By: Joe Strupp
New York Post Editor in Chief Col Allen blamed human error for a rather embarrassing goof -- the paper ran an editorial Friday about the triumph of the Boston Red Sox over the New York Yankees in Thursday night's American League Championship Series final game. As anyone who saw the extra-inning Game 7 contest knows, the Yankees were victors.
"Somebody literally pushed the wrong button," Allen told E&P Online Friday, just hours after the wrong editorial appeared in about half of the
Post's third and final edition, which went to press just after 1 a.m. "It was an error, it was a mistake and we need to take steps to see that it doesn't happen again."
Knowing that the American League pennant would be decided Thursday night,
Post editors prepared two editorials about the ballgame, Allen said, one based on a Yankee win and the other on a Red Sox victory. When the game ended around 12:30 p.m., the paper prepared an editorial page with the Yankee winning editorial, but a production employee mistakenly sent the page containing the Red Sox piece.
The wrong editorial ran in only the last of the paper's three editions, according to Allen, which means it made it into about 200,000 copies of the paper's 900,000 press run. "Looks like the curse of the Bambino boomeranged this year," the editorial said, in part. "Or maybe the Yanks have acquired a curse of their own." The "Yankees win" editorial did not make it into any of the
Post editions. Earlier editions didn't have any baseball editorials because the game was still being played.
The employee who made the mistake, whom Allen declined to identify, would not be fired, but would likely receive some kind of punishment, Allen said. "There will be some discipline," he explained, while defending the worker, whom he described as "a good employee; they were under a lot of pressure."
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