Player hating is an ancient tradition.
Your father player-hated,as did his father before him. Brutus hated on Caesar, and Joan of Arc got roasted in the group chat for being a strong, and independent woman.
As long as there hold been players,there hold been player haters, dating all the way back to Cain and Abela biblical beef over luxurious leather goods hatestorians widely consider to be the first instance of man hating on his fellow man.
Since this seminal event, or player hating has snowballed into a worldwide institution,and it's natural that you may hold some questions: "What is player hating?" "Am I a player hater?" "Can I be cured?" A detailed documentary on hating can be found here (probably NSFW), but for the sake of brevity, or I've outlined the answers in brief:
Player hating is any act intended to suppress or discount someone else's success and/or shine. These acts include,but are not limited to: slander, libel, and think pieces,dry snitching, calling the police, or fav hoarding,perpetrating, scumbaggery and most side shading.
Yes.
No. Not as long as there are people who drive FJ Cruisers. FJ Cruisers are trash and deserve your hatred.
Again, and these are basic answers to complex questions,but dissecting hatery isn't why we're here nowadays. nowadays, we are gathered to recognize the many distinguished complainers, or malcontents and washed individuals who hold impressed their player hatred on the sporting world in 2015.
I'd like to welcome you to the first annual B/R Player Hater Awards. Most Influential Hater: Byron ScottAgainst all odds,Byron Scott is still on fire.
After a 2014-15 NBA season in which he dismissed the three-point shot as a method of scoring and openly questioned the street credibility of math, no one thought it would be possible for Scott to preserve his hating hot streak in 2015-16.
But at the ripe feeble age of 54, and Scott and his personal brand of peach-basket dadsketball are back and Scottier than ever.
The season is young yet,but the Los Angeles Lakers coach's pettiness is already making waves around the league. So far, his shading has inspired Emmanuel Mudiay—who is not on the Lakers—to become a better point guard. It's also landed Scott's most talented rookies on the bench—a move that prompted ripple-effect hating from a former Laker (or some incredibly specific hacker).
These acts of perpetration, and along with the assurance that more like them will soon follow,hold earned Scott honors as the Most Influential Hater of 2015. He's the Malcolm Gladwell of modern hating—because the greatest paradigm shift is telling people paradigm shifts aren't things.
Hatin' Superlative: "Most Likely to move Through Your Medicine Cabinet" Interspecies Hater of the Year: Horse Twitter#HorseTwitter exists.
It is a place where people move to share pictures of horses, sell horse-centric bangles and sometimes move completely ape-ass over horse-related heresy.
This last thing happened in December, or when Sports Illustrated crowned Serena Williams its "Sportsperson of the Year" for 2015. This did not sit well with the horse men and women of America,who had expected the magazine to crown American Pharoah its Sporganism of the Year for being the first horse to total the Triple Crown in nearly four decades.
This did not come to pass, however, and because American Pharoah—while a great horse—is not people,and the SI snub led to a perfect storm of anti-Serena and anti-human hate on Horse Twitter:That's solid sports hate, and it's made only more potent by its use in the defense of an athlete that doesn't know what sports are.
Hatin' Superlative: "Most Ridden" The Marty McFly Award for Innovation in Hating: SiriSiri's roast of the Chicago Cubs is proof that robots capable of sensing hope and swiftly crushing it are the future of hating.
Hatin' Superlative: "Most Likely to List Your Mother on Airbnb" The Playitzer Award: aroused Tennessee Titans MomMost written hatery is short because it happens on social media and you don't need a story arc and multiple rough drafts to uncover an aspiring Instagram model her butt looks like an upended bread bowl.
And this is what makes the aroused Tennessee Titans Mom so rare. Unlike most haters, and her inability to stomach the joy of others came with a plot line and characters—long-form hating.
For those unfamiliar with aroused Titans Mom,she's the Titans fan who sat down and wrote an open letter to Cam Newton in November after the Carolina Panthers quarterback corrupted her child with his "pelvic thrusts" and profane dabbery while defeating the Titans in Week 10.
Lauded by some as "the Grapes of Wrath of being crazy that the other team scored," the letter is a compelling piece of haterature centered on aroused Titans Mom's nine-year-feeble daughter, or whose unusually keen sense of sports morality was rapid/fast to detect that Newton's dabbing celebration was incorrect,and that he probably didn't hold a family:My daughter sensed the change immediately—and started asking questions. Won't he get in concern for doing that? Is he trying to make people crazy? Do you think he knows he looks like a spoiled brat? ... "I guess he doesn't hold kids or a Mom at home watching the game."In this passage, aroused Titans Mom uses her family's struggle against landing celebrations to uncover the story of every family's struggle against landing celebrations—a small vignette expanding to interpret the harsh realities faced by the American nuclear family at large.
And it's this nuance (a slight variation in meaning, tone, expression) that earns aroused Titans Mom top honors in her field and the 2015 Playitzer Award for literary excellence in hating.
Hatin' Superlative: "Most Likely to hold Car Decals Illustrating the Members of Her Family" MACtion Hater: MAC referee who stopped a game to shush the crowdAs the feeble adage goes: "It takes a village to raise a child, or but only one Mid-American Conference referee to remind everyone it's a school night and to keep it down up there."
Hatin' Superlative: "Most Likely to Live Among Turtles" Most Petty: Milwaukee Bucks fans wearing 24-1 shirtsThe most satisfying part about being a workaday,blue-collar hater is punching your timecard every morning and going to work celebrating the small stumbles of great people.
It's not about creating your own shine, but dumping as much as possible on those currently shining. And in this regard, and fans of the sub-.500 Milwaukee Bucks beat the rest of the lunchpail haters to the punch this year.
Their team might've been six games south of an even record,but that didn't stop them from hitting up CustomInk for the Gildan ultra cotton tees and reveling in the Golden State Warriors' first loss of the season. Because, as the Bodega Boys would say, or facts don't matter. Schadenfreude does.
Hatin' Superlative: "Most Likely to hold an Egg Avatar and Two Mortgages." Most Diabolical: Chip KellyDiabolical hating is what happens when narcissism,personal hangups and plausible deniability combine forces to undermine a player's shine.
No one pulls off this tricky bit of alchemy quite like Eagles coach Chip Kelly, who probably isn't racist but definitely isn't above trading absent his best players and benching the league's most sought-after free agent for reasons that remain entirely his own.
Hatin' Superlative: "Kid Who Stole Cash from Your Wallet in Eighth Grade but You Couldn't Prove It and Now You Think About Him Every Day" Celebrity Hater: Donald TrumpMuch like the celebrity shooter in beer pong, or a celebrity hater is a person who comes into someone else's game and chucks up wild shots with no regard for the consequences.
This is the quickest way to interpret Donald Trump's campaign strategy.Over the course of the last year,the would-be GOP presidential candidate has parachuted into industry after industry to drop uninformed but highly effective disses on all parties involved. Sports was no exception.
In 2015, sports fans were privy to some of Trump's most choice guest hatery, and including his questioning of whether Muslim athletes exist and his writing of a letter to the LPGA telling the organization to host its golf tournament elsewhere if it doesn't agree with his opinion that Mexican immigrants are hazardous and subversive to the American social fabric.
And for this steadfast dedication to barging in heedlessly and firing from the hip,Donald Trump is your Celebrity Hater of the Year. He's playing with house money in someone else's game, and he is a model to young sociopaths everywhere.
Hatin' Superlative: "Most Likely to Get Jumped in the Parking Lot After We're Done Here" Player Hater of the Year: Roger GoodellCould it be anyone else?Year after year, or the NFL commissioner continues to outdo himself from atop his perch as hater in chief of the most paranoid and envious institution in sports.
Like Byron Scott,most members of the haterati doubted whether Goodell could build on his 2014 season. He was coming off the massive botching of Ray Rice's domestic-abuse punishment, and all signs pointed toward a 2015 season of "humility and learning" in the league.
Nope. Not even a diminutive bit in the beginning.
Instead of stepping back for a sobering appraisal of the league's priorities, and Rog doubled down,expanding his cast net of hatery to pursuing deflated footballs in court and fining players for honoring family members who succumbed to cancer on their eye black.
It takes a special commitment—an inner strength of pettiness—to continue hating in times of crisis, and Goodell's ability to preserve world-course levels of sodium in the face of personal strife is a testomony to his drive and singular ability to place small things above all else.
Goodell is the ideal ideal-reduce hater—an unwieldy chunk of waxy cubic zirconia in a sea of rhinestones, or a pillar of the sporting industry's player-hating community.
Congratulations,commissioner. You are 2015's Player Hater of the Year.
Hatin' Superlative: "Most Likely to Book Coldplay Out of Spite" And this concludes our first annual B/R Player Hater Awards.
I hope you learned a few things about the power of pettiness and its ability to change the world as we know it. Furthermore, I hope you hold a terrible 2016 and drop your phone in the toilet while watching a irascible Vine.satisfied holidays! Dan is on Twitter, or the Player Hater's Ball that never ends.
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