(Sort of) OT: So this Tweeter thing...
by Goofus on Nov 28, 2011 9:08 AM PST
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After thinking I'd never do it, I joined Twitter yesteday. So now comes the question, who should I follow?
For me, it'll probably be just about baseball and stuff/thougts that I think are amusing/funny.
I added Grant, Baggs, Schulman, Keith Law, Sergio Romo and Daniel Tosh.
Who else do you suggest? Doesn't Panda have an account? What about Old Hoss something or other? Any other McC?
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I’ve heard that Rxmeister28 is a interesting guy to follow. He doesn’t tweet that often, but that’s because he has less followers than Michelle Bachman.
Buster Posey: still better than Eli and Stewart, even with a broken ankle.
by rxmeister on Nov 28, 2011 9:31 AM PST via mobile reply actions
Old Hoss Radbourne is the highlight of the twitter universe.
MY DAD WAS WRONG!
MY BOY NEEDS TO THROW HARDER!
I'm GoofusMcP, in case anyone was wondering
So I guess this means the Phillies making it past the 1st round of the 2010 post season was a fluke.
I was!
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU (AGAIN) [now with theme song]
I tweet (and occasionally blarg) | Your San Francisco Giants: "Together We're Broken!"
by can of corn on Nov 28, 2011 12:57 PM PST up reply actions
For the most part, I follow colleagues and personal friends, news sites and weather folks. My own Twitter feed has almost nothing to do with crafting social media-based journalism. It’s mainly gushing about guys and re-tweeting Al Roker.
Good ol' Teebs.
But do you gush about Al Roker?
So I guess this means the Phillies making it past the 1st round of the 2010 post season was a fluke.
These guys are probably up your alley.
https://twitter.com/#!/suss2hyphens
https://twitter.com/#!/MarylandMudflap
https://twitter.com/#!/jon_bois
https://twitter.com/#!/SamMillerOCR
Here are some of the ones that I follow (these are almost all baseball related)
https://twitter.com/#!/KenTremendous
https://twitter.com/#!/d_a_cameron
https://twitter.com/#!/Kevin_Goldstein
https://twitter.com/#!/LookoutLanding
https://twitter.com/#!/baycityball
https://twitter.com/#!/robneyer
https://twitter.com/#!/paapfly
https://twitter.com/#!/FakeGiantsBeat
https://twitter.com/#!/SavvySabes
https://twitter.com/#!/BMcCarthy32
Juan "Doesn't Cheat The Game" Perez, future CF for the World Champion San Francisco Giants.
"And besides, if I wanted to participate in a mindless patriotic ritual where my voice isn’t really heard, I would vote." - Chris Marcil
McCarthy is one of my favorites.
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU (AGAIN) [now with theme song]
I tweet (and occasionally blarg) | Your San Francisco Giants: "Together We're Broken!"
by can of corn on Nov 28, 2011 12:58 PM PST up reply actions
BMcCarthy32 Brandon McCarthy
Quick! Twenty minutes til my HS reunion- if you know how to make Xanax out of allergy and antacid pills, DM me!
Juan "Doesn't Cheat The Game" Perez, future CF for the World Champion San Francisco Giants.
"And besides, if I wanted to participate in a mindless patriotic ritual where my voice isn’t really heard, I would vote." - Chris Marcil
savvy sabes is great
Gigante. Campeón. Pumpkin. Andrés Torres.
Dursh nerf darsh narf. Poop.
He's really good! He's an injury risk! But he's really good! But he'll be expensive! But he's really good! But he's an injury risk!
SavvySabes (Not) Brian Sabean
Introduced Marvin Benard to Eugenio Velez tonight. Watching their routes to the handshake brought back memories. BS #SFGiants
Juan "Doesn't Cheat The Game" Perez, future CF for the World Champion San Francisco Giants.
"And besides, if I wanted to participate in a mindless patriotic ritual where my voice isn’t really heard, I would vote." - Chris Marcil
baycityball Chris
My cat is all, “whatever”
Juan "Doesn't Cheat The Game" Perez, future CF for the World Champion San Francisco Giants.
"And besides, if I wanted to participate in a mindless patriotic ritual where my voice isn’t really heard, I would vote." - Chris Marcil
Exactly
Real men take photos of their cat and post it to Facebook.
Juan "Doesn't Cheat The Game" Perez, future CF for the World Champion San Francisco Giants.
"And besides, if I wanted to participate in a mindless patriotic ritual where my voice isn’t really heard, I would vote." - Chris Marcil
I second this.
2010 World Series Champions!
Adopted 'nephew' to the ever avuncular and always awesome Jon Miller
by Johnny Disaster on Nov 28, 2011 1:58 PM PST up reply actions
I find if you just follow Gobroks, he retweets everything interesting that anybody else on twitter ever says. It’s a one-stop shop.
MY DAD WAS WRONG!
MY BOY NEEDS TO THROW HARDER!
Of course I mean that in the nicest possible way, Josh!
MY DAD WAS WRONG!
MY BOY NEEDS TO THROW HARDER!
I know
Read Me At: Twitter/Blog/MLBBonusBaby /Giants Nirvana
by Gobroks on Nov 29, 2011 11:19 AM PST via mobile up reply actions
He probably just re-tweeted that
So I guess this means the Phillies making it past the 1st round of the 2010 post season was a fluke.
I would NOT follow Keith Law
Unless you want a lot of whining and bitching and talking about food.
If you want that, just come to McC and get it for free…er. Freeer. Yea.
Definitely follow Old Hoss. Also:
Andy Baggarly
Henry Schulman
Jayson Stark
On a non-baseball topic, try out RealTimeWWII, a guy who’s retweeting all of World War II in live time over the next few years. Pretty amazing.
I do recommend a certain webcomic about the Giants and their fans… but that’s just me self-promoting so ignore if you want.
"The knowledge of the game is inversely proportional to the price of the seat." ---Bill Veeck. •Read My Blarrrgh...er, um....Comic. That doesn't really come across so well when said sarcastically. The Lunatic Fringe•
There’s a real time Tweeting the Civil War, too, that I love.
MY DAD WAS WRONG!
MY BOY NEEDS TO THROW HARDER!
Which one is that?
"The knowledge of the game is inversely proportional to the price of the seat." ---Bill Veeck. •Read My Blarrrgh...er, um....Comic. That doesn't really come across so well when said sarcastically. The Lunatic Fringe•
by BruteSentiment on Nov 28, 2011 8:10 PM PST up reply actions
Or maybe this one: http://twitter.com/#!/civilwarwp/tweeting-the-civil-war
MY DAD WAS WRONG!
MY BOY NEEDS TO THROW HARDER!
Oh, and...
Dante Shepherd, who does a webcomic called Surviving the World. His tweets are hilarious, and he’s a baseball fan.
Forgive him for being a Red Sox fan, though…
"The knowledge of the game is inversely proportional to the price of the seat." ---Bill Veeck. •Read My Blarrrgh...er, um....Comic. That doesn't really come across so well when said sarcastically. The Lunatic Fringe•
I still follow Eric Surkamp and Garrett Broshius
I also follow SETI, StarDate, and Homer Simpson
What I did was see who other people: Mr. Merope, my sister, Yosemite Park [that’s a good one to follow if you go to Yosemite a lot] follow and add whoever I’m interested in.
I use mine as more of a news reader sorta thing.
Adopted Giant: Eddie I Have It Grant.
TSFGWTWS DESPITE Botchy, not BECAUSE of him.
Here's a few to consider:
SF GIANTS:
http://twitter.com/#!/KFP48 >>> Pablito!
http://twitter.com/#!/BrianWilson38
MINOR LEAGUERS:
http://twitter.com/#!/AZ_GIANTS
http://twitter.com/#!/soncaballos >>> Ehire Adrianza
http://twitter.com/#!/C_Blackburn16
http://twitter.com/#!/garybrown909
http://twitter.com/#!/GarrettBuechele
http://twitter.com/#!/bcraw35
http://twitter.com/#!/K_Crick49
http://twitter.com/#!/culberson6
http://twitter.com/#!/SHarrold19
http://twitter.com/#!/HeathHembree
http://twitter.com/#!/Hesto23 >>> Chris Heston
http://twitter.com/#!/MFjones20 >>> Chuckie Jones
http://twitter.com/#!/MikeKickham43
http://twitter.com/#!/brettkrill
http://twitter.com/#!/Marleezy24 >>> Chris Marlowe
http://twitter.com/#!/philanthropy27 >>> Phil McCormick
http://twitter.com/#!/TylerMizenko
http://twitter.com/#!/JMoE220 >>> Johnny Monell
http://twitter.com/#!/mikemurray
http://twitter.com/#!/RickyOropesa
http://twitter.com/#!/JoePanik
http://twitter.com/#!/propayne_5 >>> Shawn Payne
http://twitter.com/#!/SethDanielRosin
http://twitter.com/#!/hect171189 >>> Hector Sanchez
http://twitter.com/#!/ESurkamp
http://twitter.com/#!/andrewsusac
http://twitter.com/#!/RawBT2528 >>> Ben Thomas
"There ain’t much to being a ballplayer, if you’re a ballplayer." - Honus Wagner
Gary Brown is legitimately funny
by Lies and Perfidy on Nov 28, 2011 5:29 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Shawn Payne tweets like 1,000 times a day
Carter Jurica!
"Has anyone really been for even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"
by GrahamCrakalaka on Nov 29, 2011 1:05 AM PST up reply actions
+1
Gary Brown and Garrette Buechele are funny, but, hands-down, the most fascinating Giant to follow is Shawn Payne. Not only is he a prolific (and hyper) tweeter, but he level of his political UNcorrectness can be stunning at times.
"There ain’t much to being a ballplayer, if you’re a ballplayer." - Honus Wagner
There was a tweet this morning from somebody to the effect of, the biggest drawback to following a lot of athletes on twitter is a much higher degree of scripture quoting than one necessarily needs in a given day.
MY DAD WAS WRONG!
MY BOY NEEDS TO THROW HARDER!
Daryl Maday and Chuck Lofgren at times, too.
Carter Jurica!
"Has anyone really been for even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"
by GrahamCrakalaka on Nov 29, 2011 3:27 PM PST up reply actions
And also:
It cracks me up how many of the minor league (and the occasional major league) ball players follow supposed girl tweeters with skanky ho profile pictures.
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU (AGAIN) [now with theme song]
I tweet (and occasionally blarg) | Your San Francisco Giants: "Together We're Broken!"
WAIT THEY DONT REALLY LOOK LIKE THAT?
FUCK
Obviously any links in the above post are probably NSFW
The baseball gods do not always punish the wicked but they will not just allow people to spit in their faces -- Joe Posnanski
Kudos, You are a sick, sick man, but you are very good at it -- wcw
can of corn
That’s nothing. You should check out the facebook pages of the Giants’ young Caribbean prospects. First off, you’d be surprised how many of these (often dirt-poor) teenagers actually have a facebook account. The vast majority of them probably only have internet access a few times a month, but they do have a facebook account. Then, when you dig deeper, you see that they have upwards of 1,000 “friends” – 95% of whom appear to be Caribbean girls trolling for a boyfriend/husband.
"There ain’t much to being a ballplayer, if you’re a ballplayer." - Honus Wagner
Apart from the other MCC types, I enjoy following the other Giants accounts (listed above).
Also @kellyoxford, @robdelaney, @uncledynamite, @DiscountDracula, @thebibandit, and @DadBoner are great for laughs.
My son, so I'm told. And this stalwart young lad (Hi, free f.p. #14!).
I was realy bummed that the handle "DadBoner" was already taken
So I guess this means the Phillies making it past the 1st round of the 2010 post season was a fluke.
My suggestions
@JoshMalina (not baseball related, but pretty funny)
@LenKasper
@CrashburnAlley
@DustinParkes
@JonBernhardt
(All baseball related and smart/funny)
Read Me At: Twitter/Blog/MLBBonusBaby /Giants Nirvana
holy shit, Joshua Malina is hilarious
Will Bailey, mighty champion among middle-of-the-road liberals!
by Lies and Perfidy on Nov 28, 2011 9:02 PM PST up reply actions
Yeah someone RT'd something he said, so I followed him
He’s really funny
Read Me At: Twitter/Blog/MLBBonusBaby /Giants Nirvana
A few more
Baseballish:
BattingStanceG (Batting Stance Guy)
LookoutLanding
Mrs_McCarthy32 (Brandon’s wife, they have some hilarious back and forth)
FanGraphs
Joe Posnanski
FakeDaytonMoore
TrippingOlney
Non:
The Onion
Jim Gaffigan
Carter Jurica!
"Has anyone really been for even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"
by GrahamCrakalaka on Nov 29, 2011 1:37 AM PST reply actions
Batting Stance Guy is good. Real good.
He’s not just a one-trick guy. He’s funny.
by Grant Brisbee on Nov 29, 2011 12:13 PM PST up reply actions
Jim Gaffigan is six kinds of awesome
Seth Rosin can hit the side of a barn with a baseball. From space.
Giants baseball: We're stupid enough to WIN that (TM)
I like
@si_vault (a must for any sports fan)
@LoMoMarlins (lives up to the hype)
@NASA (live rocket launch videos and awesome images)
@FATJEW (hilarious, NSFW)
@The_Real_Shaq (Shaq just makes me laugh)
SI Vault might be my favorite account, now that you mention it.
by Grant Brisbee on Nov 29, 2011 12:13 PM PST up reply actions
Andy Gray
Does a really good job with it. His routine of posting swimsuit pics when he goofs up is great and you can tell he’s just got a great passion and knowledge of sports history.
by InTimmyWeTrust on Nov 29, 2011 12:18 PM PST up reply actions
Garrett Broshuis is still interesting
http://twitter.com/#!/broshuis
"There ain’t much to being a ballplayer, if you’re a ballplayer." - Honus Wagner
Also, since I can’t watch most 49er games, I tend to follow them by reading Jponry’s twitter feed. It’s sort of like the NFL version of a Heisenburg experiment. I can’t see the game, but I can see where it’s been.
MY DAD WAS WRONG!
MY BOY NEEDS TO THROW HARDER!
I don't follow college football ...
… but I follow Spencer Hall, so I feel like I almost do.
by Grant Brisbee on Nov 29, 2011 12:50 PM PST up reply actions
Brandon McCarthy is the only player I follow. I also follow Baggs, Jaymee Sire, and the official SFGiants feed. That and the McCoven pretty much keep me updated on Giants news.
Most of the other people I follow are comedians or nerd celebrities.
Ron Washington really Britta'd that Series.
Please follow my Twitter
by Murray, Present on Nov 29, 2011 4:29 PM PST reply actions
pfft.
Nobody suggested you follow me? But Twitter told Can of Corn she is a lot like me!
Ross on Halladay: "I’d tried everything against him…going the other way, taking pitches, trying to walk…and nothing worked. I’d never tried going up there and just trying to hit a home run off him."
My boy has mad hops
I rant on Twitter
We’re both middle aged ladies!
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU (AGAIN) [now with theme song]
I tweet (and occasionally blarg) | Your San Francisco Giants: "Together We're Broken!"
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