So, I don't tweet much and when I tweet at all, I am usually very polite. But I just saw a tweet from @Chad Finn quoting John Tomase and noticed that Tomase has blocked me. Why? I have no idea -- I've never tweeted about Tomase or at him. I'm not that upset as I rarely read Tomase anyway. But it seemed ... odd.
I was blocked a few years ago by Nick Cafardo for replying to a Buster Olney tweet about how terrible Josh Hamilton was by saying "Don't tell Nick Cafardo -- he still thinks the Red Sox should have signed him to that contract." While he doubled down in his reply with something along the lines of "You bet I did!" he subsequently blocked me, which I found incredibly thin-skinned.
But even still, I get it. Good or bad, most sportswriters have to put up with a tremendous amount of abuse on Twitter that is totally out of bounds.
Anyway, it got me thinking: who has blocked you? Why did they do it? And, have there ever been writers who have blocked you for reasons you don't understand?
I was blocked a few years ago by Nick Cafardo for replying to a Buster Olney tweet about how terrible Josh Hamilton was by saying "Don't tell Nick Cafardo -- he still thinks the Red Sox should have signed him to that contract." While he doubled down in his reply with something along the lines of "You bet I did!" he subsequently blocked me, which I found incredibly thin-skinned.
But even still, I get it. Good or bad, most sportswriters have to put up with a tremendous amount of abuse on Twitter that is totally out of bounds.
Anyway, it got me thinking: who has blocked you? Why did they do it? And, have there ever been writers who have blocked you for reasons you don't understand?