Here is a terrific piece by Roy Bragg of the San Antonio Express News as posted on www.mysa.com today.
http://blogs.mysanantonio.com/weblogs/atlarge/
Phoenix is a barren wasteland of dust and sand. But there's been an unusual amount of precipitation there lately. Most of it has been tears from crybaby fans of the Phoenix Suns.
There are so many tears, in fact, that you could irrigate a farm with them. And what would you grow on this farm? Weeping willows, of course.
If the Sun fans were a movie, they'd be a chick flick. If they were a singer, they'd be Morrissey. If they had guts...they'd be us.
You may have heard of mass hysteria. We saw some of that in Game 5, when the fans and the Suns' players almost — that's "almost" — willed their undermanned team to victory.
Smells like team dispirit
What we're witnessing now is mass whimpering, in which an entire community comes together to feel sorry for itself and offer up excuses, assign blame and prepare itself for inevitable disappointment.
Two of their pivotal players were suspended for Wednesday's for leaving the bench when Spur Robert Horry decked Sun star Stevie Gash in Game 4.
Gash flopped, but they don't remember that. And Horry is still suspended, but they don't talk about that. Spurs fans are whining, too -- about the whining Suns' fans.
Phoenix wears the yellow jersey for the final stage of grief
The four stages of fan grief are anger, temporary recovery, whining and paranoia. The Phoenix faithful are going through all of that.
We've seen the anger. We've seen the temporary recovery, i.e. the mass hysteria in Game 5.
Now we're in "whining," which is manifesting itself as mass paranoia. Their suspended players return tonight for Game 6 at the AT&T, but the sun-dried, leathery-skinned, transplanted Californians and Witness Protection Program cowards who populate their soulless city can't let it go.
Conspiracy? The Spurs are running the Tri-Lateral Commission offense
To be a Suns fan these days, apparently, is to be an open sore on the bottom half of the body politic. Flip over to one of their big fan message boards and you'll see what I mean. Down 3-2 to the East Houston St. Hoodlums and convinced that the world is out to get them (this is the fourth stage, or "conspiracy"), they've opted not to focus on the task at hand, but rather obsess over, in no particular order:
• The suspensions of Amare Stoudemire and Boris Diaw were unfair.
• The suspensions were part of a conspiracy by the NBA to keep the leathery people down.
• Tim Duncan should've been suspended, too, but wasn't because of a conspiracy to protect him.
• The Spurs have a long history as thugs.
• The Spurs wouldn't even be good if they hadn't drafted David Robinson and then Duncan, and they conspired to get them.
• Black helicopters have been seen in Phoenix, part of the NBA's plot to screw the Suns.
Congrats, Suns fans. That list is the closest thing to a parade you're going to see until Thanksgiving. I read that crap and I wonder about the collective intelligence of the community, much less their mass paranoia. Conspiracy is the opiate of the defeated. When you can't explain anything rationally or if the facts fly in the face of your beliefs, you pull out conspiracy.
The truth hurts, like a forehead to the nose
Allow me to answer these assertions, including the one I made up:
• The suspensions of Amare Stoudemire and Boris Diaw were unfair.
Shut your pieholes, you blouse-wearing poodle walkers.* The rules are the rules. If the NBA Is going to bend the rules, then Horry, a 14-year-veteran — with as many NBA rings as the number of sun lesions on the average Arizonoid — should get a break, not those two also-rans.
• The suspensions were part of a plot by the NBA.
Hey sand fleas, no one cares enough about Phoenix to plot against it. None of you are from there, and you weren't even allowed into the U.S. until 1912. Frankly, we regret that decision to this very day.
• Tim Duncan should've been suspended, too, but wasn't because of a conspiracy to protect him.
If anyone should've gotten whacked, it was Shawn Marion for clothes-lining Manu Ginobili, or Stevie Gash for nose-butting Tony Parker. That's just common courtesy and common sense. Of course, you can't expect common sense from people who chose to live where there's no water. Dumbasses.
• The Spurs have a long history as thugs.
Earth to Phoenix: You are so wrong, even people in Dallas are embarrassed for you.
• The Spurs wouldn't even be good if they hadn't drafted David Robinson and then Duncan, and they conspired to get them.
Some people wait for good things to happen; others make good things happen.
• Black helicopters have been seen in Phoenix, part of the NBA's plot to screw the Suns
How did you find out about that? That was supposed to be a s-e-c-r-e-t.
Lighten up, Phoenix. Hopefully, we will put you out of your misery — and ours — tonight. If we don't and we lose Game 7, don't expect conspiracy theories from San Antonio. We know that you'll win fair and square because, let's face it, who the would conspire on your behalf? Puh-lease.
P.S. Join the rest of the country and start using Daylight Savings Time, you time-thieving Luddites.
*(The Carlos Mencia Act of 2007 requires the following disclosure: I got that joke from The Simpsons. Remember: joke larceny is a serious crime.)
No offense but this guy comes off as a colossal self-righteous . We get it, people have different opinions on the suspensions. The game is already over, Amare and Boris are back, and everybody needs to shut the up about this topic.
And for the record, the articles coming from Phoenix about how the Spurs are satan incarnate are equally annoying and y.
Congrats, Suns fans. That list is the closest thing to a parade you're going to see until Thanksgiving.
I loved it.
Hey sand fleas, no one cares enough about Phoenix to plot against it. None of you are from there, and you weren't even allowed into the U.S. until 1912. Frankly, we regret that decision to this very day.
Great stuff
ROFL
What we're witnessing now is mass whimpering, in which an entire community comes together to feel sorry for itself and offer up excuses, assign blame and prepare itself for inevitable disappointment.
None taken but the idea that the Spurs are dirty or that the Suns should be allowed to cheat is ludicrous. If you haven't been pounding those points in since you logged onto this board, you've been gleefully supporting those that have.
No offense, if you want people to shut the up about it, maybe you should have shut the up about it, oh, three days ago.
A bit over the top.
Anything coming out of Phoenix, written in that tone, would have 99% of this board complaining and many sending emails to the writer of such a peace (remeber the Denver idiot?)
Lighten up
I just thought that the rule is stupid. I don't know anybody who actually questioned its application (and if they did they were wrong). The game is over now and it's irrelevant.
lol I dont care who you are thats funny right thereIf the Sun fans were a movie, they'd be a chick flick
it's like someone took bits of threads from here, spell checked, cleaned up the language and made it a bit coherent.
i'll take it.
*blouse-wearing poodle walkers
love the dig at ned.
Why do you think the rule is stupid? It is to prevent things from getting so out of hand that more chaos ensues.
Or is it because your team forgot/ignored the rule and now your up the creek in the series?
Oh no, lets not start this up again
You need to disclose that you stole that from Larry the Cable Guy.
Word. So anybody want to talk about basketball?Oh no, lets not start this up again
Old dirt brought it up....he can't seem to let it go.Oh no, lets not start this up again
That happened days ago......it is over....now on to game 6.
I just got a massage that cured a 3-year old back pain.
You cannot believe how relaxed I am
Awesome, I got acupunture yesterday on my back so I feel youI just got a massage that cured a 3-year old back pain.
You cannot believe how relaxed I am
It never finished because there hasn't been a single Suns fan that's stepped up to the plate and answered the question. Not a single one. The defense is always "I think the rule is stupid". It's the sporting version of "I never agreed with the war". It's awfully high and mighty of Suns fans to suggest that we move on and stop talking about it as soon as the conversation stops going their way, only to bring it up again later whenever it suits them.Oh no, lets not start this up again
the Suns, their fans. They can whine to the ing fish about it all summer long. They'll have to go to the grocery store to find fish because the largest body of water in the state is a hazard on the 12th hole.
Awesome!
But the article was still a bit over the top
Let it go! After Game 7 it won't matter anymore.
Answer the question, .
Exactly what's the question?
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