Meet the naughtily-named fan who goaded Ken Rosenthal into baseball Twitter lore

The antagonist at the center of one of baseball Twitter’s most juvenile skirmishes speaks with the remnants of a Texas drawl. He tells dad jokes and laughs easily, as he did when he answered the telephone the night before Thanksgiving and explained that he had just been “arguing with Mrs. Sugar Penis.”“It’s still brought up a couple times a week,” said Brian Thomas, a 53-year-old engineer and devout fan of the Texas Rangers, who is known more widely by his notorious nom de Twitter, @MrSugarPenis.To a tiny subset of Very Online baseball fans, the risqué handle needs no further elaboration. It was nine years ago when Thomas scrolled through his timeline and came across a Tweet promoting a column he found to be nonsensical. It was penned by the prominent national baseball writer, Ken Rosenthal.What followed was the kind of brief, snarky and hilarious exchange that has made users nostalgic for Twitter’s good ol’ days — or, perhaps more accurately, the slightly less cesspooley ol’ days — before the service’s future became a source of consternation following its purchase by billionaire Elon Musk. Rosenthal, at the time writing for Fox Sports, thought that he landed a knockout blow when he
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