Torry Holt is All Ears About His Twitter Account

(Disclaimer: Because Twitter is so damn fuzzy, we have 0 percent confidence that “TorryHolt” on Twitter is the actual Torry Holt. All signs point to “yes," so just follow along, alright? It makes this story better. Promise.)

Over on our local St. Louis blog, we posted a column that poked fun at Torry Holt’s Twitter page—primarily because he signed with Jacksonville during the offseason and still has a background image of himself in a Rams jersey. 

No big deal, really. 

He also has the Torry Holt Wikipedia entry listed as his personal Web site. For some reason, athletes not understanding technology is vaguely humorous.

For a new background image, we suggested that Torry use the infamous picture of him at a Jacksonville Jaguars press conference, where he proudly displayed a broken finger that is "beyond" repair.

We sent a link to the incredibly informative column through our own Twitter account and Mr. Holt was certainly listening.

Within hours, he followed our instructions for updating his own background image, used our suggestion, and even threw some props our way. 

Love it—not the props, but Holt’s willingness to play ball on a Wednesday afternoon.

We’ll monitor the situation and see how long Holt’s marketing team allows this picture to slide.  Although, we’re guessing if they haven’t sought out a real Web site for their client, they might not mind.

We also enjoyed the “thanks son” dig.

May 21

2000—The Undertaker debuts his biker gimmick during the Iron Man match between the Rock and HHH at WWF Judgment Day and in the process, attacks two women—Stephanie McMahon and X-Pac.

2000—Major League Baseball has its first six grand-slam day less than one year after establishing the mark with five. Garret Anderson (Angels), J.T. Snow (Giants), Brian Hunter (Phillies), Jason Giambi (A’s), and Adrian Beltre and Shawn Green (Dodgers) all contributed to the record. The fact that Brian Hunter hit a grand slam is proof positive the era was filled with the juice.

2006—Michael Barrett receives his suspension for sucker punching A.J. Pierzynski the day before in what baseball fans described as “a battle between two douchebags who need to hurt each other severely.”

…that James Harrison is an idiot.

Harrison said he was surprised by the reaction to his declining an offer to visit the White House. “They’re making a big deal out of this: ‘Oh, my, James Harrison is not going to the White House; he must be a devil worshipper!’ “

Hey James, no one has—to our knowledge—publicly called your decision to skip the White House the devil’s work. What people have done is comment on your public justification for not wanting to go to the White House.

It sounded stupid and smelled stupid, which pretty much means it’s stupid.

Had you just said you don’t like flying, the story would have been a non-issue. Idiot.

Last night, we recorded Episode 14 of the JoeSportsFan Show with Jamie Mottram from Yahoo! Sports and Don from HuggingHaroldReynolds.com. 

On the episode, we mentioned several notable “look alikes” that spawned from the original “Mike Tyson’s Punch Out” Nintendo game.

Mr. Mottram mentioned that Doc, the trainer from “Punch Out” looks eerie similar to Stanley from The Office.  Further research proved that statement to be very correct.

Two of Sebek’s round table answers last night included Kevin Youkilis and Soda Popinski, and we discovered that those two individuals may have been separated at birth. 

Intimate Seinfeld knowledge showed that the fringe character “Mike Moffitt” also looks like Youk and Soda.  Don’t believe me?  Look at this.  Jerks.

Dr. Aaron rounds out this month’s Mustache Shakedown for best NFL coaches' facial art.

The Wiffle Ball segment from the JoeSportsFan Show goes interactive as we reach out to the readers for their opinion on a tantalizing offer being thrown out by Bill & Ted of “Excellent Adventure” fame.

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