What was your favorite Patrick Reusse moment?

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Gophers1992 said:
Right, I guess I'm not connecting the dots on how an explanation of a misinterpreted tweet turned into a rant against Musk/Trump/MAGA
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I take his explanation at face value for bailing on Twitter/X. Patrick was ready to be done with the forum anyway, regardless of the misinterpreted Tweet, due to Musk (& the "dipwads" that respond).

That's my understanding via post #35 in this thread.
 

Ope3 said:
I take his explanation at face value for bailing on Twitter/X. Patrick was ready to be done with the forum anyway, regardless of the misinterpreted Tweet, due to Musk (& the "dipwads" that respond).

That's my understanding via post #35 in this thread.
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Lol. A poorly worded innocuous tweet (should have just apologized for such), followed up by two inflammatory tweets posted by a friend/co-worker, flaming Trump, Elon, Reagan, republicans; quickly leaving the platform, sure.
 


I didn't read the Tweet as remotely racist but quickly understood the angle that the trolls took with it in his comments. The trolls of course didn't think it was racist either but 1. Took advantage of the snowflake/over-sensitivity of the current age to harangue the old man; and 2. Turned the tables on the old man who uses 2/3rds of his tweets to phish for snowflakes, including Gopher fans.

Frankly, no response or explanation was necessary and no doubt the issue would have died on the vine. It wasn't a racist tweet and a reasonable person wouldn't think otherwise. I suspect Pat's primary employer, the overly sensitive and uber-woke strib, applied pressure to Pat to respond in some way. He, of course, a man of no magnamity, humility or humbleness couldn't respond gracefully and instead went full on hate, intolerance and TDS on the way out.

Getting sick of "dipwads" is a ridiculous excuse, even in part - he goes fishing for those responses.
 

swede2 said:
Getting sick of "dipwads" is a ridiculous excuse, even in part - he goes fishing for those responses.
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His "dipwads" comment was specifically to those that were commenting on his columns without reading them, not his tweets themselves.

swede2 said:
Frankly, no response or explanation was necessary and no doubt the issue would have died on the vine. It wasn't a racist tweet and a reasonable person wouldn't think otherwise. I suspect Pat's primary employer, the overly sensitive and uber-woke strib, applied pressure to Pat to respond in some way. He, of course, a man of no magnamity, humility or humbleness couldn't respond gracefully and instead went full on hate, intolerance and TDS on the way out.
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I doubt that the Strib was in favor of Patrick deleting his Twitter/X account entirely, as it also drove traffic to their site as well.
 


Few things:

• As a hip hop gym listener, Brass Monkey is indeed annoying. A part of me wants to envision Reusse 7 whiskey & cokes deep just looking around trying to figure out where the music is coming from.
• We've apparently removed all grace and benefit of the doubt from society and always want to burn people at the stake. We haven't changed much as a species since the Roman circus or Salem Witch Trials.
• Reusse is often a jagoff so I don't blame anyone for not taking him seriously here
 




After reading all of the replies, here is my thoughts:
1) The original tweet, without context, is extremely racist. I would assume it is widely known that the term 'monkey' can be used as a racist term. Think of the movie Remember the Titans when Denzel gave the white coach a banana because the white coach called him a monkey.
2) Pat could have easily followed up his tweet with a second tweet providing some context - without context I don't know how anyone could look at it and say it isn't racist. I don't get offended very easily and my first thought was "wow, the old man fell off his rocker."
3) After it has been confirmed that Brass Monkey was indeed played directly before his tweet this turns out to be a big nothing burger.

I guess where I differ from Pat is if I had his platform and tweeted something that was viewed as racist I would quickly explain myself.
 


Yet another example of the stupidity of social media
MNfootballfan said:
After reading all of the replies, here is my thoughts:
1) The original tweet, without context, is extremely racist. I would assume it is widely known that the term 'monkey' can be used as a racist term. Think of the movie Remember the Titans when Denzel gave the white coach a banana because the white coach called him a monkey.
2) Pat could have easily followed up his tweet with a second tweet providing some context - without context I don't know how anyone could look at it and say it isn't racist. I don't get offended very easily and my first thought was "wow, the old man fell off his rocker."
3) After it has been confirmed that Brass Monkey was indeed played directly before his tweet this turns out to be a big nothing burger.

I guess where I differ from Pat is if I had his platform and tweeted something that was viewed as racist I would quickly explain myself.
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Well said. Crap like this is a big part of why I tend to avoid most of the social media platforms like Twitter because they tend to be so toxic.

Sad that the whole thing would have been a nothingburger from the start if Pat had just included the word Brass in front of monkey in his tweet.

You would hope someone like Reusse would be smart enough to actually re-read the tweet before posting it but unfortunately that doesn't seem to be a common practice with things like Twitter. Whole thing could have easily been avoided.

Context definitely matters but in the world of social media it is usually the missing piece that leads to ridiculous over reactions to things that don't warrant it.

I'm not a fan of Reusse but this is clearly not what some are trying to make it out to be.
 



I -hate- Ruesse. Like hate him.

Don’t for one second believe that this is as bad as it looks and he shouldn’t have deleted his account. If you tweet out every thought you have, especially as an old out of touch man, then some of them are going to land poorly.

He deserves benefit of doubt.
 
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hello-world said:
I -hate- Ruesse. Like hate him.

Don’t for one second believe that this is as bad as it looks and he shouldn’t have deleted his account. If you tweet out every thought you have, especially as an old out of touch man, then some of them are going to land poorly.

He deserves benefit of doubt.
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I'm a certified Reusse hater as well, but yeah I think it is clear as day this isn't racist.

Now it wouldn't shock me one bit if Reusse is one of those typical d-bags who grandstand about being progressive and have some closet racism to them, but this tweet is not evidence of that.
 


Gophers1992 said:
I'm a certified Reusse hater as well, but yeah I think it is clear as day this isn't racist.

Now it wouldn't shock me one bit if Reusse is one of those typical d-bags who grandstand about being progressive and have some closet racism to them, but this tweet is not evidence of that.
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I agree and disagree with you. To me, the tweet by itself is very racist. Once context was explained, not from him, it wasn't racist at all.

Like I mentioned a couple of posts ago, a simple follow up of what song was playing. I would guess if you took a random poll more people would think ' ##### monkey rap music' would be used in a derogatory phrase vs. the Beastie Boys' Brass Monkey song.

I am generally a right leaning person, I don't get offended by every little thing, etc and my first thoughts were around 'did he really post this?' and as people were commenting to him he never went back to right the ship. A simple tweet of "I was talking about the Brass Monkey, Funky Monkey song" would have taken any confusion out of it. In 2025, deleting your account is almost the equivalent of admitting guilt.
 

The event which prompted the Reusse Beastie Boys tweet to begin with produced a solid article on the Gopher Baseball team. I had no idea who they had hired to replace Coach Anderson prior to this whole incident.

Ty McDevitt. Best of luck to him.

www.startribune.com

Reusse: Gophers baseball team plans a ‘bulldog’ approach to Big Ten slump-busting

A conversation with coach Ty McDevitt and a look at his team reveal that determination will be sought and required.
www.startribune.com www.startribune.com

The Gopher 9 salvaged the 3rd game of the Series with Purdue after dropping first two.
 
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The best thing to come out of this is that for example, a certain head football coach says something that at first seems a little outlandish and out there, Pat will certainly have learned from his own experience and give the coach the benefit of the doubt instead immediately lashing out to mock and ridicule said coach.
 

MilosRevenge said:
Problem solved. He deleted his account. That never fails.

What a way for it to end.
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After listening to his explanation on SKOR North as to why he went ahead and Deleted his Twitter/X Account, I think it was the completely appropriate action in his best interest.

It is in fact, "problem solved".
 

Ope3 said:
The event which prompted the Reusse Beastie Boys tweet to begin with produced a solid article on the Gopher Baseball team. I had no idea who they had hired to replace Coach Anderson prior to this whole incident.

Ty McDevitt. Best of luck to him.

www.startribune.com

Reusse: Gophers baseball team plans a ‘bulldog’ approach to Big Ten slump-busting

A conversation with coach Ty McDevitt and a look at his team reveal that determination will be sought and required.
www.startribune.com www.startribune.com

The Gopher 9 salvaged the 3rd game of the Series with Purdue after dropping first two.
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There's an all things Gopher baseball thread on the other sports board. Welcome to join the discussion! Can use more peeps!
 

MNfootballfan said:
I agree and disagree with you. To me, the tweet by itself is very racist. Once context was explained, not from him, it wasn't racist at all.

Like I mentioned a couple of posts ago, a simple follow up of what song was playing. I would guess if you took a random poll more people would think ' ##### monkey rap music' would be used in a derogatory phrase vs. the Beastie Boys' Brass Monkey song.

I am generally a right leaning person, I don't get offended by every little thing, etc and my first thoughts were around 'did he really post this?' and as people were commenting to him he never went back to right the ship. A simple tweet of "I was talking about the Brass Monkey, Funky Monkey song" would have taken any confusion out of it. In 2025, deleting your account is almost the equivalent of admitting guilt.
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MNfootballfan said:
After reading all of the replies, here is my thoughts:
1) The original tweet, without context, is extremely racist. I would assume it is widely known that the term 'monkey' can be used as a racist term. Think of the movie Remember the Titans when Denzel gave the white coach a banana because the white coach called him a monkey.
2) Pat could have easily followed up his tweet with a second tweet providing some context - without context I don't know how anyone could look at it and say it isn't racist. I don't get offended very easily and my first thought was "wow, the old man fell off his rocker."
3) After it has been confirmed that Brass Monkey was indeed played directly before his tweet this turns out to be a big nothing burger.

I guess where I differ from Pat is if I had his platform and tweeted something that was viewed as racist I would quickly explain myself.
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I'm not a Reusse fan. I used to be but let's faceit, his writing sucks and has for a decade or maybe more. And he's left to write rambling, less than lucid columns about DIII sports and town team baseball. That is, when he's not trolling reactionaries with outlandish takes or digs at their favorite program. I don't take the bait on that stuff and frankly don't care about his takes, whether sincere or merely trolling. But he used to be great story teller.

Frankly, if anyone were to take his tweet as somehow racist, that says more about the "offended" than it says about Reusse, and really more about a snowflake society than it does about Reusse. Anyone remember the bit a few years ago about the "ok" sign (closed thumb and pointer finger with remaining three digits extended) somehow being a white supremacist sign and other such nonsense? Although I didn't connect the dots to "Brass Monkey" initially, I didn't think anything about monkey as referring to any supposed race (whether performer or listener) who might prefer said style of music.

The supposedly "offended" responders to his tweet would absolutely know that Reusse isn't a racist. They were simply jumping on the old man as retribution for his years of trolling they and their favorite teams.

He should have ignored it and the issue would have gone away. He will undoubtedly find the fish less hungry to take his bait over on bluesky. It seems like a majority of his tweets these days are disparaging the right/MAGA/whatever the kids are calling it these days. I understand bluesky to be a lefty social media enclave. No one to offend over there.
 

MNfootballfan said:
I agree and disagree with you. To me, the tweet by itself is very racist. Once context was explained, not from him, it wasn't racist at all.

Like I mentioned a couple of posts ago, a simple follow up of what song was playing. I would guess if you took a random poll more people would think ' ##### monkey rap music' would be used in a derogatory phrase vs. the Beastie Boys' Brass Monkey song.

I am generally a right leaning person, I don't get offended by every little thing, etc and my first thoughts were around 'did he really post this?' and as people were commenting to him he never went back to right the ship. A simple tweet of "I was talking about the Brass Monkey, Funky Monkey song" would have taken any confusion out of it. In 2025, deleting your account is almost the equivalent of admitting guilt.
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Deleting accounts is about peace of mind and not being attacked by every other person with an opinion.
 

ShushPush said:
Deleting accounts is about peace of mind and not being attacked by every other person with an opinion.
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This topic aside, when you create a social media account under your public identity and publish opinions available for all to read (while also representing yourself as a professional in a particular field, no less), you implicitly accept the consequences of whatever content you put out there. I have zero sympathy for anyone who makes an ass of themselves on social media, regardless of the context or intent of what they post. We've lived in a zero accountability society for far too long and the pendulum needs to swing back.
 

mngg11 said:
This topic aside, when you create a social media account under your public identity and publish opinions available for all to read (while also representing yourself as a professional in a particular field, no less), you implicitly accept the consequences of whatever content you put out there. I have zero sympathy for anyone who makes an ass of themselves on social media, regardless of the context or intent of what they post. We've lived in a zero accountability society for far too long and the pendulum needs to swing back.
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The last non liberal I heard talk about zero accountability was Adolf Hitler. I think I'll pass on judging people whatsoever on accountability. Imagine me the judge of accountability. You would not like my judgements. Science tells me that most people believe in what they say. It is only crazy because we had different life experience. Most of us are complaining about other people because we cannot comprehend that those people don't share our life experience. I certainly don't have your life experience, or I would agree that people have zero accountability. Life experience tells me that they most likely held accountable at some point in their lives. All I have to do is look at divorce rates for confirmation.
 

ShushPush said:
The last non liberal I heard talk about zero accountability was Adolf Hitler. I think I'll pass on judging people whatsoever on accountability. Imagine me the judge of accountability. You would not like my judgements. Science tells me that most people believe in what they say. It is only crazy because we had different life experience. Most of us are complaining about other people because we cannot comprehend that those people don't share our life experience. I certainly don't have your life experience, or I would agree that people have zero accountability. Life experience tells me that they most likely held accountable at some point in their lives. All I have to do is look at divorce rates for confirmation.
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This may be one of the most hyperbolic, nonsensical comments I've ever read on this site.
 

ShushPush said:
The last non liberal I heard talk about zero accountability was Adolf Hitler. I think I'll pass on judging people whatsoever on accountability. Imagine me the judge of accountability. You would not like my judgements. Science tells me that most people believe in what they say. It is only crazy because we had different life experience. Most of us are complaining about other people because we cannot comprehend that those people don't share our life experience. I certainly don't have your life experience, or I would agree that people have zero accountability. Life experience tells me that they most likely held accountable at some point in their lives. All I have to do is look at divorce rates for confirmation.
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Maybe follow Reusse's lead after spewing this nonsense.
 

Gophers1992 said:
I'm a certified Reusse hater as well, but yeah I think it is clear as day this isn't racist.

Now it wouldn't shock me one bit if Reusse is one of those typical d-bags who grandstand about being progressive and have some closet racism to them, but this tweet is not evidence of that.
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What did he ever do to make you guys hate him? Honestly curious. Did you meet him or something?
 



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