Bally Sports North misidentifies random fan as Blink-182's Tom DeLonge

The Twins-Padres series opener Monday night didn't go off without a fun broadcast mishap.

Bally Sports broadcast of the Twins' game against the San Diego Padres on Monday, Aug. 19, 2024, misidentified a random Padres fan as Blink-182 co-founder, singer and guitarist Tom DeLonge. / Bally Sports North broadcast

Cory Provus saw a familiar face behind home plate Monday night in San Diego when the Twins kicked off a three-game series against the San Diego Padres: Blink-182 co-founder Tom DeLonge. 

While the Twins’ play-by-play announcer was able to spot DeLonge in the crowd, the Bally Sports North cameras only thought they did. During the broadcast, BSN's cameras panned over to a guy a few rows behind home plate and showed him with a chyron that read, "Tom DeLonge, Blink-182."

The only issue was the guy wasn’t Tom DeLonge. It was just a random Padres fan.

The Twins broadcast showed some random bloke and called him Tom DeLonge while the REAL Tom Delonge is like 3 rows behind 🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/wrvSRnRHiH

— Tom 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 (@WelshFriar) August 20, 2024

Aliens exist!@tomdelonge pic.twitter.com/JeNrZVp3PH

— Boring Joe Mauer (@BoringJoeMauer) August 20, 2024

The mishap drew attention from several Twins, Padres and Blink-182 fans on social media, and Provus later took to X — formerly Twitter — to explain the broadcast's Monday night mishap.

“Yep, thought this would pop up today. Little background. Huge Blink & AVA fan and clearly recognized Tom in my monitor last night. Well, our crew picked the wrong guy with the wrong blue hat behind the plate. Anyway, glad you’re feeling better dude,” Provus posted, tagging both DeLonge and Blink-182. 

Yep, thought this would pop up today.
Little background. Huge Blink & AVA fan and clearly recognized Tom in my monitor last night. Well, our crew picked the wrong guy with the wrong blue hat behind the plate. Anyway, glad you’re feeling better dude. @tomdelonge @blink182 pic.twitter.com/Y6NvOzc5nM

— Cory Provus (@CoryProvus) August 20, 2024

Blink-182 recently held a show at Target Center in Minneapolis, and DeLonge apparently mentioned to concertgoers that he was battling through an illness, though the show went off without a hitch.

Two weeks ago, he powered through a nasty sickness at the Target Center show. It was my first time ever seeing Blink, and it was incredible.

— Declan Goff (@DexsTweets) August 20, 2024

It appears at least DeLonge got a kick out of the whole thing, posting the mishap on his Instagram.

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Tom DeLonge (@tomdelonge)