For Pete's Sake

Fans discover Cleveland Indians’ mysterious blank tweet contains a hidden message

Can you use invisible ink on Twitter?

It was a question to be asked, because the Cleveland Indians on Wednesday tweeted what appeared to be nothing at all:

It caught the attention of the Toronto Blue Jays, who played along:

A fan noticed a clue: the option to translate the tweet from Korean:

OK, so what’s the translation when there are no words present? Here’s the answer:

Well, that’s interesting. The Indians were probably inspired by the Korean Baseball Organization, which is playing games during the COVID-19 pandemic.

What “It’s a good” means or how the Indians pulled off the hidden words trick are questions that remain unanswered.

Other Twitter users took the opportunity to, well, fill in the blank:

Pete Grathoff
The Kansas City Star
From covering the World Series to the World Cup, Pete Grathoff has done a little bit of everything since joining The Kansas City Star in 1997.
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