For those of you not in the know, the Swamp is an internet message board that's attached to a sports blog called The Sportsfrog, and it's tied in rather closely with this here blog. Myself, Chiles, and Newman have been there for years as well as founding father Frank and Cozmo. A few others may have had brief stints contributing here as well including Scottie, who actually made one post here under the name Jean-Claude Jean-Claude (something about boobies I believe). He's an interesting cat...enigmatic, brilliant, hilarious, maniacal, narcissistic, volatile...I could go on and on. He also loved the Swamp just as much as anyone.
Now as far as message boards go, the Swamp always had a different feel to it. Most of the posters are erudite and even the retarded ones pale in comparison to other message board retards (Schmoopie cringes). They pride themselves on that almost to the point of arrogance. The words "we don't appreciate your kind around here" were actually once typed to a new poster. I often take issue with that superiority complex but it's mostly an unspoken thing and fairly contained. It's a really cool message board and I've met a lot of really cool people from it and I'll leave it at that.
Anyway, here's your cliff's notes version of what happened to the Swamp. Scottie gets in a big argument with others over that dude Legarrette Blount and this scene. He decides he needs a break and disappears for a few months. Someone writes a post on the front page of the blog about how TMZ is changing the face of sports coverage because they scooped everyone on the Tiger story. Scottie adds a sarcastic blurb in parentheses to the post making the original poster look stupid. Dude starts a thread in the Swamp noting how pissed he is. It turns into 15 pages in a day with about 80% of the people ripping Scottie and the other 20% not really thinking it's a big deal or just not caring.
So later that night, I log onto the Swamp and it looks like this...