As Heat Prepare for Celtics Tonight, Hater Schadenfreude Blows Up The Internet

[Scurrilous]

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"The Miami Heat host the Boston Celtics tonight at the American Airlines Arena. But did you know Miami is 5-3 eight games into the 2010-11 NBA season? They are! And because they've turned into The Most Irrationally Reviled Team In The Universe, sports writers, commentators and fans alike have all recently stated that this Miami Heat team is doomed. DOOMED! No point in playing tonight, then!

It all began with the season-opener, when the Heat were embarrassed by the Eastern Conference Champion Boston Celtics on national television, much to the delight of everyone living outside the city of Miami. But the hate from that night came mostly from fans who tuned in to see the team's demise, and from Bill Simmons, who gets paid a gazillion dollars by ESPN so he can tell us all how Boston sports is so much better and substantially more significant than any other city's sports in his weekly 100,000 word columns.

(See here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=215x163723)

But then the Heat lost two of their last three to supposed inferior teams like New Orleans and Utah. And now the over inflated knee-jerk schadenfreude has spilled over into places like CBSSports.com and Foxsports.com where well-respected (if not insufferably contrarian) sports scribes like Gregg Doyel and Jason Whitlock have spewed their undaunted wisdom upon the unwashed masses -- eight fucking games into an 82-game season.

First, there was Whitlock's assertion that Chris Bosh is a fraud and, therefore, must be placed on the trading block. And today, there's Doyel, who seems to relish in the fact that, not only are the Heat no longer worth hating, they are gutless, take the easy way out, and just plain suck monkey ass:

The way I figure it, the Heat should be done with this pesky basketball season in mid-May, around the time the best four teams are playing in the conference finals. Because the Heat aren't one of the best four teams in basketball. Never thought I'd write that sentence. Not this season. But there it is.

Yes, there it is. The sentence he never thought he'd write. Right there. It has been written, so it must be true. Eight fucking games into an 82-game season."

http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2010/11/as_heat_prepare_for_celtics_to.php

[TZ]

1. Well when you go about saying how

You expect to break records even before you've played a PRE-season game, you are going to be hated on, for good reason. The Heat displays Yankee level arrogance without having won anything. No one should feel guilty about criticizing them for anything and everything. Oh and LeBron, you know what I think you should do? Stop playing the marty- it's not accomplishing anything. Sometimes people and teams deserve everybit of the shit they get.

[JonLP24]

2. They all went to Miami to help turn Florida blue

Bosh, Wade, and James are all Democrats. By moving there makes them eligible voters for the state--plus they will be able to help Dems much more than that by holding fundraisers and using their celebrity to raise lots of money.

[madinmaryland]

3. A fat lot of good that did, jon. Sounds like a fail to me.

[JonLP24]

4. Yeah, Ron Klein lost

despite Wade's and Bosh's fundraising efforts at Zo's house. At least they tried.

[Jack Rabbit]

5. End of first quarter: Celts 27, Heat 20

[HuckleB]

6. "Hater! HATER! HATER!!!!"

Whuhtuhver.

:eyes:

[Scurrilous]

7. 61 - 46 at half.

D. Wade not at his best.:P

[Jack Rabbit]

8. It could be worse

In the third quarter, Chicago is squeaking by Golden State, 91-56.

[Scurrilous]

9. LOL

Thanks. :thumbsup:

[Scurrilous]

10. End of 3rd: 88 - 78 Celtics.

:o

[bluedigger]

11. Boston 112 - Miami 107

You forgot Shaughnessy: http://www.boston.com/sports/basketball/celtics/articles/2010/11/11/cant_stand_the_heat/

Remember the preening and the fog machines and the hideous chest-thumping at American Airlines Arena after LeBron James told us he was taking his talents to South Beach? That was the night he said he was planning on bringing multiple championships to Miami — “not two, not three, not four, not five, not six, not seven . . .’’

:evilgrin:

[Scurrilous]

12. Paging Pat Riley...

...Pat Riley report to the locker room.

Seriously bad week for Micky Arison though.

His highly touted NBA team drops 3 out of 4 and one of his cruise ships catches fire and has to be towed to port. :D

[madinmaryland]

13. +2. So far this year!

:rofl:

[trumad]

14. Look---

First off---Whitlock is the biggest douchebag sports writer on the planet...fottball---baseball---etc...he's the Ann Coulter of sports writing.

Second: Hating is a hobby in this forum---I should know---I'm just as guilty of it.... it's what we are.

Although I find it hilarious that Cowboy fan is quacking away about the Heat.

[LisaM]

15. You can't get away from them even if you are trying to watch something else

IF I can get hold of the remote when I'm at the gym, I usually try to put on football. But, if it's ESPN, they are constantly breaking away for updates on the Heat. The FOOTBALL halftime show is about the Heat.

Yeah, 8 games into the season, and I'm already tired of hearing about them.