FLASHPOINT for Feb 23, 2007

Friday, Feb. 23, 2007 | 7:06 a.m.

I have this friend who works in politics who occasionally will try to use a sports metaphor in his rhetoric, even though he knows very little about sports. He is always fretting he will talk about a field goal for baseball or a home run for football. So he would often test his metaphors before going with them. Seems that Gary Reese's political guy, Gary Gray, needs someone who knows sports, too, because in his zeal to be cute Thursday, he managed to misspell a Hall of Famer's name. "Councilman Reese is the Cal Ripkin of public figures, never missing a meeting, and I know he hated to miss part of this one," Gray wrote in a release about his client, who had to leave a council session Wednesday. It's Ripken. He's really famous.

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