What is That Seals The Deal. I Am No Longer A Fan?

It is a copypasta based on a July 2019 tweet by Baltimore Orioles fan @will61375, which fans substitute subjects into when reacting to team moves, politics or celebrity news.

Where did That Seals The Deal. I Am No Longer A Fan come from?

@will61375 wrote it on July 13, 2019, under the Baltimore Orioles' announcement that they had traded pitcher Andrew Cashner, singling out GM Mike Elias as "the worst gm in history".

What does That Seals The Deal. I Am No Longer A Fan mean?

It mocks fans who publicly announce they are quitting a team or figure over a single trade or decision, using invented specifics like a decades-long fandom and a season ticket plan.

How do you use That Seals The Deal. I Am No Longer A Fan?

Reply to any news tweet with the original wording and swap the team or Mike Elias's name for the target of fake outrage, as @BlueJaysTroll did with the Red Sox in July 2020.

Is That Seals The Deal. I Am No Longer A Fan still popular?

The copypasta saw its biggest usage in 2020 across baseball, NBA, soccer and political Twitter, and sits on Know Your Meme's directory as a documented sports copypasta.

That Seals The Deal. I Am No Longer A Fan

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Published October 16, 2026

In July 2019, Baltimore Orioles fan @will61375 posted an angry farewell tweet after the team traded pitcher Andrew Cashner, vowing to drop his season tickets and never watch again. Other Orioles fans copied the wording within weeks, and by summer 2020 Red Sox, NBA, soccer and political Twitter accounts were pasting versions under unrelated news.

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Overview

Posts following the template keep the structure fixed while writers substitute in whatever team, executive, politician or celebrity caused the latest fake grievance4. The joke rests on the specificity of invented details: an exact year the author claims they became a fan (1982), a season ticket purchase date (1996), and a reaction to news that often has nothing to do with the stated loyalty1.

Variations often target progressive statements or roster moves. When the Boston Red Sox posted a Black Lives Matter banner, @BlueJaysTroll substituted the Red Sox into the Orioles template and declared Elias the worst GM in history anyway2. That Red Sox version itself turned into its own sub-template that NBA Twitter accounts reused under basketball posts weeks later, with the GM slot filled by basketball executives instead3.

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Origin & Background

Platform

Twitter

Creator

@will61375

Date

2019

On July 13, 2019, Twitter user @will61375 replied to the Baltimore Orioles' tweet announcing they had traded pitcher Andrew Cashner with the paragraph that would turn into copypasta1. He wrote he had been a fan since 1982, a season ticket holder since 1996, and that general manager Mike Elias was "officially the worst gm in history." The reply itself picked up 15 retweets and 49 likes1.

How It Spread

Other Orioles fans copied the wording in replies through the rest of July 2019 before use faded4. The copypasta sat mostly inside the Baltimore fanbase until summer 2020. On July 22, 2020, @BlueJaysTroll replied to the Boston Red Sox's Black Lives Matter banner tweet with a Red Sox-flavored rewrite and logged over 120 retweets and 700 likes2.

A month later, on August 24, 2020, @jdubbssimms posted screenshots of NBA fans running the same text under basketball news and mislabeled the posters as "bots." That thread hit over 12,000 retweets and 39,000 likes, carrying the template well beyond baseball3.

Soccer and political Twitter picked it up by late 2020. On November 3, 2020, @Pluto_IX9 pasted a version in reply to a Donald Trump tweet6. The next day, @castro1021 ran it under a Manchester United tweet about team news, drawing more than 100 retweets and 3,600 likes5.

Timeline

2019-07-13

Baltimore Orioles fan @will61375 posts the original rant replying to the team's Andrew Cashner trade announcement.

2019-07

Other Orioles fans copy the wording in replies on Twitter in the weeks after.

2020-07-22

@BlueJaysTroll adapts the copypasta under the Red Sox's Black Lives Matter banner tweet.

2020-08-24

@jdubbssimms shares screenshots of NBA fans using the copypasta, calling them bots, drawing 39,000 likes.

2020-11-03

@Pluto_IX9 pastes a version under a Donald Trump tweet.

2020-11-04

@castro1021 posts a Manchester United version that collects over 3,600 likes.

How to Use This Meme

Users typically keep the "since 1982" fan date, the "since 1996" season ticket line, the vow to not renew the plan or watch on TV, and the closing "worst gm in history" sentence4. They substitute the team name, the executive's name (sometimes a politician's or coach's), and reply the result under whatever news tweet they want to mock, as @BlueJaysTroll did with the Red Sox's Black Lives Matter banner in July 20202.