This thread is more of a rant than anything else. I decided to get back out and play a little basketball for my work team mainly because I needed the cardiovascular exercise (I hate running in the winter). I'll be the first person to tell you that I am not very good at basketball. I can rebound, play a little defense, and run the floor and that is about it. There are 5 other teams in this league and we play everyone twice and then there is a tournament. Tonight ended the first round as we played the only team we hadn't played yet. They were like many of the teams out there - they basically had one player and this guy liked to shoot 3's. I mean he was good for that league but how good can he really be since he is playing in a military base recreation league, right? Well, we should have beaten them handily but we only had 1 referee (who is like 72 years old, no joke) and our best big man missed like 10 point blank shots, many of them were uncontested. So the game goes to overtime and we finally are able to pull away and win. After the game is over, this guy or punk (which is what he really is) walks by and me and one of my best friends (who is one of our best players) and mutters "We were robbed." Now, I can't stand cocky guys, especially ones that are really punks. So, I looked at him and said "You guys didn't get robbed. Our big man Bo missed like 10 shots - if he hits like half of them, the game doesn't even go into overtime." He then had the nerve to tell me, "He wasn't hitting because I was d--ing (defending) him up." So, at that point, our big man Bo was shooting by himself and I walked up to him and looked at the punk and said, "Hey Bo, this guy over here said he was d--ing you up." Bo, probably knowing the guy is a punk said he was. Then the punk looked at me and said, "What did you do?" I said, "I scored 2 points , got some rebounds, was the difference in the game going to overtime and was on the winning team." Well, he didn't like that and said, "2 points? I did that when I was 8 years old." I was getting closer to him the whole time and said, "Well, it didn't really help you tonight did it since you were on the losing end." Well, he really got livid and said, "You probably did the laundry for the team in high school." I just laughed at him and walked out and said "Scoreboard, buddy - scoreboard." He then muttered something else but I had already walked out. It turned out later that he told my friend that I didn't "want none of him" because he had been a gold glove boxer and that he wasn't scared of me (I am quite a bit bigger than him and would guess stronger with my weightlifting). My friend told him, "***, what good does that do?" (mentioning he was a former gold glove boxer). The punk said something else that was dumb and my friend left. It has been a LONG time since I have been that physically upset with another person to their face. I mean I really thought that we were about to go at it. Of course, I am glad we didn't because I have always tried avoid fighting. But at the same time, I am thinking about not playing in that league any more as I am tired of seeing these idiots out there that think they are hot ****. Guess what, punks - if you were that great, you wouldn't be out there playing against the likes of Manny Ramirez. One of my friends told me that he couldn't believe the restraint I showed but I have to admit that it would have felt good to clean this guy's clock. Anyway that is my rant. So, how would you handle a punk like that? Clean his clock or jaw with him for a little bit and leave or something else? Anybody who has had experience with idiots like this are more than welcomed to share their story here.
Ignore the dude. You got scoreboard, enough said. You have no idea what would have happened had you tried to fight him. Don't be stupid.
Yea, I know. I should have never said anything to Bo - that is what really escalated things. That is why I am thinking about not playing again because I don't want to put myself in that situation again.
Geez, Manny? How much had you had to drink during all this? How old was he? You're 32. The better man walks away confidently. I've had punks come up to me and my friends (one who is a horses ass) on several occasions. Probably 10 or so in the last 5 years, easy. I always walk directly up to the person and calmly ask what the problem is. Every one of them has backed down. Then I walk away.
Manny- I think you handled it pretty well. Anyone who plays enough street basketball knows that talking **** is as common as the bounce of the ball. Come to Houston, and play a pickup game, and see if they don't call you every name in the book. Anyway, f* that guy, if you want to play basketball, then go play. Don't puss out and let others dictate your life.
Personally, I'm a little guy. So cleaning somebodys clock might not be the best of idea. Long as you got scoreboard, it doesnt freaking matter. Just point to the scoreboard. Thankfully, I play in a league where there are no punks. Except our last game, we were running a fast break and some dude tried to trip Stack24. That was cheap, and dirty, and we hope to see them in the playoffs.
No. Handling it well would be not responding to someone on the other team muttering "we wuz robbed" in the first place.
Manny, I don't know how to say this, but it sounds like you might have provoked him. If all he said was "we were robbed" that's not exactly calling you're Mom a w**** or anything. You should have just smiled and walked away.
You could have said that, but he might have went postal on your ass. Face it... He's a la-who-zuh-her.
Forget about him Manny - You are the man who walked away and forgot all about him....He is history-you are the better man.
hmm no point debasing yourself by getting into any sort of confrontation with people like him. I remember watching "to kill a mocking bird", in the scene where atticus gets spit on and just walks away, thats more manly than the spitter spitting.
Oh god, don't get me started on this. I play in an adult leauge with some friends in my citys recreation center. My team consists of mainly people around my age 19,20,21, were the youngest team in the leauge. Its ridiculous how many older people talk crap, such as in your case manny. I mean I can understand being competive and you might get upset, but sometimes I think I'm more mature than some 28,29,30 yr olds we go up against. A handful are usually former bball players at smaller colleges like D-3, but nonetheless. Hell one time, craziest thing I've ever experienced in a game, two years ago in this same leauge, a team we had lost to before, we were crushing this 2nd time we played them. My one friend who can get hot from 3 pt range was on pace to probably drop 50. This team was obviously pretty upset that we were beating them by like a constant 15 pts, so a couple of their dudes are jawing at the ref ect...well finall one of them snaps, starts cussing and what not, ref gives him a tech..guy gets even more pissed, yells more and more, literally we stood their on the court and watched this guy get 6 techs in a row. He then resulted to threatening the referee, and after a few comments like that, the ref called the game. There was 8:30 left in the game...after that the guy kept yelling, and some of his teammates were trying to tell him to calm down and he shoved one of his friends. It was insane, I just don't understand how some get so upset about games, especially recreation leauges that bad. I'm just as competitive as the next guy, I played high school ball for 4 yrs, I wanna win more than anyone on the court, but never am I going to get upset and want to start a fight. Anywho, yea just continue playing, the one dude prob is just an exception most games you wont have a guy like that.
I think you can have your verbal revenge all day long, as long you are able to do it with out it seriously getting you mad, or least let the amount of humor you find in the situation outweigh the amount of anger you have by about 10%. Then you can say whatever you want. Keeping calm will always make you look better in those kinds of situations. If you feel yourself getting angry beyond control then try and ignore it.
That's nothing Manny. I play with a lot of different people all the time, and just tonight I was playing a pickup game with some friends and a guy who I hadn't played before showed up. Seemed like a quiet guy, and was eh, mediocre skill wise. I was paying him no mind until there was a disagreement about the score. Whenever I play I call the score every ****ing play(so much so that usually people take it for gospel) just so there is as little bickering as possible. Well we had just tied it up and the other team was saying they were up by one. So eh, the argument ensued, and I knew I was right, but I'm always willing to back down or at least shoot for it if they are pressing and making the game not fun. Well this guy starts talking **** and in the middle of his tirade he calls me an idiot. So I spout off and call him an idiot. Then he gets offended and takes a step closer to me, puts his finger in my face and says "don't call me an idiot". Well, imo, pointing is what b****es do so I slapped his hand down like a b****. Then a whole lot of people jump in to break it up before anything else happened. Apparently quite a few of this guy's family was there and he liked to fight so they didn't want to see it escalate into something big. And maybe they didn't want to see me get my ass kicked because I can't fight. So eventually we keep playing and this guy is basically talking trash the whole game. Calling me an idiot, mocking my voice and trying to bump me everytime I come in contact with him. Everytime he hits a shot(not that often) he looks at me and pumps his fist(even though he was wide open because no one respects his game). And he kept saying that no one needs to take me cuz I suck even though I was being doubled before I got the ball and tripled after I got it yet I suck because I only scored 4 points in a 16 point game. I usually can ignore people, and I did after that incident, he was actually pretty comical after that because he was such a douche. But I have to give him credit, he actually got under my skin in that moment and that hasn't happened in years. He apologized afterwards, sort of, but that still doesn't change the fact that he's a dick with a weak game.
