Jim Thome's Wife Is Irate After Being ‘Bullied,’ Harassed By ESPN Cleveland

Andrea Thome — wife of Hall of Fame slugger Jim Thome — taught one ESPN Cleveland intern a very important lesson about boundaries.

During an episode of The Really Big Show on Friday, host Aaron Goldhammer challenged an intern named Nick to try to get Jim Thome to call in to the show. If he succeeded, Nick would win $100.

The Cleveland (team formerly known as) Indians legend is not on social media. So the intern decided to contact Jim's family in an effort to get to him. But there's a fine line between reaching out and harassment …and Nick found it.

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In addition to peppering Andrea with requests and tagging her in multiple posts, the intern also tagged Thome’s teenage son (while he was in school), his high school baseball team and several coaches. Nick reportedly even called the school. Finally, Andrea had enough.

"I am all about kindness and connection, but this is my personal account — not a vehicle for booking my husband on talk radio shows," she wrote on X. "Please don’t berate me for that, and please don’t tag our children in those endeavors, either. He has an agent for a reason." 

Andrea Thome Responds To ESPN Cleveland

And she wasn't done there.

"I did not have grown men on @ESPNCleveland bullying me on International Women’s Day because I won’t interrupt my husband while he is working across the country to call in so your intern can win $100," Andrea posted. "How about I Venmo the kid and you guys back off?"

Poor Nick. That's embarrassing.

The intern obviously crossed several lines in his quest to reach Jim Thome, but most of the blame belongs to the grown media professionals who put him up to it. They might not have told him to call young Thome's school, but they obviously didn't provide him with any reasonable parameters, either.

In fact, the whole thing was pretty stupid. Mabe just book your own guests — the right way — instead of sending your (unpaid or paid-very-little) intern out to humiliate himself.

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By the way, despite Andrea's understandable frustration over the situation, she clarified she did not want Nick to be fired.

She wrote on X: "A final note about today. I have zero desire to cost anyone a job or especially an internship. Instead, I’m hopeful everyone will now know better and do better. And no matter what — I will always love Cleveland."

Jim Thome was drafted by Cleveland in 1989 and spent his first 12 seasons of his 22-year MLB career there. Thome hit 612 home runs during his career — the eighth-most all time. He made five All-Star teams and won the Silver Slugger Award in 1996.