When it comes to Twitter feuds, we’ve seen a lot of weird ones in the past few months.
There was the Eagles and Redskins going at it over Kirk Cousins, Roy Halladay and Roger Clemens squabbling about steroid use and Jim Harbaugh is always there to throw gas on the Twitter fire.
We recently saw one of the stranger Twitter battles unfold. It was between Luke Bowanko, an offensive lineman for the Jacksonville Jaguars, and the Durham Bulls, the AAA affiliate of the Tampa Bay Rays. The back-and-forth was over the ACC Baseball tournament and its location, the Durham Bulls Athletic Park.
It all started with Bowanko complaining to the ACC about the park. Bowanko was cheering on Virginia, his alma mater.
In the Bulls’ defense the stadium holds 10,000 people and Baseball America ranked it one of the 10 best “Ballparks in the Minors.”
The ACC backed off while the Bulls’ Twitter account went on the offensive.
The Bulls are correct. Durham has won 13 league titles since in the team’s 100-plus year history. Jacksonville, meanwhile, has only made six playoff appearances in its 21-year history. None of those appearances have come since Bowanko was drafted by the Jags in the sixth round of the 2014 NFL Draft.
But of course, Bowanko couldn’t help but take a shot back at the Bulls.
The brouhaha quickly came to an end when Durham fired back strong.
Bowanko took the jabbing well, thankfully.
It was a strange fight but an entertaining one. Hopefully, the Bulls’ effort will allow more minor league teams to stand up for themselves in the future.