First of all, hats off to Deadspin for finding this hilarious story. We’re used to social media managers accidentally tweeting something under accounts they manage instead of their personal accounts or getting blamed for social media mishaps by companies and celebrities. This however could be a new and improved hilarious mix up by a social media manager.
Other possibilities are that it is a really bad attempt to troll Bill Simmons for tweeting anti-FOX sentiments or FOX just really wanted to get his attention so that he could rescind his comments or, as Deadspin suggested, “they really wanted him to watch the game.”
It starts with Bill Simmons tweeting out that he was upset that the Boston Red Sox game against the Yankees was blacked out by FOX in California.
Thanks to MLB and Fox for blacking out today's Sox-Yankees game on the West Coast. Blackouts are FUN.
— Bill Simmons (@BillSimmons) August 17, 2013
Then it seems like EVERY FOX twitter account responded to Bill Simmons to correct him.
@BillSimmons We agree blackouts are not fun. Catch the game on FOX 11 in LA today. Watching Yankees/Sox & being accurate are both FUN.
— FOX Sports (@FOXSports) August 17, 2013
@BillSimmons We agree blackouts are not fun. Catch the game on FOX 11 in LA today. Watching Yankees/Sox & being accurate are both FUN.
— FOX Sports: NFL (@NFLonFOX) August 17, 2013
@BillSimmons We agree blackouts are not fun. Catch the game on FOX 11 in LA today. Watching Yankees/Sox & being accurate are both FUN.
— FOX Football Daily (@FFD) August 17, 2013
@BillSimmons We agree blackouts are not fun. Catch the game on FOX 11 in LA today. Watching Yankees/Sox & being accurate are both FUN.
— FOX: NASCAR (@NASCARONFOX) August 17, 2013
@BillSimmons We agree blackouts are not fun. Catch the game on FOX 11 in LA today. Watching Yankees/Sox & being accurate are both FUN.
— FOX College Football (@CFBONFOX) August 17, 2013
@BillSimmons We agree blackouts are not fun. Catch the game on FOX 11 in LA today. Watching Yankees/Sox & being accurate are both FUN.
— FS1 (@FS1) August 17, 2013
@BillSimmons We agree blackouts are not fun. Catch the game on FOX 11 in LA today. Watching Yankees/Sox & being accurate are both FUN.
— FOX Sports: MLB (@MLBONFOX) August 17, 2013
@BillSimmons We agree blackouts are not fun. Catch the game on FOX 11 in LA today. Watching Yankees/Sox & being accurate are both FUN.
— FOX Sports: UFC (@UFCONFOX) August 17, 2013
@BillSimmons We agree blackouts are not fun. Catch the game on FOX 11 in LA today. Watching Yankees/Sox & being accurate are both FUN.
— The Association on FOX (@TheAssociation) August 17, 2013
Bill Simmons took it in stride and thanked only one lucky FOX Twitter account for not blacking out the game.
Thanks to @foxsports for not blacking out today's Red Sox-Yankees game! My channel guide deceived me. Bad channel guides = NO FUN.
— Bill Simmons (@BillSimmons) August 17, 2013
Oddly however, the station carrying the game FOX 11 in Los Angeles didn’t tweet Bill Simmons or get thanked for carrying the game.