It is JON Lester, right?

Affirmative.

 

I wouldn't say it's an every-week deal now, but it's pretty close. Names of established players being wrong is just embarrassing. Like my friend here, who played for the Pottsville Maroons ...

 

Or like last week, when Dale Earnhardt became Dale Earnhart.

 

Joe Mauer feature a few weeks ago had a photo of him with a woman. No cutline, no mention in the story.

 

Old news, now.

A shame . . .

. . . but old news . . . and they're not going to pay up to make it right with enough people
who know what they're looking at, sooooo . . . end of story.

 

Glad everyone on this thread is throwing perfectos every night with their own copy and captions.

Oh, wait a minute, SI is a big-shot publication everyone idolizes and which used to walk on water, and now the world is falling apart at SI HQ.

C'mon folks, give it a rest, and quit salivating over every snafu at SI. Your inferiority complexes are showing.

 

Years ago, for many years, rare were the kinds of mistakes that show up today with a frequency that is not alarming by other publications' standards but is by the bar SI set for itself in its prime. There is nothing wrong with pointing that out. It's a way of paying tribute to a level of greatness and lamenting its passing into mere good.

 

I hear you, CB, but the impression I get is that some of these folks here do a better job and spend more time scrutinizing SI copy than they do their own. If they kept their eyes on their own work, their readers might be more apprecitaive.

 

Really? You gleaned all that from a bunch of one-line answers about mistakes in recent SIs? Really? Wow.

It really is as simple as Charlie Brown said. People are lamenting what SI once was and what it is now.

 

I just resubscribed to SI a few weeks ago because it was cheap enough to do so on Amazon. First thing I noticed was how thin it is compared to my high school days. I was reading the "lineup" page on the July 6 issue and found a typo 2 minutes. Tease for what I thought was an excellent Adrian Gonzalez feature reads: "No only is the Padres slugger a hero in his own Tijuana..."

Anyway, as has been pointed out here and elsewhere, fewer eyeballs = fewer checks = way more gaffes.

 

We're not scrutinizing SI copy. We're reading a popular magazine. We post threads when we see stories we like there and think others should read. In the course of doing so, if we find silly mistakes, I think it's fair game. I'm not mercilessly dogging the local weekly ...