Logan Morrison’s Twitter bio reads

To know me is to Tweet with me! Miami Marlins LF. Twittaholic. All around good guy (with just a pinch of dangerous sexuality)!

… so you’d think that when he’s the guy breaking a story, baseball reporters and major news outlets would go, “heh, logan morrison is trolling twitter” and wait an hour for the punchline. Unfortunately, not everyone in the sports world checks sources thoroughly or is interested in doing their job well. Case in point:

And the real joke, by way of Big League Stew:

Of course that didn’t stop some media outlets, such as WGN Radio in Chicago — flagship station of the Chicago Cubs — from going to the air with the news, while not directly acknowledging the tweets. Sports anchor and Chicago Cubs postgame host David Kaplan reportedly told listeners a deal with Seattle was near just moments after the original tweet, and that the Cubs were likely to miss out on the best free agent left.

Everyone else (well, not everyone else, but almost everyone else) waited an hour for the punchline.

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Rock legend Prince, who may or may not shop in the boys’ department at Nordstrom, wrote some hymnal ode to the Minnesota Vikings earlier this week. And, um, it blows ass. Take a listen up above, and tell me that you would even want that song to play at your own funeral. It’s like the song at the end of Dirty Dancing right before Patrick Swayze wanders up to the stage and yells, “Cut the music! What I’d like to have right now…is for all you fat…out-of-shape….Minnesota meatheads…keep the noise down…while I show the ladies…what a REAL man is all about. Hit the music!” That was Patrick Swayze, right? –vid from Billboard.com Also.