Why cantankerous old bloggers need editors

I thought the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor.

 

Maybe that's the AJC editors approach: "forget it, he's rolling."

 

Hard to argue that, you're right.

 

time for a dipey change, you old fart.

 

I love Furman and I love that the AJC has a columnist who remembers the Braves coming to town.

But, he needs an editor. Someone to say, 'Uh, Furman -- this might go over badly.'

 

Furman'll be dead in the cold, cold ground before he recognizes Missourah!

 

Spnited wouldn't watch that pudgy bastard eat a hot dog. He voted Bull Moose.

 

Fixed.

 

Umm, young talent needs editors, too.

Everyone needs editors. Our young columnist spelled two big stars' names wrong tonight (and Friday night also, two other guys), and yet it didn't seem to bother him in the least.

Everyone needs editors. Thankless job, but I saved a dickhead's ass tonight (and Friday, too).

He didn't thank me, of course. Too busy partying after he filed.

 

I do tend to give old folks more of a pass on these type of things. They lived through it. They're allowed to hold grudges about it, I guess, even if it's not particularly healthy. The Imperial Japanese Army was particularly cruel and bloodthirsty even by the standards of a cruel and awful war.

In any case, the war is not terribly relevant to a baseball game played more than 60 years later. And even if it were relevant, Furman really didn't try to make that point. He just went with a cheap, throwaway line.