Break It Down
Note: The following is a rant basically. But I was pretty entertained looking back on it. I editted the original post down to the actual ranting part.
Originally posted on June 6, 2004.
Jay-Z's not the greatest of all time and the Blueprint 2 was trash, but I still like him and I've still bought every album since Reasonable Doubt. The legit, non bootleg and non downloaded, not counting the Blueprint 2 re-release. (Did anyone buy that? Hov was really reaching)
John Starks went 3 for 90 in game 7 of the NBA Finals and broke my heart in the 3rd grade, but I still love him.
And1's Headache and Alimoe never made it to the league and I think the whole streetball "tour" thing is overrated now, but I still got love for them regardless.
I have made it my business to see every Edward Norton movie since American History X.
Spoon...gets blind loyalty. I've actually interacted with Spoon for longer than your typical "shove my piece of paper in your face so you can scribble 2 lines on it without even looking at me," so of course I'm not exactly going to care when she plays 3 assistless minutes at this point in her career.
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She's my favorite person in the WNBA. She's not my favorite player because [at this point in her career] I don't care how she plays. It's not going to change her past greatness or her great personality.
So all the WNBA zealots save me the retirement talk, the traitor talk, the shoot the ball talk, and all the other overdramatic crap.
Unlike most fans, I don't say that I'm unbiased. Of course I'm biased. Thats what fans are.
I've come to learn that people who post on sports message boards are a lot like people who send letters to the editor, or call the local radio station. They post because they feel strongly on a topic. They rarely have a middle ground, and sometimes, rarely have any sense.
So it should be understood that they are usually so set in their beliefs in the first place that they aren't willing to see things from a different persepective.
I'll just lurk, thank you very much.
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There are some great blogs out there...
On these 2 [editted out] sites, there's no ridiculous arguing, no flaming, no cliques, no delusions of grandeur, no player bashing as if they themselves can go out there and do better, no head splitting grammatical errors, no bitterness disguised as team loyalty, no ego feeding, no hypocrisy, and no hateration or holleration in this danceree.
Both are very well organized, so even if there was negativity, you could easily ignore the idiots.
Both are filled with individual thought and insight without the know-it-all attitude.
No people claiming to know someone when they really (and many times obviously) don't. Really, who cares who you know; you're invisible.
No assuming about the personal lives of players or assuming players are the same way off the court as they are on it.
No forgetting that these people are also human and may have computer literate friends and family.
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Originally posted on June 6, 2004.
Jay-Z's not the greatest of all time and the Blueprint 2 was trash, but I still like him and I've still bought every album since Reasonable Doubt. The legit, non bootleg and non downloaded, not counting the Blueprint 2 re-release. (Did anyone buy that? Hov was really reaching)
John Starks went 3 for 90 in game 7 of the NBA Finals and broke my heart in the 3rd grade, but I still love him.
And1's Headache and Alimoe never made it to the league and I think the whole streetball "tour" thing is overrated now, but I still got love for them regardless.
I have made it my business to see every Edward Norton movie since American History X.
Spoon...gets blind loyalty. I've actually interacted with Spoon for longer than your typical "shove my piece of paper in your face so you can scribble 2 lines on it without even looking at me," so of course I'm not exactly going to care when she plays 3 assistless minutes at this point in her career.
...
She's my favorite person in the WNBA. She's not my favorite player because [at this point in her career] I don't care how she plays. It's not going to change her past greatness or her great personality.
So all the WNBA zealots save me the retirement talk, the traitor talk, the shoot the ball talk, and all the other overdramatic crap.
Unlike most fans, I don't say that I'm unbiased. Of course I'm biased. Thats what fans are.
I've come to learn that people who post on sports message boards are a lot like people who send letters to the editor, or call the local radio station. They post because they feel strongly on a topic. They rarely have a middle ground, and sometimes, rarely have any sense.
So it should be understood that they are usually so set in their beliefs in the first place that they aren't willing to see things from a different persepective.
I'll just lurk, thank you very much.
...
There are some great blogs out there...
On these 2 [editted out] sites, there's no ridiculous arguing, no flaming, no cliques, no delusions of grandeur, no player bashing as if they themselves can go out there and do better, no head splitting grammatical errors, no bitterness disguised as team loyalty, no ego feeding, no hypocrisy, and no hateration or holleration in this danceree.
Both are very well organized, so even if there was negativity, you could easily ignore the idiots.
Both are filled with individual thought and insight without the know-it-all attitude.
No people claiming to know someone when they really (and many times obviously) don't. Really, who cares who you know; you're invisible.
No assuming about the personal lives of players or assuming players are the same way off the court as they are on it.
No forgetting that these people are also human and may have computer literate friends and family.
...
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