Adventures in Codpiece Editing

[G-Fafif]

Post hockey writer Larry Brooks, who occasionally produces a baseball column, has this today to say of Matt Harvey:

Maybe the arm that has gone through Tommy John surgery, thoracic outlet syndrome and a stress injury to his right scapula -- all since 2013 -- will have enough life in it to convince the Mets to re-up the one-time and almost unbelievably short-lived codpiece of the franchise.

Well, Harvey was front and center for the Mets.

[Edgy MD]

"Cornerpiece" + spellcheck = "codpiece"?

[G-Fafif]

I assume centerpiece and the writer (as writers will) mindlessly typed a word like it. I may not be quick to look for trainers and conditioning coaches to blame, but this I put on editing.

[Guest 41Forever]

I think Harvey would love to be a codpiece.

[Guest cooby]

I hope he got the same laugh out of it that I just did

[G-Fafif]

Mr. Codpiece will be part of the NHL-Mets press conference this Friday to hype the Winter Classic (Sabres at Rangers at Citi Field). Good to see he's focused on baseball.

[metirish]

If nothing else it got me on Google , interesting

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/aug/28/top-10-codpieces-in-art

[Guest cooby]

Thank you boys, for no longer wearing these

[Edgy MD]

Ummm ... wait a minute.

[A Boy Named Seo]

A codpiece sounds like something in a short black skirt that Harvey and bros would scour Manhattan bars looking for.

[metirish]

A Boy Named Seo wrote: A codpiece sounds like something in a short black skirt that Harvey and bros would scour Manhattan bars looking for.

haha, true

[Guest cooby]

Edgy MD wrote: Ummm ... wait a minute.

Oh no Edgy. Not with the red pants?

[Edgy MD]

Err ...

[Guest cooby]

Don't wear the red "cod" piece with the red pants. Wear the neon one

[MFS62]

Sounds fishy to me.*
Later

* = Stop groaning! You knew it was coming. It was only a matter of time.

[G-Fafif]

Post eventually went back in and changed cod piece to core piece, which I do not believe was the writer's original intent. Not dramatic enough for his point. Oh well. We'll always have the screencap.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

So... What you're saying is, come next year's Players' Weekend, there's a non-zero chance we're getting a 33 DICKBAG?

[Fman99]

The guy from Cameo read this and thought, "Yes! Every great outfit needs a cod piece."

[Chad ochoseis]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: So... What you're saying is, come next year's Players' Weekend, there's a non-zero chance we're getting a 33 DICKBAG?

That was true before the Post article came out.

[G-Fafif]

Hockey writer Larry Brooks is occasionally assigned baseball columns by the Post. And, as noted in this very thread, he occasionally makes mistakes that even a codpiece can't cover up.

On Steven Matz and his lack of progress:

...he made his big league debut on June 18, 2013, a year ahead of deGrom's arrival and two ahead of Syndergaard's...

Matz made his big league debut on June 28, 2015, which means Brooks's premise -- that he should be at the level of his less experienced teammates given the head start he had on them -- is wholly inoperative. Zack Wheeler made his big league debut on June 18, 2013. Brooks copied the wrong date out of the media guide and applied it to Matz. No editor caught it.