Shot across the Blazers bow? (tampering)

I wonder why that is. HMMMMMM, I'm sure it's in the interest of fairness and not say increased revenue. Again to sum up, fuck that little evil midget Stern. He's only 68 too so his corrupt ass could run this league for another decade maybe more. I keep hoping, praying that something happens so they oust that bastard I hate what he has done to this sport. Before people talk about how great the league has been under him, I submit the league was great due to the stars and teams all Stern did is Tilt the game in favor of the stars and to this observer big market teams (for the love of god don't trot out San Antonio). Not an improvement at ALL.

The one improvement Stern did was getting hard drugs out of the league although that was happening on its own due to cultural shifts in the country.

 

Look, it's a clear case of tampering for teams to have conversations with players under contract (or with their representatives) with the intent of trying to get that player to push for a trade. It's not tampering for players or teams to talk to another player during free agency. Did Wade, LeBron, and Bosh talk before they were free agents about possibly teaming up this summer and, if so, was it tampering? Was it tampering for Chris Paul to say that maybe he'd like to have his own Big Three in New York in a couple of years? That's a pretty gray area as there's no specific intent to get a player to do something prior to being a free agent. I don't see the league having any interest in running around and fining every player who has a conversation about wouldn't it be really cool to play together with a buddy in the future. But, yes, that's just my opinion. [strike]Enjoy your conspiracy theories and yet another, "Oh dear, the league is picking on poor Portland again", moment.[/strike]

 

Was that really necessary? Also its not JUST Portland what about Cleveland getting fucked? What about Toronto? The league fucked them too. So Enjoy your blind faux objectivism. I suppose you think all politics is on the up and up and some hateful anti-corporate types just set up Enron. People like you blow me away. Enjoy getting fleeced repeatedly in life because you couldn't sense the scam in a game of 3 card monte on the New York Subway. Enjoy the blinders and your nice leisurely sail down De Nile.

 

Nope. It wasn't necessary and it did nothing to support my position. Sorry about that...heat of the moment stupidity, as is, I'm guessing, your response above.

 

So, are you saying that Pritchard should have gone behind Larry Miller's back, since Pritchard didn't actually author the email?

 

Yes, you're right I also apologize. There isn't more corruption today then in the past, just greater flow of information. The conspiracy ad hominem is one of my least favorites as it was thrown my way repeatedly for about 13 years now. A huge amount of the time at least 80% I ended up being right. Anyways, it doesn't matter I just hate that one because it's kind of dumb really. Conspiracy happens every day hence laws like conspiracy to commit X.

I apologize I like your posts 95% of the time FWIW.

 

BTW, I wasn't meaning your specific use of conspiracy just that it's a lazy response generally speaking. I see it thrown out all the time when people point to corruption in politics or corporations often the "wingnut" is vindicated.