So, yeah…you know that Dick’s Sporting Goods commercial that wrongly congratulated the 2014 World Champion Kansas City Royals?
Turns out, popular website Baseball-Reference is also having the same issue.
Well…kinda.
As of late Tuesday night, if you checked out any member of the 2014 San Francisco Giants (Buster Posey, for example), you’ll see that, in their postseason section, the team is also listed as the World Series winners.
Conversely, look at someone from Kansas City’s roster (like, say, Eric Hosmer) and he’s already listed as losing the championship. And this is even after the Game Six shellacking the Royals laid on San Francisco.
My guess is Baseball-Reference will make the correction, but if the Giants win Wednesday, there will be no need…even if the site itself was tweeting the odds aren’t in their favor.
The home team has won the last 9 World Series Game 7s (last road winner was 1979 Pirates): http://t.co/8unr6UT2t6
— Baseball Reference (@baseball_ref) October 29, 2014