Talk:John McSherry
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[edit] Reds/Braves dispute
- As Cincinnati was the home of baseball's first professional team (the 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings), the current Cincinnati Reds, whose continuous lineage dates back to 1882), traditionally plays the first game of the Major League season at home. For this particular Opening Day game, the Reds were playing the former Montreal Expos (now the Washington Nationals), and McSherry was assigned to work home plate.
Is this acceptable, Wahkeenah? GeorgeC 03:00, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
- Except that that tradition is no longer followed, which is why I had it in past tense. Wahkeenah 08:28, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
- It's also, now that I think of it, pretty much irrelevant to the article. But I changed it to a qualified past tense. Sometimes they are among the season openers nowadays, but they (and Washington) no longer have a lock on the opening day festivities. Wahkeenah 08:30, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
- Agreed. GeorgeC 00:42, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Thanks
- Misfit, allow me to thank you for explaining the Manual of Style rule as it pertains to dates and places of births and deaths. :) GeorgeC 02:27, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
- No problem; this kind of thing can go back and forth a lot. Just to get an idea of formats, you might want to review Wikipedia:Manual of Style (biographies), in particular the section on the opening paragraph; I know various users have differing preferences about the intro, and the standard opening can seem stale, but some uniformity in the intro (before the TOC or first subheading) is valuable. Sometimes contributors leave just a single sentence in the intro, but it should really consist of more than that. MisfitToys 21:59, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Ironic
"Ironically, McSherry had become a National League crew chief in 1988 following the midseason death of Lee Weyer who had died from a heart attack."
That is not ironic it's a coincidence. Wikipedia articles need to stop claiming everything as ironic when it is not. It is pseudo intellectual. Will someone please fix it.
The following paragraphs first line is actually ironic but is not noted as so.
"It was later revealed that McSherry had actually been scheduled for a medical examination that day, but he postponed it fearing that it would interfere with him being able to work the game."
That is ironic because they thought they were avoiding interference by forgoing the examination. It turned out the game was interfered with because of their decision not to do the exam.-- Ganley894 21:24, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
