The crazy tracking of a plane that supposedly was transporting Shohei Ohtani to Toronto on Friday (it wasn’t) has led to some introspective thoughts on that sort of thing from at least one baseball journalist, Bob Nightengale of USA Today.
I’ll be frank here. Bob’s been dunked on by quite a few folks here and elsewhere for messing up on reporting things that didn’t happen.
Today, though, Bob has written an excellent article talking about why baseball writers ought to take a step back from their breathless reporting of every rumor they hear — and he admits his own errors in doing so.