While Chuck Knoblauch picked up four all-star appearances in a 12-season MLB career with the Twins, Yankees and Royals, mostly as a second baseman, many remember him most for the inability to throw to first he developed during his time in New York. That inaccuracy even led to him hitting Keith Olbermann’s mom in the stands during a 2000 game, and it’s been described as “the yips,” struggles performing a sport’s mundane tasks, which eventually led to Knoblauch being reassigned to designated hitter and then left field. (Katie Baker had an excellent 2014 Grantland piece on the yips and the variety of sports they’ve shown up in.) Thus, when Knoblauch went on a Twitter rant against CBS/SI/Nerdist writer Jonah Keri Thursday after Keri said baseball’s unwritten rules against celebrations are silly in an appearance on MLB Network’s High Heat, Keri had the perfect response ready to go:
@jonahkeri You've obviously never played the game. Comparing it to a basketball player dunking on somebody. Zip it. #highheat
— Chuck Knoblauch (@chuckknoblauch) June 9, 2016
Who knew you could get the yips on Twitter too https://t.co/fv9IfjPcpW
— Jonah Keri (@jonahkeri) June 9, 2016
There are plenty of other reasons to criticize Knoblauch, from his 2010 guilty plea to assaulting his common-law wife to his admission to using HGH (after Brian McNamee and Jason Grimsley had both named him as a user) to his 2014 arrest on charges of assaulting his ex-wife (a different woman), but the throwing one seems particularly apt here given the forum and the nature of Knoblauch’s silly “never played the game” comments. There were some good responses from other Twitter users, too:
@jonahkeri You are Randy Johnson's fastball. He is the bird.
— Meg Rowley (@megrowler) June 9, 2016
@jonahkeri damn Jonah you didn't have to throw him over tino martinez's head and into the first baseline stands like that
— TPJ (@TJennings17) June 9, 2016
@jonahkeri even when Chuck Knoblauch throws shade, he throws it into the 4th row box seats
— Jesse Cazakoff (@jessecaz) June 9, 2016
@jonahkeri "You've obviously never captained an unsinkable steamship. Zip it." -Cap. Edward John Smith
— Mike von Klitzing (@mikeklitzing) June 9, 2016
.@jonahkeri @chuckknoblauch pic.twitter.com/rMeuzaPtrs
— Brandon (@RangersBrandon) June 9, 2016
It’s worth pointing out that this less-than-stellar tweet isn’t the only questionable one Knoblauch’s sent recently. He seems to spend most of his time promoting some sort of social media service called MADD (maybe they haven’t been sued by the real MADD yet because they’re so off-the-radar?), even tweeting it at celebrities:
We would love to have you on our team at https://t.co/2l1R4llpmU @rihanna @jtimberlake @katyperry pic.twitter.com/PTCrGD65Io
— Chuck Knoblauch (@chuckknoblauch) June 6, 2016
Apparently, Knoblauch’s MADD talent doesn’t extend to winning Twitter fights, though. Maybe he should work on his accuracy, or just give up and head out to left field.
[Jonah Keri on Twitter]
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