The Best, Worst and Best-Worst Athletes on Twitter
Some athletes strive for championship rings and some just want to make funny jokes.
Some athletes strive for championship rings and some just want to make funny jokes.
(Photo: Mike Colon / LO / Getty Images | Licensed to Alpha Media Group 2012)
The Best
The athletic twitasphere is a complex beast, but we like to think of it as tipping scale. On one end sits the best – a freak of nature that can chuck a ball 60 yards or break a backboard while still being able to compose a pithy and topical 140 or less.
Brandon McCarthy
Equipped with a quick wit, a wife that compliments his comic prowess, and a very respectable cutter, Brandon McCarthy exemplifies the ath-tweet (Yeah, we said ath-tweet. Deal with it).
Typical Tweets
WELL IF BEING DISCHARGED FROM THE HOSPITAL ISNT THE BEST TIME TO ASK ABOUT A THREESOME THEN IM FRESH OUT OF IDEAS
— Brandon McCarthy (@BMcCarthy32) September 11, 2012
A three out of ten success rate is great for a hitter in baseball. It's also good if you're my wife parallel parking.
— Brandon McCarthy (@BMcCarthy32) October 1, 2012
Logan Morrison
Logan Morrison also represents the MLB on the best-tweeter list. Although considerably more brash than McCarthy and unafraid to troll, LoMo brings the funny in addition to some solid “inside baseball” looks.
Typical Tweets
Chris Kluwe
The Vikings punter is heavily into gaming, but he throws his voice behind important issues such as the economy and gay marriage, as well as less important issues, like punter/kicker rights.
Typical Tweets
The Worst
But tweeting is truly an art and not every “Joe Throw“ is going to be gifted in it. Welcome to the other end of the scale. These are the worst.
Charlie Villanueva
The Detroit Piston uses Twitter very much like your little sister likely does. You’d think that a professional athlete has a little bit more to report than the dreary minutiae that Chaz offers.
Typical Tweets
Dentist office, 🙁
— Charlie Villanueva (@CVBelieve) October 15, 2012
Is President Obama in Michigan?
— Charlie Villanueva (@CVBelieve) September 3, 2012
Todd Coffey
Todd Coffey may not be a big name athlete, but he looms large in the hall of bad tweets. Just recently, his account went on a tirade about President Obama turning this country into “a socialism,” which he promptly deleted and then explained with the following.
Typical Tweets
Metta World Peace
The forward formerly known as Ron Artest has A LOT of personality. Unfortunately, most of that is lost on his Twitter feed, which is mostly just advertisements for strange products and non-sequiturs.
Typical Tweets
Put on Bob Marley "Red Wine"
Girls love that— Metta World Peace (@MettaWorld37) October 17, 2012
Vegas!!!!!!!!!!
No!!!!!!!— Metta World Peace (@MettaWorld37) October 19, 2012
The Best-Worst
And sometimes, but only sometimes, you will stumble upon that rare athlete that is incredible on Twitter, but only because they are transcendently bad. They are simultaneously the best and the worst. That is when the scale is in balance.
JaVale McGee
Whether he is tweeting as himself or his cartoon alter-ego, Pierre, JaVale McGee always has something to say and that something is usually insane and hilarious.
Typical Tweets
Just copped a pet platypus …. #swag
— Javale PIERRE 3Xs McGee (@JaValeMcGee) May 14, 2012
#weak when u make a million dollars, cash it into quarters, try to dive into it like Scrooge mcduck and break both ur arms!
— Javale PIERRE 3Xs McGee (@JaValeMcGee) November 29, 2011
Jose Canseco
There are a more than a few people who would love this slugger to clam up for good (possibly someone whose name rhymes with Schmason Schmiambi). However, Canseco relishes his outlet and will continue to drop his completely crazybones pearls until you pry the iPhone from his cold, dead fingers.
Typical Tweets
I am and will always be just simply a basball player,my tomb stone will just say. Baseball.
— Jose Canseco (@JoseCanseco) December 12, 2010
Yes time travel is possible. Will explain later.
— Jose Canseco (@JoseCanseco) August 13, 2012
Chad Johnson
Johnson/Ochocinco/Hachi Go has been through a lot, and while not lucky in love or in career at the moment, his positivity (and batshit insanity) shine brightly through his feed.
Typical Tweets
If you are living your life without giving an "F" You're living a LI E. It might take reading twice to understand this tweet.
— Chad Johnson (@ochocinco) December 30, 2011
So the movie Titanic is coming out in 3D. Maybe they'll see the fucking iceberg this time…..
— Chad Johnson (@ochocinco) April 1, 2012
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