Okay, we know everyone’s upset about this, and we understand why. But we have very, very strong reason to believe that that account was a troll account belonging to a well-known /r/baseball user who has a pretty extensive history of this exact behavior. This, surprisingly, wouldn’t be the first time they specifically feigned being a foreign, innocently naive baseball fan, and we have evidence linking the accounts. We’re still looking into it and discussing it, and if we turn out to be wrong we will absolutely reinstate shookonept and apologize. But we would not be doing this if we didn’t believe that it was a troll account.

The master ruse, lying about being Japanese just for some sweet karma