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
Thursday, July 4, 1776. London. http://t.co/xfuvHFIcjW
— Sports is History (@SportsbyBrooks) July 4, 2013
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?”
https://twitter.com/BobbyBigWheel/status/497887197543301122
2) Skip Bayless – Serial flip flopper
So. Just to recap (or re-crap, as the case may be…) pic.twitter.com/8Bj4oSJXL2
— Doug Farrar ✍ (@NFL_DougFarrar) August 15, 2014
Thunder signing Westbrook bad news. Wants to be bigger star than Durant. Gunner point guard. He, KD will clash. Hard to win title this way.
— Skip Bayless (@RealSkipBayless) January 19, 2012
Russell Westbrook has become the raging Batman to Durant's too-nice Robin.
— Skip Bayless (@RealSkipBayless) April 10, 2014
3) Stephen A. Smith – Bad imitation of what Not Bill Walton was supposed to be
Damn! Damn! Daaaammmmnnnnn!!!!!!!!!
— Stephen A Smith (@stephenasmith) October 12, 2014
Puh-leeze @elprez609. I grew up with baseball in my blood. I know the game. Just don't give a damn about the first 162. Sorry ignorant one!
— Stephen A Smith (@stephenasmith) October 2, 2014
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
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
https://twitter.com/DanSileoShow/status/292041624312225792
https://twitter.com/DanSileoShow/status/292046540078448641
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.
why in the WORLD would .@FSU_Football be ranked ahead of @HailStateFB …NOLES come Sunday…NOLES scedule is SOFT!
— #BigSilz (@DanSileoShow) October 12, 2014
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
Er1 [.S aq B,/6sxtx/,a.,.,,,,.,scrdz
— Peter Gammons (@pgammo) August 20, 2014
SVw
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— Peter Gammons (@pgammo) March 16, 2012
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
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…
RT @EddieStrike @MFG16 Fuck you, Mike Goldberg. JUST ANOTHER BORED USELESS LOSER..good talk!
— Mike Goldberg (@GoldieOnTV) August 24, 2010
HIDE behind your KEYBOARD…and get the fuck off my twitter..BYE NOW..RT @mikefroccaro: @MFG16 fuck off tool,..
— Mike Goldberg (@GoldieOnTV) May 25, 2010
Tweeps give love to the fighters…they are killing it..haters get the fuck of our twitter…
— Mike Goldberg (@GoldieOnTV) April 25, 2010
9) Mark May – Worst tweeter alive
I AM BACK ! after some vile coward hacked my account legal is following up and charges will be filed to the Fullest extent
— Mark May (@mark_may) September 18, 2013
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
https://twitter.com/SI_PeterKing/status/498982297757306882
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?