re: So, the whole piano story was BS?

The problem isn’t that he played piano for Zion. The problem is he played “Only the Good Die Young” when everyone knows Zion prefers strictly 80’s Joel.

You are about to get kicked out of the Catalina Wine Mixer..

Why does he need to do some sort of public mea culpa?

So what if he is wrong? That's going to happen. If it does happen enough or on a big enough topic, he'll pay the consequences. He doesn't owe people an apology.

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You came at him on a personal level from the comfort of anonymity on a message board. For wanting to call someone a pussy and girly man, there's a lot of pot calling the kettle black energy in that.

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link? I think you are exaggerating a bit.

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link? I think you are exaggerating a bit.

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I mean you are literally in the thread that was created to try and put Jake on blast and featuring the instigating post on the first page:

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He’s too busy commenting “Sigh” on tweets about guys not being vaccinated.

He is the human embodiment of “liberal, effeminate, journalism pussy”.

I’ve never seen it, but i know EXACTLY what Jake Madison looks like throwing a ball.

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I bet you end every sentence with upward inflection just like Jake.

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What is wrong with you?

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Many things.

But disliking Jake Madison and his ilk is not one of them.

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Why does he need to do some sort of public mea culpa?

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This fanbase has catastrophe syndrome already. If I updated an old joke from the late Mike Royko, it would be:

- The optimist says that the glass is half-full.
- The pessimist says that the glass is half-empty.
- The Pels fan says, "When's it going to spill?"

Jake's pod on the piano was like a cable "news" host who overhypes some negative thing to his audience to get his audience even angrier.

Whether people watch MSNBC to see the outrageous things that Republicans are doing, or whether they watch Fox News to see the outrageous things that Democrats are doing, the hosts of those programs know that they get eyeballs by exaggerating the outrage of the day into a catastrophe, such that the country is perceived to be on the verge of collapse, and only their tribe can save it.

Go back and read the thread on this board from the day of the piano story: you'll find that it's full of people talking about quitting their Pels fandom. Fun Bunch posted a thread only half-jokingly about making Rich Paul the new POBO. Everyone here was seemingly running around with their hands in the air and screaming.

Christian Clark's article was not that negative, as people have said. Jake took the piano bit and made it much bigger than it was, because Jake hates David Griffin.

But, yeah, I wanted some accountability on it, because Jake's story that day, and his interpretation of the overall state of the Pels, was overhyped for clicks, and the fanbase doesn't need that crap.

Jake didn't really believe that the team was in disarray, etc., because his show the next day was about reasons to be optimistic.

TLDR: Jake's show about the piano was performative BS that Jake knew was BS, and our fanbase doesn't need that crap.

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You literally created a thread to call him out and when trolls showed up you not only didn't tell them to frick off, you jumped into the pile with them.

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This just isn’t true. A lot of stupid shite got said, but GOP did nothing wrong.



Also, why is there an “onus of responsibility” for GOP to come to the aid of Jake when people say stupid stuff about him? This thread has gotten dumb. The fact of the matter is Jake Madison writes public pieces, GOP can post on a message board about those pieces. All the “trolls” and “incels” and crap that gets posted after is just life on the internet. Posting about how hot your GF is and flexing about your real life will always get you dragged, whether it’s Twitter, Reddit, or tigerdroppings. Posters should keep politics and personal flames off the board and Jake shouldn’t be so thinned skinned.

The season needs to hurry up and start because people around here take all this shite way too seriously

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TLDR: Jake's show about the piano was performative BS that Jake knew was BS, and our fanbase doesn't need that crap.

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And you know this how?

I won't say I listen everyday, but his anger was genuine, and even in both podcasts the day after he made it clear things weren't irreversible. Not to mention, people are allowed to adjust their opinions with new info. And you know what else? Maybe like this board Jake is human and whatever murmurs he heard became real in his mind when someone like Clark said it as well.

Sounds like you are projecting onto him and trying to lump him into a caricature. When Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingram whine about social distancing, masks, and the vaccine as they sit fully vaccinated, in a company that practiced masks and social distancing, telling you thats all weak liberal bullshite, that's manufactured outrage and bad faith propaganda. I have no reason to doubt Jake's genuineness as a fan of this team.


But the reason the fanbase reacted as it did, and to be clear nothing that happened yesterday categorically refuted anything, is that Christian Clark has earned a reputation as credible.

And one could just as easily turn that logic around on you and state you have been engaging in your own motivated reasoning process with yesterday's press conference. Immediately framing Griff's account as fact and jumping to try and call out people for it. Accuse them of nefariousness.

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He's literally comparing him to Tucker Carlson and that ilk

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I’m not finding this, but it’s whatever honestly. GOP’s opening post was benign and he even called out Hester whenever Hester got personal. I’m only defending GOP’s actions up until the infamous “Hot GF” “Ivory Tower” post, everything after is a different animal. :GOPDIDNOTHINGWRONG:

Again, this whole thread has gone off the rails and gotten dumb. It just needs to be nuked and salted over.

If you’ve ever listened to NolaJakes podcast which I used to before it just became unbearable. His voice and the way he poses questions or finishes sentences is so annoying. It makes me want to punch him and that’s even before this thread.