Ty Schmit lived a glorious few hours on Thursday night as a baseball insider, but the feeling was fleeting.
The “Pat McAfee Show” producer attempted to break the news of Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s signing, posting on X that he was “hearing from very reliable sources that Yamamoto to the Yankees is done. 9 years $326 million.”
“Being told Godzilla Matsui helped push it over the goal line.”
His report was quickly shot down by several MLB insiders — including The Post’s Jon Heyman — and looked even worse when the Japanese ace inked a historic deal with the Dodgers hours later.
On Friday, McAfee revealed Schmit’s report went down at the show’s holiday party, where the drinks were flowing.
Should I have reached out a little bit, dug around, tried to corroborate this in any way I could? Maybe,” Schmit said, “But, like you said, you got a couple of cocktails in you. That baseball does down the pipe looking like a beach ball and I said, ‘You know what?
“Screw it, let’s put this thing out.’”
“Sometimes, when you hop into that MLB hot stove, you get third degree burns. And I did last night, pretty bad.”
All the calls for his head and blowback on social media were not the end of Schmit’s comeuppance.
That came when Jeff Passan, ESPN’s resident MLB insider and one of the chief news breakers of Yamamoto’s Dodgers deal, joined the show.
“Ty Schmit, you are a spectacular scumbag,” Passan said with a lisp, referencing Schmit’s Lou Holtz impression. “You are a scumbag. This show understands scumbaggery better than any show out there. Would you not say what Ty did last night was about as bad a thing as you could do to an entire fanbase? To make them think that the one guy all offseason they wanted — this was going to complete the offseason — and then, because of bourbon .. your sources were named Jack, Jim and Jose!”
“You weren’t close.” First off, ‘Godzilla Matsui?’ People should have known at that point. Also… ‘Yoshi’? Are you friends with him?”
Passan wasn’t done, saying he had to answer for Schmit’s post — including someone from the Yankees reaching out.
“I’m shocked that you showed up today. It’s not good Ty. I got like a half dozen texts last night ranging from ‘is this true’ to ‘who is this moron’ … people thought that I was giving you the information and you were running with it.
For his part, Schmit copped to the blunder.
“I got duped,” he said. “It’s as simple as that.”
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