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Here's one of my favorite FJM posts: http://www.firejoemorgan.com/2006/08/best-ever.html
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yeah good point, those guys definitely don't know what they're doing. it's not like FJM was just voted the best sports blog of 2007. i mean that would generally tend to indicate that people find the site funny and enjoy going back there frequently and reading it, so it's a good thing that people didn't choose it as the best sports blog, or your argument would look pretty silly. Not to mention 10,000 - 12,000 daily visitors. Who all must spend their time playing "Who Let the Dogs Out" in their cubicles and laughing hysterically.
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My sarcasm meter is broke, and I can't tell if this is real.
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That's nice of you to protect Mr. Miles. By the way, has that site been around for a while? I haven't heard of it and I've been on here for a few months now.
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Holy cow man. Get out of my head! This morning, I drove to work in my 1991 Toyota Camry (it's my mom's) and had a breakfast burrito from Sonic. I arrived at work about 20 minutes late and saw my boss. I said to him, "Wazzzzzzuuppp, boss?!?! Get it? You know, that commercial?" He found it totally hilarious, and totally forgave me for being late to work. Then I sat down at my desk and played with my bobblehead collection and forwarded about 15 e-mails to the entire staff of my office. I even CC'd some of our clients. One of the e-mails was about a fart machine shaped like Danny DeVito's head. Then I pooped. After that, I came back to my desk and cranked up my iTunes EXACTLY like you said. "Who Let the Dogs Out" was blasting and bumping in my office. If that wasn't enough, I followed it up with an encore of "Whoomp There It Is." People were lovin' it. I was the Monday Morning Office hero. Then I read Fire Joe Morgan. It's been a great day.
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You have to be kidding.
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So don't read it anymore. Also, using "ZOMG" in an argument means automatic failure.
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As Geech said, pseudonyms have a long tradition. It doesn't make something less valid just because a real name isn't attached to it. If that were the case, a lot of great literary figures would be discredited just because of a pen name. And blogs work differently than real newspapers. Bruce puts his name on things because he's employed by the Daily Herald to do so. He gets paychecks and benefits. That's his compensation for putting his name on everything he writes. Not to mention the fact that I'm sure he WANTS his name on his articles in order to build his reputation and career. Bloggers don't receive that same compensation. And often, writers don't want their name attached to blogs because if they occasionally blog from work (in theory, course. No one would ever actually do such a thing) they could be fired, reprimanded, etc. And on a basic level, Ken Tremendous is a hilarious name. It simply adds to the humor of the posts, for me.
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This is like being torn between two parents. Can I just say that I love you both and hope you won't make me play favorites? Or is this coming to come up during the divorce proceedings? Wish I could tell you but I'm dealing with a phantom writer over there. When he or she puts his or her name on what he or she "analyzes," I'll have a better idea. Not a phantom writer. He's a writer and co-producer of NBC's The Office. He also used to write for Saturday Night Live.
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Wait, wait, wait. If you had to choose ONE stat that showed how good a player was at getting on base, you'd choose OBP?!? Wild stuff, man. :)
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The Fantasy Baseball Thread from Mepheaven
Tyrant replied to Mephistopheles's topic in Fantasy Sports
A rough guideline though, I assume? My league counts OBP instead of AVG, so I'd probably need to do some tweaking as is. -
The Fantasy Baseball Thread from Mepheaven
Tyrant replied to Mephistopheles's topic in Fantasy Sports
This is all very impressive. I'm very stupid, so I don't understand most of it. But basically, the "overall" is just a compilation of various projections? And that's a rough order of how Meph would rank the players? Just trying to sort out how to use it properly. -
He's not even old enough for the Giants!
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My wish would be for Dusty to force Krivsky to trade Jay Bruce and Joey Votto for Juan Pierre and Esteban Loaiza.
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That's a fun word.
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Slow spring training so far, I guess.
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How does this make Paxon any better as a GM? All he is doing is trading trash for trash. Trash that he signed. As I said the only positive is that Noah, and TT should get more playing time. Noah getting more playing time is a positive? Are you serious? Noah is garbage Actually, he has one of the highest Rookie PER's this year. THE FUTURE MVP What's the point of that post? Several people have already pointed out that Noah has been a pretty good players this year in limited time. He needs 30 minutes a game to develop this year.
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Soto favorite to win NL ROY Award
Tyrant replied to Sweet Swinging Billy's topic in Chicago Cubs Talk
I don't get this ... why does everybody keep just posting his name, and other people quoting it? How did this start? I think early on last year, a lot of people were misspelling his name. So they'd write out his full name/correct it and quote it over and over. At least, I think that's how it started. IIRC it was in the minor league forums when Soto was absolutely annihilating AAA ball and management were too soap dropping stupid to call him up, so after like his 4th or 5th multi hit game in a row, i think sethuel or someone else just quoted his name emphatically, and i guess everyone else picked on that from there. But like all other NSBB inside jokes, their origins matter little as they are all accredited to the strange randomness of this great site ;). And even with the explanation, it's still not funny. -
Right on. I don't know why everyone here thinks the Cubs have never even considered having DeRosa play short. I'm sure they've thought of it, and they've probably decided that he'd be a disaster defensively.
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We can make trades. I guess I could package Hamels and a draft choice to upgrade, but I'm not sure who is a sure-fire significant upgrade, other than Peavy or Santana. Maybe Webb, maybe Bedard. But anyone else has as many questions as Hamels, and probably not the same upside.
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Like I said, I hope it's OK I started another one. I do think it's an interesting discussion if done properly.
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That makes sense. I guess I'll go with Upton and Hamels. On another note, does anyone know of a place that lets you get customized rankings based on your league settings? I just want a list of players I can paste in, and then tweak to my own liking.
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I say we let Marmol throw the first inning of the season, then Zambrano can finish the game.
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No, but I do think it's interesting discussion if it can be kept mature. Sorry if it's bad policy to try and create a new thread after one has been locked. But Greg Couch's article about how awful of a human Aramis is really ticked me off Link
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I wanted to talk more about this.