What are you adding? A nickname for me, and a strawman? I imagine if MIXUM were here, your trollish posts would be directed at him, and not me.
Yeah. Me too. Where are they? They want the Blazers to show up for every game but they won't show up themselves?
You're right. Mixum was the glue that held this forum together, and his banning has alienated many posters, perhaps hundreds! They've all left the board in a sign of solidarity! To paraphrase Father Mulcahy, Solidarity, solidarity, solidarity!
Hell, I'm at Disneyland, caught the end of the game at the ESPN Zone, and am typing silently while the family sleeps. The thing that irks me is that the Blazers are at Staples tomorrow night, yet we have dinner a "Goofy's Theater" or something like that at 6pm. Soooooo close, but we have plans.
Have fun tomorrow! I'm in Maryland. If I was out there, I'd probably come out and steal you back to the ESPNZone for the game. They know me there and always give me a booth! Let me know next time you do Disney again.
My lack of posting has much more to do with my annual infatuation with the NCAA tourney. NBA is kind of on the back-burner right now.
Gotta love the NCAA tourny. 3 different Brackets and bet tons of money and just like every round I realize I SUCK at picking winners.
Nah -- just poking some satirical fun at folks actually getting bent out of shape over MIXUM's absence. You miss his constant hunt for any Blazer's related headline to spin into negative nonsense? Get on the ball -- it really isn't all that hard. You miss his constant antagonizing of actual fans? You seem to be doing fine on that count. You miss his use of silly nicknames, like "kpee"? Good news! I've taken care of that for you, PapaGee. Now why don't you take me out of your sights, and set some achievable targets for yourself -- I'm sure you'll be able to harass five more posters before tipoff if you try real hard.
You are the one "poking satirical fun at folks", and you're telling HIM to take you out of his sights? Talk about hypocritical. Sheesh. Ed o.
I get that some folks miss what MIXUM brought -- I do. He definitely stirred shit up and always got a ton of responses in his threads; that was obviously his primary goal as a poster here. There's no question that he posted some material that would not otherwise have been posted, but how valuable was it, really? Almost every time I saw a MIXUM thread with actual Blazer news, it was some random tidbit that I had already seen, just with a super-negative "read between the lines" commentary spin. A bunch of folks would take the bait and respond (myself included, I admit), and the cycle would continue. Was it worth it, in terms of value to the site? I think the majority has decided that it was not. MIXUM was a high-contrast poster. He regularly took stances that were so extreme, so negative, that the regular spectrum of positions by other posters was totally washed out -- most discussions came down, in the end, to MIXUM vs. the world. If PapaG really misses this kind of lopsided "debate", I believe he is fully capable of filling the void. If he just wants to see more assorted Blazer tidbits posted, I think he could fill that void too. But he didn't come to this thread to generate or inspire positive content - he just came to call out "Denny and the trolls who had MIXUM banned" and moan about the board not being what it used to be. That position is what I was targeting. Nothing good was lost that can't be replaced.
