Social news site Reddit’s St. Louis community put on a little impromptu play using numerous fake accounts the other day in the comments of a post to the site entitled “Reddit help! I am pitching and I can’t make an out!” by “RyanFranklin“, a account faked in homage of the recently released St. Louis Cardinals closer.

There’s really nothing else that we can do other than show you a (probably now slightly outdated) screenshot after the jump (it’s a long image). Read the comments and check the byline for the characters such as “JoseQuendo11″, “tonylarussa”, “Mark_McGwire”, “DelTacoBuilding” and “FrancisSlay”

Enjoy it in all it’s glory!

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mjschultz, a user on the popular news sharing site Reddit, that happens to have a pretty great little St. Louis section, decided to put together a handy little iCal Calendar for easy importing in to whatever it is you use (Google Calendar, Apple iCal, your 5 year old flip phone) so you won’t miss any of the cool stuff that goes down in Forest Park.

I’m not sure how many people are interested in this, but I’ve made an iCal calendar file from the official list of events in Forest Park. It isn’t perfect, but neither is the input file. So you can use either the iCal Calendar File [or the] RSS Feed

Great work on a fantastic idea!

…we noticed that the calendar is missing the “running of the bums that ask joggers for spare change despite the fact that no one that jogs carries any money on them” but we’re not picky since that isn’t an “official” event.

via Reddit

Remember way back to yesterday?  About those bitches who were talking about cheating on their boyfriend and then that awesome dude got them back like a super badass?

Go check it out.  We’ll wait.

Have you ever seen a dog happier than this?  Oh, your back.  Lets continue.

Well we have an update to that story, once again, courtesy of Reddit.

Hey, How’s it going? I wanted to thank you for your craigslist post. I’m not Kris, my name is Ed. I don’t know if your story involved me or not, but it sure got things done, in my life.

My sister is a bit of a whore, and I always see her messing around with guys on facebook. I resent the fact that she does that since it would kill me to see my girlfriend whoring it up with douches. Anyway, Kris knows about her facebook “friends” but he trusts her too much. I feel bad for him at times because he pays for my sister’s living expenses, and she treats him like shit. Also, my sister has a bunch of whory coworkers in st. louis that I always see on facebook. Maybe one of those skanks was the one at the pub.

Maybe your story was about my sister’s boyfriend, and maybe it wasn’t

Whether it was my sister at the pub or not, I forwarded the email to Kris.

He replied, “thanks, I’ll let her know.”

A while later I see her facebook relationship status as single.

Was this the Chris or Kris that the guy was originally talking about?  We’ll never know, but putting the screws to one cheating skank is good enough for us!

Please, women of St. Louis, if you see this guy out this weekend, give him a freebie.  If he’s ugly, get drunk first.  It’ll be a good dead and even though you’re technically being slutty, I think its like a “get in to heaven” grey area.  I think Jesus has to be cool with it.

Maybe you saw our post yesterday about Kurt Greenbaum, the Post Dispatch’s Social Media Director and how he got a man fired because he posted a “vulgarity” on the comments of an STLToday article.  If not, check it out, we go in to in detail there.

In that post, I dropped this little pull quote, suitable for twittering and the like:

…and then the internet skull-f*cked him.

I was wrong.  The internet populace hadn’t begun to skull f*ck him at that point.  They are now though.

Midway through yesterday, one of our commenters alerted us that this story had popped up on Reddit, a popular social news site.

That’s kind of where this story took off and turned ugly for Greenbaum.

First, there were comments like this:

…and then this (edited):

That would be his full name, address, every phone number and email address he has and his boss’ contact info.

…and then Twitter took off.  Just do a quick search for people replying back to Greenbaum via Twitter and calling him a “pussy” (thats the word the commenter apparently used).

Oh and of course, you can also now visit: www.KurtGreenbaumIsAPussy.com

We aren’t going to stand here and tell you that all of this is cool, but we also aren’t going to say its all not funny.  [Editor's Note: Address? Not funny. Website?  Totally funny.]

If there is anything you can take away from this, here it is:

1. Don’t mess with privacy policies.

2. If you do, don’t call attention to it.

3. It is amazing how fast people can rally around a story that didn’t really take off until a day or two after it actually happened.  Kurt may disagree with this right now, but that is a pretty awesome thing about the internet.

The good news for Greenbaum, and pretty much the only good news since he is probably getting pizzas sent to his house 24/7, is that internet hatred (or love) is fleeting.  Sadly, though, images can kinda be forever….

Images via Reddit