Best of The Fan: Porter throws Ben under the bus, Spring Training and Olympics!
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What did Joey Porter say about Ben Roethlisberger?
Now, you never know who's really running Antonio Brown's social media accounts. The days of Antonio Brown just pretty much spending all day conjuring up and cooking up clever tweets, several of which have gone super-duper viral, seems to be over, which makes me think that AB might be back in control of his account. And frankly, the syntax... and grammar on this post. Is that bad? Is that bad that it makes me think that this is actually him? Well, his most recent tweet is a quote tweet of Sidney Sweeney with no makeup.
How does social media influence athlete reputations?
Thoughts? And it just says egg whites of the day. Oh. Well, it says egg whites off the day. Hmm. Well, AB said, Big Ben, a great teammate. One of the best to have. Yeah, one of the best to have. You got to earn his respect before he opened up coming in talking. There should be a comma after opening up. Coming in talking won't get his attention. Yeah, I'm having a hard time even reading this. Take it from a sixth round draft pick. With a magnifying glass emoji. His previous tweet was, my sweat equity in the game is Wall Street. His previous tweet to that is, 2026 Cracker of the Year nominee. Three years ago, if you told me Sam Darnold would lead a team to the Super Bowl, you would have got laughed at. Sports, dot, dot, dot.
I honestly think that the AB Twitter account is run by several people. But do you think AB has access to it again? The tone and style of it. are variable. He's got two of Photoshopped and a Patriots Drake May jersey in the middle of the Super Bowl. Not that long ago, A.B. was saying that Ben had an owner's mentality as a player on Twitter and was... ripping him up and down. Don't you think it's very realistic that AB could just see, oh, this is a huge story right now. I better get my two cents in. To wit, the Sidney Sweeney tweet, 120,000 impressions. Yep. The sweat equity in the game is Wall Street, 46,000. Cracker of the year, 185,000. Mm-hmm. But the tweet about Ben, 766,000 impressions on X, the app formerly known as Twitter.
Yeah. Yeah. A day later, I'm still perturbed by the about face by Porter following the Hall of Honor thing. There's the picture of him with Art between them and they're both super duper happy. And if you think the guy's a bad guy, there's a way around that. Hey, Art, can I just do the picture with you and can you do individual pictures instead of all of us together? I don't like this guy. He was there for a team setting to honor players as they were on the team. And he said he loves him as a quarterback, doesn't like him as a person. He might be doing some mental gymnastics there. What's more important at this point in life when they're in their 40s and 50s? The person part or the quarterback part? At an event honoring you for your time as a player, maybe it is the quarterback part.
You're actually perturbed. I am. Oh, God. I thought the story was noteworthy yesterday. I think it's kind of funny that it's still got some legs from AB tweeting about it last night in a very unique way. I mean, my biggest takeaway from that story is, man, every one of these athletes has a podcast now, and every one of them thinks that they're interesting. But Porter doesn't have a podcast. He does have a social media feed, apparently. All right. And recall, if you will, that one of his famous statements to me when we thought he might be ready to just crush every orbital bone in my face and everything else was, I don't have Instagram. I don't take pictures of my food and put them on social media. Oh, how the mighty have fallen.
Yeah, I mean, if Joey's angling for... But if you're angling for a media career... Your audience is Steelers fans. Why would you say something that at the very least ticks half of them off? Hold on. You're saying that right now? Yeah. Isn't that the entire name of the game? Tick half of your Steelers fan audience off? Make the other half agree with you? I think it's different for players versus people like you and me. I mean, him saying something that actually made Steelers fans mad and did not go with the everything is awesome is actually somewhat unique among guys who are former players who have podcasts now.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What did Joey Porter say about Ben Roethlisberger?
0:00–0:41
2
How does social media influence athlete reputations?
0:41–9:24
3
What are the implications of the Joey Porter comments for Steelers fans?
9:24–13:18
4
How do the Pittsburgh Pirates prepare for Spring Training?
13:18–16:18
5
What are the expectations for the upcoming Olympics in hockey?
16:18–19:46
6
How do players balance personal achievements with team goals?
19:46–24:09
7
What is the significance of Sidney Crosby's Olympic gold medal?
24:09–29:32
8
How do the Pirates plan to utilize Connor Griffin this season?
29:32–1:25:12
Speakers
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