Please keep these coming.

And I really wanted a bottle of Barbaro glue.

With all the issues in this country, most of them negative, you put your trash on line to hurt innocent people genuinely concerned about a seriously injured animal and the multitalented medical staff.

With all the issues in this country, it's alarming that these people choose to spend so much time on that web site.

Kind of like how we choose to spend so much time here. Help me! I'm starting to feel a little bit hypocritical for making fun of those people!

Bad doings come back
To haunt those who comment here
But still--Grow, Hoof, Grow!

That's right, the well-known parable where Jesus shouts "WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND, I PRAY YOU BAD THINGS COME BACK TO YOU."

Ahhh, Sunday School.

SICK is a nice way of saying what you are.

Wear it like a badge of honor, Will.

Doesn't praying for something bad to happen to someone kind of go against the very religion the Crazy is preaching?

Just asking... the nuns would have beaten me for praying for deliberate harm.

Of course, the nuns would beat us for tipping our chair back on two legs, after knocking us out of it.

Have you nothing better to do than this????????

Nope.

Do you have nothing better to do than this?????

Do you?

So at this point I would like to separate myself from the rest of you evil doers!!!!!!!! I agree with Overlord...life's hard enough without some fucking psycho (who just might have an in with the Big One) wishing me nothing but misery in the new year!!!!!!!!!!!!!

???????!!!!!!!! (for added measure)

OK. We are soooo sorry about all the bad things we said about you poor Babaro. As a peace offering please accept this yummy cool-aide.
James Jones
Jonestown,Guyana

44 in a Row:

Bra-vo.

"Sure hope your New Year brings you nothing but misery, just what you are trying to cause for others."

Aren't we just trying to make each other giggle?

who'd have thought that Deadspin v. The Barbaro Message Board would turn out to be every bit as good of a brawl as UM/FIU?

Soon we will leave Barbaro and get back to the import things...like the role Ned will play in Miami/Florida Int'l II
They are ACTUALLY going to play that game next year. idiots.

Doesn't praying for something bad to happen to someone kind of go against the very religion the Crazy is preaching?

Dunno what religion that Angry Emailer spews, but it seems to me that there's more than enough whup-ass in the Bible (even in the New Testament) for folks to cherry-pick in order to justify thier horrific latent misanthropic tendencies under the umbrella of piety and holiness.

DRINK THE COOL-AIDE
JJ

I think we need an open forum where both commenter groups can engage in a surely hilarious dialogue.

Aren't we just trying to make each other giggle?

That's what I was looking for. I'm just looking for a laugh, and these chuckleheads seriously think that their notes are helping Barbaro heal.

So, Lt. Winslow...

who will end up being our "Ned"??

It bears pointing out that they were the first to directly attack the other side. Sure, we sent spies over, what basically amounted to covert ops working undercover, but it was the Barbaro folk who raised their flags in the air and, shouting "J'ACCUSE!" and mild profanity, stormed our beach. Such as it is.

Have you nothing better to do than this????????

I do, but I have to take a break from masturbating every once in a while.

Will, for Christmas, I want the e-mail addresses of the people who send you those lovely letters. You could make it like one big present to all of us and post them right on the main page of Deadspin. 'Tis but a small request.

If something bad does happen to Will in the new year, do you think the comment board should be open or by invitation only?

Don't you put that evil on me, Barbaro! You are NOT paralyzed!

How can these people complain about other people not having anything better to do? Honestly, some people completely confound me.

Satire so that Santa can be happy that we helped teach people they can't talk to a horse
Intelligence showing our wittiness on how to talk to others appropriately without calling them mean names on a message board
Cut throat what should have happened to poor Barbaro after he broke his leg
Kindness that we don't make fun of all of you that post on that freaking board

Merry Christmas or whatever religion you may follow Barbaro.

there's more than enough whup-ass in the Bible (even in the New Testament) for folks to cherry-pick in order to justify thier horrific latent misanthropic tendencies under the umbrella of piety and holiness.

Scott Adams once illustrated the joy of selective quotation. It's how you get from:

"Our company is skilled in many other things which are never reported by the biased media."

to:

"Our company... killed... m... other... th...er... e... s... a."

I'm somewhat disappointed that my message to Bobby didn't go through yesterday. I don't remember it exactly, but it was something along the lines of "I can't image a more manifest Proof of God's Love of Mankind than the continued recuperation of this mighty beast!". I even threw in some misplaced apostrophes and a few intentional typos.

Perhaps the mods are improving the calibration on their irony detectors...

Cryin_Illini -

Will he still be able to read?

Bravo, PaulU. And topical.

Nothing more ironic than the Jesus Freaks praying for bad thigns to befall someone. Irony on Line One.

Will,

might i suggest fashionable Kevlar this holiday season. me thinks these horse folk is miiiiiiiighty scary

Actually, Will, I sent this email to you in regards to the earlier post on Ben Roethlisberger. I'm just sick and tired of your garbage about him and the wonderful Steelers training staff, and I got frustrated and lashed out. I just feel so ashamed now...

Hey, I just noticed that Dee Mirich, who seems to be pretty damn insane, lives pretty close to me. When I'm home over Christmas break (I'm still keeping the Christ in it, by the way) I'll try to find her.

UffDa -

Fair enough. There is plenty of smiting being done all around the Bible. But if we're sick for making jokes, then praying for something bad to happen to Will has to be, at a minimum, as retarded as posting messages of Grow Hoof Grow.

Ok, I'm almost done laughing at these people. They're really starting to freak me out.

So can we all just agree to take the message board out back put a bullett in it and drag the carcass to the glue factory? The end?

So wait, if the Mafia leaves a horse head in the bed, what do the Barbaro people leave?

Scene 9: Sun rises over the Leitch Mansion. Ominous music plays as camera cuts inside the building, rising to a crescendo as Will Leitch rolls over in bed... he grows more panicked to realize as the bed is spattered in blood... ripping off the covers, he finds the severed head of John Gotti.

Will: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Birds scatter. Scene.

At this time of year, I often think of giving to others. Cancer research, St. Jude's Children's Hospital, Alzheimers research, a local homeless shelter. The list of worthy causes goes on and on. Then I found this.

http://www.vet.upenn.edu/giving/laminitisfund_shoe.htm

Come on everyone, lets give 'til it hurts.

What Will meant to say up top was that everyone who reads Deadspin needs to send the same message to the Barbaro board every day, over and over until they shut that mother down. It should include a combination of the following words:
- fucktard
- glue factory
- run you fucking horse, run!
- Ned
- Carl Monday is watching you e-mail a horse

God is pissed those people are worshipping an animal and their creepy message board needs a good smiting.

(It should go without saying that this email showed up in 24 point font, with a green background.)

Will, you left off the signature...

"Love,
Bruce Banner"

Dear Barbaro Poster,

I don't believe people could sink any lower than YOU!!!!!! To put your dumbass TRASH on the internet in regards to an injured animal, you are true idiots. Have you nothing better to do than this???????? With all the issues in this country, most of them negative, you put your trash on line to hurt innocent people genuinely concerned about the state of our world filled with retards like you and the multitalented Deadspin staff. You know they say, "WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND" well I pray your stupid doings come back to you!!!!! RIDING THE SHORT BUS is a nice way of saying what you are. Sure hope your New Year brings you nothing but brain injury, just what you are trying to cause for others.

Hmm... somehow I don't feel better.

And to think, I watched the race and thought to myself, well this has happened before, this won't be a big deal...

Thankfully I was wrong, this barbaro (do i date not capitalize His name) shit might be surpassing Carl Monday and Mike Cooper in terms of utter ridiculousness.

My prayer is that some other stupid animal injures himself next year so this can continue to repeat itself. Who's Next?

Agreed, JB*. Actually, it's not just retarded, it's sick and dangerous. It leads to stuff like murdering abortion doctors and flying airplanes into buildings.

If the photo posted at the top of this thread were larger, I could tell if I wished that it showed the nurse soaking the front of her shirt with the hose.

The Barbaro nuts were who we thought they were! A bunch of losers who even make sports fans appear to have lives.

Will,
I am sure that Winslow can get you some Kevlar from most of the U's football team.

Long live Ned!

Can I be Ned in the Deadspin theatrical release of this incident? I am deadly with a crutch.

I've been thinking... do these people even know what Deadspin is? Or did they see that message on the board from the moderator and think to themselves, "MUST. SMASH. DEADSPIN. BAD. KILL."?

Agreed, UffDa - I just didn't want to get all serious.

Apropos of nothing, as I was reading this thread, I got my annual email card from Alumni Giving at my alma. Which made me think - if you were a UPenn Vet School alum, how would you feel about that freakin' horse and a bunch of crazies posting messages to him on a school funded website are the reasons you are currently known?

I think my next donation would be earmarked for the "Anything But Big Beautiful Bobby" fund.

sadly, as a result of being overshadowed by overwhelming public support for Barbaro, the "Letters to Ned" message board has been abandoned by all but Ned's most ardent supporters.

They think DEADSpINners worship satan cause it's not called "wewanttohumpahorsespin.com".

If we're asking Will to play Santa: I would love to read an interview of the Barbaro message board moderator. Maybe he could make a 'best of' list of the messages he had to screen out.