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Newspaper celebrates MLB's first amphibious pitcher [Not a joke]
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| 6/8/15
| Bill Hanstock
Posted on 06/09/2015 11:26:48 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
Look, everyone is excited about Pat Venditte. But we can't be too busy to fact-check things like "the word for someone who can use both hands equally well."
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: 2; autocorrect; media; mlb; news; sport
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This is the face of "news" today--unable to use a dictionary, ignorant of history, and without an ability to discern right and wrong.
To: SoFloFreeper
Howard Ulman, AP reporter... probably a “journalism school” graduate.
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posted on
06/09/2015 11:27:34 AM PDT
by
rarestia
(It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
To: SoFloFreeper
He doesn’t look like an amphibian.
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posted on
06/09/2015 11:28:37 AM PDT
by
dainbramaged
(Get out of my country now)
To: SoFloFreeper
This is the face of "news" today--unable to use a dictionary, ignorant of history, and without an ability to discern right and wrong. Not to mention right and left.
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posted on
06/09/2015 11:29:31 AM PDT
by
Interesting Times
(WinterSoldier.com. SwiftVets.com. ToSetTheRecordStraight.com.)
To: SoFloFreeper
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posted on
06/09/2015 11:30:04 AM PDT
by
Swordmaker
( This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
To: SoFloFreeper
waterlogged ???
Platypus duck ???
or is he just ambidextrous ???
some of us southpaws are that...
To: Swordmaker
No but he swam there once. Used both arms. Didn’t use his gills however.
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posted on
06/09/2015 11:32:07 AM PDT
by
VRWCarea51
(The original 1998 version)
To: SoFloFreeper
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posted on
06/09/2015 11:32:13 AM PDT
by
jaydubya2
To: SoFloFreeper
I don't know. Are you sure Vednitte doesn't live on land and in water?
To: SoFloFreeper
I used to play baseball. Never made it to the big leagues though.
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posted on
06/09/2015 11:32:31 AM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: SoFloFreeper
He should be good catching a fly.
To: SoFloFreeper; JoeProBono
For some strange reason I have this strong urge to invite JoeProBono to this thread!
Amphibious pitcher?!? LMAO!
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posted on
06/09/2015 11:33:32 AM PDT
by
houeto
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
To: rarestia
I am betting the headline was written not by Ulman but by some local newspaper editor.
To: SoFloFreeper
I’d give my left arm to be ambidextrous.
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posted on
06/09/2015 11:34:16 AM PDT
by
Graybeard58
(21 more shopping days 'til, Graybeard 58's b/day! The BIG seven ohhhh.)
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posted on
06/09/2015 11:34:38 AM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: SoFloFreeper
That’s just a Yogi-ism (”He hits from both sides of the plate. He’s amphibious.”).
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posted on
06/09/2015 11:34:50 AM PDT
by
chimera
To: rarestia
I believe editors write the headlines. Still, not an excuse. From what I can see, Ulman used the correct word in the early part if his column.
To: Graybeard58
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posted on
06/09/2015 11:35:09 AM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: smokingfrog
It’s about time that my people had a sports figure hero.
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posted on
06/09/2015 11:35:39 AM PDT
by
Salamander
(Vested Subhuman)
And the sheep let these people pick their rulers........
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posted on
06/09/2015 11:35:50 AM PDT
by
S.O.S121.500
(Had ENOUGH Yet ? ........................ Enforce the Bill of Rights ......... It's the LAW !!!)
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