MGoBlog vs Lost Lettermen twitter scuffle

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He rage quit and blocked Brian. Awwwww.

 

 

Doctor Wolverine

October 19th, 2015 at 8:44 PM ^

This is the site that gathered up the negative tweets out there against O'Neil. Then larger media outlets took it and ran with it to show that Michigan fans suck. Brian posted a front page thing about it today and said some not nice things about the journalism on this site calling them out for not providing any context around the tweets...such as the fact that they all happened to be posted by 15 year old Twitter trolls.

Stu Daco

October 19th, 2015 at 7:42 PM ^

It says a lot that one person here feels the need to expend two hundred words and the other feels the need to expend two.

Gulogulo37

October 19th, 2015 at 8:52 PM ^

I like how he thinks "ad hominem" is supposed to be poetic instead of pointing out that it's used to say he's not making a logical argument but just being a dick instead.

Also, funny how he rips on Brian's "investigating" those tweets when all Brian's tweet said was that he checked their profiles.

Ronnie Kaye

October 19th, 2015 at 7:43 PM ^

What the hell is Lost Letterman? They seem to tweet about mostly Michigan and OSU stuff. Never read the website but every time I see a retweet, it's pure shit.

Sione's Flow

October 19th, 2015 at 7:48 PM ^

How pathetic he posts his side and then blocks Brian from responding. What a little girl! Of course he's probably fearing for his job, seeing as how Brian started the freight train down the tracks, that rolled DB right out of Ann Arbor!

bronxblue

October 19th, 2015 at 8:50 PM ^

It's impressive when you see people fall apart on social media and then try to reclaim the high road later.  It's like a drunk person who gets in a fight, gets thrown out of the bar, then tries to act all controlled and reserved as they are stumbling away.

WolvinLA2

October 19th, 2015 at 9:03 PM ^

That was me on Saturday against all my shitty high school Sparty "friends."  I say "friends" because it was kids I went to high school with, not any actual friends.  I started hitting below the belt, then backtracked by saying stuff like "I'm going to stop before I say something I shouldn't to all these safety school losers."

Sunday morning it looked really juvenile but I was in a dark place.

Sopwith

October 19th, 2015 at 9:22 PM ^

I've fallen back on "yeah, but... at the end of the day, I went to Michigan, you went to fucking MSU" once or twice. I was totally sober. I'm not saying it's a good look and it's without a doubt below the belt, but I didn't lose any sleep over it, either.

Sometimes, even if it makes you look bad, you just gotta punch someone's balls. Such is life.

LSAClassOf2000

October 19th, 2015 at 10:13 PM ^

I wil admit to pulling that card once or twice, but over time I morphed my approach into a form where I just attack the culture of the fanbase if people really won't let up on the discussion of Michigan vs. Michigan State. It comes down to something rather simply usually - I rarely have a need to discuss it (that is, the UM / MSU rivalry and its trappings), whereas they feel the need to discuss it constantly and long after it matters. If that isn't the attitude of a constantly aggrieved younger sibling in certain family dynamics, I would like to know what is. 

fleetfootphilo

October 19th, 2015 at 8:59 PM ^

So wait...



Brian didn't try to call and talk with them (just him?) before calling them out?



In some of the circles I run with, that might be considered bad form. But, I have no idea of the deeper context of their relationship - Lost Lettermen could be a shit site that doesn't deserve a chance to respond (See that puddle of filth, TMZ).



I'll shut up now.

Wisconsin Wolverine

October 19th, 2015 at 10:10 PM ^

I think it's a perfectly fine question to ask, but I think that we probably  won't be able to know the context.  Maye there's some kind of understood etiquette that Brian ignored.  Maybe the Lost Lettermen completely overreacted to something insignificant.  I don't know how these things work, I don't know the journalism world, I don't know the personal relationships, and I don't think I care enough to find out.  Consequently, I don't judge either way.