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By Mike Cole
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There was a short period of time there Thursday in the minutes before the MLB trade deadline in which super tuned-in Boston Red Sox fans thought their team landed Minnesota Twins ace Joe Ryan.
It was largely a quiet deadline for the Red Sox, who bolstered their rotation and bullpen depth by trading for Dustin May and Steven Matz, respectively. However, after years of disappointment, Sox fans had their eyes on something bigger and better.
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That's where Ryan comes in.
The Twins right-hander was probably a pipe dream all along, but there were reports connecting the Red Sox and Twins. Dreams of Ryan slotting in behind Garrett Crochet in the Boston rotation intensified after longtime MLB reporter Jon Morosi reported the Sox were intensifying their efforts to land the pitcher.
Somewhere along the way, the social media staffs at both Yahoo and FOX Sports apparently misread that tweet and saw it as the Red Sox having acquired Ryan -- not just intensifying their efforts to acquire him.
Apparently, someone at Spotrac made a similar slipup, too.
Red Sox fans didn't take too kindly once it became clear someone (or some people) had made a very big mistake.
"Somebody needs to be fired for this I'm sorry," one Red Sox fan said.
"Fire whoever put out that Joe Ryan tweet," a user on X said in reply to the FOX Sports account.
Finally, another tried to cope and accept the idea of adding May, even if Ryan was the big prize: "Getting a starter is great, but unfortunately that Joe Ryan tweet is seared into my retinas and I will need to see that one through," he said. That did not happen, of course.
Meanwhile, MassLive.com's Chris Cotillo reported a source told him that Boston's pursuit of Ryan was "not even close."
Red Sox fans will always have those couple of moments of Joe Ryan, though.
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