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New York newspaper prints editorial saying Yankees lost
Oct. 17, 2003
SportsLine.com wire reports
NEW YORK -- How close did the Boston Red Sox come to reaching the World Series? Even the New York Post figured the Red Sox were a shoo-in to hold a lead and beat the rival New York Yankees.
Some editions of the newspaper Friday morning carried an editorial bemoaning a loss by the Yankees, who trailed before beating the Red Sox 6-5 in 11 innings in Game 7 of the ALCS.
"The Yankees couldn't get the job done," the editorial read, adding: "The hitting fell short and the bullpen simply didn't deliver. It's a crying shame that Roger Clemens' career had to end on a losing note."
Clemens, the Yankees' 41-year-old pitcher, will retire when the season ends for New York -- sometime after facing the Florida Marlins in the World Series, which begins Saturday night.
Post Editor in Chief Col Allan blamed the foul-up on a simple production error.
"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."
The mistake was caught and corrected in later editions. But City Council Speaker Gifford Miller -- the target of another editorial in Friday's paper -- waved an oversized copy of the Post gaffe at a Yankees pep rally at City Hall.
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