Peanut Gallery Saves My Behind
I deserve a lot of grief today, a lot more than I got from the alert and exceedingly civil reader who pointed out the mistake I made in the spring football report I filed for today’s paper. In it, some knothead (don’t want to mention any names, but he goes by such various aliases as Disco, Sarge and Country Dan) had the spring scrimmage set for April 11. That’s dead wrong. The scrimmage is set for the next Saturday after that, April 18. It will be at noon, on the campus practice fields.
The reader would have been justified to write: “Hey knothead, get it right.’’ Again I would have had it coming. But the reader, my buddy Chris King from Baltimore, isn’t that kind of guy. He simply slipped me an email titled “one minor correction’’ and pointed out the erroneous information. So if you’re reading this, and it saved you the trouble of making it from, say, Timbuktu to Winston to see a spring game that wasn’t going to be played that day, then you’ve got Chris to thank.
And so do I.