Former Padre Tim Flannery rips fans, organization

Former San Diego Padres fan favorite Tim Flannery had enough of his previous employer and their fans Wednesday night and let it be known in a Twitter rant.

After tweeting an offering of thanks to the San Francisco Giants - with whom he won three World Series championships as a coach from 2010-14 - the former big-leaguer took offense to comments from Padres' fans and unleashed some unkind words towards them and his former organization hours later.

"You Padre fans who drift on my site, challenge me to manage, rag on me for betrayal ... We got run out of your town, me and (manager Bruce Bochy), after he won," Flannery wrote. "You Padre folks lose after pounding your chest about 'winning the offseason' and give all your young studs away (you should, you can't pay them in arbitration years anyway) ... then you have the ignorance to tweet me, shame me, while your team only won ever when we were there ..."

Flannery added: "I'm a Giant for life, you all allowed the organization to do whatever they wanted, and so did Giant fans, but don't diss me with your loyalty ... It's time now to grow up, get over it, quit demanding from me, and quit being fooled by smoke and mirrors. Quit being ignorant. You can't even write now your starting lineup, no one knows, is that weird to you?"

The 58-year-old Flannery spent his entire big-league playing career with the Padres, retiring in 1989. Two years later he rejoined the franchise as a minor-league manager and eventually became third base coach in 1996.

After Bochy left the Padres for the Giants following the 2006 season, Flannery joined him as third base coach until 2014.