Tarik Black wrote:Prospect Dong wrote:Tarik Black wrote:
The view is a little different from your high horse, eh? I mean the Spurs are a great org. with very little fan presence here. So it gives you such tingles to sit up high and throw stones. Ah must feel good.
I love how you cherry pick too.. good times.
Good point. His post should have said "every day dozens of lakers fan
don't propose trading Clarkson for Cousins" That would have been better.
But by the same token, I feel like
you're cherry picking this guys post to respond to spurs fans in general. You should have written "most spurs fans don't throw stones at the lakers".
But now, here
I am, cherry picking your post, instead of writing about all the lakers fans who
don't think there's a rule against pointing out hilarious examples of homerism. This not cherry picking stuff sure is tough...
Sammy and I have some discussion history so it's all in fun. That being said there is a vast difference in fan
presence on RGM with Laker and Spur fans. If you can't
decipher that and feel the need to take on low hanging fruit, than ok. I just expect smart guys, like Sammy to not take the bait on the looking for the lowest of hanging fruit. Something a lot of posters from ALL fan bases should do.
I lurk on Lakers board, too, and if Sammy was really looking to pick low-hanging cherries, he could have pointed out 2 things:
1) The hitherto mass delusion in Laker-land of it's desirability in free agency
2) The attitudes in Laker-land about Kobe (versus, say, everywhere else)
Even the best Lakers posters had #1 sickness until very recently, with #2 sickness lessening less recently. And go look at the Lakers' board and look for a post that's even mildly critical of their front office. Start a thread about such, with a link from reputable sources, but if you aren't wearing the Lakers color you may get a mod coming down on you. Or, even better, complete silence, (shadowbanned?) while a parallel thread about the exact same topic, started later by someone wearing the right colors, gets 20-30 pages. It makes the Lakers board much less interesting, frankly, and it's a shame.
Bucks board is great and funny. The way they hated on Brandon Knight, and MCW in the weeks following the trade, was the most entertaining thing I have seen on these boards. That, and the thread about best current TV series is worth it.
Heat board is on another level of participation with same passion. I actually learn more about the game lurking here. The hate on Chalmers, Norris, or some random guy on a 10-day contract is pretty funny, too.
And since I said some critical things in this post about other boards, I will mention a board that has become somwhat alien to me: the Sixers board. Even though (most of) the mods and old timers are pretty cool about wanting the team to at least try to win some games now, the guys that think that the team should tank again to, say, increase the liklihood of getting the Lakers pick next year (that is, finish worse than LA so they are less likely to get top 3, which is protected)...those fans are unbearable to me. Anyone that jumps on another poster who is, say, quite old and wants to see a Sixer team that they can be proud of...is unbearable to me. Any attacks on posts critical of Hinkie, even if it's critical about one compartmentalized aspect of Hinkie's system (i.e. his ability to evaluate talent at the margin, versus, say, his obvious virtuoso ability to swing deals for picks and such)...are unbearable to me.
TLDR: Boards that allow lots of criticism of the teams are more interesting. If it's the same old critiques like a broken record ("Kobe is a selfish ****!", "Sixers are disgracing the game!"), then there is an element of truth to it. This is entertainment, after all. Fans are empowered to judge the product, and judge as harshly as they deem fit, granted that it's not racist or some stupid, degenerate ****.
— Mags
