I noticed a tweet from Peter King of Sports Illustrated questioning the umpire work of C.B. Bucknor in the Major League Baseball playoffs. His tweet:
C.B. Bucknor has to go. Two incredibly missed calls. What is he doing in a game of this magnitude?
–Peter King tweet at 11:45pm on Oct 8, 2009
I was not sure to whom King was referring, so I did a Wikipedia search for Bucknor. At the end of the first part of the entry for Bucknor was a sentence about Bucknor being a stupid n#(% and ruling against whitey.
Since Wikipedia is an open entry website (meaning individuals from wherever can add content), I clicked on a few tabs to see if I could delete the sentence. When I refreshed the page, the offensive line had been deleted. Obviously others had gone to check out the Bucknor entry, too.
I am thankful for whoever deleted the comments of a racist idiot.
On a more humorous note, somebody else must be thinking that Bucknor is doing a sorry job in the playoff game. The last line of the main section now reads (as of the writing of this article),
As of October 8th, 2009, Bucknor is legally blind.
–Wikipedia entry on C.B. Bucknor
UPDATE: As of 12:23 Eastern Time the blind comment has also been deleted.
UPDATE #2: As of 12:44 Eastern, the following is now on the Wikipedia entry:
Editing of this article by new or unregistered users is currently disabled until October 10, 2009 due to vandalism.
So it appears that this will be the last update tonight.
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