Keppinger claims phone was hijacked after controversial tweet
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Jeff Keppinger, the former journeyman who played for seven teams throughout his meandering nine-year major-league career, claims it wasn't him who sent a (now deleted) racially loaded tweet from his account Wednesday morning.
Nearly four hours after that tweet was sent, the retired 36-year-old claimed someone had hijacked his phone:
Sorry Twitter world!!!!! That last tweet WAS NOT from me! Someone thought it would be funny to go through my phone and write on my Twitter
— Jeff Keppinger (@JKeppinger) May 18, 2016
Keith Law, the ESPN prospect guru who often discusses politics and social issues on Twitter, was among those not buying Keppinger's explanation:
@JKeppinger just own it. There's no way someone grabbed or hacked your phone and tweeted THAT.
— keithlaw (@keithlaw) May 18, 2016