I am extremely excited to announce that I will be conducting a live “twitterview” with Philadelphia Phillies‘ star 2nd baseman and 2008 World Series Champion, Chase Utley at 3:00pm EST on Monday June 1, 2009. We will be discussing how and why athletes are utilizing social media outlets like Twitter and Facebook. You can follow Chase on Twitter @chase_utley.
Topics will include marketing, branding, the power of social media and obviously some baseball talk. I will be picking Chase’s brain about the benefits and even goals athletes may have by embracing their fans and the world through social media. Chase is a complete rockstar in Major League Baseball and carries himself with a style and flair that I both appreciate and admire. He understands image and branding unlike few professional athletes. This should be an awesome twitterview!
Get involved! Chime in!
Feel free to direct any pertinent questions you’d like me to ask Chase to @johnraser (both @replies and DM’s are fine) or simply comment below. You can also chime in live through tweetchat.com. Room: #utleychat
Tags: Baseball, branding, Chase Utley, facebook, John Raser, marketing, MLB, Philadelphia Phillies, social media, twitter
Why am I 2-3 vs Zack Grienke life time ( In Highschool) and he gets 3.75 million and is dominating everyone in baseball and i dont get anything for being 2-3 vs him?
How easy is it to get ladies by being a MLB player. and at how many at the same time
What do you do to keep in shape in the off season
How does other players around the league feel about Manny and his drugs
After winning the world series, what else would you like to accomplish in baseball.
If you can play for any other team besides the phillies, what team and why?
Chase, what other position in baseball would you like to try out if you couldn’t play 2nd? And you can’t say SS.
Chase Utley has no knowledge of this chat. Why are you pretending to interview him?
I hate to burst your bubble, but Chase Utley doesn’t have a twitter account.
This question is for whoever John Raser is: John, how does it feel knowing you had a completely pointless conversation with someone pretending to be Chase Utley today?
via zozone.mlblogs.com
To anybody who uses Twitter: the only Phillies who have Twitter accounts are Chad Durbin, Jamie Moyer’s Moyer Foundation and the Phillies. That’s it. That means no other players, coaches, managers or broadcasters.
So, no, Utley does not Twitter. I’m only pointing that out because Utley apparently is doing a Twitterview today with golfer John Raser. Except the real Utley knows nothing about it. I figured this out when a) it mentioned Utley’s bogus Twitter account and b) when it said Utley is going to be discussing “marketing, branding, the power of social media and obviously some baseball talk. I will be picking Chase’s brain about the benefits and even goals athletes may have by embracing their fans and the world through social media.” If you’ve ever interviewed Utley, you know it’s like pulling teeth. I couldn’t imagine Utley talking about “marketing, branding and the power of social media,” much less via Twitter.
Yo, Raser, you might be Twitterviewing somebody today, but it won’t be Utley.
Thanks to everyone for pointing out the red flags. Boy, did I get played!
Follow up post: “The Dangers of Social Media: Posers, Pranksters & PR Problems”: http://bit.ly/dW7gA