I'm Coming Home...

TheClevelandSound

Zombo said:
All you have to do is:
1.) Stay with us through a complete season and off-season.

2.) Beat up a Newbie.

3.) Call someone gay.

4.) Embarass a Steeler troll

5.) Make a football-related post.

1. Pretty much done

2. I don't remember his name but yes he was a douche bag

3. Zombo your gay (guilty by association)

4. Theres so many how couldnt I ?!

5. I do that all the time.

Regular?

CLEVELandMILIDH

When I first seen this topic I thought LeBron resigned with the Cavs....so disappointing

ATENEARS

@theclevelandsound said:
Regular?

That's what your title says.

You must have som pull around here.

shepwrite

Thanks to everyone. They're slagging me like crazy on the rogue shit board... and I'm happy to be home. I missed Zombo and Ate a ton... but I even missed you, Cal.

Good to be back.

hoorta

@shepwrite said:
Thanks to everyone. They're slagging me like crazy on the rogue shit board... and I'm happy to be home. I missed Zombo and Ate a ton... but I even missed you, Cal.
Good to be back.

Well, welcome back. From my POV, the big split was inevitable. If you know who hadn't done it- someone else eventually would have- we had just gotten too damn big and too much stuff coming from all directions.

And I won't yell at you for too much quarterback fixation- I've known you long enough to know you just can't help yourself.

I think you should make plans to get to the Jets game this year- and show up at a Tailgate for once. The Brits will be here, and I'll have a supply of the Orange Stuff. :lol: We can discuss the relative merits of the Quinnster over a few shots of it. Ate, can we dispense with the formalities and declare that Homecoming Weekend right now?

hoorta

@theclevelandsound said:
How long does it take before I become a "regular"?

When your post count hits four figures, you're a regular. However, Shep's permanently retired the Hemingway Post Count Trophy. I'll add in one additional qualification that will make you an "Outstanding Regular" show up for a Tailgate.

TheClevelandSound

@atenears said:
That's what your title says.
You must have som pull around here.

who did that?

THANK YOU

shepwrite

I lost my brother-in-law in Florida this year and really wanted to go to the TB game to be with my sister and nephews... but it's my son's biggest game and I have family coming in for it.

To catch you up: Jack's team (Westlake Warriors) is ranked 7th nationally and went 14-0 last year. He's the defensive captain, OLB, and getting recruited actively. I can't tell you how fun this has all been.

HowieDawg

@atenears said:
You can even ask me on my birthday, Christmas, or even when I've had too many umbrella foo-foo drinks; the WR position still sucks IMO.
(ok, maybe not after too many foo-foo drnks as even Howard starts looking good then).

Homo

choco

Since I have nothing nice to say....

Oh well.

ATENEARS

@shepwrite said:
I lost my brother-in-law in Florida this year and really wanted to go to the TB game to be with my sister and nephews... but it's my son's biggest game and I have family coming in for it.
To catch you up: Jack's team (Westlake Warriors) is ranked 7th nationally and went 14-0 last year. He's the defensive captain, OLB, and getting recruited actively. I can't tell you how fun this has all been.

I love high school football, you must be giddy with pride over Jack's and the Warriors accomplishments. I have just been gearing up for some high school football action here in Ohio. My beloved Mentor Cardinals kick things off this season facing St. Ed's at Cleveland Browns Stadium on August 28th, where the Cardinals are 2-0 in recent history. On the night card that evening, is Mentor Lake Catholic verse 10-time State Champs St. Ignatius.

Keep us posted on Jack and the Warriors, I'll let you know what I hear about them from this part of the country.

DieHardBrownsFan

@shepwrite said:
The other board became something grotesque with management supporting some of the worst posters from here who moved over there. I'm in development season and won't be able to post a lot ... but I'm coming back here to see how things are going.
Who from the old gang is here? Zombo? Ate?

I lurk over there occasionally just to get a laugh. It was obvious that you were being ganged up on. If you go back, it will happen again, count on it. Things over here have been much better since certain people left here. The fighting and arguing has toned down considerably. You made a wise choice.

shepwrite

@atenears said:
I love high school football, you must be giddy with pride over Jack's and the Warriors accomplishments. I have just been gearing up for some high school football action here in Ohio. My beloved Mentor Cardinals kick things off this season facing St. Ed's at Cleveland Browns Stadium on August 28th, where the Cardinals are 2-0 in recent history. On the night card that evening, is Mentor Lake Catholic verse 10-time State Champs St. Ignatius.
Keep us posted on Jack and the Warriors, I'll let you know what I hear about them from this part of the country.

Definitely. I've become a huge fan around here. Our league brought in Oaks Christian (Clausen, Marc Tyler, Montana, Gretsky, Will Smith's kid) and St. Bonaventure, one of the top teams in Cali for years. It's unbelievably competitive and we have two national games (definitely Oaks on an ESPN channel).

Oaks is a mile from Westlake... and they already hate each other even though they've never played. It's like a movie.

Jack was one of two kids at the Combine to run a sub 4.0 Pro Shuttle, jumped 33", and ran a 4.65, lifted 225 20 times. Put him on the map. He's kinda small for linebacker (5'11.5, 208), but that's not so unusual for a HS kid. A lot get recruited at that size and redshirted. He could also move to safety with his speed. That time is really fast without real training. For a combine, they train for two months and shave up to .2.

shepwrite

@diehardbrownsfan said:
I lurk over there occasionally just to get a laugh. It was obvious that you were being ganged up on. If you go back, it will happen again, count on it. Things over here have been much better since certain people left here. The fighting and arguing has toned down considerably. You made a wise choice.

You know I love a tussle, as long as it's reasonably non-personal and dignified. But anything I wrote in any thread got jumped by the former Desert Dawg (who really wasn't supposed to be there) and King of Kings. Sometimes Youngstown jumped in, too. It was just so absurdly persistent that it wasn't any fun at all to post. You couldn't sustain a plot at all... it just spun out of control.

Normally, management would collar guys like that. But Inspecta is friends with them or something and he would actually go after ME!! It's happened three times n the last six months. That group still tries to act like it's my fault, even though a lot of people are trying to point out that I never provoked anybody, only reacted.

But I reacted smarter than they attacked, and apparently that made me the bad guy.

It's good to be back. I'm sure they'll work really hard to start threads and make it look good... but a lot of people won't play anymore and it'll become a clubhouse for one little group.

The Gipper

Zombo said:
All you have to do is:
1.) Stay with us through a complete season and off-season.

2.) Beat up a Newbie.

3.) Call someone gay.

4.) Embarass a Steeler troll

5.) Make a football-related post.

Except for #1 I pretty much try do all of those with every one of my posts.

The Gipper

@ballpeen said:
As long as they are contained to a reasonable degree and not a new thread with every post....look at the board now....there are multiple threads 2,3, even 7 pages long.....It wasn't like that a year ago...you would have a thread and 15 posts later you had another on basically the same thing.

Perhaps in those cases it would behoove the monitors to combine the threads.

shepwrite

Yeah, the truth is that it's such a gray area on threads. I LIKE headlines when it's something new, even if there's a basket it could have been dropped in. Sometimes I lose interest in two week old threads that seem to be played out, and I stop looking at them. If we piled every single thing about DQJ into one thread, I'd probably miss it if he got methed up and killed an entire small town.

But if their are total duplicates, yeah... combine them. It happens on accident a lot.

Riffer X

Shep, welcome back to TBB.

Did you hear McFreckles may have a weak arm? Word is it's very weak and won't cut it.

shepwrite

I decided to come out of the closet and own up to my feelings about Freckles and accept the lashing!

I'll do the Haden pick next. I think we could've traded down and take Kareem Jackson, who will be about as good (already starting for the Texans).

I got SO misunderstood on the other board. I think Haden is a very good corner, one of the top few in the draft (with Jackson and Wilson). I don't think he should've been the first top 10 corner of the post rule change era.

ATENEARS

@shepwrite said:
You know I love a tussle, as long as it's reasonably non-personal and dignified. But anything I wrote in any thread got jumped by the former Desert Dawg (who really wasn't supposed to be there) and King of Kings. Sometimes Youngstown jumped in, too. It was just so absurdly persistent that it wasn't any fun at all to post. You couldn't sustain a plot at all... it just spun out of control.
Normally, management would collar guys like that. But Inspecta is friends with them or something and he would actually go after ME!! It's happened three times n the last six months. That group still tries to act like it's my fault, even though a lot of people are trying to point out that I never provoked anybody, only reacted.

But I reacted smarter than they attacked, and apparently that made me the bad guy.

It's good to be back. I'm sure they'll work really hard to start threads and make it look good... but a lot of people won't play anymore and it'll become a clubhouse for one little group.

Re-read that from my point of view and you'll see the irony.

Now try to picture yourself as the owner of said forum and not even be around (last off-season) when the fighting started, yet be accused of creating it, festering it and no matter what you say (I am not Lumbergh) you still get jumped on at every thread. It just may lead you to turn bizaar, run everyone who breaths off the forum, and start over the way it use to be which is now, with building camraderie, getting back to the tailgate parties, good clean humor, minus the bitching, whining, and drama.

The drama, bitching and whining left here suddenly at mid-October. I have a crack team combing through the carry-over membership base here and we can't seem to find any bacteria among the inventory. Imagine that? (scratching head and balls at same time). What? Drama was a constant 3-month cycle over there? Nooooo, tell me it wasn't so!

I read a small bit of the drama involving you ... I replaced your name with Lumberg and then laughed proudly of how fast we ousted that small group.

God forbid you posted favorably about QB's and someone had to skip the thread if they chose. (replace Quinn with Colt ... Whalla! more irony)

What is even better is the locked, moved and over moderation yet under moderation ... where have we heard accused and been accused of that before? Speaking of Moderation, I believe we pulled a spam ad and a drunken Rich4eagle rant or two since the season ended. Meanwhile the 'Moderation for hire' sign has become their logo.

Oh the irony ... worst yet is somewhere Inspecta sits proud over the recognition this spill-over drama here has given him. How fucking pathetic is that?