We’ve seen some pretty strange Twitter beefs over the years, but it might be tough to top Friday night’s throwdown between two unlikely adversaries: The Oakland Athletics and Smash Mouth.
How, might you ask, does a 1990s rock band get into a fight with a Major League Baseball team on Twitter? Well, it all started when Smash Mouth, who hail from the Bay Area, took a shot at the A’s while praising the World Series heroics of former Oakland outfielder Coco Crisp.
Not one to take an insult lying down, the A’s fired back.
Just some old fashioned Twitter fun, right? It was, until both sides cranked up the heat.
As the shots continued, A’s reliever Sean Doolittle did his best to keep the peace.
But no one could stop this runaway train, as Oakland’s feisty Twitter account launched an all-out assault on Smash Mouth.
This isn’t the best look for the A’s, as Smash Mouth just look like avid fans who are disappointed their team is horrible (which, of course, it is — Oakland has 187 losses in its last two seasons). The band even tried to mend fences in its last tweet, but the A’s kept on plowing ahead with more harsh burns.
Doolittle said it best: Why can’t we be friends, guys?
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Screenshots via The Mercury News
