Last night right before Nate McLouth was about to turn on a 90MPH fastball and deposit it into the empty right field bleachers at Safeco Field, Orioles recently- demoted pitcher Jake Arrieta tweeted the following:
Watching the cross fit games.. These women are unbelievable!
And who could blame Jake for taking in some hotties working out in yoga pants, not this guy. But what I found interesting was the fact he sent that tweet at the exact same time his former teammates were taking the field in Seattle. So when I sent him a harmless, badly-schtick laden RT like this:
Pretty focused on getting back I see>>“@JArrieta34: Watching the cross fit games.. These women are unbelievable!”
The normally quiet, unassuming Jake decided he had enough of this negative energy from “Orioles Nation” and Twitter trolls everywhere. He lobbed back countless Twitter scud missiles, which I’m guessing was his way of taking out his frustration due to his pitching “performances” of late. I won’t bore you with every twitter beef ol’ Jake was battling late into the evening as “his” teammates were fighting to break a mini two game slide, you can read them yourself here https://twitter.com/JArrieta34/with replies. He did tweet this shortly after his cross fit one, I guess covering his tracks.
“If I said I was watching my boys on the iPad since the first pitch.. Would that make you feel better?”
And you know what, I’m good with that. Believe him or not, he doesn’t have to be watching the Orioles on his down time. Especially since he would probably have to have the MLB package to see the O’s. I get it. But where it got real weird for this hacky blogger was when Jake threatened to cause bodily harm to me when I said he needed a hug.
@Jabbyburns @expo2323 the last thing your ugly mug needs is a face punch.
What the heck does that even mean? “The last thing my ugly mug needs is a face punch“? What, a “punch in the face” was too many characters, Jake? Either way, the 3-time Orioles home Opening Day starter had put me in my place. I just hope this evening of venomous tweets lights a fire under him and he comes back to the big club and shows everyone (including me) just how special he really is. I would love to be wrong (wouldn’t be the first or last time) about my prediction that it’s just never going to work out here in Baltimore for Jake. I really would. But for now Jake, just back away from the keyboard. There are trolls everywhere!
I’m a fan of Jake. But this has me worried about him. I’ve always thought that he was a bit of a headcase, and this all but confirms it. If he was this pissed about how bad he was and this devoted to finding a way to be better, he’d at the very least be a middle of the rotation starter.
this whole article = trolling.
I didn’t think you were the first one to chime in on him watching Crossfit instead of the game. There were a few other people who jumped in on him hard and I think the frustration of not having his stuff work for him and being sent down just boiled over. I understand where he was coming from and he was provoked (not by you, Jabby, he just took yours wrong) so I don’t blame him for how he responded but I do think it could have been handled a little better. He just kept feeding into it and that’s why it looked so bad. If he just went back at the people who were trashing him with a couple of funny quips then it would have been fine, but it just dragged on too long.
eh, who cares about whats up on the internet. if everyone lived their lives on twitter and facesmash, then this world would be in the pits. well, maybe it’s getting there. but the fact is, arrieta is a talented pitcher and could be very helpful for this team. he just needs to accept he’s stubborn and work out whats between the ears which won’t come until 28, 29 or 30 .. we can only hope.