Philly radio host Howard Eskin’s “Lawrence McCutcheon” tweet is just his latest awful miss, but it saw him mocked by the Phillies

Twitter mistakes happen, but some media figures sure make them more regularly than others, and Howard Eskin (a long-time Philadelphia sports media figure who currently works for 94.1 WIP and Fox 29) appears to be near the top of that pile. Eskin’s latest is an absolutely incredible one from Wednesday, where he referred to Phillies’ outfielder Andrew McCutchen as “Lawrence McCutcheon”:https://twitter.com/howardeskin/status/1227631474414903300As Kevin Kinkead of Crossing Broad noted, Eskin’s defense was maybe even better, especially considering that he spelled McCutchen’s last name wrong again:https://twitter.com/howardeskin/status/1227643002480480259And even the Phillies’ official account made fun of him:https://twitter.com/Phillies/status/1227658605329047557Plenty of people have misspelled McCutchen’s last name over the years, but doing so twice in a short span is remarkable, as is calling him “Lawrence” (there was a Lawrence McCutcheon who played in the NFL in the 1970s, but yeah, that’s not even close). But as Matt Mullin of < PhillyVoice writes, the 70-year-old Eskin has made an astounding array of awful Twitter mistakes over the years. Some highlights, starting with “cluff lee” and “firmer”:https://twitter.com/treblaw/status/672487730165768192How about tagging the wrong Jessica Mendoza, and then a Jessica Mendiza account that’s never tweeted?https://twitter.com/howardeskin/status/1225851094473027585That is very much not ESPN’s Jessica Mendoza he tagged, either time. (Screenshot of the second one via Crossing Broad.)https://twitter.com/howardeskin/status/878078740445634561Astoundingly, “Anzejs Pasecniks” is correct, but #mAgic, “puck,” and “Katvuan” (he meant Latvian) are not. That one got him a Deadspin “Worst Tweet Of The Year” nomination, and while he lost to Darren Rovell, he got mad at Daniel Radcliffe for a video presenting the nominees:https://twitter.com/howardeskin/status/936368300795277313A couple more athlete mispellings:https://twitter.com/treblaw/status/900183341642788864But don’t worry, we’re all here to listen to his “oidcastbof”:As Maxwell Smart would say:Those are just a few of Eskin’s many, many wild misspellings over the years (and it’s remarkable that he hasn’t deleted most of them). Mullin’s piece includes a lot more, and it’s worth a read. So it’s clear that “an ability to spell players’ names or simple words correctly” is not required to work at WIP. But at least Eskin isn’t actually fighting other radio hosts, so that puts him above some other past and present Philadelphia figures.[PhillyVoice]