I want to take all the joy I can from the last line of this piece, which ran in the Rayne Independent without a byline. If all baseball pieces could end like that.
No can do anymore. Craig Silverman, who discovered that fun bit of sports reporting on Twitter then posted it to his Regret the Error blog at Poynter, is now linking to a blog post that says the writer, Kade Seibold, has been fired.
Learn your lesson, folks — cuss your frustrations out loud and not into the Microsoft Word document, no matter how adept you are with the Backspace key. The people next door might not like hearing a “fucking idiot” or two shouted over top the episode of The Good Wife they’re trying to watch, but they’ll get over it a lot quicker.