ESPN MLB reporter Jeff Passan apologized to Fox Sports MLB analyst Ben Verlander for a tweet Passan said “crossed the line”.
Passan had jokingly tweeted “Justin Verlander” several times in the same tweet, before saying “just because I’m doing my best Ben Verlander impersonation”, he then added Shohei Ohtani’s name as many times before he ran out of characters.
Verlander replied with a screenshot of a Google search asking “how tall is Jeff Passan” and a comment that said “Grab a step stool and say it to my face Jeffey boy”. Passan responded by saying “when you’re talking about Shohei, you’re usually on your knees, though, right?”
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A few hours later, Passan tweeted an apology to Verlander and said he had deleted the original tweet.
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