"Dance, clown, dance" ... or, stick to sports

From the standpoint of whether people should "stick to sports," you have to know your audience. I have a handful of fantasy football "experts" on my Twitter feed. I enjoy the occasional related article that gets linked. I don't give a shit what that person thinks about foreign policy. And not that they don't have a "right" to speak their mind (and employers have corresponding rights); it's just that if you make your living in the arena of something like fantasy sports, no one is taking your random political tweets seriously.

 

My company has fired employees for message-board posts that, quite frankly, haven't been all that offensive or inflammatory. If one of our workers takes to Twitter and does what Hubbuch did, he/she probably would be fired within 30 minutes of the tweet hitting cyberspace.

 

Somebody else said it first, but it's one of the most true sayings of our time. "Twitter: The 140-character resignation letter."

 

And those companies are within their rights, barring a union/guild situation. Easy answer: don't do it.

 

Not my shop but a nearby shop to me had to cut ties with a freelancer who was a major league truther -- 9/11, chemtrails, Muslim Obama, hell he was a fluoride truther, I thought those guys were extinct.

Anyways, covering a high school game, after a play action pass goes for a TD he tweets "I haven't seen a fake sold that well since Sandy Hook." The reaction was about what you'd expect. Shop didn't even let him do his gamer, they cut off their nose to spite their face and told him to go home and never return. Few weeks later he deleted his account.

FWIW the guy looked like Frank Sobotka from The Wire.

 

Is he back on twitter? Those guys are entertaining.

 

I wish. Last I heard he wasn't, but it's been a while since I checked in.

 

Sportswriter Bart Hubbuch sues New York Post over firing for anti-Trump tweet

 

At my local newspaper, one of the sports columnists moved to news side years ago and was the metro columnist until last year (he's now the food critic, of all things). That paper also just hired away a competitor's NFL beat writer as its editorial page columnist. If Hubbuch had felt a strong calling to comment on news events, seems as though he'd have had plenty of opportunities over the years to switch from sports to news. Although what he tweeted would have gotten him in trouble in any case.

 

Fuck this dense motherfucker. Nothing worse than being both crazy AND stupid. I hope he gets the AJ Daulerio treatment in court.

 

From what I know, he's been all about calling attention to himself and being a flame-thrower just to show he can.

 

Disagree with creating a private, guarded account. It can always find its way out.