Twitter isn't always kind to athletes and the Cleveland Indians were the latest to learn about that as members of the team recently read mean tweets about themselves from Twitter.
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It's become a popular activity ever since Jimmy Kimmel started the trend by having celebrities read mean tweets about themselves on his talk show.
MLB.com posted the video of some of the players from the Indians reading mean tweets about themselves and here are some highlights:
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Catcher Yan Gomes: "Yan Gomes is the worst catcher in MLB. What a waste of money."
Pitcher Scott Atchison: "Scott Atchinson of the Indians looks like a 47-year-old guy they found hanging out at a bar."
Second baseman Jason Kipnis: "Does someone want to tell Jason Kipnis to stop eating & start hitting #Indians."
Kipnis replied, "Why not both?" as he took a bite of some food with a smug look on his face.
Kipnis even got a shot in at teammate Nick Swisher:
"@NickSwisher get off my tv set, I'm trying to watch the World Series. #MuteButton."
It wasn't the only time Swisher was targeted.
"Nick Swisher is getting a second opinion on his knee," one user wrote. "The first opinion is he sucks."
Staff ace and 2015 AL Cy Young Award winner Corey Kluber also got in a nice rebuttal.
"So...Corey Kluber is garbage," one tweet read.
Kluber retorted: "You're garbage."
Third baseman Lonnie Chisenhall was also mentioned quite a few times.
"Royals winning. Tigers losing. Mariners losing. Lonnie Chisenhall sucks," one tweet read.
The Indians are coming off of a 2014 campaign that saw the team finish 85-77 and in third place in the AL Central, failing in their quest to make the playoffs in back-to-back seasons for the first time since 1998-99.
Cleveland opens up the 2015 campaign with a visit to the Houston Astros next Monday.
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