Did you really say all those things? Did your mouth write a check your Ass can’t cash?

We have a big mouth sports radio host up here named Softy Mahler. He made a stupid bet about a UW/WSU Football game. He promised to ride a bike all the way from Seattle to Pullman if WSU won. They did. To his credit his credit he manned up and this 280 pound Donut eating machine actually did ride the bike the 300 miles to Pullman from Seattle. He hardly bitched at all.

Man up Barry.

So far…He’s not fullfilled the bet…This is a typical OKC condesending bs
thing that might get a few laughs.

This (right) is an exchange of emails between Oklahoman “Newsman”
Berry Trammel and fans of NOLA after the Hornets went to OKC after Katrina.
Note the smugness and condesending attitude about STEALING the Hornets.

Best part is his “I will park everyone’s car at the NOLA Arena IF they
return to La. Second best is the “I am not” when the poster calls him a “child”…

Needless to say it’s funny, might be worth a laugh and he still hasn’t
parked anyone’s car while his Ford Center sits empty and Clay Satan tries to
jack my Supes…

So Okies (EVEN MEDIA!, who I might add are EMPLOYED BY CLAY BENNETT) can gloat about Katrina but turn about’s not fair play…Hmmmmm

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email thread re: Berry the Valet

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94… here you go – thread starts at the bottom and works its way
up…
[quick epilogue: to his credit, he was responsive once he lost the
wager - and he and I have been in touch to coordinate possible dates for him
to come down and do his thing... hasn't happened yet, but we're planning on
doing it sometime in the future...]

—– Original Message —-

To: BTramel@Oklahoman.com
Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2007 12:09:21 AM
Subject: Hello again – long time no speak…

Berry,
Hello again – I’m contacting you to make arrangements for our wager
(see below).
Please advise on your travel schedule once it is arranged.
All the best,
(name hidden)

—– Forwarded Message —-
From: Berry Tramel

Sent: Thursday, January 5, 2006 12:22:21 PM
Subject: RE: about your column: “Hornets are Step Closer to Staying”
12/31/05

(name hidden): Look, best of luck to New Orleans, which this week opened SCHOOL
for the first time in eight months yet still is clamoring about being a
major-league city. I am communication with NBA people, who for political
reasons can’t say what’s really going on, but let me assure you, if the
Hornets are in New Orleans in November 2007, I will show up at the New
Orleans Arena and valet everyone’s car.

—–Original Message—–

Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 12:05 PM
To: Berry Tramel
Subject: RE: about your column: “Hornets are Step Closer to Staying”
12/31/05

> the Hornets are moving two more games back to OKC

…as part of a plan to play the remaining 3 in New
Orleans when the Arena is ready in March. Interesting
you don’t mention that part – does it not fit the
narrative you’ve manufactured? Your laziness in
reporting this story is notable. I think you are
doing a crap service to your readership.

Look, if you had been around the block in the NBA,
which you haven’t, you’d know more about the process
of relocating a franchise. You’d know more about the
league governance issues, you’d know more about how
difficult it is to unwind contracts with local
municipalities, and you’d know more about the
economics of regional sports television networks, of
which the Hornets are a flagship property across the
2.5 million person Gulf South.

The NBA, like every major U.S. sports leagues, is a
quasi-socialist enterprise: it pools its franchises
into collective by-laws, it relies on revenue sharing
from broadcast fees and it enjoys major subsidies from
the government (Arenas, tax-breaks, etc.) Media
conglomerates and State governments are kinda
important to the NBA, and the League is extremely
sensitive about being a good partner, lest they
compromise their standing in other markets (read
Seattle, Orlando, Toronto where negotiations are
currently underway)

Responsible people in OKC are graciously hosting the
Hornets and extending the courtesies that the rest of
the country extended to your city in 1994 and would
gladly extend again. What’s unfortunate about your
work, and your responses to me, is that you instead
are cheerleading a Hornets relocation and are trying
to take advantage of a profound tragedy.

I look forward to mailing you my ticket stub from the
Hornets home opener in 2007. Hopefully by then you
will have the clarity to look back at your actions at
this time and wonder how you so easily lost your moral
compass.

— Berry Tramel wrote:

> (name hidden): No I’m not. And the Hornets are moving two more
> games back to OKC.
>
> —–Original Message—–
>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 5:51 PM
> To: Berry Tramel
> Subject: RE: about your column: “Hornets are Step
> Closer to Staying”
> 12/31/05
>
>
> You are a child.
>
> — Berry Tramel wrote:
>
> > (name hidden): Thanks for writing. You’re wrong. The NBA is
> > punting New Orleans.
> >
> > —–Original Message—–
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 2:40 PM
> > To: Berry Tramel
> > Subject: about your column: “Hornets are Step
> Closer
> > to Staying”
> > 12/31/05
> >
> >
> > “If the Saints ever say the return is permanent,
> > then
> > it’s automatic. The Hornets-New Orleans marriage
> > officially is annulled.”
> >
> > That statement is one of the stupidest, most
> > pedestrian things I saw in print in all of 2005 –
> > Congratulations. I’m accustomed to reading
> wind-bag
> > columns, but this one takes the cake. You know
> > pathetically little about the situation with the
> > Saints, or for that matter, the Hornets, and you
> > might
> > as well have posted it on your forehead