Fake National Review story about imaginary non-binary Blue Jays catcher dupes people on social media

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The National Review's Rich Lowry made up a story about a non-binary minor-league catcher getting called up to MLB despite 'batting' .207 and duped a lot of people.

Rich Lowry’s National Review story meant as a shot at Toronto Blue Jays for their treatment of Anthony Bass

"I wanted to spoof the Blue Jays for their ridiculous decision to DFA Anthony Bass for his sincere beliefs," Lowry exclusively told"Even though it was written to be clearly satire, it’s really not that far removed from being plausible.

More than likely, someone alerted Shapiro to this fact. But, not before over 750k people saw his first tweet, believing the story to be real.

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