On Wednesday night, Raul Ibanez gave New York Yankees fans a rare chance to cheer in the postseason, as he hit a pinch-hit home run to tie the game in the bottom of the ninth inning and drilled a walk-off homer in the 12th inning to win it. Naturally, the New York tabloids took the opportunity to report on these heroics by picking on Alex Rodriguez -- the player for whom Ibanez pinch-hit.
Thursday’s New York tabloid headlines hate A-Rod, punctuation
Raul Ibanez’s late-night ALDS heroics gave the New York tabloids another reason to pick on Alex Rodriguez. They really ran with it.
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Courtesy of HardballTalk, we have a look at Thursday’s early editions of The New York Post and The New York Daily News.
Look, we get that you don’t like A-Rod, but what’s your beef with the question mark? It’s a perfectly good way to end sentences that are questions. Which both of these headlines are. The exclamation point really changed you, man.
I’m actually having a hard time deciding what’s worse: the exclamation-point-as-question-mark, or that the New York headline writers -- usually a world-class source of punnery -- went with such boring one-liners. What do you guys think!
