Last night the Dodgers were facing current Cy Young award winner David Price and the red hot Tampa Bay Rays. Yes, things did look grim as the good guys were down 6-0 and running out of innings. But the Rays were in Chavez Ravine - our house - and they ran into an even more red hotter-er team in the Dodgers. However, that's not the story of this post.
This story begins after the seventh inning. I was watching the game at home with my son, and the Dodgers had finally scored. Down 6-1 and between innings, we switched the channel to see what was happening on ESPN.
They were running SportsCenter and while the main screen story was golf, the ticker on the sidebar showed their report about the Rays-Dodgers game was coming up. We noticed this headline announcing the story:
We switched back to the Dodger game, noting those guys apparently can't wait to report on the Least Coast Rays "ripping" our Best Coast Dodgers.
The Boys in Blue scored 2 more runs in the 8th, to make the score 6-3. We were coming back! After the eighth, we switched back to Premature SportsCenter. I was curious to see how they were spinning a 6-3, tightening up game into a right proper ripping.
The story had been pushed waaay back. When we last left ESPN, the story was third in the cue. It was now pushed back to number 6 or 7. The masterful headline remained.
Well, as we all know by now, the Red Hot First Place Dodgers mounted a 4-run, ninth inning rally, and beat the Rays in walk off fashion, 7-6.
We watched the Dodgers post-game show, so I don't know how the sports reporter prodigies at ESPN covered it. However, I do know at least one thing that was "ripped" in the SportsCenter studio last night: that electronic headline.
