By Jeff Moss
DetroitSportsRag@GMail.com
August 9, 2016

(This is Part III in a three-part series exposing longtime DSR Twitter Troll Tim Winkler. You can read Part I here and Part II here. Today’s entry will complete the disturbing trilogy.)

Look, I get why there are people on the Internet (and in real life) who don’t like me. Hell, I understand why some of you loathe me. I am not everyone’s cup of tea. I am outspoken about my Detroit sports opinions, my political views and my disdain for organized religion.

I can be downright nasty to the media in this town and I totally comprehend how that can rub some folks the wrong way. Which is why I have zero issue with users on Twitter and Facebook dishing out some of my own medicine to me when I offend them or when they think I post something idiotic.

What I will not tolerate is when that is done anonymously. Come at me in your own name and I have no issue with you. That doesn’t mean I am going to just sit there and take your critique or abuse, but at least we are on a somewhat LEVEL PLAYING FIELD.

I don’t rip anyone without @JeffMossDSR or my byline behind it. All I ask is that you do the same. And if you don’t, you will get what we had here this week, which is the way Tim Winkler wants it.

Well, he gets it.

When I last left you, the DSR had positively figured out the identity of Twitter user @jsmith72413 thanks to Miranda McCoy’s Snapchat app, MLive.com’s West Michigan birth announcements and my Private Investigator confirming Winkler’s cell phone number.

When this all went down last Wednesday night and I had the idea of writing one long article regarding Winkler’s abhorrent behavior. I had zero plan to make this an epic until Thursday afternoon…when I started receiving emails from Winkler himself!!!!

I am going to post the entire email exchange between Winkler and myself and will sprinkle in some commentary along the way. At this point I knew I had the dumbfuck dead to rights and only engaged him for comedic effect and for your benefit.

Just pay attention to the utter desperation in these messages from this dipshit who never thought he’d get caught.

 

According to my private investigator, Winkler is not married. His daughter’s mother is getting messages from people informing her that I am posting pictures of her on Twitter? I only have around 17,000 followers. I am not Kim Kardashian or Ashton Kutcher.

We were in a pontoon until 11 with neighbors. “In a pontoon” is going down in DSR lore. Did you see the Tigers game last night, Bob? Nope. Was in a pontoon. “In a pontoon” is the new “How About Blocked.”

That Twitter thing. Never sent a photo from that app. I don’t know this “Wink” dude. Purposely misspelling his daughter’s name. As DSR contributor JumPete stated after reviewing all of these materials, “This guy is doing the worst Phil Hartman ‘Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer’ impression ever.”

“Me don’t know this thing you call Instagram. Me in pontoon boat.”

So his friend has the Twitter handle “@michiganfanok.” That’s the person who told Winkler about what was going down? This person hasn’t Tweeted since November of 2014 and DOES NOT FOLLOW ME on Twitter!!!

And this is what I perceived to be a threat from Winkler. Because as far as my PI can tell, he still lives in the West Michigan area.

Glen Oaks. 14 Mile. This was Winkler’s clever way of telling me that he knows where I live.

And as Winkler promised, I did hear from his attorney.  It shouldn’t come as a shock that Timothy knew an officer of the court considering this dude has a rap sheet longer than Kevin Durant’s wingspan. But we will get to that momentarily.

First, here is the letter I received from Michael Huff of the law firm Mika Meyers on Monday evening:

Yeah, that traction (Sal Governale) isn’t coming. In fact, we received even further confirmation that the phone number Winkler was using to text Miranda was indeed his. (If AT & T’s info weren’t already sufficient).

Furthermore, AFTER Winkler knew he was busted…he CHANGED HIS NUMBER!!!!

I will not divulge the source of that information in this article. But I will definitely tell Winkler’s attorney and former Oakland Raiders first-round draft pick Michael Huff if he’d like to know.

If this goes to court — it won’t — I will be happy to have Miranda as a witness versus Huff’s client. Because Winkler is a habitual criminal. And that’s not defamation, that’s the facts, Jack.

If you are a layman like myself, some of that information is a little confusing. I am not an attorney — and I don’t pretend to be one on Twitter — so I requested that the DSR Legal Dream Team summarize that laundry list of convictions ….

Wow. The highlight of that entire SHITSHOW might be the time he got arrested twice within two days in separate jurisdictions. Excuse me now while I go and hire a professional bodyguard.

I wonder if George Jefferson’s is still available.

Rats, just found out that Hugo died.

Anyway, there was some humor that did come out of all this turmoil.

You see, “Mike Perrin” only had 80 followers. But ONE of them was Detroit News baseball writer Lynn Henning. And it’s not like Henning follows a ton of accounts. 644 is a pretty reasonable number and yet ONE of those 644 was this career criminal.

And why would Henning follow Winkler? Because that senile loon hates me so much that he’d align himself with an unstable maniac who has multiple domestic assault convictions. I am pretty sure Henning would abandon all of his principles and vote for Donald Trump if he thought the GOP nominee would delete my Twitter account.

Don’t believe me? The pair were basically pen-pals. Click this link to see the entirety of their correspondence.

 

Think about this for a moment. Lynn Henning followed “Mike Perrin.” And then messaged him about ME being a guy who uses bogus accounts to spread his toxins!!!!! You can’t make this shit up.

The other humorous part of the fallout from discovering “Mike Perrin’s” true identity occurred on the day before Winkler deleted his account when Winkler bombed Martin Shkreli.

You might remember Shkreli as the pharmaceutical entrepreneur who made news by drastically raising the price of an HIV medication and subsequently was arrested by the FBI and indicted for securities fraud.

Well, you are going to love this particular exchange …

YEP!! Timothy Winkler of all people attempted to mock another human being for PRISON TIME.

This led Shkreli to follow me on Twitter and to request all of the dirt I had on Winkler.

I obliged.

Maybe the DSR will get invited to a listening party when Shkreli finally breaks the seal on that new Wu-Tang Clan album he purchased exclusively for $2 million.

And that’s all I have for now. Not only did Winkler change his phone number the day after he got caught, he also deleted the @jsmith72413 handle.

Hopefully Henning will survive this upsetting news. And try to hitch your wagon to someone a little more stable next time, Lynn. May I suggest Rolling Stone scribe Stephen Rodrick? 

(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.)