SCOTT’S SHOTS finds a beyond embarrassing gaffe by ESPN.com this week:
(Screen shot from SCOTT’s SHOTS)
On the ESPN.com transactions page, Cory Lidle was listed as being activated from the 15-day disabled list.
In case you’ve been stowed away somewhere in the South Pacific for the past two years, you know that Cory Lidle was killed in a plane crash over Manhattan in October of 2006.
We’re sent goofed headlines all the time now, and are trying to get away from posting them because we understand that because some of the main media sports sites are so big, there’s no way to have oversight over everything.
And god knows we make plenty of mistakes.
But this is an unforgivable error by someone at ESPN.com. It’s almost as bad as exhuming George Gipp’s body for a documentary, or resurrecting Emmitt Smith’s broadcasting career.
2:57 pm on March 26th, 2008
Wait, there’s an “ESPNs Unforgiveable Error” tag? I haven’t been using that anywhere near as much as I should.
3:05 pm on March 26th, 2008
Haha, I just hope it isn’t too long to show up in the nav box.
8:14 pm on March 26th, 2008
Yikes. This reminds me of when the CFL drafted a kid who had been killed several months previously.
10:11 pm on March 26th, 2008
Bigger mystery than Cory Lidle being activated to the living is how the Blue Jays ended up with his rights.