Holy run on sentences, Batman!

Apparently good grammar is not a requirement to write for a baseball blog:

"After Mulder went down again when Carpenter came back after only a little more than a year after Tommy John surgery people were obviously sceptical but Carpenter has pitched well in his first two starts despite being a little erratic with his control."

BREEEAAAAAAAATHHHHHH.

"So it isn’t the pure sink that Carpenter relies on but what Carpenter has going for him is he throws the pitch at nearly 92 MPH on average which is very high for sinkers and he produces nearly ten inches of vertical movement boring in on a right handed batter"

Whew, I don't know if I can make it through this...

11 months ago FairweatherFan Comment 11 comments 0 recs |

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bad

but not that bad; if the writer utilized punctuation a wider range of punctuation, the sentences would work fine. Were these sentences to be spoken, there would likely be implicit punctuation within the speech.

by haverecords on Aug 7, 2008 2:48 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

They were incredibly hard for me to read for some reason.

Eugeniooooooo!!!!

by FairweatherFan on Aug 7, 2008 3:07 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah, some commas would help.

My Dave Righetti is better than your Dave Righetti.

by howtheyscored on Aug 8, 2008 12:55 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Apparently good grammar is not a requirement to write for a baseball blog:

Whew.

by Grant on Aug 7, 2008 2:59 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Seriously, I hope none of you poor slobs ever read my blog.

Bay City Ball

by xanthan on Aug 7, 2008 3:23 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I would

If it wasn’t adult material :)

Eugeniooooooo!!!!

by FairweatherFan on Aug 7, 2008 3:58 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I have no idea why that happens!

Bay City Ball

by xanthan on Aug 7, 2008 4:18 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

oh sure

Eugeniooooooo!!!!

by FairweatherFan on Aug 8, 2008 9:19 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Did you post this just to go OMG LOOK BAD ENGLISH EVERYONE CROWD AROUND or to point out what the guy is actually saying?

"While conservatives tell you 'leave things alone and no one will lose,' and liberals tell you 'interfere a lot and no one will lose,' baseball says 'someone will lose.' Not only says it - but insists upon it! ... Democracy is lovely, but baseball's more mature." BVCE supports SF Dugout and Manny Burriss.

by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Aug 7, 2008 3:15 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs