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Either a) I'm blind, b) I mistook Repoz humor for something real or c) ESPN yanked that aspect of the interview off of its site. I would appreciate it if anyone else can confirm what I've found.
Does ESPN alter their transcripts?
Repoz, the quickest blogger in the east, posted a link to an ESPN interview, including a blurb, which seemed like made up facts to me, and to Clemens’ lawyer. I looked in the article in question, and that exchange is not there. The exchange is very very very long. Probably the longest interview I’ve ever seen online. And that particular passage seemed to have been removed. To confirm that Repoz, a blogger of honor if ever there was one, didn’t just make it up as a goof, I googled it. And the exchange did in fact exist on ESPN, as my screen print shows. Look for that part I circled in the ESPN transcript. However, it’s not there, in the latest version!
And this is not the first time. A Keith Law roundtable was edited because Keith Law was too smart! Here’s the video. Vegaswatch is saying that parts of it was removed, apparently.
UPDATE: I’ve gotten confirmation that the Rice video is accurate, but that the McGwire video was cut. That cut was possibly due to length, and not for the poor showing of Steve Phillips (maybe). However, the first part of this post still stands.
I guess ESPN excised that part of the interview because T.J. Quinn was wrong about what he paraphrased the Mitchell Report as saying. (I concede, Bud Selig and I have not read all of the Mitchell Report.) Do you think that's why ESPN edited out that part of the interview? Maybe Rob Neyer can turn over some desks in Bristol and find out what's going on? (Yeah... yeah.... I know he lives in Oregon.... and Dick Vitale has one eye.)
And I generally find Repoz funny. Or incomprehensible. Sometimes both.
(I bet Hardin finished the interview and left the room, called an associate to have him check the report, and then called ESPN to let them know that TJ Quinn being "quite" sure doesn't actually make something true.)
Humor doesn't work as well if I have to explain the joke. But, jwb, consider the choices a, b an c I listed in post #6 to understand why I said, "So I am not blind and Repoz is not funny."
Maybe by morning they'll get around to changing the front-page link, too.
* Except the stuff we took out that made Quinn look like an idiot.
The twins humor study is kind of odd, though. I assume that the twins in this study were raised by their biological parents, so they should have the same nature/nurture conditions. This is at odds with the separated at birth adopted twin IQ study I read recently which implied that socioeconomic status played a major role only at the extreme ends of the spectrum.
As for me, my father had very little sense of humor, my mother could be hilarious.
And I was thinking d) Just to bait kevin
I've reread the section on Roger Clemens in the Mitchell report and there is nothing about Roger using steroids before 1998. Quinn was wrong in part quoted by Repoz. The way the transcript looks now, Hardin comes off suggesting that the Mitchell report indicates Clemens used before 1998. ESPN should return the original section to the transcript with a note that Quinn was wrong about the Mitchell report.
So.
we have an out of control IRS agent and an out of control ESPN editor.
Which one do you think is more dangerous?
At first glance, I would say the IRS agent, but thinking about it, I am not so so sure.
Agreed. At least ESPN took some action, but if we're comparing mainstream-type writers like Quinn (he wrote for the New York Daily News and now appears on tv with ESPN) to internet writers or bloggers, I think the internet writers or bloggers would have had the integrity to run a note pointing out the error. Joe Sheehan, for example, doesn't change his columns after the fact to pretend an error in the column never existed; he runs notes.
None.
The out of control pitcher is the most dangerous.
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