October 11, 2004
Fake Quotes? No, Fake Columnist
Posted by Jason Snell at 5:56 PM in
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Yes, it’s another one of Jim Caple’s Fake Quote columns. And yes, it’s painfully unfunny. And yes, we’re as tired of chronicling Jim Caple’s Lou Gehrig-like string of consecutive Fake Quote columns as you are of reading about them. But we took a sacred oath to keep an accurate count for the Hack-O-Meter, and so chronicle them we must.
David Wells is Fat! o 6
Fake Quote columns o 6
iI Hate the Yankeesi references o 4
Steve Bartman references o 3
Grady Little references o 2
References to the Oakland Athleticsi poor fundamentals o 2
Derisive references to Alex Rodriguez as iCapini o 1
Derisive references to Tom Hicks o 1
But really, the most chilling part of today’s installment in the Creatively Bereft Follies comes right at the beginning:
Editor’s note: Former Red Sox manager and ex-Yankees bench coach Don Zimmer is providing Page 2 with daily scouting reports and analysis of the American League Championship Series between New York and Boston …
Daily? Oh, that’ll be fun. I smell a new recurring feature at Page Two!
No — I really can smell it. Could somebody get me a can of air freshner or something?
