Rick Reilly doesn't get satire

He mentioned an Onion-esque article as though it was true in his most recent effort.

http://blogs.thescore.com/tbj/2012/06/05/does-rick-reilly-think-a-tbj-joke-really-happened/

 

Area columnist screws up

 

Reilly: "Has he cheated on his fiancee?" As if he's assuming it's a lock he hasn't or doesn't.

LOL

 

Oopsie! He done it again!

http://deadspin.com/5952980/rick-reilly-mistook-a-satirical-blog-post-for-actual-fact-again?utm_campaign=socialflow_deadspin_facebook&utm_source=deadspin_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

Except that he made it again. In a column about how players on Stanley Cup-winning teams choose to spend their day with the cup, Reilly writes:

"Center Mike Richards used [the Stanley Cup] to mock an ex-girlfriend who dumped him at 14."

The only place where such a story has ever been mentioned is on a low-rent blog called realhockeynews.com, which is a painfully obvious parody news site.

 

while it's true that the old-timey, all-knowing sportswriter M.O. hasn't translated well in the modern era for reilly and many others, b/c it takes real arrogance to believe that sort of thing even if the myth worked fine before the internet penetrated to full-on capillary levels, the earlier reference to lebron punching the walking stick could be interpreted as a wink to the numerous and perhaps absurd reasons people seem to hate on lebron. this later reference, however, would seem to open a pretty good window into the sorts of things reilly is doing at the "craft" level, which is sort of funny even as it's also disturbing.

 

Surely they have some kind of editors checking his copy, right? This is just basic Googling.