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Baseball. Blogging. Whenever.Sunday, October 04, 2009Great Moments in awful opening sentencesWow. Bill Plaschke gets paid for writing sentences like this:Sick of staring at it, the Dodgers became it, pouring themselves across Chavez Ravine on Saturday night like the champagne that has haunted them. Clayton Kershaw popped. Casey Blake bubbled. Mark Loretta sprayed. An entire dugout of bouncing blue poured into the cool night awash in intoxicating relief. Posted by Craig Calcaterra at 7:10am Comments
prescottonian said...
Jim Murray is reeling, as are the rest of us ink-stained wretches… Posted 10/04 at 09:40 AM
The Rabbit said...
NPR runs a contest for the most creative “awful opening sentences”. This could be a winner. Posted 10/04 at 11:13 AM
Grant said...
I knew it was Plaschke without even looking. It couldn’t have been anyone else. Posted 10/04 at 12:10 PM
Richard Dansky said...
That’s not Plaschke. There are two sentences in that paragraph. Posted 10/04 at 04:07 PM
Richard Dansky said...
Correction: Multiple sentences. I just got used to seeing Plaschke write strictly in fragments, and the multiple complete sentences took me by surprise. Posted 10/04 at 04:13 PM
Craig Calcaterra said...
I smashed them together to make a better looking blockquote. They were separate paragraphs in the original, per Plaschke’s usual style. Posted 10/04 at 04:13 PM
Kevin S. said...
Guys, leave Plaschke alone. He doesn’t get paid by the word, he gets paid by the area. Dude’s just trying to make a buck. *reads quoted material again* Okay, I can’t even pretend to defend Plaschke in the name of snark. My eyes! Posted 10/04 at 04:52 PM
Jeff Zimmerman said...
That looks like some of the non sense I write, but I don’t get paid for it. Posted 10/05 at 10:33 AM
michael standish said...
I’d been wondering for several decades where all the LSD went; thanks for clearing that up. Posted 10/06 at 02:37 PM
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