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By Mark D, November 28, 2012 7:43 pm

First off, I’m a weird fellow. For some reason I save nearly all the pics and screengrabs I use on here. Today I happened to be looking for a pic, when I stumbled upon a screengrab from an old story about BD Gallof. The great thing about it was that it accidentally contained some tweets which I was too lazy to go digging around for. So let’s get to the article.

Following the announcement (and the leaks of the announcement) that the Islanders were moving to Brooklyn, BD Gallof took to his twitter to toot his own horn that he had called it all along. He tweeted people his old stories (which were only a few months old) and said that he had been calling Brooklyn all along. Let’s say though you happened to have a few screen shots of Gallof’s timeline following the failure of the August 1st Referendum which was the last ditch attempt to keep the team on the Island. What exactly would his timeline say then? Well let’s take a look:

Not sure which one here is better, the “Operate at cap floor and sell in 2015″ or that “The onus is no longer on Wang to keep the team local” (although you can debate whether or not Brooklyn is local, of course I consider it as such).

Nah, the winner in this one is “I think all talk of Queens, Brooklyn, Suffolk all fan manufactured…”. It has since come out that Wang had been talking with Ratner about the move to Brooklyn before the August referendum.

Let’s take a look at the next page of tweets:

The key one on this page of images is the retweet by Ty Anderson. In it Gallof specifically says that Brooklyn is out and that Wang will sell to the highest bidder. Good thing Gallof has those inside sources to give him the real deal.

If Gallof was dealing with any team other then the Islanders, he’d be laughed out. It’s amazing that someone who started with Eklund, another guy who gets it painfully wrong on a regular basis, is able to get away with all this. Gallof is at nearly at the same level as Incarcerated Bob, say the most common sense thing and if that fails, flail. When you can rack up nearly 5,000 tweets in a matter of months, it’s easy to bury when you’ve been wrong.

If your going to claim to have sources inside the organization and news that no one else can get, then occasionally get it right. The tweets I had saved were originally from another post I made in which Gallof claimed Tavares wouldn’t be signed long term due to the Isles losing the referendum. If your going to post your thoughts and opinions on the team, then go ahead and do it. But don’t make up sources, because you should get called on it.

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By Mark D, February 14, 2012 6:00 am

History is an interesting thing. When an event takes place, you can have a hundred people see it and be given a hundred different interpretations of what happened. Governments and rulers through history have also taken advantage of the short sightedness of people along with this to increase their own power.  Even in today’s internet age, it seems like people are still trying to use this tactic. People will stand up and yell into their bullhorn that they were right and have always been right. You know, until someone actually bothers to dig around and call them out on it.

Even though once you put something on the internet it never dies, some big mouths still like to think that if they tell you their predictions were right all along, you’ll believe them. But all it ends up is taking one person to start digging around and finding what was actually said. Unfortunately even if someone goes through the work of digging it up, it usually doesn’t get out there at all. But knowing is half the battle.

I’d also like to take a moment here to mention that I think I’m far from perfect. I’ve had many moments of stupidity when talking about different things. I’ll be more then willing to admit I’m an idiot to anyone. I write this blog mostly to entertain myself, and I write for LHH because I love the Islanders. I don’t see myself as a journalist or anything special. But if I can entertain you for a little bit, then it’s all good by me. So anyway I was reading my twitter feed today and saw this:

So I was curious and checked to see exactly what BD had written on August 1st. Unfortunately a twitter archive only goes back too far, especially when you have a ton of tweets. But I was able to find a website that archives most tweets, so I gave it a quick search and came up with these two pages of results from around Aug. 1st:

Highlights are my own, but I really don’t see any great world changing predictions. Wang has said time and time again that he is not selling the team, and despite not putting in an RFP for Queens the Isles are holding an exhibition at the Barclay Center before next season. The biggest thing is the belief that the Islanders are going to be a team at the very cap floor or as close as possible since then. Including this gem days later:

Since then of course, not only has Tavares gotten a long term deal but so has Frans Nielsen. It also appears that PA Parenteau will be in discussion for an extension and Snow has floated the possibility of Evgeni Nabokov returning to Long Island. I think Wang understands that it’s easier to get support behind a winner (unless your the Rangers) and is spending money now in order to make more money in the long term.

But the whole point of this is to never take anything at it’s face value. It’s always worth taking some time to do the research yourself.

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By Mark D, June 3, 2011 12:35 pm

1. He’s Single (my mistake, he was married in 2009)
2. Thus he’s not someone promoting family values while cheating on his wife (Well he’s not a family values guy)
3. She is over 18
4. She’s not an interim
5. It’s a She, not a He. Either way wouldn’t be a problem by me, unless he came out against gay marriage and was sending penis pics to a random guy
6. He wasn’t toetapping in a random bathroom
7. No prostitutes were involved
8. She’s (apparently) single
9. She’s also (apparently) a human
10. She didn’t raise his bastard son

Weiner is one of the best guys in the house. His rants are beautiful. Still love his Clink and Clank rant when the Republicans cut funding to NPR. I think about 95% of what he’s in trouble for is hardly a controversy. I’ll take it none of the people attacking him have ever been on chat roulette?

Edit: Thanks to @DaveZLINY  who informed me Weiner is married. Apologies.

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By Mark D, April 13, 2011 2:38 pm

I wonder if it’s just me. I think it works fine as a sort of Flickr, and if you want to share pictures with people. But if your actually use it to truly blog, I think your missing out. My opinion at least is if you want to write a blog, you write because your looking for a discussion. I never believe my opinion to be an end all be all. There are always quality points to be made for or against anything. One of the problems in America at least is everyone has an opinion and they don’t seem willing to listen to any arguments.

For example, I have only blocked comments which were flat out spam. Once you’ve been moderated here your comments should never be modded again unless you have a dynamic IP or use a different email address. On my forum I allow people to comment without registering. I think people should be allowed to say whatever they want without fear of repercussion. Someone shouldn’t be able to google your name or nickname and find every comment you’ve ever made anywhere. That’s one of the reasons I happen to go by multiple nicknames. It’s amazing how much people don’t realize what google can do almost a decade later.

The problem with Tumblr is you can’t directly reply to someone or have a discussion. You can share something with your followers and even give your own thoughts on it. But there’s a good chance someone that doesn’t follow you and reads the original post will never see your thoughts on it. For that matter, I’m sort of old school because I don’t really use an RSS Feed of all the blogs I like. While I do use Twitter to stay up to date on hockey news, for the most part I visit sites every few days or so and catch up with everything I missed. There’s 3 or so websites I have bookmarked that I check on a daily basis.

So if I had a Tumblr, I probably wouldn’t be following anyone, wouldn’t be discussing anything with anyone, and would just be talking into space. Which is exactly why I don’t use it especially as a blog. It’s always disappointing to find a wonderful blog I’d love to comment on and it’s a tumblr. This isn’t against everyone who uses it, for some people who don’t want to discuss something or just want to post something, go for it. Some people just use it as a large sized and graphic twitter. I’m probably getting old and grumpy, I originally didn’t see much use for twitter when I first got on it.

I just rather like this format for a real blog. I like discussing topics and hearing other people’s viewpoints. Plus I don’t take enough pictures to really take advantage of using a Tumblr, lol. Big walls of text are a thing of beauty to me sometimes.

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By Mark D, March 9, 2011 4:58 am

I’ve come to embrace and love Twitter, especially hash tags. I wasn’t using them for the longest time since I didn’t see the point. But now that I get it (and get more hits when I tag my twitter posts) it’s great. Of course it leaves me open for attacks from random people who don’t like when I bash their sports team (cough Pittsburgh cough) or don’t enjoy my politics. The thing I don’t get is I don’t go looking up stuff I don’t care about. Apparently though some people will look up hashes of things they hate just so they can argue with people, and of course I fall into the trap:

And to make things a little less confusing (ignore my message to LighthouseHockey) here’s my replies.

I probably did that in the laziest and most confusing way possible, but oh well.

To make matters even more fun, this guy joined in retweeting something.

Now that looks like someone who should be trusted with a gun… I’m surprised he has a working computer. It’s amazing how all these conservatives aren’t Republicans, they are Libertarians. Yet they all spout the same BS from Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck. Most of them don’t even have an understanding of what a Libertarian is. Ironically he makes my point in using the #tcot hashtag in his profile. It’s for Top Conservatives on Twitter. Visiting the website for it, of course the list includes such libertarian greats as Karl Rove, Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin, etc…

Remember, arguing on the internet means no one wins!