Yesterday, I read an article by Joe Cowley in the Chicago Sun Times about the Chicago White Sox.  I like his stuff, and find him to be a solid, professional writer.  In the second paragraph, Mr. Cowley wrote “between he and closer Bobby Jenks.”  I couldn’t help myself.  I posted:

Joe: Really?  Between he and closer Bobby Jenks?  Prepositional phrase.  Between Bobby Jenks and him. 

Today, I looked up the article, and the sentence had been changed so that the phrase now read:  Between him and closer Bobby Jenks. 

I have made one small difference in this indifferent world.  Thank you, Joe, for noticing and fixing that. 

I am quickly becoming a crackpot, but at least this time it was for grammar. 

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