The Minnesota Twins Scoreboard Operator Fell For A Fake Twitter Account And Announced A Bunch Of Fake Baseball Trades
Someone please welcome the Minnesota Twins operator to 2016 at their earliest convenience. Come on man, you have to be better than that. That’s how the word “rube” immediately brings to mind some bumbling dude in the midwest. I mean we have all fallen for a fake Twitter account before. The difference is if we retweet it, we get our mentions bukkake’d by people telling us that it’s a fake and move along with our lives. But this scoreboard guy had to verify a trade a few more times than from an unverified Buster Olney handle.
Even though this would have been a HELL of a scoop.
That’s why I only trust tweets from White Sox Dave or verified accounts of guys I have read for years like Peter Gammons or Jon Heyman. If none of those baseball insiders have confirmed it, I’m not buying it. It’s fucking ruthless out there on the Twitter streets, especially with blue checkmarks being given out like Halloween candy these days. And after this summer, there will probably be more fake Woj accounts than living people in China.
However this isn’t all bad. The last time the Mets had their guts ripped out by a shitty team at the end of July, those games were followed up by a fake trade with the Brewers and yada yada yada they made the World Series. Sure there likely isn’t going to be another trade made for a player that turns into Babe Ruth for two months while the Hog Show is stuck in Cleveland feeding dead mice to his dick. But maybe, just maybe, that dummy in Minnesota rattled some things up and conjured some of last year’s magic. All we need to do is add some Wilmer Flores tears to the equation along with some sweet Holiday Road music and we are back in business!
Shit, that just made me really sad. Save us Baseball Gods! Save us again from the evil Wilpons!