July 02, 2007
Briere To The Phillies?
Awful Announcing is featuring the following screen shot, which as of 6:30 a.m. U.S. EDT, is still featured on NHL.com:
Certainly worth a chuckle, and AA can't be blamed for having one at the NHL's expense. Then again, is the fault the NHL's alone? I didn't think so, so I fired up Google to see what I could find, and lo and behold over at Sports Illustrated right now:
So how does stuff like this happen? More than likely, both NHL.com and SI.com have some sort of automatic process set up where AP wire copy is prepped and posted online without much human intervention. So when I see the same mistake made at both NHL.com and SI.com, that tells me the original mistake lies not with either of those outfits, but probably with the AP itself and the original copy that went out on the wire yesterday.
Remember, we kid because we love, right?
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It was even more amusing when the headline on NHL.com last night was that Gomez and Drury were heading to play for the Rags...and the picture of Drury showed a celebratory Derek Roy. I thought to myself, hey, NHL.com is only a 3 years early before that might actually become reality.
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