Um, some Blue Jays fans don’t know how many games it takes to win a seven-game series
Hey, we all make mistakes. In journalism, errors often live on forever in print, so you want to cut people a little slack.
That’s why we can all laugh about this poll in the Toronto Sun:
I don't think the Toronto Sun understands how the ALCS works https://t.co/wF7CZjqPSK pic.twitter.com/LPuK1vf6B9
— Royals Review (@royalsreview) October 22, 2015It’s an honest mistake, right? I’m not going to explain why, because that would be insulting to Royals fans, who know their team has a 3 games to 2 lead in the best-of-7 series.
The poll has been corrected on the Sun’s website, but not before votes at some point were tabulated and seen by MLB.com/Baseball America columnist Tracy Ringolsby:
Interesting poll in Toronto Sun. Readers asked to vote whether Jays would win 2 games in KC, going 1-1 or lose 2 games. 13% said lose 2.
— Tracy Ringolsby (@TracyRingolsby) October 22, 2015Yikesadoodle. That’s 13 percent who don’t know how many victories are needed to win the American League Championship Series. That’s a lot.
I’ll add this to the conversation. It’s from Andy McCullough, The Star’s Royals beat writer. If you are not following him on Twitter, do it now. You get breaking news, insights, occasional good music suggestions and lots of funny tweets, like this one after the Royals took a 3 games to 1 lead in the ALCS:
"We're coming back," a Blue Jays fan said. "All we have to do is win two out of three." Man, the metric system is confusing.
— Andy McCullough (@McCulloughStar) October 21, 2015Pete Grathoff: 816-234-4330, @pgrathoff
This story was originally published October 22, 2015 at 4:49 PM.