Detroit is a great city
"Malice at the Palace."
"Deeeetroit BasketBRAWL."
In case you've been living under a rock the past few days, there was a big fight at the Palace of Auburn Hills on Friday night, during the Pistons-Pacers game.
Here's what happened: a fan threw a cup at one of the Pacers players, and that player went berserk and went up into the stands to attack the fan, starting a major fight that left several Pacers players suspended and one Pistons player suspended for a foul that started the whole thing. There's more to the story, but I ain't no sportscaster. If you want the rest, go find it.
My problem is that everyone is now blaming Detroit and the Pistons fans for the whole thing, when the fight was really the fault of this one Pacers player, Ron Artest. If he hadn't gone up into the stands, this whole thing would have never happened. He should have just pointed the fan out to security, had the guy removed from the game, and leave it at that. Instead, he attacked the guy and started some serious shit.
On ESPN, the anchors, in the most unprofessional piece of reporting I've ever seen, immediately jumped to the conclusion that the whole thing was the Detroit fans' fault. One anchor even said "Pistons fans are punks." That's bullshit, people. Fresh and smelly.
People are so ready to blame Detroit for this whole thing, simply because it happened at the arena for a Detroit team (The Palace is really in Auburn Hills, Michigan, quite far from Detroit). This could have happened anywhere, and I think that if it had happened at another arena, no one would say a word. But people are so ready to bash Detroit at the first opportunity, that it was easy for them to do so. Do you know that I heard one person say "This could only happen in Detroit."? That's probably the dumbest comment I heard in this whole situation. This could have happened anywhere in the world. It was mere coincidence that it happened here.
Frankly, this crap from ESPN and all the other "professional" newscasters attacking Detroit, like the comments made by Jimmy Kimmell during last year's playoffs, just shows that people really don't know anything about Detroit. It's a wonderful city. Certainly it's not the cleanest or safest city in the world, but it is not the hellhole that people want it to be. Certain historical events have colored people's opinion of the city. It's annoying as hell, and I'm sick of it.
People are also trying to make this a race issue about the city of Detroit, and to that I say this: the fan who threw the cup at Artest was a white guy from the predominately white Detroit suburb of Bloomfield Hills. This is not a race thing, nor is it a Detroit thing. It's a Ron Artest thing.
I'm not saying that the fans are blameless in this manner. But ESPN and some of these other news channells would have you believe that it's all their fault. Artest should know that YOU DO NOT GO INTO THE STANDS FOR ANY REASON. He's been suspended for a full year, and he got what he deserved.
This "Basketbrawl" has brought out the worst in a lot of people, and let's hope that it doesn't happen again for a long time.
"Deeeetroit BasketBRAWL."
In case you've been living under a rock the past few days, there was a big fight at the Palace of Auburn Hills on Friday night, during the Pistons-Pacers game.
Here's what happened: a fan threw a cup at one of the Pacers players, and that player went berserk and went up into the stands to attack the fan, starting a major fight that left several Pacers players suspended and one Pistons player suspended for a foul that started the whole thing. There's more to the story, but I ain't no sportscaster. If you want the rest, go find it.
My problem is that everyone is now blaming Detroit and the Pistons fans for the whole thing, when the fight was really the fault of this one Pacers player, Ron Artest. If he hadn't gone up into the stands, this whole thing would have never happened. He should have just pointed the fan out to security, had the guy removed from the game, and leave it at that. Instead, he attacked the guy and started some serious shit.
On ESPN, the anchors, in the most unprofessional piece of reporting I've ever seen, immediately jumped to the conclusion that the whole thing was the Detroit fans' fault. One anchor even said "Pistons fans are punks." That's bullshit, people. Fresh and smelly.
People are so ready to blame Detroit for this whole thing, simply because it happened at the arena for a Detroit team (The Palace is really in Auburn Hills, Michigan, quite far from Detroit). This could have happened anywhere, and I think that if it had happened at another arena, no one would say a word. But people are so ready to bash Detroit at the first opportunity, that it was easy for them to do so. Do you know that I heard one person say "This could only happen in Detroit."? That's probably the dumbest comment I heard in this whole situation. This could have happened anywhere in the world. It was mere coincidence that it happened here.
Frankly, this crap from ESPN and all the other "professional" newscasters attacking Detroit, like the comments made by Jimmy Kimmell during last year's playoffs, just shows that people really don't know anything about Detroit. It's a wonderful city. Certainly it's not the cleanest or safest city in the world, but it is not the hellhole that people want it to be. Certain historical events have colored people's opinion of the city. It's annoying as hell, and I'm sick of it.
People are also trying to make this a race issue about the city of Detroit, and to that I say this: the fan who threw the cup at Artest was a white guy from the predominately white Detroit suburb of Bloomfield Hills. This is not a race thing, nor is it a Detroit thing. It's a Ron Artest thing.
I'm not saying that the fans are blameless in this manner. But ESPN and some of these other news channells would have you believe that it's all their fault. Artest should know that YOU DO NOT GO INTO THE STANDS FOR ANY REASON. He's been suspended for a full year, and he got what he deserved.
This "Basketbrawl" has brought out the worst in a lot of people, and let's hope that it doesn't happen again for a long time.
