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How long after the final deadline should we expect the WISC to start? I imagine it'd take a while for all the teams to be checked for the rules (particularly the 5x5 seems like it'd be a colossal pain, also maybe the clones if there is no easy way for the commissioner to see the total value of a team?).
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if there is any interest in an OL rush im going to enter this team sometime soon  
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Jul 24, 2012 18:26
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Groucho Marxist posted:if there is any interest in an OL rush im going to enter this team sometime soon
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Jul 24, 2012 18:41
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Well rbow swept the poo poo out of me in the TOC finals and it wasn't particularly close. Can't complain about free money I guess but I was hoping for the big payoff after getting that far.
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Jul 25, 2012 06:28
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gently caress rbow. gently caress that guy.
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Jul 25, 2012 06:44
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The most deadball start.
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Jul 25, 2012 18:29
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Jul 26, 2012 18:21
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I'm not sure what's happened in that league, but my gimmick walks team has gone from 14-19 to 44-24 without me changing anything. I'm not sure if the fluke is the bad start or the prolonged hot streak.
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Jul 26, 2012 18:59
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I, um....quote:To put HBD trading into a RL situation, think about Jason Williams. Showing off his guns to his friends after a night of partying. Shoots a cabbie. No evil intent, just a bad decision. Still have a dead cabbie. That's a bad HBD trade. Doesn't have to be intentional cheating to make the situation a lot worse. Wow.
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Jul 26, 2012 21:00
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Wait WHAT?
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Jul 26, 2012 21:01
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So does that make me the Charles Manson of HBD?
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Jul 26, 2012 21:04
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jeffersonlives posted:So does that make me the Charles Manson of HBD? Stay at your desk. The WiS police will be there soon. Make no attempt to leave.
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Jul 26, 2012 21:05
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Also stop posting on the WiS forums holy poo poo
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Jul 26, 2012 21:06
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If you don't call out ignorance then ignorance goes unchecked. I hate that I got dragged in and I'm done now but it reached a point where I couldn't stand by and say nothing.
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Jul 26, 2012 21:08
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They'd rather jump on other idiots who happen by the thread than refute your arguments directly anyway. The HBD forum is pretty much a cesspool.
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Jul 26, 2012 21:10
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AlleyViper posted:I, um.... i thought baseballpimp left that world
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Jul 26, 2012 21:25
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That's the infamous worst poster alive MikeT in the WIS boards, obviously.
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Jul 26, 2012 21:28
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jeffersonlives posted:That's the infamous worst poster alive MikeT in the WIS boards, obviously.
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jeffersonlives posted:That's the infamous worst poster alive MikeT in the WIS boards, obviously. As a person who has never even looked at the WIS board, I feel now like I have made a good decision.
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Jul 26, 2012 21:30
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I've never understood the whole cash for players argument anyway. Do those people hate the international system too? It's the very essence of cash for players.
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Jul 26, 2012 21:37
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Ivan Drago posted:I've never understood the whole cash for players argument anyway. Do those people hate the international system too? It's the very essence of cash for players. Or non-reversible waivers, if we're going along that route. I really like cash for players.
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Jul 26, 2012 22:58
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I really like cash for player trades. Without them, there's almost no way to convert smaller amounts of payroll excess into something marginally useful going forward. And they vaguely make marginal prospects more valuable as trading chips to a rebuilding team.
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Jul 26, 2012 23:20
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Essentially there's a group of ten or twenty heavy HBD users and forum denizens that are HBD's core player base. Because they're the power users, WIS caters to them, and they have certain ideas. Most of them actually relatively suck at the game aside from rules lawyering their way into advantageous situations and trade rape, but they appeal to each other's authority constantly and turn that board into a cesspool. Like Mike, the guy who is supposed to be the grand wizard of HBD, has a whopping 3 championships and a .540 record over 100 seasons.
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I don't know why I went and read that thread and now i'm posting here to stop myself from reflexively posting there. The point mike is (intentionally?) missing is that the 5M is probably useless to the guy trading it. This isn't someone bailing AV out because they're buddies. It's someone who put too much money in mlb payroll and is gonna lose it with nothing to show for it. At least this way he's getting a mop up guy. In a sense they're bailing each other out.
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jeffersonlives posted:Like Mike, the guy who is supposed to be the grand wizard of HBD, has a whopping 3 championships and a .540 record over 100 seasons. "Yeah, me neither. After all, after making the playoffs 11 times in 37 seasons, you must have lot of secret strategies that we're all craving to find." -MikeT23
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Ivan Drago posted:I've never understood the whole cash for players argument anyway. It seems the prevailing argument against is that people feel that you should not be able to have any money above and beyond the 185m you begin with. Which, I feel like I pretty thoroughly debunked in that thread and, naturally, nobody responded to my post regarding it.
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Groucho Marxist posted:if there is any interest in an OL rush im going to enter this team sometime soon I might be in on an OL rush too.  Guess the theme! http://i.imgur.com/OqGQc.jpg I'll probably play around with this some more but I've got it to a workable state at least. e: version 2 Devo fucked around with this message at 07:12 on Jul 27, 2012 |
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Devo posted:I might be in on an OL rush too. Awesome theme....!
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Devo posted:Guess the theme!
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Ivan Drago posted:I'd join you with my own theme but there has been a disappointing lack of players named Ringo in baseball history. Go with members of the 27 club! Jimi Jim Kurt Brian Janis(?)
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Jul 27, 2012 14:56
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foolish_fool posted:How long after the final deadline should we expect the WISC to start? I imagine it'd take a while for all the teams to be checked for the rules (particularly the 5x5 seems like it'd be a colossal pain, also maybe the clones if there is no easy way for the commissioner to see the total value of a team?).
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Thanks! I'm pretty keen for it to start & to see what kinds of teams people end up with.
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Jul 28, 2012 10:33
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I thinking of entering an OL. Someone give me a theme, because i've got no inspiration right now.
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Jul 29, 2012 05:15
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Multiple Bip Roberts and various other Roberts, be it last or first name.
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Jul 29, 2012 05:45
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I bought The Baseball Talmud book several years ago, that lists every single Jewish baseball player. I always said I would make a team, but I never ended up doing so. This pitching staff is not so good...
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Jul 29, 2012 05:51
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Lou Boudreau was Jewish? 
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The broken bones posted:Lou Boudreau was Jewish? Not only that, but so is the reliever Jose Bautista!
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the obvious piece missing from that team is Hall of Famer Rod Carew (he converted) he actually didn't, but his first wife was Jewish and they raised their kids in the tradition The broken bones posted:Lou Boudreau was Jewish?
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Spring training just got done in Hometown and my mercenary team full of non-homegrown players is ready to start the season. Basically the experiment/goal of this team is to trade away every prospect ever and just build a super high payroll team with free agents and whatever I can trade for. I'm a little disappointed that I couldn't swing a deal with my first round draft pick yet this season but I might be able to pull something down before the trade deadline.  I'm a little worried about my position player durability which is why I'm running 14 guys out there. I also have fairly aggressive rest settings in place. I think this has the potential to be my best team yet in this world so I'm going to be sad when AV comes in and posts his 130 win juggernaut. Towers, Barnes, Zapata, and Gorgen are the only players on my 25-man roster that were originally drafted or signed as IFAs by my franchise.
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Devo posted:I'm going to be sad when AV comes in and posts his 130 win juggernaut. I won 99 games last season and my team is arguably worse now, sooo...   I'm going to be in trouble if someone in my rotation gets hurt.
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