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Stories sell papers, not truth nor even-handedness.
led: How does it feel?
To leave your ass hanging out like you did when you exclaimed that the Spurs were done before/during the Spurs/Nuggets series? I find it funny that you complain about the Spurs "fawning media" and conveniently ignore, not just how wrong you were, but the depth of antagonism you showed to our team when you are forced to recognize our achievements. You have been exposed as someone with very little knowledge of the game of basketball.
A for fawning media...I lived in Denver from 98-01, living there for the 2nd of the 2 Super Bowls. There was scarcely a writer who would cross Shanahan at that time...Why? Because he was a winner and there was little to complain about.
You seem to be internally conflicted about Pop. On the one hand you admit how great of a coach he is, while on the other you complain that the SA media doesn't try and cross him...a Mafia Don is what you compared him to.
This Spurs team has competed for a le for over a decade. Why would media types take him on? He's been incredible. He had the good fortune of having Dave and Tim during that time. But the '05 and presumable '07 les have been without David. The T'Wolves have had KG all this time and what have they accomplished?
Is the media supposed to peer into Pop's personal life to find something wrong since there's been little to complain about on the court or in the front office?
I think you are confused right now and aren't sure how to react. Let me make a suggestion to you...Apologize #1 for being wrong and #2 for acting like such a jerk while you were being exposed.
Very Truly Yours,
Stories sell papers, not truth nor even-handedness.
I don't disagree...It just felt therapeutic to write that to him. I hope it gets him just a little bent out of shape.
good work
I sent a shorter email to him, telling him about the Sportsline article that called him out.
-Mars
Mark's response...
James:
Thanks for writing.
But talk about exposing yourself as ignorant.
Congratulations. You just did it, my man.
I have let Spurs fans get their digs at me. In print. Repeatedly. It has been fun.
In fact, look up "Kickin It With Kiz" posted today on the paper's web site and you'll see another example of it.
Pop is best coach in the NBA. No conflict there. I have been writing it for four years. Repeatedly.
Where have been your emails of thanks in the past? I know, the nature of folks is to take time to complain, not praise. And you prove it. But you do angry and bitter well.
As for the electronic media in San Antonio? All I can do is quote a sports writer at the Express-News on his TV brethren:
"This place,'' he says, "is Hooterville."
You can go back to rocking on the porch at the Shady Rest now.
Enjoy the Finals.
Mark Kiszla
My response...
So your retort is that I'm ignorant even though you can't point out one thing I said as being wrong? Nice spin, Mark. You've been exposed. Learn to live with it, admit it, then embrace it. I'm actually not angry...I think it's fun point out your deficiencies.
Oh, and I'm normally too busy chasing my 2 year old around to sit on the porch. It's nice to be given a Sunday afternoon hall pass before another NBA Finals game (that you said we wouldn't get to). Sorry...I had to get that last dig in.
James
Lucky, I didn't even get a response :/
-Mars
Wow, you struck a nerve on him. Not that he would admit it or anything, but it sounds like you got to him a bit. Nice work. I try not to read his articles anymore, but sometimes morbid curiosity gets the best of me.
This brings back memories...I had a little email war with Stephen A. Smith when we were in the finals against Detroit in '05.
Really? I'd like a funny read :P Do you still have the emails?
-Mars
LOL at a columnist bringing the city smack - the last gasp of those without a clue or anything to base an argument upon.
I'll try and find them...I had my hard drive wiped clean about 3 months ago so I'm gonna have to find where I posted them either on this board, spurs report, or ebsports.
Do you have that link, I missed it
The gist of the SAS emails (if I can't find them) is that I called him out for disappearing after game 5. He said that he had to attend the funeral of a family member. I told him it was ironic that he did a hatchet job on Glenn Robinson the next day after Robinson's mother had passed away. Pretty mean of me, I know... *blushes* He responded after that...I don't remember what he said...Let me see if I can find it.
That schmuck from the Cleveland TV station hasn't written me back yet.
Not that I expect him to.
The SAS emails...I'm still trying to find the last 2.
En led "Where have you been hiding?"
Dear Mr. Smith,
I noticed you were nowhere to be found after game 7 of the NBA Finals and I haven't heard your thoughts regarding the victory of the Spurs. After game 6 you said the series was over and that the Spurs were finished. After making such a bold prediction don't you feel the urge to come out and #1 admit your mistake and #2 give props to a team that defied your loudly pronounced expectations?
I've always considered you to be overcompensating for a lack of sports knowledge and intelligence by simply speaking more loudly than everyone else in the room, but now you have added being a coward to your list of negative attributes.
If I am wrong about you please tell me why.
Very Truly Yours,
SAS's response:
First off, I've acknowledged I was wrong once the Pistons lost Game 5 because I picked them 6.
In regards to my absence from Game, I HAD A DEATH IN THE FAMILY!!!
Does that still make me a coward, sir???
My response:
Dear Mr. Smith,
The death in your family does not explain why the first article since your tragic loss (for which I am truly sorry for you and your family) only makes mention of the Spurs championship as a subtext for your hatchet job on Glenn Robinson. I seem to remember you making many of these same comments after everyone in basketball watching America, except apparently you, knew that Glenn Robinson's mother had passed away.
There is irony in your use of a death in your family as the excuse for your inability to give the Spurs props (ignoring the fact that you have written an article since game 7 which did nothing of the sort), while demeaning Glenn Robinson's performance in the Finals after his mother passed away.
Your response to my email is pretty puzzling. Whatever you said after game 5 has nothing to do with your comments after game 6 which I was referring to. Saying that you admitted being wrong about the number of games the series would go and believing that excuses your inability face the music concerning your treatment of the Spurs is pretty comical.
Maybe in your next article you will prove those of us wrong who believe that you have lost all credibility as a journalist because of your inability to treat your perceived opponents with class and your outrageous bias which continues even after you have been proven wrong.
Very Truly Yours,
I think Kizsla will be getting a national gig soon, thanks in no small part to us.
Im shocked people actually take these guys this seriously....
All you're doing is letting them know that a) you read the column and b) they pushed your buttons.
Why do you ing idiots waste your time emailing guys like him? Are you 12 or something?
Here's some insight for you - you will never win a smack off with a writer like this, especially when you start an email with 'How does it feel to leave your ass hanging out like you did?'
Further, these guys are there to sell papers. The only way they get to keep their jobs is as long as they write stupid, inflammatory articles, and stupid, inflammatory idiots such as yourselves respond to him.
The best thing you can do with chumps like him is IGNORE his articles and don't spend two minutes writing a response. First, you aren't going to change his mind. Second, he gets to take all your stupid ass emails and show them to his boss to prove that he's doing a good job and has folks following his articles. And all his editor does is use those to show their advertisers that people read their rag and should continue to give them advertising dollars.
All you did with your email is prove that you're an insecure chump and put more money in his pocket in the form of a paycheck.
Just shut the up and ignore his articles, and sure as don't dignify them with an email response. Good lord, sometimes I look around this place and it looks like a pre-school day care center with all the whining.
Ignore the stupid editorial articles and let the Spurs do the talking for themselves - on the scoreboard.
Although I did get Charlie Parker to read an email I sent to him on the air when he and that assclown Chance had a morning show. They spent 45 minutes on the subject. It was my best morning drive to work ever.
Having said that, and having said the following in another thread......Spurs fan, learn to enjoy the envy and don't take it so personal. It's good to be on top for you right now and it won't last forever, the hatred is nothing but jealousy.
Um...Go yourself. I can write who I want when I want. Why don't you take your own advice and ignore this thread if you have such a problem with it, jackass.
Did you even read what I said? All your email ing like you were on the rag did was make the guy look better.
Are you capable of even comprehending that, or is your so small that you feel the need to compensate for it by being such a to a sportswriter in another city that just got an extra day's pay because of your whining?
Who gives a what a writer in another state says about the Spurs? Spurs got scoreboard, and we're three games away from river parade #4. That's the ultimate scoreboard and the ultimate smack, yet you somehow think your simpleton smack is going to make a difference. Give me a ing break. The best thing you can do is ignore hacks like Kiszla, not build them up with idiotic emails.
You seem to have the misguided view that your re ed ass email somehow had some effect other than 1) making you look like a dumbass 2) making Spurs fans look like insecure, ignorant little s and 3) making Kiszla look better.
Which it didn't. And then you top it all off by coming here, posting your idiotic email, and looking for a pat on the back? Wake the up. And grow the up.
Again...Go yourself, repeatedly. Do you think you're actually accomplishing anything right now other than making yourself look like an asshole, Mr. Hypocrisy?
I'm not the one who decided to insult a fellow Spurs fan and act like an Internet tough guy. You're a ...live with it.
Your advice is falling on deaf ears because I don't like you as a direct result of how much of an jerk you are. I'm sure you here that in real life all the time so once more on the Internet is probably just gravy.
After we get done with this conversation please never address me again.
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