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Article: INDUCING FOES TO EPITHETS COULD BE STAR PITCHER'S EPITAPH.(News/National/International)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- September 13, 1998
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Byline: James Kilpatrick Universal Press Syndicate
On the evening of July 28, Mariners' pitcher Randy Johnson threw two fastballs the size of cantaloupes. Visiting Indians whacked them out of the park, and Cleveland won 4-3. A sportswriter for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer commiserated:
``Brilliant but fallible. Randy Johnson was all of that last night. His longwinding Mariner career could be summed up in a similar fashion as well. Finally, it might be time to write the epithet.''
An epithet for Randy? Say not so! The writer wanted ``epitaph,'' the kind of message one puts on a tombstone. The nouns are often confused. The Palm Beach (Fla.) Post ...