Part of me is tempted to say that I am WD and stir up as much shit as possible before I leave, going out in a pathetic, wonderful blaze of glory, but I'm just going to leave instead. I never should have signed back up.
Though I apologize for my late night rant and admit I overreacted, you are all collectively the dumbest group of smart people in the world.
I'm going to be entirely honest here, you and several other users' obsession with every new account being WD, and about WD in general borders on pathetic. I'm not really a fan of him either and find his self-promotion extremely tiresome (who makes themselves a custom avatar with their name on it, or posts a collection thread pointing to their username in a book while bragging about showing it to their future grandchildren, for example?), and I'm positive that he uses multiple accounts, and he was certainly Benn and Discuss Man (my favorite instance was when WD and Benn were arguing in the mod sticky), but accusing literally every new poster of being him is ridiculous. He's extremely bad at hiding who he is, and he has a very distinct style of writing and an obsession with starting new threads, particularly Twitter-based ones.
I don't like WD, either, and often find myself embarrassed on his behalf by a lot of the stuff he posts and hope that he some day comes to a realization about a lot of it, but the anti-WD crowd is far worse. It's part of the reason that I left in the first place, the smugness and douchebaggery on display from certain users is unbearable.
Let me ask you this, when you go outside, do you see WD behind rocks and stop signs and hiding in trees? He's on your mind so much, I'm starting to think that you might secretly be in love with him. Have you ever considered telling him how you feel? You might have to end up fighting Timmy for the maiden fair, though.
Thank you! I appreciate the compliment. I always have a ton of fun making posts like that, and I'm glad when other people get some form of enjoyment out of them, too.
As far as the points go, I think I got most on my first day on here. I try to post only if I feel I have something to add, whether it's funny or otherwise worthwhile. I think that it also helps to understand a little bit about the tone, humor, and culture around here, as I've lurked since 2010ish, and this is actually my second account here under the same username. I requested that my original be banned a month and a half or so back and planned on going back to lurking entirely shortly after signing day, after having the last iteration of my account for only a month or so, but I just couldn't stay away, I guess!
I've always really enjoyed posting on forums, but I have a really bad habit of posting for a couple of months then deleting my account for whatever reason. I'll try to stick around this time, though! MGoBlog is by far my favorite place on the internet.
Ezekiel Elliot: Tired of hearing about every single presidential candidate in the race
"I'm tired of hearing about every presidential candidate on the news," said Elliott on the show. "They all need to get in check with reality, because at the end of the day, you can't talk smack about winning a general election when you haven't won the nomination yet."
"You have to win the nomination to talk behind it."
It's hard to blame Elliott for his stance. After all, not a single presidential candidate has locked up the nomination, and it appears the process will go on for both major parties for quite some time.
But there's one thing that Elliott is forgetting about the election, and that's the fact that eventually, both parties will inevitably select a nominee from those in the current field.
"I think that they should all stop promoting themselves because none of them are the nominee. In fact, they should all drop out of the race. I don't see any of them eventually winning the nomination of their parties, and I bet they'll all drop out like a bunch of other candidates did earlier in the election cycle. I mean, why wouldn't they? If they haven't won the nomination at this point, they never will."
When you hire Jim Harbaugh, you know what you're getting yourself into, or at least should.
When you hire Chip Kelly, you know what you're getting yourself into, or at least should.
If you're a person who has a large ego and isn't particularly easy to get along with when people question your vision of how things should be, it's probably best to not mix yourself with, and tie your fortunes to other people with large egos who don't like it when you question their vision of how things should be. Fit is just as important in a job as competence.
If neither side has any element of being willing to compromise and trust each other, you're going to find yourself as a perennial 6-10, 7-9 team with no change in sight, ever.
Not mentioned in the article is how Jim Harbaugh stuck around afterward and oversaw fingerpainting. It started off well enough, with Harbaugh just asking "Alright, enough about a career in football! How about we do some fingerpainting?!"
The kids reacted enthusiastically, but when one announced that he disliked fingerpainting, and one of his friends joined in to seem cool, a vein started pulsing on Harbaugh's neck, and he forced the two children to run laps around the lunchroom. Harbaugh then went back in front of the class, and asked "Does anybody else want to join them?!"
Met with silence, Harbaugh got out the paper and paint and set them on a table on the other side of the room. "Well?! What are you all waiting for?!" The children then proceeded to go and grab their supplies. Addie obviously ran up, with her classmates following. Harbaugh, disapponted with the overall lack of hustle, forced the last three up to do 25 push-ups, then join their smartmouthed classmates in the lunchroom for laps.
Any children grabbing any paint that left out maize and blue (Harbaugh made an exception for red, for pictures of bloodied Michigan opponents) had the paint slapped out of their hands, and were forced to go run laps, as well. One child was particularly defiant and picked their fingerpaint up from the ground, but Harbaugh proceeded to drink the entire can and forced the child to go run laps.
At the very end, Harbaugh selected the three winners, a beautiful picture of Michigan taking a 77-0 win over Ohio State in Ann Arbor, a wolverine, and a Judge Judy fingerpaint portrait, and awarded them with helmet stickers, while forcing everybody else to go into the lunchroom for laps. He was particularly unimpressed with Drew Brees' picture of a snowman, citing the time of year and laziness of using the white paper background as a color, and forced him to run twice as many laps as the rest.
I can't imagine what it's going to be like when Harbaugh gets an entire roster of 85 kids that he recruited and fully developed throughout their entire careers, getting to fully reap the benefits of his extensive efforts and success on the recruiting trail and in practice.
Harbaugh's 2019 supermen will rip through the Big Ten like a hungry pack of wolves that got into a meat processing plant. Teams like Rutgers will be forced to start forfeiting in the third quarter when Michigan's scout team starts running up the score on them. Harbaugh's supermen will only know of two things on the football field: competition, and the screams of agony of their opponents. Questions of human decency and the point at which refs should call the game will be raised every time that Michigan takes the field. The tears of concern from the opposing team's fans and families will be enough to create a sixth ocean.
Oh what a tangled web we weave when we're beholden to being a hardline conference shill.
I'm aware that not all offers are "committable" nowadays per se, but according to 247 in 2016 alone, Michigan listed 11 players with an Alabama offer. Is Finebaum trying to claim that all of these players were entirely unwanted by Saban, many coming directly from the SEC footprint or being very high four star types and in one case, a five star? Kareem Walker? Devin Bush, Jr.? Ben Bredeson? Devin Asiasi? Michael Onwenu? Ron Johnson? Nick Eubanks? Eddie McDoom? Elysee Mbem-Bosse? Joshua Uche? RASHAN GARY? And that's just Alabama! Ole Miss doesn't nearly have the cache that Alabama does, though they do offer a similar type of cash, and such a list would be even longer.
In particular, I remember Eubanks going down to the wire near signing day, and anybody that tries to claim that Gary couldn't have gone to any college in the country with a football team is out of their minds. I can relate to Finebaum in the sense that I feel about Michigan how he feels about the entire SEC, and recognize that his livelihood comes from pandering to the SEC's fanbase, but once we start losing perspective of facts, especially with Finebaum being somebody who covers sports for a living, it starts to became shameful, disingenuous, and embarrassing.
I'm glad that you enjoy them, but for me, they most certainly had a time. I'll admit that I'm not entirely immune from laughing at the occasional, well-executed reference from them, though:
Due to some misguided sense of nostalgia, I feel as though Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, Bulletproof, The Wedding Singer, The Waterboy, and Big Daddy aren't entirely without redeeming qualities.
Having said that, I find myself unable to rewatch any of them at this point, and have absolutely no desire to. I almost wonder if Sandler movies haven't actually gotten worse, it's just a different era, and we've all changed as people, and have some residual warmness towards his earlier stuff?
...Are you really trying to claim that Dustin Diamond's incarceration status and "socially conscientious clothing" aren't extremely worthwhile and interesting topics to discuss on a Michigan sports blog?
That's just ridiculous. I came to the site today specifically hoping that the latest on Screech and everybody's bamboo sweater tips would be covered.
I commend you for sticking to your values, but that's honestly a factor that has never crossed my mind, let alone something that I'd let dictate my clothing purchases. Reminds me a little bit of that story about throwing starfish back into the ocean.
If it's something that's personally important to you, great! Do it when you can, and when it doesn't work out, that's on the system. If not, if anybody holds you purchasing normal clothes against you, that's on them. It's not worth doing it to appease a select few who may judge you for it, in my estimation.
There's a reason that Harbaugh's success is built on maniacal devotion, innovation, blood, sweat, and tears, and Hugh Freeze's success is built on looking the other way so that boosters can give his players hundred dollar handshakes.
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I'm going to be entirely honest here, you and several other users' obsession with every new account being WD, and about WD in general borders on pathetic. I'm not really a fan of him either and find his self-promotion extremely tiresome (who makes themselves a custom avatar with their name on it, or posts a collection thread pointing to their username in a book while bragging about showing it to their future grandchildren, for example?), and I'm positive that he uses multiple accounts, and he was certainly Benn and Discuss Man (my favorite instance was when WD and Benn were arguing in the mod sticky), but accusing literally every new poster of being him is ridiculous. He's extremely bad at hiding who he is, and he has a very distinct style of writing and an obsession with starting new threads, particularly Twitter-based ones.
I don't like WD, either, and often find myself embarrassed on his behalf by a lot of the stuff he posts and hope that he some day comes to a realization about a lot of it, but the anti-WD crowd is far worse. It's part of the reason that I left in the first place, the smugness and douchebaggery on display from certain users is unbearable.
Let me ask you this, when you go outside, do you see WD behind rocks and stop signs and hiding in trees? He's on your mind so much, I'm starting to think that you might secretly be in love with him. Have you ever considered telling him how you feel? You might have to end up fighting Timmy for the maiden fair, though.
Thank you! I appreciate the compliment. I always have a ton of fun making posts like that, and I'm glad when other people get some form of enjoyment out of them, too.
As far as the points go, I think I got most on my first day on here. I try to post only if I feel I have something to add, whether it's funny or otherwise worthwhile. I think that it also helps to understand a little bit about the tone, humor, and culture around here, as I've lurked since 2010ish, and this is actually my second account here under the same username. I requested that my original be banned a month and a half or so back and planned on going back to lurking entirely shortly after signing day, after having the last iteration of my account for only a month or so, but I just couldn't stay away, I guess!
I've always really enjoyed posting on forums, but I have a really bad habit of posting for a couple of months then deleting my account for whatever reason. I'll try to stick around this time, though! MGoBlog is by far my favorite place on the internet.
Ezekiel Elliot: Tired of hearing about every single presidential candidate in the race
"I'm tired of hearing about every presidential candidate on the news," said Elliott on the show. "They all need to get in check with reality, because at the end of the day, you can't talk smack about winning a general election when you haven't won the nomination yet."
"You have to win the nomination to talk behind it."
It's hard to blame Elliott for his stance. After all, not a single presidential candidate has locked up the nomination, and it appears the process will go on for both major parties for quite some time.
But there's one thing that Elliott is forgetting about the election, and that's the fact that eventually, both parties will inevitably select a nominee from those in the current field.
"I think that they should all stop promoting themselves because none of them are the nominee. In fact, they should all drop out of the race. I don't see any of them eventually winning the nomination of their parties, and I bet they'll all drop out like a bunch of other candidates did earlier in the election cycle. I mean, why wouldn't they? If they haven't won the nomination at this point, they never will."
When you hire Jim Harbaugh, you know what you're getting yourself into, or at least should.
When you hire Chip Kelly, you know what you're getting yourself into, or at least should.
If you're a person who has a large ego and isn't particularly easy to get along with when people question your vision of how things should be, it's probably best to not mix yourself with, and tie your fortunes to other people with large egos who don't like it when you question their vision of how things should be. Fit is just as important in a job as competence.
If neither side has any element of being willing to compromise and trust each other, you're going to find yourself as a perennial 6-10, 7-9 team with no change in sight, ever.
Not mentioned in the article is how Jim Harbaugh stuck around afterward and oversaw fingerpainting. It started off well enough, with Harbaugh just asking "Alright, enough about a career in football! How about we do some fingerpainting?!"
The kids reacted enthusiastically, but when one announced that he disliked fingerpainting, and one of his friends joined in to seem cool, a vein started pulsing on Harbaugh's neck, and he forced the two children to run laps around the lunchroom. Harbaugh then went back in front of the class, and asked "Does anybody else want to join them?!"
Met with silence, Harbaugh got out the paper and paint and set them on a table on the other side of the room. "Well?! What are you all waiting for?!" The children then proceeded to go and grab their supplies. Addie obviously ran up, with her classmates following. Harbaugh, disapponted with the overall lack of hustle, forced the last three up to do 25 push-ups, then join their smartmouthed classmates in the lunchroom for laps.
Any children grabbing any paint that left out maize and blue (Harbaugh made an exception for red, for pictures of bloodied Michigan opponents) had the paint slapped out of their hands, and were forced to go run laps, as well. One child was particularly defiant and picked their fingerpaint up from the ground, but Harbaugh proceeded to drink the entire can and forced the child to go run laps.
At the very end, Harbaugh selected the three winners, a beautiful picture of Michigan taking a 77-0 win over Ohio State in Ann Arbor, a wolverine, and a Judge Judy fingerpaint portrait, and awarded them with helmet stickers, while forcing everybody else to go into the lunchroom for laps. He was particularly unimpressed with Drew Brees' picture of a snowman, citing the time of year and laziness of using the white paper background as a color, and forced him to run twice as many laps as the rest.
I can't imagine what it's going to be like when Harbaugh gets an entire roster of 85 kids that he recruited and fully developed throughout their entire careers, getting to fully reap the benefits of his extensive efforts and success on the recruiting trail and in practice.
Harbaugh's 2019 supermen will rip through the Big Ten like a hungry pack of wolves that got into a meat processing plant. Teams like Rutgers will be forced to start forfeiting in the third quarter when Michigan's scout team starts running up the score on them. Harbaugh's supermen will only know of two things on the football field: competition, and the screams of agony of their opponents. Questions of human decency and the point at which refs should call the game will be raised every time that Michigan takes the field. The tears of concern from the opposing team's fans and families will be enough to create a sixth ocean.
Oh what a tangled web we weave when we're beholden to being a hardline conference shill.
I'm aware that not all offers are "committable" nowadays per se, but according to 247 in 2016 alone, Michigan listed 11 players with an Alabama offer. Is Finebaum trying to claim that all of these players were entirely unwanted by Saban, many coming directly from the SEC footprint or being very high four star types and in one case, a five star? Kareem Walker? Devin Bush, Jr.? Ben Bredeson? Devin Asiasi? Michael Onwenu? Ron Johnson? Nick Eubanks? Eddie McDoom? Elysee Mbem-Bosse? Joshua Uche? RASHAN GARY? And that's just Alabama! Ole Miss doesn't nearly have the cache that Alabama does, though they do offer a similar type of cash, and such a list would be even longer.
In particular, I remember Eubanks going down to the wire near signing day, and anybody that tries to claim that Gary couldn't have gone to any college in the country with a football team is out of their minds. I can relate to Finebaum in the sense that I feel about Michigan how he feels about the entire SEC, and recognize that his livelihood comes from pandering to the SEC's fanbase, but once we start losing perspective of facts, especially with Finebaum being somebody who covers sports for a living, it starts to became shameful, disingenuous, and embarrassing.
I'm glad that you enjoy them, but for me, they most certainly had a time. I'll admit that I'm not entirely immune from laughing at the occasional, well-executed reference from them, though:
Due to some misguided sense of nostalgia, I feel as though Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, Bulletproof, The Wedding Singer, The Waterboy, and Big Daddy aren't entirely without redeeming qualities.
Having said that, I find myself unable to rewatch any of them at this point, and have absolutely no desire to. I almost wonder if Sandler movies haven't actually gotten worse, it's just a different era, and we've all changed as people, and have some residual warmness towards his earlier stuff?
Which one is he, I wonder?
There's no need to bring up things that have Benn brought up in the past.
Wolverine Devotee is no doubt thoroughly disgusted with the OP for owning and wearing non-Michigan branded articles of clothing.
...Are you really trying to claim that Dustin Diamond's incarceration status and "socially conscientious clothing" aren't extremely worthwhile and interesting topics to discuss on a Michigan sports blog?
That's just ridiculous. I came to the site today specifically hoping that the latest on Screech and everybody's bamboo sweater tips would be covered.
I commend you for sticking to your values, but that's honestly a factor that has never crossed my mind, let alone something that I'd let dictate my clothing purchases. Reminds me a little bit of that story about throwing starfish back into the ocean.
If it's something that's personally important to you, great! Do it when you can, and when it doesn't work out, that's on the system. If not, if anybody holds you purchasing normal clothes against you, that's on them. It's not worth doing it to appease a select few who may judge you for it, in my estimation.
There's a reason that Harbaugh's success is built on maniacal devotion, innovation, blood, sweat, and tears, and Hugh Freeze's success is built on looking the other way so that boosters can give his players hundred dollar handshakes.