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  1. Sammy Sofa
    Yeah. Let the players and coaches try to figure out signs. I have no problem with that whatsoever. But once people start using specialized equipment (cameras, binoculars, trash cans) and various other employees, it has gone too far. Or, to put it in terms Sofa appreciates, at that point it becomes lame and now THEY'RE the nerds True, though the dorky spy horsefeathers is THIS close to this territory... ...which objectively rules, so I could be persuaded.
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    lol, you think Sofa actually follows baseball. Nah; the nerds have been crying about Yelich for THAT long.
  3. Sammy Sofa
    There's not been a single sign-stealing "scandal" where it didn't sound cool as hell. More teams should be horsefeathering spying on each other.
  4. Sammy Sofa
    But really, if we have to be subjected to an objectively evil baseball organization, why are they a bunch of weenies and don't go all in with the actual baseball? Steal signs. Cheat like the Astros. Blast the team with every PED known to man, and then when they're done with those, invent some new ones. No, we get the lame cheap evil.
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    Sign stealing is like card counting; only nerds who can't do it gripe about it.
  7. Sammy Sofa
    Man, I am so out of the loop I didn't even hear about this. Bet the Ricketts actually gave him a bonus under the table.
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  9. Sammy Sofa
    I've been going only to Active Topics for so long, I couldn't pick out the actual layout of the message board with a gun to my head.
  10. Sammy Sofa
    So I put the whammy on the Ricketts? GOOD.
  11. Sammy Sofa
    Look, they couldn't shut the horsefeathers up about how the TV money and the hotel money and the bison sausage money and whatever the horsefeathers money was basically going to make them the Yankees of the Midwest. Let me simmer in my bitterness.
  12. Sammy Sofa
    I'd suggest looking further back than that; the last couple+ seasons have been a mess. Pre-2016 to see how Fred did it, and then 2016-2019 for the gif-fests and weird themes and horsefeathers.
  13. Sammy Sofa
    So a lovely cocktail of hubris and stupidity, at least based on their rhetoric hyping it up in the build up to it finally rolling out. Of course, they've similarly hyped up all over the other business ventures involving and (sometimes literally) around the Cubs and Wrigley, yet payroll is still what it is, and ticket prices keep going up, so I'm leaning more towards it was just lying.
  14. Sammy Sofa
    So did they lie about or completely botch the TV deal, or both?
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    http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/1470031/belding_yes.gif
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    yeah. maybe the starting rotation/sign up can be brought back if the cubs are ever good enough to excite this board enough again and traffic gets to where it needs to get, but for now i'd posit that it's best to shelve it and go with an automated game thread post (assuming it's easy enough to implement). Yeah, I think automatic is the way to go, if possible. Then once the thread is up, let people figure out on their own what they want to do with gifs or stats and whatnot.
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    Generally it was managed by one person, Fred (and then mostly me, I think, for a few years, though I quit after 2019); they'd put out a call for the season for people to sign up, and then the order the signed up was the order it went; person up created the thread ASAP after the last game, and did that until the Cubs lost, and then it moved to the next person on the list. The person "running" it would nudge the next person if necessary via email or PM, and then if the other person hadn't started a thread within a few hours of gametime, the next person on deck was up. We'd also keep a record for each game starter (the first post in the sign up thread was updated after each game to reflect this, and who was up and who was on deck. Pretty informal; Fred had a whole template, but post-him it got pretty all over the place. When the Cubs were good/there more people here, the first post would at least have the starting pitchers and their stats, and the lineups posted ASAP. When the Cubs suck, or people just aren't feeling it, they'd usually be "themed" threads instead (like, "oh, they won last game and we posted a bunch of Mad Men gifs. Well, now we're gonna deluge the thing with Mad Men gifs until they lose!")
  18. Sammy Sofa
    Brock, this game is a ton of fun, and Southpaw19 has been behind it and running it the whole time. We used to actually have a prize pool, and it could definitely benefit from some more exposure.
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    Oh, horsefeathers, can we have extra giant profile pics now?
  20. Sammy Sofa
    That tracks with them just being dicks.
  21. Sammy Sofa
    To be fair, that name sounds totally made up and kinda sus, in terms of a username.
  22. Sammy Sofa
    This never made sense to me; like, why not just create the poll in the appropriate forum? As it stands, there's really not a huge difference between "social" and "rants." "Social" is used far more; "Rants" mostly gets play when people want to gripe about some kind of "this really grinds my gears" problem in their lives, but even then that often just ends up posted in "Social." I think it would make sense to just have a big "Non-Sports" forum, and then a few subforums within that along the lines of broad topics I mentioned: general chit-chat, politics, food, movies, music, travel (obviously people should sound off with what else they think fits along those lines; can't imagine we'd need too many). I think having a "serious topics" forum would be a good idea; we do get a fair share of posts where people are venting or want advice about something serious happening to them, and keeping that in an area where it would be obvious anyone entering that this was a "cut the bull horsefeathers" forum would help everyone.
  23. Sammy Sofa
    The problem with all the subforums it that you end up with a lot of inactive subforums. I would rather have broader forum categories with the activity consolidated. I agree, and that's why I stuck with pretty broad suggestions. Keep it as basic as the type of stuff I listed.
  24. Sammy Sofa
    Awwwww, the settings also still have slots for Google+, something called WLM, Yahoo Messenger and AOL IM.
  25. Sammy Sofa
    Please contact me via ICQ, thank you.
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