June 01, 2005

Sports Guy Edit Watch

In today’s mailbag column Bill Simmons- or as my girlfriend calls him, “that idiot who likes ‘90210’”- ran a question, strangely, about European soccer and how the Ewing Theory affects even the English Premier League. Here’s what it says now:

They had this wunderkind, teenager Wayne Rooney who is supposed to be the next Michael Owen (let's say, equivalent to Dwyane Wade-type impact). But all this speculation of whether they are going to sell him to another team because they can't afford to pay him what he wants finally leads to his going to Manchester United, pre-Glazer.
The correspondent was referring to Man U.’s recent sale to American owner Malcolm Glazer, who fans fear will soon begin selling off the team’s players. But here’s how the question was phrased when the column was first posted, at around 1:00 EDT- see if you can spot the difference:
They had this wunderkind, teenager Wayne Rooney who is supposed to be the next Michael Owen (let's say, equivalent to Dwyane Wade-type impact). But all this speculation of whether they are going to sell him to another team because they can't afford to pay him what he wants finally leads to his going to Manchester United, pre-Glazer bukkake.
As I’ve documented previously (here and here), there’s a well-established pattern of edgy/controversial material appearing in Simmons columns, and then disappearing after only a couple of hours online. I’m guessing what happened here was that the column ran intact, until someone alerted Bills’ heretofore clueless editors to what exactly “bukkake” is. What, none of them listen to Stern?

Posted by Stephen Silver at June 1, 2005 08:13 PM
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"pre-Glazer bukkake"
mind ... reeling from ... so ... many ... potential ... jokes ....

Posted by: LilB at June 1, 2005 07:36 PM

I was the one who submitted that letter to the Sports Guy, and for anyone familiar with the term bukkake, the "glazed" pun was quite intentional.

Posted by: at April 18, 2006 08:29 PM
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