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Originally Posted by fotze
Pretty sure he is a Flames fan. But being an optimistic fan of a team gets you 1/30 of potential fan hits. Being the guy who craps on his own team relentlessly will get far more hits because 29/30 of the potential fan hits will likely agree and love to read that.
If there was an Oilers fan blogger who totally slammed the Oilers we would find that pretty amusing. Sort of what downgoesbrown does to Toronto.
Its a schtick like Don Cherry.
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I keep reading that Lambert is a Flames fan but I just can't see how it could possibly be true. until I started avoiding his articles like the plague, I'd been reading them for while and never once saw anything that was above mean-spirited and trollish. meanwhile I also read DGB and aside from being every bit as clever as Lambert wishes he were, his pokes at the Leafs just feel like good natured jabs, and more in line with what a suffering fan base would feel when they have a paper bag on their head. more importantly, DGB distributes his potshots basically evenly across the league. his Flames jokes are always about our playoff drought and Feaster's infamous near-disasters, but I can at least laugh at those.
as for Cherry, the difference with that schtick is that he actually believes every word he says, he's not just making stuff up to get ratings or views. I can respect that, as opposed to the manufactured baiting and controversy that writers like Lambert indulge in.