What would you do if you were booted off of PtR?

by jollyrogerwilco on May 28, 2009 11:59 PM CDT Comment 35 comments

This is what happens to late-May FanPosts when the Spurs have been eliminated from the playoffs. Thoughts turn dark, and the unthinkable is contemplated.

As the silliness continued over at the latest Gist and Angelico thread, SiMA joked that a certain questionable line of conversation would end with people finding that they were no longer able to log in to Pounding the Rock tomorrow morning.

While humorously meant, the thought caused the hair to stand up on the back of my neck, and three of my children simultaneously woke up with nightmares and had to be calmed down. What, I wondered, would most of us do if we were suddenly unable to participate in this blog of blogs?

So it's time to chime in. Imagine your worst case scenario, whether it's "everybody started hating on me and I eventually had to quit posting or lurking" or "I woke up and PtR didn't exist any more" or "David Stern said he'd cancel the NBA season unless I gave up blogging on PtR immediately." Outline whatever reason that would cause you to completely lose PtR as a source of entertainment and thought provocation -- and then say what you would do as a result.

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I’m thinking Louis Winthorpe III.

We specialize in misinformation around here. Facts and stats just get in the way.

by Wayne Vore (ATS) on May 29, 2009 6:18 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

you’re a millionaire, lounging on the beach with a hooker?

Superman wears Manu Ginobili pajamas to bed. - CMoney
Free George Hill! (member #3)

by bellasa on May 29, 2009 6:53 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

please tell me that you’re not going to simply leave us without an explanation

I want my Manu!

by jollyrogerwilco on Jun 1, 2009 12:53 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I’m saying I’d be like Louis when the Dukes took away all his money.

We specialize in misinformation around here. Facts and stats just get in the way.

by Wayne Vore (ATS) on Jun 3, 2009 3:09 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

thank you — the suspense was killing me

I want my Manu!

by jollyrogerwilco on Jun 3, 2009 4:37 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

it was the dukes
it was the dukes
it was the dukes
it was the dukes

by bones on Jun 5, 2009 8:01 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Productive

I’d probably be a lot more productive at work and what not. I spend way to much time reading and commenting here.

by Big50 on May 29, 2009 9:31 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Big 50 has it right. Besides being very very upset, I’d probly get a lot more done at work, but my mind would be here first. I’d miss it, more than anything. I talk more basketball and stuff here with you decent folks than anyone else, not because I’m a huge dork (I keep telling myself), but because that’s just that hand I’m playing with now.

Wait now…you’re not ‘thinning the heard’ here now, are you?? (just kidding!)

Hi, my name is Ed, and I despise the Lakers.

by dfjmed on May 29, 2009 11:20 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Same here. My PHD would be done in ten less years if I wasnt addicted to lurking at PTR

"If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert"
- DBG

by LasEspuelas on May 29, 2009 2:06 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

That makes two of us. Although I’d probably just find another way to actively obsess about the Spurs

If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat.

by Windex40 on May 30, 2009 5:26 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I might as well prepare for it since it’s bound to happen sooner or later.

Give a man a chicken and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to chicken and he'll call you crazy and question your command of the English language.

by Aaronstampler on May 29, 2009 3:27 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

You will if you keep posting those bikini links.

by Big50 on May 29, 2009 4:16 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I might find happiness.

Straight from the No-Stat Zone to your computer!
Dunkin' Cheerleaders

by LatinD on May 29, 2009 4:29 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

But I’d probably just start posting more often over at 48MoH…

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Dunkin' Cheerleaders

by LatinD on May 29, 2009 4:30 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Thief.

Superman wears Manu Ginobili pajamas to bed.

by CMoney on May 29, 2009 4:30 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

That’s a coincidence, because if I was booted I’d finally have time to get more active posting over at that ~~Slamming Cheerleaders~~ Cheerleaders Dunking site.

"If I was the kind of guy who posted a signature line, this would be it from now on." -SiMA

by SgtinManusArmy on May 30, 2009 7:49 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

You’re starting to get your leisure websites mixed up.

Superman wears Manu Ginobili pajamas to bed.

by CMoney on May 30, 2009 10:11 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

You say that, but you still haven’t commented once. Hmph. :)

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Dunkin' Cheerleaders

by LatinD on May 30, 2009 10:50 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Honestly, I’d set up camp at 48 Minutes of Hell.

Superman wears Manu Ginobili pajamas to bed.

by CMoney on May 29, 2009 4:30 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I’d hang around at the Planted Tank Forum a lot more, and probably get banned promptly since I can’t get away with the jokes I make here.

My tapeworm tells me what to do.

by Hipuks on May 29, 2009 4:51 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Join Blazer's Edge

And find out what it feels like to not have a point guard.

by Sabonis4Ever on May 30, 2009 5:08 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Naaaahh. I wouldn’t know how to act suddenly having players under 40 and all.

"If I was the kind of guy who posted a signature line, this would be it from now on." -SiMA

by SgtinManusArmy on May 30, 2009 7:50 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Same as Big50, productive plus go back to writing Spurs emails to my brother and friends and looking at stats. Try to find anything to read about UT football or UT players in the NFL and not be productive.

by BlaseE on May 30, 2009 10:44 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

well since there's absolute nothing going on with the Spurs right now

I’d do what I’ve been doing since game 5, not being on here. Sorry I haven’t been on more guys but I’m not inspired to be on.

Till stuff actually happens.

Randy Blythe, Singer of Lamb of God- "Words can be broken, so can bones....." Omerta by Lamb of god

by KA1Z3R on May 30, 2009 1:14 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

48MoH is doing some excellent combine/draft coverage that has been keeping me really excited about Spurs stuff still. The only problem is that they paint such a pretty picture of every guy, I’m like “lets get him” and then I read about the next guy….

by BlaseE on May 31, 2009 2:25 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

there is some seriously in depth sh-t goin on over there.

by bones on Jun 5, 2009 8:03 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yep, it’s been enjoyable to read about all those guys, to say the least.

Nichols and Mr. Greek giant stand out in my mind, but I also liked most of the other guys they profiled. Interestingly, it sounds like the Spurs are less than enamored with Danny Green. I didn’t see that coming, i thought he was Pop’s kind of draft pick.

Free James Gist!
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by Tim C. on Jun 8, 2009 12:04 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I don’t think I would be any more productive. In fact, I’d probably end up trying to make a new Spurs blog if PtR suddenly went MIA for me.

Free James Gist!
Pounding the Rock - where ochlocracy happens. Eat your heart out, California.

by Tim C. on May 30, 2009 3:00 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

or hang out at [gasp] SpursTalk

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by Tim C. on May 30, 2009 3:00 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

bite your tongue

no matter how desperate you are, never resort to SpursTalk. I’d sooner trust ESPN.

Randy Blythe, Singer of Lamb of God- "Words can be broken, so can bones....." Omerta by Lamb of god

by KA1Z3R on May 31, 2009 9:37 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

po tae toe
po tah toe

I want my Manu!

by jollyrogerwilco on May 31, 2009 6:34 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

SpursTalk is a good forum. Its only problem is that that’s what it is: a forum. And I’ve grown tired of the quality of the chat in Internet forums. There’s too much trolling, and the reply-to system is clumsy.

Straight from the No-Stat Zone to your computer!
Dunkin' Cheerleaders

by LatinD on May 31, 2009 10:01 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs