Just had to share this ...

We got complaints when we ran the results of the WSOP Main Event from people like that.

And then we got complaints we didn't run the results when ESPN aired the footage months later.

 

We have our crazy cast of phone regulars.

Headline Boy: The one caller who always calls the night of a big event (the Super Bowl, Game 7 of a championship series, etc.) who has a suggestion for a headline that would never fit and is utterly overthought.

Cowboys Lady: Some elderly lady who would call us to ask when the Cowboys play ... once, in June.

The Chinese Bookie: An Asian gentleman who had a fondness for Local Podunk State, OU and Chicago Bears football scores.

Track Jack: A regular in the spring (who had two sons who had gone on to play college football) who would call us every Sunday night to "remind" us that track season was under way and that we needed to publish more results.

The Grand Dragon: Not a caller, but an old man who would send handwritten letters to one of our beat writers with the most racist filth imaginable about said school — and he'd sign it and put his return address on the envelope. Some old coot who didn't give a shit.

Matthew: A few years ago one of the local TV sportscasters would call us for scores about 10:15 on game days, right before they'd go on the air. Everyone in the office would groan, "Hiiii, Matttthhhewww!"

Never a dull moment when the phone rings.

 

A compilation of these would really make for a decent book.

 

We have the same old codgers call for the Braves time.
Usually the reason they couldn't find it on TV was because they were off that day.

The thing that pisses me off the most about this is that we run the tv info for them at least three different places in every edition. It's not like we only put it in agate type in the back of the section.

 

Just did that a couple days ago.

 

holy shit.

What was the lead story the next night--the New York Giants beating the Brooklyn Dodgers in game 3 of their playoff series on a dramatic 9th inning home run?