Many years ago, when I posted only at SpursReport, one day, when I was feeliing extremely dissatisfied with the basketball discussion...I got a mysterious PM from someone known only as Mario, and it said only two word:
Spurs
Talk
I don't know, it was like destiny or fate calling my name or something....saying, "whottt...Spurs Talk...click it"
So I clicked...... and it was good.
The best message board experience of my life in fact
I have to admit things just haven't been the same lately. I don't know what it is exactly, it's not as much fun anymore. Just...a lingering nagging disatisfied feeling.
and today...I again got a pm today. Some guy with a usnernic named Andretti. It said only two word:
Spurs
Report
And I knew it was time to go home.
That little voice in my head went off again, it said, "whottt....Spurs Report...click it".
I felt fate tugging at my loins once again...that same irresistable urge overtook me and..
I clicked, and it was very very good.
The emptiness I have been feeling lately immediately left me. Instantly.
People were talking intelligent basketball there in a civil tone with one another. No one was getting ganged upon for having an opinion. I gave my opinion and it was respected.
And it was every thing SpursTalk once was
And they aren't stuck in the past like unfortunately SpursTalk has become. They expect to win now, know the Spurs are capable of it, they know they aren't doing it, and they know changes to be made if it's not getting done. And that December is plenty of time to make this assessment by the way....you can't keep counting on SPAM when it's no longer working.
And it's a cold hard reality that people need to be able to express freely, and often.
And they rightly have an eye to the future and allow people to express necessary if unpopular opinions like trading Tony Parker, Manu Ginobili, and Tim Duncan, firing Pop and Peter Holt selling the team, without calling them bandwaggoners or that type of stuff.
I'm no bandwaggoner, I'll tell you that right now, and I don't like being called one just because I see Parker, Manu and Duncan need to be traded, Pop needs to be fired and Peter Holt needs to sell the team.
I am sorry timvp and kori, you have guys have been like, a more responsible older brother and sister to me and I love you like family, but the magic is simply gone. It's not there anymore
When I clicked it felt like home and I'd be lying if I said otherwise. My heart tells me it's time to go home, just as it lead me here so very many years ago,...,
...and I've simply got to follow it. I'm sorry. Ya'll deseved better after all you have done for me. But I know I only hurt the board carrying this emptiness around.
Thank you for the past 6-7 years. It's been the posting experiences of my life and Ill remember it forever
Thank you, sincerely.
If any of you miss everything SpursTalk used to be: intelligent, respectful discussion, enlightened solutions to fixing the team, and the obvious need to do so at this point in the season, and value the right to express an unpopular(if necessary) opinion about change, without the entire board piling on you. I encourage to join me at SpursReport. Where the serious basketball Spurs discussion by real SpursFans is at, and let's let SpursTalk go the path it is destined to go. It really is at Spurs Report now. And I'm not kidding.
From now on, instead of selcting favorites/SpursTalk, I'll be selecting favorites/SpursReport for my posting needs. I've got to keep moving forward you see. And I can't look back ever again. And if you feel similarly I hope you'll joln me and Spurs Report, and never look back. Ever.
www.spursreport.com
I'll be looking forward to talking hoops with you.
And thanks Kori and LJ, for everything. I wish you nothing but the best
Logging out for the last time(for now)
-whottt