Worst lede ever, right? No really, it is the worst lede ever.

Hall of Shame.

Halls of fame are for winners.

 

Or at least their teams were winners.

 

#2013MemeOY

 

And for Rollie Fingers.

 

As IJAG would say, Jesus H on a stick.

The lede makes me want to vomit, and the tone of the whole article is just seriously off.

Rosie's clearly mentally disturbed. She ought to be institutionalized, not have a columnist job at the Toronto friggin Star!

 

Criminy! That is dreadful. Worst I've ever seen. And as DD points out, it makes no sense, and it tells me nothing about what I'm about to read. The Armstrong one was at least slightly funny, but this columnist is horribly out of touch.

 

Decades back... A kid starred on a small-school championship basketball team as a junior, then needed a liver transplant due to a congenital disease that kicked in. She went through hell, but was cleared to play midway through senior year. Although Sports had handled her story throughout, now that she was coming back and TV was sniffing around, all of a sudden News side decided to "give this the treatment it deserves" by sending in its star reporter.

I will never forget the tack they took with the lede, paraphrased here:

Jane Smith displayed plenty of guts when she made the winning free throw in Podunk High's state championship victory last March.
The 17-year-old had a completely different type of guts on display in August as doctors performed her life-saving liver transplant.

 

It's always a clusterfuck when News tries to handle Sports.

Stand back and watch!

 

Guy's name is actually "Doodnaught"? As in, "the mall shuddered in fear as the Doodnaughts rode toward the food court." Sorry, yes, terribly inappropriate lede.

 

Figured the thread title had to be hyperbole. It was not.

How does this columnist still have a job? Especially if it's a pattern.

Horrific, insulting, and, has been pointed out already, doesn't even make sense.

 

Maybe Rosie thought she should be as funny as her twin sister, Tracey Ullman.

 

It's always nice to write a topic subject here where people look at it before they click and think "Looking forward to this dose of hyperbole" and then they click the link and say "Wow, that really is the worst lede ever. Wow."