OT: Paul Skenes Rookie Card Search

[z28jd]

This whole offer from the Pirates has led to the dumbest reactions from people over the last few days. When the Pirates made the offer, it was getting shared everywhere. I had numerous family members who don't even follow baseball write me and ask me about it. I couldn't avoid it for the first two weeks because I search for Pirates news twice daily. I used to cover the team, mostly the minor league system, for 15 years. I still do occasionally for a friend's site, so I still search news daily.

Anyway, ever since the news came that the kid turned down the Pirates offer, I have seen over 1,000 (literally, not just throwing out a high number) responses that say something like "why would they offer that to an 11-year-old from LA?".

This was a huge story in November that apparently 99% of baseball fans missed. These people really think that the Pirates heard an 11-year-old in LA won it and THEN offered him 30 years of season tickets.

If I somehow didn't hear the original story, I would spend a few minutes searching the internet before I asked a stupid question for all to see. Common sense would say that can't be right, but these people are just all in on group asking a dumb question over and over and over...