Adventures in Twitter with Bruce Levine

Dec 4, 2014 | Media Hacks

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The Score’s baseball insider Bruce Levine gets his fair share of scoops. He’s plugged in with both Chicago baseball teams, the Cubs and the other one, and he has a pipeline straight to Tom Ricketts and his manservant Dennis Culloton.

Bruce also is a friend to many agents, and is good at getting info from them in exchange for floating ridiculous rumors for them when they ask him to (Pablo Sandoval to the Cubs, anyone?)

What Bruce is undeniably terrible at is Twitter.  He can’t spell.  He can’t type.  He has no idea when to use to, too or two.  Without taking the deep dive into his Twitter account that is so richly deserved, let’s at least get a quick overview of Bruce Levine’s (most recent) Adventures in Twitter.  For a more comprehensive look at it, I’m going to need to drink…a lot.  We’ll save that for later.

This one’s the most recent, and it’s a treasure.  Not only did he get the coach’s name wrong (it’s Dave Martinez) he used his trademark space before the period.  It’s his most often used move.  And, he gave credit for the the “scoop,” which he himself got wrong, to Jon Heyman.

Heyman’s best Tweet (and my constant making fun of this got me Twitter blocked by Jon–still worth it) was this:

#hugetits
Here, Bruce is trying to refute a rumor that the Yankees were making a bid for Cubs free agency target Jon Lester.

Nobody said the Yankees had signed him.  And, I love the reassurance that the Cubs are as viable as any other team.  How nice for them.  I thought maybe they’d gone out of business.  

The space period was the working title for “Interstellar” (little known fact) and check out the “too.” It’s a common theme:

And even when he uses the correct “to” he leaves a space just in case another o wants to work its way back in there.

The more pressing problem is that often Bruce’s Tweets are ambiguous. Like this one after word got out that Cubs pitcher Pedro Strop drove his car into a wall.

Who is hopeful? The Cubs? Bruce?

Not “bring ready” is interesting. But if the Cubs are going to relocate fans, I’d like them to send me to Los Angeles.

I don’t want to know what tight thing Joe is exercising.

Another go-to move for Bruce is to include a Twitter handle in the Tweet but run the word before or after into it so it’s not a link.

They don’t play the games on paper, unless it’s sheet music:

Sometimes an emphatic Tweet:

Has to be followed with something else:

But, give the guy credit. You think Gordo would acknowledge he was refuting his own previous tweet?

Well, it certainly points out the characters…and the guys who got into radio because they can’t spell, apply basic grammar principles or punctuate.

Never change, Bruce.