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A 2nd Tweet Has Surfaced On The Famous (Infamous?) @JedHoyer_ Twitter Account

(CBS) A day after the Cubs broke their 108-year championship drought, a subplot associated with the team's front office has resurfaced.

The mysterious @JedHoyer_ Twitter account on Thursday posted its second tweet of all time -- and first since its infamous introductory tweet on April 14, 2009.

Below is Thursday's post. Click on the account to put two and two together.

The account is run by someone who knows Cubs general manager Jed Hoyer well. Its brilliance -- if you're into that type of humor -- comes largely in its simplicity and the fact that the initial tweet in 2009 came before Twitter took off and when Hoyer was still an unknown name to many casual baseball fans.

So the original tweet just sat there, as Hoyer's profile rose, Twitter became more mainstream and rumors swirled as to who could be behind the tweet.

Many have suspected that Cubs president of baseball operations Theo Epstein set up the account, given his close friendship with Hoyer and that both were with the Red Sox back in 2009. That's certainly logical, though neither Epstein nor Hoyer has confirmed that.

"I'm aware of it, yeah," Hoyer said last Decemeber on 670 The Score. "It was set up as a joke, as you might imagine, and it's sort of taken on a life of its own. I know the guilty party that set it up. I have no access to that account, so I have no ability to change it."

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