On the Maggette deal?

I do not understand it. For a team rebuilding, to sign a good-not-great big money free agent to hopefully stay mediocre… what is the point?

To just do SOMETHING, to not appear complacent?

I don’t think you’re a Homer, so I’m interested in your take on the signing. I’m of the mind that if a guy ain’t gonna lead you anywhere, I’d rather see and develop the youth (unless, of course, the youth ain’t trying hard in practice or isn’t doing what the coach asks of them).

Just seems like such a waste of a big signing that will seriously hamstring them when Maggette’s athleticism is all the way gone…

Morty

It’s permanently deleting all my drafted comments!

First, on misinterpretation. Here’s your comment that I “misinterpreted”:

I personally would be much more traumatized if my brother was shot than if my mom died of natural causes.

Your clarification was:

by the highlighted statement I didn’t mean to imply any comparison’s between mothers or brothers but simply that someone being shot has to be more traumatizing than someone suffering from a chronic illness with a predictable outcome.

Let me respond with two comments:

1. If you meant a general comparison, you should have used a general comparison, not a direct topical comparison. You directly compared Barnes’ situation with his mother to Monta’s with his brother, then you made a general statement about, again, mothers and brothers. I’m sorry if interpreted it to mean that you thought Monta’s situation would be harder to take, or that losing a mother is going to be harder to take than losing a brother for most people. It’s what you said. If you mean something else, say so next time. If you meant what you seem to be implying by the latter statement, something along the lines of “Losing somebody is never fun, but for me, it would be worse to lose that person all of a sudden by gunshot than losing somebody to a chronic illness with a predictable outcome”. And to that I respond with:

2. If you’ve ever watched somebody “die of natural causes” (or to use your despicable language “die of a chronic illness with a predictable outcome”), you’d know that it’s not something to take lightly. I have, by the way, though I was not as close to this person as Barnes was to his mother. I was able to see the impact it had on the dying person’s closest companion.
Watching somebody die slowly, each day getting worse and worse, hacking and wheezing, telling you they love you and to be strong and go on with your life and be happy, but you can’t, because you see the person you love dieing right in front of you and you are powerless to stop it, then they pass out and the nurses shove you out of the room while they try to keep your loved one alive, still you can do nothing to help even though you would give anything, even your own life, to do so. Everybody reacts to these feelings differently, some people lash out at the world in a fit of rage and it empowers them (think Brett Favre the Monday night after his father died), some people have trouble making it through the day. All of this is just “an excuse” to you? Are you serious?

Now onto your most recent comments…

You’re the one making the “categorical judgement of a complete stranger” by basing your entire view of Matt Barnes on a few things he’s done on the basketball court and basically saying that he’s an a-hole and doesn’t deserve your sympathy. Well, if you’re going to base your entire unwavering view of somebody based on if they’ve ever done anything mean to anyone, you’d hate us all because we all do things we’re not proud of sometimes. Why, just last week I lied to a customer (just a little) to close a sale.
That, my friend, is why I think you have a “simple view of the world”. Are you truly so pure? Is that a glass or a mortar house out of which you’re thrown stones are coming?
Because of a few actions that resulted in no more than bumps and bruises, you feel that you have the right to belittle the loss of a loved one. For that, I pity you. For your sake, I hope your family dies suddenly, not from a painful bout with cancer. I hope you never go through what Matt Barnes has.

PS. I’m sorry if I, once again, misinterpreted your comments. Please enlighten me once more.