Minoring in Twitter: Players enjoy Valentine’s Day, Daniel Norris mistaken for homeless guy
By dannywild2013
By Danny Wild / MiLB.com
Last weekend was the highly-anticipated and much-dreaded Valentine’s Day. How did Minor Leaguers spend the night, you ask? We don’t know. We probably don’t want to know. But, there were some tweets, so…
https://twitter.com/mattdero44/status/566822042972876801
https://twitter.com/NickAhmed_/status/566817788119896064
https://twitter.com/GianSanity/status/566793813511782402
https://twitter.com/KPILLAR4/status/567029930224254977
https://twitter.com/Lovegrove19/status/567004425185533952
https://twitter.com/bruggy4/status/566816286370709504
https://twitter.com/Stlyman12/status/566813357848936448
https://twitter.com/BigCaseDawg16/status/566795346173771776
https://twitter.com/N_Witt/status/566790367258116099
https://twitter.com/dannyblackKAB/status/566759172533141505
https://twitter.com/D_Geiger/status/566782427159228416
https://twitter.com/RobbieRay/status/566776998563823616
OK, you get the picture — breaking news: baseball players pretty much all have really attractive girlfriends and wives. Some, though, just watched basketball:
https://twitter.com/B_Davidson06/status/566774783262863360
And, on the other end of the spectrum, this:
https://twitter.com/sappDIESEL/status/566810523170521088
Daniel Norris is not a homeless bum
Probably my favorite tweet this week (and so far this year) goes to Blue Jays top prospect Daniel Norris, who is on this hipster-esque journey to Spring Training in which he grew a beard and travels and sleeps in a vintage van and sometimes sips coffee. Oh, also, he’s the guy who got a $2 million signing bonus:
https://twitter.com/DanielNorris18/status/568502905021591553
I mean, you’d probably throw a couple bucks at this guy too if you saw him asleep outside a grocery store, right?
Want to get in on the Norris lifestyle? A dozen almonds a day is key:
https://twitter.com/DanielNorris18/status/568466387733123072
Or how about this little anecdote (click the Instagram link for the full story) in which some guy found Norris asleep at the wheel of his van in a hotel parking lot and tried to kick him out:
https://twitter.com/DanielNorris18/status/567913146712752128
“Just as my chin nestled into my shoulder I got a knock on the window. “You checkin in, maaaaaan?” — “uh, nah” ‘Well, you can’t crash here if you’re not payin, bud’ (2 times in one night I was getting booted.) I fumbled for my keys when the man inquired a second time. “You surf?”
Hey man, you can’t sleep here. You need to leave… oh, what? You say you pitched in the Majors a few months ago? The story ends with Norris snapping the man’s portrait with his $3,000 Canon camera.
Ladies, he’s now a rugged axe model! And no, not the slimy shower gel Axe:
https://twitter.com/VictorAxes/status/566997942398373889
One more:
https://twitter.com/DanielNorris18/status/566001375872417792
Cubs prospect Pierce Johnson finally has called out those squeaky, off-balance shopping carts. You know the one with the stuff caught in one of the wheels, never goes straight?
https://twitter.com/Flowbro33/status/567105272015888384
True, the Yankees are running out of numbers:
https://twitter.com/toddvs35/status/567116745807114240
San Diego’s Cody Decker lets us into his car as he drives to Spring Training (click through to his Instagram video):
https://twitter.com/Decker6/status/567136431492313089
Also, I’m very excited to hear Cody’s thoughts on Game of Thrones (which returns April 12):
https://twitter.com/Decker6/status/568280355297320960
Farewell, Connecticut. (Also, fun fact about CT: our beloved George W. Bush, born in New Haven on July 6, 1946, is the only US President born in Connecticut):
https://twitter.com/salromano14/status/567178751520169986
Rough day:
https://twitter.com/FreddyJ_6/status/567830553833009152
An Astros Minor Leaguer almost died doing yoga:
https://twitter.com/vjvelasquezrhp/status/567848927128641536
But what if Taylor Swift revealed her figure was the result of Reese’s?
https://twitter.com/toddvs35/status/567905689584009217
Royals Minor Leaguer Ryan O’Hearn has a challenge for all the countless women out there who want nothing more than to marry him: up your table tennis skills:
https://twitter.com/Rohearn11/status/568206803030274048
Pirates Minor Leaguer Ryan Hafner got a nice gift box at Spring Training — nothing improves your performance (legally, of course) better than Fruit Roll-ups:
https://twitter.com/RHafner8610/status/568074937816231936
Jameson Taillon (who told me earlier this month he went snorkeling in an apartment complex pool) continues to recover from Tommy John surgery:
https://twitter.com/JTaillon19/status/568519307673493505
It was a very rough Thursday afternoon for Grant Hockin, the Indians’ second-round pick in last year’s Draft (extra points for including his finger in the cell phone photo):
https://twitter.com/grant_hockin/status/568519031830872064
https://twitter.com/grant_hockin/status/568492932204003328
Minor Leaguers remain very excited about Drake:
https://twitter.com/walkoff28/status/568518869012205569
Twins prospect Nick Gordon announces he will give up his baseball career to be a NASCAR driver:
https://twitter.com/NickyG_IV/status/568514234474057728
Rays prospect Tim Beckham had a cat on his head:
https://twitter.com/RaysBaseball/status/568498255178403840
A’s prospect Seth Frankoff should check out SiriusXM and look up Prime Country or Willie’s Roadhouse. Als:
https://twitter.com/frankoff34/status/568494085172015106
Usually we find cute dog photos to show here. Not today:
https://twitter.com/minnis33/status/568462926442409986
You’ve been warned by Archie Bradley: smile or he’ll throw sunflower seeds at your face:
https://twitter.com/ArchieBradley7/status/568451685640761344
TVS thought he’d recruit a Major League bat to come help out his team in Australia. Unfortunately, he picked Vernon Wells:
https://twitter.com/toddvs35/status/568300040910819328
Phillies prospect Venn Biter is seeking an intern:
https://twitter.com/Venn_Biter_23/status/568270335906328576
I’ll sum up 3,948 tweets from Minor Leaguers with this one about the North Carolina-Duke basketball game this week:
https://twitter.com/Ian_RK91/status/568265099753988096
Remember that time you went to the gym this morning?
https://twitter.com/Reese_McGuire21/status/568259911567740928
Chipotle Tweet(s) of the Week
With many Minor Leaguers returning to baseball mode this week, I would have expected more Chipotle activity. This was the only one I could find:
https://twitter.com/teachmetodugi11/status/568245493010034689
