#Jeff

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Looks like Some Guy on the Internet discovered Jeff Wilpon (+ his daughter) has a twitter account.

https://twitter.com/awilpon4/status/410028965689298944/photo/1

amanda B w ?@awilpon4 Shout out to the best dad i could have ever asked for. Have the best birthday big guy!! Loveyou! @greenwichmets

That greenwich account is protected of course. I feel creepier than usual passing this on but... wow.

[bmfc1]

I thought that this was a thread about me. Thanks a lot!

[Guest d'Kong76]

Is that picture from Jeff's spaceship?

[Edgy MD]

Future Mets partner riding shotgun.

[Benjamin Grimm]

His daughter is cute. Maybe we should make a long-term plan... have one of our single CPF members marry Miss Wilpon and eventually take over the Mets.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Of course, the downside of that would be having Jeff Wilpon for a father-in-law. Try not to get his daughter pregnant before you marry her. I hear he doesn't like that.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Edgy MD wrote: Future Mets partner riding shotgun.

"Future Mets partner? She knows how to use Twitter, buddy-- you're looking at our NEW Social Media Director."

[metirish]

I was on Twitter last night when this was going down, apparently a lot of the #Mets fans were abusing the daughter . I didn't see any of that just people I follow in despair at the idea that his daughter being attacked .

[Guest d'Kong76]

I was just looking at Jeff's Wiki page for a minute and it
says they have a kid, Bradley, who was drafted by the
Red Sox this year. If I knew that, I didn't remember it.

http://www.greenwichtime.com/sports/article/Brunswick-graduate-Bradley-Wilpon-drafted-by-Red-5602040.php

[Centerfield]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Of course, the downside of that would be having Jeff Wilpon for a father-in-law. Try not to get his daughter pregnant before you marry her. I hear he doesn't like that.

Fantastic.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: His daughter is cute. Maybe we should make a long-term plan... have one of our single CPF members marry Miss Wilpon and eventually take over the Mets.

This is the greatest idea of all time. Who's single here? Steve J Rogers, we have a mission for you.

[Guest d'Kong76]

I would nominate metirish, Steve's a closet Yankee fan.

[metirish]

d'Kong76 wrote: I would nominate metirish, Steve's a closet Yankee fan.

Ha! , by the looks of it I am a bit old for her. I doubt Jeff would sanction such a move.


@GreenwichMets , so Jeffy that.

[Frayed Knot]

d'Kong76 wrote: I was just looking at Jeff's Wiki page for a minute and it says they have a kid, Bradley, who was drafted by the Red Sox this year. If I knew that, I didn't remember it. http://www.greenwichtime.com/sports/article/Brunswick-graduate-Bradley-Wilpon-drafted-by-Red-5602040.php

29th round - although there's no record of him playing this summer and I'm guessing that he probably opted for college over signing.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=wilpon000bra

on edit: and now that I actually read the previous link it appears that he's going to Penn, where I suspect that a Greenwich, Ct kid listed at 5' 10"/175 is a more likely bet to star at Wharton than on the diamond.

[Frayed Knot]

metirish wrote: I was on Twitter last night when this was going down, apparently a lot of the #Mets fans were abusing the daughter .

Amazing how brave folks suddenly get under the anonymity of the internet.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Wore 42 in those pics, apple doesn't fall far from
grandpa's tree.

[Edgy MD]

Stop being awful, Mets fans.

[seawolf17]

Frayed Knot wrote: metirish wrote: I was on Twitter last night when this was going down, apparently a lot of the #Mets fans were abusing the daughter . Amazing how brave folks suddenly get under the anonymity of the internet.

Seriously? Fucking hell. And we wonder why this organization doesn't give a flying fig about the fan base? Maybe it's because we're collectively, publicly, a bunch of d-bags. (Present company excepted, of course.)

[Guest d'Kong76]

seawolf17 wrote: Seriously? Fucking hell. And we wonder why this organization doesn't give a flying fig about the fan base? Maybe it's because we're collectively, publicly, a bunch of d-bags.

Before I respond, are you being jokingly sarcastic?

[Lefty Specialist]

Well, anyone who has 'wilpon' in their twitter account is asking for trouble eventually. My son, who is not the progeny of anyone of the slightest note, knew better than to put his last name on the Twitter account he opened at the tender age of 16 (and tweeted on exactly 4 times).

It doesn't justify on-line abuse, but jeez, ya gotta be careful out there, Amanda.

[Edgy MD]

If acknowledging your name is a dumb because of sports associations, I'd rather be wrong.

The girl's only sin is loving her father.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Honestly, I was surprised that something like this could
even happen. Bad parenting? Kinda.

[Guest d'Kong76]

I retract the bad parenting thing... for all I know she's
25 years old and probably smarter than her dad.

[nymr83]

Edgy MD wrote: If acknowledging your name is a dumb because of sports associations, I'd rather be wrong. The girl's only sin is loving her father.

Unless you are someone who uses it for work purposes (like a sportswriter, a publicist, etc) using your real name on twitter is not a great idea. This doesnt take away at all from how wrong anyone attacking her is, but still not smart.

[Lefty Specialist]

d'Kong76 wrote: I retract the bad parenting thing... for all I know she's 25 years old and probably smarter than her dad.

Well, that's a low bar to clear.

[seawolf17]

d'Kong76 wrote: seawolf17 wrote: Seriously? Fucking hell. And we wonder why this organization doesn't give a flying fig about the fan base? Maybe it's because we're collectively, publicly, a bunch of d-bags. Before I respond, are you being jokingly sarcastic?

Yes and no. I haven't looked because I've unfollowed most of the dreck on Twitter, but if the discovery of a Wilpon daughter online leads "fans" to harass her in any way, then yes, there are bunch of d-bags who are making the rest of us look bad.

[Edgy MD]

Nymr83 wrote: Edgy MD wrote: If acknowledging your name is a dumb because of sports associations, I'd rather be wrong. The girl's only sin is loving her father. Unless you are someone who uses it for work purposes (like a sportswriter, a publicist, etc) using your real name on twitter is not a great idea. This doesnt take away at all from how wrong anyone attacking her is, but still not smart.

Maybe not, but let's not confuse the gravity of foolishness and malice.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Edgy MD wrote: Maybe not, but let's not confuse the gravity of foolishness and malice.

Can you do that in your Yoda MD voice?

[Guest d'Kong76]

And we wonder why this organization doesn't give a flying fig about the fan base? Maybe it's because we're collectively, publicly, a bunch of d-bags.

Before I respond, are you being jokingly sarcastic?

if the discovery of a Wilpon daughter online leads "fans" to harass her in any way, then yes, there are bunch of d-bags who are making the rest of us look bad.

That's a bridge that's really hard to imagine building and
even harder to cross. No way I'm cutting the Wilpns some
no-giving-flying-fig because their daughter got some ribbing
on social media.

[metsmarathon]

Nymr83 wrote: Edgy MD wrote: If acknowledging your name is a dumb because of sports associations, I'd rather be wrong. The girl's only sin is loving her father. Unless you are someone who uses it for work purposes (like a sportswriter, a publicist, etc) using your real name on twitter is not a great idea. This doesnt take away at all from how wrong anyone attacking her is, but still not smart.

how would twitter be different from any social media in this regard?