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Josh Thole: "I'm Out!"

bmfc1 May 10 2011 11:58 AM

Josh Thole just tweeted this: josh_thole Josh Thole I'm out? He wasn't tweeting earlier so he wasn't saying so long. Out of the closet? Sent to the minors? What does he mean?

metirish May 10 2011 12:01 PM Re: Josh Thole: "I'm Out!"

I wondered the same thing when I saw it.....my conclusion is that he has absolutely nothing of interest to say but felt he needed to say something....kind of like me on twitter.

John Cougar Lunchbucket May 10 2011 12:05 PM Re: Josh Thole: "I'm Out!"

He was referring to all of his turns at the plate with runners on base and two out while batting 8th. No, I think he's prolly killing his twitter so as not to say something stoopit.

G-Fafif May 10 2011 12:05 PM Re: Josh Thole: "I'm Out!"

Enjoying downtown Denver?

Ceetar May 10 2011 12:08 PM Re: Josh Thole: "I'm Out!"

out of the lineup tonight? out of Twitter? traded? out of beer? headed out to the park for the game?

metirish May 10 2011 12:08 PM Re: Josh Thole: "I'm Out!"

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: No, I think he's prolly killing his twitter so as not to say something stoopit. Rubin concurs , at least with Thole leaving twitter ....I bet he was taken some grief over his defense and couldn't handle it.....fucking twatter

bmfc1 May 10 2011 12:10 PM Re: Josh Thole: "I'm Out!"

AdamRubinESPN Adam Rubin Josh Thole leaving Twitter: RT @josh_thole: I'm out?

Ceetar May 10 2011 12:10 PM Re: Josh Thole: "I'm Out!"

metirish wrote: John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: No, I think he's prolly killing his twitter so as not to say something stoopit. Rubin concurs , at least with Thole leaving twitter ....I bet he was taken some grief over his defense and couldn't handle it.....fucking twatter the Twitter's gone, so yeah, that was it.

Ceetar May 10 2011 12:13 PM Re: Josh Thole: "I'm Out!"

MarkRip88: @josh_thole swing the fucking ball .. dont take pitches #SWING tomwatson: @josh_thole with passed ball on ceremonial 1st pitch - ouch! #mets Those are just the recent history, doesn't go back that far. But I can imagine there isn't a whole lot of benefit to it, so why put up with all the abuse?

metirish May 10 2011 12:15 PM Re: Josh Thole: "I'm Out!"

Ceetar wrote: MarkRip88: @josh_thole swing the fucking ball .. dont take pitches #SWING tomwatson: @josh_thole with passed ball on ceremonial 1st pitch - ouch! #mets Those are just the recent history, doesn't go back that far. But I can imagine there isn't a whole lot of benefit to it, so why put up with all the abuse? Yeah , there are plenty of assholes out there.....Darron Gibson of Manchester united opened an account a few weeks ago and it was closed within two hours such was the abuse he got.

Edgy DC May 10 2011 12:15 PM Re: Josh Thole: "I'm Out!"

Yes, Josh, swing the fucking ball.

seawolf17 May 10 2011 12:55 PM Re: Josh Thole: "I'm Out!"

Weird.

Ceetar May 10 2011 01:08 PM Re: Josh Thole: "I'm Out!"

and with that, I'm not longer being followed by any MLB players. (that I know of)

Frayed Knot May 10 2011 03:00 PM Re: Josh Thole: "I'm Out!"

I was kind of hoping it was the gay thing. Y'know, just to stir up some shit.

metirish May 10 2011 03:30 PM Re: Josh Thole: "I'm Out!"

Rubin Thole got advice on Twitter like he should pull ball because he's being pitched inside. Combined with some "ruthless" followers, had enough Thin skinned?

Gwreck May 10 2011 03:39 PM Re: Josh Thole: "I'm Out!"

Twitter has a block function. If you don't like what people are saying, you block them so they don't show up. Simple. Why Josh didn't figure this out, I don't know. I know this and I'm not even a twitter user.

Ceetar May 10 2011 04:01 PM Re: Josh Thole: "I'm Out!"

Gwreck wrote: Twitter has a block function. If you don't like what people are saying, you block them so they don't show up. Simple. Why Josh didn't figure this out, I don't know. I know this and I'm not even a twitter user. I'm sure he figured it out, but it sounds like he just wasn't getting anything useful out of it.

John Cougar Lunchbucket May 10 2011 04:02 PM Re: Josh Thole: "I'm Out!"

I'd guess odds are strong that in light of Twitter's potential to let jocks say things that that jocks might say without the filter of a sportswriter providing the potential to argue they were 'taken out of context' or misquoted, Thole was strongly encouraged by management, his agent or other party with an interest in making him look good not to participate.

G-Fafif May 10 2011 04:45 PM Re: Josh Thole: "I'm Out!"

Joe Posnanski likely nailed it when it comes to athletes Tweeting. I think Thole was the only one I followed. My day begins with the sun reflecting off the remaining snow in the front yard, with the girls moving way too slow to catch the school bus and with tennis star Serena Williams sending along a message: "Good morning." That Serena. So thoughtful. So few take the time. Most are like pain-in-the-neck golf star Ian Poulter, who already has a request. He wonders where he might buy artwork by the British street artist Banksy. I want to help, but I do not know Banksy. I feel guilty for this. "Goodmorning," the Bengals' Chad Ochocinco says. "Headed to LA Fitness to get an early workout in, y'all good folk be productive today." Yes, today is a day with limitless possibility. Lots of my friends think so. Two-time NBA All-Star guard Baron Davis paraphrases John Wooden: "The people who turn out best are those people who make the best out of the way things turn out." Hear, hear! Kentucky basketball coach John Calipari is thrilled with his players' energy at practice. Two-time major champion and Mr. Grip It and Rip It himself John Daly adds his own bit of inspiration: "Just drinking my diet coke & enjoying my smoke trying to decide on my pants pattern today," he says. He adds an LOL on the end in case anyone might have taken this bit of news a little too somberly. In the past I might have stopped to consider what is laugh-out-loud funny about this statement (perhaps he was drinking a regular Coke), but since becoming good friends with athletes, I have grown used to their LOLs. They are a satirical lot, the athletes of Twitter. For instance, when Kirk Morrison, steadfast middle linebacker for the Jaguars, writes "T.G.I.F.," he quickly makes clear that he means "Thank God I'm Fresh." He does not put an LOL on the end. It is implied. I've been hearing a lot from Morrison recently. Only a few days before, he, like many of his NFL buddies, had been regaling me with their thoughts about Bears quarterback Jay Cutler coming out of the NFC Championship Game with a hurt knee. That was great. Cutler, apparently, had sprained his MCL in the game, but on TV he did not look to be in unbearable pain: No howling, no crutches, no amputating his own arm and surviving for 127 hours or anything. Heard, too, from retired NFL cornerback Deion Sanders, who summed up the collective outrage: "All the medicine in pro lockerrooms this dude comes out! I apologize bear fans!" Preach, Deion! And to think as a player, he avoided contact. Now I live in their world. (More than 1,500 sports people have Twitter accounts.) I follow. I learn. Did you know that Portuguese soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo has dogs that are "crazy" but also a "lot of fun"? He enjoys spending time with them. Two-time baseball All-Star Bobby Abreu is getting ready for spring training. "Preparándome para el spring training," he writes. Yes, he talks to me in Spanish. The seven-year-old son of former Super Bowl MVP quarterback Kurt Warner almost scored a triple double in his game. "Not sure I ever played that well!" Kurt writes. Exclamation points are big on Twitter. "Good afternoon," tennis star Venus Williams writes. "Hi, just giving you a shout out." That Venus, just like her little sister. So thoughtful. News pours in. New Orleans Saints running back and vacated Heisman Trophy winner Reggie Bush woke up to two-to-three inches of water in his bathroom, and apparently it leaked out into his living room. This makes me sad. But winner of 12 Olympic swimming medals Dara Torres saw the romantic comedy No Strings Attached and thought it was cute and entertaining. This makes me happy. Poker legend Doyle Brunson—who won back-to-back World Series of Poker titles—says a cheeseburger at the International House of Pancakes is surprisingly delicious. I must try that. PGA Tour golf sensation Bubba Watson hits the gym. Indiana Pacers guard T.J. Ford tweets, "Much needed massage," which suggests to me that he is getting a massage ... and it is much needed. Onetime NFL sack leader and current Bills linebacker Shawne Merriman threatens that the next person he sees on the street he will arm wrestle. Is he serious? On the one hand, he does not LOL at the end. On the other, Shawne is not the sort to LOL very often. Chargers linebacker Shaun Phillips is disappointed that the Lakers lost. Kurt Warner fills us in on another son's youth-basketball exploits (24 rebounds!). Two-time NBA MVP Steve Nash loves the name of BYU scoring machine Jimmer Fredette—Nash thinks it sounds like something out of the movie Hoosiers. NBA phenom Blake Griffin breaks out some Latin: "Amat victoria curam." He translates it like so: "Victory loves preparation." And Titans Pro Bowl running back Chris Johnson writes: "In Hawaii bout to get out the room and do something." That is vague. Do something? Do what? The possibilities are endless. I wait for hour after hour, but Chris never does tell me what he did. He leaves it to the imagination. I promptly stop following him.

metirish May 10 2011 05:18 PM Re: Josh Thole: "I'm Out!"

That is simply brilliant from Joe P.

Ceetar May 10 2011 06:07 PM Re: Josh Thole: "I'm Out!"

It's kinda funny. Twitter is great, it's really enhanced my following baseball and such. But the actual athletes, the reason I'm following sports and on Twitter to begin with, don't really add much. Yeah, great, Santana's almost done with his workout. whoopie. Thinking about it further..Athletes just don't have much to add. They give me what I want (or promptly get thrown out) on the field, I don't need to talk to them about their movie preferences. Extrapolating further, I don't really need to hear former athletes telling me how baseball is played. People think they know more because they played the game, but as analysts, they're the same as everyone else. maybe worse. (That's a moneyball concept actually)