Brewster: Accurate, not truthful
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Here’s an admission: I was signed up for Twitter by both AM1500 and the Star Tribune. Any messages you receive under my name are generic. I don’t know how to use the darn things.

This doesn’t prevent my receiving a handful of messages daily in the AM 1500 and Star Tribine e-mail accounts that indicate an individual is following me on Twitter.

There was a thrilling revelation in my Strib account on Friday when the information arrived that Lindsay Whalen was following me on Twitter. Gadzooks! My favorite female athlete of all-time following me on Twitter.

If only I knew exactly what that meant, or how you would go back to responding.

We’ve had Julio Ojeda-Zapata, the technology writer for the St. Paul Pioneer Press, on "Reusse and Company’’ a few times since the morning show started on Jan. 12. Julio has written a book on Twitter. He’s explained and explained in our radio interviews, but all I’ve rally picked up is when you send a message on this service it’s a Tweet, not a Twitter.

You might have noticed the Star Tribune’s CJ was all over Twitter-gate this weekend. This involves a Tweet posted by Tim Brewster, the Gophers football coach, that read: "How would you like to wake up in the morning and look in the mirror … if your Fat Pat.’’

Coach Brew had some trouble with the "your’’ and the "you’re’’ part of the message, and could have used a question mark, but he was appealing to his base – true, maroon Gophers’ fans who don’t feel as if I’ve been completely supportive of U of M athletics in print or on the airwaves.

And you can’t blame a fellow for appealing to his base.

We discussed Brewster’s Tweet early on Friday’s show. I said something such as, "Gosh, I thought Coach Brew and I had cuddled and made up when we had a sitdown in his office this winter, but apparently it didn’t go as well as I had thought.’’

Jay Kolls said: "It couldn’t have been you to whom he was referring in this one-liner. Maybe it was Pat Williams?’’

And then we went to Bob Berglund with the 5:35 a.m. news.

I had received numerous e-mails on Thursday sending along Coach Brew’s observation, and pointing out it was removed from his Twitter site – are they sites? – after an hour or two.

On Friday, a friend with a 100 percent accuracy record in passing along information from behind-the-scenes happenings in the U of M athletic department called to report that Brewster had been told to remove the grammatically incorrect Tweet.

Coach Brew resisted for a time, until it went from a suggestion to an order from a superior.

I’m not sure about Pat Williams, but as far as I’m concerned, this was unnecessary.

Whether the message stayed in public view or was removed, it would not change two facts: A) I’m very overweight; and B) I’m very suspicious of the manner Brewster is running his program.

My only problem is that Coach Brew apparently has suggested that someone hacked into his Twitter whatever and posted the message.

That’s a lie. It was his work, so why not say to CJ and others who ask that, yes, he posted the message and couldn’t have been more proud of its wittiness?

This isn’t Coach Brew’s first lie about a fat issue, by the way. A few weeks after he was hired, Brewster was making the rounds of the campus. These weren’t public events, but there was a young man raised as a Notre Dame fan who was in attendance.

When this individual mentioned the Irish, Brewster ridiculed the fatness of coach Charlie Weis – wondered why any top recruit would want to play for a fat guy like Charlie?

I was contacted by the Notre Dame fan and given the details. I e-mailed Brewster and he denied the conversation. I printed the denial. The Notre Dame fan called and said, "He can deny it all he wants, but he said it.’’

I believed the young man and that Brewster had shout off his mouth and now was trying to cover up. I know for certain it was Brewster’s Tweet this week, not something from a hacker, and that he took it down against his will on orders from a superior.

I also know that he’s right in observation if not grammar when contending this Pat is fat.

Go Gophers!!
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Minnesota can’t play UND because of their offensive name; “Fighting Sioux,” but they retain this offensive POS as their FBHC?? lol What a crock of shit!

is that the real Pete Carroll that is following NotKirkFerentz?

I wish I could find a fucking Dunkin’ Donuts around the Twin Cities.

We want all kids to grow wanting to be Gophers!..Tonight we hope there are some kids that are dreaming of wearing the maroon and gold!
6:32 PM Apr 18th from web
 
we will be doing this every spring…next year the kids will get to run out of TCF Bank Stadium tunnel like the Gophers.
6:29 PM Apr 18th from web

Great Brew’s Crew Youth Day over 400 kids practiced with the Gophers…mark your calendar..
6:28 PM Apr 18th from web

I miss the good old days when coaches told reporters what they thought in person, and that was the end of it. Of course, that would require Patrick to attend a sporting event.

I’d like to point out that Brewster should get a passing grade for English in that tweet. Being a former football player, it is amazing that he was able to spell most of the words correctly.