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On Friday, FanHouse's Jeff Fletcher noticed that the Twitter account of A's pitcher Brett Anderson was deleted, and also noted a photo that Anderson had tweeted on Thursday. As it turns out, the latter was indeed a consequence of the former:
Anderson's rough night came a day after the A's asked him to remove a photo he posted to his Twitter account, [...]
Wow. This photo must have been intolerably lewd and or/irresponsible, right? After the jump, be prepared to be disappointed!
This appears to be the photo in question:
WHAT A TERRIBLE EXAMPLE TO SET FOR OUR-- hmm. What? Brett Anderson is standing there with his arms around two women. All three parties are fully clothed. If Anderson isn't holding stacks of $1 bills here, there is no complaint. Is the offensive implication that Anderson is a pimp, or these women are strippers, or something? Seems like a pretty loose implication to me.
I'm trying to imagine the sort of apology statement that Anderson would release:
"On Thursday, I tweeted a photo of me hanging out with two women while holding money. I sincerely regret this photo, as it implies that I have a lot of money (which I do) and that I hang out with women (which I do). There is nothing to take away from this photo but the insinuation that I am a terrible person. It was grossly irresponsible, and I would like to sincerely apologize for depicting myself having a laugh for the camera in the company of women."
Perhaps Anderson removed his account of his own volition and without pressure from the Athletics, but I sort of doubt it. Make no mistake, misogyny is as present in sports as it is in the rest of America, but this is a pretty harmless and unremarkable photo. Am I wrong? Maybe I'm wrong. In any case, three cheers for athletes who delete their Twitter accounts but forget to delete their TweetPhoto accounts.
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