Dumbest reader ever

I've got to share with you this e-mail exchange I had this morning after covering the Giants-Rockies game last night.

READER: I was watching the Giants on TV yesterday, got called away, and when I returned Bochy was ejected for complaining about a balk call against Lincecum. I could get no further details and so fully expected to read about it when this morning's chronicle hit my door.

Nope. Not a mention. As this game was in Colorado, it was over at a reasonable time for a full account in the next day's paper. So why the omission?

Good thing there's the Internet where I can check out stories about which the chronicle seems most negligent. And I have to do this quite often these days.

Really not much of a reason to keep subscribing now, is there?

MY RESPONSE: Huh?

I think you and I were watching a different game. Either that, or you went to sleep April 29 and woke up this morning. That was the night that Lincecum was called for a balk that cost the Giants a game, against Colorado, at home.


READER'S FOLLOW-UP E-MAIL: You are absolutely right. Thanks for replying so quickly and being nice about it: you could have taken me to the mat and I would have deserved it. I guess what happened was I returned to the game during a replay of that balk/ejection and confused it with the same game

 

That's not the dumbest reader ever. Not by a longshot. The dumbest reader ever, first off, would have made a much stupider fool of himself than by mistaking a month old replay for something current. Then he would have used many more obscenities, most of them spelled wrong (moran). Then when/if you pointed his mistake out to him, he would have used many more incorrectly spelled obscenities to explain how it's somehow still your fault.

 

Sounds like a reasonably sharp --- and humble --- reader.

I've been fooled by seeing a replay of something and thinking it was live.

 

I received death threats after writing a straight news story about the Dixie Chicks.

This guy is far from being the dumbest reader ever.

 

Like Zimmerman was going to jack Cole Hamels!!!!

 

Good point. OK, like Zimmerman was going to jack Cole Hamels again!!!
The new ballpark looks pretty good.

 

This reader was not dumb. This reader acknowledged the mistake after you pointed it out. That, and I think the reader at least tried to provide constructive feedback.

Believe me, I've seen Stupid Reader Tricks. This ain't one of them.

 

I've done this. Drunk. At a bar. Seen a Tiger hit a homer on a replay and I went nuts. All my buddies were like "What. The. Fuck?"