The only thing funny about it is that this forum is so obsessed with me they are still talking about some blatantly obvious reverse jinxing comments a year after I made them. They should change this site name to the LarBrd33 Blog. Get over it. It's hilarious that anyone could be thick enough to think that me, a lifelong Celtic fan, is somehow upset that Brooklyn (who were widely believed to be a bottom team) ended up finishing in the bottom 5. Fact: On November 21st, Celtics fans obnoxiously chanted "Brooklyn Draft Pick" at the tail end of a blow-out, angering the basketball gods and stirring an imbalance in the force. Two days later, the Nets destroyed the Celtics in route to a 111-101 victory. This proved to be a pivotal moment for the Nets 2015-16 season. It caused a huge momentum swing that they rode all the way to a 42 win season. But it didn't. The reason? My incessant pessimism and staunch wet blanketery brought balance to the basketball force and prevented a Brooklyn resurgence. I effectively countered the fan-chanting jinx. You're welcome, Celtic fans. I take full credit for Jaylen Brown.
This pitiful retreat to "I was just kidding" is weak. I can understand if your ego is smarting about being so wrong about so many things, but just man up and accept it.
Mike
my only issue with lar is that he words his predictions in ambiguous ways intentionally
Which is totally fine on its own
But to then pretend you were right absurd. Or childish if it's only to get a rise out of people
If you're going to brag over and over again about being right, then make an actual prediction
"This team will do well if blah blah". "They can do this if they do that".
You're wrong sometimes, and you're right sometimes. Or, you're nothing all times because you're too terrified to actually make a prediction and potentially be wrong
Enough with the out clauses
Here's the truth of it. About 99% of the time this stuff gets brought up by other people who refuse to let things go. It stems from frustrations they have with themselves. I don't blame people for being angry at themselves for being wrong constantly on this forum. I've built up a decade's worth of goodwill from being on the accurate side of thousands of debates on this forum. This infuriates folks who argued that Gerald Green would be a star, or that Rajon Rondo was better than Chris Paul, or that Dwight Howard wouldn't be traded, or that Boston wouldn't tank, or that Walker/Pierce could win a title, or that Tony Allen would be a star, or that Orien Greene would be a star, or that Kedrick Brown would be a star, or that Brandon Hunter would be a star, etc. I've been here for over a decade. I've been right literally thousands of times on this forum. It's almost amazing how consistently delusional the majority of this forum has been. The blatant homerism does not represent any version of reality. I've been hated on for years for presenting valid observations about a team that quite honestly has only really been a true contender for about 3.5 of the past 25 years. That's just the facts. You present some tempered expectations and people here lose their minds over it and call you a "hater". For some folks here, they long since lost the ability to think rationally about the comments I've made on this forum. They just assume that if I don't admit Paul Pierce is better than LeBron, it means I'm a Philly fan (which is something Eddie has literally claimed numerous times on this forum).
Based on the amount of times I've been right, I'm basically playing with house money. And that drives some people batty. So they go digging through my catalog of awesomeness to find things they perceive as "wrong" and then trumpet it every time I make any comment on this forum. You basically have a bunch of poor man BballTims trying to negate every comment I make (despite the fact that more often than not, they are true) by taking things I've said out of context and railroading actual conversations by petulantly whining about things I've said in the past. It adds nothing to this forum when people do this. Suggesting that I thought Nik Stauskas or Anthony Bennett was a star is a flat out lie, but these clowns keep trumpeting it in forum post after forum post. My opinions on the 76ers continue to be more accurate than the vast majority of people on this forum, yet you have people who twist my opinion on that team and try to claim "victory" based on Philly's "failure" - which completely misses the point of my view on the 76ers.
A lot of it is just these people who label me a "troll" for not agreeing with them that Rajon Rondo was a superstar - and then go out of their way to troll me in every thread, because they think they are trolling a troll - not realizing that my opinions on those topics were actually entirely accurate.
When this stuff gets brought up, it's usually because I'm having to defend my previous views to people who can't come to terms with their own warped views.
You'll notice, I don't generally do this to other people. You don't see me saying "tankcity! said blah blah blah blah in the past so ignore everything he's saying". Aside from the rare instances of the Huey, Dewey and Louie trolls who follow me from thread to thread, I typically look at every comment someone makes, try to ignore which specific individual is making that comment, and respond to the text if I think I have a viewpoint worth sharing. Most people here have been wrong pretty often, and yet I'll continue to ignore that and consider their opinions as-is without trumpeting up out of context previous statements. I generally don't even remember what specific people have said, because I don't look at the username when I'm considering a viewpoint.
Then of course, I generally don't take this forum all that seriously in the first place. I often say things that are obviously intended as exaggerated hyperbole or a joke to anyone who understands the concept of humor or "reverse jinxing". If I say I think Dwight and Nash's addition to the Lakers means they will definitely go 82-0, only a fool would think I actually believed that. It's pretty clear I didn't actually believe the Lakers would go 82-0. And yet you have people who take these quotes at face value and trumpet them around in unrelated threads out of context, because they have an inferiority complex.
If you're tired of hearing about my "predictions" about the Nets, place your anger towards the fanboys who use my quotes in their forum signatures and act as my personal hate entourage of anti-Flava Flavs.. I should mail Celticsclay a giant clock necklace to wear around his neck for the amount of times he's followed me around from thread the thread hollaring "Yeaaaaah Booooyyy!!" and "Ohh no not a Noootha one!!" everytime someone says something vaguely negative about me.
In-fact, I went ahead and made him an avatar of Flav wearing a Celtic jersey:
http://i.imgur.com/oDa9ic9.gifBy all means, other Flavs can feel free to use that avatar as well. They are already parroting each other, they might as well share the same avatar.
Bottom line is, as long as these flavs keep obnoxiously misrepresenting me and wasting time on a Celtic forum "calling me out" as opposed to discussing the Celtics, I'll respond accordingly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxoL3uQbPoc