Oops: Texas Rangers send out 'Fire Charlie' Strong tweet

Someone on the Texas Rangers’ social media team learned a valuable lesson on Saturday.

As the Texas Longhorns were trailing TCU big in the second half of their 50-7 loss in Fort Worth, the official Rangers Twitter account tweeted, “Fire Charlie,” referring to Longhorns head coach Charlie Strong.

Yeah, that’s not good, especially since it happened during the Rangers' home game against the Angels.

It was quickly deleted, but a few resourceful Twitter users managed to screenshot the gaffe.

Predictably, those screenshots quickly made the rounds on social media, which led to this:

Yep, the staff member was fired.

“The Texas Rangers wish to apologize to the University of Texas and its head football coach Charlie Strong for the very inappropriate and insensitive message that was briefly posted on the team’s twitter account this afternoon,” the Rangers said in a statement.

“The tweet was posted by a member of the team’s social media department that was neither working for the Rangers nor was at Global Life Park today. Effective immediately, that individual is no longer employed by the Rangers.”

Always think before you tweet, folks.

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