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[hockeybeat]

What about assclown, you bunch of assclowns?! I brought the ****ing word to the site, and it never gets any love! It's the Mikey of SJ insults!

Sorry, no way you get credit for assclown. Michael Bolton gets credit for that, you poseur!

Mikey don't post here and I was the first to use it here. I get the credit! Me! Me! Oh, a million times, me!

 

[friend of a friend]

What about assclown, you bunch of assclowns?! I brought the ****ing word to the site, and it never gets any love! It's the Mikey of SJ insults!

Sorry, no way you get credit for assclown. Michael Bolton gets credit for that, you poseur!

Mikey don't post here and I was the first to use it here. I get the credit! Me! Me! Oh, a million times, me!

Assclown.

 

[hockeybeat]

What about assclown, you bunch of assclowns?! I brought the ****ing word to the site, and it never gets any love! It's the Mikey of SJ insults!

Sorry, no way you get credit for assclown. Michael Bolton gets credit for that, you poseur!

Mikey don't post here and I was the first to use it here. I get the credit! Me! Me! Oh, a million times, me!

Assclown.

I admit my assclownery.

 

[Ace]

I'll be in the business soon, soon as the Plain-Dealer calls back.

And while we're waiting, newspaper circulation spikes to an all-time high in 2008.

Let's put on a happy face for the tourists. That way they think we all get along here, right?

Tell you what. You want to work together?

You sashay into the T-shirt wearing tourists and I'll grab their wallets.

Deal?

 

[Double Down]

My honest answer is that I think people come here because it's a message board where there is some expectations of intelligence/writing ability. On the few fan message boards I frequent, there is so much stupidity, misoginy, racism, ignorance, anger, and lastly, more stupidity (completing the stupidity sandwich) that it's impossible benefit from spending any time there.

Not everyone here is a poet, but for the most part, you have to be able to express yourself to get your point across. You have to do it cleanly and eloquently.

We have our morons. Sometimes we have a small army of them. But there are a lot of very smart people here who know a lot about sports, life, and art (be it music, cinema/television or writing). I imagine the interlopers who stumble upon us are drawn back for the same reasons most of us are drawn here. Because there are smart people here.

One minor, unrelated, quibble: Occasionally I'll run into industry people who will ask me why I post here. They think it's too gossipy, too stupid, a waste of time, a pathetic exercise by pathetic people.

"How do you know this?" I ask.

"Well, because I check out the site every day," they say.

"So you think the people who post there are losers, but you read their posts every day," I say.

"Well, some of the stuff is interesting," they say. "But I'm not going to bother to post."

"So basically if everyone took your haughty attitude, the site wouldn't exist," I say.

"I guess," they say.

 

[Moderator1]

I get a lot of that, too, DD.

I'm not in the biz no mo. Do I need to get the **** outta here?

 

[Chi City 81]

I get a lot of that, too, DD.

I'm not in the biz no mo. Do I need to get the **** outta here?

UNIVERSITY SHILL!

 

[Moderator1]

Fanboy, too, don't forget that.
Go most of the Nats!

 

[Ace]

I get a lot of that, too, DD.

I'm not in the biz no mo. Do I need to get the **** outta here?

Yeah, and don't let the avatar hit you in the ass on the way out the door.

 

[playthrough]

I hear ya, DD. I talk to a ton of people who lurk but don't chat, it's too bad.

To put a twist on the Yogi-ism, it's like "no one posts there anymore, it's too crowded."

 

[Sxysprtswrtr]

I'll be in the business soon, soon as the Plain-Dealer calls back.

And while we're waiting, newspaper circulation spikes to an all-time high in 2008.

Let's put on a happy face for the tourists. That way they think we all get along here, right?

Tell you what. You want to work together?

You sashay into the T-shirt wearing tourists and I'll grab their wallets.

Deal?

Deal. Because we all know the tourists have more money than us journalists.

 

[friend of a friend]

Fanboy, too, don't forget that.
Go most of the Nats!

I like that, Moddy. That should be the team slogan for '08.

 

[Moderator1]

We can change it as soon as they unload Dukes.

 

[dixiehack]

Hey, you guys get to watch the games for free and stuff? Neat. I bet you get lots of cool autographs, huh?

 

[Double Down]

I hear ya, DD. I talk to a ton of people who lurk but don't chat, it's too bad.

To put a twist on the Yogi-ism, it's like "no one posts there anymore, it's too crowded."

I just think it's a silly attitude those people have. Either you can try raise the intellectual bar here, or go away (I'm talking to you, 119 guests lurking!). Some people act like they're above posting but cruise the site every day. That's kind of leeching. Everyone has something to contribute. I have much more respect for the people who simply say, "It's not for me. I don't agree with what goes on there, so I just don't look at the site."

 

[hockeybeat]

We can change it as soon as they unload Dukes.

What about Captain Barely Legal Hot Ass?

 

[playthrough]

I hear ya, DD. I talk to a ton of people who lurk but don't chat, it's too bad.

To put a twist on the Yogi-ism, it's like "no one posts there anymore, it's too crowded."

I just think it's a silly attitude those people have. Either you can try raise the intellectual bar here, or go away (I'm talking to you, 119 guests lurking!). Some people act like they're above posting but cruise the site every day. That's kind of leeching. Everyone has something to contribute. I have much more respect for the people who simply say, "It's not for me. I don't agree with what goes on there, so I just don't look at the site."

I know some of the leeches (leechers?) are intimidated by our own board language, personalities, etc., but I say it's not unlike going into a new newsroom or other workplace. Of course you're not going to get all in the inside jokes (hell, I still don't), but all you gotta do is ask. And not even on a thread, just do what everyone else does...PM ijag.

 

[Rosie]

Moddy beat me to it. I was going to ask if I have to leave now since I'm now out of the business.

 

[ArnoldBabar]

I think most of them come for the free nachos.

Wait, there are free nachos?

You're not getting your free nachos?

I mean ... umm ... nevermind. There are no nachos here. Nope, no nachos.

(Quick! Everyone hide your nachos from HB!)

 

[Captain_Kirk]

Nice going, Double Down.

Now there's only 93 guests. You're chasing them all away.

Either that or it was the picture of the socks and sandals.