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36366, You are walking into a minefield, Volume II
Posted by Orbit_Established, Tue Jan-31-06 09:39 PM
>I didn't read your whole post, and I'm not really interested
>in arguing with you, because I've read enough from you to know
>I usually disagree with you and you won't agree with me.

Beginning with a cop-out. Tripping out of the starter block, are we?

>I was really only stating that because it seemed like you were
>giving Bags credit for basically breaking the story. He didn't
>do anything of the sort, Boston fans knew that shit.

99.9999% of you did not know this story before Bags broke it.

That is almost beyond debate. It certainly isn't the point of contention here, so don't retreat to even worse arguments just because the one you are advancing currently is falling.


>It doesn't seem like there's some huge national furor over
>Zeke, it's pretty much that story and this board. The same
>thing happened with Bird, I suppose, but its an older story,
>before this board was around, and before the internet boom.
>Coverage was much different back then.

Post 162, O_E says:

This would have been beautiful, because all the white people would have then gotten flustered and replied with:

"New York is a bigger market"

"Prove that Isiah's story received more coverage"

"Bird's story did get as much coverage"

All completely wrong and ludicrous, of course.



>EDIT: This is from a New York paper. was this on the sports
>news shows, did people really get up in arms over this?
>becauser there's been not one mention in the Boston papers.
>I'm just saying, it may feel like its a national issue with
>the way we're posting on it, but I don't see any big national
>thing going on. I could be wrong, but I haven't seen it.


This is getting boring. At least try to hid your plea-copping a little bit. I already told everyone you were going to do this.

Post 162, OE says:

This would have been beautiful, because all the white people would have then gotten flustered and replied with:

"New York is a bigger market"

"Prove that Isiah's story received more coverage"

"Bird's story did get as much coverage"

All completely wrong and ludicrous, of course.

White people would have copped pleas on behalf of their objective white media, even the liberal yts, and Orbit would have used that as an avenue to reverse the discussion into:

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