Karma is not just a Female Dog. It’s apparently a Female RiverDog.
Robert Refsnyder, the former University of Arizona outfielder and Most Outstanding Player of the 2012 College World Series, has a new home – one he swore he’d NEVER have – South Carolina.
Just hours after the Wildcats defeated the University of South Carolina in the CWS, preventing the Gamecocks’ third consecutive baseball national championship, Refsnyder tweeted, “I will never live in south (sic) Carolina because they can’t accept Asians playing baseball.”
While it is unknown if they Yankees’ fifth round draft pick deleted the insulting missive on his own, at the urging of the University of Arizona, or at the insistence of his new pinstriped employer, the tweet disappeared shortly after its initial post. Also unknown is what spurred his tirade against the Palmetto State.
It didn’t take long for an apologetic post to appear on his now protected Twitter account, either.
“Thank you for everyone covering college baseball, meant the world to everyone in Omaha! South Carolina’s ball club was nothing but class,” he wrote.
He later replied to one Twitter follower stating, “@NAME WITHHELD poor judgement (sic) on my part I apologize, nothing but respect for south carolina and ray tanner.”
Deleted tweet or not, he is going to go exactly where he said he wouldn’t.
When you’re drafted by the Yankees (or anyone else), you live where you’re told, and according to the Charleston RiverDogs (the Class A affiliate of the New York Yankees), that’s what Refsnyder is expected to do later this week as he prepares to start is professional baseball career in Charleston.
There’s no timeline for Refsnyder’s stint with the Holy City’s ball club.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Welcome to South Carolina, Rob. Hopefully, it won’t take you long to realize what South Carolina is really about. Somebody buy him a glass of sweet tea on me.




