Boston beatwriter messes up, claims exhaustion

[Dobber]

I've had this before - head hitting the keyboard tired...and I THINK I've caught all my real unintelligible doozies, though some bad typos have slipped through before. But nothing like what Joe Haggerty had going on last night:

http://www.boston.com/sports/touchin...y_being_t.html

These are listed in order of what-the-hell-does-that-mean? strangeness:

"I didn't see it, but I was on the other side of a hockey rink, was standing there this time around," said the 13-year-old girls. (Patrice Bergeron. "We need to do a better job of stopping that. In definitely wasn't the effort that we want, and now we've got the results."

Thirteen-year-old girls? Say what now? How does that even make it in accidentally?

"So the lack of immediate family perhaps explains Dougie Hamilton's puzzling decision to speed across the ice to take out puck carrier Lars Eller, and in doing so free up a wide open lane for Subban to break in all alone on the Boston net."

For the record, his dad's name is Doug, his mom is Lynn, and they met while competing in the 1984 Summer Olympics. He also has a brother, Freddie. He reportedly considers them immediate.

"One would be expected as the Bruins go back to the drawing boast [sic, obviously board, easy typo to make] in Game 3, and Giardi potentially keeps along that roadway while Dan Roche isn't around to lay down his hammer on the league."
In all seriousness -- and there is seriousness to this offense, as bizarrely amusing as it is -- I think I can understand how some of this could happen.

[JagrBomb]

the state the reporter was in while writing that piece:

[jcairns]

“I hit send, I hoped for the best and thought I’d wake up to a heavily edited piece the next morning,'' said Haggerty. "That was not the case."

- Good to know I can write whatever the hell I want and bank on someone to make it into a piece of writing for me. He gets paid for what then, exactly?

[Shake]

I wonder if mcgoo has the same editor

Badda bing!!

[ericdaoust]

Let's see how much I can butcher my Capped article that I'm writing tonight. Hopefully Laidlaw is on the ball...

Not my fault. Already feeling tired.

[mounD]

In all seriousness, dude was clearly drunk. Not his finest hour ...

[Excelsior]

I listened to an American podcast last night that said that roughly 8-20% of professionals ie. doctors ( including anesthesiologists ), lawyers, real estate agents etc. are stoned at any one given time. They even listed their drug of choice by profession.
I would assume that goes for sports writers too.

[Mr. Guru]

...are stoned at any one given time. .

You could say that about 95% or more of the worlds population.

[Dobber]

I listened to an American podcast last night that said that roughly 8-20% of professionals ie. doctors ( including anesthesiologists ), lawyers, real estate agents etc. are stoned at any one given time. They even listed their drug of choice by profession.
I would assume that goes for sports writers too.

NO way. We're all drug free. And also, we..uh...

A bird.

Anyway, back to hockey. The Bruins, right? Yeah, they...uh

Woo hoo! Pizza!

[MXHockey]

NO way. We're all drug free. And also, we..uh...

A bird.

Anyway, back to hockey. The Bruins, right? Yeah, they...uh

Woo hoo! Pizza!

Classic Homer Simpson dialogue.

[Rodgort]

"At 2AM this morning, there was a breakdown in our editorial process that unfortunately led to the posting of a draft story from Joe Haggerty that contained some unintelligible references. We apologize for the error, which is not reflective of our high standards, and are working to ensure that this does not happen again."

I do not know how "Haggerty" and "high standards" are in the same paragraph. Did they forget to edit that part on their apology?

Side note: I think Haggerty is awful... unless you are a hugely biased bruins fan! Then he is awesome.

[austeane]

What would be your most likely mess-up?

"Welcome to the Top 100 Roto, featuring Hunter Shinkaruk who won the Stanley Cup for the Canucks over the Blackhawks in overtime in the 8th game"

[Rocky71]

A weeee bit of the consumption ... and of course a late night stop at this Mtl. landmark


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[MXHockey]

Seemed like a creative piece overall, maybe he was misunderstood?