Definitely some good laughs in this thread. Pretty much all of mine are taken, except for:

Hoopsworld. Probably the ****tiest basketball site of all time. The chats their writers have are supremely idiotic and provide solid comedy, with a sprinkle of sadness that people believe this stuff. I first caught a strong whiff of their bull**** when one of their senior writers claimed that some basketball players can dunk from the NBA 3pt line.

A couple of fairly recent examples:

Cain in New Zealand:
What order would you pick these guys to build a franchise around? James, Granger, Durant, Anthony, Gay, Wade and Iguodala.

Steve Kyler:
I am not a big Lebron James fan... I see who and what he is as a player and give respect that he's a great player... would never be on my team.

That said, building a team to win today?...
- DWade... Iguodala... Durant... Granger... Carmelo... LeBron... Rudy Gay

I wonder if this dolt struggled to decide if he would take LeBron or Rudy Gay? These guys also claim that if you took LeBron from the Cavs and put him on the Knicks, with no other roster changes, then the Cavs would still be significantly better than the Knicks.

This was a good one too:

Bill Ingram:
If they get Millsap they'll look to deal LaMarcus. Talked to KP about it last night - Wendell Maxey will be writing about that later today. They want a more physical presence at the 4 and aren't sure they can afford to pay what LaMarcus will want. You hang onto Joel.

It turned out he did not talk to Kevin Pritchard about this, Wendell Maxey had to put a note up on his site that he was not going to write this, and they just snipped this out of the transcript later without mentioning it. It's like these guys are tripping balls and just spewing out tales from their alternate NBA reality. They remind me of that South Park episode where everyone ****s out of their mouths.

They also put out a list of top shooting guards in the league and didn't put Brandon Roy on it. Their excuse was that they always thought he was a point guard.

Hoopsworld, you suck. I do admit that I get amusement from their incessant incompetence. Their failure, however, is large. Not fall off your bike level failure, more like fall of a civilization level failure. Haters gonna hate Hoopsworld.

I all knucklers based on Ball Four alone.

Dear Bill Plaschke,
I hate your stinkin' guts.


I'm not even sure how to spell this clown's name, but you know what, I do not care. Palshke has the loser sports writer mentality of someone from some miserable city who has something to complain about at all times. He gets to write about some of the best teams and programs in all of sports; Lakers, USC Football, UCLA basketball, Dodgers, Angels, Ducks (I dont actually know if they're good but whatever.)

But Plaskche is like that friend you have who either never played sports or sucked when he did, freaks out over every loss, makes hyperbolic statements after every win, comes to inexplicable conclusions- even after watching the same game you did right there on the same couch, and most importantly will take one or two games to decide whether a player/coach/program is any good.

He's the guy who after the opening drive of the Super Bowl decides, 'well, it looks like team X didn't come to play today!'

I haven't made it through one of this asshat's articles in years because he usually makes so many preposterous claims in the first paragraph that I want to forget how to read so I never have to be subject to his drivel again. (Fortunately, I have an iq above 70 so i don't watch Around the Horn.)

Plashke is single handedly bankrupting the newspaper business with his useless tripe. *****.

HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE!

By all accounts Giggs has had an exemplary career. However, his winning of the PFA Player of the Year trivialized one of the most respected awards in the sport. The subsequent defending of his award on the part of some Manchester United fans, is the true cause for the hatred, as some inconceivably tried to argue that he in fact had the best season of anyone in the entire Premier League.

Sorry Ryan, it's not your fault the other players gave you the award out of respect for your career, but the dilution from some of your fans that you actually deserved it is ****ing annoying.

looooooool plaschke hate is excellent, not knowing how to spell his name so spelling it differently each time is A+

Jesus....where do I even start? Jay Mariotti is basically the biggest hater of all time, which normally would garner my respect: the problem is, all of his hate is directed at the teams in the city that he writes columns for. How many times have I glossed over a column he has written, only to be enraged to the point of insanity over what he has written down? Jay Mariotti is basically the anti-Hawk: he has never once written an article supporting or giving credit to a Chicago team...instead, he finds literally anything he can to bash the franchises he covers by any means necessary. Add onto this the fact that he knows literally nothing about sports, and instead relies on bending the truth, stating his own ******ed opinions as fact, and flat out lying, and it is pretty clear that Mr. Mariotti is a humongous douche of a "sports reporter." You don't like facts, do you Mr. Mariotti? Well, that's fine, because I am going to present some facts for you to consider.

FACT: The surgeon general's warning states that pregnant women watching you on Around the Horn increases the risk of infantile brain damage by 500%.

FACT: You know nothing about sports, and your idiotic opinions are so bad that you make Woody Page look like Walter Cronkite.

FACT: Nobody in the city likes you, respects you, or values your opinion, and most would pay for the privilege of seeing you castrated and sacrificed to the Michael Jordan statue outside of the United Center.

In short, get the **** out my city you arrogant, pig headed, moronic piece of goldfish ****.

Giggs is truely a hairy bastard.

Very entertaining and for some years very good player.

My favorite moment involving him though will always be this ridiculousness: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AMnRO-v9kY

All the Manu hate astounds me or I'm assuming it's from people who barely watch the NBA

And great thread but it does kinda read like my favorite people in sports...

San Antonio Spurs players (would be shocked if they weren't heavily included anyway but yeah it's still hard to understand how a basket fan can't find some love for someone like Manu).

Italian soccer players (not surprising at all they show up).

Chipper Jones (not very surprising either)

Drogba (similar)

And I even used to really like Favre too back in the day! But will agree that's something a lot more difficult to do in recent years.

I can't stand Manu and I watch a lot of basketball.

starting to drink beer now, see you guys in a little

I'm by no means a Spurs fan but Manu is pretty awesome.

He doesn't bitch for calls anymore than most NBA stars.

Also, he's really, really good

Mother**** Flopasaurus Manu.

all the manu haters are the bat in batmanu.gif

And I love the man (hate thread i know but cant help it)



One of the funniest and best nights of my life. That game and season was something else

This douchebag never met a low he wouldn't stoop too. From corking his bat to lying to Congress, everything was always about Sammy. When the attention whore was bunny hopping and love tapping through the season, I wanted to puke. Of course, he didn't have the decency to keep his antics confined to the game, he had to appear in ads where he never had many lines because no one wants to listen to him. We understood him though, which made him using an interpreter at the Congressional hearing all the more ******ed. English mother****er, do you speak it? He was a bad teammate, quitting on his team at the end of the year and getting run out of town on a rail. He didn't even have the decency to stop juicing until after he left the Cubs so the Sox couldn't take advantage of the easy outs.

So people hate Ryan Gigs because he is hairy, and he won an award that he didn't award himself with OMG you guys have logical hate.

Since when does hate have to be logical?

? They play in the premier league.

yes i know

I think hes referring to Manchester Ginobili, not United.

I DONT GIVE A **** IF YOU KNOW!

4rl?

This thread so much btw.

you forgot to mention that Jay also poses as a celebrity look-a-like on the weekends for extra spending cash.