The internet does a lot of wonderful things, at anytime of the day I can log on and become totally immersed in sports, porn, or crazy cat videos. However, the internet also has a dark side to it, I am an opinionated bastard, so the lure of chat rooms and forums is too difficult to resist.
I love the Blazers have been a fan basically as long as I can remember. I watched basically every single Blazer game with my grandmother for years. Its was exhilarating and disappointing both but I always tuned in. My grandmother died, and I moved across the country, this made watching games live more difficult and my viewing audience changed as well. First it was Iamatrailblazerfan.com and the live game chats and then that went away and I transitioned over to S2.
I love Blazer fans especially the overt homers like Riverman, his positivism has kept me grounded for years. Whenever I would get too out of control, or suggest blowing up the entire team he would be there to offer encouragement about the team and back me off the ledge. Some of the homers on S2 are a different beast altogether. Some of these fans go to far, any criticism about the team and your automatically labeled a troll or an idiot.
I am a passionate person, but most of all I hate being wrong. If I write LA takes too many jump shots and then get called an idiot for saying it suddenly I am rooting for him to go 6-21 from the field. If I suggest the team does not play good defense, and people call me an idiot, I slowly begin to relish watching the team give up 120 a night. Yes I say some outlandish things, trading Lillard and Matthews for Conley and Allen for example. I still love both of those guys and they play terrific defense but I am big enough to admit that trading a all star PG still in the middle of a rookie scale contract might not be the best plan. However, I also have a lot of reasonable takes, for example my fix the Blazers thread.
Here is what I am asking from my fellow S2 users, stop attacking people and stop attacking peoples posts. 90% of most responses on this forum are very generic one line comments that rarely discuss basketball. Hate someones posts, think what they wrote is stupid, man the fuck up do some research and show them through logic, stats and basketball terminology why they are a moron. You provide sound arguments in a reasonable manner slowly you will win people over. I do not always agree with Riverman but whenever he writes something I give him the courtesy of reading what he writes and responding in kind.
I am sick of finding myself rooting against my favorite team in order to prove a point on the internet. I love the Blazers, I love talking basketball, but I am beginning to hate what my interactions on forums like this one are doing to me. I may have directed the focus of this thread towards homers, but all you the world is ending or blatantly negative posters need to stop your shit too. If you have a take back it up with research, good writing, basketball knowledge and facts. However, make sure you remember you are also claiming to be a fan of this team, take a second and enjoy life when things go well. MOST OF ALL ADMIT WHEN YOU MAKE A FUCKING MISTAKE OWN IT EAT YOUR CROW AND MOVE ON.
Lastly, for all you long time posters remember this is not your fucking forum anymore, it is the official forum of the Trailblazers. Noobs will come and they will go but as the longest tenured members here you should be the most welcoming. If you do not want new posters, by all means tell Slypokerdog and I am sure Portland can find a forum who would be happy to welcome new members.
Go Blazers!!!!
