MLB Network duped by fake trade
David Brown
By David Brown 20 minutes ago Big League Stew
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Oct 15, 2013; Detroit, MI, USA; MLB network reporter Ken Rosenthal prior to game three of the American League Championship Series baseball game between the Detroit Tigers and the Boston Red Sox at Comerica Park. (Andrew Weber-USA TODAY Sports)
With the trading deadline counting down Thursday, the MLB Network briefly fell for a fake story published on Twitter about the Tampa Bay Rays trading David Price and Ben Zobrist to the Detroit Tigers. The worst part: Ken Rosenthal, the reporter being used in the fake tweet, was in the studio as host Matt Yallof read the bogus trade on the air.
There's a line in "Anchorman" befitting of this moment: "Ron Burgundy will read anything that is put on that teleprompter. Anything!"As the network went to commercial, the tweet was dismissed as fake, and the real Ken Rosenthal (who also reports for Fox Sports), took to Twitter to stop the disinformation from spreading:
Ken Rosenthal ? @Ken_Rosenthal Follow
This is a fake. Block him. RT
@Ken_Rosenthal_: Sources:
#Tigers close to finalizing deal with
#Rays involving David Price and Ben Zobrist.
Hey, tell that to your own network!
Rosenthal also showed up on TV just to prove the real guy was out there, working on vetting actual rumors and not faking stories:
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/mlb-network-duped-by-fake-trade-164235868.html