A tale of two tales
March 10, 2008One tale, really, but with two different endings, appearing in the Journal Sentinel on back-to-back days.
The first version showed up as a blog post on Sunday from Anthony Witrado. To paraphrase: The Ned Yost we know and the Ned Yost who is his son look sort of alike. Eric Gagne only knew about one of them and mistook the other for his manager. The next day, the elder Ned tried to goof on it.
“What are you doing?” Yost asked Gagne the next day. “I got a report that you were yelling and screaming at some kid. You pulled down the window and (said), “Where’s this (darn) golf course?”
Gagne didn’t much fall for the joke, but did say the father and son don’t look too much alike.
The joke didn’t work, and the blog post didn’t offer up comparative pictures of the Yosts in question, so thanks for this.
On Monday, the print version of the nugget was prepared a little differently. Same story, juicier ending.
To play a prank on Gagne, the manager approached him the next day and said, “What are you doing? I got a report that you were yelling and screaming at some kid. You pulled down the window and (said), ‘Where’s this (darn) golf course?’ ”
A stunned Gagne was trying to explain himself when Yost laughed and broke the news that the other driver was his son.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha, Christ. Come on, editors. You know both versions are still available, right? You know that we don’t have to go to the public library and roll through miles of microfiche anymore to call you on this.
Here are the look-alikes. Might as well be brothers, am I right?
