Dear Pregame Commuity: After joining Pregame on December 31, 2013, I was like any new poster. I enjoyed the MY PICKS feature, but was deciding when to post in the forum. Not afraid or unsure, but like anything else, such as going to college your first year, you get orientated. I finally felt comfotable enough to post, and was early on welcomed by very nice guys like Jeff Scott, Pro JR ODonnell and a couple of posters. This went on a couple of weeks and I thoroughly enjoyed myself and learned on a daily basis, as I also listened to the Pregame TV productions as well as the First Preview Show daily.
Then all of a sudden, one day, there it was (still there for you to see) the first strike by johnnymo, posting simply "Hmmmmmmmmmmmm."
Then from that day on, a small number of the same posters slowly began to trickle into my threads daily, as I continued to post my selections as I was encouraged to do by several friendly people. I choose not to mention their names. I'm sure they will come forth sooner or later. the rest is rather simple. Just follow the threads. The posts became more insulting and they grew in number. I then became totally confused so I did a little research and read back as far as I needed to, to see who "Harry" was and who "Harry T. Begg, III" was. The internet world, thanks to Straguzzi knew that. I then wondered , why these posters targeted me, as I simply knew I was Richard P. so regardless of how many posters johnnymo and his band of disrespectful posters caught or accused of being this "Harry" or "Harry T. Begg, III", I then started wondering, why target me? Are they now typing experts? Are they ex police officers who are experts in catching computer violators? Of course not. They were frustrated posters who lost their banned friend Straguzzi, and while evidently knew how to "get back" into Pregame by using a new name, they still evidently NEVER got over not being able to communicate in the open, with him as Straguzzi. One needs to go back, if you really care, like I did, to read the history of how this sad series of events happened. So its not a big mystery how I seem to know so much about Pregame or anything related to "this "Harry" or "Harry T. Begg, III" and this ongoing "lets play cop" by johnnymo or his other helpers. So I continued to remain silent regarding all that BS, and simply tried to ignore them. But there comes a time when you can push someone so far. And yes, I am not afraid to put a small bit of the blame on Pregame's not acting, after I emailed one official and spoke via email and the message feature, to please do something about this situation as thats what people like johnnymo do. They "snowball" situations until things get out of control. So anyone thinks this was some outrageous attempt on my part, to pick the name Richard P., not at that time even knowing that banning existed, muchness knowing who the hell this
Harry" or "Harry T. Begg, II" was, in a attempt to do what in fact Straguzzi has successfully done, is simply mistaken. I have been Richard P long before I joined Pregame and I will remain Richard P. until I die. Just like every other poster who joins Pregame. So the proper thing for johnnymo, and Texas Cracker and others who claim their mission is one of protecting Pregame and being a "watchdog" for Pregame, as experts who catch people who have been banned and who come back however that is done, they simply and quietly should have reported it to Mr. Bell or Mr. Detroit or anyone in the Pregame office. But know, they chose to act as if they caught Whitey Bulger.
So every poster who jumped in on this thread and piled on, remember, there are 20 or more who did not, as regardless of what johnnymo and others like him think, most posters know and read, and can read everything that happened before I joined and see, this is no way to handle any issue. There is no need to post the malicious, character assignations, (even to a guy like Professor Donkey) and every new or old poster they deem deserves to be targeted.) Simply report whatever you want to Mr. Bell or Mr. Detroit, AND LET THEM HANDLE PREGAME. If you want attention, post things that help people, or post things that might help posters, stop the conduct that simply not only hurts people who just might be innocent or stay out of things that should be handled by Pregame. It is Pregame and only Pregame that has the responsibility to discipline or make changes or take away priviledges if need be. This foolishness needs to stop now. It would have never started but for a simple "hmmmmmmm" that was posted with absolutely no facts or reasons to have posted it. So Mr. Bell or Mr. Detroit or whoever Mr. Bell chooses to do so, its time to act when the time is appropriate. Its most unfortunate that this had to happen during the busy time of Pregame's business year. But you don't really think those who fuel this fire really care about that do you. So before you join in or rash judge, think! Enjoy the two NFL games today, and at least give the courtesy to those who own and operate Pregame the respect and opportunity to run their business without continuing all this low level BS. GL!