Twitter and athletes

All this talk of restriction and oversight is driving me bonkers.
The more I earn the more the government takes away.
Everyone looks at me in shame when I drive my gas-guzzling SUV to the corner bar, and then lectures me saying I should buy a more energy efficient, world-saving clown car that gets 50 miles to the gallon and has the head room built for Danny DeVito.
Soon the oversight police will be telling me what doctor to go to, what treatments I’m entitled to, and what line to stand in when the flu bug comes around--by the way a line so long I’ll probably be dead by the time I reach the front anyway. Healthcare DMW style. Brilliant.
Now there’s this ridiculous debate about restricting athletes’ use of Twitter.
I can’t take it anymore. Everyone it seems has a say in my life, everyone except me of course.
This is America isn’t it? You know, land of the free, home of the brave. I do have the right to say what I want, where I want and when I want, right?
Maybe not for long.
The Chargers recently fined Antonio Cromartie $2,500 for using Twitter to criticize the team’s chow line. The Chargers didn’t get the joke obviously.
But what the Chargers fail to see in all this is that fans hunger for insight into these players, insight that cliché-laden press conferences and formulaic media reports just can’t provide.
Social media is how people are communicating these days. It’s a forum where players are mano-a-mano with their fans----online anyway.
When Stewart Cink, a big Twitter user with more than 675,000 followers, won the British Open, he posted a picture of himself pouring Guiness into the Claret Jug. Now that’s insight.
Stuff like that shouldn’t be restricted.