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Saturday, November 22, 2008
A little off baseball for a minute here as J.C. Bradbury gets into it with hoopster Stuart Grey. (BTW…I take back that old comment about Uwe Blab and Hank Finkel having a lovechild)
First of all, get the facts straight before you publish “crap” as fact. One of the things I do not miss about sports is self serving individuals talking out of their rear end and thinking it is factual!
You have no idea what transpired at the Hornets in 1989. You have no idea of the petty team politics and you have no idea why I was brought to the team. Loyalty was not the reason, it was to fill a specific deficiency in the roster. I am pretty certain that Dick Harter knew that he could not “sell” me starting in front of the ACC prodigy, J.R. Reid. The team was soft and they could not win unless they established that they would stick up for themselves.
My career stats never suggested Dick Harter was looking for a franchise player as you would suggest. You are looking to paint me as a “stiff” to try and make a point but that would only be accurate if Dick brought me in to be more than a role player. Nice writer’s trick but less than honest representation of the reason Dick traded for me.
He was looking for a center that would stand up to the other teams’ players that were beating the living crap out of his players on a nightly basis. Funny how the refs started calling fouls on opposing players once I went “berserk” as you referred to it. You think it was so easy? Then you do it!
Repoz
Posted: November 22, 2008 at 01:00 PM | 8 comment(s)
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It's just lazy and disrespectful writing, IMO, as well as being far from accurate, as Stuart Gray pointed out.
Using language like that is like booing someone because they strike out - it's remarkable considering the athletic ability of 99.995% of the people doing the booing.
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That's interesting Stuart ended up backing up Ewing at one point. They were the ballyhooed college recruits at one point; I think Stuart was thought of more highly (Ewing being raw). That was astonishing as early as their freshman years--Ewing just had so much of an advantage in quickness.
Did you RTFA? If not, I think you should. So you won't call a player a stiff, but you will call a writer lazy. I'm not offended, I just think it's an odd standard.
If there was an Apology Hall of Fame, I would travel to this sentence's induction ceremony.
EDIT: 5 minutes later and I can't stop laughing
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