ESPN Goes With A "KKK-Rod" Headline, Quickly Changes It After Common Sense Intervenes

Last night, Wallace Matthews of ESPN needed a headline for the note about Alex Rodriguez striking out three times in his Rapid Response blog. What to go with? Something silly like "A-Whiff"? Maybe even something plainly informative like "A-Rod's bad start"?

Whatever the decision, anything would be better than "KKK-Rod":

The image above comes from Romenesko, who managed to catch the headline before it was changed, and then put it alongside the new one.

"K-Rod" is a pretty good headline, though.

[ Hypervocal] screencap via Romenesko.