[Howlin]

A real Red Sox fan can name at least one member of the team (and doesn't come up with an invented name like "Manny Ortez" when asked to name his favorite).

He did that? Honest?

[Rebelbase]

Check this out. The AP had the Kerry Hunting article orignally titled: "Kerry Goes Hunting for Conservative Votes"

And now they've changed the title to: "Hunt Gives Voters Different Image of Kerry "

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041021/ap_on_el_pr/kerry_guns&cid=536&ncid=536

[mountaineer]

He named Eddie Yost (a Washington Senators player) and the imaginary Manny Ortez as his favorite Red Sox players. Guess he never heard of Ted Williams or "Yaz." It hasn't gone unnoticed: Yahoo group: Red Sox Fans for Truth.

Slate, ever the libs' mouthpiece, tries to explain away Kerry's sports flubs:

.... The Eddie Yost story checked out with the man who conducted the interview, Boston sports radio host Eddie Andleman. But Andleman says the conversation took place "about 10 years ago," not in the recent past as Gammons implies. As far as the second flub, Kerry did invert and somewhat mangle (look for the second "News and Notes" item) the names of Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz in a speech delivered in Boston on July 12. But he did quickly catch the error, even repeating "Manny Ortez" in an incredulous tone as if to scold himself for making such a bonehead mistake. Still, when Kerry corrected himself he did mispronounce David Or-TEEZ as David Or-TEZZ. Panagopoulos hadn't heard Kerry make the gaffe—he had only read about it in Gammons' column. When I played the clip for him, he said he still wasn't sure if Kerry was a true fan—after all, the guy's name is David Or-TEEZ. Slate