It had to be done....Stringer Bell vs James "Ghost" St. Patrick

[Woodrow]

Ghost vs. Stern.
Stringer vs. Clay Davis.

Idris Elba is the better, more charismatic actor. The Wire is the far superior show. But Ghost wins this discussion, and it really isnt that close.

 

[Mowgli]

Ghost vs Ghost Dog

 

[Numpsay]

This really should be an easy decision for everyone with the choice being Ghost. Not sure how Stringer is even in the discussion when you look at the scale of things.

 

[Big Boss]

A tough choice..... I would have to see Ghost's fate before making a decision. Right now, Ghost is in a rough spot, but I'm expecting him to mount a counterattack. The problem with Stringer was that the man was too smart for his own good. Shot himself in the foot big time. Made too many mistakes towards the end game. You know what would be interesting, what if Ghost was on the Wire and Stringer was on Power? Would their fates be the same or a bit different.

 

[Medulla Oblongata]

Would Ghost and Avon be a better comparison?

I also forgot how great of a character Stringer is too

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

you do know that in the end, Avon realized that Stringer was right about most of the shyt he was saying. he specifically says this.

him "trying to run the game like a business" is what he was supposed to be doing. he was right about falling back on the Omar thing.

Omar had been a stick up kid way before we even meet the character. its called the cost of doing business. string knew it was a bad decision to go after him whole sale like that.

as far as Marlo, again, string was right. it was 1 person. string had literally everyone else in west baltimore taking his re-ups.

he also didnt sell the towers to joe, he used it to ensure them having the best product. the product they were pushing was literal garbage before that.

like someone said above, he was trying to put avon on time out. like he told him, he was shooting dope without a fukking needle. he was bugging the fukk out. there is NO SHOT he should have been in that spot with all those guns at any time. let alone when you are clearly on parole.

lastly, it was Poot who said the line about the chair knowing if we'll look like some punk bytches.


i swear some of yall not watching the wire but just skimming through it.

String was dead wrong

First off Avon had eyes on Marlo when strings police squad came and got him. He had about 10-15 dudes in the spot with all sorts of heavy weapons and fukking grenades and shyt. Marlo was alone at the wheel shop and they was just about to ride out


Prop joe had the connect. String sold him 2 towers in order to get put on with the connect.. Plus nikkas was coming for that real estate anyway and string didn't have the hitters no more. That's why he hired big g and had those two dumb ass nikkas. All the good dudes was locked or dead.

With or without string, Marlo had plans on taking over the entire connect by force. Had the entire co op begging him to join. String kept meeting with him begging. Joe kept meeting with him begging. And Marlo and Avon knew, he was coming for those corners and that connect, regardless of what that co op was doing

Again. In the end Marlo won. If it wasn't for some bullshyt serial killer shyt, he had it all. All the corners. The connect. And cheese running the west. And he broke up the co op

If Marlo never existed, string would still have brother mouzone on his ass for that snake shyt he pulled.



All that business shyt sounds good. But at the end of the day, the power is in the muscle. There's always going to be somebody willing to shoot you in the head for that paper. Especially when they feel you weak and won't do shyt about it

 

[David_TheMan]

Stringer Bell is a failure who was a disloyal snake.
If I have to partner with someone I'm partnering with Ghost. Atleast i know he is going to have my back and I don't have to worry about him doing some snake shyt to me

 

[Still FloW]

i'm not choosing, i'm fukkin and suckin both at the same damn time

you cheating on me

 

[MJ Truth]

Gotta choose Ghost because he is still alive. Also he is the head of the operation, Stringer is essentially Tommy and only was in charge because Avon got knocked.

I will say this, I think Stringer in Ghost's position fares better because he's smarter and has less to hold him back.

 

[theflyest]

A tough choice..... I would have to see Ghost's fate before making a decision. Right now, Ghost is in a rough spot, but I'm expecting him to mount a counterattack. The problem with Stringer was that the man was too smart for his own good. Shot himself in the foot big time. Made too many mistakes towards the end game. You know what would be interesting, what if Ghost was on the Wire and Stringer was on Power? Would their fates be the same or a bit different.

Ghost would probably be better as a #2. Kannan/Ghost where probably sort of like Avon/Stringer.

In fact, both Ghost & Stringer are responsible for Kannan & Avon going to prison. Ghost succeeded in becoming a #1 guy where Stringer didn't.

If you put Ghost on the wire, you have Avon and Ghost. Could one argue this make the Barksdale Organization more powerful? Ghost brings more muscle to the table, as he is willing to get his hands dirty. Would Avon/Ghost be a better team? Or would Ghost eventually do the same shyt he did to Kanan?

You put Stringer on Power, I doubt he would have a guy like Tommy as his number 2. Tommy is a drug addict. He also does not have the attachments Ghost has, so he could do very well in that role.

 

[David_TheMan]

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Ghost would probably be better as a #2. Kannan/Ghost where probably sort of like Avon/Stringer.

In fact, both Ghost & Stringer are responsible for Kannan & Avon going to prison. Ghost succeeded in becoming a #1 guy where Stringer didn't.

If you put Ghost on the wire, you have Avon and Ghost. Could one argue this make the Barksdale Organization more powerful. Ghost brings more muscle to the table, as he is willing to get his hands dirty. Would Avon/Ghost be a better team? Or would Ghost eventually do the same shyt he did to Kanan?

You put Stringer on Power, I doubt he would have a guy like Tommy as his number 2. Tommy is a drug addict. He also does not have the attachments Ghost has, so he could do very well in that role.

I think Barksdale would have never let Marlo come up if it was Avon and Ghost because Ghost would have never tried to stop Avon from killing Marlo and probably would have handled it himself.

On top of that ghost is a better white collar businessman than Stringer and would have had them moving outside of Baltimore to other locations.

 

[TooLazyToMakeUp1]

Stringer Bell is a failure who was a disloyal snake.
If I have to partner with someone I'm partnering with Ghost. Atleast i know he is going to have my back and I don't have to worry about him doing some snake shyt to me

Kanan

And Ghost got hustled out of his nightclub by Stern just like Clay hustled Stringer out of his permits to build the condos. Stern and Clay are seasoned pros that took advantage of up and comers. Those were just lessons

 

[Silkk]

Stringer made hard decisions, but he always had Avon's best interest in mind

He brought every to the table, curb beefs and made everyone more money

Him clapping Deangelo behind his back was not in his best interest

Stringer had been plotting on her since he met her at the BBQ and was just looking for a way to get rid of Dangelo

 

[TooLazyToMakeUp1]

Him clapping Deangelo behind his back was not in his best interest

Stringer had been plotting on her since he met her at the BBQ and was just looking for a way to get rid of Dangelo

So you think that he did all of that because he was in love with Donette

She wasn't that major to the plot. It was clear that she was being used for p*ssy and keep D under control. When he became hard to manage in jail and spazzed on Avon, he had to go and Avon wasn't willing to do it

 

[Wise]

String ratted on Avon, but yall seem to forgot Ghost ratted on Kanan.

You gotta choose between the better of the 2 evils.

I'm going with String. At least I know he won't be fukking Kima Greggs when 20 birds of heroin touch down