Wednesday, 10/16/02

This year's World Series is the first in which both participants got to the playoffs via the wild card. The Times story on the subject ends with a heartwarming statistic: "The Yankees' payroll (...) is $171.4 million. The combined payroll of the Giants and the Angels is $172.5 million."

My mom likes to make a point about New York Times writing guidelines, where unlike nearly all the other newspapers in the world, the kicker usually comes right at the end of the piece. Papers syndicating NYT stories typically have not figured this out, and when they trim for space they trim from the end, eliminating material that in a wire service article would be placed near the top. 12:49AM «

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