I strongly agree except for the part about hating Reusse. His humor has always played well with me. That said, Twitter isn't everyone's cup of tea and neither is Patrick Reusse. However, if you use it and follow not just Reusse, but many other sports reporters, you'd see that off the cuff comments like this are par for the course with the context understood by the reader as humorous. I’ll add that Twitter isn’t meant to be digested one Tweet at a time and isn’t a platform in which journalism standards and practices apply 100% of the time. Opinion and humor abound just as with talk radio or in casual conversation.
Regarding what Reusse wrote, the first half of last night's game was, to paraphrase another Strib writer, a crime against basketball. It truly was the worst half of Gopher basketball I can ever remember seeing and if it wasn't, the contenders can be counted on one hand. So in response, Reusse wisecracked that Jones and Vaughn had dropped interest in the U of M, and then added that the fans ought to be embarrassed for cheering such abjectly poor basketball. The first point was clearly a joke and an amusing one at the time considering the circumstances. I didn't take the second point as him ripping Gopher fans as much as editorializing about the low quality of the performance. I truly think this is much ado about nothing.
