DALLAS BEAT WRITER BASH'S BAY AREA FANS

by gogomaplata on Apr 28, 2007 11:44 AM PDT Comment 24 comments

California-record Oracle Coliseum crowd Friday night. They turned the place into a sea of baby-puke yellow,

http://www.star-telegram.com/287/story/84104.html

This was posted earlier but i wanted to put it out there so we have an idea what the media in Dallas thinks of the GREATEST FAN BASE in the NBA. Even though it was being compared to the Mav's loss last night, it was very unprofessional.

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It's just a little cheap shot.

He's just mad that his Mavericks got owned yesterday. Property of the Golden State Warriors. Just let that guy cry.

He had nothing to criticize about our game, so the best he could do was make fun of the yellow t-shirts. How great of a writer he is and what a great way to improvise after his team got blown out of the building, LMAO.

by Five Ten Entertainment on Apr 28, 2007 12:04 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

baby puke yellow?

i think that guy needs to have is eyes checked. maybe they were blurred since he apparantly was crying so much.

by AJC3317 on Apr 28, 2007 12:34 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Oh My God

It is not a knock. He probobly just doesn't like yellow. Just wisp a freaking line from a 75 line paper. Ugh.

With his past behind him, Adonal looks toward the future, wherever it may be....

by Zorgon on Apr 28, 2007 12:36 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

i'm with Zorgon...

...c'mon retards, let's not appear to be the least objective fanbase in the world. the guy had to drill the shirts, because the rest of the article he was being highly objective about how badly his team was dismantled last night. talk about taking someone out of context.

we've got far better reasons to be fired up as Warriors fans. let's not come off like a bunch of illiterate hillbillies.

by 321 IN n OUT on Apr 28, 2007 12:43 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

The beat writer is the "retard."

It's either stupid or dishonest to call our shirts "baby puke yellow." "Baby puke" is GREEN infused with a faint whiff of yellow and/or brown. Our shirts were straight, standard issue YELLOW. If his goal was to be a d*ck about it, he could have called it "Urine Yellow" or something. As it is, he's a d*ck and a moron.

If our shirts are "baby puke yellow," we might as well call the Mavs' colors "bloody diarrhea blue" and "suppurating pus white."

by Sleepy Freud on Apr 28, 2007 4:45 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

lol

gdubb

by gogomaplata on Apr 28, 2007 5:58 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

yeah, he sure got us with that color jab...

...good job everybody. it's a real lapse in journalistic integrity to inaccurately describe a shade of yellow. wow.

by 321 IN n OUT on Apr 29, 2007 1:59 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Well, yeah

It is a lapse when the "inaccuracy" is clearly meant as a backhanded slap at the opposing team's fans. His so-called "journalistic integrity" went out the window the moment he chose that wording. Any half-responsible sports editor would delete the phrase without a moment's thought.

Yeah, it's not that big a deal -- I mean, we all know that 95% of sports journalists are dishonest hacks who, for a cheap laugh, will resort to all manner of stupidity, hyperbole, and lies. (Charles Barkley says hello).

Still, I'm not sure why you feel the need to defend his shenanigans, or to call anyone that criticizes him a "retard." Do you own the copyrights to the term "Baby Puke Yellow"? ;-)

by Sleepy Freud on Apr 29, 2007 2:26 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

yes, you're right, he disrespected

our FREE t-shirts. what a homer. so very clever to mistake this all as a defense of the writer and not a criticism of the overly thin skin of the rest of you.

by 321 IN n OUT on Apr 29, 2007 2:57 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Disrespect v. Dishonesty

As I said, I don't care as much that he disrespected the shirts as that that he misrespresented them. Not sure how the price of the shirts factors in.

If you find it such a silly mountain-out-of-a-molehill topic of discussion -- and really, I wouldn't fault you for doing so ;-) -- I don't see why you don't just move on to the next diary. There's lots of other, more pressing issues to discuss. The fatness of Charles Barkley's head, for example.

Fair enough about the "thin-skinned" comment, though. I'm definitely a thin-skinned kinda guy. My wife calls it "sensitive" but, but you know: six of one...

by Sleepy Freud on Apr 29, 2007 4:21 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yellow t-shirts

They looked GREAT on my TV screen. I can't imagine them looking the way this guy describes them. Yuk!

However, I did not feel that he was taking shots at the Warrior fans. He was very critical of the Mavs- the way they played.

by Vash01 on Apr 28, 2007 2:16 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

he was taking shots

he even called comcast "an internet company" without naming the company. there were other places he took shots at our fans and our arena too. he was very critical of his team too, but he was mostly just an a$$.

by stedanko on Apr 28, 2007 2:40 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

he might not be taking a shot at Warriors fans

but he's definitely taking a shot at how the crowd looked yesterday. "Baby-puke" is not a positive descriptive phrase

More Hardware Coming!

by gsw4life on Apr 28, 2007 2:41 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

It was the only thing

He could not take shots at the Warriors players after the way they demolished this so called 'best team in the NBA'. The only thing he could criticize was - what the fans wore. Who cares for his opinion?

by Vash01 on Apr 28, 2007 5:43 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

baby puke yellow?

or "white hot" -- the lamest attempt at resignifying a generic color.

by dj fuzzylogic on Apr 28, 2007 6:23 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

HOLD ON! HOLD ON! HOLD ON!!!

.................................................................................................... .................................................................Are we arguing about colors????????? HAHAHA this is the most RIDICULOUS diary of all time!!!!!!!!!!!!

WHO GIVES A $h^% !!!!!!!

by dallaswarrior on Apr 28, 2007 7:29 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

if i recall...

colors matter. remember when the gangsta rap hoopla of the mid nineties prevented kids from wearing red and blue to school for suburban administration fear to gang affiliation and outbursts on their campuses? which then lead to the banning of british knights shoes for the supposed intials meaning "blood killa." ironically, these shoes were given out to contestants of that kids show "double dare." who knew that show was so gangsta?

anyhoo, my response is, yes, colors do indeed matter. they matter very much.

by dj fuzzylogic on Apr 28, 2007 7:46 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Um, hyperbole much?

I don't see how this diary is no more or less "RIDICULOUS" than any of the others. Who gives a "$h^%" in the first place about five guys we don't now running around in shorts and tanktops trying to throw a roundball in a hoopnet?

You'll note that "fashion" is listed in the masthead as one of the approved discussion categories on GSoM. In any case, the point of the diary was not to "argue about colors" but to discuss amiably whether it was fair for a Dallas beat-writer to describe GSW fans as "a sea of babypuke yellow." Some people thought it was fair; others didn't. Pretty garden-variety, as diaries go. In fact, I'd say DJ Fuzzy Logic's styling use of the verb "resignify" brings a cut above the average GSoM diary.

If you think your comment is necessary here, you might as well copy and paste it into every diary on this board. And feel free to add a few extra exclamation points and question marks -- that always helps drive your point home. :-P

by Sleepy Freud on Apr 28, 2007 8:24 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

thank you for the props

on my usage of "resignify." I have always been impressed with your cultural memory and citations, as you've shown in the past.

by dj fuzzylogic on Apr 29, 2007 3:26 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

... baby puke, yellow or gold.... omg, lol :/

hide your feminine mystique behind your words all you want, but if you truly desire to argue over color schemes maybe you should be an interior decorator.

And this is the most ridiculous diary I have ever read regardless of whether or not in the rules it says we can talk about clothing. And I can make cute smiley faces too :) haha (all in jest of course)

by dallaswarrior on Apr 29, 2007 4:43 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Dude, I'm damn proud

Of my feminine mystique! We all could use a little more of it. I don't see too many chicks going around shooting up schoolrooms or starting needless wars.

Plus, hey, there's nothing wrong with interior design -- some of my best friends are interior architects and designers -- but if you think this diary as "arguing about color schemes" you might want to read a little more carefully.

And you if really insist that this is "most ridiculous diary" you've read, I'll contend that you're the "silliest poster on GSoM." Given the competition in both areas, I think both claims are pretty outlandish. ;-)

NB: a little lesson in cyber-etiquette:

Smiley-face = a handy icon used to show friendliness or soften your tone, which is sometimes hard to do in cyberspace.
20 extra exclamation points or question marks = Generally, a total waste of wrist-action and bandwidth.

But since, you toned down the punctuation marks in your second post, I'll assume you learned that lesson already. Am I right???????????????????????????????????????

;-)

by Sleepy Freud on Apr 29, 2007 5:10 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

It was a good article

Listen up Nation. The article was well written and informative as it comes from the opposite perspective. Let's face it: however beautiful that sea of golden yellow was to us, who can blame the Texans for making it their most reviled color. It's merely a tribute to the suffocating defense and scintillating offense we are stuffing down their throats (hence the tendency to make gastointestinal references to quite lovely colors!).

by warriorfaninlakerland on Apr 29, 2007 8:28 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Well, you can't have it both ways

Either it was a fair and reasonable description (as some here say) or it was a jab from a cranky Texan trying to get back at us for making his team look silly.

My point is that even if your goal is to make a jab, you should always be honest in your insult. If I wanted to insult our President, for example, it would be pretty fair, based on his record, to call him "a lying scoundrel." On the other hand, it wouldn't be fair to call him, a "fat, ugly, retarded lying scoundrel" since he's not fat, not really retarded, and actually pretty good-looking, as world leaders go.

Similarly, the WE BELIEVE shirt is just flat yellow. Call it Stinky Banana Yellow or Smelly Piss Yellow if you insist, but it's no more "baby-puke" than it is blood-red.

by Sleepy Freud on Apr 29, 2007 2:56 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

The Power of Yellow

For those who are not aware, the color yellow has played an integral part in changing the Philippines' history, as it was the color people rallied behind in overthrowing the Marcos dictatorship in the 80's. Millions of Filipinos united from all walks of life to wear yellow during that peaceful revolution. Yellow became the color of unity, the color of a new beginning.

Do not underestimate or belittle the power of a certain color. It can bring people together and as it has shown, can change a nation's history. Lets hope here that the color yellow would change Bay Area Sports History.

Let me take a nap while I wait for tonights Warrior game....