Sooner basketball coach Jeff Capel is back home to visit his family and while catching up on his email, he decided to touch base with all his Twitter followers (a few who are probably recruits) and chose to tweet this:
It’s such a beautiful day in North Carolina!!!!!!
A few hours later, Capel, bombarded with “why do you hate Oklahoma?” responses, made another tweet:
I am out of town. Can someone explain this what’s wrong with me talking about how great the weather is in NC today? I’m lost!!
Where to start? I guess it all started with Jenni Carlson being Jenni Carlson. In a disjointed, meandering article about Thunder forward Nick Collison, she discussed his presence on Twitter and somehow turned his weather commentary into a discussion of how he loves Seattle and hates Oklahoma.
Seriously. This is the tweet she based it on:
105 degrees in okc today???? sounds nice.
(Edit: It’s a good thing she didn’t read my commentary on that heat wave. Mine contained a lot of profanity.)
If it had remained there, I doubt we would be discussing this topic on TheLostOgle. I mean, we had assumed everyone not named Mike Gundy had learned that Carlson is not to be taken seriously. Of course, we forgot about another person who should not be taken seriously.
Regular Jim Traber has had a fume about Nick Collison just waiting for a spark. Carlson’s article, no matter how bad or incoherent, provided Jim with what he needed. After reading the article, His Belligerence spent the entire day demanding that Nick Collison stay in Seattle (where he still maintains a home) and forfeit the $6.75MM the Thunder are scheduled to pay him this year.
To be fair, Traber, who knows about nada when it comes to Twitter, was not just basing his diatribe against Nick on the weather tweets. Nope. He had also “heard some stuff” about Collison not wanting the team to move in the first place. But mainly it was this Collison response to the Carlson article:
DISCLAIMER(the following is in no way shape or form commentary on Oklahoma City)…….but….. its another beautiful day in Seattle
The thing is, Traber is guilty of the exact same thing. Berry Trammel, not typically the grating voice of reason, managed to bring this to Traber’s attention when he made the analogy that Jim tends to brag on Maryland crabcakes. Traber responded by this reality slap by hanging up on his regular co-host.
As for Collison, he was kept abreast of his name being drug through the mud by his horde of Twitter followers. Then, unlike most people involved in a fake controversy, he manned up and called into “The Total Dominance Hour” to confront Traber head on.
In the conversation, I learned:
- Jim Traber isn’t “some kind of love guy for Oklahoma.”
- Nick Collison sweats a lot.
- Nick Collison think 105 degrees is really hot.
- Oklahoma City has the best fans in the NBA according to the power forward.
- Traber will not be satisfied that Nick likes Oklahoma City until Collison tells all of his fans in Seattle to suck it in a public forum.
- Jenni Carlson wants to have Collison’s baby.
- Jim played in the big leagues for three years.
- Craig Humphries busted Traber’s balls for when he would point out how nice it was in Phoenix when he worked for the Diamondbacks.
- Collison will not admit that Seattle’s lack of support is why the team moved.
- Traber doesn’t want Collison around his daughters.
- Traber is “the most unbiased dude you’ve ever met,” according to Traber.
- The reason Traber cannot understand Collison’s loyalty to Seattle is that he has no loyalty whatsoever to Oklahoma State University (or apparently the Baltimore Orioles) as he proudly stated that he owns nothing orange.
So is that it? Is the controversy over? Probably not. His Belligerence is not going to let this die, especially since it is keeping his show busy during the Summer and it is getting him plenty of attention.
However, if this somehow convinces Nick Collison, easily the most interesting to follow basketball player on Twitter, to start censoring himself, I’m going to be super-pissed.
This has got to be Traber’s dumbest argument in a career of dumb arguments.
I, for one, agree with you. But I think that’s been made pretty obvious. I’m such a yardbird.
And I laughed out loud at this: “Traber is “the most unbiased dude you’ve ever met,” according to Traber.”
the extremist crazed right-winger OSU denying OU loving Normanite is unbiased. for real.
According to the Anagram Generator:
Jim Traber = Ram Jet Bra
Cardboard Jim Traber = Barred Major Catbird
Catbird > Yardbird
I was hoping for a youtube clip of a claymation celebrity deathmatch where Traber gets a baseball bat through the heart all Buffy the Vampire Slayer style.
Just when you think Traber cannot possibly do/say anything dumber, he manages to “top” himself yet again.
Kudos to Collison for going on the show and destroying Jim with common sense. Of course, Jim has no idea that he was actually BEING destroyed because well… Jim is a complete and total moron.
Everyone loves Seattle’s Summer more than Oklahoma’s Summer, even Oklahomans. Everyone I work with are native Oklahomans, and all of them have whined and complained about the heat. Some wish it was like Summer in Seattle, or Denver, or somewhere in California. Doesn’t mean we hate the state.
In short, Traber is the same douchebag he always has been, and to partially quote Jenni Carlson, I like Collison more now.
You folks need to realize that Traber is a loudmouth egomaniac who thrives on attention so he gets what he wants anytime you talk about him, good or bad. He’s a local sports version of Limbaugh only not as smart and not as fat (yet).
I saw Nick was upset about how a park’s bathroom was too dirty for his kid to use, I guess he hates the origin of the park now.
I blame Twitter. Used to, saying something like “It’s a nice day” or “Man it is too hot” would either be inner monologue or would be something that no one would react to if heard. Now it’s being reported on as “news” and being blabbed about on our “sports” radio channel.
NBC News reports that after analyzing hundreds of thousands of Twitter messages, 40% are pure drivel. Sure glad no one _I_ know is in that 40%! Dang it…I went over 140 characters….again!
You all are a bunch of moron idiot yardbirds that are jealous of traber. He’ got the #1 show for a reason- hilarious recaps of Seinfeld reruns(yeah, saw that episode, like 20 times), fascinating tales of his dog’s cherry eye, not receiving his morning paper, the guy stopping by to hook up new cable service, having Jules on to review last night’s reality show that you made a point not to watch- *!&^, why the hell is the show #! Gottabe the signal, or that the animal hired away competing talent from kref.
Think we all saw the depths of his emotional development when he whinned like a little baby, “I can’t believe you’re taking his side!” when Trammel and Humphreys rightly made fun of him.
The thing with idiots is that you can’t win an argument with them. I think Collison is smart enough to know that he was showing the fans that he likes it here. I don’t think he was trying to convince Traber of anything.
Looks like I may need to give Jenni Carlson some tutoring in punctuation. I’d tell her what I’ve told my last 4 wives, “Easy on the periods, honey.”
I encourage you to love your animals. — whatever animals you have, whether it’s a yardbird, a catbird, an Oriole. I encourage you to love that animal dearly and with all your heart.
Fret not Mr. Collison, Reg Jim has a new target. He’s now set his sites on Bill Simmons of ESPN. Bill apparently chimed in on the feud and has now ended up at the top of Reg Jim’s shit list. Today, Reg Jim was hunting out how to get Bill on the air to discuss why he’s so bitter about OKC, won’t mention the city or the Thunder and refers to them as the ‘zombie sonics’. We’ll see where it goes from here…but I’m not holding my breath.
Malotron: “… but I’m not holding my breath.”
Neither is Jim. Because he can’t for more than two seconds.
If Jim Traber makes me take Simmons’ side, I’m going to lose my shiz.
Sometimes I wonder to myself, “Why is there war?”
Or I’ll think, “Why can’t people get along better?”
Or I’ll ponder, “If we have all this technology, why are so many people suffering?”
Then I’ll hear Jim Traber say something….
And besides, the last guy we need defending OKC is Jim “The Bombastic Colon” Traber…
I USED to watch Myron and Curtis on their Sunday night show but if Traber is now a regular part of it, that’s over. Traber has become nothing but a bad cartoon character of himself. I’d guess the next Arbitron ratings will reflect the loss of listeners he’s experiencing, at least in the 35 and up demographic that are the ones that actually have money to spend at sponsor’s stores or businesses.
On of Traber’s more annoying traits is his double use of the word “is”.
Example: “What you yardbirds don’t get is is that the Steelers are the greatest team in the history of the world.”
Would someone please tell the real yardbird to only use one “is”! Maybe if he had actually graduated he’d know this is improper.
I like Traber, usually, but hated everything about his rant against Collison, and when Collison called in, he won every point. Then the Humper, the Thunder pregame guy, just listened and couldn’t get a word in.
Oh, and in defense of Rush Limbaugh, Traber is now much fatter.
I suspect Limbaugh also has a lower golf handicap now, as well.
Whatever, Clark. Imitation is the finest form of flattery, which is to say you guys flatter the hell out of Simmons.
You need to give it up to yourself for this one, big man.
I am completely baffled by Traber’s ignorance.
Oh, I’m a big fan of the Columnist-Who-Shall-Not-be-Named, but I think he’s dead wrong when it comes to the Thunder.
just an observation here, but do you think that bill simmons called traber a moron on his twitter page (the inception of The Ultimate vs. The Sports Guy) is because traber called simmons an idiot during the collison spot? i gotta give it up to the big fella, this time, i have no idea why he’s so fired up.
Listening to the Traber not made of cardboard is like a never ending train wreck. Could he possibly be getting more retarded over the years? It physically hurts my ears when gets into his (what I call) “castration voice”. And when Al joins him, it’s like listening to Al Qaeda saw through their balls with a fingernail file. It takes too damn long.
Yet I continue to listen. Why?