Qbits, the Potential Albatross, & me

by J.R. Wilco on Dec 14, 2008 12:59 AM CST

It all started the day I posted that personal ad:

You're a six foot two rookie professional basketball player with freakishly long arms and a winsome way with the media.

I'm a San Antonio Spurs fan with a serious case of the seven-year-itch where my team's starting point guard is concerned.

You're a recent graduate from an unknown university in middle America.

I'm a thirty-something father of four with one more on the way, and a sports blog habit to support.

You have a penchant for driving to the bucket and grabbing important rebounds.

I have a preference to cheer for a PG who loves to pass instead of a scorer who plays the point.

Please average ten, three and one through your first twenty-some-odd games and I'll reward you with year's worth of undeserved loyalty, including (but not limited to) cheering your great plays while chalking up any boneheaded mistakes to your being a rookie, all while convincing myself that you'll be able to be everything I've ever wanted in a point guard.

All I ask is that you keep this arrangement quiet. I hear the French can be jealous, and I don't want to cause a scene.

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Thirty-something with four kids and another on the way?

We should pray to you and your wife as PtR gods of fertility. Are you all Catholic? Just so you know, the withdrawal method is not an effective means of birth control.

Catch the Spurs Spirit! It's a Fast-breakin' Fiesta!

by tomasito on Dec 14, 2008 10:33 AM CST reply actions

Hilarious

I am calm, filling myself with patience - Manu Ginobili

by J.R. Wilco on Dec 14, 2008 3:59 PM CST up reply actions

Ouch at tomasito’s comment.

The French can be jealous link was pure genius. All in all this was a great, great post, so I’m reccing it. The guy wearing a hat under the spotlight pic was brilliant, and so was the cheering blogger’s. Both were pure win.

Kudos, you irrational blogger you. Hill will be big.

by LatinD on Dec 14, 2008 10:46 AM CST reply actions

Consensus thus far seems to be that my comment was a bit harsh; I was just kidding around. Maybe I did cross a line. If so, my bad, and sorry about that, JRW.

Catch the Spurs Spirit! It's a Fast-breakin' Fiesta!

by tomasito on Dec 14, 2008 3:02 PM CST up reply actions

tomasito, no worries

this is all in good fun. I appreciate your concern, and it’s a credit to you and PtR, but in this case, it’s unnecessary

I am calm, filling myself with patience - Manu Ginobili

by J.R. Wilco on Dec 14, 2008 4:09 PM CST up reply actions

I meant “ouch” as in “very funny, you brutal man”. You could tell it was meant in good fun.

by LatinD on Dec 14, 2008 5:23 PM CST up reply actions

Great post, JRW. I’m slowly coming around.

by SgtinManusArmy on Dec 14, 2008 8:34 PM CST reply actions

Are you patronizing me. ARE YOU?

I WILL PUT YOU IN THE GROUND!

I am calm, filling myself with patience - Manu Ginobili

by J.R. Wilco on Dec 15, 2008 12:27 AM CST up reply actions

Only scrappy can pull that off, jolly. Sorry.

by LatinD on Dec 15, 2008 5:32 AM CST up reply actions

First, this is the thread I’m referencing. Second, it’s tomasito that I’m channeling, not scrappy (although he talks plenty tough, no doubt). Third, every time you see me posting like that you can know that it’s because I can’t pull it off that it’s funny — humor of the ridiculous and all that.

If you don’t think it’s funny, that’s fine; but in the future, you can at least do me the favor of not assuming that I think I’m tough.

I am calm, filling myself with patience - Manu Ginobili

by J.R. Wilco on Dec 15, 2008 10:32 AM CST up reply actions

Right… I knew all that. (Actually, I’d forgotten it was tomasito who said that PUT sb TO THE GROUND thing first, but still.)

Just meant that scrappy was the blog’s badass, as evidenced by this post. Thusly, my joke was (tried to be) that it would be believable if scrappy said that. More a joke on him that you…

Never crossed my mind that you were being serious when you suddenly typed “I WILL PUT YOU TO THE GROUND”, and thus commented on it with a similar spirit. And I certainly didn’t assume that you thought you were tough. Hell, as I’m typing this, I wonder if I’m overreacting by going serious on you when you were just joking around… as I was.

Honestly, I’m a bit lost here.

by LatinD on Dec 15, 2008 11:15 AM CST up reply actions

It’s I WILL PUT YOU IN THE GROUND, as in kill you, such that you would be buried, not just PUT YOU TO THE GROUND, as in push you over or trip you.

I think you know what I’ll do if you misquote me again…

Catch the Spurs Spirit! It's a Fast-breakin' Fiesta!

by tomasito on Dec 15, 2008 11:55 AM CST up reply actions

Right. IN. Sorry. Please don’t hurt me.

by LatinD on Dec 15, 2008 12:34 PM CST up reply actions

Im rooting for this kid..

He have a bright future in Spurs..

by spoiled on Dec 15, 2008 9:09 AM CST reply actions

y’all are having too much fun in here. STOP IT! y’all make it look like you actually like each other or something (and no, not “like” in that way, you pervs).

"You may all go to hell, and I will go to Texas." -Davy Crockett
"Give me an army of West Point graduates, and I'll win a battle. Give me a handful of Texas Aggies, and I'll win a war." -Gen. George S. Patton
"Martellus see ball, Martellus catch ball." -Cowboys' Aggie TE M. Bennett (11-16-08)

by spursfan4ever on Dec 15, 2008 1:24 PM CST reply actions