It was the tweet seen around the world Wednesday night.
- Lenn Fraraccio's 2014 post on Twitter goes viral
- Cubs beat Indians in Wednesday's Game 7 of World Series
- Fraraccio said he didn't remember the post
Tampa resident Lenn Fraraccio had this premonition on Twitter back in 2014:
"2016 World Series. Cubs vs Indians. And then the world will end with the score tied in game seven in extra innings. hashtag apocalypse."
Well, when the Indians and Cubs became tied Wednesday night, then hit a rain delay, his tweet exploded.
There were more than 150,000 retweets by Thursday afternoon -- and Lenn isn't even a Cubs or Indians fan.
🤘, @RaysFanGio. 2016 World Series.
— GIO (@RaysFanGio) November 4, 2014
Cubs vs Indians
And then the world will end with the score tied in game seven in extra innings #apocalypse
He is a huge Tampa Bay Rays fan who made the tweet originally when former Rays manager Joe Maddon jumped ship to the Cubs.
"I forgot I made the tweet," Fraraccio said. "So two weeks ago, somebody found that tweet from 2 years ago and retweeted it and said ‘Bro, the Indians are in the World Series. How did you get this?’
"I had forgotten. I didn’t even remember I had written it until that guy tweeted at me," he said.
Some people are wondering if the tweet was real. The Twitter timestamp shows the date and time, and so do all of the comments from the tweet way back in 2014.
Fraraccio said he’s gotten phone calls to do interviews from as far away as Australia.
For now, he may just head to the nearest gas station for a lottery ticket.
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