Hate Mail: Joe’s A Masochist, Joe’s A Chicken
July 9th, 2010
Joe introduced his Hate Mail feature recently. In case you missed that, Joe is committed to interacting with as many readers as he can, even those who bomb Joe with heinous venom and personal attacks.
So Joe is now taking that previously off-line hate mail in his inbox and bringing it here in a weekly feature simply titled, Hate Mail.
If you have a problem with Joe, fire away to hatemail@joebucsfan.com. Joe will answer some select questions right here, likely those void of profanity.
Hey Joe,
It figures you want hate mail you masochistic a**hole. All this site is is a bunch of negative crap. You’re probably not even a Bucs fan. The only reason you have a following is because there are so many rednecks and morons around here who don’t know any better. If there was decent radio and media in this town, there’d be no reason to come here what Joe has to say. Nice life.
Tom in Brandon (Joe doesn’t publish last names)
Dear Tom — First, let Joe assure you that he is an absolute diehard Bucs fan who gains no perverse pleasure from hate mail. But that was some real good hate. Thanks. Good work. You’re talented. Also, you might want to read JoeBucsFan.com more closely. There’s a lot of positive interviews and commentary here. Check the archives. However, when your team wins three of its last 20 freaking games and is a laughing stock of the league in 2009, commentary tends to trend negative.
I’ve got some hate for you, Joe.
I think it’s so weakass that you hide behind this website trashing guys like Rick Stroud and other legitimate journalists while you don’t even show your face. What makes you so great? You have no right or place to rip those guys who do your dirty work for you. I just can’t believe all the sheep who think this site is so great. It’s not. You’ll never last.
Kelly
Dear Kelly – Thanks for the hate, buddy (or perhaps you’re a naughty woman?). Joe’s not hiding. In fact, Joe has published his identity on this site, and Joe uses his real name during his many interviews on local sports radio, as well during some national appearances and once for an interview with ESPN The Magazine. Also, Joe can assure you all the Bucs beat writers know who Joe is personally, including The Mad Twitterer, aka Rick Stroud, Vacation Man, Woody Cummings, eye-RAH! Kaufman, the colorful Pewter fellows, etc. Both founders of JoeBucsFan.com have worked in media locally on various levels since the late 1990s.
And Joe takes great offense to calling his many tens of thousands of readers sheep. How dare you insult the most intelligent, passionate and informed Bucs fans on the planet. As for never lasting, it’s too late. Joe’s traffic is too big. It has no less than quadrupled since last July. Joe is here to stay.
July 9th, 2010 at 7:50 am
Getting better 😉
July 9th, 2010 at 8:01 am
The angrier the better Matt. 🙂
July 9th, 2010 at 8:04 am
Hey Joe, I come to your website because I don’t want to have to sift through the left wing liberal garbage that is in most newspapers just to get my Bucs Nuggets. I have been a fan of the Bucs since 1977. I have seen good times and bad for the Bucs. Being stationed outside of Tampa in the military I need a place to get my updates “Nuggets” and some fun blather occassionally. You have both. While I don’t always agree with every article, I always find them informative. Keep up the good work. F@#k the haters.
July 9th, 2010 at 8:18 am
…and yet you still don’t reveal your true identity in your answer. Maybe Kelly has a point, if that IS her real name.
July 9th, 2010 at 8:23 am
Let’s see:
Joe has been on The Howard Stern Show.
Joe has been interviewed by BSPN the Rag.
Joe has written for various national magazines — including NBC’s ProFootballTalk.com 2010 NFL preview — and popular national sports sites (including TheBigLead.com) using his real name as the proprietor of this very site.
Joe is regularly interviewed on countless local and national sports radio shows using his real name.
Joe has been interviewed by WTVT and WTSP on various televised newscasts.
Joe has been interviewed by the Tampa Bay Business Journal, and is scheduled to be used as a source in another feature by the same publication that will run in the coming weeks.
The only people that can’t find Joe’s real name clearly don’t know how to use Google.
Or have their head up their ass.
July 9th, 2010 at 8:32 am
Sgt Mike:
First, Joe thanks you so much for your service.
Second, thanks for watching Joe’s back. Joe doesn’t mind the hate mail, he enjoys it. Some people are just out and out haters and have bitter lives (Joe would be bitter too if he was forced to subject himself to Out House Networks).
People can hate on Joe all he wants. He just sees his traffic continue to mushroom beyond his expectations.
Let the haters hate. They’re just jealous. Joe will continue to write. 🙂
July 9th, 2010 at 8:38 am
Joe, maybe Kelly just wants your Joe-hood. Way to go Boss.
July 9th, 2010 at 8:45 am
BigMAcAttack:
If Kelly (provided we’re talking about a woman) looks anything remotely like Megyn Kelly, ab-so-freaking-lutely!!!
July 9th, 2010 at 8:47 am
Joe,
It doesn’t matter what you look like or what your real name is. Your site has what we are looking for and that is all that matters. Now, if you would just show your Lovely Rachel more it would be perfect.
July 9th, 2010 at 8:55 am
tampa2:
Thank you! And you are right. It’s the content that matters. Joe really has no idea why people have their panties in a bunch because they can’t use Google and figure out who is writing on this site.
It’s a delicate balance using photos of Rachel. Of course Joe would like to have her grace the pages of Joe each day. But Joe doesn’t want an unsolicited visit from the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Department either.
July 9th, 2010 at 9:19 am
Sgt Mike said
“Hey Joe, I come to your website because I don’t want to have to sift through the left wing liberal garbage that is in most newspapers just to get my Bucs Nuggets.”
I agree 100%.
Joe, I like this service you provide. You do all the research and we do all the reading! That and you throw in some colorful commentary to boot. Thanks.
It’s obviously real simple, if someone doesn’t like your website, then they don’t have to visit it. Makes no sense why they would even send you hate mail….. that is unless they are trying to influence you to control your message in a way THEY see fit.
Keep up the good fight Joe! And the fight is presenting the truth despite everyone’s personal agenda’s.
July 9th, 2010 at 9:28 am
Funny how Kelly only mentions The Mad Twitterer by name — must be his wife.
July 9th, 2010 at 9:46 am
tampa2 Says:
July 9th, 2010 at 8:47 am
Joe,
It doesn’t matter what you look like or what your real name is. Your site has what we are looking for and that is all that matters. Now, if you would just show your Lovely Rachel more it would be perfect.
Applauds loudly!!!!
July 9th, 2010 at 9:55 am
@Vince yeah seriously.
Joe the last thing we want to see is your ugly mug. And the alternatives you provide with the cheerleaders, and other babes is overwhelmingly your reader’s base choice.
July 9th, 2010 at 10:20 am
Yes, I like my mental pic of you just the way it is. Fat Bitter Beer Face Caybrew drinking sports nut wearing a straw hat and a Bucco Bruce T-shirt
July 9th, 2010 at 10:23 am
Joe here,
Sgt. Mike – Let me assure you that Joe doesn’t wear straw hats. …And Joe is not here to sell himself. Joe’s had his name in lights many times in his professional career and that’s not what these here pages are all about.
July 9th, 2010 at 10:32 am
RahDomDaBest:
Joe will reinforce your point from two of the 20th (and 21st) century’s top media icons.
When Deborah Norville (when she was Megyn Kelly-hot) took over for Jane Pauley on the Today Show, the yentas across the country freaked because the blonde babe got the big job. Mike Royko wrote in his support of Norville, “I see ugly every morning when I shave. I don’t want to look at ugly on the TV.”
When Howard Stern had his E! Network show, someone called to his show to complain that the majority of his shows were strippers or actresses. The caller stated that so many good elements of his radio show were not broadcast on E! Stern did not disagree but he had nightly ratings of his TV show and said, “People like to look at pretty girls, what can I say?”
There’s a reason why Roger Ailes has built Fox News into the juggernaut it is in just a few short years. Trust Joe, people don’t watch Fox News to gawk at Neil Cavuto.
July 9th, 2010 at 10:44 am
OK. A Fur rimmed Fedora and a Purple Suit.
July 9th, 2010 at 11:24 am
How many Joe’s are there now? Or is it only Steve and Lee?
I think at one time it was said it was a 3 headed monster.
Which one responds to comments the most, thus having a team-sized crush on Rachel?
July 9th, 2010 at 11:40 am
Joe here –
Bucfanjeff – It’s two Joes 97.6 percent of the time, Steve and Lee, the latter who is smitten with Ms. Watson.
July 9th, 2010 at 12:54 pm
Joe, you guys do a great job. Keep on keepin on.
July 9th, 2010 at 1:04 pm
Thanks for all the kind words guys. Very much appreciated.
July 9th, 2010 at 2:18 pm
The Joe(s) have it!
July 9th, 2010 at 2:35 pm
So the married Joe sells out the single Joe. And the married Joe claims his wife doesn’t read Joe. Odd. 🙂
July 9th, 2010 at 3:15 pm
Fox News is loaded up with Babes. Nothing like smart, hot, conservative women, with money.
Joe needs to become the OBgyn for MEgyn.
July 9th, 2010 at 3:20 pm
No Joe on Joe violence please . . .
July 9th, 2010 at 3:49 pm
No Joe on Joe ANYTHING!!
July 9th, 2010 at 3:54 pm
LOL! 🙂
July 9th, 2010 at 4:00 pm
Megyn Kelly… Margaret Hoover… highly underrated MILF Martha MacCallum… Juliet Huddy… Julie Banderas… Mrs. Roger Goodell Jane Skinner just left the network. 🙁 … Alisyn Camerota’s naughty sundresses… way hot Ainsley Earhardt… underrated Patti Ann Brown… smoldering Courtney Friel. Damn Roger Ailes has an eye for talent!
July 9th, 2010 at 4:25 pm
There will be internet haters no matter what you do or how well you do it. Glad to see you guys don’t take it seriously. Personally I am one of the more “positive” Bucs fans and do not find your site overly negative in the least. For a “fan” site you guys seem less biased and nuetral with your commentary then some of the “professional” beat writers that I have seen and I have read them all. Keep up the great work fellas, this site is great. Pewter Report has been my favorite Bucs news outlet for some time, but I can see myself letting my subscription lapse after finding your gem of a web site a few months ago.
July 9th, 2010 at 4:37 pm
Yeah, that’s what I think of when I think of Fox News…smart. Good call on that one. BTW, Joe and Sgt. Mike, stop saying “haters.” You’re both old. Try something more age appropriate, like “naysayers.”
July 9th, 2010 at 5:48 pm
Joe you forgot the lovely Michelle Malkin, and the feisty Ann Coulter. We report, you decide. Fair(skin) & Balanced(figures).
July 9th, 2010 at 5:51 pm
Hannity hauls in some nice ones too. Leeann Tweeden is one of my favs.
July 9th, 2010 at 10:04 pm
It boggles the mind, that people who are so consumed with hatred of something like a website, or the personality behind it….would take time out of their lives to compose an email to register their hatred! If I dont like a radio or television program, I change the channel! If I dont like the content of a website, I simply move on…it’s not like there is a shortage of websites to visit! It reminds me of that Philly fan who induced his own vomiting on a child…he made a statement, that he was a stupid a**hole who had sat on his brain for too long!!
July 9th, 2010 at 10:19 pm
King:
Thank you very much for the kind words. Joe is humbled.
Joe understands he’s not for everyone. Just something different, that’s all. We all want the Bucs to win!