Facesbook: A Nod Is as Good as a Winklevoss…to Blind Horsing Around.
Remember Denny Neagle? Well here is a Denny Neagle story for you.
So the other night we facebook friend Denny Neagle, just because. He did throw parts of two seasons for our favorite big league team. Then he was traded to the Yankees and things went downhill, but it is a moot point.
Our girlfriend calls the next morning and asks “Who is Denny Neagle?”
Immediately we are thinking that this cannot be good. We ask why she would like to know that. Aparently old Denny boy took the liberty to ‘friend’ her on facebook immediately after we friended him. She noticed that her and Denny’s only mutual friend was us. She didn’t know who the guy was from a random stranger.
...She went ahead and accepted the request. And then Denny boy showed that he’s still up to no good. Next thing we know he is offering up “pokes” to our girlfriend. He doesn’t do that to all of his facebook friends. He didn’t poke us. Denny, we feel left out man. It’s alright though. You’d just think that a guy who signed a $51 million dollar contract a few years ago could do better then poking a ‘fans’ chick on an online social site. I mean dude, go buy yourself some ass. Oh wait you already did that. Bad advice.
This is what we get for facebook friending anyone who has had ties to Major League Baseball.
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1. Dirty Tom Rackham Posted: April 12, 2009 at 01:26 PM (#3134924)I don't know, it could be 2 guys co-writing this post. Who both have the same girlfriend...although it seems highly unlikely that there are two whole people in the world who would want Denny Neagle as their friend.
I've on the friends list of at least 2 comics creators whom I've never actually met (& quite likely never will, since I don't go to conventions or anything), but that's so I can keep up with updates on their work. Honest!
Good one.
Under the assumption that it's one person, his girlfriend can't be too pleased by his use of the first person plural possessive in reference to her.
Denny Neagle is quite possibly the biggest ####### I've ever met. He holds the honor of being the only Gopher to go on to the pros that I wouldn't root for.
edit: that makes it sound like I have a lot of experience with famous people. This is not really the case.
No!!!!
The next thing we know you'll be saying that we're not Santa Claus, or even Nick Swisher.
edit: by the way, thank you for your 400 OPS+ thus far. My stat league team has been doing well with you in left field.
/Stalker
EDIT: This is actually how I found out about Nick Adenhart's death, status updates from guys who had played with/against him.
Nick Swisher would probably be the easiest person to fake. Use a lot of exclamation points and talk about how awesome things are.
I don't know anything about Nick Swisher, but a quick Google Image search reveals that every single image seems to verify your impression.
And that's even leaving out a few. Like this awesome low five.
I'm way more semi than famous, but I have something like 700 Facebook "friends," almost all of whom are people I don't know who have befriended me because they're readers. I don't see anything obnoxious about that. I consider it a compliment. I probably wouldn't have a Facebook page if I didn't. I mean, with the number of real friends I have, keeping up with them all is not much of a problem.
If none of your friends are poked within a week, let us know. It is important for us to protect our girlfriends. We think this talking in plural could catch on.
Not very. I scored an interview with Ben Revere that way 2 summers ago.
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