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Blue Jays fans are loving John Gibbons’ hilarious new Twitter account

Adam Laskaris
Adam Laskaris
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Aug 24 2022, 3:01 pm
Blue Jays fans are loving John Gibbons’ hilarious new Twitter account
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You can take John Gibbons out of the Toronto Blue Jays, but you can’t take the Toronto Blue Jays out of John Gibbons.

Gibbons, who spent two seasons in the MLB in the 1980s with the New York Mets, was best known to the public for his two separate stints in the Toronto dugout from 2004-2008 and 2014-2018.

This week, the former Blue Jays manager signed up for a few different social media networks, joining all of Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

But perhaps unsurprisingly, it’s been his Twitter presence that has re-endeared himself to fans.

Sometimes, he’s just sharing simple thoughts.

Sometimes, he’s sharing his wisdom in a way only he can.

Other times, he’s making fun of Yankees Manager Aaron Boone for his post-game outbursts.

He’s also easy to poke fun at himself, saying that he’s “smarter now” than when he was managing the Jays.

Gibbons also had a less-than-kind interaction with former Jays pitcher Marcus Stroman, asking him “future of what?” when Stroman posted a new pair of shoes were “the future”.

It appeared that Stroman didn’t take the incident too kindly, blocking Gibbons.

Gibbons thinks though that Stroman merely thought it was a fake account.

Despite Gibbons’ video introducing himself, some Jays fans are skeptical that it’s actually the former manager running his own page.

Speaking of Twitter trolls, Gibby learned the hard way that users like @BlueMetropolis can sometimes pull your leg a bit too far.

Asked who had the strongest closer mentality of all the guys he managed, Gibbons replied “Ryan,” meaning former Jays closer B.J. Ryan.

Despite the record clearly indicating otherwise, @BlueMetropolis then went on to confuse Gibbons by claiming he’d actually said Ryan Tepera was the greatest reliever of all time.

Gibbons simply replied with a single question mark.

While he might not have the nuances of online discourse down yet, it’s still been a delight to see Gibbons come on social media this week.

Perhaps most importantly of all, we found out that Gibbons’ favourite beer is Budweiser.

It’s been less than five days, but Gibbons is up to nearly 200 tweets so far at press time. Who knows what his tweets will be like once the MLB playoff start — we can only imagine.

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