I know, where will you go now for some guy’s Thunder basketball commentary or to post countless comments spewing hatred towards Oklahoma City? Well, just keep doing it here I guess.
I am going deer hunting with my family and I’ll be gone until next Wednesday. I can’t wait. Deer hunting has been a Young family tradition since 1948 so this year will be 60 years of it. Awesome. And this will be year 18 for myself. Deer camp to the Young family is one of the very most important things to us. My father actually said to my mom on their very first date: “How would you feel about maybe never spending Thanksgiving with your husband?”
She said, “Why?
He said, “Because I go deer hunting with my family.”
That’s what it’s about for us. It’s something that’s literally just part of our blood. Family, friends, fire, food, guns and lots and lots of Oklahoma football talk. Trucks stuck in the mud. Getting on a four wheeler at six in the morning only to have the cold air knock your breath out when you take off. Rehashing the same yearly stories of years past, but loving them more and more each year. Spitting in the dirt. Talking with a little thicker country accent than you actually have. Sitting in a tree stand with just you, nature, a rifle and your thoughts. Nothing beats it. Lord, I love it.
I’ll actually be making a possible reappearance Saturday because I’ll be making the drive back to go to the OU/Tech game before waking up early Sunday and going back down.
In case you’re wondering, we go hunting in Cloudy, Oklahoma. It’s in the southeastern part of the state, just a little south of Antlers and a little north of Idabel. It’s roughly three and half to four hours from Norman. It’s public land. We don’t use feeders. The land isn’t stocked. This is real hunting. Brush so thick you couldn’t shoot a bullet through it. Dirt roads and terrible cell phone reception. If you even get lucky enough to see anything, that’s an accomplishment in itself. But that’s what makes it so satisfying when you get the job done.
So anyway, I’ll be back next week to talk it up and hopefully the Thunder will give me a nice surprise with a win in the left-hand part of that column. Take care and go Thunder. Well, go as much as they possibly can.
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Scott Brooks for Coach of the Year!!!
Yo, Royce! Come back! I miss you!
All hale Scott Brooks. Under his wisdom and leadership, the Thunder ship has been righted! Under PJ, Cleveland would be beating us by 50 instead of 40.
Do you have anything better to do?
wow...
you guys really have nothing better to do?...
Thunder looked good... Ford Center was electric...
laugh at us now... we all know who will have the last...
Typed 4- meant 3- get over it. Still intrigued at idea of trying to land Kamen if the Clippers are really shopping him now that they have Camby. Wilcox, Sene or Swift and San Antonio's first rounder next year? Quality centers are hard to find.
OK, never mind. Just read the story on newsOK.com. Hey Steve H - 4 means power forward. KD is now playing SF. I thought OKC had the best basketball fans in the world???
Is KD really playing at the 4??? How the hell is he going to guard an NBA PF?
Doug Load-On-Back is hailing this as the "new beginning".
Right. Keep drinking, old man. Keep drinking.
The team will be much like your city. No matter how hard they ever try they will never be major league. Congratulations on learning how to be better losers.
Thunder looked really good out there. Nice ball movement, good team defense. KD is obviously improved playing out of the 4 spot, and the crowd was fantastic. I really hate to break it to you trolls- but this team is starting to come together. Next year we are going to be for real- just wait.
Oh shucks! So close! Will have to go kill some deer to take my anger out.
MWAH HA HA HA HA HA HA
Take that, yokels. Heartbreak on a bun.
Go to hell Thunder. Wait, you already did.
Hell, on any given night- who knows. I am delighted by all of Brooks' moves so far (KD to the 4 spot, Petro on the bench)- maybe these guys are ready to win one now that PJ is gone. If Brooks would just go ahead and give Westbrook the starting nod, I would have nothing on the coaching end to complain about anymore.I am going to be there yelling my lungs out. Go THUNDER!
anyone think the Sonics have a chance tonight against PHX?
If Ballmer has so much money and such strong connections to Stern why doesn't he just purchase the league?
Anonymous, how do you know unless YOU'RE the real Brian Robinson!?!?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!!???!!??!??!??!??!!?!?!?!??!?!??!??!
Not to state the obvious, but that's not the real Brian Robinson.
Bullshit. It's been called. Time to move on.
Oh well, if you are going to put it in all caps- it must be true. Just out of curiosity- what is your source for this Brian? Please tell me you are not using a blog for your source- because that would be really pathetic.
BALLMER HAS 20 TIMES MORE MONEY THAN CLAY CLAY AND 100 TIMES MORE MONEY THAN SHINN. DO YOU THINK THE NBA WOULD SAY NO TO STEVE FRICKEN BALLMER??????SEATTLE IS THE 12TH LARGEST MARKET IN THE NATION AND THE GATEWAY TO ASIA!!!
IF BALLMER WANTS THE HORNETS, THEY ARE HIS FOR THE TAKING....SHINN CAN'T AND WON'T SAY NO!!!
"Look's like Ballmer is about to offer Shinn more money than he can turn down for the Hornets because they have the easiest lease to get out of."
LOLOLOLOLOL
Shinn wouldn't sell to Clay, what makes you think he is going to sell now?
"Guess what New Orleans and Seattle don't need a major sports franchise or a college football team that chokes in every BCS game to make us legit."
What do you have or what do you need to make you legit then?
Look's like Ballmer is about to offer Shinn more money than he can turn down for the Hornets because they have the easiest lease to get out of. I don't mind getting their team because they stoled them from Charlotte and they're not supporting them anyway.
Did evertbody see all the empty seats on TV Saturday night for the Thunder game?
The writing is on the wall...
This is funny. You know the old saying "ignorance is bliss"? OKC must be a blissful town right now. I won't knock you for trying to look at your team, fans, owner, and city in postitve light, but how foolish do you sound tryiung to knock others cities or teams? You foklks are in fucking dust bowl and now you think you are big time because you have an already failing team?
Guess what New Orleans and Seattle don't need a major sports franchise or a college football team that chokes in every BCS game to make us legit.
So good luck eating your cake.
Hey, asshole, I just read one of your posts that you want to wait three years and then make a play for the Hornets. Dude, you are a fucking loser, and you are right, the whole fucking country is laughing at and hates OKC. Fuck you. lol assholes.
I hear P.J. is moving someplace where he'll never have to hear about basketball again, so he's headed back to Seattle.
An Okie out of touch. Whats new?
The battle for worst team in college football, also known as the "apple cup" went into overtime today (how funny is that, you can't make this stuff up) wlth the univ. of washington claiming the title by losing to Div. 1 AA foe Washington State.
Here's what ESPN had to say about it...
PULLMAN, Wash. -- The most rotten of Apple Cups produced one of the most unbelievable, exciting conclusions in the history of the series.
The stunned Huskies remained the only winless team in the country and need an upset of California on Dec. 6 to avoid the school's first winless season since 1890.
Washington State won the Apple Cup for the fourth time in the last five years for the first time in the series' history.
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
The Blunder suck. OKC sucks. The fans suck. Outside of all that you guys are doing just fine. Lifetime losers and their loser team all together in hell on earth. It's a perfect match.
Hey we looked much improved... just one day into the Brooks Administration... i'm liking that kind of effort... that will beat alot of teams most nights in the NBA
Thunder actually looked pretty good tonight- I'm liking our new coach already. Royce, for the love of God, next time you leave say you are going on an anti-whaling mission with Greenpeace. The whole hunting thing got the trolls all riled up. You HAVE to remember that they are very sensitive- so ixsnay on the untingsay from here on out.
As PJ is undoubtedly being hired by ABC/ESPN or TNT as we speak, I can't wait to hear how he REALLY felt about the Sonics being ripped away from Seattle.
C'mon PJ, you'll never get another NBA head coaching job. Don't hold back on your thoughts about moving an NBA team to the most racist, dirty, and boring "city" in the US. Can't wait! :)
I am going deer hunting with my family and I'll be gone until next Wednesday. I can't wait. Deer hunting has been a Young family tradition since 1948 so this year will be 60 years of it. Awesome. And this will be year 18 for myself. Deer camp to the Young family is one of the very most important things to us.
Slaughtering innocent animals is one of the most important things to you? I'll bet it's right up there with having sex with your relatives.
I hate the Thunder and wish them nothing but the worst luck, but...I actually have a good feeling about Scott Brooks. Loved his attitude as a player, and heard nothing but good things about him when he was with Sacto. I think Presti hired him as an assistant with the expectation that he would be the head coach by the end of this year. He doesn't have much to work with considering the terrible talent on the roster, but I do expect some improvement.
Have fun, Royce. It's been a few years since I've been to Cloudy, but I'll bet there are plenty deer to be had.
Tim Floyd would be perfect for both OKC and the Thunder! Make it happen Clay, Tim is perfect for your "franchise" and the okies really won't know any better.
Anyone catch Berry's article today? He asked that Clay couldn't have picked a worse time to fire PJ, he said he needed to wait until during the week and Clay should have also leaked the news.
Berry is lazy, Clay is a heartless bastid, and the okies are rubes for giving away their tax money to Clay.
OLYMPIA -- Friends and foes of House Speaker Frank Chopp will tell you he's a kindhearted do-gooder who cares more about poor people than pro sports.
Chopp said House Democrats have a long wish list but have expressed little interest in the Seattle bid for a taxpayer-subsidized arena.
"Let's get real here," Chopp said. "As far as I know, NBA players don't have a lack of health insurance, they've all got health care, and the last time I looked at the Key Arena basketball court, it didn't have any potholes on it."
THE NBA CAN BUILD THEIR OWN ARENA OR SAY GOODBYE TO SEATTLE FOREVER!!!!!!
I think Tim Floyd would be a perfect Coach to take PJ's place. He could come in and not disturb the losing culture thats already in place.
"Nobody left during the third quarter, although you might think that if you're forced to watch on TV because you don't have a team anymore. The crowd started filing out with about 5 minutes left in the game."
I wasn't forced to watch it on TV, I have the pleasure of not living in OKC so you could say I had the honor of watching okies leave in the 3rd quarter.
Spin it however you okies want, for the last 45 minutes of real time during the game the place was about as full as an okie's head after taking the GED. If you are too stupid to realize that it happened during the the 3rd quarter then I can't help you. But do know this, OKC looks like a joke today and will again until the Thunder relocate.
No one was there at the end of the game to cheer for the Hornets. Poor things. I'm an old hag, but I'd still jump on CP3's jock if I could.
Signed,
Jill
"If half of these trolls had actually supported the Sonics, they might still be in Seattle."
I would think that by now you would have wised up enough to avoid making these comments. The argument that the Sonics left because somehow Seattle didn't care is going to look awfully stupid when the Thunder's attendance starts to dwindle. I know that you are guaranteed to have decent attendance every night this year because so many season tickets were sold. But people are already deciding that they would rather stay home than watch the Thunder. You cannot even sell out your own damn building in your franchise's inaugural season! You are proving what we already knew, which is that THERE IS NO CITY IN THE ENTIRE COUNTRY THAT WILL SUPPORT A CRAPPY TEAM.
PJ's gone. PJ was hired to lose in Seattle, not win in OKC. I'm surprised it took this long. They should have left him in Seattle with the rest of the losers.
Nobody left during the third quarter, although you might think that if you're forced to watch on TV because you don't have a team anymore. The crowd started filing out with about 5 minutes left in the game.
If half of these trolls had actually supported the Sonics, they might still be in Seattle.
EMPTY AT THE END!!!!!
Come on OKC, why did so many people leave in the 3rd quarter? This was a historic night. Your beloved Hornets were there and you couldn't even stay to watch them win. I heard Chris Paul cried in the locker room after the game because so many people left.
I think the Blunder are going to have the worst record in NBA history. 8-74 is my prediction.
Why didn't the OKC fans cheer the Blunder on to victory tonight like they used to do with the Hornets?
I should have said tolerance toward views or behaviors doesn't have to be extended as far as basic respect of the other person and their right to be who they are and believe what they do. I think it is ok to challenge viewpoints and even though I am not easily offended by a little mustard I generally think it is unnecessary and can easily be overdone.
It has gone both ways, inevitably.
Maybe someday OKC and Seattle can do the straightforward competitive thing on a pro basketball court instead.