Comments on: OK, Y’all. Stop.

By: YoungFella

YoungFella — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:38:14 +0000

Seriously though – I think Tyson being with the team is good. With any luck they will be closer than ever after this. These past few days could turn out to be a blessing in disguise. Assuming that Tyson is able to come back and play well, I will be as excited about this team as I was at this time last year.

By: YoungFella

YoungFella — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:31:20 +0000

What do you mean “Posey is getting slow”? He held Durant to 47 the other night.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 07:23:03 +0000

anyone know if tyson will be back tomorrow for the laker game or what, why would he travel with the team if he’s not gonna play with them…….I dunno but against the lakers we need him(two things byron scott should think about, 1 without bynum we should have west on gasol because gasol is heavy but fragile and west always does a good job of containing him, and 2 wright is the best option for a player like kobe because he can and has kept up with him and has contained him before we need to start working on the future of this team and posey is getting kinda slow so we need to get wright some experience under his belt)

By: Hornet-Saint

Hornet-Saint — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 03:02:42 +0000

Hahahahaha.

That’s all I can say about this blog!

By: ticktock6

ticktock6 — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 01:04:55 +0000

@ Tommy. I actually agree with almost 100% of what you said. Whenever you address someone as “you people” that should be a tipoff it’s not worded properly, especially for someone in PR. But I thought about what I posted earlier, and I don’t want to be that person who encourages a slew of mean jokes against someone, that’s all. ‘Cause I want to try to be at least SOMEWHAT professional here (though not very).

I will, however, continue to torment Tracy McGrady and Rafer Alston mercilessly.

By: Tommy Gunn

Tommy Gunn — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:26:28 +0000

I’m one of the guys who commented on the LSU site. I think that this kind of thing is more common (something catching fire online and spinning into something bigger than it really is) and I thought the rebuttals were perfectly within bounds. I can understand that some of the attacks were borderline sexist, but then again so is a lot of humor and comedy.

I will never forget the way that San Antonio and Oklahoma City actively and aggressively tried to steal New Orleans’ franchises in the aftermath of Katrina, and I have little tolerance for a carpetbagger from Oklahoma City lecturing New Orleans sports fans for not being loyal.

The only thing I would regret is if the girl actually got in trouble with the Hornets organization for what she put on her Facebook. I don’t think she deserved it to go that far, and I doubt that happened.

By: mW

mW — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:49:38 +0000

Well, I’m not saying any slurs are okay, just criticism. And Matt, Facebook is hardly private. I put almost nothing there on my page because it is effectively public, even though I try to restrict who can see it. As for this site, I don’t use my real name, and pointedly so. Oh yeah, and I’m not a spokesperson for a multi-million dollar sports company.

By: ticktock6

ticktock6 — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:34:10 +0000

Which is fine, and I agree with you on the tone, but I don’t really want to condone using gender-based slurs toward someone because people don’t agree with them. Which it sort of looked like it was degenerating into, and which I am not comfortable with for reasons that should be obvious.

By: $nave

$nave — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:26:25 +0000

ticktock, I think you are being too nice. Of course I don’t want anybody to get in trouble for what they say on their facebook, but I do find her tone very snobbish towards New Orleans fans. She probably needs to work on that.

By: Matt - Storm Surge

Matt - Storm Surge — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:12:11 +0000

mW, it was a private blog. And it doesn’t really matter who she is, everyone has a right to a degree of privacy even when online. You dont post with your full name, do you? She was defending her organization, like everyone BUT Dwest did and asked her friends to give it a chance. It might have been spoken in a hasty manner, but again, its her private blog. And the drivel that flowed from it, while perhaps expected in a web 2.0 environment, simply wasnt appropriate OR fair. She is a genuinely nice person who Ive had in my house (unlike everyone who will read this). She simply didnt deserve the horrifically personal attacks she got and continues to get. Stay on point with what she said, like I did when I disagreed with her, but dont drudge up the BS that was coming from it.