A Friendly Hate Mail
"Yeah it looked like some people forgot we played on Friday because of our game (against SA) on Sunday. Except for the TV stations"
- Flip Saunders on TV highlighting the Lakers/Heat as the only Christmas game
Yesterday, If you looked at the three major sports news websites, ESPN, Yahoo! Sports, and CBS Sportsline, you'd see this as their front page stories:
ESPN: "Jolly Good"
Notice the first two coaches and the first game on the marquee, even though it's not in chronological order.
CBS Sportsline: "A Christmas Story"
Yahoo! Sports: "NBA turns up the Heat (and Lakers) on Christmas"
No one in the media world gave a shit about the Pistons/Spurs game. The game that featured the past three NBA Champions and thus the past three NBA Finals MVPs, recent league MVPs, and recent Defensive Player of the Years. A game that featured the two most prolific defenses in the league, not to mention THE TOP TWO TEAMS in the league.
ABC's pregame, hosted by Ann Arbor native Mike Tirico, guest starred Chuck D, co-founder of Public Enemy, Josh Lucas, actor from Stealth and some upcoming bball movie, and Bob Ryan, sportswriter for the Boston Globe. Tirico brought up the question I've been wondering since the beginning of the NBA season: "Why isn't the Pistons/Spurs game the top billing for Christmas?"
Bob Ryan, an aged, raggedy, fatass who has desperate hopes to make TV someday though he's too old at this point, called the Pistons/Spurs game a "JV game". A junior varsity game. Upon hearing this, I shouted out loud with my parents in attendance that I'd kill him multiple times. Sincerely upset at someone disrespecting my squad, I hit the web and sent Ryan an email:
Mr. Ryan,
My name is Ken Uy and I'm a student at the University of Michigan studying Communications and English, hoping to become a sports journalist such as yourself someday. However, I am also a Detroit Pistons fan, and I would like to comment on the statements you said on national television during Christmas.
How dare you call the Pistons/Spurs matchup a JV game, not only displaying sheer indignity towards the two best teams in the NBA, but also having the boldness to incite outrage in the most dangerous and second most depressed city in America. I was born in but do not currently reside in Detroit, but I still wouldn't want to walk down those streets, lest alone having insulted the blue-collar work ethic that is the livelihood of this storied town. I know you and everyone else in your field knows the game contains the last three NBA Champs and thus the last three Finals MVPs, former league MVPs and former Defensive Player of the Years.
I understand you may not have meant what I think, that you may have just described how the media is overhyping the Lakers/Heat game with a puffery never seen before by man (even though the game will probably be a blowout anyways), but those lacking critical thinking and analysis skills will take your words as they are at face value.
Your comments, along with ABC and ESPN's ludicrous dramatization of the Lakers/Heat game, just goes to show the disrespect and ignorance the entire media has towards a team that's gone to the NBA Finals the past two years and is currently #1. Of course, we like it like that, as Chauncey Billups so eloquently said in the Finals last year, "If it ain't rough it ain't right."
Even so, I'd appreciate it if you gave us a good look or two. I will admit, I don't read the Boston Globe and I may have missed any positive comments you may have said about the Stones, so if I'm simply taking one instance from national TV and flipping it around I apologize. I know that because both the Spurs and the Pistons are defensive teams, people would prefer a red-hot shootout that the other game will most likely be, just like people would prefer to see the Colts and Chiefs play each other over the Bears and Ravens.
In any case, have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, and all the success to you (and the Detroit Pistons) in the future.
Regards,
Ken Uy
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The response:
Duh. I was quite obviously mocking the idea of that being the JV game. That was the entire point we were all making, all three of us. Next time pay attedntion.
Bob Ryan
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Attedntion? Come on Bob, you're a professional sportsWRITER. Writer is synonymous with typer nowadays, and I find your clerical skills quite troubling. The 'd' key i nowhere close to the 'n' key, so I laughed out loud when I saw that. I was also disappointed by how short his response was, though I would imagine he'd want to get straight to the point since he probably had at least 100 emails just like mine, though not as well written as mine. And not only did I suggest the fact that he was mocking the idea, I stressed in my email that those who "lack the critical thinking and analysis skills", i.e. the lesser educated, i.e. most of Detroit, would take his words at face value, and would not understand he was simply mocking the idea. Get your shit straight Bob, you're slipping from senility.
In any case, the Stones blew out the #2 team in the league, and as Chauncey Billups said during the pregame lineups, we have "the best point guard in the league" (#1), "the best mid-range shooter in the league" (#32), "the most versatile player in the league" (#22), "the best junk talker and 4 spot in the league" (#36), and "the best defender in the league" (#3). We blew out the oh-so-high-and-mighty Spurs, who will most likely bitch about not having Manu Ginobili. Well ya know what? The Spurs may have not had Mr. Gumby, but the Stones were without Lindsey Hunter, who would've more than effectively shut and shot down Tony Parker. Most people, even Detroiters and so-called "hardcore" Pistons fans overlooked this.
I do wonder however, what sneakers the Spurs wear, because Tony Parker is fast as shit and I need a new pair. If anyone knows, let me know.
- Flip Saunders on TV highlighting the Lakers/Heat as the only Christmas game
Yesterday, If you looked at the three major sports news websites, ESPN, Yahoo! Sports, and CBS Sportsline, you'd see this as their front page stories:
ESPN: "Jolly Good"
Notice the first two coaches and the first game on the marquee, even though it's not in chronological order.
CBS Sportsline: "A Christmas Story"
Yahoo! Sports: "NBA turns up the Heat (and Lakers) on Christmas"
No one in the media world gave a shit about the Pistons/Spurs game. The game that featured the past three NBA Champions and thus the past three NBA Finals MVPs, recent league MVPs, and recent Defensive Player of the Years. A game that featured the two most prolific defenses in the league, not to mention THE TOP TWO TEAMS in the league.
ABC's pregame, hosted by Ann Arbor native Mike Tirico, guest starred Chuck D, co-founder of Public Enemy, Josh Lucas, actor from Stealth and some upcoming bball movie, and Bob Ryan, sportswriter for the Boston Globe. Tirico brought up the question I've been wondering since the beginning of the NBA season: "Why isn't the Pistons/Spurs game the top billing for Christmas?"
Bob Ryan, an aged, raggedy, fatass who has desperate hopes to make TV someday though he's too old at this point, called the Pistons/Spurs game a "JV game". A junior varsity game. Upon hearing this, I shouted out loud with my parents in attendance that I'd kill him multiple times. Sincerely upset at someone disrespecting my squad, I hit the web and sent Ryan an email:
| Date: | Sun, 25 Dec 2005 14:49:16 -0500 [12/25/2005 02:49:16 PM EST] |
| From: | kuy@umich.edu  |
| To: | ryan@globe.com |
| Subject: | JV? A friendly hate mail |
| Headers: | Show All Headers |
Mr. Ryan,
My name is Ken Uy and I'm a student at the University of Michigan studying Communications and English, hoping to become a sports journalist such as yourself someday. However, I am also a Detroit Pistons fan, and I would like to comment on the statements you said on national television during Christmas.
How dare you call the Pistons/Spurs matchup a JV game, not only displaying sheer indignity towards the two best teams in the NBA, but also having the boldness to incite outrage in the most dangerous and second most depressed city in America. I was born in but do not currently reside in Detroit, but I still wouldn't want to walk down those streets, lest alone having insulted the blue-collar work ethic that is the livelihood of this storied town. I know you and everyone else in your field knows the game contains the last three NBA Champs and thus the last three Finals MVPs, former league MVPs and former Defensive Player of the Years.
I understand you may not have meant what I think, that you may have just described how the media is overhyping the Lakers/Heat game with a puffery never seen before by man (even though the game will probably be a blowout anyways), but those lacking critical thinking and analysis skills will take your words as they are at face value.
Your comments, along with ABC and ESPN's ludicrous dramatization of the Lakers/Heat game, just goes to show the disrespect and ignorance the entire media has towards a team that's gone to the NBA Finals the past two years and is currently #1. Of course, we like it like that, as Chauncey Billups so eloquently said in the Finals last year, "If it ain't rough it ain't right."
Even so, I'd appreciate it if you gave us a good look or two. I will admit, I don't read the Boston Globe and I may have missed any positive comments you may have said about the Stones, so if I'm simply taking one instance from national TV and flipping it around I apologize. I know that because both the Spurs and the Pistons are defensive teams, people would prefer a red-hot shootout that the other game will most likely be, just like people would prefer to see the Colts and Chiefs play each other over the Bears and Ravens.
In any case, have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, and all the success to you (and the Detroit Pistons) in the future.
Regards,
Ken Uy
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The response:
| Date: | Mon, 26 Dec 2005 13:34:32 -0500 [01:34:32 PM EST] |
| From: | Ryan@globe.com |
| To: | kuy@umich.edu |
| Subject: | Re: JV? A friendly hate mail |
| Headers: | Show All Headers |
Duh. I was quite obviously mocking the idea of that being the JV game. That was the entire point we were all making, all three of us. Next time pay attedntion.
Bob Ryan
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Attedntion? Come on Bob, you're a professional sportsWRITER. Writer is synonymous with typer nowadays, and I find your clerical skills quite troubling. The 'd' key i nowhere close to the 'n' key, so I laughed out loud when I saw that. I was also disappointed by how short his response was, though I would imagine he'd want to get straight to the point since he probably had at least 100 emails just like mine, though not as well written as mine. And not only did I suggest the fact that he was mocking the idea, I stressed in my email that those who "lack the critical thinking and analysis skills", i.e. the lesser educated, i.e. most of Detroit, would take his words at face value, and would not understand he was simply mocking the idea. Get your shit straight Bob, you're slipping from senility.
In any case, the Stones blew out the #2 team in the league, and as Chauncey Billups said during the pregame lineups, we have "the best point guard in the league" (#1), "the best mid-range shooter in the league" (#32), "the most versatile player in the league" (#22), "the best junk talker and 4 spot in the league" (#36), and "the best defender in the league" (#3). We blew out the oh-so-high-and-mighty Spurs, who will most likely bitch about not having Manu Ginobili. Well ya know what? The Spurs may have not had Mr. Gumby, but the Stones were without Lindsey Hunter, who would've more than effectively shut and shot down Tony Parker. Most people, even Detroiters and so-called "hardcore" Pistons fans overlooked this.
I do wonder however, what sneakers the Spurs wear, because Tony Parker is fast as shit and I need a new pair. If anyone knows, let me know.
posted by KTrain at 8:49 PM
5 Comments:
HHAHAHA that's awesome.
Bob Ryan's cock, and arguably more annoying than skip bayless. I think maybe 2 years ago he got banned from television after citing J.Kidd as a "wifebeater" (although hilarious, very unprofessional).
I was at the game on sunday tho and it was no JV game. It was an intensely played game with a playoff atmosphere, even though we completely dismantled SA.
-sanders
Keep on fighting the good fight. In the title match between yourself and Bob Ryan, you have taken round 1
haha uhh the girl backed out AS WE WERE PULLING UP THROUGH THE DRIVE THRU. WHAT A BITCH BUT IT SERVERS HER RIGHT FOR MESSING WITH SNOOP DOGGY DOGG AKA "MIKE SANDERS".
btw i smoked some dank ass weed a lil while ago, bye.
-the colonel
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