More Bad Karma For Philly

Players talking trash, fans throwing coins at players and making racist remarks, and now this:

In an unexplained blunder that many baseball fans would call doomful, the Philadelphia Inquirer ran a huge Macy’s ad on the back of the main section today congratulating the Phillies for being back-to-back world series champions.

This comes the morning after Game 4’s crushing defeat by the Yankees, putting the Phillies behind 3-1 in the series.

The ad, which takes up most of the back page, states, “Congratulations Phillies! Back-to-Back Champs.” With a photo of a T-shirt bearing the words, “Philadelphia Phillies 2009 World Series Champions,” Macy’s directs Philadelphians to show their Phillies pride and “celebrate their World Series Win” by buying a shirt.

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Whoever was in charge of proofing page A20 was obviously asleep at the keyboard. Or, great conspiracy theorists might say that there was a Yankee fan on the Inquirer staff:

Next to the offending ad is an article that should have the headline “Limbaugh, Axelrod Trade Jabs.” Instead, the second blooper on the same page reads: “Limbaugh, Alexrod Trade Jobs.”

Somebody had the Yankees on his mind.

Talk about counting your chickens before they hatch.

This wasn't the first questionable move by one of the Philly papers. After the Yankees won game 2 the headline on the Philadelphia Daily News was "Yankees Avert Sweep".