MLB fans are losing their minds after finding an awfully specific eight-year-old tweet that correctly predicted the 2024 World Series.
The Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees are squaring off in the 2024 World Series, marking the first Fall Classic showdown between the two longtime rivals since 1981. The Dodgers had a chance to complete the sweep on Tuesday night in the Bronx, but the Pinstripes lived to fight another day by slugging out an 11-4 victory.
Back on Nov. 3, 2016 at 7:47 p.m. EST, X/Twitter user @Hayden_Carlson 4 called this exact scenario. A day after the Chicago Cubs defeated Cleveland to end their 108-year World Series drought, Carlson predicted that the Yankees would win Game 4 of the 2024 Fall Classic against the Dodgers:
As you’d expect, social media had all sorts of priceless reactions to this tweet after it resurfaced on Tuesday night:
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It’s as if this fan followed the plot of “Back to the Future” 2, starring Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd. It’s as if the fan traveled to the future in a DeLorean time machine, grabbed a copy of “Grays Sports Almanac” and sent out this tweet.
Remember, the Yankees weren’t exactly a juggernaut in 2016. They finished fourth in the AL East (84-78). Aaron Judge wasn’t viewed as a hot prospect at the time. Giancarlo Stanton was still a year away from arriving, and Gerrit Cole didn’t come to the Bronx until 2019.
Yankees Aim To Pull A 2004 Red Sox To Win The 2024 World Series?
The 2004 Boston Red Sox are the only team in MLB history to come back and win a series after dropping the first three games. The Sox did it in the 2004 ALCS against the Yankees, before sweeping the St. Louis Cardinals to win their first championship since 1918.
20 years later, the Yankees have a chance to follow the footsteps of their archrivals and make history against the Dodgers.
