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.
yes plz
OT: Scott Torgerson "No longer employed" by 97.1 The Fan
October 24th, 2012 at 12:39 PM
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OT: Scott Torgerson "No longer employed" by 97.1 The Fan
October 24th, 2012 at 12:44 PM | 
Thank goodness! I've been
Thank goodness! I've been
October 24th, 2012 at 1:40 PM |
Sounds like
Sounds like
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 |
But
But
he apologized before they said no takebacks, nothings! Doesn't that make it all okay?
/s
October 24th, 2012 at 9:44 PM |
Hmmm?
Hmmm?
Ah, no.
October 24th, 2012 at 12:45 PM |
GOOD TO HEAR!!
GOOD TO HEAR!!
Good riddance!
October 24th, 2012 at 12:46 PM |
I have to admit I'm looking
I have to admit I'm looking
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 |
Well
Well
Desmond is alive and well, but Scott here has a dead career.
Follow me on Twitter @gfraley05
October 24th, 2012 at 12:48 PM |
It should be obvious by now that Twitter is not your friend
It should be obvious by now that Twitter is not your friend
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
I am NOT defending this idiot
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 1:33 PM |
Is this one of those?
Is this one of those?
.
October 24th, 2012 at 1:49 PM |
LOL.....no.
Posted at
LOL.....no.
Posted at
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 |
Yeah, you have to feel for him in that aspect.
Yeah, you have to feel for him in that aspect.
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.
Go Blue!
October 25th, 2012 at 5:41 PM |
Being the wife or kids
Being the wife or kids
Of the guy who lost his job through twitter is probably worse.
October 24th, 2012 at 6:31 PM |
I too, got fired once
I too, got fired once
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.
Bud & Sparky say GO BLUE!!
October 24th, 2012 at 1:41 PM |
I'm sure he'd like it back,
I'm sure he'd like it back,
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.
"Is There Anybody Out There?" Pink Floyd, The Wall.
October 24th, 2012 at 2:07 PM |
There's a big difference
There's a big difference
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.
-- Hot ice!
October 24th, 2012 at 2:34 PM |
I definitely feel for anyone
I definitely feel for anyone
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 |
He didn't even apologize. I
He didn't even apologize. I
He didn't even apologize. I have no sympathy for this man.
I poop excellence
October 24th, 2012 at 8:44 PM |
Untrue. He went out of his
Untrue. He went out of his
Untrue. He went out of his way and contacted the Howard family to apologize. He also released a statement apologize.
Formerly akron_wolverine and columbus_wolverine. New home, new name. A year in Columbus was enough.
October 24th, 2012 at 9:46 PM |
Cat was
Cat was
out of the bag by then. Sux to be him.
October 24th, 2012 at 3:03 PM |
No sympathy
No sympathy
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 |
How stupid
How stupid
can you be to wish death on someone?
October 24th, 2012 at 8:14 PM |
wish I could get back.
wish I could get back.
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/0...
October 24th, 2012 at 9:17 PM |
Thank you
Thank you
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
Twitter may not be your
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
People
People don't kill people, twitter kills people
You sound like you're from London
October 24th, 2012 at 5:31 PM |
But but but, can't you delete
But but but, can't you delete
But but but, can't you delete it?
October 24th, 2012 at 9:48 PM |
I can see
I can see
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
It's simply amazing how many
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.
Sincerely,
Cpt. Ass-Hat
October 26th, 2012 at 9:51 AM |
What you say is true
What you say is true
It does, however, give me pause for time spent at mgoblog obsessing about a college team that I am far too invested in.
"It does not matter how many times you get knocked down, but how many times you get up." Vince Lombardi
October 24th, 2012 at 12:49 PM |
Desmond...
Desmond...
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 |
As someone who follows him on
As someone who follows him on
As someone who follows him on Twitter, he's pretty good at it. He'll get into things with people who attack him, but he always stays clean
If you're doing nothing, how do you know when you're finished?
October 24th, 2012 at 3:31 PM |
Ironically, I think Herbie is
Ironically, I think Herbie is
Ironically, I think Herbie is more apt to get himself into trouble via the Twitters.
"the Spirit of Michigan...is based on a deathless loyalty to Michigan and all her ways....and a conviction that nowhere is there a better university, in any way, than this Michigan of ours" - Fielding Yost
October 24th, 2012 at 7:56 PM |
Twitter + Desmond Howard = High Risk Public Relations
Twitter + Desmond Howard = High Risk Public Relations
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 |
DH loves him some twitter
DH loves him some twitter
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
I hear Iacono's in Shawnee
I hear Iacono's in Shawnee Hills is looking for a driver and I think Torgerson would be ideal..
October 24th, 2012 at 12:52 PM |
Who?
Who?
Who?
...confidence is the stain they can't wipe off...
October 24th, 2012 at 1:20 PM |
MIKE JONES!
(Actually, "The
MIKE JONES!
(Actually, "The
MIKE JONES!
(Actually, "The Torg" of "Common Man and The Torg", a pro-buckeye show on 97.1 radio.)
"This is the EMU game, not the emo game."
October 24th, 2012 at 12:55 PM |
It was an extremely stupid
It was an extremely stupid
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.
Hail.
October 24th, 2012 at 12:55 PM |
(No subject)
(No subject)
And when we play as a team, when the old season is over, you and I know it’s going to be Michigan again. Michigan!
October 24th, 2012 at 12:59 PM |
speaking of
speaking of
Desmond, the other day, some osu fan called him a has been. Desmond told him he'd rather be a has been than a never was, like the person saying that to him. I got a kick out of that
Follow me on Twitter @gfraley05
October 24th, 2012 at 1:17 PM |
It's pretty fucking stupid to
It's pretty fucking stupid to
It's pretty fucking stupid to call a retired athlete a has been. It's like, no shit. You know who else is a has been? Dan Marino. The guy hasn't thrown a TD pass in who knows how long.
October 24th, 2012 at 1:26 PM |
A Has Been?
A Has Been?
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.
"...what do you say, is it the new Bluesmobile or what?"
"Fix the cigarette lighter."
October 24th, 2012 at 1:32 PM |
Maybe the Twitterz rule
Maybe the Twitterz rule
Maybe the Twitterz rule should be that no OSU players or fans use it. And MSU players/fans for that matter.
Disgruntled former moderator. I got a lot of problems with you people!
October 24th, 2012 at 1:34 PM |
Desmond must love The Mighty Ducks
Desmond must love The Mighty Ducks
What a movie.
October 24th, 2012 at 1:08 PM |
What took so long (for ST to
What took so long (for ST to
What took so long (for ST to get the axe)?
Nobody home...
October 24th, 2012 at 1:21 PM |
I'd expect this type of
I'd expect this type of
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 |
No more Torg?
No more Torg?
Wow, I'm sure the fans in Columbus lamenting and gnashing their teeth over this turn of events must number in the dozens.
"...what do you say, is it the new Bluesmobile or what?"
"Fix the cigarette lighter."
October 24th, 2012 at 1:40 PM |
I've listened to enough of
I've listened to enough of
I've listened to enough of his crazy anti Michigan rants and logic for far too long. I am glad he is gone.
The Michigan difference...
October 24th, 2012 at 9:52 PM |
I hope Valenti
I hope Valenti
does something stupid too.
Thank goodness! I've been waiting for Scott Torgerson to get fired or die so I could listen to 97.1 The Fan again!