SAN FRANCISCO -- Brian Wilson learned an important lesson about life in the public eye today.The Giants closer has been Twittering this year, and on Saturday night/Sunday morning he posted some Tweets around 1 AM local time describing the goings-on in the Scottsdale, Ariz., nightlife. Then about 15 hours later, he blew a three-run lead to the Diamondbacks.
Apparently that didn't sit too well with a few Giants fans who were following his Tweets, especially not after further attention was brought to the story by the San Francisco Chronicle's Giants blog.
This afternoon, Wilson was upset about the whole thing. He removed the Tweets, said the whole thing was a joke, and that he's done Tweeting.
"I just can't believe anyone would question my character. What about all the positive media and things we've done? Sure, things happen in the offseason, everybody celebrates or whatever, but I'm not one to take my job and throw it down the drain. Especially based on how hard I work out, and the meal plan I try to stay consistent with.It's too bad that Wilson brought all of this on himself with a few innocent Tweets. Hopefully he learned something from this.
"This Twitter crap, I've obviously got to stop because people are taking it too serious. My aspect of that is I write a bunch of stuff that's not true. It's made up. Obviously I'm not doing things like going toe-to-toe with a ninja. Find me a ninja, for one.
"Obviously, it's my fault for making up a bunch of stuff but I know for a fact most of those followers know I'm not being serious. They just like hearing funny stuff. Some people don't understand, but I'm not an idiot, so obviously, I've got to stop."
Just to clarify, I asked if Wilson was out late Saturday night.
"No, I wasn't out at all Saturday night. I was playing video games. But you know what, people will believe what they want to believe. That's fine, I guess. The last thing I want to do is have people think I don't take my job seriously."
Don't Tweet anything if you don't want people to take it seriously. It's like making a joke at the airport about having a bomb.
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