OOPS: Jax Writer Tweets Porn Link

SF_Express · May 13, 2012

Dick Whitman said:

Raiders said:

What does the paper do with this? Anything? Nothing? I guess it was the writer's personal Twitter account, but he uses it to represent the paper, too.

Embarrassing, but not the end of the world. But what a gaffe.
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Probably nothing.

It's perfectly possible that he copied the Tiny URL and left off a letter. Happened to me the other day on a Facebook post and I ended up with a Japanese site of some sort.
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"Leaving off a letter" is a charitable, but highly unlikely, explanation.

hondo · May 13, 2012

SoCalDude said:

Right at the beginning of the Internet fad, Californiaangelsdotcom got you to an escort service.
And when the PGA decided to go for PGAdotcom, they found it was already taken by the Potato Growers Assn.
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Urban Myth: http://www.pga.com

pga.com is the web site for the PGA of America, the governing body of club professionals and owner of the Ryder Cup and PGA Championship. pgatour.com is the web site for the PGA Tour.

If the Potato Growers Assn owned pga.com, they've long since sold it.

mpcincal · May 13, 2012

One year in the mid-'90s, before the Internet completely took over the world, the Padres had a ticket hotline that they established GOPADRES. However, they actually gave it an 888 prefix. All the fans who automatically assumed it was a 1-800 number dialed that and got, you got it, a phone-sex line.

hondo · May 13, 2012

mpcincal said:

One year in the mid-'90s, before the Internet completely took over the world, the Padres had a ticket hotline that they established GOPADRES. However, they actually gave it an 888 prefix. All the fans who automatically assumed it was a 1-800 number dialed that and got, you got it, a phone-sex line.
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How come when stuff like that happened it was always a phone sex line. Why wasn't it ever Dial-A-Prayer or the Betty Crocker hot line?

SoCalDude · May 14, 2012

hondo said:

SoCalDude said:

Right at the beginning of the Internet fad, Californiaangelsdotcom got you to an escort service.
And when the PGA decided to go for PGAdotcom, they found it was already taken by the Potato Growers Assn.
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Urban Myth: http://www.pga.com

pga.com is the web site for the PGA of America, the governing body of club professionals and owner of the Ryder Cup and PGA Championship. pgatour.com is the web site for the PGA Tour.

If the Potato Growers Assn owned pga.com, they've long since sold it.
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golf dudes bought it from the potato dudes, as I remember it. Just intended to add a little levity, not a history lesson.

Mizzougrad96 · May 14, 2012

At one point, ESPM.com and SuperBowl.net were both porn sites.

I feel bad for Vito, who is a great reporter and a great guy...

Tarheel316 · May 14, 2012

dooley_womack1 said:

That site owner was stupid, surely not thinking of facing an IRS audit every year for the rest of his life.
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Dooley, you mean the IRS does audits for political reasons? What in the name of Richard Nixon .....

playthrough · May 15, 2012

Probably like many folks here, I throw up links on my company's Twitter feeds at the end of the night. Sometimes I'm tired and make a typo, which I quickly delete and re-send. But that kind of (cough) typo...there's no way I'm keeping my job.

Mizzougrad96 · May 15, 2012

For quite awhile, MLB.com was a law firm. On the front page they had a link to majorleaguebaseball.com.

I'm guessing baseball finally decided to purchase the site from them, but it was like that for awhile.

buckweaver · May 17, 2012

Mizzougrad96 said:

For quite awhile, MLB.com was a law firm. On the front page they had a link to majorleaguebaseball.com.

I'm guessing baseball finally decided to purchase the site from them, but it was like that for awhile.
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No need to guess. The story is detailed very well in this 2010 article from the SABR Baseball Research Journal:

http://sabr.org/research/law-firm-and-league-morgan-lewis-and-bockius-llp-major-league-baseball-and-mlbcom

On September 6, 2000, Major League Baseball and Morgan, Lewis and Bockius LLP (a very big and very prominent Philadelphia-based international law firm)1 issued a joint press release announcing “that the law firm has transferred its domain name— mlb.com—to Major League Baseball.”2

From today’s perspective in the current age of the Internet, as we look back at a time when the rise of that age (or at least its angle of ascent) was not at all clear, it seems like a bizarrely fortuitous set of coincidences:

In 1994, the initials of big-time baseball (Major League Baseball=MLB) and the initials of one of big-time baseball’s longtime, big-time outside law firms (Morgan, Lewis and Bockius=MLB) were the same (and still are);
In 1994, it was the law firm that had the foresight, or luck, to move relatively early to register the Internet domain name “mlb.com.”

And then ...

Several years later, in 2000, when Major League Baseball started to aggressively market itself on the Internet, Morgan Lewis and Bockius was, for a variety of reasons described below, willing to part with mlb.com for a song, or perhaps even less.
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Double Down · May 17, 2012

I hope they got Golden Tickets. That would have been part of my offer.

Smasher_Sloan · May 17, 2012

playthrough said:

Probably like many folks here, I throw up links on my company's Twitter feeds at the end of the night. Sometimes I'm tired and make a typo, which I quickly delete and re-send. But that kind of (cough) typo...there's no way I'm keeping my job.
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Here's what happens. You copy and paste the porn link. Then you go to copy and paste the "regular" link. But you forget to hit "copy" and the previous link lingers. You mindlessly paste the link on the Twitter feed and it's still the previous (porn) link.

It's an "accident" in that sense. It's not an accident in that you've never visited a porn site in your life and never copied a link and sent it to someone.

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