otm
― lag∞n, Friday, 14 June 2019 22:59 (four years ago) link
wow didnt know lagoon was at the game last night
― big city slam (Spottie), Friday, 14 June 2019 23:00 (four years ago) link
wanting dray to get ejected because he has a bad personality is people power actually
― lag∞n, Friday, 14 June 2019 23:04 (four years ago) link
This sums up how much of a nightmare the parade (which ended with a shooting) was today:
http://torontosun.com/sports/basketball/nba/toronto-raptors/simmons-parade-was-a-disaster-on-many-levels
We brought the whole school down to the gym to watch it this morning, but because nothing was happening forever, the kids understandably got noisier and noisier, until everyone headed back to their own classes to watch. By mid-afternoon, the players were still making their way to Nathan Phillips Square.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 18 June 2019 02:40 (four years ago) link
dude - the sun?! we're better than this.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 06:16 (four years ago) link
what a cluster fuck tho, seriously. on the bright side i got to leave work early because so much of downtown was fucked.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 06:17 (four years ago) link
The Sun's terrible except for sports, where they tend to cover stuff much more in depth (for years, pre-internet, they were the only place you could get detailed baseball stats). I thought Simmons captured yesterday pretty well.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 18 June 2019 14:09 (four years ago) link
why is he so happy Brett Hull wasn't there? Huh?
― maffew12, Tuesday, 18 June 2019 14:29 (four years ago) link
There were 2 million people in the streets. The shooting was despicable but it was an isolated incident. Yes, it was hot and slow, but that all was forgotten once the buses crawled past and the crowd exploded in cheers. The feeling of community was intense; everyone decked in Raptors merch like it was the uniform in a communist country. It was thrilling; many workplaces (like mine) were empty most of the day, everyone watching from somewhere, and the good vibes lasted all afternoon. And fuck the Sun. They're probably bitter their boy was booed by 65K at Nathan Phillips and snubbed by Masai on the parade route.
― dinnerboat, Tuesday, 18 June 2019 15:05 (four years ago) link
nice
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 18 June 2019 15:43 (four years ago) link
I wouldn't pin that on the Sun (again, I know the many problems with the Sun). I'm sure everyone experienced yesterday differently, and if you were there, I'm glad you had a great time. Watching on TV, though, they seemed quite unprepared for the crowd, the whole thing seemed interminable, and the shooting was the final negative, not the first.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 18 June 2019 18:03 (four years ago) link