Astros' Lance McCullers Gets Into NSFW Twitter Fight Over Stealing Signs and Deletes His Tweets
By Chris Russo

Goodness, this one is a real mess.
Houston Astros pitcher Lance McCullers responded to some Twitter criticism over the team's alleged sign stealing against the New York Yankees in Game 1 of the ALCS, hitting Ken Rosenthal with a few hilarious GIFs before the wheels came off.
When prodded by a troll, it became more of a rant than a response, leading to some swift deletion of all the evidence.
Had Lance McCullers so rattled, dude had to explain his whole life story to me in a tweet ?? pic.twitter.com/tknKyRDtYt
— Stop N’ Pop Podcast (@stopnpop_nba) October 17, 2019
At first, McCullers made what seemed like a pretty tame and somewhat funny observation by reminding everyone Masahiro Tanaka helped lead the Yankees to a shutout victory during the game packed with supposed cheating.
The mess began not long after that.
When an NBA podcast's Twitter account chirped at McCullers with a bit of profanity, accusing him of cheating at various other times in the past, that's when the young Astro, who's currently out for the entire season, lost it.
I’m Lance McCullers Jr. and I approve this message. https://t.co/4TStnIaukp pic.twitter.com/PWxJd8Rdc9
— Lance McCullers Jr. (@LMcCullers43) October 14, 2019
McCullers highlighted some of his career accomplishments and the ages at which he achieved them before sarcastically calling himself a scrub in all caps, and adding some NSFW language to the mix. He also bragged about recovering from his surgery, and even referred to the St. Louis Cardinals' hacking controversy. Truly, a tweet with something for everyone.
It's not the first time McCullers has faced the "haters," considering the acronym in another one of his NSFW tweets earlier this month.
?❄️ #SIUEFA #Grinding pic.twitter.com/Db2qhtmQxZ
— Lance McCullers Jr. (@LMcCullers43) October 11, 2019
Yes, that stands for "Shove it Up Everyone's"--well, you get the picture.
McCullers also probably regretted his words to this not-well-followed podcast, considering he deleted the entire sequence of tweets less than an hour after he sent them. But the Internet is forever!