Great Month

[Ghost Writer]

David Robinson inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame and Bruce Bowen mercifully retires.


DId you all catch "Tales of the admirable Admiral (http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/halloffame09/columns/story?columnist=sheridan_chris&page=090910robinsonHOF)," by ESPN's Chris Sheridan?

Some great stuff comparing Jordan and Robinson and classic Popovich quotes.



I can't wait for this season to begin!

[exstatic]

Better get that jizz cleaned off of your Robinson jacket, foo'.

[xtremesteven33]

Over a million posts.........

[Solid D]

David Robinson inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame and Bruce Bowen mercifully retires.

I can't wait for this season to begin!

Great. One of the Spurs' Top 10 Players All Time retires and you get all giddy. Last year was an adjustment on the perimeter defensively...this year probably more adjusting. "Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got til it's gone..."

[duncan228]

"Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got til it's gone..."

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[TIMMYD!]

how in the hell do you get a million posts?

[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

Hey GW, is this you reappearing for the season? Bit early, isn't it? :lol

BTW, thanks for the link.


how in the hell do you get a million posts?

By being the Ghost Writer is how! :rolleyes :lol

[TIMMYD!]

The ghost writer is the Michael Jordan of posting.

[Spursfan092120]

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[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

The ghost writer is the Michael Jordan of posting.

Ah-ha!

Around here he is, anyway.

;) :D

[Hemotivo]

Vanessa Carlton!

[Blackjack]

how in the hell do you get a million posts?

Rack me...

[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

Rack me...

Dude, keep posting like you do and you'll get there in about a decade... ;) :lol

The million posts is a nod to the history of this forum, and more broadly a core group of online Spurs fans that goes back to the early-90s (apparently - I came on the scene in 2000 and know little about what was happening before that), and includes IRC chatrooms, news article commenters, radio show followers, the Board That Shall Not Be Named (Spurs Report - just thought I'd tip my hat to Bill Simmons), and finally the wonderful peak civilisation that is SPURS TALK. There is a rich history there, and knowing it explains many of the questions that people recent to this board, and who thus do not know the history, have been asking lately.

What we really need at this point is a lengthy and detailed Wiki on the history of online Spurs fans, including a narrative, the sites involved and a cast list detailing the more notable characters. GW would be one of those notable characters, and his once utterly prolific (but now far more targeted) and dogged (a doggedness only truly matched by whottt, some recent trolls including spurstrodamus, and the denizens of the political forum) style, and general basketball acumen.

Some of this history can be recovered from the classic threads archive, but much of it is only hinted at by the "old-timers" around here, a group of about 500 people who have been a cohesive online Spurs fan community for a decade or so. Knowledge of their collective history is sadly only accessible to those who were interacting with the community at the time. I've just explained my understanding of a piece of it for you, and there may well be layers to it that I am entirely unaware of. Either way, I hope others who know the myths of online Spurs fan history do the same and relate their understandings of them. We have a culture, these are our myths - let's keep them alive.

:smokin

:)

[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

Great. One of the Spurs' Top 10 Players All Time retires and you get all giddy. Last year was an adjustment on the perimeter defensively...this year probably more adjusting. "Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got til it's gone..."

I agree with you and we'll all miss Bruce, but his impact on our fortunes declined markedly last year, and rightly so at 38. That doesn't mean anyone's happy that he's gone, but that they are seeing the future. It is time to understand that we don't have the best lockdown perimeter defender in the NBA any more and tweak the system to account for that.

Best of luck, Bruce! You are a champion human being.

(I was very fortunate to meet Bruce during my trip to SA in 2007 before a game, and he and Brett Brown - another great guy - invited me along to practice. We chatted for a good quarter of an hour. Bruce is exactly what he appears to be - a man who truly cares about people... and a man who should have at least 2 DPoTY titles in his trophy cabinet).

[Admiral]

Dude, keep posting like you do and you'll get there in about a decade... ;) :lol

The million posts is a nod to the history of this forum, and more broadly a core group of online Spurs fans that goes back to the early-90s (apparently - I came on the scene in 2000 and know little about what was happening before that), and includes IRC chatrooms, news article commenters, radio show followers, the Board That Shall Not Be Named (Spurs Report - just thought I'd tip my hat to Bill Simmons), and finally the wonderful peak civilisation that is SPURS TALK. There is a rich history there, and knowing it explains many of the questions that people recent to this board, and who thus do not know the history, have been asking lately.

What we really need at this point is a lengthy and detailed Wiki on the history of online Spurs fans, including a narrative, the sites involved and a cast list detailing the more notable characters. GW would be one of those notable characters, and his once utterly prolific (but now far more targeted) and dogged (a doggedness only truly matched by whottt, some recent trolls including spurstrodamus, and the denizens of the political forum) style, and general basketball acumen.

Some of this history can be recovered from the classic threads archive, but much of it is only hinted at by the "old-timers" around here, a group of about 500 people who have been a cohesive online Spurs fan community for a decade or so. Knowledge of their collective history is sadly only accessible to those who were interacting with the community at the time. I've just explained my understanding of a piece of it for you, and there may well be layers to it that I am entirely unaware of. Either way, I hope others who know the myths of online Spurs fan history do the same and relate their understandings of them. We have a culture, these are our myths - let's keep them alive.

:smokin

:)

Ghost Writer is definitely part of the old guard around here. I know the million posts is an exaggeration, but his true number of posts is probably not much less. The Ghost Writer vs. Marcus Bryant arguments were classic. :lol

[Blackjack]

What we really need at this point is a lengthy and detailed Wiki on the history of online Spurs fans, including a narrative, the sites involved and a cast list detailing the more notable characters.

+1 :tu


Dude, keep posting like you do and you'll get there in about a decade... ;) :lol

The 'Rack me' was said jokingly, but I figured they weren't all of the legitimate variety. I just figured there was a way to stuff the ballot box, so to speak, by people far more knowledgeable than I when it comes to computers; or just the degenerates that sabotage American Idol-type shows.:lol

As for me needing a decade?

Well, I'm at 1660...

I think you're being a little optimistic.:hat


I actually discovered this board somewhere around '04 or '05 but never signed up and started posting until the start of '08. I just didn't get the whole online-community shtick and wasn't prepared to join right away.

So, I figured I'd bide my time and instead of making a high-school to NBA-type jump, I decided to go the college route for three years or so until I felt I was ready. I just felt I had some things to learn and holes in my game that needed to be addressed before I could join the big boy board.

I needed to, 'Step my game up.'

Well, after the three or so years had gone by and I'd exhausted all my 'eligibility', I realized it was time to make the jump. Not because I was any more ready or any more knowledgeable, I just basically ran out of money and had no choice but to abandon the education process and join prematurely. -- I've got no business posting on this board and fully expect to wash out and end up on the CBA equivalent to this board sooner rather than later. --

Until then, I basically plan on stealing money and pretending I know what the hell I'm talking about.

That's one thing I've been able to learn from government officials.:smokin

[RuffnReadyOzStyle]

:lol

Nice post.

Your posts are excellent, BLACKJACK, and you've become a valuable part of the landscape here. You may never make the million posts, but then again, who will? i think that will always be Ghost's domain. :)

[Blackjack]

Appreciate it, Ruff.:toast

Yeah, they tell you to shoot for the stars growing up but somehow 1M posts seems a goal too lofty for even the most optimistic..

GW and MB just need to stop it already.

They're making the rest of us look like slackin' failures. -- Or do I have that backwards? I keed, I keed...:lol --