For me, I think the biggest downer was losing them to the Lakers of all teams. That will hurt until June 2011, for me.
I think they set this blog apart from others. What do the Laker Clowns have?
Kobe points? Nope. West points?
Now - "Magic Points"....I think Silver Screen and Roll could run with that one, IMO. I wouldn't mind being given a "Magic Point".
"Tommy Points" just has a nice ring to it.
Why does the Lakers series have any connection to Tommy Points? Was there some kind of ill-advised TP betting scheme?
The mods offered all posters a chance to risk tommy points on a celtics championship. If we won we got back double what we bet, if we lost we lost them and didnt get them back. So a lot of the regular posters lost all their points when we lost game seven. In some case people lost thousands. Its a good thing it was just tommy points and not money, although I lost some of that too on the game lol
Kinda obvious that doing so risks people people being demoralized about Tommy Points.
It really doesn't matter how many TPs someone has. What matters is the increase in count, meaning someone benefited from your comment.
The idea that someone would give less TPs to people who they surmise didn't bet TPs seems a bit misguided. Don't blame people for not reading threads about gambling or whatever means were used for the betting.
I especially don't get the idea of TP boosting that was mentioned in some posts. What is the point of artificially boosting points? Is it just another case of the squeaky wheel getting the oil?