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Posted on 6/4/22 at 1:22 pm to WoodyOrnamental
I still think the original tweet was a funny troll, it’s not his fault other buffoons took it and ran with it. The announcer should apologize and just admit to being a dumbass or at the minimum having a dumbass moment. It’s not like he or the tweeter knew dude had panic attacks or whatever the real reason was and then pounced. In a nutshell, some towards the bottom of the last page are being overly dramatic.
Posted on 6/4/22 at 1:25 pm to hawgfaninc
It looks like ESPN ran with the story without fact checking (not surprising with today’s media culture).
I hope he sues the frick out of ESPN and their parent company
I hope he sues the frick out of ESPN and their parent company
This post was edited on 6/4/22 at 1:32 pm
Posted on 6/4/22 at 1:27 pm to piggilicious
To tell the truth, I'm surprised this doesn't happen more often, especially at ESPN. If their brothers in arms at the Washington Post and NY Times put out "anonymous source" BS and never apologize when it blows up in their faces, why shouldn't ESPN?
Posted on 6/4/22 at 1:41 pm to Tideroller
No lawsuit will be filled. But the announcer needs to fly into Knoxville and apologize to him, in person.
Posted on 6/4/22 at 1:45 pm to FiddleHead
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Also that is elite trolling from that dude. It’s not his responsibility to make sure ESPN isn’t dumb enough to use his troll tweet as a verified source.
Bingo we have a winner..
Posted on 6/4/22 at 1:56 pm to DuckTalesLOL
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Dude is calling the GCU/MO State game right now. He’s not getting fired.
He needs to be fired because he sucks and I hate his arse calling Arkansas games. For someone who played, he is pretty damn stupid in regards to baseball wording and in game coaching.
Posted on 6/4/22 at 2:34 pm to DuckTalesLOL
Well spewing baseless information about a college kid is unprofessional to say the least. He said what he said and had no inch of facts or sources to back it up. He should be held accountable for his actions along with ESPN.
Posted on 6/4/22 at 3:05 pm to hawgfaninc
Icing on the cake was the guy changed his twitter picture to a Vols logo so it made him look official.
Posted on 6/4/22 at 6:20 pm to Harry Rex Vonner
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I'd like to add that my sources have placed one "Tony V the Baseball Guy" as a late-night stripper at a Knoxville gay midget bar.
Confirmed. HRV attends gay midget bars. Still can't get a date.
Posted on 6/4/22 at 6:29 pm to FiddleHead
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Apparently the rumor is he had a panic attack, and basically no called no showed. Tony didn’t know what was going and didn’t want to say anything when he didn’t know if he was in jail, in the hospital, or hell even dead. Apparently he got word during the game that it was a mental health issue and that’s why he went with the sick thing at the presser.
Mental health is illness and effects the body and mind just as strongly as other forms of illness. There are countless examples but you don't need to look any further than the fact that you can die from a broken heart or develop specific cardiovascular ailments from grief. So saying he was sick is actually correct.
He's a Tennessee kid and southerners are pretty horrible about stigmatizing mental health/not wanting to acknowledge or talk about it. It's not surprising that they didn't want much said about it. Tony V went with the most accurate and diplomatic explanation he could give without revealing more than the family wanted out.
Posted on 6/4/22 at 6:35 pm to Torch
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VOLS play their best ball when they are angry.
that's bullshite, "we play our best baseball when we're angry"
Posted on 6/4/22 at 6:44 pm to Prof
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Confirmed. HRV attends gay midget bars. Still can't get a date.
Posted on 6/4/22 at 6:44 pm to Tideroller
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To tell the truth, I'm surprised this doesn't happen more often, especially at ESPN. If their brothers in arms at the Washington Post and NY Times put out "anonymous source" BS and never apologize when it blows up in their faces, why shouldn't ESPN?
It's not about the source being anonymous -- I've worked in journalism and used anonymous sources and believe me the journalist knows who those sources are and has seen their documentation. When I used an anon source it was to break an embezzlement story. The only way the source would give me access to the financials was by keeping their name out of it.
It was a small town and I knew full well what could/would happen to their family if it was known who the source was. The article and sourcing wound up triggering an investigation and sending a person to prison for embezzling public funds. We basically handed the state all the evidence they needed on a silver platter.
None of that could've been accomplished with a named source because the person didn't want to become a target. But again that anonymous source was the most documented source I ever had. It was miles of verified paper.
This is a case of using sources that aren't credible. They're anonymous and unverified internet sources. That isn't the same thing as the anonymous sources you see in articles about Democrats and Republicans doing this or that. Those can still be sketchy but they're known to the reporter and can be verified. IOW, they're credible.
This troll was never a credible source.
This post was edited on 6/4/22 at 6:47 pm
Posted on 6/4/22 at 7:18 pm to hawgfaninc
Sliced bread, David Marts and Nick Saban walk into a bar.
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