Unfollow Damien Cox

Ditto.

Well hopefully this campaign is successful and Cox’s followers can be relegated to Caps fans who email Teddy to tell him about the stupid shit that they’ve read. Then again, I’m sure Leonsis is one of Cox’s followers, so he probably reads it all first hand.

So just to clarify, one’s phone doesn’t ring everytime someone makes a tweet, right? Because I hadn’t yet set a different incoming text alert tone on a new phone one time, and I’d be walking through a blizzard and hear my phone ring and dig it out of my pocket, only to see that it was an unimportant text from a friend of mine and not a phone call at all. Needless to say, I’d hate Cox too if one of his Tweets forced me to take off my gloves or dig through my pocket on a crowded subway.

Why you gotta be like that Steve?

He’ll take care of it.

Basically, unless you are a horrible bandwagon fan, he thinks you’re stupid. That’s us. So he thinks you are stupid and he thinks I am stupid and he can go fuck himself for all I care.

I was at McCabe’s first game back and he did not get ny video tribute

there’s also the irony that ultimately Kaberle DID agree to waive his NTC, and as a consequence we got a decent return for him. His argument is invalid on the face of it.

that’s when he will get his full fitting ceremony, pre game

A later night? You think the Bruins would be happy to loan him off to his old team for the evening?

Or do you mean after he retires? What’s the issue with having a short “thanks Tomas” in his first game back? $100 that if they didn’t there would be more people upset with MLSE as a “soulless corporate entity that doesn’t care about it’s fans”.

Ok… so they did the simple and quick welcome back like you suggest, and at some point in the future I’m sure he’ll get a proper one, like you suggest. I’m struggling to follow your point.

They’ll give him his own night eventually.

Yes. And the fact we are debating it on here means makes him sadly relevant.

what is that called when you’re paid to be an ass? Cox…?

Also if we all stopped going we’d be criticized for not sticking with the team.

Exactly what would “taking a stand” look like? Flowers in tank barrels?

It is the loyalty that he is criticizing. How can you suggest otherwise?

And you can’t honestly be comparing MLSE and Harold Ballard can you?

I love how you just said it wasn’t about loyalty, and then explained how it’s EXACTLY about loyalty.

why isn’t Edmonton’s Rexall place empty every night then?

The problem was the weaselly way that Cox went about it, deliberately avoiding mentioning steroids to protect himself from potential legal fallout, and then pretending afterward that that wasn’t what he said. If he thinks we should question whether or not Bautista is using steroids, then he should just say “Considering the problems with steroids that baseball has had in the past, I wonder if Bautista is using them now.”

name one major home run hitter of the past decade who isn’t the size of Frank Thomas, David Ortiz, Ryan Howard, or Ken Griffey Jr. who hasn’t had his numbers questioned to some extent. Virtually every major power hitter has faced that sort of criticism. Did we really expect Bautista to escape that type of questioning because he had modified the timing on his swing?

Any player in baseball who has put up significant power numbers will always be accused of having taken steroids. The difference between what most media types do compared to what Cox did is the investigative reporting. Cox offered rhetoric and conjectures. Other media types – specifically Keith Law – use numbers and then investigative reporting to check the validity of the facts. Then they make their accusations.

Richard Griffin made it a point to set Cox straight with a toughly worded article the next day. You’re welcome to go and check it – the difference with Bautista was his swing and comfort – not steroids. Cox should have reported that but choose to go a more salty route.

Right. Fans short for “fanatics”. If we stopped cheering for the Leafs we wouldn’t become Sabres fans; we’d stop watching hockey.

the only intelligent purchaser from the perspective he’s arguing is the fairweather fan.

The one that only buys tickets to support a winner. He sees it like it’s the stock market. You buy shares on the way up and sell them on the way down… unfortunately sports loyalty is not like the Stock market, and he’s an idiot for thinking this way.

You’re referencing what? 2 years of serious underperformance? Until the ouster of JFJ the team was in contention for the playoffs perennially under the rule of MLSE. They didn’t know when to stop paying Mats Sundin and the rest of his crew of supporting veterans, and they were slow to adjust to the post lockout world, but we’re really not talking a LONG period of time in hockey terms.

7 years seems like a while, but they were close for a few years, and screwed the pooch near the end. It’s only in recent years that they’ve attempted to right the ship by tearing it down and doing an on the fly rebuild, and now they’re criticized for losing games at all… frankly the whole thing is ridiculous.

to tell people to drive less if they can’t afford oil.

People don’t have a “right” to cheap commodities… sorry.

Car Pool, find alternative transport, pay taxes to fund mass transport if you can’t run your own car feasibly. These are all viable things, and they aren’t contemptuous suggestions.

Yes oil companies want to make a profit and will screw people over to get one, but it’s your fault if you buy into it and think the system is the problem.

Yes it is hard to build a Cup winner, but Leaf owners /management have avoided time honoured principles in building and maintaining a successful franchise.

Except of course for those four conference final appearances in 10 years. Yeah, they did that following poor business practices.

I think the problem is that you’re a binary fan. If it’s a Cup year that’s a 1 and if it’s not it’s a 0. Unfortunately, the reality of sports and hockey has bypassed the Original Six years when you could have been reasonable in those expectations. There are 29 other teams trying to win a Stanley Cup every year too.

The premier of N.S. recently stated to the effect that to avoid paying higher costs for gas, drive less. That’s contempt.

Sounds like good advice.

MLSE isn’t a person… it’s a large corporation… I know by law we treat those like people, but they aren’t people.

The Leafs ticket prices aren’t substantially more than other popular large market teams and the prices are driven by supply and demand. What good business practices are they ignoring? They turn a profit and have hired one of the best available GMs and given him free reign to build a winner.

So your real complaint is with the tax code that allows corporations to write off half of the cost of tickets and with economics that dictate that when you have limited supply of a product that is in high demand that you charge high prices.

In any city where a franchise has wallowed in mediocrity and ineptitude as long as the Leafs

What makes you say that they put an inferior product on the ice on purpose rather than through incompetence?

yeah, i have no idea what he’s getting at here!