Minoring in Twitter: Minor Leaguers rejoice at return of ‘Walking Dead’
By dannywild2013
By Danny Wild / MiLB.com
Minor Leaguers, like millions of other ordinary, non-baseball-playing Americans, love zombies. Sunday marked the end of a seven-month wait as AMC’s The Walking Dead finally returned. Season 5’s premiere (which incidentally included a new character wearing a Detroit Tigers cap — he survived about as long as the actual Tigers did this postseason.) attracted a series-high 17.3 million viewers, some of which were the very Minor League players we may or may not want with us on a zombie takeover survival team:
https://twitter.com/Keenyn_Walker/status/521509645106442241
https://twitter.com/blail3/status/521535451530678272
https://twitter.com/Keenyn_Walker/status/521526735108456452
https://twitter.com/beck_wheelerr/status/521513338531229696
https://twitter.com/riley_unroe/status/521510744014475264
https://twitter.com/ddahl21/status/521479884879958017
https://twitter.com/BrandonBednar1/status/521479660136570880
https://twitter.com/arroyo_c/status/521478061233938432
https://twitter.com/Jeff_Locke/status/521468212983394304
https://twitter.com/TyRoss26/status/521465481677398017
https://twitter.com/spang19/status/521455154613481472
https://twitter.com/AaronWestlake/status/521404669411610625
Especially with zombies:
https://twitter.com/tpike10/status/521513747635249152
Reds prospect Donald Lutz tweets his appreciation for passionate fans in the Mexican Pacific League:
https://twitter.com/braunerhulk/status/521711739260633088
https://twitter.com/braunerhulk/status/521577528755224576
Orioles left-hander Kevin Grendell has spent all three of his Minor League seasons, somehow, with the Gulf Coast League Orioles. Now, he’s getting his hands dirty with an offseason job:
https://twitter.com/KGrendell/status/521701493830078464
Tennessee left fielder Anthony Giansanti is having an exciting offseason:
https://twitter.com/GianSanity/status/521701229937065985
Cubs top prospect Kris Bryant raves, Gone Girl is worth seeing:
https://twitter.com/KrisBryant_23/status/521891157362868224
Sacramento’s Billy Burns has a new pet:
https://twitter.com/BillyBurns45/status/522799662328451072
Corey Black going very old school to a photo of Bryce Harper (who now strolls through river banks lined with flora), sans eye-black and beard:
https://twitter.com/CblackCHC/status/522772697806168064
Rangers catcher Jose Trevino, a sixth-round pick in the June Draft, finally settled a long-debated topic: who has the best aunt? It’s a hard question with, we thought, no real answer. But now we know for sure:
https://twitter.com/JoseTrevino5/status/522786696337694720
Cubs southpaw Sam Wilson struck out 40 batters in 35 1/3 innings last season, but now it’s the prices at Costco that have him amped up:
https://twitter.com/swilson_33/status/522789575954276352
Who wouldn’t be? Nobody wants streaky windows in the rain, especially a guy from Florida:
https://twitter.com/tratlif/status/521750351285063681
Red Sox 2014 first-round pick Michael Kopech has set some clear goals for his future:
https://twitter.com/MichaelKopech5/status/522136187063267332
Todd Van Steensel is freaking out:
https://twitter.com/toddvs35/status/521884267819700224
https://twitter.com/toddvs35/status/521880250234335233
Minor League Selfie of the Week:
https://twitter.com/8_Maxx/status/522465612510273536
Twins prospect Jose Berrios looks like he’s in pain:
https://twitter.com/JOlaMaquina/status/522780698395295744
Friends, don’t let Angels right-hander Joe Gatto eat alone:
https://twitter.com/JGatt33/status/522768611669446656
Minor League free agent (but showing his Royals pride) Clint Robinson isn’t down with any of those 12-ounce protein drinks. He wants the entire carton:
https://twitter.com/BatHoarder/status/521712375179653120
Yankees prospect Aaron Judge is soaking in the AFL experience:
https://twitter.com/TheJudge44/status/521734080682287104
Cardinals prospect Austin Gomber has washed his gigantic pickup truck:
https://twitter.com/Gomber31/status/521700705888133120
Yeah, what is this, the Arizona Fall League?
https://twitter.com/GrantBuckner/status/521676930664660992
Cody Decker keeping life in perspective:
https://twitter.com/Decker6/status/521533319360839680
https://twitter.com/Decker6/status/521759249362599936
A dog and a baby:
https://twitter.com/Shane40Sw/status/522137309597421568
Joc Pederson’s being vague and cool by simply telling people he’s in New York:
https://twitter.com/yungjoc650/status/522760773505138688
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White Sox prospect Tyler Danish really wants to meet Erin Andrews. They both have Valrico, Florida, roots:
https://twitter.com/danish_Tyler7/status/521879325168398336
Minor Leaguers Tweeting about candy
Yankees prospect Gosuke Katoh really, really likes something called Fettuccine, which, by my research, is a “chewy candy coated with sugar and with a light sour flavor” made by a Japanese company called Bourbon:
https://twitter.com/GosukeKatoh/status/521862530285588480
Speaking of, White Sox catcher Dillon Haupt isn’t interested in a life devoid of candy:
https://twitter.com/hauptimusprime/status/521818241950162944
And also, Hi-Chew is really good. I heard about it when the Yankees collectively admitted they were addicted to it:
https://twitter.com/treymasek/status/521890235622653952
Cubs right-hander James Pugliese got a helpful tip in a bathroom:
https://twitter.com/Pugs51/status/521861325010399233
Offseason 2014, with Phillies outfielder Venn Biter:
https://twitter.com/Venn_Biter_23/status/521847322641461248
https://twitter.com/Venn_Biter_23/status/521842779367149569
Speaking of biters, Joey Pankake, almost snake-bitten:
https://twitter.com/jpankake/status/521826854043680768
Where is Ryan Hafner? We ask ourselves this question every morning after waking up. Today he responded:
https://twitter.com/RHafner8610/status/522759687759233024
Someone stole Dalton Hicks’ apples, and he’s totally not even mad about it. Also, some free advice: Go with Honeycrisp, Gala and Fuji apples this autumn for an experience that is both crispy and sweet:
https://twitter.com/DHicksMTB/status/522757180601401344
Here’s Twins first-round pick Nick Gordon with his pants unbuttoned:
https://twitter.com/NickyG_IV/status/521824777699614720
Rockies shortstop Max George has officially announced, finally, the absolute best thing in the world. I’ll break the suspense: it’s Jack Johnson:
https://twitter.com/MaxGeorge433/status/522623187155038209
You may recall the last time we showed a Minor Leaguer declaring there was “nothing better than,” and it was Justin Jackson, who called new socks the best thing ever. Socks. Really, look.
“A little” Jack Johnson. Better than bacon. Better than finding $100 in your old jeans. Better than winning a new car on The Price is Right.
But wait! Giants Minor Leaguer Hunter Cole reveals his secret love affair with sneezing:
https://twitter.com/hcole6/status/521879024306360321
Nothing better than a good sneeze. Jeremy Barfield may disagree when it comes to an Ebola sneeze:
https://twitter.com/BarfontheField/status/521755355798573056
Cory Aldridge knows bacon is better than sneezing and whatever:
https://twitter.com/aldridge32/status/522399557632917504
J.P. Crawford showing off his new iPhone:
https://twitter.com/jp_crawford/status/522489229583323137
Nats slugger Michael Taylor needs your best wishes:
https://twitter.com/Taylor_Michael3/status/522814342941929472
White Sox outfielder Desmond Henry is part of the small group of Americans who seem to think Ebola is some secret government conspiracy theory to kill people via population control:
https://twitter.com/_dhenry554/status/522618111447420928
Orioles right-hander Austin Urban hasn’t been answering your texts lately, right? But now we know why — he turned off his iPhone ringer, and he has now revealed this important news to the Internet:
https://twitter.com/UrbanLegend_13/status/522751245116006400
Reds prospect Ben Lively caught a huge tuna, in addition to some slightly inferior tunas that were just tossed aside in a bucket, not good enough for a photo:
https://twitter.com/BenLively19/status/522179175206387712
Cubs prospect Corey Black Instagram’d a nude photo of himself:
https://twitter.com/CblackCHC/status/522126214585384960
Minor Leaguers with dogs
https://twitter.com/GarinCecchini/status/521752459161915392
Chipotle Tweets of the Week
A 25-minute drive for the №1-rated food of Minor Leaguers, especially during the offseason, does not sound unreasonable:
https://twitter.com/RobZastryzny_8/status/521744379640160256
https://twitter.com/KingSherriff/status/521099171227774977
https://twitter.com/BammBoyy/status/520735187349434368
