This thread is quite hilarous. What makes it so funny is the fact that several people are taking it so serously. At the risk of peeing on Stogey's parade, let me explain what's going on here.
Stogey's Bulls, in preparation for their upcoming BBB game, planned on TIE'ing their game against Nth_Mlb_Giants (and people make fun of my team name). In an effort to have a chance to win the game, Stogey contacts Nth's manager in an attempt to arrange a mutual tie. Nth (obviously still smarting from their loss in the previous game to a team with an extremely physically attractive GM) decide to either ignore/not respond to the request.
Result: NTH runs normal to Stogey's TIE and beats them by 40 and causes Waggyrob immediately becomes my 2nd favorite GM in buzzerbeater (by not only beating the team immediately behind me in the standings, but by hanging a -40 point differential on them. Suck on THAT, Stogey!)
This results in the creation of the current thread that is a slightly veiled shot of the silly enthusiasm system that Buzzerbeater continues to employ.
The thoughts on enthusiasm of the main protagonists (antagonists?) of this thread can be seen here
(12303.1) . I agree with the general concept of this thread, but don't agree to the point that I want to put so much enthusiasm in that my next agreement will be affected.
With that said, I need to go give my team instructions for the next game. I am going to tell my team to play hard, but not too hard, in their next game. I just hope that my opponent will not tell his team to play really hard and not just regular hard so that my team can have a chance of winning.
My apoligies to everyone if the preceding 2 paragraphs are too subtle for people to realize that I am mocking the enthusiasm system myself.