Brad writes:

Joe,

I follow your website religiously from the North Georgia Mountains. By far, joebucsfan.com is the best place to find news about my beloved Bucs. I enjoy your site so much that I even follow you on Twitter. But for the love of god, keep the Twitter account for Bucs news only. I could care less about your man-crush on Jack Bauer. I could care less about the Rays game. This is Joe Bucs Fan. Not Joe 24 fan. Not Joe Rays fan. Keep it to yourself.

Keep staying positive with the Bucs. Loyal fans need that sense of optimism. There are a lot of good things in motion right for our team.

Tampa…………………………………………………….Baaaayyyy.

Brad:

First, as always, thanks for reading JoeBucsFan.com. Joe is humbled that you are a dedicated reader.

You are not the first one to complain about Joe’s 24 musings. These irritated Joe’s good friend “The Big Dog,” Steve Duemig, to no end. But sadly, FOX made the terrible decision to drop the series. So you won’t read too many more 24 Twitter posts from Joe.

To your point, Joe believes Twitter to be an interactive medium. Joe just can’t stand the arrogance if not ignorance of some Bucs site that only posts thought-provoking comments on Twitter such as “Top Five posted.”

As Joe documented yesterday, he had a good back-and-forth with Howard Balzer of The Sporting News recently. Also yesterday, Greg Aiello, head of the NFL’s public relations department, responded positively to a Twitter post Joe had concerning the proposed 18-game regular season. Rich Eisen of the NFL Network has re-Twittered a post Joe had as well not long ago. 

None of those posts in question were Bucs-specific posts, just good football posts.

As Joe is sure you are aware, Joe follows some heavy-hitters in sports media, primarily football writers. Roughly 30 percent of the time they are posting non-football thoughts. In fact, Joe was in a 24 loop with Steve White, dapper Rick Brown of the Lakeland Ledger, Justin Pawlowski, of WDAE-AM 620, Mike Freeman of CBSSports.com and Chris Mortensen of ESPN where we would trade 24 thoughts each Monday night.

(Joe was shocked on a recent, beer-soaked Friday night that when he wrote about how his gorgeous Hooters barmaid looked strikingly like what Joe envisions Heather Van Nest’s younger, more well-endowed sister to look like, no one responded.)

Joe understands where you are coming from Brad. Currently, Joe daily has to sift through dozens if not hundreds of non-basketball association and foreign kickball posts through Twitter.  Joe strongly believes that Twitter is interactive and a way to flush out one’s personality.

Just this morning for example, Adam Schefter is Twittering about this attention starved LUH-bron James character, who Joe has never seen play basketball for one minute and the guy is “this close” to joining serial adulterer Eldrick Woods territory for Joe as his most loathed athletes.

Kinda hard to show a personality by writing such whimsical thoughts as “Quick Hits posted,” provided said person even has a personality.

Joe apologizes if, say, when he sees midget Mexican bullfighting on cable TV in a bar and has an opinion (yes, Joe really did see such a show from a watering hole recently) that Joe doesn’t offend you.

Joe was asked yesterday, since Joe launched JoeRaysFan.com with his good friend and new colleague Cork Gaines of RaysIndex.com, that Joe would only post Rays thoughts on a JoeRaysFan Twitter account. But that would mean Joe would have to constantly log in and log out of accounts throughout the night. That would be quite cumbersome.

Joe only asks that you skim through the non-Bucs musings.

Oh, and if Joe has a mancrush on anyone, it’s Albert Pujols. Kinda hard to have a mancrush on a fictional character like Jack Bauer. 🙂

Joe will leave his real crush with Rachel Watson. Sadly, to Joe’s knowledge, she does not Twitter.

Readers willing to lodge angry missives at Joe can e-mail him at hatemail@JoeBucsFan.com.