OT: Respect

[whitemamba]

No respect for fans who wish injury on players. You're a ty fan, period. Hate what a guy does and how he does it. Hate everything about a player, but to laugh and have joy in a player's injury is really a reflection of how ty an individual you are. A true fan of the league and a sport wants every team at 100%, 100% of the time. You want to play and beat the opponent at their best. Have you ever even played a sport or have any idea the effort it takes to reach any type of success? Like I said, hate the guy all you want, that's cool, but at least have respect for what a guy puts in to get where he is and have enough balls to wish your opponent is at their best.

i feel the same exact way man

[Koolaid_Man]

Duncan goes down is all I wanne hear...nothing else

[lefty]

It was great to see Kobe on crutches

Karma is a , that self-centered POS deserved it

[whitemamba]

It was great to see Kobe on crutches

Karma is a , that self-centered POS deserved it

is there a crutch up your ass?

[Venti Quattro]

So a "friend" of mine owes me money. He came over to my house the other day and soliticted my help. He said there was 10 bucks in it for me if I did 3 loads of laundry and washed all his dishes. I did it as fast as I could, about 2 hours after he asked, it was done. He was running out of tobacco, so I gave him the rest of my tobacco because he's a heavier smoker than I am. A little short on cash around this time of the month, he promised me that he'd have the money to me the next day. This was on Sunday. So, theoretically, by Monday I should have the money.

He says that he didn't get his check on Monday. Okay, I said, and I left it at that. I ask him again today, he says he has his check is here but he needs to get to the bank. Okay, I said, again. Tonight I go over to his apartment and he procedes to tell me that he spent my 10 dollars on something "we (his other friends) got some stuff and he didn't have the 10 dollars to pay me back." So he promises me the ten dollars on Wednesday. I have a busy day tomorrow so I won't find out until 4PM tomorrow if he's lying to me. He tells me to get a job because I don't make enough money. Well, if he'd pay me...

I've given a lot to this guy. He got meals at my apartment at least twice a week for six months last year. He didn't have cable so I let him watch whatever he wanted to watch, let him stay in my apartment from 6AM to 10PM every night and he was the one who left. When I went away on trips, he sometimes would have a key to let himself in. I subsequently found my VCR broken (brand-new). I even financed a tattoo about a year ago and it took him 8 months to get me 70 dollars for it. I even paid for the cream to keep it from becoming infected.

I want this "friend" out of my life. He's a user and he's found that the milk has gone sour on me so he's keeping other people a priority now that I don't have the cash to support his many habits. Because I don't get pissed and angry and curse in his face, he thinks I'm a pushoever. Some "friend."

Has this ever happened to anyone else? Do you do this to other people?

[TDfan2007]

Do the anti-injury advocates feel as strongly about wishing injuries on s bags like Kobe, Friend Killer, etc?..

There are far, far worse people in this world than Kobe Bryant. His only issues are narcissism and infidelity. The rest of his issues are more basketball-specific imo.

I wanted the Lakers at full strength, and I'm sure that the Spurs did too. As someone else mentioned, I won't lose sleep over their injuries, but it sucks when you can't play a team at full strength as a compe or. Even as far as fandom is concerned, I didn't even feel like talking after the Spurs swept the Lakers. It's just so much sweeter and more fun when both teams are at full strength.

[100%duncan]

I used to think I felt that way. But why lie? I'm pleased by injuries on opposing teams, tbh.

I'm sure many people wish spurs players were injured. Their wishing for injury brings it no closer to reality, just as my wishing for injuries on their team does not.

Celebrating injuries is cathartic and also, ultimately, does nothing.

This tbh.

[lefty]

is there a crutch up your ass?

looks like you need one since you seem to be so butthurt

[AaronY]

So a "friend" of mine owes me money. He came over to my house the other day and soliticted my help. He said there was 10 bucks in it for me if I did 3 loads of laundry and washed all his dishes. I did it as fast as I could, about 2 hours after he asked, it was done. He was running out of tobacco, so I gave him the rest of my tobacco because he's a heavier smoker than I am. A little short on cash around this time of the month, he promised me that he'd have the money to me the next day. This was on Sunday. So, theoretically, by Monday I should have the money.

He says that he didn't get his check on Monday. Okay, I said, and I left it at that. I ask him again today, he says he has his check is here but he needs to get to the bank. Okay, I said, again. Tonight I go over to his apartment and he procedes to tell me that he spent my 10 dollars on something "we (his other friends) got some stuff and he didn't have the 10 dollars to pay me back." So he promises me the ten dollars on Wednesday. I have a busy day tomorrow so I won't find out until 4PM tomorrow if he's lying to me. He tells me to get a job because I don't make enough money. Well, if he'd pay me...

I've given a lot to this guy. He got meals at my apartment at least twice a week for six months last year. He didn't have cable so I let him watch whatever he wanted to watch, let him stay in my apartment from 6AM to 10PM every night and he was the one who left. When I went away on trips, he sometimes would have a key to let himself in. I subsequently found my VCR broken (brand-new). I even financed a tattoo about a year ago and it took him 8 months to get me 70 dollars for it. I even paid for the cream to keep it from becoming infected.

I want this "friend" out of my life. He's a user and he's found that the milk has gone sour on me so he's keeping other people a priority now that I don't have the cash to support his many habits. Because I don't get pissed and angry and curse in his face, he thinks I'm a pushoever. Some "friend."

Has this ever happened to anyone else? Do you do this to other people?

Saddest ing story...a longwinded meltdown over ten ing dollars. How poor is this person, Jesus..

[Brazil]

I don't often post but when I do it's usually because I have something important to say. Now I don't want you to take this personal but your threads are terrible. Again I don't know who you are, what you do, etc but I certainly hope that your contribution to this website is not the culmination of your life.

[The Reckoning]

maybe he'll pull his other achillles because he's shifting weight on the opposite foot.

one could only hope.


only injuries i feel for are those guys who aren't drafted, sign for league minimum and work their asses off trying to make something out of themselves; then whenever they finally make strides, they are injured and cut with nothing to show. those are the guys i feel for.