One of the knocks on modern professional athletes is that they’re too removed from the fans, that they live their lives in ivory towers unconcerned with the devotion and concerns of the common man. Recently, however, that’s begun to change. While mainstream journalists still love to pretend that social media is the exclusive domain of basement-dwelling dweebs, many athletes and celebrities have embraced things like blogs and Twitter in order to connect with their fans. Now, plebe and celebrity alike can look like dopes while hunched over their BlackBerries, punching in poorly-written updates on the minutiae of their daily lives.

One such athlete is San Francisco Giants closer Brian Wilson, who discovered the joy of Twitter last month and has been Tweetin’ strong ever since. While most of his updates are predictably banal (he likes linen pants! and Chuck Norris jokes!), a couple of updates from Saturday were pretty interesting indeed.

Over the weekend, the Giants were in Arizona for a three-game series against the Diamondbacks. After winning Saturday’s game 5-3, it’s completely understandable that some of the Giants would want to celebrate, even with a day game coming up Sunday. As Wilson said:

(Mobile web? Dude, you’re a pro athlete. Get a phone with a Twitter app.)

OK, fine, go get crazy (or Krayzee), you’ve earned it. But then, later, Wilson apparently decided to get into it with Scottsdale’s finest douchebags:

Hey, Brian? I’m not your boss or anything, but picking fights with wannabe MMA fighters at 3:18 in the morning before a day game maybe isn’t the best idea. Or, if you’re going to pick fights with wannabe MMA fighters at 3:18 in the morning, it’s best not to broadcast it to the nation. Just a thought.