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On Thursday afternoon, a Twitter account claiming to be that of the niece of Carlos Beltrán, who lost his job as the manager of the New York Mets because he’d played a central role in the Astros’ skulduggery, dropped a bombshell. If true, what had been reported to date was just the beginning of the Astros’ rule-breaking ways. Namely, during the playoffs, two Astros wore a secret buzzer cleverly concealed beneath their uniform. The buzzer would tip the hitters off to the next pitch. The account holder also claimed it possessed photos to back up the allegations. On social media, it set off a wild frenzy of conspiracy-mongering. Fans relentlessly parsed videos and posted screenshots of the players who’d been implicated. Players and members of the press haven’t been able to resist this siren’s call, either. For anyone trying to read online about the Astros, it felt like an army of wised-up sleuths were on the case, all of whom were convinced that this length of yarn pinned to this GIF image would finally connect the relevant dots and reveal how deep this nefarious plot really goes. There was one problem. The account did not belong to Carlos Beltrán’s niece at all. Rather, thanks to the shrewd detective work of one fan, there’s a more than decent chance it’s the handiwork of a guy named “Incarcerated Bob.” Who is Incarcerated Bob? The short answer is: an online gambling tout with a large following who gained infamy by posting scoops about all the major college and pro sports. Those scoops often turn out to be dead wrong or works of complete fiction. He also regularly employs dozens of sockpuppet accounts to boost his relevance and target his critics. Incarcerated Bob will threaten, harass, and lie about those who question him. And while there’s a non-zero chance that the catfish account wasn’t wrong about additional acts of cheating in baseball, odds are Bob is not the person who’s going to break that story. The longer answer is a tad more complicated, and far more bizarre. |
A professional fraud
He failed the test a couple months prior to the suspension and "self reported" that he was using the supplement.
The Giants were aware in May that it could pose a potential problem.
This is what he does. Bob will look around the league and create a rumor naming the likeliest landing spots for free agents. Often he will include a "mystery team" that he is waiting to confirm as insurance in case the FA were to sign with another team he didn't list. Then he will claim that the surprise team that signed him was the mystery team he had heard from his non-existent sources.
He's not ahead of anything, he's just combing every single shred of news or info there is and parroting it as his own. He's a human aggregate that sometimes gets shit right. He has no inside sources. He just gets to the info before we do.
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“insiders” on Panarin to NYR. Everyone else had him going to NYI until Bob said he’d had a change of heart.
He's not ahead of anything, he's just combing every single shred of news or info there is and parroting it as his own. He's a human aggregate that sometimes gets shit right. He has no inside sources. He just gets to the info before we do.
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Yeah. Cartoon and Boomer I think.