Small-town newspaper claims switch pitcher Pat Venditte is 'amphibious'

Sports Illustrated ^ | June 9, 2015 | Extra Mustard

[EveningStar]

Pat Venditte, the Oakland Athletics' switch-pitching sensation, has the ability to live on land and in water, according to the East Oregonian.

The little paper published out of Pendleton, Oregon, ran a headline on a story about Venditte touting him as "amphibious" rather than ambidextrous.

[EveningStar]

ping

[thackney]

yeah, the word kinda sounds like that, so close enough...

[Alex Murphy]

The little paper published out of Pendleton, Oregon, ran a headline on a story about Venditte touting him as "amphibious" rather than ambidextrous.

Venditte has had it up to his gills with comments like this.

[EQAndyBuzz]

Must be related to Syd Finch.

[Farmer Dean]

Public school fail.Again.

[SaveFerris]

He could be “amphibious.” Who are we to judge?

[Veggie Todd]

Damn auto-correct. LOL

[WilliamofCarmichael]

armphibious gets 18 hits on google. Is that it?

[SaveFerris]

You were fishing for a place to hook that.

Did you think we were going to fall for it hook, line and sinker?

It’s a whale of a story; on any scale.

[Slings and Arrows]

I thought that the Deep Ones usually stayed around Innsmouth.

[Fightin Whitey]

I heard he was damn bibulous!

[T-Bird45]

One of the jobs that went away early at newspapers was the copy editor with the thought that the spell-checker could handle it. It’s gotten so bad that the local editorial cartoonist had to pull last Friday’s cartoon on Caitlyn “Balls” Jenner when I wrote an online response pointing out his error on the oft-quoted lie about women being paid 78% of men’s salary. He wrote it as “78% less than a man” rather than “78% of a man.” A competent editor would not have allowed that to be published but the magic of electrons allowed it to be pulled after I called him on it. Felt pretty good, too.

[humblegunner]

The Lizard People are very real.

And reptiles.. but it’s close enough.

[a fool in paradise]

He’s a switch? Is he on the next cover of Vanity Fair?

[kinsman redeemer]

Could have been worse:

“Androgynous”
or,
“Bituminous”
or,
“ambidoxtrious”

[Daffynition]

Dang that spell check!

[FourtySeven]

I think it’s time to cut bait on all the puns. FR isn’t some fish wrap, we have standards here.

[SaveFerris]

I just wanted to be part of the group(er).

Amphibious people are born that way!

[buckalfa]

Plagiarism of a Yogi Berraism?