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Jim Traber has quit Twitter, may have been catfished and needs to control his wife…
Feb 11
2013
This will not be your typical edition of the Monday Morning Tweets. We will not feature strange tweets from Dean Blevins, awkward conversations with Linda Cavanaugh, and random exclamation points from Regular Jim Traber. This is because Traber deleted his Twitter account and Linda and Dean are just as stunned as we are.
The story and mystery surrounding this development is very bizarre. On Saturday night, because I have an awesome social life, I combed through Twitter and looked for tweets I could use for this week’s post. For whatever reason I decided to pick Traber’s first. The most recent tweet was about one minute old. It was sent by his wife, Julie. And it wasn’t very f-cking nice.
Check it out:
Yeah, Jim Traber’s wife sent a pissed-off, jealous tweet from his account to one of his followers. I swear when I saw that my eyes did one of those things like in the cartoons where they bulge completely out of my head. After I picked my jaw up off the floor, I grabbed a screen shot and texted Patrick a link. By that time, it had already been deleted. It was either insane luck or divine intervention that I happened to be looking at his account at that exact moment.
Shortly after the tweet from Jules, @Sportsgrl4Me replied:
We’re not sure if she was genuinely confused or just playing dumb, and we may never know. Before we had a chance to contact her, @Sportsgrl4Me deleted her account.
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The identity of @Sportsgrl4Me was and still is a mystery. There was no name associated with the account and it had only 123 tweets. A lot of those tweets were conversations with Jim. They seemed benign enough. Here are some of screenshots we were able to capture:
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And this is the point where Julie sent her tweet:
Then to make this story weirder, Traber deleted his Twitter account. This was the same account he promoted constantly on the Sports Animal. He would brag about how many followers he had and how many people he blocked. He used it to flirt with Hunter Mahan and Bo Van Pelt. And he deleted it just as quickly as he would a bowl of turkey soup.
So what’s going on here?
My first instinct is that Traber was catfished by someone who’s not good at catfishing. @Sportsgrl4Me posted no pictures of herself, her avatar was of a Yankees t-shirt covering two large breasts, and almost all of her tweets were sports-themed and directed at Jim Traber, Dean Blevins, Mark Rodgers, various athletes, and the Twitter accounts of the Land Thieves and Thunder Obsessed message boards. If not a catfish account, she was one of the biggest jersey chasers around.
Still, that doesn’t explain Julie Traber’s reaction and the sudden deletion of Jim’s Twitter account. Did Sportsgrl4Me and Jim exchange some DMs? Did she ask how to break in a baseball mitt? Did he offer to show her his colostomy bag? Something had to happen, right? Why else would Julie go off and send what she probably assumed was a DM?
Anyway, we’ll probably never know the full story. Jim’s probably coming up with a good lie to tell as you’re reading this. “Don’t f-cking contact my husband again” may go down as one of the great unsolved mysteries of our time, standing alongside Stonehenge, the Black Dahlia murder and why Ted’s is so popular.
What a foul mouthed little strumpet. I thought a women of such radio professed “faith” would refrain from such exclamations of filth… Tsk… Tsk… I remember, in my collegiate days, delivering foodstuffs to her at her place of employment, which if I recall correctly was a multimedia company who specialized in fleecing mega churches out of mega bucks for mega projectors. Not surprised that two huge hypocrite land manatees of the strip mall would end up finding true 2nd marriage love…
Little here little sister!!! How did you expect her to react? If someone is flirting with your partner, what would be your instinct. I mean I played in the bigs! This happened to Cal all the time, have you met his wife…NO! Geeeezzzzz Why don’t you liberals all gather in a circle and pass around your partners like weed. Why don’t you come on down to Big Red Sports and Imports and tell me to my face? Cowards! Well I run, these ball gloves aren’t going to shape themselves….shaping the minds!
Little here little sister!!! How did you expect her to react? If someone is flirting with your partner, what would be your instinct. I mean I played in the bigs! This happened to Cal all the time, have you met his wife…NO! Geeeezzzzz Why don’t you liberals all gather in a circle and pass around your partners like weed. Why don’t you come on down to Big Red Sports and Imports and tell me to my face? Cowards! Well I run, these ball gloves aren’t going to shape themselves….shaping the minds!
Crap..I repeated this twice. Damn it I don’t understand technology. Al how do I do this, Al? Where Dean? Gideon can you help me out? Back to da phones….
You are correct. I dated someone who worked for Julie’s company ca. 1998 and that’s exactly what she did– found huge mega-churches to buy expensive projectors so they could project the lyrics to bland Christian Lite pop tunes during contemporary worship services.
Her daughter use to tell me that they skipped out of church before the collection plate was passed….lol and on the way to church Jim sang church songs. This was the only reference of religion that ever happened in their house. Sunday and Sunday only…..
Question-did Julie delete her account?
This is so Hilare– it is ridic!!!!!!!!
I wonder if cardboard julie traber would use such language if she found out cardboard jim traber was messaging some twitter floozie.
What a great get. You guys are better reporters than the entire Oklahoman staff combined. Can’t wait to hear Traber at 2pm…..
+1!!!
With the announcement of Pope Benedict resigning, is there another way to take this except… Sportsgrl4Me was really a dummy twitter account of the Pope? why else we he choose now to resign? did Julie Traber just throw the entire Catholic world into upheaval?
@ 7:30 PM – 9 Feb 13
Jules…you know I tell everyone how lucky I am and how beautiful you are. Jules, Jules, Jules…
Option 1:
Jim’s contract was coming up, they needed something to ensure the numbers would be big on the show on 2/11 as they were negotiating a new contract. Jim had his buddy the Pope set up a fake twitter account, who didn’t realize just how serious this situation would be, and has to resign. Now the plan is really messed up, Jim doesn’t know what to do on his show this afternoon, but knows he will have some big numbers as he knows The Lost Ogle will get the story and everybody will be tuning in. This is his big chance.
Option 2
Jim and Julie are at the food court, Julie asks for Jim’s phone. Jim stupidly gives it to her while he is looking at his Twitter account, which is what he always does on his phone. Julie sees something on Jim’s Twitter account that sets her into a jealous rage (nobody is going to share HER man!). She indeed sends the tweet from his phone. Jim immediately deletes it, but not in time for the eagle-eyed TLO reporters. Julie then grabs the phone back from Jim, and says, “oh yeah, delete my post…I’ll delete your Twitter account, and hits a couple of keys.
Jim goes into a panic, Julie calmly says “on the show today just say your account was hacked, it worked for Mary Fallin, and it was all just a big mistake.” Jim smiles at his wife. She adds “and everybody will tune in today and you’ll get that big new contract.” Jim then says, “I should have come to you first Julie, that plan Benny and I came up just went horribly horribly wrong.” Fade to black
thumbs up!
Yeah Baby!!
It’s obvious to me that @Sportsgrl4Me is frequent caller Maggie
“Hey Big Daddy…”
hahahahahahaha I turn the channel every time I hear that lady’s voice. “hey bid daddy, hold on while i light another pack of cigarettes…”
+1
He/She never sent me a DM I feel sad now
It seems that neither Jim or Jules Traber has a strong grasp of how the Twitter/the internet works, ending with hilarious results.
The bright side is that, along with Vanity Perkins, we may have the first stars of the new ‘Real Housewives of OKC’.
Great pitch for a show, but we will need to have Christina Fallin married up again so she can qualify…..Vanity, Jules, Christina Fallin………..and Sally Kern!
winner
I like it, except no man is capable of turning a Fallin into a housewife. (Sorry, couldn’t resist.)
And Kern thinks housewives are only good for child rearin’ and fighting teh gay agenda.
Let’s all trade stories of how we got blocked. Jim was criticizing some international organization meeting Obama went to, I tweeted to him that he should stick to baseball mitts and leave foreign policy to experts. He promptly blocked me, “bye.” Memories, memories…
Also deleted: “I want the whole twitter sphere to know a whore lives @sportsgirl! Hello, is this the man who runs twitter? I would like you to know that you have a whore living @sportsirl! Find your own damn man!”
What probably happened is she’s a fatty chaser like Julie and she DM’d him to inquire about sharing a Mazzio’s piping hot calzone with all the toppings. Julie sees this and makes him delete his account.
I used to work for Julie and color me not surprised. One day
Jim came in and started screaming at all of us saying that we weren’t doing a good enough and to get back on the phones. Then proceeded to go to the sales board and scribble all over it. It was awesome a real motivator.
Christian, my ass. I have never been so unhappy as I was when I worked there as well.
Great. Now I have visions of Jim giving the “Always Be Closing” speech.
How long after a twitter account is deleted can you nab the name? Because it would be awesome for a ghostwriter to just go on with business as usual @jimtraber like nothing happened. And yes, that’s me volunteering.
This needs to happen.
someone already nabbed it but @jimttraber is available
If I saw this unfold on twitter, I would feel almost as creeped out/fortunate as everybody’s mutual friend who worked in the emergency room the night Bill Mathis came in.
lol…..this is be nice to small animals week….
Worked there too. Can’t say it was that bad…
He’s a creepo. He messaged me one day after one of my thunder tweets was retweeted by Ibaka… Asking me which girl I was in my profile pic, etc. I then threw him under a bus saying I went to college with his DAUGHTER and for him to tell her hi for me. Gross.
Seriously? We need proof.
What a sicko!
I hope this is true
I feel dirty even defending him, but could he have just been asking who to see if it was perhaps someone who he knew was a friend of his daughter?
please tell me you can find these tweets and somehow post them on here…
It looks like he’s back already:
https://twitter.com/jamesjtraber
Best report ever.
Flirty Jim doesn’t surprise me. I have been told of multiple times when my wife has seen him out in public and it was obvious that he was that old creepy dude that wanted to make sure he was always “ending up in the same grocery store aisle as her” or “purposely getting right behind her in line.”
He had 2 callers I heard (around 3:30-45 I believe) asking about it. His response was “I realized I was spending too much time on there and need to spend more time w my family. My kids, wife, grandson…” “…It had consumed my life…” No matter what happened, it’s a lil sketchy.
He was going on a rant about how un-racist he was and how he loves quote “black music and BBQ chicken” and I told him that was a pretty racist comment. Next thing I knew “SEEEEE YAAAAAA”
He’s got me blocked because I asked him why he brags so much on his step daughters and never on his own son that came from his loins!
Over/under percentage on @sportsgrl04u being Janie? 99% sure. She is always CREEPY with him!
That’s right ladies and gentlemen, put your children in front of the twitter and they will LEARN! and by a morally corrupt individual I might add.