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Ghostpilot posted:I think a large part of his game will hinge up whether or not he gets recognized, especially given his reputation. Yeah I know poo poo about basketball, but is a club president like a household name who people will recognize or is it like a showrunner on TV which only the hardcore fans know?
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HUMAN FISH posted:Yeah I know poo poo about basketball, but is a club president like a household name who people will recognize or is it like a showrunner on TV which only the hardcore fans know? Not really no, not unless its your team. He'd be mostly known because of how much of a poo poo organization the Miami Marlins are. Its just a giant clusterfuck. Someone can go into better detail than me.
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Jan 27, 2014 03:10
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Sports may as be another language, heck, another world. But everything I've heard about him was...ahem, less than favorable.
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Jan 27, 2014 03:23
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I would say over 50% of the sports world know who Jimmy Johnson is, 15% Jeff Kent, <5% Clifford Robinson, and <1% know what a David Samson is. Unless you get played in a Academy Award-nominated movie by Brad Pitt, club presidents/general managers/behind the scenes guys are far less visible than players and coaches.
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Jan 27, 2014 06:28
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JesusSinfulHands posted:I would say over 50% of the sports world know who Jimmy Johnson is, 15% Jeff Kent, <5% Clifford Robinson, and <1% know what a David Samson is. Unless you get played in a Academy Award-nominated movie by Brad Pitt, club presidents/general managers/behind the scenes guys are far less visible than players and coaches. What if you're a character on Seinfeld?
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Jan 27, 2014 06:40
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Jesus Christ, I've been telling myself that I haven't seen many recent Survivor seasons... only to pull up the list and realize I've seen the last three seasons.  Missed One World though. Heard that season blew whale chunks. I had no idea that pre-show casting interviews even existed; but then again I generally only start paying attention after the first merge.
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Jan 27, 2014 09:05
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I'm pretty sure the Miami Marlins are the team Big Brother Canada's Alec Beall roots for "because they have no fans and it's sad, they should have fans". Maybe Alec could be Samson's loved one cause I'm pretty sure he's the only one that loves the Marlins.
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Jan 27, 2014 18:57
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ponies: trish primary, LJ secondary poison: morgan primary, kassandra secondary. my pony last season only made it to fifth place 
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Jan 28, 2014 08:53
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The Fuzzy Hulk posted:I think that the brains team are not as brainy any of the contestants from "King of the Nerds". If the first season of "King of the Nerds" proved anything, it's that "nerds" are not necessarily that intelligent. All the scientists and engineers left the show very early, except for one woman from NASA who still didn't make it near to the end, while the show was dominated by slightly broken man/woman-children that were able to answer detailed questions about Batman, and video games.
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HUMAN FISH posted:Yeah I know poo poo about basketball, but is a club president like a household name who people will recognize or is it like a showrunner on TV which only the hardcore fans know? The Marlins are a baseball team, so evidently you don't know much about baseball either. And as someone who DOES follow sports, both the Marlins and David Samson are giant shitbags and gently caress them.
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SweetJahasus posted:The Marlins are a baseball team, so evidently you don't know much about baseball either. He's not american.
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Feb 1, 2014 04:05
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Jimmy Johnson is a hall of fame coach so anyone with any basic football knowledge would know who he is. Jeff Kent was an All Star, MVP, and potential Hall of Famer so serious baseball fans would know him. Clifford Robinson is a journeyman NBA player so he's probably not too recognizable but would be a name some big fans would know, sort of like Culpepper. 90% of all sports execs are anonymous so someone recognizing Samson would probably require them being from the Miami area. Which the way this show works I wouldn't be surprised if they cast someone specifically because they went to college in Miami and said they were a Marlins fan or something. Speaking of which I suspect they intentionally put the older New Jersey cop on the same tribe as Clifford Robinson, who lives in Jersey and played for the Nets. He seems like he may be the right person to recognize him. It seems like every time Survivor casts one of these secret "celebs" they always put them with someone who is a fan of their team or something that could help them recognize them.
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Feb 1, 2014 17:25
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Cliff Robinson isn't a household name, but I think people who followed basketball relatively closely in the 90s would put the pieces together if they met a 6'10" dude named Cliff in his 40s. He's not on the same level as Jeff Kent or Jimmy Johnson, but I think Brad would have been able to blend in a lot more easily than Cliff if he weren't on a season with his returnee wife who had been listed as MARRIED TO A FORMER PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL PLAYER.
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Feb 1, 2014 17:47
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Agreed, but since half of the cast is under 30 that limits the number of people who closely followed basketball in the 90s. Like I said, I expect someone to recognize him because I think that's how Survivor casting works. Cast a 90s NBA player and then cast a couple of people who specifically mention being huge NBA fans at the right time/rooted for the Blazers or whatever team he played on at the right time.
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Feb 1, 2014 18:18
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For what its worth, I'm not a basketball fan and I recognized cliff robinson right away. I'm also in my late 20s and was raised in new jersey, however.
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Feb 8, 2014 03:24
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I know everyone hates Colton, but he had a pretty good interview over at Survivor Oz. Dropped some behind the scenes stuff about blood vs water.
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Feb 8, 2014 08:24
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Normally you wouldn't hear much about Club Presidents, but David Samson's name has been out there a lot because his stepfather owns the team he works for, which got a shitload of taxpayer money to build a new stadium, then by the end of the first year in that stadium, he'd traded away pretty much anyone who was good. From the couple features I've read on the Marlins thing, he seems charismatic enough to make moves in the game and he's an ultramarathoner/Ironman competitor so he's going to be really underrated on the physical stuff.
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HUMAN FISH posted:I know everyone hates Colton, but he had a pretty good interview over at Survivor Oz. Dropped some behind the scenes stuff about blood vs water.
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HUMAN FISH posted:I know everyone hates Colton, but he had a pretty good interview over at Survivor Oz. Dropped some behind the scenes stuff about blood vs water. Given that he told the biggest lie since Fairplay, I'd take what he says with a
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Ghostpilot posted:Given that he told the biggest lie since Fairplay, I'd take what he says with a I have no idea what you're talking about. Colton seems like pretty much a completely different person outside of the island.
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Feb 9, 2014 11:49
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From the show Colton seems like a guy adept at saying the right thing and trying to blend in right up until he hits a roadblock or a hurdle and then he falls apart, lashes out, and turns into a spoiled child. If everything's going fine for him I'm sure he's able to come off fairly well, it's when he faces some kind of problem that he shows what a terrible person he is. So its not really surprising to me that he'd come off well in interviews. He's had months to figure out what to say and the odds of things spiraling out of his control are small.
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HUMAN FISH posted:I have no idea what you're talking about. When he faked appendicitis to get out of the game the first time around. It was part of Jeff's  when Colton quit Blood vs Water.
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Feb 10, 2014 16:42
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drat, this season may have the new top three hottest Survivor females. Woo seems awesome, too.
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GuavaMoment posted:drat, I got behind on survivor! Haven't watched a single episode of BvW, for fear of how awful it could be. It's good to hear it's worth it. Now I just need to find like 14 straight hours to plow through it. So I'm way behind here, but drat was Blood v. Water great! The terrible people all left immediately, the gameplay was interesting, and the person that clearly deserved to win actually won. That's happened like...twice ever in Survivor. It's weird that there was no fan favorite as I think Ciera had that on lockdown. I'm now back to being interested in a new season!
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GuavaMoment posted:So I'm way behind here, but drat was Blood v. Water great! The terrible people all left immediately, the gameplay was interesting, and the person that clearly deserved to win actually won. That's happened like...twice ever in Survivor. 
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 Marry me. drat the law!
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Richard, Tom, Yul, Earl, Parvati, and Cochran all undisputably deserved their wins too 
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Yep, but it's still far more crappy endings than satisfying ones. The jury is almost always bitter and mitigating that is the toughest obstacle of the whole thing.
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I meant that having BOTH a good season and deserving winner is a rare combo.
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Spiky Ooze posted:Yep, but it's still far more crappy endings than satisfying ones. The jury has been pretty good for the last five or six seasons or so, at least in terms of voting for the person who deserves to win. Obviously there has been a bitter person or two each time but when was the last time someone in the finals got "robbed" of the jury vote? Maybe Coach, but in all accounts I read that the jury wanted to vote for him if he would just admit that he played a strategic game instead of going in about honor and integrity, and he blew the speech by not doing so.
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Sophie pretty actively claimed that she and Albert decided to bring Coach along for strategic reasons, and nothing Coach did in South Pacific led me to believe they were wrong in doing so. Sophie's an unpopular winner, but she's far from the least popular winner I'm willing to defend. Besides, she hated Jack & Jill 
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Propaganda Machine posted:Sophie pretty actively claimed that she and Albert decided to bring Coach along for strategic reasons, and nothing Coach did in South Pacific led me to believe they were wrong in doing so. Sophie's an unpopular winner, but she's far from the least popular winner I'm willing to defend. Until I read this post I was 100% unaware that there's anyone who saw Sophie as an undeserving winner. Of course she was going to win that final three, she was the only choice.
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The editing staff did a poor job of making the case for Sophie's win clear to most viewers. Listening to stuff on RHAP made a better case for her win than the show itself. That was during their kick of making winners look like poo poo so there'd be a huge surprise at the end. (See also: Samoa) Part of what made the last few winners so satisfying was getting to see the evolution of their winning game. As much as I love Coach editing that season as COACH COACH COACH COACH COACH *BLAM!* Coach loses was a terrible idea.
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Feb 13, 2014 07:52
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Pinterest Mom posted:drat right. This man/woman knows his/her stuff.
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JesusSinfulHands posted:Survivor sometimes shows gross poo poo for no reason at all. These are two of those times. What the hell ARE those gifs? A snake and an eel throwing up?
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Clamknuckle posted:This man/woman knows his/her stuff. Oh please, Sandra is the ultimate Mr Magoo survivor.
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Shakugan posted:Oh please, Sandra is the ultimate Mr Magoo survivor. shots fired, poo poo-storm imminent
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Shakugan posted:Oh please, Sandra is the ultimate Mr Magoo survivor. Fabio would like a word with you.
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Shakugan posted:Oh please, Sandra is the ultimate Mr Magoo survivor. i will kill u irl
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TheChad posted:i will kill u irl With a heart attack from Outback Steakhouse Sandra is a loyal and loving patron. Or was it Ponderosa?
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