Farewell Clutch BBS....

Thanks for the memories.

This is my last post and after tomorrow, my last day on the bbs.
As a few of you might know, I'm getting married soon. It's actually this Saturday. (If any of y'all are interested, you can check out the website here )

I've been thinking a lot about this, and have decided that in order to be a good, responsible husband, I cannot be the dedicated Rockets fan that I used to be anymore. And part of that dedication is following the BBS.

I joined up here in the Summer of 1998 on the old board before Pippen came. Since then, I've followed the Rockets along with the BBS community through the highs and the lows: Pippen coming and going, Barkley retiring, Dream moving on, the Francis trade, the Eddie Griffin trade, getting Yao, and now T-Mac's era. I honestly believe I've been as dedicated a Rockets fan as any over the past 13 years. When I lived in France, I traversed the cote d'Azure looking for a bar to watch Rockets games. I finally found a place that had an nba channel and was at the resto/bar at 11:am watching playoff tape delays. Other times, I was up at 4:am watching live broadcasts on cable at a friend's house while he was sleeping.

I've logged on to the BBS from different states and many different countries. And now my time has come to an end. In all honesty, I love this bbs. Even though I've only met a few of you guys, all of you feel like an extended family to me. I must have spent thousands of hours around here reading and debating and learning from things about religion, to politics, to science, and most importantly The Rockets and NBA basketball. I've enjoyed the stories, the scoops, the humor, and of course I've watched the BBS grow from just a few hundred people to the megasized community that it is today. Every day I read this bbs, even in the off-season. I'm also glad that I have been able to contribute to this community through opinions and discussion. I still remember scooping Pippen's first press conference after the trade from here and how that made the front page.

But alas, I realize that there are promises I'm about to make to a better person and to a higher power and that I must do my best in doing the right thing. And although Clutchfans has been a source of happiness for me for years, it is a selfish joy that I need to give up for a better purpose. Thank you all for the memories. Thank you Clutch, Jeff, Kagy and all the mods for this great site. Thank Nikestrand, Gator, and all you other capologists for the info. Thank you Popeye, where ever you are, and Doc Rocket for the scoops. Thanks to all the chat guys Uprising, Jeffster, DoD...i might be able to stop in occasionally next year in chat. Thanks to the old timers-Behad, Codell, HeyP, Batman, Riet, Manny...it was a pleasure to meet all of you guys, even if it was only once and very short. Thanks to all the posters i've agreed with or discussed with or argued with.

(And this is for real. I know I'll be tempted to log in everyday, so I'm going to change my password by typing some random keys without looking at the screen, and then copying and pasting it to confirm the change.)

So I bid you adieux and leave you with the immortal words of Al Bundy, though it is not how I feel, I've always wanted to say this:
"Today...(echoing: today, today, today) I consider you the luckiest BBS on the face of the earth. I thank no one but myself. I am now retired. M V P!"


Go Rockets,
Kim