Dick Peligro

Yo, Jones, get a clue: it ain't 'u'

05:21 PM ET 04.16

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I find it remarkable, amidst all the hand-wringing over "Andruw" Jones' abysmal performance thus far as the latest attempt by the L.A. Dogers to field something resembling a legitimate outfield, just how badly all the pundits and armchair general managers have been missing the point here. I blame it on a culture that, by all indications, has collectively decided that correct spelling just doesn't matter anymore. I'd like to lay this social breakdown at the feet of Dan Quail ... uhm, I mean Quayle -- that most infamous of misspellers -- but I think this is a far deeper…

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"DP's Official Rule Book": Navratilova...NOT!

05:44 PM ET 04.14

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A giant of 20th Century American letters, H. L. Mencken, confessed at one point that if he had his way, “no man guilty of golf would be eligible to any office of trust or profit under the United States, and all female athletes would be shipped to the white-slave corrals of the Argentine.” Now, genius endures and truth is eternal, so one is hesitant in presuming to find fault, but with all due respect to HLM, times have changed, and his worthy suggestion might need an update.(It must be noted that he wrote this remark in 1943, a year or two before Martina Navratilova was…

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"DP's Official Rule Book" re NASCAR

10:38 PM ET 04.13

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Professional race car drivers will only be permitted to wear their racing suits — yes, the fireproof ones slathered in corporate logos — when they are actually driving a race car, as opposed to, for example, appearing in commercials depicting them (ostensibly) having dinner at Outback.

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