Sean Doolittle in a Sept. 27 game. Sep 27, 2021; Seattle, Washington, USA; Seattle Mariners relief pitcher Sean Doolittle (62) walks off the field during a game against the Oakland Athletics at T-Mobile Park. The Mariners won 13-4. Mandatory Credit: Stephen Brashear-USA TODAY Sports
MLBTwitterBy Andrew Bucholtz on

There are a lot of people on Twitter who feel the need to take pokes at professional athletes. Lately, we’ve seen some fun mockery of some of those Twitter users. But when mocking someone going after an athlete, it may be worthwhile to first consider if the person involved is actually married to the athlete. That’s what happened Sunday with Eireann Dolan.

Dolan, the former CSN California broadcaster and wife of Mariners’ pitcher Sean Doolittle (seen above in a Sept. 27 game), gently poked her husband about his fastball velocity in response to his tweets about developing a splitter. That led to her getting quite the response from a random Twitter user. But she rolled with it:

It was smart of Doolittle to block out the Twitter user’s name here to prevent further targeting of them. And she said this made her laugh:

And beyond that, there were a lot of funny responses to her original tweet from people who did know who she was.

This also led to a funny comment about Doolittle perhaps wearing this on a future Players’ Weekend jersey:

At any rate, this was quite funny. And it did show that while many people in athletes’ replies are poorly-intentioned trolls, some of them are well-intentioned trolls. And sometimes, the trolling is coming from inside the house.

About Andrew Bucholtz

Andrew Bucholtz has been covering sports media for Awful Announcing since 2012. He is also a staff writer for The Comeback. His previous work includes time at Yahoo! Sports Canada and Black Press.

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