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A Treasury of Baseball Twitter Flipping Out About Zack Greinke

Posted on December 5, 2015 by danglickman
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Last night, Zack Greinke shocked the world by signing with the Arizona Diamondbacks. And then Twitter exploded. This is that story, as told through the tweets.

First, Ken Rosenthal broke the story:

Sources: Greinke in agreement with #DBacks, pending physical.

— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) December 5, 2015

And then, everything went nuts:

Holy hell. https://t.co/xg5nc0YITV — Chris Cotillo (@ChrisCotillo) December 5, 2015

 

Wut. https://t.co/d6eay3gZoJ

— Julie DiCaro (@JulieDiCaro) December 5, 2015

 

I… what https://t.co/OmoWbwaSfB — Bless You Boys (@blessyouboys) December 5, 2015

 

Whoa. https://t.co/E8hW9ARgGD

— J.P. Hoornstra (@jphoornstra) December 5, 2015

 

Oh crap https://t.co/LP6VbYOWi1 — Nick Stellini (@StelliniTweets) December 5, 2015

…… https://t.co/9rO0XhurJO

— Joe Lucia (@Joe_TOC) December 5, 2015

 

excuse me https://t.co/rrrKnQmdlS — Lana Berry (@Lana) December 5, 2015

 

Well then

— Eric Stephen (@truebluela) December 5, 2015

 

wait what — Nathan Bernhardt (@jonbernhardt) December 5, 2015

 

So that happened

— Ahmed Fareed (@AhmedFareedCSN) December 5, 2015

 

Fascinating https://t.co/TFIuwnMYt4 — Kevin Kernan (@WheresKernan) December 5, 2015

 

what

— Andy McCullough (@McCulloughStar) December 5, 2015

 

Dumbfounded. Disappointed. Distraught. D’Backs. — Wendy Thurm (@hangingsliders) December 5, 2015

 

Well.

— Craig Calcaterra (@craigcalcaterra) December 5, 2015

 

What in the holy hell Zack Greinke — Rany Jazayerli (@jazayerli) December 5, 2015

 

HAHAHAHAHAH WHAT

— Lindsey Adler (@Lahlahlindsey) December 5, 2015

 

Buh? https://t.co/oBdZL3ge8t — Emma Span (@emmaspan) December 5, 2015

 

And that, friends, is how Zack Greinke and the Diamondbacks totally rendered almost everyone on Twitter incapable of meaningful speech.

Well, except for Larry King:

Crying in my iced coffee right now. Looks like the #Dodgers lost #Greinke. Sad, sad, sad…

— Larry King (@kingsthings) December 5, 2015

 

Come back during the winter meetings for more of the best/weirdest/shocking tweets of Baseball Twitter!

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Updating the Twitter List

Posted on June 28, 2013 by danglickman
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Last year, I talked about good Twitter accounts to follow. For the most part, those are still true. So, in addition to those, I add in these suggestions. They are by no means the only ones to follow… consider it more of a sampling:

  • @VinScullyTweet, a feed I recently discovered that tweets out gems of sweet goodness that Vin Scully says on the air.
  • @RichardDeitsch, run by SI‘s sports journalism and media reporter (Richard Deitsch, obviously), is about all types of sports and how they are covered by the media. He doesn’t pull any punches in giving his opinions on sports media.
  • Writer Jon Bernhardt (@JonBernhardt) of Sports On Earth (amongst others) writes hilarious and sometimes cynical takes on baseball, focusing primarily on the Baltimore Orioles. A good follow during their games.
  • Matt Sussman (@Suss2Hyphens) is similar, albeit a fan of the Tigers.
  • @BizBallMaury AKA Maury Brown covers the business side of sports very well.
  • @ThisDateInBBall brings you “This Date In History”-style tidbits about baseball.
  • @Jay_Jaffe and @EmmaSpan are both great baseball writers and tweeters. They also live with each other. Sadly, no sitcom is yet in the works.
  • Our good friend Michael Clair of “Old Time Family Baseball” can be found at @ClairBearAttack.
  • And, finally, there are the Twitter accounts of “You Can’t Predict Baseball” (which tweets out weird happenings, such as a Molina brother stealing a base) and @CanPredictBall, which tweets out things you totally could see coming, like Manny Machado hitting a double or Adam Dunn having a homer, strikeout and a walk during a game.

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The best Twitter Feeds for baseball fans

Posted on May 23, 2012 by danglickman
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You can, and should, be following my Twitter feed at @DanJGlickman (hey, we’re told to advertise ourselves these days), but there are some other great baseball twitter feeds to follow, such as…

The big-name national writers

They seem obvious, but they got to where they are for a reason. Probably more than 70% of baseball news is first heard from one of these guys: Ken Rosenthal, Jon Heyman, Buster Olney, Jeff Passan, Bob Nightengale, Jayson Stark, Rob Neyer, Tim Kurkjian and a bunch of other guys. Really, if you regularly see a person talking baseball news on ESPN or MLB Network, and they are not a retired athlete, there’s a good chance they also have a above-average-to-great twitter feed. Ditto if you see their byline in SI, USA Today or another national publication. Not included more because he is a bit more scattered in his coverage (he’s not simply a baseball writer) is Joe Posnanski, who you should still follow.

The Official MLB Twitter Feeds

Following MLB’s official feed, the feed of the Fan Cave and of MLB Network are good follows not because they are giving you anything new (they usually aren’t), but because they will alert and link to good plays, interesting contests and sweepstakes, let you know what is going to be on TV, etc. On local levels, this is also true for the official feeds of individual teams.

The Funniest Twitter Feeds

Not every feed needs to be serious, or even real. Some of the best feeds are fake or tongue in cheek. Take Charley “Old Hoss” Radbourn’s twitter feed: @OldHossRadbourn. It matters not that Hoss died in 1897, he will continue to comment on 21st century events, while often talking about his (equally historically-inaccurate) recollections of the Civil War, fighting Native Americans, and life in the rough-and-tumble pre-modern world of base ball (with a space). Take this tweet from when Josh Hamilton had his historic night:

If a man hit four home runs in one game in my day he would be sentenced to three months in the stocks for congress with the Devil.

— Old Hoss Radbourn (@OldHossRadbourn) May 9, 2012

Another hilarious baseball feed is that of Not Buster Olney, AKA “TRIPPING OLNEY”. This twitter feed, which is actually followed by the real Buster Olney himself, is essentially a feed of a alternate reality version of Buster Olney. In that alternate universe, Olney is a overexcited journalist who is always tripping on various drugs and who has a unhealthy obsession with Royals pitcher Bruce Chen. He also ALWAYS TYPES IN UPPER CASE.

Another good humor twitter to follow, although it is about all types of sports, is the SportsPickle twitter.

Players to follow

Due to rules by MLB, individual teams and PR worries, not that many ballplayers tweet. And most of them are kind of boring. There are exceptions, though. Take, for example, A’s pitcher Brandon McCarthy, who gave us this immortal gem:

Siri, how do you get Josh Hamilton out?

— Brandon McCarthy (@BMcCarthy32) May 12, 2012

One of the first players to take advantage of Twitter was C.J. Wilson, but these days he has not only been joined by McCarthy but also other player-tweeters such as Logan Morrison, Jeremy Guthrie (who played catch with a fan he met on Twitter), Curtis Granderson and @DatDudeBP AKA Brandon Phillips.

Other baseball-related twitter feeds

Besides the various ESPN and MLB Network TV personalities (think of one, search for them, they probably have one), Joe Buck also has a occasionally-updated twitter feed (it comes in waves). I also recommend following other members and sites of the baseball blogosphere, like Craig “HardballTalk” Calcaterra, ‘Duk from Big League Stew, the writers of team-centered blogs, and the writers at Baseball Prospectus. Some good former players to follow are Dirk Hayhurst (@TheGarfoose) and Jose Canseco. Actually, don’t follow Jose Canseco for baseball, instead follow him because he has some of the most… unique Twitter feeds out there. It’s like some kind of poetry of bizarre.

Do you know any other good Twitter feeds to follow? These are just my opinion, after all…

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