Talk about an error -- Republican robo-calls interrupt Tigers' celebration

If Mitt Romney loses Michigan by just a few hundred votes, perhaps we can point to Oct. 18 as the day when the campaign blundered badly.

Last night, at about 7:50 p.m. my phone rang just as the American League trophy was about to be presented to Dave Dombrowski, Mike Ilitch and Jim Leyland on the TBS telecast. Obviously, I didn’t answer the call.

It was a robo-call from the Michigan Republican Party urging a vote for Romney. And it was one of those robo-calls that are extremely loud on an answering machine. Very irritating.

The only way that ill-advised campaign tactic could have been more grating is if I had answered the phone and missed some of the televised dialogue from Comerica Park. I’m sure many voters across the Detroit area had that experience and cursed Romney for it.

The only thing I can figure is that some nerdy Republican at the GOP call center who knows nothing about baseball told his volunteers to crank up the calls as soon as the Tigers secured the last out. Apparently, those GOP guys know nothing about celebrations and champagne and trophies and MVPs.