Calling KellyDwyer and macfan. Kelly, you are already on record but I'll ask both of you to answer at this moment: Do you think Weisbrod will be back with the Magic? Yeah yeah the owner doesn't keep up much with the team blah blah, but at some point the noise gets so loud a deaf man could hear it. I have no clue how harsh the local media is there or how much the city cares about how good the team is. There must be some kind of an outcry calling for Weisbrod's scalp with all the flak and bad trades. It should be almost unanimous in Orlando this guy isn't right for the job. Give us a local read on the situation. Reading the Sentinal online just doesn't do it for me.
"The ironical thing is that I've done nothing but defend the kid," Weisbrod said. Is "ironical" even a word? This idiot must have something on the Magic owner - only reason to explain why he still has a job. What a f*cking chump.
This is only an educated guess, I saw one scribe mention Weisbrod's future last week, but I think it was Vecsey so I don't know what to make of it: The Magic kept Paul Gabriel around as GM wayyyyyyy too long, providing they should have even hired him in the first place. This is good news for Weisbrod, especially if his "gamble" of choosing Howard finds validation in a second place ROY mark. Owner Rich Devos paid two coaches last year, two coaches this season, and he'll pay Johnny Davis three more years on top of the coach he has to hire this summer -- I can't see him wanting to pay two GMs as well, especially when their cap relief (no Hill, Christie) doesn't set in until the summer of 2006, and DeVos has been trying to sell the team since 1999.
Thank you. It certainly is not a word. Not since Alanis Morisette has that word been so butchered. Idiot.
It is a variant of ironic. It is a word. You just had that reaction because nobody ever uses it because they mean the same thing and most people will just use "ironic".
Should Weisbrod really die? I mean, don't we need idiots like him in the league so Dawson can bend them over and make them his b****es? I'd love to make another TMac-like deal and sucker GM's like Weisbrod are perfect suckers.
Yep. Ironically is actually made for the word ironical, which is another way of saying ironic. There's also a ironicalness. ironical adj 1: characterized by often poignant difference or incongruity between what is expected and what actually is; "madness, an ironic fate for such a clear thinker"; "it was ironical that the well-planned scheme failed so completely" [syn: ironic] 2: humorously sarcastic or mocking; "dry humor"; "an ironic remark often conveys an intended meaning obliquely"; "an ironic novel"; "an ironical smile"; "with a wry Scottish wit" [syn: dry, ironic, wry]
At the beginning of the season, Orlando had four players who could go 20+ a game (SF, Cat, Hill and Hedo) and Magic now miss three of the four. It is hard to compete when you do not have firepowers. magic is basically playing SF plus two rookies and a bouch of scrubs. No wonder they are 4-18 since March 5. Their starting lineup yesterday was Stevenson-Battie-Barret-Hoawrd-Nelson and Stacy Augmon as the sixth man. However, Please remember orlando was the worst team last year, so winning 30+ games was not too bad for them.
I believe someone lost a bet! Time to pay up. http://bbs2.clutchfans.net/showthre...age=30&highlight=orlando playoff&pagenumber=1
Officially nobody lost the bet because it was made with this stipulation: "OK, you are on. If Steve and Cat stay, 20 bucks to tipjar IF Magic dont maky playoffs. "
Did you see my original post? There is also another guy who took my bet with no such stipulation. Either way, it is prettty weak excuse.
http://bbs.clutchcity.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=91772&perpage=30&pagenumber=2 I know Orlando fans will be pointing to the injury bug as their bane but they should not forget NJ and Indiana were delt with similar fate and the won 40. I told Pgabriel that I do not see them reaching 40 wins and he cursed me out. Even with the injuries it is not a good excuse because most teams were faced with injuries and still overcame.
I saw your original post, BUT the important post was the one by "HeyDude" in which he included the stipulation that Steve and Cat had to stay. You responded to his post with "you got yourself a bet" and did not challenge his stipulation, therefore accepting it. "JumpMan" also took the bet, but he responded to your response to "HeyDude" which, in essence, took on the same stipulation. If the stipulation was "weak" why didn't you question it back then? I think that type of stipulation is reasonable. I suspect most Rockets fans would have said a similar thing with respect to Yao and McGrady remaining healthy for the year.
Methinks HeyDude should pay up. There is no need for the technical exit strategies. Heck the cash is going to CF tipjar not Ragingfire's family budget.
In fairness to pgabriel, he didn't really cuss you out ... he just said not to let hate cause you to be stupid while you called him a silly twat. But, you were certainly right about the Magic where pgabriel gave it no chance. They finished with less than 40 wins and completely crashed and burned down the stretch. More than anything, I think this validates those who said how important Grant Hill was. Those who tried to dismiss Hill's impact to prop up Stevie really looked bad down the stretch.
While Grant Hill had an impressive comeback season, the Magic were in a tailspin even with Hill on the court. At the time of the Mobley-Christie trade they were 18-14, since then they're 17-31. They were going to have trouble anyway with a tougher schedule later in the season, but that sent them plummeting over the edge chemistry-wise, imo.
Okay big brother. You know I'll listen to you. ------------------ Pgabriel, you okay with me. What have you been doing lately?
