HH Admin at His Very Best... Again

by Dan_Honolulu on Sep 22, 2006 7:34 PM PDT Comment 33 comments

From tonight...
Rev Halofan is on it again... typical behavior and not the "that was long ago" BS he was spouting here a short time ago.

The fact that that blog is still on SB reflects neither well on SB nor on Blez' anemic defense of free speech. Both of which combine to reflect badly on the idea of free speech by left-leaning folk. HH Chavez remains an embarrassment to SB. I'm sure more will come through the night and through the weekend from that knuckle-dragging, foul-mouthed loser who, somehow, remains a gleam in the eye of Kos and Blez. Shame on both of you. One of you should know better. The other definitely does.

bad math, you're right.
you are also banned for being a complete asshole. goodbye.
by Rev Halofan on Fri Sep 22, 2006 at 03:08:06 PM EST
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You do know the A's have scored 10 more
runs then the Angels right?
Might want to think about who has the shitty offense.
by Axl Foley on Fri Sep 22, 2006 at 02:58:54 PM EST
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It was this post
what got him banned.
by Rev Halofan on Fri Sep 22, 2006 at 03:08:28 PM EST
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FUCK THE REV

I DONT CARE IF I GET BANNED FOR THIS... HE IS AN OBNOXIOUS SELF CENTERED MOTHER F'N IDIOT...

"The are only two places in this league. First place and no place." -Tom Seaver

by greekpride08 on Sep 22, 2006 8:00 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

i never really read halos heaven

until i saw how horrible Rev Halofan really is -- now I read it just to get the perverse joy of how this atrocious quasi-totalitarian can somehow become a leader of Angels discussion. It's pretty horrifying, but at the same time upsettingly entertaining.

I'm very glad Blez, Nico, Baseballgirl, etc., allow for mostly free discussion here. It's refreshing, fun and I hope we maintain it. Even though I'm a leftie, left- and right-leaning folk should applaud that kind of attitude.

Storage is for buuuuuusiness or for familyyyyy. We have your space ... 5A RentaSpaaaaace....

by rolliedigits on Sep 22, 2006 8:01 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Dudes

Just don't go there. Whether you feel it's fair or not, you're not welcome there. It's an Angels blog and they don't want to hear the A's perspective. People go there, stir up shit, make A's fans look bad, get banned, then come here and bitch about it. Just stay on AN where you'll be happy and welcome. Simple as that.

Green eyes come from yellow flecks of fatty pigment on a dark background. Some men think a green-eyed woman is exotic. The truth is she's got fat eyes.

by Furious George on Sep 22, 2006 8:07 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

It doesn't require 'stirring shit up'

...to get banned over there.

Which is kind of the point we've all been making for so long.

Wanna ban trolls? Fine. But when you ban people for pointing out (with facts) that your grand statement is wrong, that's just low class.

Though I'm not sure how this is a left/right issue.

"It's time to blow this team up." - Oaktoon, July 2006

by Ozzz on Sep 22, 2006 8:49 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Not the point

You've gotta let Angels fans have their Angel colored glasses. They don't want people there telling them that their team sucks this year even if it's true. Whether you're there to stir up shit or not, you're doing it by not being an Angels fan. They're there to root for the Angels and I can completely understand them not wanting A's fans posting there.

Green eyes come from yellow flecks of fatty pigment on a dark background. Some men think a green-eyed woman is exotic. The truth is she's got fat eyes.

by Furious George on Sep 22, 2006 9:06 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I Can't...

... understand the banning.

That lack of tolerance is disgusting, and unique to that web site to all of SB Nation.

When a blog moderator roams other blogs bleating that his previous bans "were a long time ago," and then does it again, then that blog demeans SB Nation's half-stated notions of speech.

So long as that moderator and his blog remain on SB, then the entire concept of SB Nation is spoiled.

What was that Jimmy Osmond song? Something about one bad apple not spoiling the whole barrel. Rev Halo Fan risks that musical truism.

by Dan_Honolulu on Sep 22, 2006 9:29 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

HH's two most frequent posters...

or most well-known ones anyway, "yeswecan" and...the Rev himself, post here, and are welcome to...sure, it may be easier to tolerate them when they are only 2 voices amongst 5,000+ rather than a disproportionate number of AN members over there...but don't you see how his method is backfiring? If what you say is true, that the blog and especially its administrator just don't want A's fans interfering with their ever-so-insightful commentary on their team, then the methods of the Rev are only making matters worse, as they attract more attention and more curious (and in honor of your handle, in many cases furious) AN members.

--the one-time Rev Cutthemullet

I am no drunkard, I'm a hard-working man.

by Cutthemullet on Sep 23, 2006 12:48 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Its similar to a hypothetical here...

If Blez were from one insane asylum and posted every diary... while Nico from his 'opposite' insane asylum agreed at every turn. If only we could put those two in st8 jackets then we could have an E-Dictatorship known as Rev's World. (Whats with the Angels Top 100 of all-time, led off with Salmon, ha! Brendan Donnelly is above two HOF's also irks me)

"I see Milton Bradley being the Oaktown player that breaks out this year." breaks out... breaks out of where? jail?

by gdub171 on Sep 23, 2006 2:01 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Low class?

Sure. But it's their blog.

It's an Angels blog. Not a general baseblog. If you don't like that, don't go there.

On Sunday, Minaya ticked off a list of candidates to join the rotation, and for once this season, none of them was Jose Lima.

by rfloh on Sep 23, 2006 3:07 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Amen

Let them have a little space of their own to stroke their monkeys and bang their thunder sticks as they see fit. Let them have their fun! Lord knows they won't be getting it in the stands...

"It took eight hours...seven-and-a-half to find the heart." -- Steve McCatty on Charlie Finley's heart surgery.

by GreenNGoldSooner on Sep 23, 2006 7:09 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I'm totally in agreeance

With these two and with FuriousGeorge.

It's a fan blog. More importantly, it's THEIR fan blog. To do what with as they please. If they don't want debate on there, if they're there merely to root for the Angels and have a good time, then that's really their perogative. Maybe it'd be more democratic for Rev to let us go over there and show him up, but there's honestly no reason he should HAVE to, and if he did it would probably be to the detriment of his own blog anyway. I mean honestly, why would you want to run an Angels blog where half of your regular audience are A's fans there to berate you? And more importantly, why would Angels fans want to visit this blog at all?

there's simply no club like the white elephant club

by walk off bunt on Sep 23, 2006 9:14 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Someone kill me please

A bullet in my brain pan is all I ask.

Blez had heard us and doesn't care that we don't like the guy, as long as Rev doesn't do anything illegal he's going to be given free reign. It's as simple as that.

HH is an Angels website. Forget the whole "community" spiel that Blez has preached at AN since Day 1, that doesn't apply to SB Nation in general and HH in particular. It's intended to be its own isolated enclave and that is the way Blez and Kos and Rev want it. Blez has come out and said as much.

Now, Rev is a hack. The only way the hack will get fired is if his numbers tank. If you visit HH his numbers will not tank.

So don't visit Halos Heaven. If you've been around AN for a while you know the score. Enough with the moral outrage. It's been done and it's gone nowhere.

Why yes. I am a ray of warm and fuzzy sunshine.

by grover on Sep 22, 2006 10:05 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Well said. Perfect.

Bring back Hammer.

by OaktownPower on Sep 22, 2006 11:24 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

AN is so broken.

Stat Wonk Futurist

by salb918 on Sep 22, 2006 10:45 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Well, this thread is working.

Dunno 'bout the game thread.

Stat Wonk Futurist

by salb918 on Sep 22, 2006 10:46 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Simple Solution

If you want to troll HH then do it in your own colors but keep AN out of it!

"I realize that I'm generalizing here, but as is often the case when I generalize, I don't care." -Dave Barry

by tmail on Sep 22, 2006 10:51 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

How is it trolling...

..to point out that the guy's math is wrong?

Around these parts, you'd get a "oops, you're right... oh well, I'm day-to-day, I guess" for such an action.

"It's time to blow this team up." - Oaktoon, July 2006

by Ozzz on Sep 23, 2006 1:41 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

But Halosheaven

is not AN. Doesn't pretend to be like AN. Doesn't want to be like AN. Nothing forces you to go there.

On Sunday, Minaya ticked off a list of candidates to join the rotation, and for once this season, none of them was Jose Lima.

by rfloh on Sep 23, 2006 3:09 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Sure, but it is SBN.

And as such, there ought to be standards adhered to.

"It's time to blow this team up." - Oaktoon, July 2006

by Ozzz on Sep 23, 2006 9:52 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

goodness.....

why must people go over to HH and then come back here to complain about it???

And how have we not hijacked this thread for some other purpose yet?!?!?!

There's no crying in baseball!

by gigglingone on Sep 22, 2006 10:52 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

I like reading HH

and I like a lot of the posters there. I never talk smack when I go there but I got banned. I think I know why. I think I got banned for a post I made on here for asking Kelly if she was really an A's fan. She kisses Halo butt over there and I mentioned it and I think the Rev didn't like that. That's the only guess I can make for being banned.

But after tonight's game ...I am too elated to even care anymore!

by IM4Oakgal on Sep 22, 2006 11:02 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

To Everyone Who Goes To HH

You guys remind me of that simpsons episode, where Bart takes the cupcake, gets electrocuted and keeps trying to grab it. Look, I dislike the Rev too, I think most of the people over there have the IQ of a 3 year old (no offense to 3 year olds) but it is their post. Shame on Blez? nah dude, Shame on you, because this is the kind of crap exactly that we have going on in the real world. People thinking that others community should be exactly like theirs, or atleast resemble it. You dont like it? fine, leave them alone, they obviously like it, and guess what? thats not exactly a bad thing because it is their community. All the sensible people have now decided that they will stay away, and if you cant stay away, atleast do yourself a favor - dont get an account! I read HH, but guess what? Im not registered, because I dont want to post something there, I dont plan on ever doing it.

When Blez said we should leave them alone, I was a bit in shock, I disagreed with him at first. THen I realized I got caught up in all this crap about how they dont run the blog like us. Yes they run it in ways we deem inappropriate, but that is their blog! they let us have ours why cant be let them have theirs? think about that people, please.

People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring. ~Rogers Hornsby

by Amnesiac727 on Sep 23, 2006 12:32 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Well said

I'm totally with you, I go there and check things out at times but I won't register for an account either, nothing positive would come from it. Please AN fans, just avoid the urge to post there. Lets be classy fans, no rubbing it in anyone's face unless you know them personally, and if you know someone personally, don't rub it in over at HH.

Green eyes come from yellow flecks of fatty pigment on a dark background. Some men think a green-eyed woman is exotic. The truth is she's got fat eyes.

by Furious George on Sep 23, 2006 12:51 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Exactly!

Shame on Blez? Nah dude, Shame on you, because this is the kind of crap exactly that we have going on in the real world. People thinking that others community should be exactly like theirs, or at least resemble it. You don't like it? fine, leave them alone, they obviously like it, and guess what? That's not exactly a bad thing because it is their community...Then I realized I got caught up in all this crap about how they don't run the blog like us. Yes they run it in ways we deem inappropriate, but that is their blog! They let us have ours why cant be let them have theirs? think about that people, please.

To demand change from [or for] the HH blog -- as a whole community -- and from the behavior of the Rev in general just because it does not fit how other SBNation sites are run, is quite frankly intolerant as well (only to a much lesser degree, of course, but nonetheless it's still intolerant)

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by LowcountryJoe on Sep 23, 2006 5:32 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

thank god for revhalofan

i had no idea what rev halofan was but i would always get a kick out that sigline about bill stoneman and the right handed vlad. then i read up on the whole thing how grover i think it was got banned LAST WINTER. that was amusing. now it seems like a bunch of grover copy cats. it is stupid but also amusing. like you need to get banned over there to prove yourself over at AN.

it is interesting to see kos' name getting thrown around here. the differenc between kos and most bloggers is that kos has risen to prominence and doesn't have the time or inclination to swat a lowly fly like the rev.

A's Raiders Ducks

by mcbronsh on Sep 23, 2006 2:49 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

you know...

I remember the last two seasons and what a bitter, nauseating experience it was to see the Angels take the division.

They're no doubt feeling the same way this weekend. The last thing they want to read is an AN member on their site for any reason whatsoever, even if they're only 'helpfully' correcting their math. And I understand that, and hopefully everyone here will too.

I believe Kos is being mentioned because he's paying the freight for SB (or, rather, those of us who donate generously to DK are). It makes you wonder if Kos is aware of some of the more outrageous Rev comments over there, and I'm not talking about his profanity.

by coffee roaster on Sep 23, 2006 6:42 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

The left's commitment to free speech

What exactly does this issue have to do with "the left"?

I really don't want a discussion of this question to highjack this thread, but I do want to note that:

Using the beliefs or actions of one or two individuals as proof that they somehow typify (and indict) the beliefs and actions of an entire group to which the one or two individuals happen to belong is entirely fallacious. It makes no more sense to say that this raises questions about the free speech commitments of the left than to say that it raises questions about the free speech commitments of Northern Californians, men, or A's fans (all three of which are groups to which Blez and Kos belong).
I don't know Blez's politics (and really don't care to), but it seems a stretch to call Kos "left." His political commitments, by his own account, are much more partisan than ideological. Not that this matters (see #1 above).

"It took eight hours...seven-and-a-half to find the heart." -- Steve McCatty on Charlie Finley's heart surgery.

by GreenNGoldSooner on Sep 23, 2006 7:23 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

well said

by coffee roaster on Sep 23, 2006 7:29 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I am unable to turn left

still working on it. Magnum!

People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring. ~Rogers Hornsby

by Amnesiac727 on Sep 23, 2006 7:50 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Rev is great...

especially when the Angels are losing the division. I, for one, love to vouyeristically listen in on the rantings of crazy people (and, living in Oakland, I have lots of opportunities to listen in on the rantings of crazy people).
Rev is harmless and fun to taunt. He is the fanatical blogmaster that makes Athletics Nation seem that much more sophisticated. Let the baby have his bottle and just be glad that you aren't a dedicated Angel's fan who has to deal with him seriously.

Live forever or die trying.

by oaklandpete on Sep 23, 2006 9:50 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

The Rev must be brilliant--

I don't see five diaries about you on the front page of an immensely popular sports blog.

Stop. Serving. Drinks. To. The. Alcoholic.

I like Cindi. A. She never pretends to know more than she does. B. She has unbridled enthusiasm for her "Hotties," and isn't afraid to show it. -IM4Oakgal

by Nico on Sep 23, 2006 10:12 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs