Sean Newcomb’s Tweets Uncovered
Sean Newcomb has responded and is below.
Sean Newcomb went from on top of the world, one strike away from a no hitter against the formable Dodgers, to a Chris Taylor single past a diving Johan Camargo to break up the no no. Immediately pulled from the game after 130 plus pitches, he came to the realization that his phone was blowing up … but not from congratulations.
Josh Hader had some old tweets surface earlier this month, sent when he was 17, and MLB ordered him to do a sensitivity training program. He did appologize right away and MLB didn’t fine or punish him any further.
Newcomb is the latest professional baseball player to have his tweets uncovered. It’s unfathomable that each professional team doesn’t have a person who combs through their players twitter accounts, notifying the player on what to delete or keep, as they’re image is very important to the team. At the very least, the player’s agent should go through their player’s social media and keep it clean.
Sean Newcomb is cancelled pic.twitter.com/0KGrXXLm6Z
— squid (@NatsSquid) July 29, 2018
These tweets were sent from 2011 when he was in high school. A Washington Nationals fan account uncovered it. One of the posts was supposedly a song lyric.
Sean asked to meet with the media right after the game to address this head on and not let it linger.
Sean Newcomb said he saw the tweets resurfaced when he was on his phone after today’s game and he wanted to get ahead of it and apologize, so he asked the #Braves if he could meet with media now to issue statement.
— Kelsey Wingert (@KelsWingert) July 29, 2018
“This is something that obviously can’t be happening. I feel bad about it. I don’t mean to offend anybody. I definitely regret it.” – Sean Newcomb
— Kelsey Wingert (@KelsWingert) July 29, 2018
“I felt that it would be good to address it right away and just let people know that I meant nothing by it. I didn’t mean to offend anybody and I’ll make sure it doesn’t happen again. I’ll be smarter.” – #Braves Sean Newcomb @FOXSportsBraves
— Kelsey Wingert (@KelsWingert) July 29, 2018
When asked if he was worried about how stuff like this would play in the clubhouse, “I think that people who know me know that’s not the kind of person I am.” – #Braves Sean Newcomb @FOXSportsBraves
— Kelsey Wingert (@KelsWingert) July 29, 2018
