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The Dater Response

by IwoCPO on 03/04/08 at 08:06 PM ET
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As many of you have noticed, Sobbing Dive Apologist Adrian Dater jumped feet first into the A2Y sand box today, defending himself following a kindhearted ode to his brilliance we posted earlier today.

A quick recap. 

Yesterday, Ms. Dater posted these gems to his Denver Post blog.

“I honestly think the Avs would beat Detroit in the first round of a playoff series right now, too,”

and…

“I remember the last time the Wings had the kind of smug attitude after beating the Avs the way they did last month: It was after Game 2 of the 1999 Western semi-finals, after Detroit shut the Avs out at home to take a 2-0 lead back to the Joe.”

and…

“Datsyuk is a playoff bust year after year…”

Now, I considered letting him slide.  Really. I did.  Some of you may think I find it enjoyable to pick apart the idiocy of the Dive fanbase and the illiteracy of their writers.  It may seem that way. But I take no enjoyment from it.

Liar. I’m a lying liar.  Of course I do, even when it’s stunningly easy prey like Dater.  But blast we did, and so did you.  To the tune of about sixty comments all reminding Adrienne that just a little research on his part would have spared him some humiliation.  The comments were tapering off around 1600 when Hemingway himself bebopped in to drop this bomb of brilliance.

Gee, trying to make debate points by rearranging the spelling of my name, to make it a female one: yes, you win the debate right then and there, Kookla. I give up.
At least I have one less site to click on in search for any intelligent comment.
Posted by Adrian Dater on 03/04 at 04:29 PM

Yes I referred to Ms. Dater as “Adrienne.” It was juvenile, and uncalled for and, well, standard for A2Y.  I make no apologies. In fact, I’m damned proud of my Adriennic invention.  I have a feeling, and I may be out on a limb here, that you’ll see it again.

The Dater follies continued for an hour or so, with the sobbing apologist throwing a few more soft jabs that were returned in kind by the 19 of you.  But then, around 1800 Ms. Dater took it up a notch and put a shot across the A2Y bow, back at his place on the Denver Post site. A cross-continental battle royal if you will.

Anywho, a couple of the Wings blogs are all up in a lather over a few comments of mine in a posting yesterday, where I had the unmitigated gall to say Datsyuk will be a playoff bust again this year like he always is. One blog used the always sophisticated line of attack of using a different spelling for my name. I’d say “Your mother” in response, but even that is probably too intelligent for said blog.

Anywho, Adrienne—and thanks for the ammo, yes…if anything, we’ve proven our stupidity for throwing your lack of research back in your face.  And feel free to mention my mother.  She writes better than you too. Must run in the family.

I think the defensiveness in Detroit is coming because they’re starting to realize that they’re the same team as previous recent years: very pretty in the regular season, but not big, physical or tough enough for a long playoff run.

Again, the point we made earlier that Dater refused to acknowledge or reply to, was…what is your definition of a “long playoff run”?  A western conference final berth seems, to me, to qualify as such.  I guess, since it’s been six years since the Dive even sniffed a conference final, it’s hard to grasp what an accomplishment that is.

It’s just that, overall, Detroit looks beatable again for the playoffs. Anaheim would push them around again and beat them. I think San Jose would beat them now, with Campbell. And I’ll keep with my prediction: if the Avs get Smyth back and nobody else is hurt, the Avs beat the Wings in the first round.

Ah, yes.  The Wings are beatable all of a sudden.  The same refrain from another columnist in yet another town that hates the Wings.  And let me state, again and for the record, keep those towns piling up.  Detroit is home to the best hockey organ-I-zation in the world and the bitterness and jealousy from other cities is glorious to behold. 

But the fact remains that the Daters and the Gordons and the Stricklands and the Burnsides and whoever else is piling on the Wings while they’re hurt were nowhere to be found when the team was healthy.  Easy prey for lazy writers.

The comments are starting to accumulate at Dater’s blog. I see Paul and Matt have chimed in with eloquent, serious-minded rebuttals to Dater’s drivel.  Those made me proud.  But nothing, and I mean nothing, in two years of blogging has warmed my heart like this one that has Team Dub written all over it:

I love you.

I honestly love you.

Comment by Darren Garcia — March 4, 2008 @ 5:23 pm

Man…absolutely priceless.

Now Adrienne.  I’m not quite done.  We appreciate the mention in your high-brow Aspen blog today and don’t even mind the slight of not linking to us.  Your readers know who we are and the Dive bloggers are probably laughing at you right along with us.  I’m going to consider the possibility that you’ve never visited A2Y before.  In that case, a quick refresher for you just to prove that we’ve been following your garbage for a couple years now.

Here’s one from last October that my family enjoyed.

———-
Sobbing Dive apologist Adrian Dater has a blog.  Nine days ago he used that blog to beg the 7 Dive fans to please, please, please try and not be so frigging stupid.

A lot of Avalanche fans lost their hats for nothing the other night.
  When Ryan Smyth scored in the shootout, hats rained onto the Pepsi Center ice, but they shouldn’t have.

  C’mon now, Avs fans - you knew that goals scored in a shootout don’t count toward a player’s official overall goal stats. Right?

The title of that post?  ”C’mon Avs Fans…You’re Better Than That.”

Ummm…Adrian? No they’re not. 
———-

There are about twenty others. I’ll point you to them if you’d like Adrienne, but it’s kinda redundant. I’m like that sometimes.  But, repetitive or not…a little note for you as you and your Dive welcome back Floppa tonite.

You’re out of your league.  Your team is, and…Adrienne? You definitely are.

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