Before ESPN’s Jeff Passan broke the news Sunday that Cody Bellinger would be signing a three-year, $80 million contract to remain with the Chicago Cubs, a fan surprisingly got the inside scoop.
But as it turns out, a fan named Lisa appeared to have scooped the baseball world by reporting the agreement three days earlier on X, formerly Twitter. The lifelong Cubs fan appeared on Sirius XM’s MLB Network Radio on Sunday afternoon to explain how she got the goods on the story.
“I get this text … she said, ’Hey, we heard Bellinger signed with the Cubs,’” Lisa said. “But, we heard it was a three-year deal for $100 million. Right away, I stepped back from what I was doing on the computer, and I just kind of Googled it, and I didn’t see anything. I grabbed my phone and looked on social media and didn’t see anything.”
