By Tom
It’s not easy being a Major League Baseball reporter. Aside from meeting deadlines and quotas, you have to constantly be adapting to how information travels throughout the game. There are going to be mistakes, obviously, one of the most common mistake-makers in the biz is Bob Nightengale who seems to have a butt fumble every other week.
But Bob is an affable and very likable guy, and a very tireless worker who put in a lot of grind during the MLB lockout last year. Even our very own John Denton had a misspelling earlier this season that got him dunked on for a couple days. It happens! Typing is hard and especially when the information you’re presenting is also being disseminated to colleagues who are also your competitors, and that there is so much of that information bouncing around. You have to be on your A game to get info out about X player signing with Y team or who met with who over contract negotiations. That next big story in the Scoop Market is dollar signs to you and your employer, so a reporter has to be as efficient as he is rapid in getting the info out to the gaggling public.
Or you could make shit up, like Jon Heyman!
This tweet has it all, a Nightengale level of misspelling and misinformation! We don’t think this was intentional by Jon, in fact if you take into account the high-octane scoop environment like the Winter Meetings, you could trace along how this kind of thing could happen. But Jon is a weird guy who writes for the New York Post and votes like an asshole on his hall of fame ballot every year, so we’re gonna take a minute to rib him!
You can understand how this scoop travels and creates a false narrative. Jomboy Media’s Talkin’ Baseball tweeted out Heyman’s reporting to their 180,000+ followers, which was subsequently retweeted by their own Talkin’ Yanks account along with 470 others. Hear ye, hear ye! Arson Judge to the Giants! Burns Bronx Bombers dreams to the ground faster than postseason matchup against the Astros!
To Heyman’s credit, he apologized, but not after Yankees nation began filling a Staten Island sized diaper. Heyman told NBC Sports that he heard Judge “was going to the Giants from a couple people, so I thought it was good enough…I went too quickly with it. It was premature, but at this point, the tea leaves are looking better for the Giants than they have been.”
Oh how right you are, Jon!
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