Tendulkar Autobiography Thread

[Daemon]

The "so-called" Indian posters on CW and some of the others are just trying to attack Sachin for no reason.

Teri maa ki

 

[Jono]

Well thats absolute crap about it being water under the bridge though. Tendulkar is the one out and about spraying and praying

All good for Gilly to say what he wants in his autobio though.

 

[smash84]

Teri maa ki

 

[Jono]

I thought you were here under a different guise.

Them fighting words.

OverratedSanity's gotta respond.

 

[OverratedSanity]

I thought you were here under a different guise.

Yeah my persona back then was a miserable old fart who wrote long unfunny rants on subcontinent teams. Unfortunately I got banned for being an obvious multi for some reason.

 

[smash84]

Yeah my persona back then was a miserable old fart who wrote long unfunny rants on subcontinent teams. Unfortunately I got banned for being an obvious multi for reason.

gun reply

 

[Jono]

Yeah my persona back then was a miserable old fart who wrote long unfunny rants on subcontinent teams. Unfortunately I got banned for being an obvious multi for reason.

 

[Spikey]

remember when the rock started and nobody liked him and then he became the people's champ? well OverratedSanity is following a similar path

 

[Teja.]

All good for Gilly to say what he wants in his autobio though.

It's silly really. Most great cricketers have had several minor indiscretions throughout their career. First, people put SRT up to impeccable, impossible standards of image and behaviour, something which it is important to note he never asked for, then they absolutely lay into him for the one or two times across two and a half decades his conduct was mildly questionable. Sachin didn't ask to be the pope of cricket or the representative of the spirit of the game,

I don't see why a random incident should be a minor, minor footnote in RIcky Ponting's or Saurav Ganguly's career,f or they had more 'colourful' personalities but should be made a massive object of scrutiny just because Tendulkar did the crime of being a quiet, mild mannered bloke for the most part. If X does a **** act, it's just a **** act and we move on. If Sachin does a **** act, he's a hypocrite of the first order and has revealed his true colours as the love child of Saddam and Ted Bundy.

It's just so silly.

 

[Jono]

It's silly really. Most great cricketers have had several minor indiscretions throughout their career. First, people put SRT up to impeccable, impossible standards of image and behaviour, something which it is important to note he never asked for, then they absolutely lay into him for the one or two times across two and a half decades his conduct was mildly questionable. Sachin didn't ask to be the pope of cricket or the representative of the spirit of the game,

I don't see why a random incident should be a minor, minor footnote in RIcky Ponting's or Saurav Ganguly's career,f or they had more 'colourful' personalities but should be made a massive object of scrutiny just because Tendulkar did the crime of being a quiet, mild mannered bloke for the most part. If X does a **** act, it's just a **** act and we move on. If Sachin does a **** act, he's a hypocrite of the first order and has revealed his true colours as the love child of Saddam and Ted Bundy.

It's just so silly.

Its simple Teja. It is tall poppy syndrome, and it is people not liking Indian cricket. That is their entitlement, but I'm going to call them out for being ****s at the same time.

 

[Athlai]

Its simple Teja. It is tall poppy syndrome, and it is people not liking Indian cricket. That is their entitlement, but I'm going to call them out for being ****s at the same time.

Not to mention that half of the posts aimed at tearing him down are in "jest". Just fairly dire really.

 

[harsh.ag]

So this pious, hear no evil see no evil speak no evil persona he cultivated for twenty five years was just so much bull**** then. I think I prefer KP who unfailingly put foot in mouth for all his playing career and continues doing so to this day.

The important thing is that one should be thankful he didn't do it while he played. Do you realize the carnage that would have ensued? He basically had no choice but to be that way. His only other option was to be a massive ****. I have no idea in what universe that is preferable.

Morality lies not in never having disturbing thoughts.

Yeah its massively hypocritical. Weird thing is the system saved him in the WC semi vs. Pakistan and yet he still hates it.

Don't think he hates it. Maybe just followed the BCCI line. He is prone to doing that. Again might be, and here I am purely speculating, because if he had spoken out in favor of it, it would have to be immediately accepted by the BCCI, and he thought that it is wrong for one person's vote to matter so much.

 

[Burgey]

Yeah my persona back then was a miserable old fart who wrote long unfunny rants on subcontinent teams. Unfortunately I got banned for being an obvious multi for reason.

I thought you had a different username back then. Some paleontological reference whose name escapes me.

 

[Burgey]

The important thing is that one should be thankful he didn't do it while he played. Do you realize the carnage that would have ensued? He basically had no choice but to be that way. His only other option was to be a massive ****. I have no idea in what universe that is preferable.

Morality lies not in never having disturbing thoughts.



Don't think he hates it. Maybe just followed the BCCI line. He is prone to doing that. Again might be, and here I am purely speculating, because if he had spoken out in favor of it, it would have to be immediately accepted by the BCCI, and he thought that it is wrong for one person's vote to matter so much.

Saint Sachin: even when he engages in obscurantism, he does it because he's a great guy....

 

[harsh.ag]

Saint Sachin: even when he engages in obscurantism, he does it because he's a great guy....

Something you could never be accused of.

 

[OverratedSanity]

I thought you had a different username back then. Some paleontological reference whose name escapes me.

You should change your username to a fossil too. Would fit well.

 

[harsh.ag]

Point isn't that he was a great guy. It is that he had to be circumspect given how his personal opinion could polarize half the country (and would have been advised of the same by his advisers).

If you want to just treat him as an ordinary cricketer, then you don't know what the hell you are talking about.

 

[OverratedSanity]

remember when the rock started and nobody liked him and then he became the people's champ? well OverratedSanity is following a similar path

HEY! Why the **** did no one tell me?

 

[harsh.ag]

HEY! Why the **** did no one tell me?

PEWS gave you a ****ing dossier you ****!

 

[OverratedSanity]

Oh yeah. derp