Tracer Bullet

apologies for the premature comment on the maturity of the board

sweet, i fixed it hey mods wooooo burned you http://media.giphy.com/media/x1kS7NRIcIigU/giphy.gif um, this board has no mods

boy, you can really tell that nsbb has matured. used to be more stupid jokes immediately after tragedies.

Buster says Rays likely to investigate tampering if Maddon signs with Cubs. Weird.

I'm not gonna use many/any tix, but might have to get them anyway just to not lose my spot in line

Sandwiches and subs are very similar foods, but are ultimately their own things. If you promise a group of people subs and then present them with a bunch of sandwiches they will rightly be perplexed and frustrated as to why you are playing cruel food games with them. On the flipside, if you promise people sandwiches and bring them subs, they will be pleasantly surprised (because subs are inherently superior). Either way, people's perceptions are very, very different with these types of foods despite their many similarities. Maybe the answer is looking at something like linguine vs. udon. Both are noodles, yet both are not pasta. well, both are not italian noodles, which is the cultural definition of pasta. all pasta really means is paste, as in the original form of the noodle. using that definition, all members of the noodle family are paste first, and are therefore all pasta regardless of continent/culture of origin. we just don't consider that a meaningful working definition because of common usage but you're conflating common usage with our very academic food classification discussion. in common usage, you probably would never say "let's go get sandwiches" and drive straight towards your favorite sub shop. but in the academic sense a sub is very much a sandwich (using my definition which is clearly the best). my guess is that the sub predates the sliced-loaf sandwich by many years, if not ages. mapping the familial tree, however, whereby the purest form is the parent and all variations are branches from the main, a submarine is a child of the sliced-bread sandwich; defined by the bread, but different enough that it warrants its own branch. the same goes with the "burger" and its variations, open-faced things like the horseshoe and the hot brown, etc. wraps are not sandwiches, they are gringo burritos and deserve a fate not unlike kim jong un's uncle Hahahaha. You're killing this thread.

Do I get to know that Theo/Jed would draft like [expletive] badasses? I honestly don't remember and would have likely been thrilled with either.

Hopefully Wong's performance has convinced the Cards to just let him play every day.

$190m is a lot for a guy who can't win in the playoffs

I do. I'm in Texas and got tickets when my number came up a few seasons ago. I sell some to family and friends back home in Chicago and the rest on StubHub. out of curiosity, when you're looking to unload that amount of volume (since, for one, you aren't here to go to the games if they don't sell, i mean), how aggressively are you pricing all of the games? good question b/c this is where I'm going to be (only WA instead of TX). Family is interested, but not sure they want 81 games.

[expletive]

1. Any ideas on replacing Bukie? 2. Are we just going to launch right into trading or wait until we have a full roster of managers?

I've only ever finished last or first.

sigged the best part is that he tried to change B&B's minds by sending them an email.

Does someone need to set this up for 2 weeks or did Tim concede?

Jesus. So sorry to hear that, Kevin.

If Tim's traveling and can't make changes to his lineup, can someone drop Lowrie from his roster? Lowrie came off the DL on 9/1 and needs to be dropped.

I think that's what we did last year. Fine with me. Does someone need to set it up? Right now, I don't have a matchup for this week.

I'm gonna see if I can't make it work, either with family living in the area or something. I actually think I got incredibly lucky and this could be the perfect time. My parents just fully retired, so maybe they'll be game. Nuts - you did a partial package, right? Do you get guaranteed playoff tickets? Then you can change to a different package, or a full package, each year? Is that right?

I just got an email saying that my number has come up. Unfortunately, I live 2000+ miles away.

i think i'm going to bring the fam up for that series as well, but i'm a hilton man myself Looks like the annual summer trip to Iowa via MSP will be in mid-June next year

Time you could have been spending making another 5 transaction today

No one's saying you counted each individual transaction, doofus. taking the time to figure out the number of moves I've made (and then getting the number wrong) seems like a weird waste of time, especially when you're bitching about not having enough time.

your logic is truly dizzying. You've got a vastly superior team but to not change it would put you at a disadvantage (of course, you picked up a guy I dropped from my apparently terrible team and then dropped him already today). I have a "fanatical devotion" because I make a bunch of changes, which take like, seconds. You count the number of transactions that every team has made this season...you're [expletive] psycho