Screen Shot 2013-04-01 at 3.09.21 PMThe LeSean McCoy Book of Social Media: Three Steps to Success:

Step one: Tweet about child support or alimony payments by disparaging ex-wife or baby mama

Step two: Claim you were hacked

Step three: Statement

That’s it. Scott Hartnell has already completed the first two steps in the process, and we’ll expect a statement shortly.

On Monday, Hartnell tweeted about his alimony payments to his ex-wife, Lisa Renneke, being over. Several players, including a certain former captain, one Mr. Mike Richards, tweeted her as well:

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But yesterday, Hartnell, who had retweeted those retweets… claimed that he was hacked:

Yeah, no. Nice try, though.

If I were him, which, apparently, judging by the fact that I don’t have Sheena Parveen’s number in my phone (but I do have Jeremy Roenick’s!), I’m not, I would embrace that Tweet. It was the perfect mix of mean and funny, two things that you should value in a tweeting athlete.