Whoever was running the scoreboard at Target Field Thursday night must be wishing mulligans existed for real-world mistakes.
During the Minnesota Twins game last night, the ticker on one of the smaller boards broke some major trades around MLB, except none of the were real.
Thanks to the people at Twinkie Town, here is the message that was posted:
FYI: The Twins scoreboard in to way prefaced any of this as not actual trades. pic.twitter.com/tUQHmwooJX
— Twinkie Town (@TwinkieTown) July 29, 2016
Needless to say, the folks on Twitter were quick to pounce on the gaffe, with these ones coming in as our favorite retorts:
4-team deal, Indians got harper/trout and babe ruth.
— Justin (BSky – jlbaseball) (@JL_Baseball) July 29, 2016
I enjoyed the beverage ushered on screen at the end as if to say "Go home, scoreboard. You're drunk."
— Louie (@uwsptke594) July 29, 2016