Finally! The end of discrimination against salamanders and newts in baseball! (See headline)

[DFW]

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Seriously? I get the use of Republicanese and Foxese in internet posts by right wing idiots (e.g. using apostrophes to make plurals, saying "to you and I" or "for you and I," etc.).

But if you don't know the difference between "ambidextrous" and "amphibious," then maybe you shouldn't be writing headlines for the Associated Press. Breitbart, maybe?

[Tobin S.]

1. Kermit? Is that you?

I don't know if you have to be a good writer to be a journalist now days. It doesn't seem like it sometimes.

[DFW]

2. You'd think the AP would make fluency in English a requirement

Apparently not.

[Coventina]

3. I like to think that he's both ambidextrous AND amphibious!

I think I see gills in one of those photos!!

[DFW]

4. By George, I think she's got it! n/t

[NV Whino]

5. It's that damned auto correct

[Scuba]

6. It's an old joke.

He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious. ~ Yogi Berra

[DFW]

7. That was 60 years ago

You don't expect his famous word salad to appear as a headline in an AP article.

Or, maybe we should..........

[Brother Buzz]

28. That headline was the creation of the sports editor of the East Oregonian, not the AP copy

Hat tip to the editor for the hat tip to Yogi Bera. Any dyed in the wool baseball fan got it immediately.

[malthaussen]

8. And he doesn't even pitch underhand.

(Submariner, you know)

-- Mal

[DFW]

9. Did Prince Namor pitch underhand?

Or was that underwater?

[malthaussen]

10. Had to Google that...

... I was always part of the anti-Marvel faction.

-- Mal

[DFW]

12. I didn't know there are pro and anti Marvel factions

Anyway, I'd get a 92 year old friend pissed at me if I joined an anti-Marvel faction.

He'd just tell me to "go fry my hat," or one of those expressions he's known for, but still, he wrote half that stuff, so........

[malthaussen]

13. Ancient history.

In the early '60s around where I lived, the DC kids and the Marvel kids were barely on speaking terms.

-- Mal

[DFW]

15. I guess if that is all you had to fight over....

Although at the time, it probably seemed as serious as the Spartans against the Persians.

[malthaussen]

17. Oh, we fought over everything.

Silt of the Earth (I use the term advisedly) working-class kids with hard-drinking parents. We had the cops up our way on a regular basis, they should have just established a substation.

Although now that you mention it, our High School team was named the Spartans.

-- Mal

[geardaddy]

11. Oh boy...

[surrealAmerican]

14. So he can pitch from the mound ...

... or the pond!
Awesome...


... except most baseball diamonds don't include a pond.

[DFW]

16. If you're gonna pick on EVERY little detail...... n/t

[Jim Lane]

18. As a Red Sox fan, I want it noted that we won the game, 7-4.

The mighty Red Sox can win even when the other team uses amphibians!

[panader0]

19. I guess his glove goes both ways.

[DFW]

20. That's what I wanted to know

Does it have thumbs on each end, or what?

[NightWatcher]

22. Yes, yes it does

[panader0]

23. That's the first one of those I have ever seen.

[Fla Dem]

21. Damn spell check! nt

[rurallib]

24. Wonder if that is the work of spell check?

Heard many papers were using robotics to write sports stories now.
Olbermann had a story the other day about a robo-story that wrote and had published that Baltimore got 10shits in the game.

tried to google, but couldn't find it and am going to bed.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

25. Toad Williams?

Wade Froggs?
Cal Ribbitken?

[DFW]

26. Careful--whole threads have been started about lesser things!

[Nac Mac Feegle]

27. Damn you autocorrect!!!!

We hope.

[Jamaal510]

29. So the A's

have a pitcher who can pitch not only on land, but in water. What a team.
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