Whenever someone rails about the dangers and evils of professional athletes using Twitter, I simply say this: Twitter is like a microphone that is always on. An athlete saying something on Twitter is the functional equivalent of an athlete talking to a gaggle of reporters in front of his locker. As long as he doesn’t say anything into that open mic -- and as long as he knows that Twitter is, in fact, an open mic, he’s fine.
Call me crazy, but I don’t gather that Denard Span would ever be talking about sick, looney-tunes Sandy Hook killing conspiracy theory videos into an open mic in front of his locker. So the fact that he tweeted something like this is just as much evidence of poor Twitter training as it is evidence that some athletes have a hard time understanding what happens in the world:I was watching some controversial stuff on YouTube about the sandy hooks thing today! It really makes u think and wonder
— Denard Span (@thisisdspan) January 16, 2013Back away from the Twitter, Denard. Go down to spring training and leave this sort of thing to other people. You’ll be much happier that you did.
