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Post by inger on Nov 6, 2019 5:50:34 GMT -5
Kaybli! I had forgotten all about it, but back when I was on Prodigy they once brought a National baseball expert on for a guest appearance in which we (as members) were encouraged to ask him questions. I don’t recall his name, but he was a big deal then. I think he still pops up here and there on air even though he’s probably over eighty now. I had read a couple of his articles that were dated pretty close together. *Note: Just recalled, it was Peter Gammons. Anyway, forgetting what the exact content was, but in one article he had praised A player for some element of his defensive play. In the other article he criticized the same element of the same player’s game. So, I nicely quote the dates of the article and the comments in my sweetest style and then say, “So which one is it? It can’t be both ways”. He then answers me that I need to be more “respectful” if I expect him to reply to me. Then I replied that he could “respectfully” closely inspect some rather remote portion of his body or another with his head. That I was an adult, not some whiny little snot that he had control of. That remained up on the site for about a day and a half before they deleted it...Back then, the internet moved slowly on that old 286K computer. Hell, Prodigy was probably working off a similar mainframe... I’m saying it was around 1985-6-7 ish...Does that qualify as an unpleasant online experience? I’m just wondering, because I kind of enjoyed it... Someone I met on a flight once who worked at ESPN told me he was a real ahole in person which was disappointing but consistent with your story. Lol. At first I thought you were starting one of the old TMarino parodies... |
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Post by greatfatness on Nov 6, 2019 9:19:40 GMT -5
Someone I met on a flight once who worked at ESPN told me he was a real ahole in person which was disappointing but consistent with your story. Lol. At first I thought you were starting one of the old TMarino parodies... LOL! No this was someone who was part of the camera/sound crew that followed him around spring training. Didn’t have a lot of nice things to say about Gammons which disappointed me because he seemed like someone I’d enjoy meeting. This was at a time when sportswriters were becoming minor celebrities on ESPN and such and maybe it was going to their heads. |
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Post by rizzuto on Nov 6, 2019 9:26:53 GMT -5
Lol. At first I thought you were starting one of the old TMarino parodies... LOL! No this was someone who was part of the camera/sound crew that followed him around spring training. Didn’t have a lot of nice things to say about Gammons which disappointed me because he seemed like someone I’d enjoy meeting. This was at a time when sportswriters were becoming minor celebrities on ESPN and such and maybe it was going to their heads. Red Sox fan... |
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Post by inger on Nov 6, 2019 9:46:52 GMT -5
Lol. At first I thought you were starting one of the old TMarino parodies... LOL! No this was someone who was part of the camera/sound crew that followed him around spring training. Didn’t have a lot of nice things to say about Gammons which disappointed me because he seemed like someone I’d enjoy meeting. This was at a time when sportswriters were becoming minor celebrities on ESPN and such and maybe it was going to their heads. After that incident, when I’d see him on TV and he’d take that deep breath in between sentences, all I could think was ... “blowhard”, and started finding myself in disagreement with everything he said... Even when he was right... |
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Post by rizzuto on Nov 6, 2019 14:06:01 GMT -5
LOL! No this was someone who was part of the camera/sound crew that followed him around spring training. Didn’t have a lot of nice things to say about Gammons which disappointed me because he seemed like someone I’d enjoy meeting. This was at a time when sportswriters were becoming minor celebrities on ESPN and such and maybe it was going to their heads. After that incident, when I’d see him on TV and he’d take that deep breath in between sentences, all I could think was ... “blowhard”, and started finding myself in disagreement with everything he said... Even when he was right... I enjoyed his reporting/writing, but his predictions were always miserably wrong. |
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Post by greatfatness on Nov 6, 2019 14:37:37 GMT -5
After that incident, when I’d see him on TV and he’d take that deep breath in between sentences, all I could think was ... “blowhard”, and started finding myself in disagreement with everything he said... Even when he was right... I enjoyed his reporting/writing, but his predictions were always miserably wrong. Sure but he incorporated obscure Little Feat lyrics |
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Post by sierchio on Nov 6, 2019 16:05:14 GMT -5
They had the internet back then? I was born in 86 and didn't have the net til I was maybe 11-12...
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Post by inger on Nov 6, 2019 18:48:56 GMT -5
They had the internet back then? I was born in 86 and didn't have the net til I was maybe 11-12... The only thing I knew about was message boards. Nothing like today. I would type out messages and watch it “send” for maybe 5-15 minutes. It would appear on the actual message board a few hours later. Normally, if you got replies it would take you another 10-12 hours before they would be posted. I honestly forget how I even found out about Prodigy. I think it was a guy at work who was in the 98th percentile at that time. In fact... yes. It was Joe. If not for him. I would have been in the 10th percentile in regard to computers. A great friend for a long time, but haven’t seen or spoken to him in ages. There was no Yahoo or any of that stuff yet. I think I had e-mail, but with almost no one to e-mail to or receive from it wasn’t a big deal. Now, I have to erase my e-mail box daily to keep up. No graphics, just changeable sort of clunky-looking letters with changeable neon-like coloring on a changeable color background. People I talked to about it were amazed that I was communicating with people all over the USA, and sometimes the world like that. At that time I was probably in the 95th percentile of people in the world in what I knew about computers, etc.. when that field accelerated I was quickly left in the dust. |
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Post by kaybli on Mar 21, 2021 7:55:34 GMT -5
Boy, am I glad Damon was too stupid to understand my CAMEO request now. |
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Post by inger on Mar 21, 2021 9:25:19 GMT -5
Boy, am I glad Damon was too stupid to understand my CAMEO request now. Damon: I don’t even own a Camaro... isn’t that one of those cars poor people drive?... |
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Post by noetsi on Mar 23, 2021 23:34:01 GMT -5
I regretted he never made it here
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Post by kaybli on Mar 24, 2021 1:03:46 GMT -5
I forgot I made this Damon related emoji back in the day. Alcohol related of course. [img class="smile" alt="  " src="//storage.proboards.com/6828121/images/cYJDdrfMoRBryreIqHCt.gif"]
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