Texas Rangers general manager Jon Daniels said someone posted a homophobic slur on pitcher Derek Holland’s Twitter account Sunday that was directed at a heckler.
Major League Baseball is investigating the post, which was quickly taken down. Holland said Monday in Oakland he was either pitching at the time or in the dugout and he didn’t do it. He noted that his fiancee, Lauren, is the only person he knows has access to his account and she told him she was not involved. He also checked with family members, who said they knew nothing about it.
“I honestly don’t know. I know it wasn’t myself,” Holland said. “I’ve talked to my family and my fiancee and they all said the exact same thing: It wasn’t them. I have no idea. All I know is MLB is taking care of it and they’re going to help me out and figure out who it was. I was blindsided by it. I had no idea.”
Daniels called it a “serious issue, it’s an unacceptable term to use.”....
From Holland’s account - (at)Dutch-Oven45 - a tweet using a homophobic slur was sent in response to someone calling Holland a “pathetic excuse” for a pitcher…
“I’m pretty upset with the whole situation and me being accused of something I haven’t done,” Holland said. “In case you haven’t seen, all I ever do write Chuck Norris facts or random facts, `a pig or a duck, you can’t hear its echo.’ I don’t ever write anything like that.”
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1. Gonfalon Bubble Posted: October 02, 2012 at 12:34 PM (#4251031)2. A million times a day in America people use really poor judgment or show they are (ditto bad word).
"under investigation"? We complain about Big Brother and movie rating system and things you used-to-not-be-able-to-say on TV, and the sports world continues to move toward wadding up much of the first amendment. We took out Marge Schott an dfew people blinked since everyone hated her anyway. But the ball began rolling downhill, and I don't see any big movement to stop it. I guess no one chants "sticks and stones..." anymore.
The First Amendment does not protect you from censorship from your employer.
lol
No, but sometimes it's a nice ideal to live up to, right?
Never. It's much more realistic that someone hacked his twitter account so that he could send out one tweet in support of Holland.
"If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb."
Sometimes. And sometimes speech having consequences is an ideal worth living up to as well.
*rolls eyes*
Of relevance: http://www.nohomophobes.com/
what a retard
If anything, this gives it more publicity than it ever would have gotten before.
Being in the public eye is part of his job.
I would say that it's a consequence of his job.
Leaving aside the first amendment idiocy, who complains about the movie rating system?
An investigation without a warrant is a fourth amendment issue. And they're using his own tweet! That's fifth amendment. Anyone know if the Marines are sleeping in his house?
Homophobe.
If the Tweeter wasn't drunk, he was violating the Twenty-First Amendment's requirement to drink. Of course, why would anyone Tweet sober?
And what of their children? And all the other children? Is anyone thinking of them?
whch bar you at? k thx
Does not compute.
EDIT: Cokes.
Who doesn't complain about the movie rating system?
THAT is some wondrously good stuff.
I can't imagine why someone might think that a guy with such a classy Twitter name might use a slur of some sort...
Maybe he's a connoisseur of fine Scandinavian cooking.
There was once a restaurant in town called the Dutch Oven and it was used completely unironically.
That's the issue Anthony Weiner raised.
The only problem was that it was Weiner who had done the hacking.
That's my favourite from Old Hoss Radbourn's tweets.
Old Hoss, pitching coach extraordinaire...
I want him to be investigated for this.
It's all a misunderstanding about Dutch levees.
Holland in in Scandinavia now? Or am I missing something...
I demand Shock be investigated for wanting an investigation of this.
Well played...
If there were Marines sleeping in his house, his girlfriend wouldn't be his girlfriend anymore.
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