Abe_505 wrote:moocow007 wrote:Abe_505 wrote:
No. Gallinari was part of it but it wasn't the only reason.
Like Ivory Soap...it was 99.44% about Gallinari. If it wasn't mostly all about Gallinari he wouldn't be an out ball outcast trudging in the Nuggets Board involved in only Gallinari discussions who he defends tooth and nail. Honestly it was one of oddest transformations I've ever seen.
If it was 99.44% about Gallinari it would've been 99.44% about Gallinari in the beginning and it wasn't.
And it was a transformation that happened because we shoved Melo down his throat and disparaged Gallinari and his opinion every chance we got. This place is full of guys that can be real big dicks (for lack of a better word) when they want to.. me and you both included.
He like many other before and many other after was forced to pick a side because the argument got personal on every possible occasion and when the argument gets personal you always pick a side and you stick by it until hell freezes over.
I've had conversations with the guy that didn't take place on here and in my opinion it wasn't about Melo Vs. Gallinari it was about TKF Vs. the forum.. and ironically not too far after I would find myself in the same predicament. A predicament where the angry mob gets to write the narrative on what one singled out person thinks without having the luxury to be in the actual mind of that one person the angry mob chooses to go after at any given time.
This is the last and only thing I will say on TKF.
I was an even bigger Gallo fan than he was. I loved the guy and was at the forefront of the Gallo vs Wilson debates. I was also one of the loudest posters against trading for Melo, especially at the price we eventually paid for him. I never thought Melo and Amare were a good fit together even when Amare was in the middle of his great first season here.
But you know what I got over all of it. I'm still iffy about Melo, but he's here and I have to deal with it because I love the Knicks. Sports are an escape. If a fan tortures themselves and becomes miserable just following a team then they have crossed up priorities.
Go to UltimateKnicks.com to see TKF and DK still being as annoying and self loathing as ever. TKF still using way too many ellipses and DK still talking about a "zero sum player"
. I read there once in a while and they hijack every thread with their sh*t. The whole board wants them gone (I dont know why they havent been axed yet) and the posters always reference how they got banned from here. Nobody likes them. They are simply past the point of being defended and need to be put out of their misery.
TKF was the face of the Knicks board for the first 7 years I was here. Right there with Moocow and a few others. He was my boy but has fallen completely off his rocker and hasnt recovered. The Knicks have seriously f*cked him up. Please don't try to make him, or yourself, out to be some martyr. There's a huge difference between just having a different opinion and being a menstruating ass.