The Net 54 100

[Kawika]

Got my Kona coffee, Sunday New York Times, Tennessee-MSU on the tube, Devil Music on the radar rodeo, bitch-slap fest on FiveFour, multi-tasking like crazy and lovin' it. Is this a great country or what?

[barrysloate]

David- Kona coffee is like $25 a pound in Brooklyn...what does it cost in your neck of the woods?

[Al C.risafulli]

His contributions to the hobby

Has Bruce contributed anything to the hobby? Besides wishing for people to die, I mean.

-Al

[Rich Klein]

That Adam could hold his own very well in a battle with the group.

I think it's time for Bruce to pull a Jesse Belvin

Rich

[botn]

I may hold the record for death threats received from one or more of the Bruces and I might add, one of the first to receive one back in May 2006. I beat out Brian Daniels by a matter of hours.

Some that come to mind and have been memorialized in emails are:

Hoping I die from cancer one cell at a time.
Burning in numerous fires alone, with my family, at my home and office.
On 3 different occasions he told me that he was sending someone over to my home or office.
On more than one occasion he has wished that me and my friends die a slow and painful death (but did not specify by what means).
Too many times to count he has wished me and my family suffer greatly.
He was looking forward to reading my obituary.
Though a little less permanent he told me he would use mace on me when he saw me.

It's all in good fun. I know he did not mean any of it. He just likes to joke around like that.

[Kawika]

Originally Posted by botn

Hoping I die from cancer one cell at a time.

OK. Let's go with defective weirdo.

[sago]

Hi,
I had an account on the old forum, and stopped visiting about 2 years ago for several reasons.

One of them was the bs spewed by Dorskind, and receiving one of his quaint little e-mails. This, along with the political discussions that are now confined elsewhere, and some of the cliqueness on this board, made it not worth reading at all, for me.

In the two years, I see that some things have changed, for the better, and some things never will.

Dorskind has been trolling this board for years, and should be banned. If he had just joined as a new collector, and started making threats to board members, his banning would be almost immediate. Being a known quantity should never excuse one's behavior or intent.

I was hoping for a better and more on topic first new post; oh well.

FWIW, that's my two cents as a former member, and someone who just started reading again. If you think people are not going to be turned off who visit this board for the first time, and get assaulted by his venom, think again.

[Kawika]

Barry: Supermarket-grade Kona goes for about $12 per pound. Top grade Kona from boutique coffee farms on the Big Island goes for probably $20 or more per pound. The way I slug back coffee I stick with the cheap stuff.

Y'all: Anytime Bruce posts, N54 lights up like it's on fire. This place would be far less entertaining if he didn't drop in once in a while. This isn't exactly some ongoing erudite discussion by SABR scholars sitting at the Round Table of the Algonquin anyway. Like others I wonder if he really is some Mergers & Acquisitions hotshot with an ultra high grade NYC apartment and a museum quality collection or if he's just some defective weirdo. The trick is not to take him seriously. The third person shtick, the busted syntax, the death wishes, it's all like a comedy act as far as I'm concerned. Ban Bruce? That would be like banning the Reverend Jim from Taxi or, heavens forfend, Kramer from Seinfeld. The place just wouldn't be the same. The guy that should be eighty-sixed is that damn kawika. Thinks his shoes don't stink because he lives in Hawaii. That bloody tedious sense of humor, if you can call it that. And always posting that friggin' autographed Lou Gehrig Goudey. Make a maggot gag. There's a guy I can't stand.

[baseballart]

Originally Posted by Kawika

...This isn't exactly some ongoing erudite discussion by SABR scholars sitting at the Round Table of the Algonquin anyway..... The guy that should be eighty-sixed is that damn kawika. Thinks his shoes don't stink because he lives in Hawaii. That bloody tedious sense of humor, if you can call it that. And always posting that friggin' autographed Lou Gehrig Goudey. Make a maggot gag. There's a guy I can't stand.

Kawika has been observed at an erudite discussion of SABR scholars, as is evidenced by this photo. He's the one on the left, eating Canadian hot dogs.