Quote Originally Posted by tcdog70 View Post
you had to dig deep for Joe--funny shit-to make a ridiculous point. You never did respond to how Selfish Mfer did yesterday--too busy looking up Joe Morrow, and you never said if you were ok with call our best player a Mfer.
Joe Morrow was mentioned on the first page of this thread. And I never saw you defending Morrow either- so my "ridiculous point" about the double standard among MSU fan remains.

It's ridiculous that some of our fans are sensitive about players that they aren't even related to. Some of it is about being "internet cool". And I've had Sports Illustrated call a family member an "air head" before and no one in my immediate family got in as much of a tizzy about it as you about LA. (Is that OK to call him LA or is that offensive because he might not like California?) And that's just one example of something my family member was called so I know what it's like on the family side of it.

The reality of things right or wrong- "wrong" in this case- is that the further you go along in baseball the more you are going to be exposed to fans "who care". And when people care and things aren't going well they get frustrated because they don't have control over what happens on the field and that leads to anger- which leads to them saying things about the players that they probably shouldn't say. It is what it is- but it gets worse as they go further in their baseball career. Ask anyone that has played in New York City. Or any MLB town. So, if these players at MSU intend to go beyond MSU they need to learn how to ignore this kind of stuff now- or they can transfer to Arkansas State where they won't get called names. But they also won't get to play in front of people or in a league like the SEC or have the facilities that they are given here.

And I very rarely if ever call our players nickname other than something like LA- feel free to search my posts- but I also don't think I'm better than anyone else who does to the point where I feel like I need to take some moral stand against those that do. In fact if you ignore it the name calling will probably stop.