Barstool Carl was a thing yesterday. For a minute or two Thursday afternoon it appeared that Yu Darvish had signed with the Cubs. Just for a minute or two.
A guy co-hosts a Chicago sports podcast was the first to report yesterday that Darvish had signed with the Cubs and that the deal was complete “after being evaluated by team docs.” The only problem was that he was the only one to report it. A secondary problem was that Carl has over 15,000 Twitter followers, so the report spread pretty like a game of digital telephone tag and had some of baseball’s best writers checking their sources (and checking them twice) to verify the news.