The JS Sports Staff [Latest: Witrado leaves for Sporting News, replaced by Todd Rosiak]

[greeg35]

The headline and story by Witrado this morning are pretty brutal.

http://www.jsonline.com/sports/brewers/103105704.html

[JumpinMacFlash]

Yeah, that's a bad headline. It makes it sound like he's never been a starter much before.

[MJLiverock]

I thought it was fine. I took it too be one of those facetious or sarcastic comments people make like after something finally goes their way like winning a few hands at black jack after losing, "Hey, I'm starting to like this gambling thing."

 

I think you guys are looking way too hard to find something to complain about with JS.

[greeg35]

Its a headline I would expect to find in a high school news paper. The first few "paragraphs" are disjointed and clumsy. I would expect more from a professional writer. I'm not looking that hard.

[dlk9s]

The headline is awkward, but the story is solid.

[YoGo24]

FYI guys, the writers never make their own headlines. There are copy editors for that and they create it after reading the story that was submitted by the writer

[Mass Haas]

Anthony's game log --

 

7th inning: Brandon Kintzler got the Marlins in order thanks to a 5-4-3 inning-ending double play.

8th inning: Jeremy Jeffress got the side in order thanks to a 4-6-3 double play from Maybin.

My brain fluid just dissolved. At least he made the same foolish comment twice just to prove to us it wasn't a flukish mistake the first time.

 

Faced the minimum, Tony. Not retired in order.

[dlk9s]

Holy crap, nitpick much?

[logan82]

If this was the first time I am sure people would let it slide. This is unfortunately a weekly if not daily occurrence. Witrado may have played baseball but he seems to know little about the terminology.

[greeg35]

has anyone ever heard the label "team extreme" applied to the brewers by anyone other than Haundricourt? It feels like a force feed. I could be wrong...

[dlk9s]

If by "anyone" you mean national media, nobody cares enough about the Brewers to give them a nickname. Sub-.500 teams don't get nicknames unless, say, they win 90% of their games in the last AB.

[greeg35]

no, I meant within the fan base, around the ballpark, etc...

[And That]

Doesn't really belong in this thread, but it is pretty epic... (and slightly NSFW):

 

Haudricourt has had enough of Lance Allen.

[Gobias Industries]

He's blowing that way outta proportion. There's gotta be more to the story. Maybe he's jealous Allen still has a head of hair.

[thebruce44]

Wow, sounds like he is losing it. Gotta think his company isn't going to be too happy about him publicly cursing out a co-worker.

[BrewCrewForever]

Ladies and gentlemen, Tom Haudricourt! The nicest thing you can say about Tom is "he isn't Anthony Witrado!"

[twobrewers]

I actually like Haudricourt.

 

That said, I couldn't believe his tweets. I follow him and kept on checking back throughout the night to see if he came to his senses and deleted them.

[crewcrazy]

He has every reason to be upset, and I don't think he blew it out of proportion. It seems that this wouldn't be the first time Allan has done this, which is not okay. If someone is the first to report something, you give them credit for it, period.

 

Using that kind of language probably wasn't wise, but there have been worse Twitter meltdowns.

[BrewCrewForever]

I actually like Haudricourt.

 

That said, I couldn't believe his tweets. I follow him and kept on checking back throughout the night to see if he came to his senses and deleted them.

I guess I don't despise him like some do. Now Witrado I do despise. I don't even bother reading a thing he writes.

 

I just prefer Adam McCalvy and Jordan Schelling over at Brewers.com.

[trwi7]

It's not the first time Allan has done this. He's horrible and has been for years.

[sauveb]

Tom just tweeted that the earlier posts were not his and he is looking into it.

[carniesandrubes]

Tom just tweeted that the earlier posts were not his and he is looking into it.

I seriously doubt that is the case. He probably thought better of what he said, especially the profanity, and knew he couldn't just delete them without some explanation. The tweeets sounded exactly like something he would have said. I bet the "hacked" excuse was just to save face.

 

 

[GAME05]

to have as many followers as TH does, it doesn't sound too unbelievable to think that he had a hacker. plus, maybe his password was "password"

[Invader3K]

I did notice some of those tweets came much later than the others where he was discussing Allen, so it's not hard to believe someone hacked his account in the meantime.

[pretendastronaut]

Ya, the tweets in question came out of the blue, I think about 2 hours after the original set of tweets on the issue, and it wasn't prompted as response to people it didn't seem (though whoever wrote the tweets in question did start replying to people directly too). When I saw them start back up I thought it was crazy that he was starting back into it again. To me it seems plausible.