The love/hate relationship with Twitter was at its finest on Wednesday when one national reporter tweeted that the Twins were "getting" Ervin Santana. About the same time, Twin Cities media were summoned to General Manager Terry Ryan's suite earlier than normal.
Here it was, the big move.
Ryan confirmed nothing. When told of the tweet, he said. "Is that right? That's good to know.''
The tweet was later removed and replaced with one that had the Twins "pushing hard'' for the righthander, who was 14-10 with a 3.95 ERA for the Atlanta Braves.
He wouldn't even confirm he's interested in Santana — to us. Ryan later went on a Twin Cities radio station that spent zero dollars to cover the meetings and said: "I won't deny it. We're talking to him."
UGH.
What we know is that the Twins headed into Wednesday night expecting to have another meeting with Santana's camp that night or sometime Thursday. Ryan seemed serious about upgrading baseball's worst rotation last season.
"We've got to win some baseball games here,'' he said. "To do that, we just can't keep going to the well. We have really struggled on that mound.''
