Brennan Scotland
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Brennan Scotland

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About

I believe in logic, reason, good-looks, and teaching people how to Dougie. I'm a grammatical gangster, erudite and pretty pedantic, promptly descrying fallacies found in facile articles/arguments.

Short List

  • Favorite Athletes

    Barry Bonds, LeBron James, Terrell Owens, A-rod

  • Favorite Sports Teams

    Yankees, Heat, Packers, Volunteers

  • Favorite Coaches

    Bruce Pearl and Lane Kiffen

  • All Time Sports Moment

    Any time an athlete effectively shuts up all of the self-righteous hypocrites.

  • Most Memorable Game Attended

    Tennessee beating Florida in the waning moments during my first game at Neyland, in 'O4.

  • Most Unbreakable Sports Record

    Greg Oden's

  • Ruth or Mays?

    Bonds

  • Unitas or Montana?

    Peyton

  • Jordan or Russell?

    Kobe

  • Gretzky or Orr?

    Adam Banks or Charlie Conway?

  • Pele or Maradona?

    maradona, only because lady gaga arrogates all the credit for completely biting her style

  • Federer or Sampras?

    which one smoked meth, again?

  • Tiger or Nicklaus?

    Tiger

  • Petty or Earnhardt?

    they drive cars

  • Schumacher or Senna?

    what the hell are these?

  • ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, Pac-12 or SEC?

    SEC; but, that kind of answers itself at this point.

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  • Don Lucas posted 236 days ago

    Don Lucas

    Nice sophism genius. How's your buddy Randy? How's the Pack's 5-0 start despite all of your doom and gloom articles? Keep putting your "logic" out there. Let me help you out buddy. That's not logic, it's a foot in your mouth sir. Please do your ego and true Packers fans a favor and keep writing about tools like LaBron, Bonds, and the Yanks and take off the Pack as one of your favorite teams. Let me enlighten you on being a fan. When "your team" is 5-0, all is right with the world. When your team is 1-4, let the criticism begin. Then and only then is it appropriate to yell "The sky is falling".

  • Brennan Scotland posted 269 days ago

    Brennan Scotland

    Don Lucas and I actually met on Craigslist and haven't looked back, since.

  • Don Lucas posted 271 days ago

    Don Lucas

    Sorry about the multiple posts. Computer keeps freezing as I was posting. Tried to delete but for some reason the functionality of this website is as poor as Brennan's logic. Maybe God's trying to tell me to stop wasting my time.

  • Don Lucas posted 271 days ago

    Don Lucas

    Logic and delusion are not synonymous. I'm pretty sure the "success" of your articles has more to do with 13,000+ unfortunate souls out of 2 million readers of the Bleacher Report who stumbled upon the nonsense that you perceive to be logic.

    Are you now taking credit for bringing all of those people in as unique visitors? Look at your other articles. They have less than a thousand views apiece, many with only a couple hundred or so. Also note that every Green Bay article you write gets less views than the last. I think your "success" has more to do with a rabid Green Bay fan base than the maniacal obsession with your own ego.

    To you sir... I say good day!

  • Don Lucas posted 271 days ago

    Don Lucas

    Logic and delusion are not synonymous. I'm pretty sure the "success" of your articles has more to do with 13,000+ unfortunate souls out of 2 million readers of the Bleacher Report who stumbled upon the nonsense that you perceive to be logic.

    Are you now taking credit for bringing all of those people in as unique visitors? Look at your LeBron articles. They have less than a thousand views apiece. I think your "success" has more to do with a rabid Green Bay fan base than the maniacal obsession with your own ego.

    To you sir... I say good day!

  • Don Lucas posted 271 days ago

    Don Lucas

    Logic and delusion are not the same. When in doubt pull out that handy thesaurus.

  • Brennan Scotland posted 271 days ago

    Brennan Scotland

    Well, Don, that logic tells me that I'm probably a helluva writer, being that I can produce a mere six articles in less than one month and generate over 13,000 reads doing so, without even having a fan base (outside of dave morrison) to fall back upon.

  • Don Lucas posted 275 days ago

    Don Lucas

    As of 9/2/2011, Brennan has 13,113 reads and only one fan. What does logic tell you about that stat, sir?

  • graham severson posted 284 days ago

    graham severson

    if 98% of your comments are people calling you a idiot, isnt it common sense that there probably is some truth to that?

  • Brennan Scotland posted 286 days ago

    Brennan Scotland

    Dear Donnie,

    "being a 'grammatical gangster' does not mean owning and putting your thesaurus to work."

    Agreed. Although, I fail to understand the necessary logical relationship between an individual's grammatical proficiency and how often they purportedly utilize a thesaurus? Which, conveniently brings me to your following assertion:

    "in order to be logical you must put forth logic instead of utter nonsense."

    Says the guy who uses suspect logic in not only his preceding/above allegation, but also commits another type of logical fallacy in his subsequent paralogism: Argumentum ad Populum ...

    "when only a few people have a problem with you, most likely other people are the problem. When many people have a problem with you, most likely you are the problem."

    This particular type of logical fallacy confuses popular sentiment with valid evidence/reasoning. It is similar to both the bandwagon fallacy and common practice fallacy. Either way, it is invariably flawed reasoning. And, contrarily, my opinion is that, since I consider most people to be much less intelligent and erudite than myself, I would definitely reconsider my position on an issue if I was ever actually in agreement with the masses.

    "If you are trying to incite a nasty reaction like a heel wrestler tries to invoke in a crowd it is mission accomplished."

    While that is not my explicit intention, given my above expressed sentiment toward the hoi polloi, it stands to reason that if I—or anyone, for that matter—relies upon sound logic, strong evidence, and verifiable facts to construct an argument, then it will most likely be an outlier and invite protest and hostility from those who have already formed, nay, cemented their unflinching belief about the issue.

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