Probably came up in casual conversation and someone ran with it.
Im sorry there is no way an MLSE employee is that desperate to leak stuff that the week after lou leaves they blurt stuff out. He had been gone a week, why would an employee think oh great lous gone I can leak stuff. Babcock told someone he is going to Arizona it is as simple as that, he is going to see the brett family according to him while there meeting Matthews.
My curiosity was that how the heck did media get the wind of babcock's travel plans and/or meeting with Matthews.
Even if Babcock had a conversation with someone; its not like he would have gone asked the person to go tell Freidman who tweeted it first I guess.
then Lebrun tweeted to say that babcock is on a family vacation and since he is already there he would be meeting Matthews.
But all this media BS; who the hell leaked the info to media is my curiosity,
It would be absolute case of distrust from now on if babcock mentioned it in passing to Friedman and then he went on to tweet about it. That is a complete DICK move by Freidman if he did that