2014By AA Staff on

Every year there are lists of the best and worst Twitter accounts in sports and media.  Now there is nothing (perhaps outside of Latin American goal calls featuring lasers) that we love more than putting together arbitrary lists for our own bemusement.  Mike Goldberg being taken off of the NFL on Fox thanks to his “f— you” tweet got us thinking not about the best and worst Twitter users, but the most infamous.  

Webster’s defines infamous as… awww who cares what the actual definition is.  Let’s just say these are the people who are most likely to provide precious, precious blog content and pageviews with their unique, controversial, or news-making tweets… or lack thereof.

1) Sports By Brooks – Missing person

We begin with someone infamous for not tweeting.  Sports By Brooks was one of the biggest and most influential sports blogs around… and then he fell off the face of the earth.  His website hasn’t had a new post since 2012 and yet his RSS feed continuously updates.  His only tweets in a year and a half came on July 4th and Veterans Day.  Still has not answered the question, “Whatever happened to Sports By Brooks?”

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2) Skip Bayless – Serial flip flopper

3) Stephen A. Smith – Bad imitation of what Not Bill Walton was supposed to be

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Wait… these aren’t parody accounts of people that are paid to yell about sports on television?!?  They’re real???  Oh man… #PeepsGotJokes

4) Mike Missanelli – Sports radio bottomfeeder

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Typical sports radio bro. Furiously backpedals away from his own scorching hot takes when he isn’t insulting women.

5) Dan Sileo – Sports radio bottomfeeder

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Serial misogynist, among other things. Somehow continues to get hired for sports talk radio jobs in major media markets. A sixth grade English teacher’s living nightmare. LOTS of RANDOM caps.

6) Rick Reilly – Bad joke teller

He may have retired from writing his column, but he hasn’t retired from facepalm-inducing Twitter mishaps and bad jokes.  At least he actually had this one first on Twitter.

7) Peter Gammons – Pocket tweeter

Legendary baseball scribe who is either the world’s most frequent pocket tweeter, or is sending secret signals to an alien race to come and rescue him and take him back to his home planet.

8) Mike Goldberg – Angry macho MMA dude

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Overly sensitive UFC announcer who got dumped from a dream job calling the NFL because he couldn’t help out-toughing internet tough guys.  Thinks Twitter is the Octagon.  Has a history of this kind of thing…

9) Mark May – Worst tweeter alive

What more needs to be said that hasn’t been said already?

10) Darren Rovell – Darren Rovell

Should be honored to be the subject of so many thought pieces on why people hate him.  Has become the mortal enemy of many who only know him because of his tweets about dollar amounts, headlines, poll questions, and unhealthy food.  Wrote the rules for Twitter, still got suspended a week for breaking them.

11) Peter King – Bearer of bad news

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Who walks around telling awful news to complete strangers and then tweeting about it? HEY DID YOU HEAR EBOLA MIGHT BE ON THE LOOSE IN THE UNITED STATES, YEA, SOMEONE GOT ON AN AIRPLANE, WE’LL ALL BE DEAD IN MONTHS, WHAT’S YOUR SOUP OF THE DAY?