Yasiel Puig has great response for Jared Goff’s years-old Twitter diss
In some corners of the Internet, people like to dig up old tweets from public figures at inopportune times for a few seconds of social-media attention. Jared Goff, the Cal quarterback who was chosen No. 1 overall during the first round of the NFL draft Thursday, was caught up in this right after he shook hands with Roger Goodell.
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It wasn’t nearly as disastrous as Laremy Tunsil’s draft-night social media firestorm, but it turns out that a few years ago Goff said he hoped Los Angeles Dodgers star Yasiel Puig would get drilled with a pitch. Goff grew up in Northern California, so this was probably little more than the S.F.-L.A. rivalry at play. Still, when you get drafted by the Los Angeles Rams No. 1 overall, that’s not the finest first impression. Even if it’s a trudged-up old one.
Here’s his tweet:
Really, that’s not a big deal. Even if 2,000 people felt the need to retweet it. We all have dumb things we posted on social media a few years ago. Like when we thought Macklemore wasn’t that bad. More interesting was how Puig would respond. And he did not disappoint.
Between #PuigYourFriend and #PuigNotLate (which he debuted last week), Puig’s hashtag game is ridiculously on point. If someone doesn’t show up the Dodgers game this weekend with a #PuigYourFriend sign, we’re all living wrong.
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