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Thread: To Oriole Fans (A Moving Letter from Devil Rays Fan)

  1. 09-24-2008, 08:17 PM #121
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    Quote Originally Posted by tjb13 View Post
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    Glad to see you're on a first-name basis. I call him Mr. Mensa.
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  2. 09-24-2008, 09:59 PM #122
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mister Big View Post
    Glad to see you're on a first-name basis. I call him Mr. Mensa.
    Some of us are just lucky, I guess.
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    Well folks, since this is my last dance on the board, I just wanted to bring back my favorite thread ever.

    Its been an interesting ride to say the least. Glad I'll be able to keep my association going with about 30 of the good ones from this board.

    Have a good one, all.

    (An appropriate video from a pretty good band. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElkNjhmzSmA&feature=fvsr)
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    thanks for memories, but I think I am retiring for board posting and will get some counseling. Thanks for the insight...Redskins/Eagles game should be good..take care
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    sniff, sniff.... weep, weep

    lol lol lol
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    Hopefully bobby signs up. This board should be much more clean and easier to talk baseball now that alties and folks with anonymous agendas slither back into the shadows.

    Go O's!

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    the wonderful thing about this thread is that it conclusively proves that a salary cap isn't necessary. Tampa routinely makes it to the playoffs.

    as for the folks who like to say, "maybe they made the playoffs, but they lose to the big spenders in the first round". Tampa went thru the big spenders to reach the WS.

    and they have continued to get there after letting go of players who reached free agency. so that kills the popular retort, "sure they made the playoffs this year, but what about when their young stars can become FAs".

    a salary cap is unnecessary. game, set, match.
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    Quote Originally Posted by TravisMoon View Post
    Hopefully bobby signs up. This board should be much more clean and easier to talk baseball now that alties and folks with anonymous agendas slither back into the shadows.

    Go O's!

    TM
    only if you leave, otherwise the intellectual dishonesty will continue unabated....

    anonymous agendas? how very paranoid of you.....

    just think of all the game threads you can post to using pithy things like "K this bum"..."he was out, the umps are biased"..."it was tax day, a let down was assured"..."just missed hitting that one out by 300 ft"...and other bird droppings from you....without anyone paying attention...
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    Quote Originally Posted by TravisMoon View Post
    Hopefully bobby signs up. This board should be much more clean and easier to talk baseball now that alties and folks with anonymous agendas slither back into the shadows.

    Go O's!

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    You were never here to talk baseball, so give it a rest, skippy.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dirty Frank View Post
    You were never here to talk baseball, so give it a rest, skippy.
    Rob Deer with a keyboard?
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    Quote Originally Posted by weird-O View Post
    a salary cap is unnecessary. game, set, match.

    Correct. A salary cap is not necessary for some team with a small payroll to make the playoffs.

    A team can make the playoffs with a small payroll.

    Of course, virtually everyone agrees that a huge payroll makes it a lot easier to make the playoffs.
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    Quote Originally Posted by can you hear me now! View Post
    only if you leave, otherwise the intellectual dishonesty will continue unabated....

    anonymous agendas? how very paranoid of you.....

    just think of all the game threads you can post to using pithy things like "K this bum"..."he was out, the umps are biased"..."it was tax day, a let down was assured"..."just missed hitting that one out by 300 ft"...and other bird droppings from you....without anyone paying attention...
    Don't forget the sac groundouts with one out while down by 5!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Icterus Galbula View Post
    Correct. A salary cap is not necessary for some team with a small payroll to make the playoffs.

    A team can make the playoffs with a small payroll.

    Of course, virtually everyone agrees that a huge payroll makes it a lot easier to make the playoffs.
    everyone also agrees that drafting well and having a strong player development program makes it easier to make the playoffs.

    there are several advantages that are just as beneficial as deep pockets. the problem is that bobby discounts those factors and has declared that payroll flexibility is an insurmountable advantage that has kept the O's and Tampa from making it to the WS.

    time has proven him to be 100% wrong.
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    Since I see the way-back machine got fired up...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Norman View Post
    Since I see the way-back machine got fired up...
    Once they leave, they're so hard to find.
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    this thread is special as it sucked in a special troll and his little buddy....I'm sure the letter writer is smiling someone in the ether...
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  17. 01-08-2013, 03:20 PM #137
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    Quote Originally Posted by flarkenberry View Post
    Once they leave, they're so hard to find.
    what ever happened to him?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Norman View Post
    what ever happened to him?
    Whatever happened to liltink ?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Norman View Post
    what ever happened to him?
    He posts http://sunspotlives.proboards.com/in...?board=orioles sometimes.
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