"Trying to reach Junior Seau"

I talked with Dale Earnhardt just this morning and he wondered what all the fuss was about. Plus he loved the Clash.

 

Listen. What Sheridan did is pretty awful and lazy, if we're being honest.

But Trotter costing a guy his job because he reached out privately is even worse, if we're being honest. There was no public slipup here until someone in that exchange posted it on Twitter. Nobody here looks good.

 

Was Sheridan any more than a freelancer for that organization? He's still writing for Maxim.com and betway.com. So he still has jobs.

 

This is so true, and a very good post.

It seems that nobody ever looks good, and nobody ever wants to make others look good -- only bad -- on social media. It is one of the big problems with it.

 

Maybe he only misspoke and was trying to reach Junior Seau Junior.

 

I look forward to the Bryan Curtis piece on it.

 

A terrific post following MeanGreen's terrific post. Social media has become a thing intended to piss us off and celebrate combativeness. I wrote something the other day that generated some solid, well-reasoned discussion from both sides of the issue. I was swamped and didn't reply to much of it. Yesterday, a good 72 hours after my piece went up, one dope wrote in with a really awful take and my first instinct was to type up how awful a response Mr. 10 Followers had. Then I realized, wait, thats what the Twitter overlords want, and if you didn't take the time to write back to everyone who responded in smart and lucid fashion, why are you wasting a minute just to punch down at someone? I deleted it and was glad I did so. Now if I could just go back in time here and do some of that.

 

Is it possible to dislike both people? To dislike Sheridan for being such an amateur and to dislike Trotter being a condescending shit about it publicly?

 

Sure, it's possible for us, as sports writers, or former sports writers, to be dismayed that Sheridan was so ignorant of something that was, after all, such big sports news at the time.

But any legitimate dislike is better aimed at Trotter for purposely and publicly embarrassing Sheridan, especially when the latter had started their exchange in a private manner. I'm sure Sheridan felt like he wanted to die of embarrassment when he saw Trotter's tweet, and realized the problem.

But Trotter could've, and should've, just as easily, gently said, privately, "You know,..." And maybe he did. But he didn't need to tweet about the exchange. The issue is that everyone seems to feel the need to go public with everything.

Sheridan's sin was just unawareness, and we've all suffered from some of that that would be considered surprising (just check out the "How did I not know that?" thread for proof). And we've certainly all realized there have been people who died that we, for whatever reason, hadn't heard or known had done so. I remember, for me, just a couple years ago, it was Paul Newman, who had passed away long ago, and I'd had no idea...

 

One would need to hold a Seau-nce.

I'll show myself out.

 

yeah it was a total jerk move to put that on Twitter and it’s not surprising why he did: That’s the culture we live in nowadays, going for the retweets and favorites.