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by Adam J. Morris on Apr 9, 2009 4:56 PM CDT
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PrintOr, why you shouldn't read the comments at the DMN blog...
The last three comments made on Richard Durrett's "let's talk about the sweep" post:
LOL attendance was 14k. I won't be setting foot in the wind tunnell all year to watch 4 hour softball games.
Good to see all the brilliant bullpen acquisitions turn out so well.
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And Zebra Cakes gets hit on his Blackberry every time
one of those morons posts over there…youch.
"Back on the scene, with a gangsta lean" RW
"you gonna lose your horse. seriously." FX2
Yes we can! November 04, 2008
attendence is low
yeah…that’s funny.
mccarthy wasn’t great, but definitely not crappy
and i don’t think acquiring a bullpen was ever a real big need
and oh yeah, the rangers won!!
Omar Vizquel: your starting shortstop for the 2009 AL all-star team.
Quit being such a homer...
One caveat though is that LSB is all homer all the time and that they tend to cherry pick their statistics in typical lawyerly fashion often omitting the truth in the process.
FYI:
I’d rather Perryman just take over LSB. AJM sucks.
Yeah, I saw that last one too
DMN posters are degenerates.
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by LSJ on Apr 9, 2009 5:07 PM CDT up reply actions
Remember when AJM
was viewed as fairly negative back in the ESPN days?
"The idea that the Rangers are going to be a solid contender for a number of years is a fantasy." - Adam J. Morris
I remember when
(and this was only a few years ago still) it felt like LSB was the only place that you could go where someone was willing to be critical of the team without being completely ridiculous about it. Especially in 2004 there was a real backlash most places when you’d dare criticize Buck.
And I mean Adam and tlt coined Pop Up and Dumpmaster D. Come on
by Brett Perryman on Apr 9, 2009 6:21 PM CDT up reply actions
remember when
we were trying to figure out what would happen when JD took over because wufdog could no longer say Adam wasn’t a fan?
Ceterum censeo Cat esse delendam - Cahill the Elder
It's always been amazing to me
that year in and year out, the franchise was obviously going in the wrong direction (until recently), yet somehow there were folks who thought you couldn’t possibly criticize the front office. This goes back to early ESPN and Newberg days (early ’00s).
"The idea that the Rangers are going to be a solid contender for a number of years is a fantasy." - Adam J. Morris
I remember when...
LBrooks/Seven actually used to be a decent poster. He then started taking the opposite opinion on the current whipping boy du jour. I loved his arguments with everyone in Soriano’s last days with the club.
Serenity now, insanity later.
-Lloyd Braun
by Kevin McBrayer on Apr 9, 2009 7:30 PM CDT up reply actions
Yeah, he was a decent guy back in the day.
I was supposed to join him for the monthly lunch a few times, but never made it. Then he got to where I didn’t want to make it.
"Back on the scene, with a gangsta lean" RW
"you gonna lose your horse. seriously." FX2
Yes we can! November 04, 2008
I went and met with Trosey a couple of times.
Good dude. He always invited seven but he never showed.
Serenity now, insanity later.
-Lloyd Braun
by Kevin McBrayer on Apr 9, 2009 10:08 PM CDT up reply actions
Ah yes, YMMV.
I had forgotten Trosey’s name. Does he still post over at NMLR?
"Back on the scene, with a gangsta lean" RW
"you gonna lose your horse. seriously." FX2
Yes we can! November 04, 2008
As far as I know
I sent him a pm about a year ago over there and he responded back. I don’t post over there as often as I used to but I see his name in threads when I’m there.
Serenity now, insanity later.
-Lloyd Braun
by Kevin McBrayer on Apr 10, 2009 5:09 PM CDT up reply actions
they obviously dont look at game day threads
it’s like 75% negative knee jerking
"I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it." - Mitch Hedberg
no joke
"Take me out to the ball game, Take me out with the crowd. Buy me some peanuts and cracker jacks, I don't care if I never get back, Let me root, root, root for the RANGERS, If they don't win it's a shame. For it's one, two, three strikes, your out, At the old ball game."
Yeah
7K’s when the ump was giving him a horrendous strike zone? With a friendly ump, he’d have had at least 10, probably more.
Those were bad conditions for a guy like BMac, who isn’t going to completely overpower anyone. He did as well as could be expected.
If that's his baseline to build on, I'm encouraged
What he needs right now is (a) less wind, as he was probably bending like tall grass in mid-windup, an (b) reps, reps, reps.
The Texas Rangers have been synonymous with explosive firepower ever since they emptied 130 rounds into Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow in 1934. - Alyssa Milano
with a friendlier ump
we’d be talking about how great he pitched
"I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it." - Mitch Hedberg
+1
Aikman and Bradshaw?
Please. They are in the same league as Trent Dilfer and Jim McMahon as QBs who were taken to the SB by great Defenses and great Running Games.
-DJCahill
by SarasotaRanger on Apr 9, 2009 6:22 PM CDT up reply actions
who will turn into lifelong die-hard Ranger fans
when they start winning again.
"Losers assemble in little groups and bitch about the coaches and the system and other players in other little groups. Winners assemble as a team."
- Bill Parcells
So just like 99% of Dallas sports fans?
There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only problem – once baseball season starts, I change the order around a bit. ~Al Gallagher, 1971
seriously
Why do all the haters congregate on the DMN blog? It’s weird.
"Was this really necsarry?" - cowpoke/hurler hurley
According to some folks on the DMN blog...
…they can’t post here, because I ban everybody who says anything negative about the Rangers.
by Adam J. Morris on Apr 9, 2009 5:29 PM CDT up reply actions
Have you ever banned anyone?
And if that was true you would have had to ban yourself numerous times……Sideshow Sammy, the Young/Eaton trade, anything Nolan does :), and countless other negative things have been posted by you.
Although, I did once call you PollyAnna so maybe they are right.
LoneStarBall....You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
by LSBUser on Apr 9, 2009 5:32 PM CDT up reply actions
LOL, wut
Well, fine. Let them think that if it keeps them off of here.
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by LSJ on Apr 9, 2009 5:38 PM CDT up reply actions
Like that one time when Hart/Buck and Orel screwed Fuson
oh man were you a total suck up to Hicks. Man I couldn’t believe the flowers you were throwing his way, talking about how wonderful management was.
Suck-up!
"Losers assemble in little groups and bitch about the coaches and the system and other players in other little groups. Winners assemble as a team."
- Bill Parcells
Ah...it all makes sense...
steal home must have been a shared account that all the DMN posters used.
the Rangers have crappy pitching
take that AJM….ban me. lol
"Take me out to the ball game, Take me out with the crowd. Buy me some peanuts and cracker jacks, I don't care if I never get back, Let me root, root, root for the RANGERS, If they don't win it's a shame. For it's one, two, three strikes, your out, At the old ball game."
speaking of haters..
What ever happened to LBrooks? I hope everything is going alright at the post office.
Josh Hamilton puts his pants on one leg at a time just like you but once he gets his pants on he hits baseballs 420 feet.
Does that still work?
I’d love to find it and use it on steal home.
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by LSJ on Apr 9, 2009 5:42 PM CDT up reply actions
sort of
it works (and is still out there) but not on automatically updating threads, which makes it a little useless for LSB 2.0. If you manually refresh it, it would work – but then you are wasting LSB 2.0.
So, I don’t really use it anymore. Somebody could try to figure out how to mesh with the AJAX (or whatever is used to automatically update) to make it work I guess.
Ceterum censeo Cat esse delendam - Cahill the Elder
It would be really nice if SBN had a built-in ignore feature for the comments.
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by LSJ on Apr 9, 2009 6:35 PM CDT up reply actions
Email support@sbnation.com
I’ve urged that before on multiple times, and been told it isn’t something anyone would want or should use.
by Adam J. Morris on Apr 9, 2009 8:55 PM CDT up reply actions
i get" want" (don't agree but I can see how they might think that)
i don’t get “should.” Is that because they want to foster openness or something?
I never really understood the backlash to an ignore feature that people had. Yeah, it made me weak (or something), but I don’t see how it ruins somebody else’s experience.
Ceterum censeo Cat esse delendam - Cahill the Elder
Ignore Feature
I’d rather have a feature to ignore just certain posts, not a person entirely.
Like when threads get the thousands of pics and gifs, i’d like the ability to see them once then make them go away and not come back next time i view the thread
"I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it." - Mitch Hedberg
What would be perfect is a "close all posts marked as read" button
To collapse all the whited out posts in a thread. I’ve been trying to do that individually lately, to try and speed up the threads, but there’s just too damn many posts to keep up with and actually pay attention to the game at the same time.
I’ll have to email that suggestion off to the SBN tech gnomes.
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GDT's are impossible to follow
"I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it." - Mitch Hedberg
Yeah I've always enjoyed ignore features
on boards with them, and never have understood the downside.
"The idea that the Rangers are going to be a solid contender for a number of years is a fantasy." - Adam J. Morris
I've been told...
…that the solution is banning people, not an ignore function.
by Adam J. Morris on Apr 10, 2009 10:20 AM CDT up reply actions
That's absurd.
I may want to ban different people than you would. Why do I need a moderator banning folks for me when I can ban them for myself?
"The idea that the Rangers are going to be a solid contender for a number of years is a fantasy." - Adam J. Morris
Where was he April 2007/08
Posted by Scott @ 5:10 PM Thu, Apr 09, 2009
We will see where this team stands at the All-Star break. The Rangers have gotten out fast before only to fade down the stretch. Only one series but like what I see so far. Must take care of their division foes first and foremost though. Still a long way to go.
Really???
Did he foreget 10-13 in 07 and 10-15 in 08?
this?
http://my.calendars.net/farmprobs/
Omar Vizquel: your starting shortstop for the 2009 AL all-star team.
Yep
"It doesn't look like he's trying. It kinda pisses me off," "He could throw 110 if he tried. The way it explodes out of his hand is really something special." ~ B-Mac on Feliz.
so
what’s with McCarthy putting on 20 + pounds and still looking like a bean pole? I guess I don’t remember him looking 20 pounds lighter than he does right now…he looks EXACTLY the same.
"Hang-Dai, Wu...Hang-Fu$&ing-Dai"
twenty pounds on a 6'7 frame isn't all that noticeable
The Texas Rangers have been synonymous with explosive firepower ever since they emptied 130 rounds into Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow in 1934. - Alyssa Milano
fwiw
Boscan three up, three down with 2 K’s in the first
If you want some slack, bring your own rope.
here
"It doesn't look like he's trying. It kinda pisses me off," "He could throw 110 if he tried. The way it explodes out of his hand is really something special." ~ B-Mac on Feliz.
Beckham hit a solo shot against
Boscan in the top of the 4th. The first hit of the game against him.
"Take me out to the ball game, Take me out with the crowd. Buy me some peanuts and cracker jacks, I don't care if I never get back, Let me root, root, root for the RANGERS, If they don't win it's a shame. For it's one, two, three strikes, your out, At the old ball game."
nice!
"Take me out to the ball game, Take me out with the crowd. Buy me some peanuts and cracker jacks, I don't care if I never get back, Let me root, root, root for the RANGERS, If they don't win it's a shame. For it's one, two, three strikes, your out, At the old ball game."
Idiots
Theyre idiots, just absolute idiots
i used to try to interject some sanity and argue with them but i got tired of it
the only good thing to come out of that blog for me is i think that it led me this site
Point of view
I think the patrons posting on the DMN blog are some of those I typefied several years ago as “football fans who think their team’s success directly represents their own ego and sense of worth”. Or stuff to that effect. Hell I’m a septugenarian, and I’m absolutlely delighted that today’s (our) twenty and thirty somethings care enough about baseball to dig into its’ factuality, using statistics and analytical metrics to assess progress and have fun trying to predict both team outcomes and individual player progress.
It’s unfortunate that shock jocks of every ilk don’t think they are respected until and unless they get attention for being mouthy, inconsiderate, accusatory, and generally shadow blind and tone deaf to the world around them. Good old plastic, chrome, and marble Dallas (covering tar paper personna).
"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang (1844-1912) also -
"Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance."
~Ambrose Bierce
by Ed Coffin on Apr 9, 2009 7:53 PM CDT reply actions 2 recs
I was a DMN fan for a while
I just didn’t know any better. I’ve learned more about statistical nuances and the machinations of the organization in the several months I’ve been on (read: hopelessly addicted) to this site, than I had in years/decade on the DMN, Star-T, and those ridiculous grocery store magazines (Street & Smith, et al.).
I go back to the DMN every now and again, and I wonder how many of those people commenting 1) care about baseball enough to suffer the learning curve 2) even know about sites like LSB, or even the Newberg Report for that matter 3) are willing to admit how little they know or how much there is to know about the game.
I also think the Randy Galloways of the world hold sway over those type of people. It’s easier to make blanket criticisms and never learn the subtleties of the game. It’s also easier to cling to whatever opinion you’ve been fed without questioning what might be motivating the person feeding it to you.
I fucking love this site. You’re all stuck with me.
That's why they call them business sox
I second this
Keith Law on Greg Golson, "He's similiar to Cameron and Hunter in that all three are black."
http://tinyurl.com/ranger-rage
That's kinda how I started out
Only I started out on TR Sullivan’s blog.
Once I came to LSB however, and had a few slices of humble pie fed to me by the rest of the community here, I realized TR and his blog have either gotten much, much worse compared to when I first started out, or I’ve learned enough here at LSB to make “Postcards” irrelevant. It’s probably a little bit of both, really, seeing as how TR’s developed crotchety old sportswriter syndrome over the last year or so.
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WOW!!!!!!
I’ve never seen such collective Gayness!
Seriously, now that the Rangers are 3-0, it was high time for you guys to declare dominance of thought and will!
After all, it’s been building up after five years of being totally wrong.
Now that the “negatives” at DMN are finally wrong, why not pounce?
I'm just killing time until I'm reincarnated.
LMAO
I’m not sure what this post means (other than it’s supposed to be a shot at LSB), but the way the concentrated crazy just goes SPLAT when it hits the page is pretty hilarious.
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It's been a while
since we have seen your cluelessness in here.
"The idea that the Rangers are going to be a solid contender for a number of years is a fantasy." - Adam J. Morris
+1
Give me Sheets or give me Offseason Blues Part III.
by inactive lsb user on Apr 10, 2009 11:57 AM CDT up reply actions
ESPN and Newberg
So, I hear a lot of references to the days of the ESPN boards and Newberg. Honestly, I never knew they existed. Looking for intelligent baseball conversation using metrics, I stumbled upon Baseball Think Factory. It is an excellent site, but at the time (when Depodesta signed Choi) nobody had anything to say about the Rangers. So I used Google, found LSB back when it was on blogspot and never bothered to go elsewhere. So, who was around for the ESPN boards and Newberg, and when was this?
by Excel Hearts Choi on Apr 10, 2009 6:49 AM CDT reply actions
I found Newberg on the ESPN boards back in 2001 or 2002..something like that
I didn’t post much, but you learned pretty quick that Jamey knew his stuff, so I signed up for his newsletter. Eventually I made my way over to LSB after I got tired of some of the Josey threads over at NMLR.
"He will not coddle them. Nolan Ryan doesn’t coddle." - Jeff Passan
by Dirk Diggler on Apr 10, 2009 7:55 AM CDT up reply actions
ESPN boards
Adam, Cahill, Sharky, cstorm, chase, Athos, Ed Coffin, Escher, zywica, Texassportsfan, and I were all on the old ESPN board. I started posting there in 2000 I think. The Juan trade and the ARod signing with subsequent battles with Mariners fans were highlights of the early days.
I stopped posting there when a guy named LarryLegend pretty much ruined it 2 or 3 years ago. He was a much more constant and annoying version of Josey Wales….I know that sounds impossible but it’s true.
LoneStarBall....You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
by LSBUser on Apr 10, 2009 9:18 AM CDT up reply actions
Interesting...
I found LSB a couple years ago looking at the Rangers page on SI.com.
My life hasn’t been the same since.
"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates
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