Whatever. Everybody knew cheno was a KU-first guy. Most of the shots he took at OU were provoked, b/c some of our fans just couldn't stand having somebody from "outside of OU" on the board on a regular basis.
Imagine you're a fan of, say, both the Yankees and the Boston Red Sox, with your primary loyalty being to the Yankees. You're hanging out on a Sox board, and another poster says something negative about your Yanks and their practice of spending lavishly to bring in virtually any player they wish to get.
You'd be well within your rights to defend the Yanks, of course, but if you were truly a Boston fan, too, would you also resort to trashing the Sox?
No, you might try to explain that the Sox have a pretty big budget of their own and that both teams came by their fortunes in honest fashion and are playing by the rules as they stand today. But you'd not trash the Sox -- after all, they're your second favorite team. If you had to find any team to trash, you'd pick a third team, one to which you felt no loyalty.
But that assumes your interest in the Sox is genuine and not a pretense. If it is indeed bogus, you'd get your back up when the Yanks were defamed and trash the Sox in response.
Which, on many an occasion, is exactly what Cheno did.
I learned long ago that there's a certain species of internet poster who has a very sly and subtle way of turning seemingly unrelated conversations until they're about him. And these guys, to a man (or woman), will always profess full innocence and claim victimhood. They're well intentioned, they insist, and just want to talk sports/movies/music/whatever. And yet, thread after thread they're involved in turns contentious, with these posters at the center of the storm. And at first, they do seem innocent enough. But after months and even years of the same pattern repeating, over and over, one starts to realize what one is dealing with.
Some of us realized that about cheno quite literally years ago. But there are always posters who rush to defend the poor, defenseless, good-hearted, well-intentioned little fellow who just can't avoid coming under attack from all the meanies out there.
But no defense is called for. That kind of poster thrives on the attention, even when -- perhaps especially when -- it's negative attention.
I don't know why cheno left, but I don't for one moment miss the cheno-centric threads that have died off since his departure. I don't miss the drama that inavariably arises around that kind of poster. And, in any case, I don't doubt for a moment that he'll be back when the Sooners are winning again.
