Re: Feel me?

[Cecil <cecil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Can't wait for the thoughtful response to this post :-)

Cecil (T minus 1 and counting)


----- Original Message ----- 
From: bird <birdwl@earthlink.net>
To: <Celtics@igtc.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 2:55 PM
Subject: re: Feel me?


> > From: Eggcentric@xxxxxxx
> >
> > Such pomposity, Josh.  Did you have to rain on my parade on the very 
> > eve
> > of our team's exciting 56th season opener?
> >
> > Maybe as a wannabe journalist/Celt insider/BT sympathizer, you are
> > qualified to know better than Bill Simmons. But I do not think so.
> > Just maybe many of us have been too patient with your ongoing,
> > second-rate, Shira-esque, homer bias for all too long.
> >
> > Feel you?  No - I neither feel you nor begin to understand your needy
> > stroking.
> 
> Where do you get off dissing Josh O., of all people?  He's done more 
> for this list than you, judging by your posts so far, will ever do.  
> What you call "homer bias" I call "being a fan", and if you think that 
> prevents Josh from criticizing the team, then you're simply not paying 
> enough attention.  Or you haven't been here long enough to have seen 
> it.  In either case, you ought to get more facts straight before you 
> start wielding the dull edge of your wit around like a club.
> 
> In, lo, these many years, that Josh has been contributing, the rest of 
> us have been treated to insightful commentary, lively, informed 
> discussion, and recently, an semi-insider's take via his relationship 
> to Wallace.
> 
> In the months you've been posting, we gotten a lot of personal 
> information that we never really cared about (but of course, not 
> including a recognizable *name*, by any means), lot's of talk about 
> Maine, for whatever reason, and the opinion of many other longtime 
> posters that you're a detriment to a Celtics discussion list.  In fact, 
> you've been kicked off CelticStuff on yahoo.
> 
> Which person would any reasonable listmember take, if we had a choice?  
> It's a no-brainer.  (I'd pick Josh, or anyone like him, once a day, 
> twice on Sundays, and hourly during the regular season.)
> 
> I've perused the archives of CelticsStuff, and, coupled with the 
> opinions expressed here by other members, I've come to the conclusion 
> that you're off your nut.  Why don't you go away?
> 
> Pomposity, indeed.
> 
> (Sorry to the rest of the list -- I realize we'd all rather talk about 
> the Celtics (especially so close to opening), and I know that Josh O. 
> doesn't need me or anyone else to defend him from these sorts of 
> pathetically transparent attacks, but when some n00b comes in and 
> starts slinging unwarranted crap around in the general direction of 
> longtime listmembers who've actually *contributed* something, I can't 
> restrain myself from speaking, sometimes.)
> 
> Bird