Thread of reality is biting Liddell III in the back

I am sitting at my laptop right now and wanting badly to visit the message board connected to a column I wrote from last week's football game between Arkansas and LSU. Some guy with the screen name ChopShop started a thread titled Bush League Journalism. He used 684 words in a post that beat me up pretty good, and he was wrong in so many places that I want to go on that board and just destroy the idiot.

Tommie Liddell III has had problems this season, and this latest situation won't help. (AP)

First, ChopShop wrote that I was the same columnist who spent all last season raving about Ohio State before it lost to Florida in the BCS title game. Problem is, I never filed an OSU football column last season, meaning it didn't happen. So he's just wrong.

Then, ChopShop wrote that contrary to my column suggesting otherwise, LSU shouldn't feel disappointed. Problem is, when a team starts ranked No. 2 anything less than playing for the national title is by definition a disappointment, meaning LSU should feel disappointed. So he's just wrong again.

I want to tell him both those things and more, but I can't because if there's one thing I've learned it's that no known person can argue or unleash vitriol on a message board.

Nothing good comes of it.

It's like hiring Isiah Thomas.

And I bet Tommie Liddell Jr. would back me on this theory.

You probably don't know Tommie Liddell Jr., but he's the father of Tommie Liddell III, whom you might know if you follow college basketball. The 6-foot-4 wing is a junior at Saint Louis University, one who thrived under former coach Brad Soderberg but has had trouble adjusting to new coach Rick Majerus. Liddell's averages in minutes, points, rebounds and assists are all down under Majerus, and after a subpar effort against Detroit earlier this month somebody calling himself TheTorch torched Liddell on the message board at Billikens.com while claiming he was "half the player" he was in his first two years of college.

Twenty-three posts later, TDell fired back.

TDell is well known at Billikens.com to be Tommie Liddell Jr.

"Everybody's saying how good of a coach Majerus is, I don't see it. Anybody can run around and set screens. You don't have to have talent to do that. Majerus doesn't want any fancy stuff, just plain basketball. Tommie played well his first two years, now all of a sudden he's not. It's not Tommie. It's the coach. I'd rather have Sodie."

The next post came from SLUNick.

It read, simply, "Uh oh. Not good."