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It's never good to have to make a correction to a correction, but after wiping enough egg off my face to make a triple omelet, let me once and for all set the record straight about the error that occurred in this week's Week In Quotes that was posted on the site Monday morning.

We mistakenly quoted Commissioner Bud Selig as telling the New York Post's Joel Sherman that the Mets needed to hire Sandy Alderson, Major League Baseball's point man on corruption in the Dominican Republic baseball system, or "they should know the first reaction is going to be that they will be giving their fans more of the same."

Well, Selig never said that. In fact, Selig was never quoted in Sherman's column. Those were Sherman's own words and they somehow became Selig's words in our story, which was the fault of the writer, the copy editors and yours truly, the editor-in-chief. Again, I apologize for the error and I apologize for having to apologize twice.

And to avoid any more confusion, you might want to take a look Sherman's column instead of having his words misinterpreted again. With that, please excuse me while I crawl into the nearest hole.

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jrmayne
10/13
Large volume results in mistakes - and this was a mistake, not a fictionalization. It's regrettable but understandable.

But let's get the fix right: Both the original article and the first correction should have "UPDATE" as the first word, and an explanation of how those articles were wrong.

(And while we're here, the original correction has a paragraph that starts "This what," which is missing a word.)

--JRM
ScottBehson
10/13
Perhaps writing as often as Mr. Perrotto does AND editing the site is too big a job for any one person.
dianagramr
10/13
this is devolving into a Monty Python sketch, where the voiceover says "We'd like to apologize for that last bit ..."