Aubrey Huff Criticizes Protesters, Receives Many Angry Tweets

Former MLB player Aubrey Huff, perhaps most well-known for his role in the San Francisco Giants 2010 World Series run, went full Curt Schilling on Sunday night and incurred the wrath of the coastal elites.

After a weekend filled with protests in airports across America, tensions have been running high on social media. Huff added some fuel to that fire on Sunday night by tweeting out the following:

Oh wait, he has deleted the tweets. The screenshot of the tweets were captured by local Bay Area radio station KNBR.

"“I mean seriously what the hell is going on? If you have time 2 march, protest and riot. Maybe it’s time for something called a job!”"

Fans were furious. One of the current Giants beat writers replied with a pretty solid response in reference to the team’s World Series parade, in which Huff pulled out his rally thong.

That is the political aspect of this article, and it’s worth mentioning that it looks as though Huff has added roughly 2,000 followers since that tweet went out, so there are obviously some out there that agree with him.

The point that I wanted to cover here however, is that Huff, who according to Baseball Reference made over $57MM over his career, had a kickstarter campaign for his soon-to-be-released book. To paraphrase, this multi-million dollar athlete that is complaining on social media about how people should have “real jobs” spend their free time–on a Sunday–was just two months ago asking those same people for $15,000 to help fund his book project.

Yep.

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While that seems pretty shallow, it’s not the whole story, because there were some pretty sweet packages for backers of his kickstarter campaign. For pledging $15, you could get a paperback copy of the book. For $30, you’d get…two copies of the book. $35 got you one signed copy of the book, and if you just start multiply all of those figures, you could even land yourself with two signed copies or three regular copies.

Up at the top level, donors who pledged $200 would get their very own replica rally thong, along with a signed copy of the book and a “thank you” e-mail.

On Monday, Huff called up the San Jose Mercury News for an exclusive interview to both apologize about the previous night’s tweets and to try and explain where he was coming from. You could also throw in that he was trying to save as many potential customers for his book, which doesn’t figure to be on a bestseller list any time soon, by apologizing to the fan base that would be most inclined to purchase said book.

Huff says in his interview with the Mercury News that he is not apologizing because of potential book sales, but instead he doesn’t want the message of the book to be overshadowed by his actions the night before.

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The book is about Huff’s struggles with Adderall and alcohol, and at one point contemplating suicide. I’m willing to give this book a look, because who doesn’t love a good personal triumph story? That said, the way he went about his Twitter rant, considering his standing in society and that he had just been asking for donations for a book, I do not agree with.