Comments on: Being the second-best horseshoe pitcher in the world is not a profit-making enterprise

Being the second-best horseshoe pitcher in the world is not a profit-making enterprise

Chrysostom — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 21:16:18 -0800

Having his colon removed was one of the best things that ever happened to him, Simmons says. It stopped his Crohn's symptoms, which allowed him pitch horseshoes competitively again. So having his colon removed was easy and nothing compared to the long list of troubles he would face in the 2000s, after he had become a world champion.

By: Sternmeyer

Sternmeyer — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 21:59:03 -0800

Unreadable. Too bad, because the quote you posted sounds awesome.

By: bhnyc

bhnyc — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 22:04:35 -0800

Sternmeyer- try reloading. There's a weird bug with that page where the white box behind the text sometimes doesn't draw

By: Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug

Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 22:06:58 -0800

Looks like the https needs to be removed from the URL.

By: taz

taz — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 22:10:26 -0800

[Okay, fixed https to http; carry on. ]

By: Slinga

Slinga — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 22:17:27 -0800

That was amazing. Thank you.

By: mosk

mosk — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 23:57:13 -0800

That was a good read. Thanks.

By: BrotherCaine

BrotherCaine — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 00:21:14 -0800

Taz, shouldn't that be "https:" to "http;" to be more apropos to the topic at hand?

By: Segundus

Segundus — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 01:05:13 -0800

Heroic, and all the more so because of the small amounts of glory and cash in a 'dying sport'. Crohn's disease, an irritable bowel disease Not quite right, it's an inflammatory bowel disease. Irritable bowel syndrome is a different thing.

By: C.A.S.

C.A.S. — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 05:05:52 -0800

I'm not gonna read this right not, I'm going to go eat a high fiber breakfast, drink a black coffee, and treasure my colon.

By: 0rison

0rison — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 07:35:19 -0800

@BrotherCaine: If they'd removed half his colon; (a Michael O'Donaghue joke).

By: BrotherCaine

BrotherCaine — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 07:40:46 -0800

I had a friend who had her colon re-sectioned, and I almost got her one of those vintage typewriter key silver necklaces with a semicolon, but then I decided her sense of humor wasn't quite askew enough to appreciate it.

By: Madamina

Madamina — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 07:54:30 -0800

I remember back in journalism school when one of my professors got unusually irate at what she saw as our lack of enthusiasm for a supposedly boring project. She shared a brief piece (I wish I could find it...) about an old woman waiting for a boat. That was it: an old woman waiting for a boat. "You're going to have to write these kinds of stories. You're going to have to make something out of nothing, talk to people other people might not pay attention to, make these people seem just as important as a major public figure. You might as well make it interesting." We had all gotten into journalism (a real growth career, especially in 2008 -- ha!) because we wanted to tell the stories WE wanted to tell: demystifying scientific research, exposing corruption, reporting on events as they happened. Instead, especially these days, we spend most of our time doing things we either don't particularly care about or have no experience covering. But we can't let that show: not to our subjects, not to our readers. I feel like sending this story over to the J-School with a star on top. I guarantee you this writer is not the world's biggest horseshoe-pitching fan... but you wouldn't know it, would you?

By: DarlingBri

DarlingBri — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 08:14:20 -0800

My kingdom for a Print version because I really want to read this on my Kindle before bed. Sad face.

By: Madamina

Madamina — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 08:19:19 -0800

Also, outing myself as a quasi-journalist and then seeing the run-on sentence with which I began that comment? BLERGH.

By: zsazsa

zsazsa — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 08:19:45 -0800

Madamina: and the author is a journalism professor, according to the bio at the end.

By: Madamina

Madamina — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 08:46:38 -0800

Yep. I feel like the j-school classes should include at least one Top Chef-like assignment where the students reach into a bag and find out that they'll be writing a 1000-word article on... INK-MAKING!!!!! Or HOW DO THEY COME UP WITH CAMPUS BUS ROUTES?????? (I recently wrote about window washing. Wowie wow wow; that job is something.)

By: IAmBroom

IAmBroom — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 09:18:46 -0800

BrotherCaine: Taz, shouldn't that be "https:" to "http;" to be more apropos to the topic at hand?

Favoriting isn't enough: BrotherCaine's joke is The. Best. Ever. (that I've read so far today)

By: VicNebulous

VicNebulous — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 12:05:52 -0800

Great story. Thanks. Dude is an iron man.