself? Is the Japanese concept of ronin, the masterless samurai, still alive and well?
Or did Shaughnessy just eff up?
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Boneheaded?
To be sure.
As boneheaded as Rudy G. saying he supported "people's first amendment right to bear arms" ?
Probably not.
Posted by: The Rev. | March 29, 2007 12:02 PM
I found over the years that Shaughnessy never bothers too much about getting his facts straight.
It is one of the many reasons why I stopped reading his columns a long time ago - except on those rare occasions when there is something pointed out to me by someone else (and no one has ever pointed it out as something interesting or good to read).
Posted by: Vin | March 29, 2007 12:57 PM
do daily newspapers have staff fact checkers? just curious. that was a duty we (interns and paid proofreader) shared at the magazine, but that came out every other month. plus most of the writers for that rag had a keener eye to start with than i've heard this guy's got.
Posted by: christine | March 30, 2007 12:29 AM
I believe that newspapers do have fact checkers, but I wonder if they are more checking facts in real news stories (to prevent lawsuits) than sports stories. Who knows?
It also irks me that Shaughnessy, and to some extent Bob Ryan as well, gets facts wrong so frequently. It seems if they live and die sports they should just know things like this and get them right, and/or assuming that they have books, almanacs, at their desks and access to on-line references for things like, say, the 2007 baseball schedule, it shouldn't be that hard to check to make sure that they get things correct.
Even Peter Gammons has claimed for years that Carl Yastrzemski made the last out in Game 7 of the 1967 series, game 7 of the 1975 series, and the 1978 Playoff Game. He did not make that last out in 1967. I believe that it was George Scott who did, but I would check it if I were writing this for publication.
However, Shaugnessy always struck me as the worst, and it sound like that is still the same for him.
Posted by: Vin | March 30, 2007 09:57 AM
