Because Twitter is fun and so are graphs, I have tweet volume graphs from my Twitter scraper that collects tweets with the team-specific nicknames and Twitter handles. After a trade (or non-trade), the data can be collected and a graphical picture of the reaction can be produced. The graph represents the volume of sampled tweets that contained the specific keywords: Mets, Gomez, Flores and Hamels. “Tears” is a collection of any tweets which mentioned either “tears” or “crying”, since Flores was in tears as he took the field.
Here are the reactions to the Gomez non-trade and Hamels trade last night:
And here’s the timeline of necessary tweets:
[All times are EDT.]
July 29
9:00 PM
Deal with #Brewers is done pending physicals. Gomez to #Mets
— Joel Sherman (@Joelsherman1) July 30, 2015
Per @Joelsherman1, #Mets getting Carlos Gomez for Wheeler and Flores. Pending review of medicals.
— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) July 30, 2015
9:45 PM
Holy cow. Flores literally has tears in his eyes right now at shortstop.
— Marc Carig (@MarcCarig) July 30, 2015
9:54 PM
Asked official involved with Gomez trade why Flores is still in game. Reply: “No deal is done. The entire world has jumped the gun.”
— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) July 30, 2015
10:15 PM
#Rangers have agreement to acquire Cole Hamels from #Phillies, source confirms to @FOXSports. @Sullivan_Ranger first to report.
— Jon Morosi (@jonmorosi) July 30, 2015
10:55 PM
Alderson just told #Mets’ writers “there is no trade” for Gomez and that a deal “will not transpire.”
— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) July 30, 2015
July 30
12:13 AM
Sources: #Mets backed out of trade due to concern over hip issue with #Brewers’ Gomez.
— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) July 30, 2015
Some of the times were rounded if there wasn’t a clear single tweet that caused the peak on Twitter.