Professional ballplayers posting on BTF
From Wiki Gonzalez
Q. Have there actually been professional ballplayers posting on BTF?
A. Yes, there have been a few.
Chad Bradford Wannabe is a retired minor-league pitcher who posts most consistently on the site (indeed, he was posting while he was an active player). His posts and articles are almost always worth a read.
Dick Mills, a pitcher who briefly appeared in the big leagues with the Red Sox in 1970, stopped by CBW's Bullpen Mechanics blog on April 26, 2007 to comment on CBW's analysis of Tim Lincecum.
Mike Colbern, a Catcher-DH-Lunatic for the White Sox during the 1978-79 seasons, has come on a few times to rant about the death of Doug Pappas, and sent Repoz some of the most disturbing emails ever deleted.
Former Blue Jays farmhand James Pidutti has contributed to a few threads, most memorably in the how much do minor league players get paid thread of November 8, 2001.
Andrew Paul, a former pitcher in the Brewers system, has made a few intermittent posts under the handle Torn_cuff, particularly in this Diablos' future in doubt thread of May 24, 2004.
Morgan Ensberg posted once on a thread linking to his blog post on unwritten rules.
Of course, there may be other professional players hiding behind Primate handles.
Major league players known to post on Internet message boards in their spare time include Curt Schilling (on Sons of Sam Horn and his own 38 Pitches blog), Carlos Beltran (on the Royals board at MLB.com), and Dustin Hermanson (on an earlier version of the scout.com message boards).
A person who claimed to be Creighton Gubanich, a Red Sox catcher memorable for hitting a grand slam in his first MLB at-bat before beginning to fade into obscurity with his second at-bat, once spent several days defending Nolan Ryan's honor on the Rob Neyer message board.
