The Cleveland Guardians Masterfully Trolled The Internet With A Fake Champagne Celebration And T-Shirts For Beating The Reds

So the Guardians beat the Reds last night and secured the "Ohio Cup" for literally the 10th straight year. The Ohio Cup, for those of you who live under a rock, is a trophy that goes to the winner of the season series between Cleveland and Cincinnati each year. And while I don't think the Guardians truly take it seriously, they at least pretend they do through sarcastic interviews and sarcastic social media posts. Hey, it's fun to win! But the Reds? The Reds come off as sad losers when they say things like this at the All-Star Game...

Oh, you guys don't care about it? And Cleveland cares about it too much? Sounds like something a loser would say!! Anyways, the Guardians clinched it again last night with their 6-1 win over the Reds, and their social account posted photos of the team spraying champagne in the locker room for the 3rd time this week. Time 1: clinching the playoff berth. Time 2: clinching the ALCS. Time 3: clinching the Ohio Cup.

Look at Emmanuel Clase and the boys pouring champagne all over each other, rocking the "Cincinnati is in Kentucky" shirts that poke fun at both how this is our state and that Cincinnati is quite literally in Kentucky.

Okay, honesty hour. We know this is a joke right? I'll admit that when I saw these photos, I was about 12 beers deep at a bar in Columbus, Ohio trying to drink away my sorrows from Jeff Passan murdering me online yesterday, but even I was skeptical. It wasn't even the shirts that gave it away. It was the fact that we….sprayed champagne again? 3x in a week? For beating the Reds? Before the playoffs even start? This would be a bad look to be celebrating this much. This had to be fake…..and the shirts they put on (photoshopped) all but guaranteed it.

Don't tell that to the internet though! I'm not just talking about the thousands of comments and quotes from dumb fans….

No, I'm fine with the dumb hicks of Kentucky not realizing the joke. How about Bleacher Report though??

Yikes. Falling for a fake story, couldn't ever be me. But I will say these two things before I go: my god is the internet tough to navigate through these days. AI and photoshop and Elon letting everyone run wild….it's something. But two: can we actually still print these shirts?