Pitching Short Messages

Funny thing. As I was compiling yesterday’s list (TV Peeps with the most Tweeps) I decided I would eventually post a list of Mariners and Seahawks who use Twitter, the social media site that publishes messages 140 characters at a time.  This morning, as I flipped to the sports pages of The News Tribune, I discovered that staff writer Larry Larue had beaten me to it — partially anyway.  He offered four …

SEATTLE MARINERS PITCHERS WHO TWEET

Mariner pitcher	Twitter name
David Aardsma	@TheDA53
Felix Hernandez	@RealKingFelix
Shawn Kelley	@shawnkelley23
Josh Lueke	@Josh_Lueke

… as well as other players in the Mariners’ farm system. You can read Larue’s entire article here:  Aardsma a-twitter.  I didn’t rank the players or list the number of Twitter followers (like I did with the TV folks yesterday), but King Felix, the staff ace, is over 18,000 as I write this tonight.  No surprise there.

June 22nd, 2011