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— Jon Heyman (@JonHeyman) March 24, 2021 The full Heyman tweet reads like this. ” Pirates made extension offer to great young 3B Ke’Bryan Hayes, but there’s no traction there. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us.

Say what you will about the Houston Astros and their fanbase, but they have really mastered the art of needling both casual fans and the national media alike, as they have started to relish their role as MLB bad boys.

One Astros fans managed to fool MLB insider Jon Heyman completely by tweeting out a graphic that suggests the Astros are the most talked-about team in New York and southern California on the social networking platform, a reference to angry Yankees and Dodger fans who lost out on titles due to Houston's illegal acts. Heyman thought the map was real.

It's not.

Lots of tweets about the Astros in NY and LA. Wouldn’t qualify them as “favorites” there though https://t.co/JtaPApInNj

Oh, Jon. How could you not see what a troll job this was? This is an instance of Astros fans winding you up, and you completely fell for it.

As much as Yankees and Dodgers fans want to deny it, we're in the middle of May 2020, and those fanbases are still pining for a reversal of playoff series that happened three years ago. Maybe Astros fans are righ about this whole rent-free thing.

Whenever you see this map or anything else similar that pokes fun at the Yankees or Dodgers while pumping up the Astros, don't fall for it. It's just meant to get you riled up.

Late Tuesday night, MLB Network's Jon Heyman took to Twitter and posted an innocuous report about free agent right-hander Trevor Bauer's contract demands. It wasn't anything Earth-shattering as pretty much everyone had a solid idea of what Bauer was asking for. For some reason, that tweet set Bauer off and he went hard after Heyman, starting a back-and-forth that was both mildly entertaining and stupid all at the same time.

Here's what Heyman posted:

There is nothing crazy about that tweet. Heyman is just relaying that Bauer is asking for a lot of money coming off a phenomenal season. He added that Bauer's agent declined to comment.

Bauer was not happy:

The reigning NL Cy Young Award winner didn't let up:

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Heyman responded to Bauer:

Then Bauer's agent, Rachel Luba, got involved after Heyman said she had texted him to decline comment:

Bauer continued piling on:

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I love a good fight as much as the next guy, so I broke out the popcorn and followed along. In the end, though, this was all pretty dumb.

I realize that Bauer is a Twitter troll and he has a lot of fun ruffling feathers and going after people, but this whole thing felt moronic. The initial tweet was a run-of-the-mill offseason report. None of it was surprising or shocking. Anyone in baseball can tell you Bauer is looking for more than $30 million for 2021 and if he signs a long-term deal he's looking for top starter money. That would put the average annual value north of $35-$36 million after Gerrit Cole's deal with the Yankees last winter. Again, none of the information in that tweet is controversial or crazy.

Heyman claimed Luba had declined to comment but she says she hadn't before that tweet. It's possible he previously asked her about contracts/amounts/etc. and she declined to comment and he carried that over. Either way, Bauer getting mad over this is silly and a huge waste of time.

I tend to find Bauer's antics funny sometimes, but attacking a reporter for, you know, reporting things, is as dumb as it gets. Who cares? Shrug it off and let it go. Getting worked up over it seems pointless.

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If Bauer was upset about Heyman's tweet, how would he handle the media in New York if he signed with the Mets?