Roundup: Jeremy Lin May Have a Deal with Nike, Sacha Baron Cohen Banned From the Oscars & CM Punk vs. Chris Brown
Baseball, Boxing, Jeremy Lin, Media Gossip/Musings, NBA, Race, Video, What the hell is wrong with people, WWE February 23rd. 2012, 8:09am
Nicole Scherzinger … 8-year-old girl shot by accident in school … man bites off friend’s ear … Jon Hamm interview … photoshop celebrities into your party pictures … we are the children of the web … Important: sassy starfish … woman stole 2000 library books to sell online … Jeremy Lin was asked about study hall … climbing Everest is fairly expensive … “The Geek Shall Lin-herit The Earth” … Taipei girls go a day without pants for some reason … baby squirrel monkey … 25 reasons food is better than sex (caution at work) … Sacha Baron Cohen banned from the Oscars …
CM Punk’s war with Chris Brown is delightfully pointless, but whatever. [Chicago Tribune]
Living alone is the new family. [New York Times]
Matt Kemp of the Dodgers thinks he can go 50-50 this year. That’s homers and steals. [Yahoo Sports]
According to a report, Jeremy Lin is getting his own sneaker deal with NIKE. [NY Daily News]
Columnist thinks Titans should go after Terrell Owens. [Tennessean]
Record yourself running the 40 at work and send it to Rich Eisen. [NFL]
Joakim Noah notched his first career triple-double and the Bulls beat the Bucks, 110-91. [Sun-Times]
OMG LOL this camera guy thinks Eddie George is Calvin Johnson because they’re both black or something. [TMZ]
Rainn Wilson apologized for a “poorly constructed” date-rape joke. [E!]
Mike Tyson will host a one-man show in Vegas. [Boxing Experts Blog]
Right wing talk radio host was at a gay bar to get a cold beer. [HyperVocal]
A look inside an Apple factory. [Huffington Post]
24 shows that were produced, but never properly aired. [AV Club]
American war reporter Marie Colvin killed in Syria. [Daily Mail]
Just wow. Via everybody.
Actual footage of the Hindenburg crash.
Soulja Boy would be inspired.
The trailer for Bully, a documentary that is sure to make you feel really bad about everything.
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February 23rd, 2012 at 8:17 AM
I always photoshop myself into women celebrity photos and then pass them along to FB profile for people to comment. wife not a big fan of it. where’s the love???
/back hurts from sleeping on couch for extended periods of time.
February 23rd, 2012 at 8:19 AM
Didn’t see this coming………..
February 23rd, 2012 at 8:21 AM
Schools have supposed strict anti-bully policies that are not enforced. We’ve had two suicides and a few more attempts in just the past two years. Plus the kid who was planning to blow up the high school. He counts as one of the suicides.
February 23rd, 2012 at 8:22 AM
the quadratic equation at 0:42 is wrong.
February 23rd, 2012 at 8:24 AM
This article gets props just for linking the Schmidt’s Gay sketch.
February 23rd, 2012 at 8:24 AM
You might want to put a warning on the Lin vid.
February 23rd, 2012 at 8:26 AM
Rainn Wilson needs to apologize for a lot more than that.
February 23rd, 2012 at 8:27 AM
I didn’t feel so bad anymore when “THIS SPRING” started at 1:18.
February 23rd, 2012 at 8:28 AM
He’s a member of my tennis club. Let’s just say I’m not surprised.
February 23rd, 2012 at 8:29 AM
the sassy starfish is awesome.
February 23rd, 2012 at 8:33 AM
No kids, not a teacher, but I have a question: how widespread is the bully issue? Do I only hear about the extreme worst cases in the news, making it feel like the problem is more prevalent than it actually is? No justification in that comment, only curiosity.
February 23rd, 2012 at 8:37 AM
I highly doubt that anyone who would even remotely consider that video funny would notice.
/also noticed that they changed the “limit” reference from lim to lin.
February 23rd, 2012 at 8:40 AM
Hello, planes? This is blimps. You win.
February 23rd, 2012 at 8:40 AM
I believe some of the bullying that happens in school today really escalates because of the likes of cell phones, FB, etc. When you were younger, you got into fights cause you opened your mouth, things were said on the playyard, etc and then you won/lost and moved on. I think words posted via text/FB and sent out on a larger scale is what is really does the damage today. When you got in a fight (at least when I was younger), what 5 or 6 people where there to see it and kids forgot about it? Nowadays, it’s posted on Youtube in 12 secs for the whole world to view
February 23rd, 2012 at 8:42 AM
Weren’t we reading just a couple months ago that more single people, though not necessarily in a relationship, are living together? These sort of stories are such bullshit.
February 23rd, 2012 at 8:42 AM
the quadratic equation at 0:42 is wrong.
and
/also noticed that they changed the “limit” reference from lim to lin.
nerds
February 23rd, 2012 at 8:44 AM
Jon Hamm. Yum!
February 23rd, 2012 at 8:47 AM
Archer high five! Just watched the entire first season this week thanks to Netflix.
February 23rd, 2012 at 8:48 AM
Bullying is the “in” thing to be irrationally worried about. 2 of my wife’s cousins have “onlies” and one is in therapy for being bullied, and the mom of the other is down at the kid’s kindergarten every day to try and catch three kindergarten bullies in the act of terrorizing her precious precious. I’m not saying that bullying is BS, but this mom stalks her kid’s kinder class to watch him, in case three bullying five year olds bully her squishy five year old.
February 23rd, 2012 at 8:53 AM
I wish they’d get the second season on there, too. Because there are some real gems in that run.
February 23rd, 2012 at 8:53 AM
the hell it is.
/checks page views
February 23rd, 2012 at 8:53 AM
“Bomb-defusing camp?”
“No, lacrosse camp, but the skills are universal.”
February 23rd, 2012 at 8:55 AM
I got “bullied” pretty mercilessly from 3rd through 6th grade (Catholic pre-K through 8th school, class sizes of 30 per class), and I’m 99% sure it made me a better person. Didn’t really see it as bullying back then, though. It was just fights and getting made fun of. I just couldn’t figure out why the kids hated me so much. I changed schools in 7th grade and was thrust into popularity as the new kid, so that was nice.
/bullying is overrated
February 23rd, 2012 at 8:59 AM
“No, you idiot. M. As in, Mancy”
February 23rd, 2012 at 8:59 AM
I did some go with the crowd bullying. Definitely not proud of it, epecially this one kid who peed his pants all the time and cried a lot. I would hope to think if it went beyond simple mocking I would have stopped. By the time I got to high school I didn’t partake in any of it and my high school was so big everyone didn’t know everyone.
February 23rd, 2012 at 8:59 AM
chicago – were you a fatty?
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:00 AM
Big Bully was such an awful movie.
/moon rock
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:00 AM
I was bullied like whoa when I was school about my weight and race, and that was with me being fairly social and playing sports year-round. I can’t imagine how bad it would’ve been if I didn’t have the 10′s in my Mazada and take AP Biology.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:00 AM
If the anti-bullying campaigns stop one kid from administering that devastating wedgie or swirly, than I’m all for the campaigns, movies, etc.
But it is horribly naive to think that bullying will just go away because of a documentary or a few facebook campaign. As parents, we have to be better at helping kids cope when they are bullied.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:01 AM
Potato, Po-Dildo.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:02 AM
Also- did you wear sweatpants and pop a lot of boners? And constantly pick your nose?
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:02 AM
I don’t know the point of this video, but I found it to be quite awesome.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:02 AM
This was actually a good shootback to a no name
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:03 AM
I was bullied fairly badly most of elementary & middle school, eventually I developed thicker skin, just dealt with it and found my niche. It just sucks because kids are so much worse now it seems than they were when I was growing up.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:03 AM
No, I realized later that I was just in a really weird class. Not many of the kids turned out very well. A couple got arrested for dealing coke, another impregnated a non-english speaking illegal (I guess that’s not so bad, it’s just weird), and another got arrested for armed robbery. This is out of one class of 30 kids.
I was the best athlete and the smartest boy in the class by far. I wasn’t conceited about it back then, either. I had 1 or 2 friends in my class, but most everyone else just went in on me daily. Like I said, I just switched schools mid 7th grade and I was suddenly a popular kid. It was very surreal for me at the time.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:04 AM
I love the “I was bullied as a kid so now I’m an expert on bullying” mentality. I am so sorry that the anti-bullying message is an inconvenience to you. I guess the kids that kill themselves due to this are just weak. What about the rape victims, they just asking for it too?
Nothing wrong with helping out some kids who can’t help themselves.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:04 AM
truf.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:05 AM
when I was in elementary and high school I was kind of a dick. not really bullying because there was never anything violent, just making fun of people a lot. looking back on it I feel like a real asshole, especially since I have a nephew that gets picked on quite a bit.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:05 AM
Going through what I went through made me be nice to the kids that got picked on real bad in high school, but I admit that I didn’t ever stand up for them. Which is shitty, in hindsight.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:06 AM
Punk’s shootback about being a gutless coward for beating women was better.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:07 AM
not enough information…like, how were they dressed? or, were they on a date with Teddy Dupay?
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:07 AM
Yeah, I’m not going to be a parent that always assumes my child is perfect and be a dick to teachers. I hate that mentality.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:07 AM
Wright State Raider.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:07 AM
nice tranny round up pic.
i bully my peen sometimes.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:08 AM
Didn’t really mean to send this message, and I was joking when I said bullying is overrated.
But I do think getting my ass beat as a little kid 2-3 times a week on the playground would allow me to state I would know something more about bullying than someone that didn’t deal with the same thing.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:09 AM
I was bullied alot in school too. Know what stopped it? Fighting back some. Problem is, that’s been taken away from the kids getting bullied these days.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:10 AM
“Hooray for metaphors!”
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:11 AM
I can never grasp how it gets to the point where thoughts of suicide arise. I find myself wondering how the parents, if around, didn’t notice anything different about the kid.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:11 AM
I’d like to hear sportsgal’s opinion since she’s the bulliest of the bullies around here.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:12 AM
What’s happening in that Jon Hamm article it’s like Notes From The Underground with a distrustful and somewhat sinister narrator.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:12 AM
When I was a freshman, the seniors at the time would always knock the books out of the freshman’s hands — this one dude who, looking back on it, was a legendary prick, would always get my books coming through this one hallway. He tried it one day and I elbowed him right in the face with the book holding arm — he stopped. The best though, was my senior year when my friends put swastikas and hitler pictures all over my locker. One said “KingGrizz killed my grandma.” Good times.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:12 AM
“she proved a puny plaything in the mighty grip of fate”
great narration.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:13 AM
Similar situation here, except the worst of the bullying happened to me in high school. I took it and developed a pretty thick skin. None of it bothered me that much, especially once I graduated and never had to see those people again.
Now I see those people on Facebook or wherever and laugh at the fact that they amounted to pretty much nothing.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:13 AM
in NJ, technically everything falls under the teacher to write a report about if the kid mentions it in classs. One admin in my wife’s school is actually handling just the reports full time and they had to hire someone else to do her real job.
i get the idea, teach them young enough that it won’t be tolerated and it will be minimized as they grow up.
i was bullied a bit, and thankfully, the wonders of facebook have allowed me to see the lives my bullies are currently living. Nothing like seeing “single, living in the same tiny town, at home with a part time job, and wall posts about people picking on them for being individuals” while I’m married, holding a steady well paying job and own my own home.
Karma is awesome.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:14 AM
I was bullied alot in school too. Know what stopped it? Fighting back some. Problem is, that’s been taken away from the kids getting bullied these days.
There was some something somewhere that I read where something like 90% (approximate, as I’m pulling from a foggy memory) of kids said they had been bullied, and something like 80% of those same kids said they had bullied somebody.
I think the worst I had it was in grade 7. I was a huge, huge, fat kid, and waiting on a growth spurt (passing the time eating tacos and cake), and we went into junior high with grade 7 and 8, where a dozen schools combined kids. And there were so many left back 8th graders there, just waiting to pound on pudgy white boys. The first few days it was inevitable that you’d take a few beatings. So all the white kids did.
Basically the opposite of Payaso. But all the bad stuff. Book stealing, gum in the hair, kicked in the pussy, it all happened to me.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:15 AM
I understand the bullying. The thing that baffles me is how and when did suicide become such a prominent option to kids so young? I’ve seen stories of 9 and 10 year olds committing suicide.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:15 AM
Yeah, I was pretty much nice to everyone, but didnt get involved with standing up for those that were picked on because I was afraid the preppy kids would come after me next. I was happy in my middle class status in high school.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:16 AM
I guess the kids that kill themselves due to this are just weak.
I can never grasp how it gets to the point where thoughts of suicide arise.
that shit gets introduced from television. There’s a suicide epidemic, but it’s on television shows. They have suicides at DeGrassi junior high. And butt sex.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:17 AM
can’t monitor text messages, private facebook posts and other online harrassment. it seems most of it stems from that.
i can see how kids could feel hopeless if they can’t get away from it, even at home, and it’s heart breaking.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:17 AM
Well, in some places bullying is actually pseudo-legislated.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:17 AM
didn’t TBL do this with Alba?
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:17 AM
Agreed. The “No Tolerance” rule, even if you’re fighting back, you get nailed as well, which is total bullshit. I told my boy last year if a kid did something to him again, just take a swing right & then to knock that shit off. My wife got on me about the no tolerance thing and told him to ignore the kid. I call bullshit on that.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:19 AM
didn’t TBL do this with Alba?
and more recently, one of Paul Lynde’s shirts
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:19 AM
I got picked on mercilessly throughout middle school. Whole classes used to chase me at recess.
Cuz I was one ugly mo-fo.
Helped me in football in high school though, and I can now tell my 5-yr old “You don’t know bullying!” till the cows come home. He just looks at me and says “Yep, I got nothin’ on you…”
At 8, he’ll start bullying ME…
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:20 AM
Then don’t accept em? Block em etc.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:20 AM
+1
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:20 AM
yup, b/c even if there is evidence that a kid was being bullied for a long time and finally snapped by popping that kid in the nose, he’d get suspended or expelled for the same term as the bully.
and kids who stand up for others are also handled the same way with zero tolerance policies on fighting and causing a scene.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:21 AM
It’s hard to put too much on the parents. It’s really, really hard to know what’s going on in your child’s mind/life all the time, mostly because kids don’t want their parents to know. As a general rule I think parents should be more involved in all aspects of their children’s lives, but that’s not easy. Especially as you slide down the socioeconomic scale.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:21 AM
We going for 25 posts today? — because it looks like I wont be busy and I’m ready
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:22 AM
Only two posts up so far?
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:22 AM
Can’t you limit access to both of these things? You can’t stop your kid from seeing something at a friend’s house or on a friend’s phone, but you don’t have to provide the same access at home. Seems like you have to burn considerable calories these days to stay involved and up-to-date as a parent, so I wonder about the parents that aren’t. Then again, I wonder about the parentes that infiltrate every aspect of a child’s life, too.
I’d like to think I’d do the same thing. I’ll go to bat for my kid with the school if he/she is trying to protect himself/herself.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:23 AM
It’s hard to put too much on the parents.
even the dad on Modern Family didn’t know that his skanky daughter put out.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:23 AM
Just close your fist as tight as you can, the straighter the punch the harder and aim for the nose. Once his eyes are watering you can wail on him until you start to feel bad.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:23 AM
Nice gag, Luke Donald.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:24 AM
Fist pounds KC
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:25 AM
best way is to not give your kid facebook access or cell phones until they are much older.
facebook isn’t exactly friendly to limiting the spread of information on their site, i’ve got tight privacy settings and i still get notifications about friends posting on other people’s wall or “liking” a video from someone i’ve never heard of before. kids who have friended everyone in their class that don’t use privacy settings would have issues.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:25 AM
Im at the point where I really wanna see Chris Brown beaten within an inch of his life on live TV
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:25 AM
I understand the bullying. The thing that baffles me is how and when did suicide become such a prominent option to kids so young? I’ve seen stories of 9 and 10 year olds committing suicide.
agree. i dont remember anyone committing suicide when i was younger, and there was plenty of bullying going on then.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:25 AM
Did you hear Wheels has been dead for 5 years and they just announced it last week?
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:26 AM
I’d slap a keylogger on my kid’s computer in a cocaine heartbeat.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:26 AM
Bullying is as fake as peanut allergies and social anxiety disorder.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:26 AM
Pantsless Thursday? Pantsless Thursday.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:27 AM
Im at the point where I really wanna see Chris Brown beaten within an inch of his life on live TV
I love how him beating Ri-Ri galvanized the American public agaisnt him. I also enjoy CM Punk calling him out on twitter. If you are on #teambreezy, you need a serious self evaluation.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:28 AM
I’m extremely lucky. Despite my demographic I was never bullied.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:28 AM
There should really be a Sportscenter special on Roy Oswalt’s decision
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:28 AM
agreed. Bullies don’t understand ignoring. They see it as a sign of weakness. The zero tolerance rules probably has a lot to do with the suicides. I had to let my son know, he has a right to fight himself out of a situation if he has to. Because I went over different scenarios with him such as being hemmed up in a bathroom or a corner where no teacher is around, and he kept saying ” I can’t fight, its against the rules”.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:29 AM
Don Draper. LEGEND.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:30 AM
The definitive book on the Columbine massacre, titled, uh, Columbine, spends a lot of time focusing on the parents of Kliebold and Harris. The outraged community turned a lot of their anger toward those families, blaming them for not doing enough to prevent the killings. There are some interviews in there that really make you feel for those parents.
Basically, sometimes kids do bad shit and there’s no one to blame but the kids.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:30 AM
He’s a Blues fan. Fuck him.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:30 AM
There is zero chance my boys will have a computer of their own before high school. Same this with a cell phone. No reason for a kid to have one before they’re 16.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:30 AM
I sadly saw some of your demographic bullied at my high school. I felt bad for the kids, can’t be easy to live in the bible belt south and deal with it. My brother never officially came out in high school, but he went to the Catholic hs and I went to the public and he get bullied mercilessly.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:31 AM
Fist pounds KC King Grizz
Fist pounds constitutes bullying in some schools.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:31 AM
Can I ask if you were ‘out’ in school?
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:32 AM
i’m going to sign my future kid up for karate or kung fu or ninja academy early on. be all zen and shit, bust some heads when needed.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:32 AM
Where I grew up had a really wide range of socioeconomic backgrounds — people on food stamps and living in government housing to CEOs of Fortune 500 companies kids — so it was more of a social class thing than a bullying thing. The poor kids hated the rich kids, the rich kids looked down on the poor kids, and the middle class kids (me) kinda had to make due.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:33 AM
Completely agree. That’s almost certainly part of why bullying seems to be an amplified issue these days. The kids with cell phones, computer, facebook, twitter, etc have no respite if they are bullied. For me, I just had to get through the school day and then I got to go hang out with my track club or soccer friends at practice. Some of these kids get an endless flow of being destroyed mentally just because of technology.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:34 AM
It was weird for me as I came to this country at 15, and got dropped right into HS in a small Jersey Italian town. I got picked on by fat football players because of my accent and cultural ignorance. Things changed when I ran track with the most popular kid in my grade, and started kicking ass in class.
I’d slap a keylogger on my kid’s computer in a cocaine heartbeat.
Damn fucking straight!
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:34 AM
the shocking thing to me about bullying is it’s existence in the first place. I graduated highschool with just under 400 other seniors and can’t think of a single person that was bullied in my hometown while we were growing up. I didn’t live in some utopia, kids just got into real fucking trouble if they instigated shit or began picking on someone. fights at my school were immediately followed with expulsion, and there was no honor associated with being suspended or expelled; it was a shameful event.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:34 AM
DeGrassi was the funniest show to watch high ever.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:36 AM
i’m going to sign my future kid up for karate or kung fu or ninja academy early on. Kaiser
Taekwondo seems to be the rage for young ones around here. I kind of dismissed it as a fad, but watching the kids in Taekwondo play around with the kids not in Taekwondo, I can tell they got self-defense skills. I’m talking 5, 6, 7 year olds.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:37 AM
Someone change Miz to “Asian” on the spreadsheet.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:37 AM
Glad I’m not the only one amused by that train wreck of a photo.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:37 AM
Oh, hell no. Not ’til I was 30. I lived in mortal fear of anyone finding out my “secret” and didn’t even act on my feelings ’til 28.
Not quite Steve Carrell, but somewhat close.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:38 AM
Link?
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:38 AM
There is zero chance my boys will have a computer of their own before high school.
Just wondering, but do you have a kid? Just wondering. My kid is in kindergarten and they have six computers in the classroom plus two computer classes a week in the computer lab. Not to mention the web related homework he has once a week. I think that ship has sailed.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:38 AM
How the fuck can Jon Hamm not read if he was an English teacher? Fascinated by this interview.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:38 AM
HtownHacker is Batman? And Batman is gay?
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:39 AM
MMA straight out da womb
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:39 AM
Don’t believe everything you read.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:39 AM
Isn’t that far worse than typical bullying? Your kid will end up wearing tin foil hats all the time and get bullied worse. Also, as he is growing up with the internet he’ll figure out pretty quickly how to get around it while learning not to trust you.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:40 AM
Someone change Miz to “Asian” on the spreadsheet.
cowboy mike, funniest person on this site.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:40 AM
You feel any backlash from that? The kids at my school who had gay siblings were teased pretty ruthlessly.
The worst for me was transferring from catholic school to a public school in the 6th grade. I didn’t know anyone and showed up the first day in my Sunday best as I had done every year since. I learned right quick to ask for jeans and t-shirts for my birthday.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:40 AM
yeah, my college roommate is a black belt in taekwondo and showed me some simple self defense things. never mastered how to disarm an attacker with blade, but i do remember the pain he put into my shoulder showing me how it’s done.
whatever martial arts is used in batman begins and the dark knight seems pretty cool to learn.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:40 AM
I got picked on a ton from fifth grade through most of my senior year. I was fat, had stupid hair, hit my growth spurt late, and sweated a lot because of the medicine I took for my asthma (No, I didn’t stink).
My school was full of a lot of well-to-do kids who thought they were better than everyone, plus it was very clique-y. I was a momma’s boy yet my dad was tough on me b/c his dad was on him so I pretty much just accepted all of the shit thrown at me from classmates. I tried to make peace with the other kids, avoid them in the hallways, ignore them, and even a few times fight back. All of it only festered the “bullying.”
It sucked, really sucked, and I stayed home “sick” quite a few times. By the end of my senior year I made a few friends and didn’t give a fuck about those assholes. Graduation was a watershed moment for my life; I turned a page. I look at my life now and realize how much stronger that bullshit made me. But damn if it didn’t almost break me.
I feel bad for every kid who’s seriously bullied. There’s a difference between getting shit, being picked on a bit, and having your life completely dictated by the actions of others.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:41 AM
Is the elusive TBL spreadsheet ever going to be revealed?
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:41 AM
The Haters Guide to the Oscars on DS is a delight. Also a delight, the Nat Geo special on the Escort Industry I watched last night. Interesting stuff. May as well legalize prostitution so the women can get protection and bennys. Those escort services are scum bags.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:41 AM
Supervised usage. And my kids are definitely not going to be allowed to play half the video games I play until they’re 14-15 either.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:42 AM
Just wondering, but do you have a kid? Just wondering. My kid is in kindergarten and they have six computers in the classroom plus two computer classes a week in the computer lab. Not to mention the web related homework he has once a week. I think that ship has sailed.
I agree. My 7&8 year old kids use a reading comprehension program called Raz Kids, which is exclusively online.
Instead of not giving them a computer, get one and lock it down tight with browser and parental controls. It’s pretty easy to do.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:42 AM
I’d like an escort? Where to? How about Orgasmville?
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:42 AM
Nice gag, Luke Donald.
Idiot won both money lists and changed up his equipment in the offseason.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:42 AM
No, it isn’t.
You sound like you’re projecting.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:43 AM
lollercoaster
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:43 AM
Nothing ruins a Modern Warfare 3 online session like the high-pitched whining of a 10-year-old who shouldn’t even be playing the game.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:44 AM
Weak gear. I’d want my kids to learn what Bourne uses.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:44 AM
Yeah, I got further and he can totally read. He was just kidding.
Conclusion: I want to hang out with Jon Hamm.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:45 AM
Whoever said ‘pimping ain’t easy’ probably never had a real job. Seems like all you do slap women around until they pay you for blowing dudes. Some SEO, baby powder and your set.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:46 AM
That makes two of us.
/Googles “caring for eagles”
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:46 AM
The Twitters.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:46 AM
I must have gone to a bizzaro high school, as I never really saw any bullying, nor was I the victim of it. Of course there were people that would crack jokes at others expense if they did something dumb/funny I guess, but it wasn’t mean in nature, as far as I can recall. I went to a pretty huge high school too.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:47 AM
I called out TBL on his twitter picture last night saying he had a played out haircut and weak gear, thought there was a ban hammer possibility — turns out he liked it, he really liked it!
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:48 AM
that’s true, but in all fairness bourne is normally running away or in 1 on 1 situations. batman is normally surrounded by thugs who want to beat him up b/c he wears a costume, similar to bullying in school.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:48 AM
Watching these +7′s hit out of bushes in the desert is awesome. It makes me feel better about my game.
It also makes you wonder why the fuck they don’t just bop it back out on the fairway instead of doing a baatan death march through the desert to the green.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:49 AM
I want to hang out with Jon Hamm.
Do you ever find yourself on the toilet craving quality sliced ham? if so, try jon’s can hamm.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:49 AM
Just keep it under 50 comments today KingGrizz
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:50 AM
I’m worried about my kid and being bullied for having two dads. Got to get him in boxing or karate classes from the get go.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:50 AM
ha! i was playing battlefield 3, my wife was in the room, the next day is one of her student’s birthdays and he says that he is going to game stop to get battlefield 3 and modern warfare. he was 9. my wife was dumbfounded the parents were taking him to buy those games.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:50 AM
No my parents still do not know how to use a computer. Websites probably exist now to tell you if spy software is installed. Also how can you act on the information you get? And should you really be reading your kids love letters? Creepy. This isn’t about shooting a laptop with a ’45 is it?
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:50 AM
What’s this now?
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:51 AM
My God. Really? And is it me? Or is it 1987? A winged collar? Are you doing this? No, that’s great. Maybe you and Nearl, your fucking prom date, can borrow your dad’s fucking time machine and fly it in to the gym at I’m-a-jackoff-high-school and slow dance to Lisa, Lisa, and mother fucking Cult Jam.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:51 AM
Krav Maga
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:52 AM
That Hamm Esquire piece is easily the best non-sports related link I’ve evr seen here. Thanks for that CRM. Just made my day.
See you guys in Ballin’. Joakim triple double!
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:52 AM
I’m not having children.
My oldest nephew is a total pussy. His younger brother is a champ though, beats the shit out of the older one. He’s my little hero.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:52 AM
Just keep it under 50 comments today KingGrizz
Ha, to be honest — I didn’t even think 52 was alot. It seems like more than average, but not enough for our fearless leader to mention it.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:53 AM
The shooting the laptop thing is not even close to monitoring your child’s online activity.
And I hate to break it to you, but monitoring your child’s online activity is responsible parenting. One day, when you become a parent, you’ll learn that.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:53 AM
“Bully” by Shinedown is a pretty horrible song.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:54 AM
hey UM, you got a morning golf feed? the only thing I’ve seen, at least yesterday, was afternoon only on pga.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:54 AM
What gets me is how they talk when playing. The 9- and 10-year-olds drop f-bombs and various slurs like crazy. Very disturbing.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:54 AM
That shit looks like it’s from about 10 years ago. Yes?
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:56 AM
That shit looks like it’s from about 10 years ago. Yes?
It looks like a picture John Walsh would put up at the end of an American’s Most Wanted segment
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:57 AM
Never really bad. When I was in Catholic school I was pretty popular. I was also third in my family and my sister had ton of rep as the rebel girl. MY brother unfortunately was a tiny dude who hung out with girls. He wasnt effiminate, but he got picked on a ton. If I had continued to the Catholic high school, I definitely would have continued on the road of being a huge douchebag. My mom yanking me into public school was a huge decision for the better in my life.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:57 AM
I just spoke to the tech admins over at USA Today SMG. Spreadsheet being upgradeded… look for a early summer release.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:57 AM
I’m guessing that IS a decade-old pic of TBL.
Anything new would have him flexing those triceps.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:58 AM
All of this!
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:58 AM
ha! i was playing battlefield 3, my wife was in the room, the next day is one of her student’s birthdays and he says that he is going to game stop to get battlefield 3 and modern warfare. he was 9. my wife was dumbfounded the parents were taking him to buy those games.
What gets me is how they talk when playing. The 9- and 10-year-olds drop f-bombs and various slurs like crazy. Very disturbing.
Certain games are not meant for kids to play or even watch an adult play. My son is 7 and I only play games like modern warfare, battlefield 3 and GTA when he’s asleep or not home. There are certain things in life I dont feel like he should be exposed to yet.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:58 AM
Thanks, Obama.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:59 AM
What’s this now?
Someone, the name escapes me who — has allegedly made a spreadsheet that has all of the TBL memes listed and backstories on commenters.
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:59 AM
Pimping is mental not physical.
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:01 AM
I believe some of the bullying that happens in school today really escalates because of the likes of cell phones, FB, etc. When you were younger, you got into fights cause you opened your mouth, things were said on the playyard, etc and then you won/lost and moved on. to view
I assure you, bullying was going on before FB and Twitter and YouTube. All the social media shit just means there’s a larger window into that world.
I love the “I was bullied as a kid so now I’m an expert on bullying” mentality. I am so sorry that the anti-bullying message is an inconvenience to you. I guess the kids that kill themselves due to this are just weak.
Was bullied pretty fucking bad throughout grade school and high school. Got bad to the point where I considered suicide on several occasions. I was a socially awkward kid made an even bigger introvert as a result. And that shit shapes you as an adult. I won’t claim to be an expert, but that shit is real and it’s fucking awful. Yeah, rules are on the books, but until schools do more to protect the kids, you’re going to keep having the problems.
/drops mic
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:02 AM
That’s incredible.
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:04 AM
7 Marines killed in copter collision over Yuma, AZ in night training exercise
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:06 AM
Man I feel like an asshole now that I’m one of the few who was never bullied in school. Having a class of 700+ helps I guess.
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:06 AM
My parents had me go the Catholic route because they thought I would be surrounded by good influences. When a kid was caught drinking Jack they realized that paying the extra money for a Catholic experience wasn’t really worth it.
I’m glad I made the switch too.
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:06 AM
Difference between monitoring and spying on every keystroke. Generally don’t go for something morally wrong for the purported good of the children. Won’t someone please think of the children is responsible for a lot of retardation. Seems like a control freak thing, do not see how reading your kids love letters will help you child. When they find out they will justifiably freak out. Also on 4chan there are many stories on children wreaking havoc on their parents for spying on them. What are you expecting to find Jack Bauer you kid supplying a dirty bomb to the taliban or how much they have a crush on the kid sitting beside them?
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:06 AM
it doesn’t exist because that “someone” is SouvenirCity and his hairy ass* is too lazy to finish it.
*haven’t seen it myself…this is an assumpion based on context clues
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:06 AM
Whenever something tragic happens in Arizona I hope it’s in Winslow so I can make a lot of insufferable Eagles references.
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:06 AM
What the fuck is wrong with parents?
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:08 AM
Someone, the name escapes me who — has allegedly made a spreadsheet that has all of the TBL memes listed and backstories on commenters.
If Nick Papageorgio is not on that spreadsheet I will consider it null and void.
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:08 AM
It looks like a picture John Walsh would put up at the end of an American’s Most Wanted segment
He def looks…mentally troubled. And Im relieved cuz I thought I was the only one who actually followed him still
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:08 AM
@Heldover I feel you….people who haven’t experienced serious bullying don’t understand the bredth and depth of its effects….
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:09 AM
Difference between monitoring and spying on every keystroke
Are you a parent.
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:10 AM
Someone, the name escapes me who — has allegedly made a spreadsheet that has all of the TBL memes listed and backstories on commenters.
I thought SC made that?
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:10 AM
My parents thought that two, but by the time they got to child #3, me, they ahd learned. The Catholic school kids were the worst of the bunch on the whole. They were into drinking and drugs and had their parents money to do it.
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:10 AM
And Im relieved cuz I thought I was the only one who actually followed him still
I’m still on there — I’m just waiting for another Erik Ainge scenario and I want to be there to see it. Though it seems like you gain alot of street cred if you get blocked.
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:10 AM
What the fuck is wrong with parents?
Meh, I was playing Resident Evil when I was 9. I mean, I am a little out there, but I don’t think it has anything to do with that game.
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:10 AM
Legend.
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:11 AM
hahaha
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:11 AM
I went to a small private school and got picked on mostly by the same guys I considered my friends. I left there after 8th grade went to public school and made new friends didnt get picked on anymore and I have better relationships to this day with friends i went to school with for 4 years as oppossed to those I went to school with for 8 years. Bullying sucks. My nephew is 6 and picks on my son sometimes mainly because he is bigger and I have to stop myself from kicking his ass.I usually try and give him a pass b/c he doesnt let other kids pick on him.
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:12 AM
No its not. As a parent you do what you have to do, monitor (or any other word you want to replace it with)to raise and teach your child.
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:12 AM
Once I hit high school and started to diversify my activities (running track & cross-country, being on the newspaper, ultimate frisbee) and having a class of 800+, the bullying really went away.
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:13 AM
My first comment ever was to tear into Nick Papageorgio for all his Kobe hating back in like 2008. I was way too emotional. Needless to say, I got owned like a noob.
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:14 AM
needs more mldatx.
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:14 AM
i’m working on getting all that our of my system now before kids show up.
unfortunately, most games that an adult would want to play are completely unsuitable or extremely questionable for kids.
sad thing is, when i started playing video games the most violent game available was duck hunt.
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:16 AM
I feel you….people who haven’t experienced serious bullying don’t understand the bredth and depth of its effects….
Alls I know is I’m telling my kid, “if somebody puts their hands you, swing away.” My mom was the classic “just ignore them, don’t retaliate” parent, and I was afraid my dad would get mad at me if I ever fought back, and since he never really said much on the subject, I was kinda left to my own devices. I’m convinced that my best friend saved my life just by being around all those years.
/cues piano music
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:19 AM
sad thing is, when i started playing video games the most violent game available was duck hunt.
I thought I was really cool because I played Mortal Kombat when I was around 10-11 with blood mode on. There was a certain match when Goro fell from the top of the screen — and I was so freaked out I turned the system off.
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:19 AM
sad thing is, when i started playing video games the most violent game available was duck hunt.
No way
/Contra’d
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:19 AM
Small sample size.
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:20 AM
that guy was such a bully, amirite!?
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:21 AM
My first comment ever was to tear into Nick Papageorgio for all his Kobe hating back in like 2008. I was way too emotional. Needless to say, I got owned like a noob.
my first comment engaged spencer after he made some crack about Wisconsin football.
ownage ensued.
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:22 AM
/public school education’d
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:22 AM
The biggest bully in TBL history is Paolo, I don’t even think it’s close.
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:24 AM
If Im not on that spreadsheet Im considering all of you bullies
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:25 AM
he did. I’m not sure it has ever seen the light of day, though.
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:28 AM
The biggest bully in TBL history is Paolo, I don’t even think it’s close.
Paolo was an idiot, but I enjoyed his nonsensical assery. I wouldn’t call him a bully merely because I couldn’t take him seriously.
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:29 AM
Paolo was an idiot, but I enjoyed his nonsensical assery. I wouldn’t call him a bully merely because I couldn’t take him seriously.
I was still in lurking status during the Paolo heyday — I remember getting texts from other lurkers at work asking if I had read the latest Paolo rants. Why did he leave?
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:30 AM
Wtnt to Catholic school from grade 1 thru 9, switched to public school in 10th. Percentage-wise, just about the same amount of pot smokers, drinkers, hard asses in Catholic as in Public. Glad I switched as well.
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:30 AM
If I recall correctly, it was not his choice. I think he got the banhammer one day.
I’m hoping SuperAndy is on the spreadsheet. He was the best.
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:31 AM
Lana! No! The hydrogen!
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:32 AM
If Im not on that spreadsheet Im considering all of you bullies
How long have you been here, like a week? You gotta put some time in.
/got here at the time of the Cowherd incident.
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:34 AM
Best part about private high school for me was the fact that it better prepared me for college. I was able to skip English classes in college because I was taught certain writing formats (MLA, APA, etc.) in high school that other kids had yet to learn.
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:34 AM
Why did he leave?
If I recall correctly, it was not his choice. I think he got the banhammer one day.
Yeah, as opposed to a bunch of folks who just left and claimed to be banned, Paolo got the fucking banhammer hard. He came back as Paolo X for a short period and then got thumped again. Still shows up in the comment section of TSH’s blog every now and again. Why he got punted? Can’t remember, but probably had something to do with too many borderline racist posts.
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:35 AM
/got here at the time of the Cowherd incident.
First Norman Chad interview here.
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:35 AM
How long has this site been up? Seems to be some seious history up in here….
I found it through EDSBS and checked in sporadically, then started reading and lurking regularly AC (After Cowherd). Only recently started commenting, mostly on soccer posts or to ask a dumb noob site-specific question.
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:37 AM
He had more homophobic than racist posts I think. But yeah he was racist too. Wacko Italian.
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:38 AM
My favorite Paolo moments were when he called CJ a fag and when he pretended to have gone to Notre Dame to make a point about the school and Jersey called him out on it.
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:38 AM
First Norman Chad interview here.
KC, you might be on the longest serving commenters here. You are verging on emeritus status.
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:40 AM
I just went to http://www.sportsherniablog.com/
It appears Paolo X is TSH’s only commenter.
CJ – Yeah, that’s right. He was the big homophobe guy. Racist guy was Tar Baby. He didn’t last long. The night Obama got elected will go down as the biggest and most entertaining TBLAD trainwreck ever.
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:40 AM
always wondered if the deadspin post on that eventually led to their demise when readers found a popular sports blog that didn’t require commenter auditions or some bullshit just to comment.
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:41 AM
My favorite Paolo moments were when he called CJ a fag
Loved it. It was the day after we all discovered that CJ was a girl. So we started using gender specific terming when referring to her. Paola either missed the revelation that CJ was a girl or refused to believe and kept asserting that “CJ isn’t a girl, CJ is a fucking faggot” for at least a week.
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:41 AM
Looks like we’re off the bullying topic but I found having an angry wall of meat as a friend worked quite well.
6’3″ 135 as a senior. Easy target.
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:42 AM
Let’s get it straight…I was drafted by a few commenters to convince TBL he had to go. He was a disruptive bojack ninnie, and the legend of considerable influence was born.
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:43 AM
[insert "joke" that includes an obscure reference that everyone has to Google and then pretends to understand while giving you a +1]
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:43 AM
KC, you might be on the longest serving commenters here. You are verging on emeritus status.
All the other got pissed and left. Tags, Sparty, Nick P., a few others. Miz has been around forever. Same with Clown/Payaso and Dirt/Clay. There may be others, but they’ve switch their names so often I can’t keep up.
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:44 AM
KC is longest serving for sure. Then I’d say clown, sportsgal, and myself would be next.
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:45 AM
Oh, yeah. Jay V has been around forever also. Bojack. Ha.
always wondered if the deadspin post on that eventually led to their demise
Deadspin’s demise? Not my favorite blog, but the readership has tripled (at least) since emo-Leitch left.
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:45 AM
/dick joke
// last post i saw on there, maybe 3 commenters. does anyone read that site anymore?
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:46 AM
When did you guys start? I’m curious as to where I fall in. I think I started in late April ’08 during the NBA playoffs.
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:47 AM
KC is longest serving for sure. Then I’d say clown, sportsgal, and myself would be next.
Definitely all old timers. I can remember when the Maj from KSK used to comment here. He was kind of a dick.
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:47 AM
“What part of that are you not getting”
“The core concept obviously.”
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:49 AM
“What part of that are you not getting”
“The core concept obviously.”
Still one of my three favorite episodes.
“Hooray for metaphors!”
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:49 AM
When was Whitlock interview? Fall ’06?
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:50 AM
How long have you been here, like a week? You gotta put some time in.
Est. March 2011
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:50 AM
might be one of the raunchiest ones they have ever done.
cancer rampage takes the cake
‘did you watch regis this morning?’
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:50 AM
I started late in 09 when I got my current job, can’t remember my first comment. I had been reading for years before that though.
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:53 AM
might be one of the raunchiest ones they have ever done.
You think? Aside from Lana walking around in underwear and discussion of unruly bush and hairless labia, I can’t recall anything else.
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:54 AM
Oh yes I guess there was Cyril and Carol and all of the choking during sex. Had forgotten about that part.
Yeah, I’ll agree then. Pretty raunchy.
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:54 AM
the days of Jesus commenting on here were legendary.
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:54 AM
the days of Jesus commenting on here were legendary.
Jesus was great. God was also briefly a commenter here. No word on whether or not they were related.
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:58 AM
agreed. SVPStyle was Hernia before Hernia.
February 23rd, 2012 at 11:00 AM
Absolutely!
Roman War Helmet is another classic from way back. I’m surprised he didn’t pop in to crow about the Giants this year. He was esp. good at dressing TBL down on the Jets.
February 23rd, 2012 at 11:01 AM
agreed. SVPStyle was Hernia before Hernia.
Oh shit, you just sent me in a trip through the way back machine miz. He and CRM used to tag team the beginning of each comment section.
February 23rd, 2012 at 11:02 AM
I can remember when the Maj from KSK used to comment here. He was kind of a dick.
Ufford did to. They had just started KSK and were trolling for links to their blog. Both were tremendous assholes.
SVPStyle was Hernia before Hernia.
Yes. Good memory.
February 23rd, 2012 at 11:02 AM
Roman War Helmet
What I loved about his comments were that they were all paragraph length and were guaranteed to include at least two ellipses in them.
February 23rd, 2012 at 11:03 AM
I started reading and commenting on the site regularly after the Bears went to the Super Bowl in 06.
February 23rd, 2012 at 11:08 AM
I remember – you put Sarah Spain on blast for soliciting herself for tickets.
February 23rd, 2012 at 11:09 AM
Of the old-timers, who can forget this whiny ass post from Ufford… http://kissingsuzykolber.uproxx.com/2008/06/jason-mcintyre-tell-me-how-my-ass-tastes.html
Also, Hef used to write a weekly post called Hef’s Chronicles. I think it ran late on Friday. And then Hef and TBL had a spat or something.
February 23rd, 2012 at 11:09 AM
Hahahaha. That was classic.
February 23rd, 2012 at 11:10 AM
which spawned the creation of MLJ if I remember correctly. I’ve got an MLJ t-shirt somewhere around my house I won for a bracket or fantasy league or something.
February 23rd, 2012 at 11:10 AM
Of the old-timers, who can forget this whiny ass post from Ufford… http://kissingsuzykolber.uproxx.com/2008/06/jason-mcintyre-tell-me-how-my-ass-tastes.html
Ufford is pretty useless. Drew is only truly great writer over there.
February 23rd, 2012 at 11:12 AM
Ark, I always forget how long you’ve been around until I saw a web archived post from around 2008.
February 23rd, 2012 at 11:13 AM
hilarious.
February 23rd, 2012 at 11:13 AM
Pure classic line: “Thank you, Matt Ufford, for having the decency to not reveal my identity while I was collecting paychecks and wasting oxygen at US Weekly.”
February 23rd, 2012 at 11:14 AM
Funny thing, I bet this thread is sending a bat signal to the KSK crowd.
February 23rd, 2012 at 11:14 AM
I started reaading around 2007 after the media writer dude in SI listed thebiglead as one of the upcoming sports sites. Started commenting around a year ago at this time.
I remember riffing with Jersey when Charlie Sheen went batshit nuts a year ago.
February 23rd, 2012 at 11:15 AM
Who are the truly great writers over here?
Why does this site not have any archives, anyway? Would love to peruse some of the old stuff.
February 23rd, 2012 at 11:15 AM
Hef kept pwnsaucing TBL and TBL took his ball and went home.
February 23rd, 2012 at 11:16 AM
Funny thing, I bet this thread is sending a bat signal to the KSK crowd.
I doubt it. Ufford and then Maj stopped commenting here for the most part around 4 years ago.
February 23rd, 2012 at 11:17 AM
Ah, pre buyout the archives were great. MikeNYC could remember you said a certain thing 6 months ago, and find it within 30 seconds.
February 23rd, 2012 at 11:17 AM
wasn’t there a commenter by the handle of “the big deal” at one point in time?
February 23rd, 2012 at 11:18 AM
Who are the truly great writers over here?
Lisk is great. Duffy is good when he’s not pretentious. I gave up on young Jason being anything more than a headline writer awhile ago.
Why does this site not have any archives, anyway? Would love to peruse some of the old stuff.
Allegedly, the archives were lost in successive server switches. Though the conspiracy theory around these parts is that JMac purposefully deleted them to get rid of some of the more unsavory posts in the past (Bernard Berrian, Ole Miss, etc) that might taint him in the eyes of corporate America.
February 23rd, 2012 at 11:18 AM
free the archives.
February 23rd, 2012 at 11:19 AM
Haha, I just got moderated for trying to refer to the TheBigL33d twitter account. That account’s been idle for like 2 years. C’mon.
February 23rd, 2012 at 11:19 AM
wasn’t there a commenter by the handle of “the big deal” at one point in time?
Yes. He was supposed to be the baseball writer but I don’t recall him writing much. Then there was also Big Nuts who got into a spat with irishmafia. Irish destroyed him if I recall.
February 23rd, 2012 at 11:22 AM
Of the old-timers, who can forget this whiny ass post from Ufford… http://kissingsuzykolber.uproxx.com/2008/06/jason-mcintyre-tell-me-how-my-ass-tastes.html
I dont remember this article but the comments are great. Here are some of the highlights:
-Thank God someone finally said it. Gay or not, TBL is like blogging for retarded frat guys. How can someone who constantly masturbates over New Yorker profiles be so incredibly stupid? J-Mac would post a picture of himself tongue massaging Matt Leinart’s taint for an hour if he thought it would get him 100 extra page views.
Nobody’s mentioned that the fucking pussy appears to be wearing a red/pink Yankees hat?
February 23rd, 2012 at 11:25 AM
Allegedly, the archives were lost in successive server switches. Though the conspiracy theory around these parts is that JMac purposefully deleted them to get rid of some of the more unsavory posts in the past (Bernard Berrian, Ole Miss, etc) that might taint him in the eyes of corporate America.
That is my recollection as well. We’ve found some old posts in Google cache, but the comments are always gone.
February 23rd, 2012 at 11:27 AM
wasn’t that Dave Lessa? a.k.a. the IT guy that was going to get the mobile site up and running by Labor Day 2009.
/RIP mobile site
February 23rd, 2012 at 11:27 AM
That is my recollection as well. We’ve found some old posts in Google cache, but the comments are always gone.
Not all of them. I know some cached posts have been linked here that include the comments. That’s how I discovered that arkbadger has been here a really long time too.
February 23rd, 2012 at 11:31 AM
Amazing.
February 23rd, 2012 at 11:32 AM
Not anymore… all that stuff has been blocked at work. Sadface.
February 23rd, 2012 at 11:33 AM
We have a “mobile site” situation going on at my work right now. We asked one of the guys with pull of the CEO to get us a basketball hoop in the parking lot. He made lots of promises about getting a really good hoop and told us it was ordered and coming next week. That was about 9 weeks ago.
February 23rd, 2012 at 11:35 AM
Yea, Internet Wayback Machine allows to find very selective archived posts with comments
February 23rd, 2012 at 11:36 AM
Started commenting back in 2005. I remember when the comments appeared that grey color scheme.
February 23rd, 2012 at 11:37 AM
As an example:
http://web.archive.org/web/20100202081052/http://thebiglead.com/?p=891#comments
February 23rd, 2012 at 11:40 AM
Wow, I like the way the site looked a lot better. I don’t remember that for some reason.
February 23rd, 2012 at 11:41 AM
http://web.archive.org/web/20100118002247/http://thebiglead.com/index.php/2007/09/20/choke-city-baby/
February 23rd, 2012 at 11:42 AM
Hopefully there was better stuff than that example. I’ll hunt for it.
February 23rd, 2012 at 11:42 AM
This comment from the Choke City post has some wonderful foreshadowing:
Come on TBL, I’m starting to lose faith in your knowledge of simple sports facts.
February 23rd, 2012 at 11:42 AM
Grizz – You’re not in ban territory. Never have been. It’s easy to tell who is joking around and who …
so, Heat vs Lin tonight! Yeah!
February 23rd, 2012 at 11:44 AM
yeah, I’ve been lurching around these parts for a while.
February 23rd, 2012 at 11:46 AM
I should be watching. Throw up a post for the TNT double header (there is a second good game tonight), and maybe we can have some TBLAD.
February 23rd, 2012 at 11:46 AM
The Royal We in that post is so hard to read
February 23rd, 2012 at 11:47 AM
http://web.archive.org/web/20100201015415/http://thebiglead.com/index.php/2006/11/16/page-2-debuts-a-new-writer-hires-another/
February 23rd, 2012 at 11:47 AM
TBL, you should return to that old smaller font. I don’t know about everyone else, but it’s way more aesthetically pleasing to me.
February 23rd, 2012 at 11:48 AM
The Royal We used to be the standard around here!!!
February 23rd, 2012 at 11:48 AM
http://web.archive.org/web/20100201015415/http://thebiglead.com/index.php/2006/11/16/page-2-debuts-a-new-writer-hires-another/
That one is great Jay. Especially this part:
we’re optimistic about the full-time addition of Jones – his recent fawning praise of terrible Mario Williams notwithstanding
February 23rd, 2012 at 11:49 AM
Good god, I’ve been commenting here for 5 years? I wish I could put stuff like this and still watching new Simpsons episodes on the resume as showing having strong commitment
February 23rd, 2012 at 11:50 AM
TBL, you should return to that old smaller font. I don’t know about everyone else, but it’s way more aesthetically pleasing to me.
Smaller font would mean having to write longer posts. Can’t have that brah.
I do miss the predominantly green color theme of the old site. It was different.
February 23rd, 2012 at 11:53 AM
http://web.archive.org/web/20080510170435/http://thebiglead.com/?p=5756#comments
February 23rd, 2012 at 11:53 AM
Here’s a 2008 roundup with some old names:
http://web.archive.org/web/20080510170216/http://thebiglead.com/?p=5748#comments
February 23rd, 2012 at 11:56 AM
RIP PM Roundup
February 23rd, 2012 at 12:00 PM
RIP One Liners and Top Shelf with Lee Diekemper.
February 23rd, 2012 at 12:00 PM
Try to find CRM’s Oli-Chimp-ic stuff from his old blog.
Otherwise, none of the rest of the shit is worth reading again. (Or for the first time.)
February 23rd, 2012 at 12:06 PM
RIP PM Roundup
That was CRM’s wheelhouse.
February 23rd, 2012 at 12:08 PM
Man, I’m legitimately angry at TBL right now.
February 23rd, 2012 at 12:11 PM
Also, RIP Cap Rooney as a football writer here.
February 23rd, 2012 at 12:12 PM
“The bosses have decided to go in a different direction…” /cue post by Big Brain on Brett.
February 23rd, 2012 at 12:13 PM
Lisk is better. Sanders even said so himself. But Cap knows a lot about football to be sure.
February 23rd, 2012 at 12:15 PM
cue post by Big Brain on Brett.
I have to say that Jason handled the whole BBoB deal horribly. He talks about the guy like he’s a huge writer and that it was a true score to get him. We read his first post and it seems fratty and borderline juvenile at points, so we ask Jason who BBoB is. And the response we get is “Oh you wouldn’t believe me if I told you.” So instead of allowing BBoB to find a following here or develop as a writer, Jason set him up for pot shots which BBoB was clearly never equipped to deal with. What a ridiculous episode that was.
February 23rd, 2012 at 12:16 PM
I literally just realized that I could manipulate my own internet fonts in firefox. I’m a moron.
February 23rd, 2012 at 12:16 PM
Ha. JMac dropped a “this guy Matt Ufford.”
Only posts I read on KSK are the ones written by Drew. Did you guys know Matt Ufford is a marine?
February 23rd, 2012 at 12:16 PM
Lisk is better. Sanders even said so himself. But Cap knows a lot about football to be sure.
Yes he is, but when Cap Rooney was replaced, we did not have any idea that old Jason (i.e. Lisk) would enter our little corner of the blogosphere.
February 23rd, 2012 at 12:18 PM
Did you guys know Matt Ufford is a marine?
I know he mentions it and the fact that he was in Operation Iraqi Freedom as often as he can.
Still, for all Ufford’s other faults, and he has many, I salute him for his service and actually being in combat. Two things which I cannot claim to have participated in.
February 23rd, 2012 at 12:21 PM
Still, for all Ufford’s other faults, and he has many, I salute him for his service and actually being in combat. Two things which I cannot claim to have participated in.
Agree, and I’m sure he could kick my ass. Dropping that into almost every one of the posts you author is kind of nauseating, IMO. Sort of like announcing how much you gave to charity last year.
February 23rd, 2012 at 12:22 PM
Still, for all Ufford’s other faults, and he has many, I salute him for his service and actually being in combat.
A few months back he mentioned how he had trouble adjusting to civilian life when he got back on the tv blog. I have no clue what he is up to now.
February 23rd, 2012 at 12:23 PM
Intern Bill.
February 23rd, 2012 at 12:23 PM
upton nude
sfw, unfortunately
February 23rd, 2012 at 12:25 PM
You guys are so up on knowing all these blog personalities. I’m way out of the loop.
February 23rd, 2012 at 12:26 PM
well, the url is not sfw
February 23rd, 2012 at 12:27 PM
A few months back he mentioned how he had trouble adjusting to civilian life when he got back on the tv blog. I have no clue what he is up to now.
No doubt he saw and experienced some things which messed him up. I think he was actually an officer in a tank platoon, which is pretty cool. But that also means he would have been in the forefront of the advance on Baghdad.
The thing about combat is that no one ever knows how they are going to react to it. You have the Finnish sniper who in the 1940 Winter War with the Soviets killed over 500 Soviet solders by rifle fire and another 200 with submachine gun fire. When asked towards the end of his life if he felt troubled by what he done, he said that he didn’t at all. Now you have ungodly high suicide rates amongst veterans in and out of civilian life.
/this thread is getting somber
February 23rd, 2012 at 12:29 PM
i still want to see a book or article on the athletic ability guys in combat need…..the sprinting, leaping…imagine what you can do when you are athletic plus a heap of adrenaline
February 23rd, 2012 at 12:29 PM
Wow. I seriously have the worst memory. But now all this stuff is coming flooding back.
February 23rd, 2012 at 12:29 PM
Jason McIntyre Says:
February 23rd, 2012 at 11:42 AM
Grizz – You’re not in ban territory. Never have been. It’s easy to tell who is joking around and who …
What’s this about? Why would Grizz assume he’s in ban-territory? Grizz is one of the most non-confrontational commenters here.
February 23rd, 2012 at 12:31 PM
Grizz is one of the most non-confrontational commenters here.
So he’s the opposite of you?
Anyone else remember Maggs? That guy was hysterical. The only commenter I can think of to get permanently banned twice.
February 23rd, 2012 at 12:31 PM
Penny – Grizz asked.
February 23rd, 2012 at 12:32 PM
Actual footage of the Hindenburg crash.
some great lines in that narration, but he said the gas was ‘inflammable’
anyway, that’s what you get when you fly the swastika, fritz
February 23rd, 2012 at 12:32 PM
So he’s the opposite of you?
I know it’s a meme, but I think I’ve toned down my engaging significantly. Can’t remember the last squabble I got myself into. I’ve directed most of my ire at content of the posts.
February 23rd, 2012 at 12:33 PM
Penny – Grizz asked.
Ahh, I see..Thanks. Now I’m puzzled as to why he would ask.
/carry on.
February 23rd, 2012 at 12:33 PM
I wonder if jay_the_most_hated still lurks around here.
February 23rd, 2012 at 12:33 PM
I agree, I think you are a much calmer commenter under the Pennypacker moniker
February 23rd, 2012 at 12:34 PM
haha, ATL getting called Penny. This could stick.
February 23rd, 2012 at 12:36 PM
haha, ATL getting called Penny. This could stick.
That’s me on the right.
February 23rd, 2012 at 12:37 PM
No, that’s ‘lil Penny.
/engaged
February 23rd, 2012 at 12:37 PM
Tough to start internet fights when you’re busy building a roller coaster.
February 23rd, 2012 at 12:40 PM
Tough to start internet fights when you’re busy building a roller coaster.
/helps myself to some chips and salsa
February 23rd, 2012 at 12:41 PM
Anyone else remember Maggs? That guy was hysterical. The only commenter I can think of to get permanently banned twice.
Maggs The Michigan Man. He kept saying he was never coming back and then kept coming back anytime a Michigan post was up. Also, hated noted Michigan Man, Duffy.
February 23rd, 2012 at 12:43 PM
Maggs The Michigan Man. He kept saying he was never coming back and then kept coming back anytime a Michigan post was up. Also, hated noted Michigan Man, Duffy.
The ghostly face of Bo Schembechler was his gravatar. He always had a healthy dose of “STFU!” to hand out to everybody who disagreed with him.Maggs is the one responsible for mrejr’s full commenting name as well.
The guy might have been seriously fucked up in the head.
February 23rd, 2012 at 12:44 PM
I thought Maggs was still here under a diff moniker?
February 23rd, 2012 at 12:47 PM
I thought Maggs was still here under a diff moniker?
I’ve brought him up as a meme several times in the past and so if he’s here still he hasn’t taken the bait. Much like younglefty hasn’t taken the bait to come back and debate the merits of beef vs. pork BBQ.
February 23rd, 2012 at 12:48 PM
How long did the bulldog comment here? He was before my time and I never had any interaction with him at all, but he’s unloaded on me on twitter a few times, calling me a sperm guzzler, etc.
What an angry fellow.
February 23rd, 2012 at 12:49 PM
calling me a sperm guzzler
you mean confirming it?
February 23rd, 2012 at 12:51 PM
Anyone else remember Maggs? That guy was hysterical. The only commenter I can think of to get permanently banned twice.
that guy is still in possession of the single funniest comment in this site’s history. Something to strive for.
February 23rd, 2012 at 12:52 PM
MS … Maggs floats around on here, but it’s actually easy to confuse Maggs and “payaso”/”Clown”/”Miguel” these days. I make the mistake sometimes myself. But they’re different people.
Clown has slipped above than Maggs on the troll totem poll. He’s upset that I “unfollowed” him on twitter, so now he’s trying to “fight” back.
Just try harder, Miggy.
February 23rd, 2012 at 12:52 PM
I’ve brought him up as a meme several times in the past and so if he’s here still he hasn’t taken the bait. Much like younglefty hasn’t taken the bait to come back and debate the merits of beef vs. pork BBQ.
fetch will pop in under his pseudonym and call out the idiocy of a post every now and then.
February 23rd, 2012 at 12:53 PM
that guy is still in possession of the single funniest comment in this site’s history.
I seem to recall that, but I don’t remember what it was.
February 23rd, 2012 at 12:55 PM
Alright guys, I’m bailing out for the day. Bachelor party in Lake Tahoe awaits.
February 23rd, 2012 at 12:55 PM
I cannot believe that anyone would base their behavior on this.
February 23rd, 2012 at 12:55 PM
Is it “Do you smell like piss, cuz you look like you smell like piss”?
February 23rd, 2012 at 12:55 PM
Unfollowing and blocking is not quite the same thing
February 23rd, 2012 at 12:56 PM
If it’s what I’m thinking of, it ranks #2 for me. Miz’s “long, lame, and unfunny” post is still #1.
February 23rd, 2012 at 12:56 PM
It’s nice out here in CA, you’ll probably get more sun than snow. Enjoy.
February 23rd, 2012 at 12:58 PM
Is it “Do you smell like piss, cuz you look like you smell like piss”?
yeah, but it was all about the timing. It was so perfect.
February 23rd, 2012 at 12:59 PM
Is it “Do you smell like piss, cuz you look like you smell like piss”?
was this directed at the EIC?
February 23rd, 2012 at 1:00 PM
between that qoute, and Fetch’s classic “what the fuck is wrong with you?” on the legendary oden dong post, I find myself using them in daily conversations.
February 23rd, 2012 at 1:00 PM
You know, if we keep the Roundup going long enough, it will become the PM Roundup.
February 23rd, 2012 at 1:03 PM
CJ – First the unfollow, then came the whining, then I just blocked him. Blocking is the best thing about twitter. It’s like Beats by Dre Headphones. So easy to tune out the noise.
February 23rd, 2012 at 1:03 PM
was this directed at the EIC?
no, it was just in a roundup, or some regular post that people were basically chatting in (per as usual), then all of the sudden in pops JMac with a question/request. JMac says, I’m interviewing Dick Vitale in an hour, so if you have any questions you want me to ask him, put them in here now.
And you know, comment, comment, joke, defense of Vitale, but within 2 minutes, bam, “Do you smell like piss? Because you look like you smell like piss.” Right? That’s the question Magglio Merkin wants JMac to ask Dick Vitale.
The best, the end.
February 23rd, 2012 at 1:04 PM
CJ – First the unfollow, then came the whining, then I just blocked him. Blocking is the best thing about twitter. It’s like Beats by Dre Headphones. So easy to tune out the noise.
soon you’re left with nothing but the people who tell you you’re great, or who beg you for retweets.
February 23rd, 2012 at 1:07 PM
Damn, he should be happy he got a follow in the first place. /glares at J-Mac
February 23rd, 2012 at 1:10 PM
Maggs floats around on here, but it’s actually easy to confuse Maggs and “payaso”/”Clown”/”Miguel” these days. Jason
So Maggs quit on his own. Not banned? He came and left so many times I started to think he was my sister’s special friend she had growing up that I wasn’t supposed to tell mom and dad about.