Mac wrote:
I do take with a grain, STU, but it is frustrating when you work as hard as I do establishing trust with a fanbase and douchebags shit all over it by misrepresenting what was said. The last few years, both in places like this and when I do interviews with media writers, I've gained a better understanding of athletes who don't want to talk to the media. Jesus, the guy from the paper for which I write (Lewis Lazarre) and I talked for 20 minutes the day I signed and the next day his piece had a sub-head that said I was doing a solo show. People hear what they want to... or just don't listen. It is a skill, ya know.
Mac, I think it's just a matter of understanding the different "board types" here. Guys like SID and Gloopy say things just to see if they can get a rise out of you - when I distanced myself from the personal line of their comments, I actually started to enjoy some of their shots at you because I think that they weren't all that personal - the shot Gloopy or SID took (can't remember which) where they said your next partner should really enjoy high school football was actually kind of funny. They would stop immediately if none of us on the board responded to them.
There are also some posters on here that take part of a fact, twist it and represent it in any way that benefits them. They hear part of a conversation or jump in late to a post and then falsify or misrepresent the part that they didn' hear or read.
I take a lot of grief for being a huge Mac ALS'r and that's ok - but in all reality I have never been to an appearance - hoping to change that - I have never accosted you in public or never have left you a voicemail, etc. I enjoy you from a distance - not a court ordered distance either - that's more a product of a busy life than a desire not to hang out at an outing. I'd love to hang out with the guys from the board at a golf or softball outing or attend a remote, but time constraints and location have prevented that. I can't very well make it to Joliet after 5 PM then stay a couple of hours and then head back to Hobart, IN. I have a wife that requires a great deal of attention (I attribute it to our age difference) and 10 year old girl.
So I guess my attitude on the board has change to live and let live as far as some of the negative posters are concerned. The way I look at it is if they know what you have been up to, then that means they are listening and feeding the meter - their negative attention then basically turns into positive attention by curiousity seekers tuning in to find out what these guys are talking about. And that means one thing - SAWBUCKS baby! lol.