Spurs Hater Alert, Write this creep and express your opinion

[jimbalaya]

check out the information below and pass it on to other Spurs Fans if you can please :)

I got sent a link today to an article that I find very disappointing. An article by a FoxSports writer glorifying cheap shots, fighting and finger pointing in basketball. An article claiming that the author is glad that the San Antonio Spurs are gone from the Playoffs because they are boring, their coaches and owner is boring and their city and fans are boring. That is that they are boring simply because they are good people and take the high road and don't do things as mentioned above. Here's the article:

http://msn.foxsports.com/nba/story/5632492

I wrote to Mr. Kalb and expressed my dismay and disappointment that he would praise such behavior as Jason Terry's Cheap Shot in Game Five of the Mavericks Sun Series as entertaining and that Mark Cuban's blogging and four letter blasts on and off the court were good for basketball. I accused him of writing the article because if the Spurs were in the playoffs and not causing the problems that he seems to want to write about he would then simply have no material to write about. That I was ashamed that he was actually disparaging the fact that the Spurs are a good basketball player AND a classy team and organization, that this makes them dull. It would seem he would prefer it if they were a bunch of malcontents, loudmouths and fingerpointers. Of course if the Spurs were malcontents and never do wells then he would complain about that too. I would invite all of you to write to Mr. Kalb and express your opinion, and do it politely, taking the high road that he seems to detest. Here's his address:

[email protected]

Now, I took it a step further and wrote a complaint to FoxSports as well indicating how disappointed I was with his article and how FoxSports could support an article that praise and welcomed bad sportsmanship and cheap shots. Is that what FoxSports is all about? Is that what FoxSports wants, to glorify the bad eggs in the NBA instead of good basketball players that are good citizens as well? Does FoxSports actually support taking cheap shots at smaller market cities and their fans? I would also urge all San Antonians and Spurs Fans to write to FoxSports as well, here's the link to their compliant site:

http://msn.foxsports.com/feedback?sc=1

If you'd like to take it further you can write to some executives as well, here's the link to the VPs of FoxSports, heck it even has their phone numbers:

http://www.newscorp.com/management/foxsports.html

Here's FoxSports.com's info:

http://www.newscorp.com/management/foxsportscom.html

News Corporation Executives:

http://www.newscorp.com/management/newscor.html

Heck, write anyone and everyone about this guy and this article that I still find really distasteful and really hard to stomach.

[exstatic]

Or, you could just ignore an obvious tool.

[jimbalaya]

You could, or you could write a reply that is also taking the high ground and praising the Spurs for who they are and what they don't do. I don't recommend sending four letter word blasts or calling the individual a "tool" as you do but instead telling him that as a San Antonio Fan I like the fact that not only do we have a good basketball team but good individuals as well. Mr. Kalb, I think, should be watching wrestling instead as that is what his article would seem to promote. I disagree with it and would urge fans to voice that opinion to Mr. Kalb and his bosses, without resorting to calling him names.

[Extra Stout]

You could, or you could write a reply that is also taking the high ground and praising the Spurs for who they are and what they don't do. I don't recommend sending four letter word blasts or calling the individual a "tool" as you do but instead telling him that as a San Antonio Fan I like the fact that not only do we have a good basketball team but good individuals as well. Mr. Kalb, I think, should be watching wrestling instead as that is what his article would seem to promote. I disagree with it and would urge fans to voice that opinion to Mr. Kalb and his bosses, without resorting to calling him names.
Oh. My. God.

Clearly you're going to make serious inroads in demonstrating the intelligence and sophistication of San Antonio residents. Take that high road!

After you're done, I suppose you can start a campaign against Jonathan Swift for proposing to use Irish children as food.

[spurs=bling]

i'm used to the spurs haters.

[jimbalaya]

I got it, My mistake...I'll stop defending the Spurs, the coaching staff and the city. I won't get my dander up when they call not only the team and the coaching staff dull but take pot shots at the city and fans as well. No problem.

[exstatic]

What you're doing is letting them know they have a readership.

[Extra Stout]

I got it, My mistake...I'll stop defending the Spurs, the coaching staff and the city. I won't get my dander up when they call not only the team and the coaching staff dull but take pot shots at the city and fans as well. No problem.

I mean, he actually proposed that we deal with the problem of Irish poverty by using their children as food! How can we stand here and tolerate such a thing?

[Extra Stout]

San Antonio is ruined. Kalb has exposed the city as a place where people take the high road and don't punch each other in the testicles. Toyota's whole reason for putting the plant here was that they thought San Antonio was a bunch of nut-racking shiftless cursing cheap-shot artists. :depressed

[angel_luv]

We have already been through this.

http://spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=42615

I think the author was being facetious.

[snowboarder]

You're the one putting the money in his wallet..

and big fucking deal, a writer doesn't like the spurs. who cares?

[nbascribe]

check out the information below and pass it on to other Spurs Fans if you can please :)

I got sent a link today to an article that I find very disappointing. An article by a FoxSports writer glorifying cheap shots, fighting and finger pointing in basketball. An article claiming that the author is glad that the San Antonio Spurs are gone from the Playoffs because they are boring, their coaches and owner is boring and their city and fans are boring. That is that they are boring simply because they are good people and take the high road and don't do things as mentioned above. Here's the article:

http://msn.foxsports.com/nba/story/5632492

I wrote to Mr. Kalb and expressed my dismay and disappointment that he would praise such behavior as Jason Terry's Cheap Shot in Game Five of the Mavericks Sun Series as entertaining and that Mark Cuban's blogging and four letter blasts on and off the court were good for basketball. I accused him of writing the article because if the Spurs were in the playoffs and not causing the problems that he seems to want to write about he would then simply have no material to write about. That I was ashamed that he was actually disparaging the fact that the Spurs are a good basketball player AND a classy team and organization, that this makes them dull. It would seem he would prefer it if they were a bunch of malcontents, loudmouths and fingerpointers. Of course if the Spurs were malcontents and never do wells then he would complain about that too. I would invite all of you to write to Mr. Kalb and express your opinion, and do it politely, taking the high road that he seems to detest. Here's his address:

[email protected]

Now, I took it a step further and wrote a complaint to FoxSports as well indicating how disappointed I was with his article and how FoxSports could support an article that praise and welcomed bad sportsmanship and cheap shots. Is that what FoxSports is all about? Is that what FoxSports wants, to glorify the bad eggs in the NBA instead of good basketball players that are good citizens as well? Does FoxSports actually support taking cheap shots at smaller market cities and their fans? I would also urge all San Antonians and Spurs Fans to write to FoxSports as well, here's the link to their compliant site:

http://msn.foxsports.com/feedback?sc=1

If you'd like to take it further you can write to some executives as well, here's the link to the VPs of FoxSports, heck it even has their phone numbers:

http://www.newscorp.com/management/foxsports.html

Here's FoxSports.com's info:

http://www.newscorp.com/management/foxsportscom.html

News Corporation Executives:

http://www.newscorp.com/management/newscor.html

Heck, write anyone and everyone about this guy and this article that I still find really distasteful and really hard to stomach.

Dude get a grip. It's called the first amendment. The moment you start taking what a writer writes as the gospel for sports on your favorite team, it's time to call the looney wagon.

And to make things worse, all you are doing is showing EXACTLY what he thinks about the majority of the fans [in his opinion].

Relax, take a Zanax pill or Zoltrof or something.

Now will somebody please call Dr. Phil so that we can have harmonal restoration.

[SequSpur]

Does that apply to calling into your show as well?

[FromWayDowntown]

Even if Kalb was 100% serious and intended to discredit everything that the Spurs stand for, jimbalaya and all of the other yahoos who write to him to take up the Spurs' honor are only making his job more and more secure.

But, I'm with Extra Stout (http://spurstalk.com/forums/showpost.php?p=990342&postcount=65) -- somewhere Johnathan Swift is shuddering.

[MadDog73]

Did anyone catch David Chancellor telling people to email this guy and hate on him for calling our city "boring?" :rolleyes

Thanks, David, for actually reading the article... next time, do yourself a favor and stick to complaining about what other states do about their football programs.

[angel_luv]

Did anyone catch David Chancellor telling people to email this guy and hate on him for calling our city "boring?" :rolleyes

Thanks, David, for actually reading the article... next time, do yourself a favor and stick to complaining about what other states do about their football programs.


I saw that.

I cringed at the way the article was taken out of its full context making it, in my opinion, sound way worse than it was.

Badly done, David, even if you are my favorite sport's guy.

[DarrinS]

That article is actually being sarcastic. He likes the Spurs.

Go read it again.

[Sportcamper]

http://snaggingbaseballs.mlblogs.com/the_baseball_collector/images/elliottkalb.jpg Quote"Why I won't miss the Spurs...

The San Antonio Spurs, the dullest team in professional sports, has mercifully been eliminated before the Conference finals....

At least I now know what the real tlong looks like..... :lol

[MadDog73]

I think this sums up the article nicely:



Don't expect to hear too much out of San Antonio until next year's playoffs.

In other words, see ya next year, bitches, the Champs are coming back.

[Jimcs50]

This is all tongue in cheek.

It is totally obvious.
get a grip man.

:rolleyes

[Jimcs50]

That article is actually being sarcastic. He likes the Spurs.

Go read it again.

Thankyou. I am glad I am not the only one that sees this.

[FromWayDowntown]

Even if he was completely serious, the degree to which some people take offense at the suggestion that the Spurs aren't everyone's favorite basketball team is almost frightening.

It's great to be a fan, but to take such offense that someone would express an opinion that is different than your own suggests a rather striking lack of perspective to me.

[FromWayDowntown]

Thankyou. I am glad I am not the only one that sees this.

I think the Johnathan Swift reference may have been too subtle.

[travis2]

Here we go again...:rolleyes:

[Jimcs50]

I think the Johnathan Swift reference may have been too subtle.


subtle as Shaq at the FT line?

[1Parker1]

What you're doing is letting them know they have a readership.

:lol :tu

[1Parker1]

I'm with Extra Stout[/URL] -- somewhere Johnathan Swift is shuddering.

:lmao