ASG and Sund caught stealing the plaque from the Statue of Liberty!

[drzachary]

You know the one, engraved by the Statue in New York's harbor:

"Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

^{(Emma Lazarus - "The New Colossus")}

Just about sums up our approach to free agency, doesn't it? This is the first thing I think of when I consider the Jason Collins signing.

[Brokentree]

You know the one, engraved by the Statue in New York's harbor:

"Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

^{(Emma Lazarus - "The New Colossus")}

Just about sums up our approach to free agency, doesn't it? This is the first thing I think of when I consider the Jason Collins signing.

You are comparing the people that built this country to Jason Collins? People that risked everything and came here in hope of bettering their lives and the lives of their children... to Jason Collins? If the Hawks approach to free agency was anything like this then we'd have the hardest working most driven bench in all of the NBA.

[NJHAWK]

You are comparing the people that built this country to Jason Collins? People that risked everything and came here in hope of bettering their lives and the lives of their children... to Jason Collins? If the Hawks approach to free agency was anything like this then we'd have the hardest working most driven bench in all of the NBA.

I think you took it a wee bit too serious..... :shock11:

[Sothron]

You are comparing the people that built this country to Jason Collins? People that risked everything and came here in hope of bettering their lives and the lives of their children... to Jason Collins? If the Hawks approach to free agency was anything like this then we'd have the hardest working most driven bench in all of the NBA.

Humor is not for everyone.

[niremetal]

I think you took it a wee bit too serious..... :shock11:

And I think that using the immigrants who built this country as the punchline of a joke is not funny.

Edited July 22, 2010 by niremetal

[drzachary]

And I think that using the immigrants who built this country as the punchline of a joke is not funny.

The phrase that comes to mind when I think of Jason Collins is "wretched refuse." It's a very, very simple joke. Don't make it something that it's not! :)

[Sothron]

And I think that using the immigrants who built this country as the punchline of a joke is not funny.

:computer8:

[Chinky_eyed_hawk]

I hear Carl Thomas "Emotional" playing in the background of this thread

[Brokentree]

I didn't mean to come across as being exceedingly serious but be you were out on context and therefore not even close to funny. I can see where you were coming from though.

[Buzzard]

I think it is funny as hell and fits our whole bench 8 through infinity to a "T".

Edited July 23, 2010 by Buzzard