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No, Eric Hosmer is not leaving the Royals for the Rangers

For a fan, here’s the cool thing about a baseball player signing a two-year contract: He can’t leave his team after the first season because he feels like it.

As Lionel Hutz wisely noted on “The Simpsons:” But I ask you, what is a contract? Webster’s defines it as “an agreement under the law, which is unbreakable.” Which is unbreakable!”

So that’s what makes a tweet such as this so funny (and I’d encourage you not to click the link):

This being something found on the Internet, it was treated by some as being absolutely true, even though Hosmer is under contract with the Royals for 2016:

Hosmer leaving KC for the Rangers.