Fellas, hello. Wow. What a hilarious whirlwind the past 30 days have been. Strap in for the funniest month-long summary of your lives. Before we get into it, I know a lot of you all are calling for me to take an L, and I'll address that, I promise--however show me another poster who can take a 30 day absence and still provide this level of material... You can't.
So I guess I will start at the beginning: June 2nd, 2018. I had just opened up a HUGE can of worms in the stagnant and motionless "RPotBT" Thread III the night before by telling Fleece that I'd take Kobe over LeBron, which spawned no less than 8 pages of arguments. I began getting fed up when a certain mod began constantly calling Kobe a rapist. Nobody stood up to the guy and I felt compelled to make a stand. In hindsight 30 days is a long time. But Id be lying if I said that the following 4+ weeks didnt provide me with immense entertainment.
Id like to announce my extended leave from VN, Ill be taking the month off because I have a problem with a certain poster who isnt even a regular BTW.
See everyone in July.
^^The post that started it all.
IMMEDIATELY beta Fleece took the opportunity to throw shade. Same guy who wanted to add me on linkedin and was asking for my email address just weeks before. Interesting take, bud. Hold up because Im not done with you just yet.
Paging Indy.
D4H has a LBJ hot take in the RF and it kinda makes some sense.
It was apparent very early in my hiatus that Ziti was on the cusp of a legendary summer. Keeping me updated on D4H during my absence was a huge power move. It was clear very early that Fleece (even his name is soft) and Big Z were on totally different trajectories, sad.
Has anybody here seen my old friend Indy,
Can you tell me where he's gone?
He trolled a lotta people, but it seems the good die young
But I just looked around and he's gone.
Alsoshouts out to my boys VSF and Vekzy for the love while I was on vacation.
Indy has done this a couple of times. Gets upset and leaves for a while. I like the guy but he is charmin soft sometimes.
Despite all of the love it really bothered me how petty Fleece was being. At this point even starting rumors. Go through my entire catalog, anyone, I challenge you. I have never taken a leave like this, yet here is a guy who 2 weeks earlier was borderline desperate to be my friend off of volnation playing the role of gossip girl. Again, sad.
I loved the way Yankee used his off-season. He couldnt make official game threads so he turned the focus to watching for my activity and keeping others informed. I have said it before and I will say it again: When it comes to keeping everyone in the know, there is nobody better than Yank. Total pros pro.
Woahh. Did Indy get the ban hammer?
I also enjoyed the speculation. Had a boring poster (such as, I dont know
Flee
ehh
NVM) taken a month off nobody would have noticed. Indy takes a month off and the speculation flies.
Hey fellas, long time reader, first time poster here.
I was wondering if any of you had some insight in regards to Kents redshirt situation from last season.
Thank you for the response, BTO. Anyone ever call you Beet? Is it alright if I call you that?
Which brings me to my next pointthe NDVol2 account was not an attempt at trolling as much as it was an attempt to provide my friends with some entertainment in my absence. And it looked like it worked, so (again) kudos to me. NDVol2
? Who doesnt find that hilarious.
Also I finally got BTO to address my existence, so I can cross that off the bucket list as well.
I guess what I am saying is: how many posters can make 2 posts from a completely different account and be UNIVERSALLY recognized based on their dialect alone? I dont think anyone (well, except for me).
So yeah, no Ls here. Only LOLs.
So thanks to Vekzy and a few of the others who understood the joke.
Ziti, if you would like to continue to express your concerns, give feedback or whatever, I'll be happy to continue to try to understand your views via email. It's probably best done privately and that's my fault for engaging publicly. I know better. My apologies.
I shot you a message. Feel free to respond if you'd like.
The one thing we do likely agree on is we all love Tennessee basketball and like to share that love in discussion with other like-minded individuals.*
:hi:
As my self-imposed suspension moved onward Ziti continued to re-write the record books. Despite a page or two of deleted posts he even got Freak to publicly engage in argumentative behavior. Shouts out to Ziti for trolling the king, which is something very few have done.
Also shouts out to Freak for handling himself in a classy manner as always, even though hes been giving me the cold shoulder. (more on that later)
Where the hell are you Indy????
He got offended because a mod was hating on Kobe Bryant for being an accused rapist, so he said he was going on a month hiatus.
He then returned in the form of ND, and was quickly exposed and berated.
Havent heard from him since. Wish the kid well though and hope he has a speedy recovery from the beating he took after his lame troll attempt.
Which brings me to the past day or two. My friend Ed voiced concern in regards to my absence when our resident hater, Fleece took yet another opportunity to hate on someone else in attempt to make himself look cool. Middle school approach at best, but hey, if I wasnt Indy Id probably hate me too, big guy.
In conclusion, its great to be back. Thanks again for all of the love.
Im ready to mix it up!!!
