If you hadnāt heard, one-time catcher and current blogger Brent Mayne has had quite a day on the Internet. Everyoneās a-Twitter about the catcher who was pretty much unknown outside hardcore baseball circles.
The story goes like this (now pay attention because the details are important in this story. Baseball fans wonāt let you get away with anything). Mayne went out on a limb and admitted that when JT Snow came up for his very first at-bat in the majors, Mayne told him what pitch was coming. Mayne tells us that after he told Snow that a āfastball outsideā was on its way, he smoked a double to left.
What controversial thing to say. And good for him for coming clean, right?
Except it didnāt happen.
Mayne should know better (and probably does) than to get one by baseball fans. It didnāt take long before someone posted the boxscore of JT Snowās first game. How strange that Snow was 0 for 5 in his appearance.
So either:
A) Mayne is clueless about the all-encompassing expansiveness of the Internet. Heās a former ballplayer just talking about the old days and didnāt realize that he JUST MIGHT be fact-checked.
or
B) Just the oppositeā¦ Mayne is shrewd businessman who knows how to drive traffic to his website which in turn will increase sales of his books and other products.
Iāll just give him the benefit of the doubt and say itās (A) though Iām jealous of all his web traffic for a stupid story that wasnāt true.
To be fair, Mayne has issued a correction/retraction. The article rambles and is all over the place (youāve read my stuff so you know what Iām talking about). JT Snow was āplaying for the Yanksā and he knows for sure it was ātowards the end of the seasonā. Heās even āsure it was JTā.
Heās not so sure about the double thing, though. Might have been an out or something.
Iām ready to let this thing die. Iāve given it more room on this blog than it probably deserves.