Mike Dimauro call us Dumbest people in USA, He broke my Heart

[Uconnrick]

I give the guy major props for learning to deal with a speech impediment. That does not however, give him a pass for being a moron of the first order.

The only hope this guy has for relevance is to create some controversy, and he's trying. He's like the pain in the butt little kid tagging along when you were young. Ignore him long enough and he'll go away.

As for Joe Zone, who is he? He claims to have worked in New York, Chicago and somewhere else. As what, a sound guy? He hosts a sports show on CPTV that probably has it's viewership double when his Mom tunes in and he thinks he has the chops to look down on the Boneyard. Hey Joe, come back and talk to us after you accomplish something in your life.

 

[HuskyNan]

Dimauro calling his target audience dumb is not a smart move.

Jacobs did a good job in that discussion.

The CT sports fan lost a lot when Dave Solomon passed, he was the best sports commentator we had.

Are you the poster he called out in one of his columns? I know it was a poster whose handle starts with mets.

 

[StoweD210]

Jacobs is still public enemy number one as far as I'm concerned. His personal vendetta against Coach Calhoun was repulsive.

Agreed. He couldn't hide his glee when the excess texting violations were announced. When people suggested that the Yahoo writers released that story shortly before a UConn NCAA tournament game to maximize exposure, Jacobs dismissed that and blamed UConn for not releasing information to the writers earlier.

And it's not just having a problem with Calhoun. He took shots at Stanley Robinson and Jasper Howard, also.

 

[metsfan2323]

Are you the poster he called out in one of his columns? I know it was a poster whose handle starts with mets.

If he did i'm not aware of it. I don't read the column. Was that recently?

 

[uconnbill]

I don't care who --- he thinks he is - no one, but no one, calls you people stupid.

That is my job.

You have been slipping lately on that, just an FYI

 

[Chin Diesel]

I was a bit insensitive and I apologize.

I take it back but will say that he probably shouldn't be on TV because he is an idiot. Same goes for Bill Walton.

BS. Don't apologize. His stutter is the equivalent to our inability to articulate clearly via the keyboard.

 

[Fishy]

You have been slipping lately on that, just an FYI

I gave up being honest for Lent.

 

[AZHuskiePop]

I gave up being honest for Lent.

Lent doesn't start until next Wednesday. You have until Mardi Gras to be yourself.

 

[Fishy]

Lent doesn't start until next Wednesday. You have until Mardi Gras to be yourself.

Thanks.

By the way, you're a moron.

(Someone file this one away as a textbook crafting of an internet message board joke.)

 

[AZHuskiePop]

Thanks.

By the way, you're a moron.

(Someone file this one away as a textbook crafting of an internet message board joke.)

I may be be moron, but I 'm still the best straight man around.
Hook,Line ,and a Sinker.

 

[AZHuskiePop]

Don't you ever sleep?

 

[TheChamps990411]

We`re the dumbest people in the us but he just brought us up and then went on to talk about us for the next 5+ min. He sounds butthurt

 

[mauconnfan]

Actually I got that backwards. The Yankee fan is standing on 161st Street admitting the Sox have a chance and his fellow Yankee Fans bashing him over the head.

More like a Sawks fan sitting at the Cask saying they have no chance in Game 7 still after winning 3 in a row…..there were some! ……..

 

[prankster]

I gave up being honest for Lent.

Yeah! Lent of 1988.
And, by the way....it appears no one told you that lent ends after 40 days....

 

[HuskyNan]

If he did i'm not aware of it. I don't read the column. Was that recently?

No, it was 2-3 years ago (?) and now that I think of it, it was mets1010 that got called out.

 

[CL82]

if he thinks we're dumb he should try reading huskyfandan's twitter feed on a saturday night.

Conspiracy Kitty says:
Really? Really Matt? Is HFD dumb or is that you just can't recognize genius?
Ha ha, I'm just screwing with you, but you've got to admit that Dan's a hoot!

 

[CL82]

How about the way hinted he got that from Geno?

Gutless, IMO, either protect a source or quote it, but the BS of oh if only I told you...is infantile. I think that's the way he came off through out the interview, infantile and petty.

 

[CL82]

Agreed. He couldn't hide his glee when the excess texting violations were announced. When people suggested that the Yahoo writers released that story shortly before a UConn NCAA tournament game to maximize exposure, Jacobs dismissed that and blamed UConn for not releasing information to the writers earlier.

And it's not just having a problem with Calhoun. He took shots at Stanley Robinson and Jasper Howard, also.

I remember both of those shots well. In Jeff's world if he writes a column the next day favorable to UConn the next day, all should be forgiven. In the real world not so much.

 

[Waquoit]

We`re the dumbest people in the us but he just brought us up and then went on to talk about us for the next 5+ min. He sounds butthurt

Joe Zone was the guy who sounded butthurt there. He was practically saying, "What about me? They are mean to me, too!"

I kinda got a kick how each of the 3 guys are disliked by different BY boards. Jacobs here, Mikey D on the women's board and Zone on the FB board.

 

[Senore]

On the CPTV sports show Mike called us, i.e. Boneyarders "the dumbest people in America"!!

No wonder I love it here.

 

[ctchamps]

Did some yard work wearing my UCONN sweat shirt. A guy in a car stops and says we have something in common - Breanna Stewart. He goes on to say she's from Syracuse and he was originally from there as well. He said Syracuse thought they had her as a commitment and when she announced UConn it made the front page of one of the rags titled "Breanna is a Traitor".

After the Duke loss this season the papers were screaming bloody murder about the bad call for three days. He's no longer a Cuse fan. He said one of the best days in his life was giving up his Dome seating. He was a big fan of JC. Never met this guy before even though he lives in my area and I was just warming up to him when he goes and says he now roots for Duke.

 

[Husky92]

Did some yard work wearing my UCONN sweat shirt. A guy in a car stops and says we have something in common - Breanna Stewart. He goes on to say she's from Syracuse and he was originally from there as well. He said Syracuse thought they had her as a commitment and when she announced UConn it made the front page of one of the rags titled "Breanna is a Traitor".

After the Duke loss this season the papers were screaming bloody murder about the bad call for three days. He's no longer a Cuse fan. He said one of the best days in his life was giving up his Dome seating. He was a big fan of JC. Never met this guy before even though he lives in my area and I was just warming up to him when he goes and says he now roots for Duke.

Man, that is one lost soul. I'll pray for him.

 

[HuskyNan]

Joe Zone was the guy who sounded butthurt there. He was practically saying, "What about me? They are mean to me, too!"

I kinda got a kick how each of the 3 guys are disliked by different BY boards. Jacobs here, Mikey D on the women's board and Zone on the FB board.

None of those guys would survive one day as a mod on the Boneyard. I have emails from pissed off posters that would singe your hair.

Boneyarders aren't dumb. Any fan base that can think up that many ways to say F- You is brilliant.

 

[Durks07]

I'm now hate the guy two! Us, dumb! Hoo cood think that?

NickyNewark, is that you?

 

[Matt (Chicago)]

Conspiracy Kitty says:
Really? Really Matt? Is HFD dumb or is that you just can't recognize genius?
Ha ha, I'm just screwing with you, but you've got to admit that Dan's a hoot!

Ha, nice pic. He is funny/entertaining at times for sure, but he continually bashes the school on twitter etc, and a fair amount of recruits follow him. His suggestions are often times off the wall yet for some reason he believes himself qualified to run an athletic dept, or recruit for the football team. He could be a case study for the phrase "if you're not a part of the solution, you're part of the problem."

 

[prankster]

...."if you're not a part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate problem."

Fixed!

 

[Matt (Chicago)]

Fixed!

chemistry geek?

 

[pepband99]

It sounds like Mr. DiMauro has a legitimate speech impediment, but saying he shouldn't be on TV is a little much. Bill Walton had a terrible stutter as a younger man, and he did the NBA on NBC for years. You don't think it frustrates a stutterer when they are in the midst of it? Believe me it probably does more than you listening.

It also sounds like Mr. DiMauro has visited a speech therapist a time or two. Those breaks in speech where it seems like he wants to say something but nothing comes out, is actually a learned technique to prevent the Billy-Madison-style stammering. Equally as frustrating for a stutterer is when you want to say something but know it's a sound you'll have trouble with. You can actually feel it. At that point, it's just as important to get any sound out in order to begin the flow of words. Many times a verbal pause (ahh, uhh, umm,) helps, but sometimes you need to pick another word merely for the sound. Starting around 13:15 is a perfect example. He has a number of verbal pauses and then says. "I lost all my c...my credibility around two thousand-fff...five." To me (at least), Mr. DiMauro knew he was going to have a problem with sound. For the C sound he interject a different word (my) when he got there so the C sound could roll off easier. He then stopped on sound in 2005. Another learned technique is to concentrate about what you want to say before say it. Not necessarily the meaning of a word, but the actual sound of the letters. For some though, thinking only makes it worse and adds to the anxiety. Many stutterers (like myself) can sing without a stutter, I'm not exactly sure why, but I think it's because we don't have to think about the words we're about to say. Other times I think its because our singing voice is not our normal talking voice in which we normally stutter.

As a kid, if you want to test his/her fight or flight mechanism, make fun of their stuttering. Even today, something as seemingly innocuous as someone finishing my sentence (even if they are my best friend or they are correct in predicting my thought) makes me want to punch them in the orbital bone.

Bo Jackson was one of my heros growing up and not only for his athletic ability. I saw a documentary where he said when someone poked fun of his stutter as a kid, he would beat the crap out of the offender. No one made fun of him after that. The thing is, if you cry or run away, you're a baby. If you try to comeback over the top verbally, you end up getting so anxious that you stutter more. It's a no win situation unless you eat your Wheaties and spinach, and stop the taunting before it starts. On the bright side for a stuttering baseball player, I was great at infield chatter .

Well put. As someone who struggles daily with stuttering, You put this about as succinctly as possible.

Hey DiMauro - go to any Kentucky board if you want true idiots.