Dom “Dick” Brown

I know, I know, leave Dom Brown alone. Get over it! I hear ya. I was over it, until, he decided to hit the airwaves of local radio stations in damage-control mode. I’m imagining that the Phillies PR department had a talk with Dom and told him how to spin it. The spin: I’m just a Cowboys fan, Am I supposed to change my team?, I didn’t mean anything by it.

First of all, I don’t care who Dom Brown roots for in any sport, unless it’s another MLB team. Then, I’d have some concerns.

No…no one wants him to change his team. If he wants to root for the Cowboys, good luck with that cross to bear. That’s a franchise that will never win anything as long as Jerry Jones runs the organization.

Thirdly, BULLSHIT! He meant for the Cowboys photos to be taken exactly how some of the more boisterous fans have taken it. He meant to rattle the cages of Philly sports fans. He meant to poke them at a vulnerable time, moments after an ugly loss to the Cowboys. He meant to be a dick.

On WIP, he was taken aback by the suggestion from either Barkann or Ike that he was “taunting” the Philly fans. He insisted that he was innocently putting up a photo of him and his boys at the game. Again, Bullshit. This following tweet proves he meant to be a dick to the Philly fans and “lmao” at the predictable reaction.

I get it. Dom Brown wanted to get a rise out of Philly fans so him and his boys could “laugh so hard at the comments.”

That’s just being a dick. That’s taunting. He knew it when he tweeted it, the fans knew it when they saw it. Don’t tell us otherwise. This isn’t Tampa Bay. Philly sports fans know when someone is blowing smoke up their collective asses. He should have just manned up and said he realizes that it was an insensitive tweet and move on, instead of giving fans the line of crap that he didn’t mean anything by it.

I get that this doesn’t bother some fans. I’m not saying you should be bothered by it. I’m simply saying that as a Phillies season ticket-holder, I’m annoyed. I spend a considerable chunk of my paltry salary to help indirectly pay his salary. He knows that 90% of his Twitter followers are from Philly. The Phillies had a dreadful season, the Flyers are in last place, the Sixers–hopefully–will be in last place and the Eagles just played as bad as the Giants and still he needed to take a shot. Show us some respect. More importantly, don’t insult our intelligence.

I guess the most important thing is that him and his boys got a good laugh out of it. I find it disappointing and unfortunate that their laughs had to come at the expense of the fans, who come out 3,000,000 strong to watch him play and had voted over 1.4 million times for him to be in the All-Star game.