Bob McCarty Writes

Two days ago, I published a post under the headline, “One-Sheet’ Sheryl to Headline MLB All-Star Concert.”  Within 24 hours, someone claiming to be singer Sheryl Crow left a comment about that post.  The exact wording of that post — misspellings and all — appears below:

“IF you are reading this rediculous statement from Bob McCarty about my limiting concert-goers to one square of toilet paper, be warned that you are being lied to. Not only is that untrue but I have never been kicked out of a minor league baseball field. I don’t recollect ever having been to one in the first place. And, furthermore, I am not getting paid to play nor am I getting paid by radio. PLEASE people, wise up and get a life.”

I responded to the comment above as follows:

“First of all, the word is ridiculous, not “rediculous”. Second, I don’t believe you’re Sheryl Crow. If you are, third, it appears you have a short memory about minor league baseball. Read the posts, dearie!”

Still curious as to whether the comment was actually posted by Crow or someone pretending to be the Missouri native, I threw the IP address (74.245.182.230) associated with the comment into the Geobytes IP locator and waited for a result.  Curiously, it pointed to Nashville.  Maybe it was Crow after all.  Hmmm?

If it was Crow, I can only conclude that she made the comment (1) without reading the post and (2) only after checking her sense of humor at the virtual door to this blog.

For instance, she wrote: “…but I have never been kicked out of a minor league baseball field.” Had she actually read the post, she would have learned that I never claimed she had been kicked out of a park.  Instead, I simply reported that, according to a blurb on the web site of the Hagerstown (Md.) Suns, a single-A affiliate of the Washington Nationals Major League Baseball Club, she had been banned from their minor league ballpark — not kicked out.

Additionally, had she been a regular reader of this blog, she would have known that I simply could not be expected to pass on the opportunity to poke fun at a celebrity who promoted limiting people to one square of toilet paper during the two-weeks-long Stop Global Warming College Tour she conducted with television writer/actor Laurie David.

EDITOR’S NOTE TO SHERYL: Sheryl, if you really did post the comment, I want you to know that I’m willing to make amends with you.  Simply wear one of my GLOBULL WARMING t-shirts — like the one at right –  during the MLB All-Star Charity concert, and I’ll stop calling you “One-Sheet” Sheryl.  Deal? Please let me know, ASAP!