Youth coach mistakenly rips Mike Trout's swing, earns Twitter infamy – Orange County Register

Ryan Wargel, who coaches teenage baseball players in Evansville, Indiana, was flipping through videos of kids whose swings he didn’t like. He was going through so quickly that he didn’t notice the one that wasn’t a kid at all. A few replies later, Wargel was on his way to Twitter infamy as the “Coach Who Shredded Mike Trout’s Swing.” Rather than simply deleting his Tweets or claiming that he was just being sarcastic – like almost all of the other replies to the Tweet asking for critiques of the unnamed player – Wargel fell on his sword. The good-natured way he handled it all apparently earned him some points with Trout, who later on Monday sent his team a shipment of baseball gear. “I tell my guys all the time, ‘Own up to your mistakes,’” Wargel said by phone on Monday. “Don’t back down from something. Own up to your mistakes. So I wasn’t going to sit back and say this never happened.” Wargel’s ability to cheerfully accept the fun at his expense led to his Tweets going viral, which he figured might have a silver lining. If people on Twitter clicked on his account and saw more information on…
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