Social Media Septic Tank Thread

[Hanover Fist]

Chocolate covered raisins are great, raisins in certain cakes and cookies, raisins in oatmeal, and so on.

Just not meatballs.

Would the so on include putting them on your hotdog?

 

[Striiker]

Would the so on include putting them on your hotdog?

Not that kind of sandwich, specifically, but I’ve seen people put raisins in chicken salad sandwiches!

 

[DancingPanther]

Not that kind of sandwich, specifically, but I’ve seen people put raisins in chicken salad sandwiches!

Also pretty common salad or trail mix additive

 

[DrinkFightFlyers]

Ugh, someone on my Facebook feed shared a Fox News post about Torts telling his players they won't play if they don't stand for the National Anthem and his post was just about how "the Flyers are back!" thanks to the toughness of Torts.

I'm not as anti-Torts as most of you folks are, but assuming Torts even said that, loving the flag certainly has nothing to do with the reason the Flyers are playing well.

 

[Striiker]

Muting the word “vibes” on twitter

They’re like mush-brained children

 

[Rebels57]

Ugh, someone on my Facebook feed shared a Fox News post about Torts telling his players they won't play if they don't stand for the National Anthem and his post was just about how "the Flyers are back!" thanks to the toughness of Torts.

I'm not as anti-Torts as most of you folks are, but assuming Torts even said that, loving the flag certainly has nothing to do with the reason the Flyers are playing well.

That was like 5 years ago. Fox News is f***ing trash.

 

[Cody Webster]

 

[BringBackHakstol]

Why would it be hard for someone that is paid to do so to follow both basketball and hockey

 

[Magua]

Hockey “personalities” barely understand the intricacies of hockey — at least the ones who pretend that hockey is more mysticism for the chosen than sport. It’s not even because hockey is hard to understand. It’s because they prefer the look of cave shadows. The cave shadows have size and you can’t teach size!

I think basketball intricacies are more complex. That’s why coaches have greater impacts. You’re halfway to being a hockey analyst when you learn what “north-south” means.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

A good segment of sports talk radio (both hosts & callers) in this city/country still thinks football is played in a phone booth. I don’t think the mass public is really into the intricacies of any sport.

The reality is hockey is just niche & like any niche product those that run it & consume don’t really do much to try & get to those outside of that bubble. It doesn’t help the grass root level is pretty much no where near other sports in this country because of the cost. So you’re not nearly growing fans at younger level compared to other sports. So those fans don’t have that exposure which probably is the most important.

 

[JojoTheWhale]

Myrtetus actually makes a good point. Unfortunately, it's not the one he's trying to make. The hockey community by and large has no interest in teaching anyone about the game. It's more about indoctrination into the culture.

Go try to find tactical hockey content. There isn't much of it out there. You've got Jack Han and The Coaches Site and you're pretty much done outside of a random Twitter account or two. Meanwhile, I pay money to support a blog about the bleeping Indiana Pacers because it teaches me so much about the mechanics of NBA basketball.

 

[usahockey22flyers]

Myrtetus actually makes a good point. Unfortunately, it's not the one he's trying to make. The hockey community by and large has no interest in teaching anyone about the game. It's more about indoctrination into the culture.

Go try to find tactical hockey content. There isn't much of it out there. You've got Jack Han and The Coaches Site and you're pretty much done outside of a random Twitter account or two. Meanwhile, I pay money to support a blog about the bleeping Indiana Pacers because it teaches me so much about the mechanics of NBA basketball.

No one gatekeeps their sports quite like hockey and soccer fans

 

[Striiker]

Myrtetus actually makes a good point. Unfortunately, it's not the one he's trying to make. The hockey community by and large has no interest in teaching anyone about the game. It's more about indoctrination into the culture.

That’s because only maybe 0.01% of the hockey community even understands the sport.

And I don’t even mean advanced knowledge of tactics or anything in-depth. I’m talking like the most basic common sense things. You go on Flyers Twitter or Reddit or anywhere else where fans gather and they still think Deslauriers is vital and Frost is shit because he’s too small and bad defensively.

Even if the 0.1% of the above 0.01%, who actually know enough to teach others something of value, was motivated to make teaching content, it still wouldn’t work because there’s zero appetite for that stuff and the majority of fans would actively push back against it because it disagrees with people like Torts.

 

[JojoTheWhale]

That’s because only maybe 0.01% of the hockey community even understands the sport.

And I don’t even mean advanced knowledge of tactics or anything in-depth. I’m talking like the most basic common sense things. You go on Flyers Twitter or Reddit or anywhere else where fans gather and they still think Deslauriers is vital and Frost is shit because he’s too small and bad defensively.

Even if the 0.1% of the above 0.01%, who actually know enough to teach others something of value, was motivated to do make teaching content, it still wouldn’t work because there’s zero appetite for that content and the majority of fans would actively push back against it because it disagrees with people like Torts.

Brother, there are still people saying shit like "There's only one basketball!" or talking about NFL teams' records when they run the ball 30+ times. That's just sports as a broad issue.

 

[Chinatown88]

Hockey “personalities” barely understand the intricacies of hockey — at least the ones who pretend that hockey is more mysticism for the chosen than sport. It’s not even because hockey is hard to understand. It’s because they prefer the look of cave shadows. The cave shadows have size and you can’t teach size!

I think basketball intricacies are more complex. That’s why coaches have greater impacts. You’re halfway to being a hockey analyst when you learn what “north-south” means.

Man I wonder if any of the beat writers would even get this reference.

Man The Republic was a long and difficult read.

 

[Striiker]

Brother, there are still people saying shit like "There's only one basketball!" or talking about NFL teams' records when they run the ball 30+ times. That's just sports as a broad issue.

I’m not sure hockey fans even know there’s a puck sometimes

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

 

[Strawberry Fields]

That’s because only maybe 0.01% of the hockey community even understands the sport.

And I don’t even mean advanced knowledge of tactics or anything in-depth. I’m talking like the most basic common sense things. You go on Flyers Twitter or Reddit or anywhere else where fans gather and they still think Deslauriers is vital and Frost is shit because he’s too small and bad defensively.

Even if the 0.1% of the above 0.01%, who actually know enough to teach others something of value, was motivated to make teaching content, it still wouldn’t work because there’s zero appetite for that stuff and the majority of fans would actively push back against it because it disagrees with people like Torts.

I heard a fun exchange at the Bears game last night (mostly because the guy in front of me loves having intermission conversations directly over my old man and myself with the guy that sits directly behind us):

"Ovechkin's playing tonight. He's minus one."
"Then maybe he shouldn't be."

 

[Magua]

 

[trostol]

reading that..while it sucks..honestly i am gonna say, whoever he is, that's on him ..he had too much good faith in THN

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

Myrtetus actually makes a good point. Unfortunately, it's not the one he's trying to make. The hockey community by and large has no interest in teaching anyone about the game. It's more about indoctrination into the culture.

Go try to find tactical hockey content. There isn't much of it out there. You've got Jack Han and The Coaches Site and you're pretty much done outside of a random Twitter account or two. Meanwhile, I pay money to support a blog about the bleeping Indiana Pacers because it teaches me so much about the mechanics of NBA basketball.

If it's not too much trouble, would you please make a list of all the random shit which you would be willing to pay to read about in a blog?

 

[Striiker]

“They said they’d pay me when I proved myself and generated revenue for them! Then I asked them to pay me and they said they couldn’t!”

So what does that tell you, Dylan? Can we maybe connect these dots? Could it be that they saw what you could do and don’t think you’ll make them any money?

I somehow doubt it was a devious mustache-twirling scheme to swindle you out of a few articles that nobody read and then ride off into the sunset with bags of gold bricks that they got in exchange for your work.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

He definitely thought by getting under THN’s brand it would help elevate him but reality is it’s not the 90’s anymore. Their brand is shit in 2024 & in today’s social media age it’s more of a truer free market.

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

Moral of the story is don’t get into the business of sport. The entire industry is notorious for making people work for free and grind them to the bone to try and get their foot in the door.

You’re not going to just walk into a paying job.