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"For Sweden" (rallybeetle) 01/16/2015 at 12:31 • Filed to: NASCAR, Jimmie Johnson, ESPN, Keith Olberman, Worst Person In The World

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With-a-G is back to not having anything written after his username > For Sweden 01/16/2015 at 12:38

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NASCAR, and Jimmie in particular, may have acquired a new fan here.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > For Sweden 01/16/2015 at 12:40

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Keith Olbermann: the man who sucked so much at ESPN that he had to move to *politics* and get fired from that.

For Sweden > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 01/16/2015 at 12:41

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ESPN's Bristol Campus is heated entirely by Keith's Hot Takes. As a result, the campus is now carbon-neutral.

MonkeePuzzle > For Sweden 01/16/2015 at 12:43

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that's... you know kinda funny and stuffs

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oddly enough, the trike race... was a right turn circle

For Sweden > MonkeePuzzle 01/16/2015 at 12:45

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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > MonkeePuzzle 01/16/2015 at 12:46

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What kind of half-wit puts the word "fans" in quotes? When not citing it as a word, I mean.

MonkeePuzzle > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 01/16/2015 at 12:47

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the kinda half wit that wore that purple checked jacket

Slave2anMG > For Sweden 01/16/2015 at 12:54

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'smatter Jimmy? Don't like criticism?

NASCAR lost me as a fan years ago when they started pulling races from the traditional tracks in favor of the 1.5 mile triovals. North Wilkesboro, Rockingham, one from Darlington...they lost me (as if they care). The way it now looks like wrasslin' on rubber has kept me away too...

/sour grapes

For Sweden > Slave2anMG 01/16/2015 at 12:55

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k.

Justin Hughes > For Sweden 01/16/2015 at 13:25

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Pwn3d!!!1!

ly2v8-Brian > For Sweden 01/16/2015 at 13:30

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Jimmie says what we're thinking. Olbermann is like the Piers Morgan of sports broadcasting, no one likes him.

ACESandEIGHTS > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 01/16/2015 at 13:51

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If I were using the term sarcastically, e.g., Insane Clown Posse "fans" have engaged in evermore antisocial activities, culminating with the FBI classifying them as a criminal gang.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ACESandEIGHTS 01/16/2015 at 14:14

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That's just the thing, though. I'm not sure one *can* refer to "fans" in a sarcastic manner, unless (per sarcasm) alleging they are something else, but that would have to be implied in some manner at the least. In your example, "fans" stands in, perhaps for "hooligans" or even "weird sectarian cultists with distinct religious beliefs for some reason", but it's still an unnatural construction, even when it's clear that you imply "these are more than fans". I.e. ""fans" is not a good word to describe these people"

He'd presumably mean "trolls", but it's not a phrasing that works well. The sarcasm only really hits when the substituted word vs. the implied word constitutes some irony, like saying "fans" of such-and-such a team have wrecked its stadium or that "fans" of a show are screaming for its cancellation after such and such. The implication being that a "fan" wouldn't work against their interest in a direct way. To quote-mark "fans", a word that's abbreviated from "fanatics" as some kind of feebly-imputed derision toward people being fanatical in support of something with no irony or evident sarcastic target is just painfully weak.

Stupid, self-important, poorly reasoned, and obnoxious. He cannot into sarcasm and thinks he can . He's mistaking the conventions and noises of sarcasm and humor for the thing itself. Pitiful.

StingrayJake > For Sweden 01/16/2015 at 14:35

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I still can't believe ESPN took him back. I think he's an above average baseball guy that knows a lot about the game and the history, but get outside of that and the guy just spews BS.

For Sweden > StingrayJake 01/16/2015 at 14:36

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They took him back for his hot takes. He's a one-man First Take .

StingrayJake > For Sweden 01/16/2015 at 14:39

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He's like Bayless! It all makes sense now.

ACESandEIGHTS > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 01/16/2015 at 14:43

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Read the GQ interview with him sometime. He's quite, quite full of himself. His productions are basically unwatchable by humans.