Grossi Let Go Over Tweet Regarding Randy Lerner
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Tony Grossi, the beat writer for the Browns as many know, was fired after tweeting this about Lerner: "He's a pathetic figure, the most irrelevant billionaire in the world." Thoughts?
sorry posted wrong link at first
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You mean we're going to get a real sportswriter now? This is the best news I've heard in along time.
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That tweet should not have gotten him fired. WTH? Is this real? So much for the press being honest.
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He has been close to getting fired for his tweets for a while at least in my opinion. He constantly belittled every tweet he responded to regardless if it was a good question or not. He has been poking the bear and he finally got in trouble for it.
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He has been close to getting fired for his tweets for a while at least in my opinion. He constantly belittled every tweet he responded to regardless if it was a good question or not. He has been poking the bear and he finally got in trouble for it.
He has been close to getting fired for his tweets for a while at least in my opinion. He constantly belittled every tweet he responded to regardless if it was a good question or not. He has been poking the bear and he finally got in trouble for it.
Oh really? I don't really follow his stuff much and I thought this was a mad overreaction but this makes thing different.
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We have a reporter in Buffalo named Jerry Sullivan and all he does is talk negatively about the Bills and our owner...I wonder why he hasn't been fired.
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He has been close to getting fired for his tweets for a while at least in my opinion. He constantly belittled every tweet he responded to regardless if it was a good question or not. He has been poking the bear and he finally got in trouble for it.
Oh really? I don't really follow his stuff much and I thought this was a mad overreaction but this makes thing different.
Oh really? I don't really follow his stuff much and I thought this was a mad overreaction but this makes thing different.
No lately it had been the norm. Just comparing his tweets from this year to last year he has gotten much more bitter in his tweets toward fans who don't agree with him.
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He is a smug, arrogant prick.
Good riddance.
I hope his replacement is, if anything, less reptilian than Tony.
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@king-ghoolie-lives said:
How feminine we have become.
A guy should be able to speak what's on his mind and not have to worry about this kind of shit.
Talking about illegals things is one thing, but what Grossi said is perfectly acceptable and a worthy topic to debate.
Well, the world IS getting too politically correct- witness the "Taco comment", asking a guy to resign because he had a cute little photoshop of Obama as part of a monkey family, and I could go on.
Nah- this was just a convenient excuse to unload Grossi- he ain't that good IMHO (except for keeping Modell out of the HOF until after he croaks), and there's better writing talent out there. FWIW, there's guys on this board who know as much about football as Grossi- except they don't have his "inside" scoops. I'd nominate our old pal from the AOL days ArtBeitz aka Barry McBride to take over for Grossi in a heartbeat. Too bad Dieken isn't a writer, because he's forgotten more about football than Grossi will ever know.
He's not fired either- just "reassigned", to maybe the Home & Garden section I hope.
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We have a reporter in Buffalo named Jerry Sullivan and all he does is talk negatively about the Bills and our owner...I wonder why he hasn't been fired.
We have a reporter in Buffalo named Jerry Sullivan and all he does is talk negatively about the Bills and our owner...I wonder why he hasn't been fired.
Because they are the Toronto Bills?
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So whats the insulting tweet? "He's a pathetic figure, the most irrelevant billionaire in the world." Was there more or was that it? I mean I can not help but say I agree with him, Lerner is worthless, he doesn't know to own/operate a winning team. I am not familiar with his work in the PD so I will take everyone's opinion that he wasn't great, but still getting reasigned for calling Lerner what he is, is bogus imo.
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@king-ghoolie-lives said:
How feminine we have become.
A guy should be able to speak what's on his mind and not have to worry about this kind of shit.
Talking about illegals things is one thing, but what Grossi said is perfectly acceptable and a worthy topic to debate.
Well, the world IS getting too politically correct- witness the "Taco comment", asking a guy to resign because he had a cute little photoshop of Obama as part of a monkey family, and I could go on.
Nah- this was just a convenient excuse to unload Grossi- he ain't that good IMHO (except for keeping Modell out of the HOF until after he croaks), and there's better writing talent out there. FWIW, there's guys on this board who know as much about football as Grossi- except they don't have his "inside" scoops. I'd nominate our old pal from the AOL days ArtBeitz aka Barry McBride to take over for Grossi in a heartbeat. Too bad Dieken isn't a writer, because he's forgotten more about football than Grossi will ever know.
He's not fired either- just "reassigned", to maybe the Home & Garden section I hope.
@king-ghoolie-lives said:
How feminine we have become.Speak for yourself...
Well, the world IS getting too politically correct- witness the "Taco comment", asking a guy to resign because he had a cute little photoshop of Obama as part of a monkey family, and I could go on.
Insightful... what we need are more Hitler comparisons...
So whats the insulting tweet? "He's a pathetic figure, the most irrelevant billionaire in the world." Was there more or was that it? I mean I can not help but say I agree with him, Lerner is worthless, he doesn't know to own/operate a winning team.
It's the difference between a personal attack ("pathetic figure") and a pointed critique ("worthless... owner"). The latter is part of a beat writer's job; the former is not only not his job, but can only make the writer less effective in doing his job.
One big point I haven't seen here yet... Grossi did not defend his tweet, he cowered from it. That tells me all I need to know. And it makes me suspect that Zombo may be right about the vino...
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Grossi's job requires him to have a collegial relationship with Browns FO. This tweet damaged/eliminated that, so it was inevitable.
Drunk tweeting is essentially drunk texting, except to the entire world rather than just one person. Not smart...
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It just goes to show really how much social media has an impact on things in today's society. Whether you think it's right or wrong it's just how it is. I just read a story that a top high school recruit lost his scholarship over tweeting. You have to be smart with that stuff. The way it's always been presented to me is that never post something you wouldn't actually say, which is so true. I wonder if Grossi would have the gusto to say this to Lerner's face? I honestly don't know.
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It just goes to show really how much social media has an impact on things in today's society. Whether you think it's right or wrong it's just how it is. I just read a story that a top high school recruit lost his scholarship over tweeting. You have to be smart with that stuff. The way it's always been presented to me is that never post something you wouldn't actually say, which is so true. I wonder if Grossi would have the gusto to say this to Lerner's face? I honestly don't know.
It just goes to show really how much social media has an impact on things in today's society. Whether you think it's right or wrong it's just how it is. I just read a story that a top high school recruit lost his scholarship over tweeting. You have to be smart with that stuff. The way it's always been presented to me is that never post something you wouldn't actually say, which is so true. I wonder if Grossi would have the gusto to say this to Lerner's face? I honestly don't know.
I guess the only thing I can say is that if you are tweeting, you must have a bird brain.
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Thank goodness. Grossi is a shitty writer.
Sign me up! I'd love to have that job, covering the Browns and doing interviews and writing stories... Dream Job 
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