Ya, the message was a big screw up. They decoded it wrong. The part, "the world wonders" was not suppose to be part of the message, but just the nonesense part sent to confuse the Japs. Halsey hadn't been sleeping very much at the time either and was in a somewhat hysterical state of mind.
Evans explained that at the Turkey Shoot Sprunce had not gone after the Jap fleet for the same reason Halsey should have stayed at San Barnidino straight, thinking another fleet might be waiting, but there wasn't. Sprunce took heat for this. Was made a joke of actually, the worst thing possible. Halsey didn't want the same thing to happen to him. Though, should have known better, but there were communications problems also. Was TF 34 with the battleships left left behind as many thought? Oops, no.