[Libloather]

It's always good to have two opinions - just to cover all the bases...

[OldFriend]

Today's Post has a great cartoon at their expense. Didn't take ten thousand words to explain either!

[jocon307]

Word to the stupid: It isn't over 'til it's over.

I could even see doing this about an election (Dewey Wins!) but a baseball game? What, nobody wanted to stay up late and watch the game?

I'm just sorry I didn't pick up a copy of this one at my newstand.

[Agnes Heep]

I used to work in the typesetting department of our local rag newspaper, for which JC Penney just happened to be our largest advertising account. One day I received a large tissue-paper layout for a brassiere ad with just a few lines of type to set at the bottom. Being a wit, I took a pencil and wrote the word CENSORED in large block letters across the front of the big-chested model's bust. I thought (probably not mistakenly) that the day shift people would get a big kick out of it.

Unbeknownst to me, the very next morning the day-shift proofreader took one look at my handiwork and ordered the word CENSORED to be set in the largest type available and pasted on the ad exactly where I had written it. It got all the way to the platemaking room before some alert individual said, "whoa, wait a minute here!" and saved the day (and probably the company).

That night when I came to work I was greeted by the night manager, who curtly threw the layout down in front of me and spoke but three, brief words: "THIS MUST STOP."

[alisasny]

Meanwhile ESPN took a live call from alleged cub fan Steve Bartman other day.

It was a prank.

[NYC GOP Chick]

"We had prepared two editorials, one in the event of the Yankees winning, one with the Yankees losing," he said. "When we transmitted the pages to our printing facility, the wrong button was struck and the wrong editorial sent."

Newspapers have to prepare certain things ahead of time, given the lead time needed to write articles/editorials, have them copy edited, sent to layout and then to the presses.

When I was a sportswriter at a chain of Gannett papers, Saturdays in the Fall were hell. After covering football games, we had to come back to the office -- usually bet. 4-5 p.m. -- write the game story, put together the stats into an agate file and answer a flood of phone calls with game reports and scores from the zillions of games we couldn't cover, etc. So, we had to have just about everything (the articles on the games we covered, the shorter articles on the ones phoned in and all the agate) ready to roll by 7 p.m. in order to make the deadline for the earliest edition.