By Michael A. De Leon | May 3, 2006 | Print Print

“Thanks” to Mr. Irrelevant’s Sports Blog, TrueHoop and Sports Orbis for linking to the ProjectSpurs blog. Normally, I’d be flattered by being linked by other blogs, but when we are linked with the words: “Don’t look now, but Spurs fans are jumping ship”. and “Last year…two Spurs bloggers completely bailed on their team after a few losses. It’s happening again” it’s more like no thanks.

When I launched the Four Quarters Blog, I felt like it would be a good place for us to let loose in our writing and have some fun, as well as post blogs pregame, during and post game. We have a place to write news and feature articles right on the ProjectSpurs.com website.

The post the blogs above are linking and referring to is one written by Jeff Garcia, a dedicated ProjectSpurs writer and Spurscast co-host. It is titled “Post Game Blog — Game 4 — Warning, explicit rant coming at you……” which he wrote directly after a heart-wrenching loss to the Kings.

Let’s get this straight. Jeff and I are die-hard San Antonio Spurs fans. And as a true fan of your team, you are overjoyed with the wins and feel the losses deeply, espicially when you think or now that team is capable of playing much better. I’ve actually made the point several times on the Spurscast that we may be critical of the Spurs, but it’s just becasue we are huge fans and know they can play better.

So after a game four in which, let’s be honest, the Spurs played terrible, Jeff let it all out and posted his explicit rant. Does it make him less of a Spurs fan? No way. In fact after that game four, he went on eBay and spent good money on a few items with the name of the team that he is supposedly bailing on. Hell, I even went out and bought two Spurs t-shirts and a Tony Parker All-Star jersery. Not that buying Spurs merchandise makes us bigger fans, but even after that tough loss, we are still supporting them.

Plus, if we all we did was write positive “I love the Spurs,” “Manu is the Latin Jesus” homerific posts about the Spurs, you think anyone would want to read this blog in the first place without thinking we are 12-year old girls.

Thanks for the links guys, but you are dead wrong if you think we are giving up on our team. We’ve been through too much (i.e., Stephon Marbury bank-in three, 0.4) to bail out because our team lost a few games to the Kings.

-Michael A. De Leon
Die-Hard Spurs Fan

Comments

8 Comments so far

Chris on May 3, 2006 5:37 am
i agree, you are totally right mike and jeff, we the real spurs fans dont like it when we loose. JEFF MANU’S BACK HE HAD 27 POINTS AND 9 REBOUNDS 4 ASSISTS AND 2 BLOCKS. IS HE STILL AND IDIOT. lol
Henry Abbott on May 3, 2006 1:10 pm
I never doubted your Spur love. But you realize you have the most dominant team of the last few years, and for some reason on Spurs blogs when the team has a bad game, there is precious little “we’ll get ‘em next time.” It’s all drama and tragedy that would make a lot more sense if you were supporting some mediocre team that routinely let you down. Through all those playoff series against top teams haven’t you developed any genuine confidence yet? Don’t you trust that the Spurs know a thing or two about winning? Must you win every game to feel good about your team deep down inside?

Lucky for you, Tim Duncan, Gregg Popovich, Tony Parker, Manu Ginobili etc. understand you can’t win them all, and approach the game with a little perspective.
Jamie Mottram on May 3, 2006 7:07 pm
Hey Michael (and Jeff, who wrote the original post I linked to),

No harm meant. As a fan of the Playoffs with no rooting interest in the Kings-Spurs series of any kind, I simply found it entertaining that you guys had posted that your team’s players should take last season’s championship trophy and shove it up their collective ass. That’s all.

Anyway, I like this post too, and I hear what you’re saying. We’re all fans. Passionate fans. And we write from the heart and sometimes it ain’t pretty.

That all said, go up to Sactown and finish ‘em off!
Brian on May 3, 2006 8:59 pm
SportsOrbis sucks!
Chris on May 4, 2006 3:28 pm
Mike and Jeff have the total right to get mad at the spurs when they are loosing and not playing well. they have good reasons to be mad because the spurs played like crap in game 4 and it was heart breaking for them as well as for me. SO STOP INSULTING MIKE AND JEFF BECAUSE, UNLIKE YOU PEOPLE THEY ARE DIE HARD FANS OF THEIR TEAM AND TRY TO SUPPORT THEM AS MUCH AS THEY CAN EVEN IF THAT MEANS TO CRITISIZE THEM WHEN SOMETHING IS WRONG. THEY ARE THE REAL FANS YOU ARE JUST IDIOTS
Michael A. De Leon on May 5, 2006 6:24 am
Spoken like a true fan. BTW, thanks Henry and Jamie for commenting. I think highly of both of your writing/blogging and love what you do at yaysports brian. Chris is another big time Spurs fan living in Belgium and he’s been a huge supporter and fan of what we’ve been doing at ProjectSpurs, so forgive him for the idiot remark. LOL
Jeff on May 5, 2006 1:50 pm
Thanks Chris for stepping up to defend us.
maiguerge on December 17, 2007 1:12 am
You cannot always win; there will be times when you will lose and you better prepare for those moments.