ESPN Actually Asks Phillies to Confirm Authenticity of Satirical Ryne Sandberg Letter
In a recent weekend series against the New York Mets, Phillies manager Ryne Sandberg says he believes he got food poisoning from Shake Shack. In response to this story, zany Phillies blog Zoo With Roy tweeted this funny fake letter from Ryne Sandberg.
Apropos of today's game, here's a fake letter Ryne Sandberg wrote about his diarrhea! http://t.co/kdyuRESp4l pic.twitter.com/njmyQX64Zy
— Zoo With Roy (@zoowithroy) May 14, 2014
Then, ESPN asked the Phillies about the letter.
Phillies say letter posted by Philly blog from Ryne Sandberg to Shake Shack about alleged food poisoning was not penned by manager.
— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) May 15, 2014
That’s Darren Rovell, an ESPN reporter with 466,000 Twitter followers who is perfectly fine on television — as far as sports and business reporters go, he’s pretty tolerable — and absolutely weird and omnipresent and humorless on Twitter. One time he emailed a college a student had graduated from because the dude had made a joke at his expense on Twitter.
Anyway, this time he asked the Phillies about the authenticity of a letter that included a “LOL” and compared the Phillies to rancid meat.
On Twitter the mockery has begun, because Twitter is a apparently a social network where everyone is mean all the time.
@darrenrovell Dumbest man alive.
— Steve Wagner (@stephenTwagner) May 15, 2014
@darrenrovell you're an idiot
— junk (@tylermcjunkin26) May 15, 2014
https://twitter.com/LOLPhillies/status/466959947868438528
. @darrenrovell YOU ARE HUMAN GARBAGE AND I HOPE YOU FALL IN A PIT OF ACID YOU ROCK HEADED DUMBY
— Kangaroo Kidd-Gilchrist (@MyLargeAdultSon) May 15, 2014
Well, at least people on the Internet are not afraid to tell Darren Rovell how they really feel. Zoo With Roy, meanwhile, has some other stories.
.@darrenrovell This is not actual footage of Ben Revere meeting Cliff Lee: http://t.co/mW2XjI5DSO
— Zoo With Roy (@zoowithroy) May 15, 2014
.@darrenrovell don't you remember being assaulted by BA Baracus?! http://t.co/MSoIzgp33i
— Zoo With Roy (@zoowithroy) May 15, 2014
