Maybe it was because Alex Rodriguez's image needs all the help it can get right about now?
A Detroit NBC affiliate station made an error of epic proportions Wednesday night, and the screenshot found its way onto Twitter. It ran a photo of the enigmatic Rodriguez next to a "Remembering Nelson Mandela" graphic.
The South African anti-apartheid hero died at home at the age of 95 on Thursday after months fighting a lung infection left him critically ill. The world has mourned Mandela's death.
The last public image of Rodriguez was his storming out of his own Nov. 20 hearing to appeal a 211-game suspension that Major League Baseball levied during the 2013 for his link to the Biogenesis scandal that implicated him in the use of performance-enhancing drugs.
Extramustard.SI.com commented, "While Alex Rodriguez has been outspoken about the purported oppressive forces in control of Major League Baseball, nobody should be confusing him with the late South African humanitarian hero."
The tweeted photo found its way onto "Olbermann," ESPN2's weeknight program, under the category of "World's Worst." In fact, host Keith Olbermann called it a "breaking" World's Worst.
"We have that rarest of things, a breaking worst," Olbermann said. "On its newscast tonight, and NBC station in Detroit, "Remembering Nelson Mandela." The picture of the president, look in the left-hand corner ... it's Alex Rodriguez ... morons!"
The Twitter post drew a couple of other comments. From @awfulannouncing, "Yeah...that's not Nelson Mandela."
From @bubbaprog: "Nelson Mandela played for the Yankees?"
And from @chrismpeters: "Brick Tamland (Steve Carell's character on "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy") on graphics for Local 4 tonight."
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