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We at the Sports Frog are proud to introduce a new editor. He will be editing the articles posted by some of the most well-known writers around this great innertubes. Let’s face it, many of these guys just don’t know how to get to the point. Many spend too much time beating around the bush, burying the lede, trying to be clever. Our new editor knows the importance of just saying what you mean.

Without further ado, I introduce Ernest Hemingway, who will today edit the latest by ESPN.com’s Rick Reilly. The original drones on and on about being mistaken for others:

In one stretch this month, Alex Rodriguez’s name was on the front page of the New York Post eight days out of twelve. Paparazzi even followed him to Pittsburgh. Who knew life could suck at $27 million a year?

Madonna once said, “I won’t be happy until I am more famous than God,” but right now A-Rod is probably wishing she wasn’t–and that he’d gone into dentistry. None of this is new. When John Elway was at the height of his powers, he told me, “I’d give $100,000 just to have one day where I could go to the mall and not be noticed. Just be somebody else.”

I knew exactly how he felt. People constantly think I’m somebody else.

and:

“You signing today, Rick?”
“I’m signing everyday, pal,” I said. “Nobody ever asks.”
“Hah!” he chortled. “Surrrrre. You won this thing six times, right? Or is it seven?”
“Uh, no,” I said. “You’re thinking of Rick Rhoden. The ex-pitcher. Different guy.”
“Yeah, Rick Reilly, the pitcher! You’re the best! I have your rookie card!”

Sigh. I signed my name over Rhoden’s face and left it at that. That night, I told Kansas City Chiefs coach Herm Edwards the story.

Now, for Papa Hemingway’s Edited version of the same story, in its entirety:

I sometimes am mistaken for others. It makes me angry.

That was easy.