OT: Scott Torgerson "No longer employed" by 97.1 The Fan
Scott Torgerson is no longer employed by our company as of today. We appreciate his contributions and wish him well in his future endeavors.
You'll remember he started a firestorm when he tweeted about wishing Desmond was dead.
October 24th, 2012 at 12:44 PM ^
Thank goodness! I've been waiting for Scott Torgerson to get fired or die so I could listen to 97.1 The Fan again!
October 24th, 2012 at 1:40 PM ^
He tweeted himself right out of a job.
Hint to people in the media, it probably is not a good idea to wish death upon someone else in the media or anyone for that matter, cause it's you know......death.
October 24th, 2012 at 8:58 PM ^
he apologized before they said no takebacks, nothings! Doesn't that make it all okay?
/s
October 24th, 2012 at 9:44 PM ^
Ah, no.
October 24th, 2012 at 12:45 PM ^
Good riddance!
October 24th, 2012 at 12:46 PM ^
I have to admit I'm looking forward to the response by Torgerson. He said he wished someone would get fired and he ended up getting fired. It will be interesting to see how he handles it.
October 24th, 2012 at 12:47 PM ^
Desmond is alive and well, but Scott here has a dead career.
October 24th, 2012 at 12:48 PM ^
it's comical that so many people in the media and public life still can't get it through their thick skulls that once you hit "send" you're no longer in control of your message, or your life. Fuckin' idiot.
October 24th, 2012 at 1:10 PM ^
I am NOT defending this idiot but I do feel a little bad for him as he's paid the ultimate career price for a stupid post I'm sure he wishes he could get back. And if the guy has a family he's now probably got to move to get a new job in radio which means they're now facing a significant life change. I'm sure the guy has been kicking himself since he sent it (thought it was clever and didnt take a second look at how it would be read before hitting "send") but he can't get that shit back in the baby so to speak.
I know i've posted some stuff through the years that was influenced by anger, alcohol, stupidity or a lethal combination of all three that I damn sure wish I could get back.
October 24th, 2012 at 1:49 PM ^
LOL.....no.
Posted at work....no issue with Torgerson - hell I've never even heard his show and I think he deserved to be fired.
Just a guy with a family imagining how much it must suck to be him right now having to explain to his wife he just got fired and then having to let the kids know they're going to have to move so dad can get a new job. And knowing it was because you were monumentally stupid and have no one to blame but yourself.
I've gone through getting fired once. Not for this obviously but for something I could've and should've done something about and trust me.....it is NOT a pleasant conversation with the family.
October 24th, 2012 at 2:32 PM ^
And can you imagine telling them you lost your job over a Twitter account? That really sucks.
Not saying he deserved the job after apparently saying several questionable things over the years, but losing a job over Twitter has to sting.
October 25th, 2012 at 5:41 PM ^
October 24th, 2012 at 6:31 PM ^
I can relate to getting fired for something stupid I could have avoided. It was not a pleasant experience to say the least. I had to move from Illinois to Texas to take a job and resume my career. It was one of the worst experiences of my life.
October 24th, 2012 at 1:41 PM ^
I'm sure he'd like it back, not because it feels bad about it or because he realized later he showed poor judgment, but because he got FIRED! Several of his past tweets have also shown poor judgment. It was not a one-time mistake but a pattern. Live by the sword, die by the sword.
October 24th, 2012 at 2:07 PM ^
There's a big difference between schmucks commenting on a blog and a media professional letting loose on Twitter.
Yeah, for him and his family, it sucks that he was canned. It is unfortunate but completely deserved. As a pro, he should know better.
October 24th, 2012 at 2:34 PM ^
I definitely feel for anyone who loses his job, but this was 100% his own fault. Nobody said he needed to write that, and frankly if he had stopped at "firing" it probably would have been fine. But to wish someone to die because you don't like seeing him on TV is just self-inflicted idiocy. His family may suffer, but he's paid to be a professional and he wasn't here.
October 24th, 2012 at 2:45 PM ^
October 24th, 2012 at 8:44 PM ^
October 24th, 2012 at 9:46 PM ^
out of the bag by then. Sux to be him.
October 24th, 2012 at 3:03 PM ^
The bottom line is that Torgerson is a professional and supposedly knows better. It's not like he is some anonymous internet puke who can post "DIAF" with no consequenses.
October 24th, 2012 at 9:47 PM ^
can you be to wish death on someone?
October 24th, 2012 at 8:14 PM ^
More people ought to follow the example of Harry Truman. He was famously hot-tempered and foul-mouthed, and as was normal back then, he wrote a constant stream of letters to public and private recipients. He was in the habit of dashing off angry and vituperative letters to people who pissed him off for one reason or another, but he had the good sense to not mail many of the letters right away, waiting for his temper to subside. Eventually somebody collected a bunch of the letters he wrote but never sent and made a book out of them.
"Strictly Personal and Confidential offers a unique look at a man reacting naturally to enormous pressures. Truman often had second, more prudent thoughts about what he called his 'spasms.' Sometimes he would scribble furiously and then stuff the result into his desk while he cooled off; on other occasions, he dictated blisterers to Rose Conway, his longtime personal secretary, and then returned the typescript with a diplomatic directive: 'Rose, file it. H.S.T.' —Time
"He also had the good judgment-- once he had dictated and reviewed a letter to some notable-- to at times keep a particular letter from the mail, and save it exclusively for his own files. Truman spared himself countless embarrassments using this discipline."
http://www.amazon.com/Strictly-Personal-Confidential-Letters-Truman/dp/…
October 24th, 2012 at 9:17 PM ^
I didn't konw that about Truman, really need to get onto reading a biography on him.
I read something similar about Lincoln, he would write angry letters to his generals and wouldn't mail them until his anger subsided, and then would instead file them away. Including times when McClellan horribly f-ed up a situation.
October 24th, 2012 at 1:18 PM ^
Twitter may not be your friend, but it is a fine tool that plenty of public figures use completely responsibly and to great effect. There are plenty of websites, writers, professional groups, etc that I follow on Twitter who use it professionally and responsibly.
Twitter itself is not the problem. A tendency to say stupid things in public is a bigger issue.
October 24th, 2012 at 3:07 PM ^
People don't kill people, twitter kills people
October 24th, 2012 at 5:31 PM ^
But but but, can't you delete it?
October 24th, 2012 at 9:48 PM ^
him poking at his Iphone saying, NO, NO, NO. then throwing the phone against the wall.
October 24th, 2012 at 12:48 PM ^
It's simply amazing how many "grown men" cannot differentiate between real life and the world of sports. Desmond Howard never did anything to this guy personally. He played football against his beloved Buckeyes and now he has some face time on ESPN every Saturday talking about way more teams than OSU or Michigan. Torgerson is a pathetic excuse for a grown man and a human being.
October 26th, 2012 at 9:51 AM ^
It does, however, give me pause for time spent at mgoblog obsessing about a college team that I am far too invested in.
October 24th, 2012 at 12:49 PM ^
I hope that Desmond does not someday land himself in a similar jam due to one of his Tweets.
Twitter + Desmond Howard = High Risk Public Relations
October 24th, 2012 at 1:29 PM ^
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October 24th, 2012 at 7:56 PM ^
You got that right. I'd bet money that Desmond will put his foot in his mouth eventually.
October 24th, 2012 at 9:50 PM ^
He will say something stupid too. But I doubt he will be dumb enough to with someone was dead.
October 24th, 2012 at 12:50 PM ^
I hear Iacono's in Shawnee Hills is looking for a driver and I think Torgerson would be ideal..
October 24th, 2012 at 1:20 PM ^
MIKE JONES!
(Actually, "The Torg" of "Common Man and The Torg", a pro-buckeye show on 97.1 radio.)
October 24th, 2012 at 12:55 PM ^
It was an extremely stupid tweet, and Torgerson deserves the response, but I actually liked the Common Man and the Torg. They had a good rapport. I'm disappointed. I'm sure this will be marked flamebait, which it is not, but what's an opinion if you decide to tailor it to the masses.
October 24th, 2012 at 12:59 PM ^
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October 24th, 2012 at 1:26 PM ^
Unlike all the OSU athletes who go on to prestigious 65 year pro careers and die gloriously on the field/court? What a stupid fucking argument. The moron caller essentially is telling Desmond he got too old to play his sport anymore, duh.
October 24th, 2012 at 1:32 PM ^
Maybe the Twitterz rule should be that no OSU players or fans use it. And MSU players/fans for that matter.
October 24th, 2012 at 1:34 PM ^
What a movie.
October 24th, 2012 at 1:08 PM ^
What took so long (for ST to get the axe)?
October 24th, 2012 at 1:21 PM ^
I'd expect this type of behavior from the Common Man but I thought Torg was better than this.
/s (I just wanted to work Common Man into this thread. I find the name of that show to be hillarious.)
October 24th, 2012 at 1:28 PM ^
Wow, I'm sure the fans in Columbus lamenting and gnashing their teeth over this turn of events must number in the dozens.
October 24th, 2012 at 1:40 PM ^
October 24th, 2012 at 9:52 PM ^
does something stupid too.