Most of you who read this blog know that I love the Twitter. When different organizations try to put restrictions on what people can tweet about. This first happened in the NBA last season and then ESPN writers were told they could only write about sports and needed to ensure that they had to file stories with the website before they twittered about breaking news.
Now the freedom to tweet has been taken away from MLB reporters apparently. From now on the rule is in place that MLB beat writers can only tweet about baseball related things. Currently, I only follow one reporter - Jordan Bastian who covers the Blue Jays and of his 7000 tweets you would be hard pressed to find a handful that aren't about baseball. For him this new rule won't be a problem, but for some others I am sure not talking about political events, reality shows or the NFL.
How will they solve this mighty conundrum? I have a suggestion - it's called an alias. Open a different twitter account with a new handle. The perfect example of this is Cabbie from The Score. He has @CabralRichards and @TheRealCabbie. Ta-Da! Problem solved.
Coming soon...a new BLT twitter account...maybe.
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