By Jeff Moss
DetroitSportsRag@GMail.com
August 8, 2016

If you are a regular follower of the DSR, you probably are already aware that we don’t take kindly to anonymous Twitter trolls who viciously attack this website behind a veil of secrecy.

Whether they work for the Tigers’ grounds crew or are St. Louis Blues fans mocking the devasating limo crash injuries to Vladimir Konstaninov and Sergei Mnatsakanov or some redneck from Georgia insulting my wife’s reproductive system, we always fight back with a vengeance.

By this point, you’d think these douche bags concealing their true identity would give up this charade of lobbing bombs at me since we have a batting average of 1.000 when it comes to uncovering and exposing these Internet cowards.

But the attacks have continued unabated, which means today will probably be the greatest cautionary tale of why, if you are going to come at me or this website, you should do so UNDER YOUR OWN NAME. Because when we eventually unearth your pathetic existence, it’s not pretty.

This LONG story goes back a few years. A lunatic with a Twitter handle of “@mgoblue49341” was anonymously attacking me for months back in 2013, culminating in this guy Tweeting out Google Earth images of my house accompanied with a death threat ….

At the time, our investigative team figured out the moron who was threatening me was a West Michigan resident by the name of Timothy Winkler. Naively, I didn’t take the “bullet in my head” threat seriously; I probably should have contacted the authorities.

I won’t be making that mistake again. And after this three-part expose is posted, I will probably preemptively contact the authorities.

Not only did this psychopath threaten to off me, he had also attempted to “out” Detroit News sportswriter Tony Paul as a gay man through social media. Keep in mind, this was a good year and a half before Paul announced to the world on WXYZ’s “Sports Cave” program that he was indeed a homosexual.

This was a despicable asshat who eventually deleted that “@mgoblue49341” account once I discovered his identity. Because he was using information about me that he gleaned from the Internet in his attacks, I responded accordingly by mocking the physical appearance of his then-girlfriend and baby’s mama.

(I have always believed in “an eye for a liver.”)

What was hilarious about this situation was that when I found his ex’s Facebook page, there were public messages from acquaintances of Winkler begging his baby’s mama to let Winkler know they were looking for him because Winkler owed them money.

Anyway, after I bombed Winkler, he disappeared for about a year and 86’d that account.  And then he popped up on Twitter under the name “@Tigers4Everrr” with the same M.O. of ripping me for the same garbage so it wasn’t that hard to put 2 and 2 together.

I eventually called him out again as being Tim Winkler from Rockford, Michigan and he deleted that Twitter account too.

And that was the last I thought I would ever hear from this insane fuck. But then a few months ago a new Twitter account was created for apparently the sole purpose of carrying out a vendetta against me. This time the DSR trolling account went by the handle “@jsmith72413” and the supposed name of this user was “Mike Perrin.”

Here is a sampling of Winkler’s messages, which include the “N” word among other atrocities  ….

And then were Winkler’s attacks on Lansing radio host Ryan Schuiling for having me on his show for weekly segments ….

So much time had passed since our initial encounters that I basically had forgotten about Winkler. So when this new account sprouted up challenging my number of Twitter followers and my “legitimacy,” while constantly bombing me for all my takes, I didn’t even contemplate that it could be was the West Michigan Wack Job.

This time, Winkler went to extreme measures to conceal his identity. He created a backstory for this “Mike Perrin” that was chock full of lies and fraudulent claims. He was a successful attorney with three kids and a $600,000 mortgage. He played college football at Grand Valley State. He had some African-American heritage. He graduated from U of M Law School.

And he claimed THIS was his wife …

The psycho was throwing so much misdirection at us that it was akin to trying to chase down Barry Sanders on a run where his offensive line got blown up in the trenches. Hell, he went as far to make up stories about his legal cases (he’s not a lawyer) and children he does not have.

For the last couple of months, a small group of DSR loyalists attempted to glean any clues from “Mike Perrin’s” account but the amount of misinformation was so staggering that our crack crew couldn’t overcome it.

And the dipshit knew his web of lies would make him undiscoverable which, in turn, led to him taunting us …..

And we might never have exposed this fraudulent fuck because, after hours and hours of digging, all we had come up with is dead end after dead end. At one point, some signs pointed to an attorney with the initials J.L. being the culprit. Then we were almost convinced that “Mike Perrin” was a Ft. Wayne barrister who had graduated from U of M and attended GVSU.

I was actually on the verge of calling this poor guy from Ft. Wayne to confront him about the Twitter account in question when something remarkable occurred.

The same thing that has been bringing down men for thousands and thousands of years. The thought of new pussy ….

Yep, DSR first-ballot Hall of Famer Miranda McCoy did the dirty work in uncovering “jsmith72413’s” real name. Miranda has a tremendous affection for this website due to the DSR exposing Drew Sharp as a plagiarist in connection to a story iSportsweb’s David Harns wrote about her Connor Cook fandom which blossomed while rehabilitating from a car accident that left her in a quadriplegic condition.

And I didn’t even ask her to do it!!! The legend took it upon herself to engage with “Mike Perrin” through Direct Message on Twitter after Winkler tagged her in yet another attack on me.

And within about 72 hours, McCoy had accomplished something that the entire DSR staff had been failing to do for MONTHS. She procured his phone number. She asked him to send photos of himself. She baited him into taking a Snapchat picture so there could be no confusion as to whether we were dealing with the same dude in the gallery photos. And she even tantalized him into sexting with her.

Okay, none of the rest of us had attempted to do that over the last few weeks, but even though Miranda said she wanted to vomit from his DMs, she was successful nonetheless.

As I stated earlier in this article, there is way too much information and photographic evidence to include in one post. It would be overwhelming to devour it all in one sitting.

Part II is coming tomorrow and focus on Winkler’s at first creepy and then disturbing Tweets to Miranda.

Part III will cover both Winkler’s attempt through email to tell me that I was being framed and “Mike Perrin’s” Twitter messages alerting me to the fact that he was working in cahoots with powerful members of the Detroit media to take me down.

(You can follow the writer of this piece on Twitter @JeffMossDSR. Also, you can join in on the discussion of this article on Facebook by clicking here. FINALLY, and MOST IMPORTANTLY, if you’d like to donate to Miranda McCoy’s preferred charity — The Shriners Hospital for Children, you can do so by clicking here.)