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Magua

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Ok next question, again again: who is Dan Silver? Who actually is he

They say Dan Silver wasn't born but chiseled out of marble by a Renaissance master. After earning his MFA in Creative Writing from the acclaimed Iowa Writers’ Workshop, a Masters of Sports Journalism from Medill, and a PhD in Statistics from MIT, Mr. Silver decided to follow his true passion: hockey. Starting from the grassroots level, he has served as a writer for the acclaimed Philly is Flyer Twitter account, along with contributions to podcasts listened to by fans who yell WOOOO.

It's sad to report that he won't be our well kept secret for long. People are beginning to notice.

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DancingPanther

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They say Dan Silver wasn't born but chiseled out of marble by a Renaissance master. After earning his MFA in Creative Writing from the acclaimed Iowa Writers’ Workshop, a Masters of Sports Journalism from Medill, and a PhD in Statistics from MIT, Mr. Silver decided to follow his true passion: hockey. Starting from the grassroots level, he has served as a writer for the acclaimed Philly is Flyer Twitter account, along with contributions to podcasts listened to by fans who yell WOOOO.

It's sad to report that he won't be our well kept secret for long. People are beginning to notice.

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So he's a blogger for a fan run website who isn't even "official" enough for a blue check mark.

Why do these people get followings
 

sa cyred

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It was after someone told her that her nephews should be euthanized, of which she has been helping care for as their mother has had health issues since they were born (I think? This is an edit). It wasn’t like she was tired of standing up for herself, independent of whether or not you agree with what she said.

Man in the mirror moment because of the thread I’m in, that I’ve largely stayed away from. I just don’t understand putting your energy into these websites that you hate. And what they’re saying. That’s just not energy or a space I want to operate in. The thing these people want most is attention so why give it to them? Even my follows are like that, there’s no one I follow that I dislike but just want to see what they’re saying. The only time I see it is when someone else puts it in my feed or the algorithm does it. Or visit this thread.
Honestly most of the BSH group has turned for the worst. They honestly weren’t bad what, 10 years ago? Travis used to be totally honest about the Flyers and never sugar coated it. I remember multiple times him ripping the team apart. Once he left it turned into a shit show with the current group.

Don’t know how Travis is now but as we know people do change. We all know Bill, Charlie, etc, people who used to come full out and criticized the team when needed. Now they defend pretty much every move. Well I’ll give Charlie some props recently where he finally started to call out some of the bad moves but that is after people got on him since he defended everything. I’ve never seen Bill say one bad thing but I guess since he works for them now he won’t. But he will go all out defending every single move though.
 
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Kelmitchell2

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Honestly most of the BSH group has turned for the worst. They honestly weren’t bad what, 10 years ago? Travis used to be totally honest about the Flyers and never sugar coated it. I remember multiple times him ripping the team apart. Once he left it turned into a shit show with the current group.

Don’t know how Travis is now but as we know people do change. We all know Bill, Charlie, etc, people who used to come full out and criticized the team when needed. Now they defend pretty much every move. Well I’ll give Charlie some props recently where he finally started to call out some of the bad moves but that is after people got on him since he defended everything. I’ve never seen Bill say one bad thing but I guess since he works for them now he won’t. But he will go all out defending every single move though.
That's because Bill is a mouth breathing loser
 
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GKJ

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Honestly most of the BSH group has turned for the worst. They honestly weren’t bad what, 10 years ago? Travis used to be totally honest about the Flyers and never sugar coated it. I remember multiple times him ripping the team apart. Once he left it turned into a shit show with the current group.

Don’t know how Travis is now but as we know people do change. We all know Bill, Charlie, etc, people who used to come full out and criticized the team when needed. Now they defend pretty much every move. Well I’ll give Charlie some props recently where he finally started to call out some of the bad moves but that is after people got on him since he defended everything. I’ve never seen Bill say one bad thing but I guess since he works for them now he won’t. But he will go all out defending every single move though.
I listen to the podcasts, is there another Bill, or are you mistaking him for Bill Meltzer? Bill bemoans having to watch the team multiple times per show and how miserable he is having to do the postgames and having to come up with things to talk about on their weekly show and is usually as foul mouthed about it as many of us are.

Charlie has been critical as well, he was against how the team viewed Risto, that Yandle should’ve been benched early in the season, and that there isn’t a viable path to being a good team next year. I actually don’t get why everyone hates him, people want him to go full-Sielski, but it seems no one likes that guy either.
 
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sa cyred

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I listen to the podcasts, is there another Bill, or are you mistaking him for Bill Meltzer? Bill bemoans having to watch the team multiple times per show and how miserable he is having to do the postgames and having to come up with things to talk about on their weekly show and is usually as foul mouthed about it as many of us are.

Charlie has been critical as well, he was against how the team viewed Risto, that Yandle should’ve been benched early in the season, and that there isn’t a viable path to being a good team next year. I actually don’t get why everyone hates him, people want him to go full-Sielski, but it seems no one likes that guy either.
Talking about Bill M. Ive been on here for awhile (not as long as you haha) and when Bill used to be on here, he was more level headed. I also follow Bill M on twitter. He is known to fly to the Flyers defense on many posts that attack the Flyers. I honestly roll my eyes a few times a week when I see it.

Regarding Charlie maybe its a case of podcast vs twitter? Cause once he joined the Athletic, I did notice a pretty big change. It has been better recently but I can definitely see the difference.
 

GKJ

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Talking about Bill M. Ive been on here for awhile (not as long as you haha) and when Bill used to be on here, he was more level headed. I also follow Bill M on twitter. He is known to fly to the Flyers defense on many posts that attack the Flyers. I honestly roll my eyes a few times a week when I see it.

Regarding Charlie maybe its a case of podcast vs twitter? Cause once he joined the Athletic, I did notice a pretty big change. It has been better recently but I can definitely see the difference.
Bill is fully embedded within the Flyers and the alumni so if he turns on them he’ll definitely lose his access. It’s a lot less comfortable to publish reporting that is negative to people you have personal relationships with.
 

LegionOfDoom91

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Why does twitter keep showing me these tweets lol

I think it’s an algorithm thing. If you follow &/or engage with certain topics enough they start showing up on your suggested feed. So the majority of this guys tweets & activity are Flyers related so guys like him, Dan the Flyer Fan, etc. show up in the algorithm for Flyers related tweets.
 
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landsbergfan

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I think it’s an algorithm thing. If you follow &/or engage with certain topics enough they start showing up on your suggested feed. So the majority of this guys tweets & activity are Flyers related so guys like him, Dan the Flyer Fan, etc. show up in the algorithm for Flyers related tweets.
I keep muting these guys though and they always come back...I suppose there is no escaping the idiots if you pay attention to Flyers twitter
 

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