Here's the latest on the twitter account of "Beltran's niece"...turns out the account may belong to, none other than, Incarcerated Bob.
The sports world went wild on Thursday with allegations that some of the Houston Astros' top players wore electronic buzzing devices that communicated
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A Twitter account that, since at least October, had presented itself as Carlos Beltran’s niece, was at the center of Thursday’s rumors.
This Twitter account supposedly said on October 29 that Beltran was the Mets’ new manager. The news was
finally leaked to reporters three days later on November 1. The account also
tweeted on Wednesday that Beltran would be stepping down as Mets manager. That news did not come out until Thursday.
By that point, the Twitter account posing as “Carlos Beltran’s niece” had gained some credibility for accurately predicting Beltran’s hiring and firing before anyone else by at least a day.
Maybe they had inside information or maybe they just happened to get lucky twice. After all, it wasn’t hard to predict Beltran would end up stepping down.
But this Twitter account isn’t really Carlos Beltran’s niece, and the thought that it was never really made sense.
The account had been around since at least 2017. Before it flipped to posing as Beltran’s niece, it sent nasty tweets, such as this one:
See Popeyes Man's other Tweets
In March, some people on Twitter figured out the account was one of many burner accounts belonging to Incarcerated Bob, a total phony and infamous rumor monger, and called him out accordingly.
ً @NYYDJ2
https://twitter.com/NYYDJ2/status/1217985016182996999
Be careful what you read... that
@S0_Blessed1 account isn’t Beltran’s niece or a player. It’s Incarcerated Bob’s burner account. Over the past year, he has used this account among others to argue with people who criticized him on Twitter. The buzzers may be real, but not the page
Incarcerated Bob is a phony name for a person who is involved in running a sports gambling operation online. Bob, who is also a caller to “The Michael Kay Show,” has several different Twitter accounts and uses them for various purposes. Sometimes he uses some of his “burners” to defend his main account in an effort to make the “Incarcerated Bob” character seem more credible. Sometimes he gives out one gambling pick from one Twitter account, but the opposing team as the pick from another Twitter account. He’s a total phony and fraud, and it benefits him to spread fake news and rumors online because idiots share/retweet the information, and Bob picks up followers. Bob then can turn those idiots into customers.
The worst part is
when real media outlets pick up on his phony rumors and spread them, which happens a lot because sites are hungry for pageviews, and they often don’t care about the credibility of a source behind the rumor.
Don’t believe me about how flimsy Bob’s info is? SB Nation once played a trick on him and
he took their bait. David Purdum, a legitimate gambling reporter who writes for ESPN,
once did a takedown piece on Bob that you should read.
So that’s who is behind the rumor saying Altuve and Alex Bregman wore buzzers by their right shoulder.
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