Your Top 10 sj moments

5) Every thread here in which posters have really put themselves out there asking for help - and watching an uncommon number of posters on the board offer to help in kind.

4) Getting a kind PM from a certain poster on this board hours after one piece of news which caused the handle change that is still here. Getting two PMs about it a year later encouraging me to keep same handle a year after his passing (Keep Pounding) when I was reverting back to original handle.

3) The Mitch Albom thread. Shot, Slappy and me pointing out the obvious while a couple of apologists cover up for a man playing fast and loose with the facts, an absolute no-no in our profession.

2) The good people all around this board, many of whom I've never met yet have offered words of encouragement during the last couple of months.

1) The Toronto outing. Getting to see the city again 15 years later, and some great people who put up with my dull a_s for a while, three of them for four days.

 

There were others in the Albom thread who can take bows -- especially Starman, mgoblue and one other who I will be happy to reveal if he chooses -- but it was one of my favs too. Everytime he tried to apologize, it was so halfassed....

 

Geez, and here I was, thinking I had only sent along a nice trinket...

At least I think that was me, right?

Ten moments, eh? In the order that they come to me:
-- Albom busted, which I read about on here before anywhere else
-- Bandwagon Boy's stint here is still mentioned from time to time
-- The original SJ outing in DC, complete with mint garnish
-- A more personal one, but getting a recommendation on the Slippery Noodle in Indy, which led to a fun night of drinking in the '06 Final Four
-- The 'What is love' thread
-- Agree with whoever said the 'Skins fanboys
-- Whenever I get a chance to hang with IJAG
-- The folks who PM'd to say they'd tried Yuenging b/c of my sig (or thought of me when they saw a reference to it)
-- Shotty's ever-present twin kitties, who never fail to amuse
-- When we got infiltrated by spammers

 

1. Toronto
2. Winning my first SportsJournalists.com fantasy league
3. Charlie Brown
4. Pickle Juice
5. Katrina
6. Posting on my wedding day


I reserve the right to post more later.

 

Sorry to anyone I left out on the Albom thread. Good catches, Slap. I do recall that there were few of us letting the apologistic lackey hold it. Starman and others were also involved.

I just remember that that was as mad as I've been in this profession. Period. Albom's disregard for what he did, his attempt to throw editors in front of the train on TV and Hutton's Golden Boy non-punishment completely pissed me off.

 

In no particular order. . .

The mad love and frenetic TiVoing on my recent Jeopardy escapades. If you're going to out yourself, winning nearly $11,000 is a nice way to do it.

The hour-by-hour thread on what you're doing at work, complete with cameo by poster whose name escapes me, but had the immortal line about the new intern he was pursuing, "Masturbate like zoo monkey." This makes me laugh every time I think about it.

Ace's outstanding line about the Algonquin Round Table on the Vonnegut thread, once again trying to restore a sense of snarky order to the latest SportsJournalists.com he-sucks/you-suck brouhaha.

BYH calling me his "fucking hero" for defending Ian O'Connor from Hondo.

The kind PMs from the likes of Ace, IJAG, Inky Wretch, Slappy, Gold, Moddy, ClawsforConcern, Tom Petty and Moddy, among others.

Breaking bread with Donnie23, Gold and PulitzerintheBag and meeting Claws at Riviera during the Nissan Open.

Reading threads on such subjects as books, politics and great comedy movies and seeing the trip-on-a-runaway-carousel paths any SportsJournalists.com thread can take.

And more to follow. . .

 

-It's a crappy sequel Charlie Brown

-I'm gonna get a fucking haircut

-that guy's about to fuck your sister, and that guy already did

-I'm gonna be 8-clapping my balls off tonight, my girlfriend is a UCLA alum and I like sex, so goooooo bruins!!

-anytime someone used the term "sorostitute"

 

I haven't been around long enough for 10.

Bandwagon Boy showed up and panwed all the beyothes before people caught on to his schtick.

Idaho's calm approach and Fenian's fury drew me in.

Even pre-Fenian's discovery, some of the images here were classics. Pancake bunny; so often so tellingly appropriate.

 

I won't have a top 10, but the threads that resonate with me the most are the one when someone comes online and asks for help and SportsJournalists.com are there to help their brethren. For example:
1. Fool Me Once, Shame On You (recently resurrected)
2. Quit Smoking Thread
3. Depression thread (there's been a couple)
4. What Is Love?

Not to say there's not a lot of laughs on this board, because there are, but it's heartwarming to read the sympathy/good advice from perfect strangers on this board. And, in the big picture, that's what keeps me coming back me for more - more than the laughs. Mostly we're good people, with good souls and in today's world, that's what we need more of.

Other than that, the Drunk Threads have always been good for a laugh.

 

Great call, amigo.

Looking back, I think that thread may have been the one shining moment that hooked me on this great bunch of people. I sure know it made me a 21 fan for life.

 

10. The Pickle Juice thread. It was so long ago I can't remember the specifics, but I do recall laughing my ass off over something having to do with silverware. Damn, I wish that thread was still around.

9. The political threads. There's absolutely no way to calculate how many real-life arguments these threads have kept me out of.

8. The SportsJournalists.com stadium thread. Lots of creative and funny stuff.

7. Pretty much anything posted by Bubbler or Ace.

6. Almost every thread about Whitlock. Like him or hate, the guy's a master at generating debate. Some of the best discussions to be found on here happen in those threads.

5. The "Giant Asian Cock" spam and the threads that followed.

4. Katrina

3. SCEditor doing a wonderful job of stalking a stalker.

2. The thread from someone -- and dammit, I can never remember who started it -- about finding photos on the Internet of his pregnant ex-girlfriend involved in lesbian porn.

1. WEDDING CRASHERS. About week's worth of fun in one thread. And in honor, I give you one of the greatest comedic scenes in the history of motion pictures:


John Beckwith: Claire's mom just made me grab her hooters.
Jeremy Grey: Well snap out of it! What, a hot older women made you feel her cans? Stop crying like a little girl.
John Beckwith: I wasn't crying like a little girl.
Jeremy Grey: Why don't you try getting jacked off under the table in front of the whole damn family and have some real problems, jackass. Hey, what were they like anyway? They looked pretty good, are they real? Are they built for speed or comfort? What'd you do with them? Motorboat? You play the motorboat?
[makes sputtering motorboat noise]
Jeremy Grey: You motorboatin son of a bitch! You old sailor you! Where is she? She still in the house?
John Beckwith: What's wrong with you?
Jeremy Grey: What do you mean "what's wrong with me?" What's wrong with you?
John Beckwith: No, what's wrong with you?
Jeremy Grey: No, what's wrong with you? You're projecting!
John Beckwith: Drop it.
Jeremy Grey: You drop it! You stop projecting on me! Why don't you go enjoy yourself while I go ice my balls and spit up blood.
John Beckwith: Drop it!
[starts walking away]
Jeremy Grey: Team player!

 

I'm honored to be in the top five. Thank you.