Ballard 2024 end of year presser

[Colts And Orioles]

Originally Posted by ChoppedWood

Ummmm, fairly close. I think Bradley was retained for a couple years longer than he should have been. Sorry, not sure it's my fault the Colts have been a disgrace of an organization with some absolutely fucking shitty management and some atrocious players for the better part of a decade. A lot of the people you name, really suck. Not all of them, but many of them, especially Chris Ballard. Fuck Chris Ballard!

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Nobody said that the Colts' failures was your fault ..... my observation was due to the fact that you seem to not be able to make a post without going berserk with endless exclamation points and profanity.

The Colts' mediocrity seems to eat at your soul with a vengeance, but it's your life if you're OK being that way.

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[ChoppedWood]

Originally Posted by Colts And Orioles

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Nobody said that the Colts' failures was your fault ..... my observation was due to the fact that you seem to not be able to make a post without going berserk with endless exclamation points and profanity.

The Colts' mediocrity seems to eat at your soul with a vengeance, but it's your life if you're OK being that way.

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I do love this team with incredible intensity. It does hurt my soul to see this extended period of suck, and it torments me that for some reason it is sort of just accepted. That's what gets my fury so high. I just can't understand why it is so okay to be run by what is clearly a fraud who doesn't have a clue what he is doing.

[Racehorse]

Originally Posted by ChoppedWood

I do love this team with incredible intensity. It does hurt my soul to see this extended period of suck, and it torments me that for some reason it is sort of just accepted. That's what gets my fury so high. I just can't understand why it is so okay to be run by what is clearly a fraud who doesn't have a clue what he is doing.

Why get so worked up over a game? I think that’s Coats and Oreo’s point. Why get so upset at something as trivial as this but be chill about other more important things?

[Colts And Orioles]

Originally Posted by Racehorse

Why get so worked up over a game ??? I think that’s Coats and Oreo’s point. Why get so upset at something as trivial as this, but be chill about other more important things ???

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Actually, I do understand getting worked up over the Colts ...... if they are in a close game, I will sometimes write a tongue-in-cheek post that if Matt Gay misses a kick I'm going to blow up his fucking car in the parking lot.

And there are plenty of posters who get pissed off and say so when the Colts shit the bed and lose a crucial game to a team like the Giants with their playoff hopes on the line ...... and I understand that, too.


But what I perceive as peculiarly excessive from Chopped Wood is that in about 80 to 90 percent of his posts, he lashes out vehemently at somebody in the front office, some coach on the team's sidelines, and/or one of the team's players ...... it's almost as though he does so as if he's remembering to sign his name at the end of a written letter ...... and if he really is as upset as he is saying that he is (and as often as he expresses it), it makes me wonder if his fandom of the Colts is even worth it. The whole point of being a fan is to get some type of enjoyment out of it, even if your team has a record of 2-15 and you are showing others that you are a loyal fan through thick and thin by wearing the team colors (which is what I do, regardless of how good or bad my teams are ...... I wore the Baltimore Orioles' colors every day when they were losing more than 100 games 3 times in 4 seasons between 2018 and 2021, just as much as when they had 5 straight winning seasons between 2012 and 2016.) If he is OK with being that way like he says he is, that's his business, but I almost feel a little bad for him if he really is that upset over it all.

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[albany ed]

Fans have a lot of different ways of dealing with their disappointment. Some go ballistic, others make jokes, some say "we'll get'em next week" and others get specific about who should be blamed. Bottom line, nobody here wants to see their team lose and when they do, this is a good place to vent. We're fans, but I'm pretty sure none of us here knows more about what it takes to turn this team around. We may think we do, we may proffer our opinions, but you know what they say about opinions ... "everybody's got one"

I do like reading everyone's posts. I don't agree with all of them, but I still like reading them. The more passionate ones help me get through some of the Colts shittiest performances, and in a season like this one, they're more enjoyable than the shit show game I just suffered through. So keep it up, it's therapeutic for me.

[rm1369]

Originally Posted by albany ed

Fans have a lot of different ways of dealing with their disappointment. Some go ballistic, others make jokes, some say "we'll get'em next week" and others get specific about who should be blamed. Bottom line, nobody here wants to see their team lose and when they do, this is a good place to vent. We're fans, but I'm pretty sure none of us here knows more about what it takes to turn this team around. We may think we do, we may proffer our opinions, but you know what they say about opinions ... "everybody's got one"

I do like reading everyone's posts. I don't agree with all of them, but I still like reading them. The more passionate ones help me get through some of the Colts shittiest performances, and in a season like this one, they're more enjoyable than the shit show game I just suffered through. So keep it up, it's therapeutic for me.

Yeah the danger is when fans start becoming apathetic. I’m just now starting to follow the Pacers again after years of not caring. I was a die hard fan, but once I felt the team was content being mediocre as long as they were ok enough to have seats filled, I quit. I can deal with losing and rebuilding. Honestly sometimes those are the most exciting times - if you think something is being built. But if the team doesn’t seem to care, why should I? I’m in that danger zone with the Colts. I would have not renewed my season tickets if I had the option now. I still get frustrated, but it’s becoming more a resignation now than anything else.

[ChoppedWood]

Originally Posted by rm1369

Yeah the danger is when fans start becoming apathetic. I’m just now starting to follow the Pacers again after years of not caring. I was a die hard fan, but once I felt the team was content being mediocre as long as they were ok enough to have seats filled, I quit. I can deal with losing and rebuilding. Honestly sometimes those are the most exciting times - if you think something is being built. But if the team doesn’t seem to care, why should I? I’m in that danger zone with the Colts. I would have not renewed my season tickets if I had the option now. I still get frustrated, but it’s becoming more a resignation now than anything else.

Good shit, and I am fighting the same battle. Maybe that's the best way to put it into context- Ballard makes me WANT to be apathetic but my conflict and as such my rage comes by way of my love for the team causing me to lash out instead.

In terms of my off board life and my board life, I do view the Colts and other sports of course, as a source of entertainment and release; so I am not irrational. Loses happen, they suck, it hurts, but I still have to go about life and do the things I have to do each and every day both good and bad. Life's so full of crazy shit to be absorbed, addressed, resolved, much of it you have to just deal with. So then comes the few hours of disengagement from all the world's requirements by taking in what should be enjoyable and instead it's 3 hours of pure shit, well then I start losing my shit!

Look Ballard in particular, to me, is soooooo fucking far away from my perceived standards for this organization it's unreal. I'm old, I've been through the atrocious and the glorious Colts experience. At this point, this feels like the absolute worst. Seems a bit ludicrous to say about a team that is at least competing for the playoffs, but that's how it feels. It feels like the TEAM is apathetic- willing to accept insufficient effort and outcomes with a meh and then off to island paradise attitude---- and that fucking sucks!

I have, right or wrong, laid my blame for that apathy squarely on the shoulders of Ballard who I legitimately believe is a con-man. I don't think he is good at this shit at all and I think he is willing to stab his own mother in the back for self preservation, and I fucking HATE people that are like that.

I am tired of watching the same movie over and over again. As RM points out, shit I can live with 2-14 but you KNOW the team is making changes for the better. Fucking give me that, give me some really bad football players that go out and just die on the field trying. In the Giants game thread I might have reached my most acerbic state when Locke ran for the TD and Nick Cross literally stood there and watched him score without even making a step toward him. To me, that is this version of the Colts in a single play and that shit is why I RAGE at this version of the team. That is not entertainment to me and I can invest my time and $$$ elsewhere in the entertainment world but I sure as hell don't want to! Chris Ballard is pushing me more and more in that direction.

TRIPLE FUCK CHRIS BALLARD!