Avs beat writer suffers Twitter meltdown

I'm sure it's the same way in New York, Boston, Detroit, Philly, Buffalo, Pittsburgh and maybe a couple others among the non-Canadian teams. With a lot of the others, everything depends on how good the team is. I think there are papers that don't even travel with the local NHL team.

 

Wow, what a clown.

 

Agree with every word. He is a good reporter. He may have also broken the story of the Avs coming to Denver.

I'm guessing he's been warned before, probably after the ESPN rant.

I hope he doesn't get fired, and I don't think he will be. That will probably be a reflection of The Post's unwillingness to fight the union than anything else, but he should count his blessings if he survives this.

 

As long as this guy gets off social media, it won't happen again.

 

I worked with a NFL writer who refused to do Twitter until he was told he had no choice. Now, he posts links to his stories and retweets, but has yet to write a single word on his own in three years.

Sometimes I think this is the smartest way to go.

 

As a reader, that's what I like it best for, the links to stories. Secondarily, quick breaking news (i.e. someone's been hired, someone's inactive this week, someone died, someone won, someone lost, etc., etc.)

Way down on the list are 140-character opinions and quips. Not that I don't engage in that myself from time to time.

 

If I was still in the business, I think I would avoid showing any opinion whatsoever on Twitter.

 

Come on? Yeah. He should be fired. He's supposed to be professional. Obviously, he's more juvenile than professional. If I had an exchange like that with readers or others, I'd be fired. That's the expectation for all of us. I'd fire his ass the second I had the chance. I don't give a damn how good a guy or reporter he is or if he has a family of eight or three goldfish. The only way that idiot learns from his mistake is the hard way. Damn drunk bastard.

 

He objectified women and cursed at his readers and a colleague who was trying to help when they called him on it. He did it all to make a raging fanboy point about the team he covers. Given that this isn't his first blowup, how could anyone argue against firing him (or at least moving him off the beat)? Well, you know, unless you "Know Adrian pretty well" but are "not that close."

There are hundreds of talented journalists who would apply to be The Denver Post's Avalanche beat reporter. Most of them probably wouldn't publicly embarrass the organization with a sexist and profane rant directed at readers and a player for a rival team.

 

And how does it impact him actually being able to cover the Avs and even the Kings and Western Conference? I'm sure he has the ability to get around the mess he created with the players and teams, but you would think he made it a little more tough to do his job. At the very least in the short term.

 

I think that some of us are pretty reluctant to call for the firing of someone who presumably has a wife, kids, a mortgage, etc., etc. Maybe he deserves it. I don't know. But weight the stakes against the offense - essentially an anger management problem, apparently, on social media - the idea of this guy losing his job makes me, and others here, I think, a little queasy.