A few random sports thoughts on a day after a rare night off for the Phillies:
If form holds true, you would think Vancouver will be your Stanley Cup champion. Although you’d never know it by the way they played Monday night.
The Canucks got blown out – again – in Boston, surrendering four first-period goals and falling, 5-2.
The visiting team has yet to win a game in this series. In particular Vancouver has struggled on the road, getting hammered in the three games in Beantown.
Luckily for them, the deciding Game 7 will be played Wednesday night in Vancouver.
Speaking of the Phils, keep and eye on this name: Michael Stutes. The flame-throwin right-hander called up from the minors is quickly cementing himself as the right-handed setup man out of Charlie Manuel’s bullpen.
Ryan Lawrence has an off-day feature on Stutes here.
And finally, there is the small matter of every newsperson’s nightmare.
It happened to the folks at the Miami Herald.
Routinely when a town’s team is playing in a championship series, stores ready ads hawking all the gear that is sold in the wake of them winning the championship.
Of course, it always helps if you win the title first.
That didn’t happen to the Miami Heat, who lost to the Dallas Mavericks.
Unfortunately, the next morning, readers of the Miami Herald were greeted with a full-page Macy’s ad congratulating LeBron James and his buds for winning the championship. Oops!
In these cases usually what happens is that the store has a couple of ads ready, one of which obviously is to be used in the event the team wins the title. Clearly in this instance the wrong ad got in.
I don’t know much about the process at the Herald, but before you ask, “How could that possibly happen?” let me provide an answer: Easier than you might think. And it’s a pretty good bet the technology we now swim in played a pretty big part.
It’s hard to believe anyone on their news or sports desk could have seen that ad without raising a red flag – and a few colorful adjectives. Which makes me wonder just how many people actually saw the ad before it started rolling off the presses.
It’s the kind of thing that makes editors bolt upright in bed at 3 a.m. in a cold sweat.
I feel for you, guys.
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