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Monday, June 18, 2007 01:04 PM
Original article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily

Typical thrasher...

From Jones' Wikipedia entry:

"On February 16-18, 2007, during the 2007 NBA All-Star Game weekend in Las Vegas, Jones is alleged to have been involved in an altercation with an exotic dancer at a local strip club. According to the club's co-owner, Jones approached the stage with a garbage bag filled with approximately $81,000 in one-dollar bills. Jones proceeded to throw the money into the air over the exotic dancers for a dramatic effect, an act known as "making it rain". Becoming enraged when one of the dancers began taking the money without his permission, Jones grabbed her by her hair and slammed her head on the stage. A security guard intervened and scuffled with members of Jones' entourage of half a dozen people, during which time Jones allegedly bit the guard on the lower leg. Jones then allegedly threatened the guard's life. After the patrons of the club exited, the club owner says a person in Jones' entourage returned with a gun and fired into a crowd, hitting three people, including the security guard involved in the earlier skirmish. Although the guard was shot twice, one of the people hit, former professional wrestler Tommy Urbanski, was paralyzed from the waist down. Jones maintains that he did not know the shooter, although the club's owner insists that Jones did. On March 26, 2007 the Las Vegas Police recommended to the city's district attorney that Jones be charged with one count of felony coercion and also a misdemeanor count of battery and a misdemeanor count of threat to life."

Just the man trying to get him down, eh Thrasher? He's been arrested 5 times: I think even I would have been fired from my job after the 5th arrest. But, no, "Pacman" is still employed. And, apparently, employing people who will kill you if you dare stop them from beating up strippers. You might wanna peddle you're "the man's gettin' me down" line on someone besides Jones. Or did the Jew Sportswriter make Jones have his entourage shoot at cars for him?

BTW, have you ever heard of punctuation?

Monday, June 18, 2007 01:32 PM
Original article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily

KStone...

Mine still says what I copied:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacman_Jones

Are you on a different Wikipedia?

Monday, June 18, 2007 01:50 PM
Original article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily

OK, I just read this part again...

...and this is getting real weird...

"During this time Mitchell and a male associate left the club with a garbage bag filled with $81,020 of Jones' money and two Breitling watches, which Police later recovered."

OK, so apparently Jones is the only person in the world who thinks he can give money to strippers (that's what you're doing when you put the money on the stage, Pacman - did you think they're dancing sans clothing for free?) and then take it back? And why is he carrying around two expensive watches? Isn't that something you leave in the car? Or was he lookin' for "something special" in the VIP room?

I don't think these (unintentional) omissions make Pacman look better.

BTW, I just checked, and wikipedia did just put up that new info. Maybe it's Thrasher trying to put a thread of doubt into it. Cause if you're black and famous, you must be innocent and being needlessly harrassed by the police. Nelly is named Cornelius? No wonder he calls himself Nelly? Was it that or Corny?

Monday, June 18, 2007 03:49 PM
Original article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily

Regarding grammar

Thrasher, at the end of another racist diatribe, said this:

Since this is a chat forum not a english lit class and I refuse to care about syntax and grammar etc blame "pacman jones"..or focus on substance not the color of my shoe strings after I have won the race..

Punctuation and grammar are not just tools of the white man to keep you oppressed, you idiot. They're commonly used rules of language that enable us to understand your point better and make miscommunication (a time waster in this medium, no doubt) a relative non-occurance. English lit, business communication, and a variety of other writing activities, including leaving messages on message boards (notice that this is not a chat room where speed of communication is of the essence) require a certain amount of standardized communication. Like a tie or nice shoes, grammatics and punctuation show that not only do you take your communication seriously, you also hold everyone else in enough regard for you to warrant a response.

If there were any "substance" to your substance, Thrasher, it might be worth the effort. Unfortunately both your grammar/punctuation and your "substance" speak volumes about how much we should care about your rantings: zero. You just come here to push buttons and rail about the Jew. I should just learn to ignore you.

Wednesday, June 20, 2007 02:29 PM
Original article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily

Ken Griffey Jr....

...who "Mikes Pace" wants to marry.

We get it. You like him. I don't need a weekly reminder.

And yes, Youklis is getting robbed but if anyone's to blame, its the Red Sox management who from the get-go have implored fans to "Vote Ortiz", going so far as to exclude him from the ballot (yes, I'm aware each team only gets one nominee). Its the only way Papi gets into the game in NL years, so I guess its the way it has to be.

Youk still might get in on the players/coaches ballot, and to RS management's credit, they are pushing hard for that option.

Wednesday, June 20, 2007 02:40 PM
Original article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily

Yes, and as you've mentioned many times before...

...many people of note are from the greater Ohio area. Except that everyone leaves because, well, its friggin' Ohio.

What does this have to do with the price of tea in China?

Wednesday, June 20, 2007 03:01 PM
Original article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily

I would respectfully submit...

...that all stats are "silly and useless". And its one of only things I HATE about baseball. That and pitchers having to bat... oops, now I've done it...

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