What I am about to say applies to all of us who add commentary to the internet in the form of blogs or even live chats. We all make a ton of errors. Unlike the newspaper business that has editors back in the office to go over each line written before the reporters copy makes it into the paper we have no such "fail safe." Certainly even with editors there are mistakes made, but not the sort that often crop up on the blogs.
Take my most recent effort on FoxSportsHouston.com. When I wrote it and scanned it I did not notice a couple of pretty obvious errors. I had Chris Johnson replacing Pedro Feliz at first base. Obviously that should have said third base. I don't know why first base was on the copy, but it was.
Other boo boos--that spell check can't catch-- are things like using the wrong form of to, two or too. Or there, their. As long as one spells a legitimate word whether it is wrong or not doesn't get caught by simple spellcheck.
Since so many folks are writing on line or even just emails these days and have the same problems many of us know what the writer meant even if the actual words are wrong. It is sort of like having to do a minor translation of a foreign language.
Hopefully my transgressions will disappear. Just don't bet on it. Please remember I THINK I know what it should have said for some reason it just didn't.
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