It's kinda funny. Twitter is great, it's really enhanced my following baseball and such. But the actual athletes, the reason I'm following sports and on Twitter to begin with, don't really add much. Yeah, great, Santana's almost done with his workout. whoopie. Thinking about it further..Athletes just don't have much to add. They give me what I want (or promptly get thrown out) on the field, I don't need to talk to them about their movie preferences. Extrapolating further, I don't really need to hear former athletes telling me how baseball is played. People think they know more because they played the game, but as analysts, they're the same as everyone else. maybe worse. (That's a moneyball concept actually)