Quote: The NBA might be over for the next five or six years. Who can beat this team?
the CBA is the best deterrent to the Thunder. how crazy is it that a CBA constructed with protecting the smaller markets in mind may end up being the thing that blows up the best small market team in recent history?
(and before someone says the 2003 Spurs, I have mixed feelings about calling the 10th biggest city in the country with another large city in Austin being an hour away as a small market team)
San Antonio by the numbers is definitely not a "small" or even "mid" market team, but I've always felt like they were treated as such. They get some national games, but it's not as much as they deserve, considering their rap sheet, and as far as bspn coverage, minimal at best.
That's always played into their favor, other than the Tony Parker stuff which is only the last 2 years, they've never had any non-bball stuff reported about them. Pretty clean ship down there.
they are definitely treated like a small market team by ESPN, which I don't understand. it's like they never lost their "ABA" team mantle. oh, they're just that silly little ABA team with the pink logo.
Why? Why do people feel it helps to hang on to bitterness and hate? Why do they feel that in any way helps them or hurts LBJ to keep up this continual bashing?
Don't worry. At the end of the day, they're all going to wake back up to their pathetic little lives with their own problems, and Lebron can just keep being Lebron.
Why? Why do people feel it helps to hang on to bitterness and hate? Why do they feel that in any way helps them or hurts LBJ to keep up this continual bashing?
Don't worry. At the end of the day, they're all going to wake back up to their pathetic little lives with their own problems, and Lebron can just keep being Lebron.
Quote: they are definitely treated like a small market team by ESPN, which I don't understand. it's like they never lost their "ABA" team mantle. oh, they're just that silly little ABA team with the pink logo.
ESPN has always had their favorites. With baseball, it's the Yankees, Red Sox, Mets, and probably to a lesser extent, Cubs, Dodgers, etc.
Johan Santana threw a no-no the other day. It's big news because those only happen a few times a year, but the coverage they got was a lot more than if it was someone from Kansas City. I get that it was the Mets' first no-hitter, but there is no mistake that they cover certain teams more. They're catering to a bigger audience, and that's fine because they're just playing the numbers, but I find it hilarious that they show clear bias like that, but won't let Herbstreit pick who he thinks will win the game he's commentating in, or Jaworski for MNF, or whomever. It's kinda silly.
They have their pet teams and they stick to them. I was always sickened by the way they treated Cleveland during the process of the decision and the way they treated us for the years leading up to it. Even after the Heat lost the finals and they wanted Cleveland's take, they went around downtown interviewing homeless people as if those are the only people walking around downtown.
Just wondering because I've never seen you comment on a basketball thread before
Well after watching people hang on to a grudge well past it's prime and seem they have so much bitterness they just can't let go even to the point of spiting themselves, I thought it was time I did.
At some point, it seems so petty and silly, at what point do people just move on and let it go? All this hate and bitterness only hurt the people who hang onto it. It's certainly not hurting JBJ.
So wait, you don't come across as a Cavs fan or a basketball fan for that matter but yet you feel the need to tell us how we should feel?
That's the best thing that can happen. When you're too involved in a situation, it's very hard not to be partial and or bias to a great degree. When you can get someone who watches things that has no horse in the race, you get an impartial view.
Kind of like being friends with a couple who is getting divorced. The wife blames it all on the husband. The husband blames it all on the wife. They get divorced.
Then, after a couple of years, your buddy just keeps ragging on the other one to know end! And it just makes you kind of sad. That person is your friend. You really start to understand that your friend is only hurting himself. That he needs to move on and quit carrying on about it. That it's just a point of negativity in his life. He starts to drive others away and they feel he's just got a problem moving on and they're sick of hearing it.
The friend doesn't see it. He's too caught up in the situation. It's too personal to him for him to be objective about it. He thinks everyone he knows and the rest of the world should have some kind of three or four year pity party for him. But that's not how life works.
But really, I don't care what you do. Just don't expect everybody wish to listen to you drone on about the same old crap month after month and year after year without saying something. At some point people need to move on, put on their big girl panties and get over it. Or you'll end up some bitter old man holding grudges against everyone you feel has "wronged you" in some way.
And believe me, if that's the attitude you take, that list will keep growing. Beause people often times think only of themselves. The quicker you realise that and learn to accept that, the happier you'll be.
But it's your life. If you wanna be a hater and continue holding the grudge, it's your waste of time and energy, not mine.....
Intoducing for The Cleveland Browns, Quarterback Deshawn "The Predator" Watson. He will also be the one to choose your next head coach.
Quote: They're catering to a bigger audience, and that's fine because they're just playing the numbers, but I find it hilarious that they show clear bias like that, but won't let Herbstreit pick who he thinks will win the game he's commentating in, or Jaworski for MNF, or whomever. It's kinda silly.
WFNY called out Dari on it awhile back. He actually was a great guy and came onto the website and talked with the guys & commenters and explained that ESPN isn't showing a bias they are just playing to the ratings.
What he couldn't understand is that by playing strictly to the ratings, they are showing a bias (more people in NYC means that you bias NYC by doing it). All well and good and I have long accepted it as just part of how the world works though.
So because I dislike LBJ it is impossible for me to be rational? Even though I acknowledge him as the best player in the NBA easily and say he is the most gifted and talented physical specimen ever? Also I don't drone about LBJ. I actually like talking about basketball. Sorry I do not hold haterade parties. Maybe if you paid attention to the majority of my posts you would realize that instead of just picking and choosing what you read and labeling me as an irrational hater. Also I am just curious, what have I been wrong about? That Lebron is a douche bag? If you don't believe he is, more power to you. That Lebron is mentally weak? LOL, good luck disproving that.
Also according to your logic we should never hate someone regardless of what they do?
Quote: They're catering to a bigger audience, and that's fine because they're just playing the numbers, but I find it hilarious that they show clear bias like that, but won't let Herbstreit pick who he thinks will win the game he's commentating in, or Jaworski for MNF, or whomever. It's kinda silly.
WFNY called out Dari on it awhile back. He actually was a great guy and came onto the website and talked with the guys & commenters and explained that ESPN isn't showing a bias they are just playing to the ratings.
What he couldn't understand is that by playing strictly to the ratings, they are showing a bias (more people in NYC means that you bias NYC by doing it). All well and good and I have long accepted it as just part of how the world works though.
I know they don't care, but they have pretty much driven me away from their programming outside of the actual games like the NBA and college football.
If I want to catch highlights of the Indians game on TV, I can either watch an hour of their programming which includes a lot of off the field stuff, full breakdowns of the Yankees' and Red Sox' game, and when they finally show the Tribe's game that night, they show a guy catching a fly ball and then they put the box score up. Gee thanks.
The other option is to put on MLB network where they give you a balanced diet of the night's games. I think the league networks do an unbelievable job (outside of the NFL Network, which is weird if you think about it, because they were first)
The Thunder already have Durant, Westbrook, and Perkins locked up long term. They will get Harden done this off-season and Ibaka next off-season. They will have to pay the luxury tax but their owner seems willing to do that as long as they are winning.
Quote: Well after watching people hang on to a grudge well past it's prime and seem they have so much bitterness they just can't let go even to the point of spiting themselves, I thought it was time I did.
At some point, it seems so petty and silly, at what point do people just move on and let it go? All this hate and bitterness only hurt the people who hang onto it. It's certainly not hurting JBJ.
Maybe I'm different but I don't have this controlling grudge... One I get sick of hearing about LeBron all the time just like I get sick of hearing about a lot of celebrities that seem to constantly be in the news...
As far as hating him.. during the months of May and June every year I will hope he loses... that's about it. There's really not much to it than that.
Quote: Well after watching people hang on to a grudge well past it's prime and seem they have so much bitterness they just can't let go even to the point of spiting themselves, I thought it was time I did.
At some point, it seems so petty and silly, at what point do people just move on and let it go? All this hate and bitterness only hurt the people who hang onto it. It's certainly not hurting JBJ.
Maybe I'm different but I don't have this controlling grudge... One I get sick of hearing about LeBron all the time just like I get sick of hearing about a lot of celebrities that seem to constantly be in the news...
As far as hating him.. during the months of May and June every year I will hope he loses... that's about it. There's really not much to it than that.
Guess I'm kinda like you. I have not hate or bitterness towards the king. I like to see the team he plays on lose, though.
I dislike the celtics - (for reasons going back to when I was in high school).........but I'm rooting for them to beat the heat. And, if they do, I'll be rooting for OKC in the finals - and I'll be rooting for OCK if they play the heat.
Quote: The Thunder already have Durant, Westbrook, and Perkins locked up long term. They will get Harden done this off-season and Ibaka next off-season. They will have to pay the luxury tax but their owner seems willing to do that as long as they are winning.
and as I showed above, paying the luxury tax is much more prohibitive now (and even if they know they need to break things up eventually, they are too smart to say it out loud). I think they can maybe keep this corps together for 2 more seasons. squinting, maybe 3 if they really want to stretch things out financially.
someone is offering Harden the max. if OKC matches, they will have Durant/Westbrook/Harden all at or very near the max. once those kick in that's $45mil of the cap (actually closer to 50). add in 10 for Perkins and 12 for Ibaka. how are they having a bench?
I dislike the celtics - (for reasons going back to when I was in high school).........but I'm rooting for them to beat the heat. And, if they do, I'll be rooting for OKC in the finals - and I'll be rooting for OCK if they play the heat.
I do too. I grew up loving the old Bird Celtics. I was never a fan, but I enjoyed their games when I was a little kid. This current team though, the shady way they came together, Paul Pierce spitting towards our bench, Garnett who likes to pick on guys a lot smaller than his size, and of course obnoxious Boston fans who think every championship is the start of a dynasty and every player that has a good game is a hall of famer.
Just blah.
Plus as an NBA fan. Heat vs OKC is just an awesome matchup. That may not be true now with the way the Heat have played in the playoffs.
OKC - who shadily back-stabbed the city of Seattle and purposefully uprooted the team while lying that they were trying to make it work there (as shown in emails leaked)
Boston - who got a gift-wrapped deal from a former player turned GM and magically restored Ray Allen's ankles. Then there's the obvious stuff that Sperg mentioned.
I despise the Heat much more than Lebron. I can't stand a system where somebody thinks they can buy a championship....and I will take great enjoyment each year when they fail to do so. That said, the Heat are still alive in this series, and Boston is cut from the same mold.
And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul. - John Muir
I can't hold it against the players and fans of Oklahoma City. They had nothing to do with a shady owner doing what he wanted with a business he owned.
OKC has likeable players and their fans bring it every game. Can't complain about that.
Just wondering because I've never seen you comment on a basketball thread before
Well after watching people hang on to a grudge well past it's prime and seem they have so much bitterness they just can't let go even to the point of spiting themselves, I thought it was time I did.
At some point, it seems so petty and silly, at what point do people just move on and let it go? All this hate and bitterness only hurt the people who hang onto it. It's certainly not hurting JBJ.
So wait, you don't come across as a Cavs fan or a basketball fan for that matter but yet you feel the need to tell us how we should feel?
Not one of my favorite terms to use because it sounds juvenile. But Wouldn't that be considered "trolling"?
Micah 6:8; He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.
John 14:19 Jesus said: Because I live, you also will live.
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