Tom powers pioneer press biography
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A semi-retired sportswriter who’s been regularly contributing columns to the St. Paul Pioneer Press won’t be doing that any more following a Twitter rant about “liberal pussies” that called Hillary Clinton “the devil incarnate” and told Democrats “go fuck yourself.” Tom Powers worked for the paper for a long while and had been contributing a regular freelance column, but his five-hour Twitter rant Tuesday night created a ton of backlash. He then tweeted Wednesday he was ending his association with the Pioneer Press so they wouldn’t “take heat” for his rant.
[Update: Powers has now deleted his entire Twitter account, which is why the tweets in here are oddly formatted. The content is still readable.]
https://twitter.com/TomPowersPP/status/897920912464523268
The paper then issued some follow-up tweets:
This rant started Tuesday night at 10:36 local time, with Powers replying to a seven-hours-old tweet from cartoonist Tom Tomorrow saying the Republicans need to deal with their own mess:
https://twitter.com/tomtomorrow/status/897557715832188928
https://twitter.com/TomPowersPP/status/897663436540325888
That took a bunch of blowback, and Powers doubled down. He’s deleted some of the tweets in question
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FORT MYERS, Fla. — If the Twins do return to contention in a few years, they may owe it all to Ronald Reagan. Here’s why:
Reagan stood at the Brandenburg Gate and said: “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.”
Mr. Gorbachev said OK, Ron, no problem, and the Berlin Wall came tumbling down.
Americans then flooded the city, helping to reunite and rebuild it from the ashes of the Cold War. On Saturdays, the children of these Americans played baseball in the local parks. A young German boy, the son of two professional ballet dancers, took a fancy to the game and joined in. He became very good.
When he was 16, the Twins offered him $800,000 to sign a professional contract. And now the young man projects as a middle-of-the-order slugger with a sweet swing that is the talk of the organization. Say hello to Maximilian Kepler-Rozycki — that’s Max Kepler to you.
Thanks, Ronnie.
“My parents actually have a piece of the wall,” Max said. “That was the best time for baseball in Berlin because of all the Americans who came over to help out Germany.”
He was playing more for fun than anything else when scouts from major league teams first got wind of his ability. Max said he had never really thought about a career as a baseball pl