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- 05/21/13
| Name: | nate jansen |
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| Location: | Denver, CO |
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| Member since: | September 13, 2005 |
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tron7 has posted 5 links and 1353 comments to SportsFilter and 1 link and 168 comments to the Locker Room.
Stop The Flop: The NBA officially adopts an anti-flopping policy, announcing a new rule that will fine repeat offenders this season.
posted by tron7 to basketball at 02:13 PM on October 03 - 10 comments
Gilbert Arenas suspended indefinitely.: Stern, not impressed by Arenas' gun play, busts out the banhammer.
posted by tron7 to basketball at 05:52 PM on January 06 - 9 comments
Chargers fine Cromartie $2,500.00 for tweeting: That's $17.86 per character.
posted by tron7 to football at 10:54 AM on August 05 - 16 comments
MMA Fantasy Draft: If every fighter in the world was suddenly declared a free agent, what order would they be selected in?
posted by tron7 to boxing at 12:56 PM on April 21 - 10 comments
Shawne Merriman suspended for steroids.: The four game suspension comes less than a week after the news of the Falcon's Matt Lehr and the Lion's Shaun Rogers receiving steroid suspensions.
posted by tron7 to football at 09:50 AM on October 23 - 33 comments
I guess it kinda does look like from.
There was a lot that went into the Tebow hate. He was drafted by McDaniels (universally hated here) who traded up to get him when seemingly no one else wanted him. There's Tim being Tim, which some people just can not handle. There's the Tebow fans who are just relentless and basically forced Tebow into the starting lineup over Brady Quinn who was Orton's backup at the time (Tebow was third string) and that didn't sit well when a player's fanbase seems to be pulling the strings. Then, when Tebow does get to play neither side ever got a foothold in the argument. Tebow would look just mind-numingly awful and still win, or he would play pretty well one week and abysmally the next. Both sides had something to cling to every week. Was it exciting? Hell yes. Did I have any confidence that Tebow could replicate his modest success? No.
posted by tron7 at 06:23 PM on May 13
Yeah, that whole winning-games thing is enough to piss any team and their fans off. Having to fill Kyle Orton's shoes would be a daunting task for anyone.
Oh, I know, we are such horrible fans.
You have no idea what you're talking about.
posted by tron7 at 12:00 PM on May 13
The fans loved it in Denver, and the only ones who seemed to despise it in the city was Elway and Fox.
This is completely incorrect. There was heavy criticism of Tebow after every single game and an equal measure of Tebow worship to go with it. You could not talk about the Broncos without it getting contentious. The local sports talk radio was having the time of their lives. I've never seen a fan base so split on one of their own players. I was watching one of the games at a bar and there was nearly a fight mid game between the pro-Tebow and anti-Tebow factions. Take what you see nationally and turn the volume up to 11 if you want to know what it was like in Denver for Tebow time.
posted by tron7 at 02:27 AM on May 13
- How does the NBA have ZERO games scheduled this early in the playoffs?
It's last Friday's fault. Four game 6s with prospective game 7s on Sunday. When all of those series ended last Friday the NBA needed somebody to play on their Sunday showcase so the Thunder-Grizz and Knicks-Pacers started their series on only one day rest. They've been going every other day for 4-5 games straight and the NBA decided to give them extra time on a travel day since they gained extra time when all those game 7s fell through. Friday's fault.
posted by tron7 at 10:06 AM on May 10
Joey Crawford doing his hothead thing tossed Chris Paul and Zach Randolph last night after the game was more or less over.
Why does the NBA still employ this man? At least he had the decency to wait until it was essentially over.
posted by tron7 at 05:46 PM on May 04
It's a little strange to me that this story seems like such a big deal when John Amaechi came out in 2007. While Jason Collins is technically not retired he isn't much more than roster fodder at this point and I would be surprised to see another team sign him. Is it that big of a deal that he's technically an active player or are we, as a society, just more accepting of players being gay now than we were in 2007?
On edit: Here's the Spofi discussion on Amaechi from '07
posted by tron7 at 02:34 PM on April 29
They popped up to gloat about Tebow winning more playoff games as a Bronco than Manning but I haven't heard from them since.
posted by tron7 at 11:14 AM on April 29
All of Yu Darvish's pitches at once. From Reddit.
posted by tron7 at 02:47 PM on April 25
Sequence of events...
But... how do you mark that in the book?
posted by tron7 at 11:26 AM on April 20
At least Foxboro was spared. Jokes about bombing there can still be funny, thank god.
So you found Stevie Johnson's joke more callous than using a tragedy to try and prove a point you made on the internet a couple weeks ago?
posted by tron7 at 06:13 PM on April 15
BI, I have it on good authority that you've been inducted to the Spofi Hall of Fame! Congrats!
posted by tron7 at 01:49 PM on April 08
This site, like it or not, conforms to the idea of agreeing and jumping in line with the norms, or the popular way of thinking about certain topics. You are upset for being "shit on" for posting topics, but a bigger concern may be for those who are "gang" shit-on because their comments stray from the norm. Once that starts it always appears a subject with the potential for any two-way dialogue disappears.
Your standards for a gang-shitting are pretty low. A sarcastic comment and a plea to lighten up and we're bending your will? What do you want us to do when you overreact to a joke?
posted by tron7 at 04:09 PM on April 05
No, it will only be fucking hilarious if thousands of innocent people in South Korea are destroyed and the US finds themselves involved in another conflict it can't afford to be in.
Well if that happens we'll have a lot more to deal with than Stevie Johnson's perceived insensitivity. Anyway, I've learned to just stop worrying and love the bomb.
posted by tron7 at 11:54 AM on April 05
Yeah, he'll really have to eat his words if Foxboro get's nuked.
posted by tron7 at 10:22 AM on April 05
Goodell wants your team to sign Tim Tebow
Most polarizing virgin athlete.
Certainly the most virgin polarizing athlete.