Professional athletes like to say they don’t read comments about them on social media, but if former MLB player Josh Rutledge ever broke that rule, he may have seen his own wife mixing it up with the trolls — under a burner account, of course.

Laura Rutledge, Josh’s wife and the host of NFL Live on ESPN, admitted she used to defend him using an account on X with a name that was “like BillyHalo76 or something.”

“This is a true story,” Laura, 36, recalled on The Athletic’s Andrew Marchand’s “Marchand Sports Media” podcast. “I actually think this Twitter or X handle might still exist, but when he was with the Angels. I made a fake Twitter, which I’m admitting this, OK, I know this was wrong. I’m not doing it ever since, but this was a one-time thing.”

“And Billy Halo only tweeted positive

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