Matt Zimmerman never figured his joke of a tweet at Oakland Coliseum would wind up making him famous. But the A’s, and others, helped the Georgia native pull off a prank of epic proportions Saturday.
Zimmerman detailed his fake break-up tweet in a phone conversation Wednesday from his family home in Norcross, Georgia, just outside of Atlanta.
For starters, Zimmerman said it would be “a total jerk move” and “very cold” for someone to actually dump their significant other in a message delivered by Jumbotron. But since Zimmerman, 21, does not even recollect knowing a Melissa, he is basking in the brouhaha made about his tweets Saturday.