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The back page of Wednesday’s Daily News features suspended Phillies reliever “Jose Alvarez,” not to be confused with Venezuelan lefty Jose Alvarado:
Oof. Pretty bad one. What is this, Crossing Broad? <rimshot>
Herein lies the crucial difference between print and digital. You can’t recall a bunch of newspapers and fix the error, so you gotta live with it. But blogs like this one, we can simply go in, make the edit, and pretend that nothing ever happened. Sometimes you can blame it on the back end of the website, like “I’m not sure why it was published that way, let me take a look.” Deflect and deny. Other options are to outright lie and gaslight the reader. “Something might be wrong with your iPad, try refreshing the story.” So we have different ways to avoid responsibility and attack typos, like that one time I wrote “weekend shits” in a meteorology story when I meant to write “weekend shifts” instead.
Jose “Alvarez” is pretty rough though. Could be a Mount Rushmore typo in Philadelphia sports media. The leader in the clubhouse remains Mayor Parker spelling “Eagles” wrong, though not sure if that qualifies as a typo or a slip of the tongue, like the 1989 Whitesnake album. Another candidate is Odubel Herrera hitting a solo shit to put the Phillies up 5-0:
Sidenote A: You see the Nick Sirianni ad at the bottom of the Daily News page? They’ve been playing that all over the radio as well. It’s more common these days than the Cordell and Cordell commercials (a partner men can count on). If I hear it one more time, I’m gonna drive my 0% APR Nissan Frontier through the front door of Barbera’s on the Boulevard.
Is Barbera the best? BOY I GUESS!
Sidenote B: Editing is hard. You can read something 100 times in a row and think it’s clean, then you publish and notice a mistake. Your eyes and brain don’t always work in conjunction, especially if you have small children and sleep like shit.
Kevin has been writing about Philadelphia sports since 2009. He spent seven years in the CBS 3 sports department and started with the Union during the team's 2010 inaugural season. He went to the academic powerhouses of Boyertown High School and West Virginia University. email - k.kinkead@sportradar.com