Remember Highlights Magazine? Good, this’ll make the reference a lot easier to get through.
Consider the following paragraph:
Detroit Tigers starter Armando Galarraga took a shutout into the ninth inning against the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, only to give up a 2-run home run to Maicer Izturis. Todd Jones then entered the game and retired the next two batters in order to close the game. The Tigers won 6-2 and improve to 22-31, one game ahead of the Royals.
Now count how many things are wrong with it. In case you don’t understand how this works, we’ll point out a sample error in the paragraph:
Todd Jones’ mustache is wearing polka-dot swim trunks.
Now you find the rest!
Fun with a purpose is not how I’d describe the first 53 games of the season.
things wrong:
starter
shut out
ninth inning
los angeles and anaheim in the name
rod allen talking about marcus thames being “country strong”
being 22-31
although if we go on a 74-34 tear to end the season and have a bizarro 2006, I’ll be okay with that.
All I’m asking for is to be within 5 games of first at the All-Star break (also known as the weekend of the Big Tilde Pants Party).
At 7.5 games out right now, I don’t think this is asking for too much.