You know what the Cubs didn’t do on Wednesday? They didn’t ban Theo Epstein for life for flashing a hand gesture associated with white supremacy. But you know what USA Today did on Thursday morning? They tweeted that the Cubs did exactly that!
After getting bombarded with replies pointing out the horrendous typo, USA Today’s Twitter account deleted the post and sent out a correction.
And yes, as expected the Cubs did ban the fan who flashed the OK sign behind Doug Glanville during Tuesday night’s game at Wrigley Field.
Crane Kenney discussed the matter further on 670 The Score Wednesday morning and before last night’s game Theo Epstein also offered this comment.
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During his interview on The Score, Kenney said the team identified the fan, who they determined wasn’t just playing a game.
Epstein was also on The Mully And Haugh Show this morning and reaffirmed the team’s stance on what happened.
If you think that fan was just playing a game and the Cubs took advantage of the situation, or simply caved because of the outcry on social media and used this for some good PR, then you’d expect that fan to come out and defend himself publicly, right?
Doubt that happens. The banned fan is probably just happy no one has found out what his name is. It’s not Theo Epstein, though!
