I think the bitching about “SHOOOT!!!” is in reference primarily to the meatheads that are yelling it the second the Hawks are set up in the offensive zone. I had season tickets during the leanest of the lean years (good timing, eh?) and I can tell you, hearing the other ten dopes in my secion yelling like that was bad enough; the fact that the Hawks are actually good now makes it that much worse.

The hawks board can be a dark and scary place. There are some great fans there, but here is much much better. I don’t leave this site with an elevated blood pressure (unless it’s from laughing). So I guess it really is a matter of perspective.

I haven’t seen many of the threads you’re referring to here, especially with the threat of McClure’ prolapsed asshole hanging over our heads. Or maybe the threat that he would share the details of it. Anyway, there’s not much to argue about now. Someone is going to take the reins (or have them thrown at him), and all we can do is support him, whoever he is. the Hawks find ways to win and I don’t think that mindset will change in the playoffs.

To me, the Kopecky complaints have become more of a joke than anything. And they build camaraderie so that’s nice. Remember, the grass may be greener elsewhere, but it could also be browner. Or covered in snow.

I thought we were all nerds!

I think I missed most of the insanity on this site, but I caught it elsewhere so I understand. It was getting to the point that I couldn’t enjoy the games for all the goalie drama on the other site. So I must’ve timed it well, leaving there and coming here.

I like how you used the wrong “your” in your quoting of the newcomers. Intentional? Seems people screaming about the goalies always seem to have bad grammar which makes reading their posts even worse.

at the same time, many of us should try harder not to feed the trolls, but……

Let’s say you’re at this really cool park and you’re playing football with some random guys and some regular friends. You enjoy this football game, people will do something dumb occasionally, but you talk about it and everything is cool. Then there is this one asshole who plays dirty, is over the top annoying, and does the same shit over and over again no matter how hard you try and reason with him. Sure we could ignore this kid’s antics and go on with our game, but It’s hard not to tell that kid to piss off and go find his own football game at a different park with other jagoff kids. Know what I mean?

I mentioned that it came from “Wads”, as jim hendry calls him

I “used” to be fairly active here, and have had to stop posting as much. Feeding the troll/trollop is frowned upon by some, and enjoyed by others. (Yes, that is a Robert Asprin male/female call out.) My brother has called me “Asshole Avenger” for many years, due to the fact that I can not let an asshole spout off without destroying him/her/it.
I found myself actively hating some of the so-called “Huet Bashers”, and was labeled by some as a “Huet Lover.” I have screamed at the TV when a goal was scored against, but I still did not hate Huet for letting it in. I have in the past, and in the future I will continue, set the blame for the majority of the goals against on the Defense. I do so for one reason, and one reason only, because I played fullback in Soccer, and every goal against I attributed directly to a mistake made by me. Not the Goalie, not the idiot striker who thought he was the next coming of Pele, but me.
When I started noticing the posters who are often referred to as “Huet Bashers” becoming more vicious and vocal, I attempted to converse with them in a logical manner. Quite often it resulted in someone posting HUET SUX 17 times in a row. So now, I say go Hawks, and go away you supercilious, wagon -hopping, syrup-sucking, stump-jumping, cock-fucking, worthless excuses for a human beings. The oxygen that they use would be better put to use lighting the farts of a 750 pound vegan woman.
Notice how vitriolic that sounds? that’s why I stopped posting here as much. I understand that because of the Hawks being a good team there is going to be a flock of new fans to discover them. I also understand that a lot of them are not going to be adapted to converse in a semi-sociable manner, but I get tired of the rage I feel when I am forced to interact with them. It took me to the point that I would jump on a new poster just because they said that Huet fucked up. I don’t want to be that guy, so I backed away.
I now only have to figure out how I can convince my TV to stop broadcasting the pricks that keep chirping when the opponents have the puck behind their own goal, and the Hawks are making a change. It makes me want to go bird-hunting, with a cannon.
I have not, nor did I intend to direct any of this post at you, you set forth your thoughts in a consistent manner, and while I do not completely agree with you, I am fine with us not agreeing.
I will also be sitting on the glass for the Hawks/blues on the 30th, and as much as I hate hearing the fucking glass pounders, I can not guarantee that I will not do so that night. I will not cheer during the anthem, but that is only because of my military background. I will not chant detroit sucks, because they will not be there. ( I would DEFINATELY chant it if the detroit players attended a Hawks/Blues game!)
Ahem,know anybody that needs a severely used soapbox?

I just thought it was a “dicey” way to make an entrance. Now that you have “broken the seal” hopefully you will choose to continue posting (and if you also choose, to influence behavior from a position inside the so-called circle of trust).

I too was a daily stalker, same as you, for a year and a half. I find it funny that I am still relatively new to many, but I’ve known them for quite a while (but only in a “characters in a good book” sort of way). Here’s the rub to that “ant farm” type of relationship though: If I don’t like a book, I can put it down. But if I was offered the opportunity to take part in the editing of that book – and chose not to – I can’t really justify writing the author and telling him or her that I disapprove of that book.

You did it in a somewhat polite and intelligent manner and therefore my response to you is hopefully equally so, but I’m still reserving the right to give you shit in the future for making your debut like a first-day substitute teacher! Hope to see you around OOPsycho.

Please don’t let it. I joined last May and I didn’t really start posting until sometime this season, but even before I did I knew that there was going to be a lot of weird backstory between people and there were probably a couple of inside jokes that I wasn’t going to get, but it isn’t as though the community is so tight-knit that it won’t welcome outsiders.

Hell, if “Hi, I’m Bob LeDonne” could start with posting just “Hi, I’m Bob LeDonne” and end with becoming some sort of game day fairy godmother, anything can happen, you know? But first impressions (or posts, I guess) are important. Just don’t be a douche when you come in, screaming and yelling and using SCH as a ranting microphone instead of a place where you can interact with others.

We also gang up on those who barge in without "learning the system" and rant about topics that we’ve exhausted

If you meant this, then maybe I should have stated that by no means did I intend for that to be directed toward OOpsycho. I meant it as a reason in general on why sometimes it might appear to an “outsider” that we are ganging up on someone in haste. When I was an outsider I knew the overall relationships and temperaments of the different posters, but it was probably a tenth of what I know and realize now that I am actively involved – for better or for worse ;)

I do also believe that things have gotten much better and I didn’t think the trade deadline threads were that bad – it was a high stress day. We have our good days and our bad…