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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.

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.

And I thought I was the only physically attractive buzzerbeater player. I guess there are two of us. :-)


Steve
Bruins

This is the funniest thread ever! The only problem is that it was not intended to be a joke.

One of these two statements is true.

That being said, there might be just a touch of truth in your post that the thread is satire designed to mock the silly enthusiasm system. Including an actual link to back up your claims, however, is going too far. This is still the Internet and we must have some standards of argument. First among those is that we will not use facts to attempt to persuade.

Darn, you caught me! I thought I could sneak that link in the middle somewhere and no one would notice. I keep forgetting how worthless accountability and reason is here. I was hoping that making lame jokes would counterbalance the general point I was trying to make, but I can see now that I have gone too far. Thank you very much for setting me straight.

Seeing as I have broken internet law, I will now avoid viewing porn for 1 hour as punishment.

Seeing as I have broken internet law, I will now avoid viewing porn for 1 hour as punishment.

Punishment is one thing.

Martyring yourself is completely unnecessary.

LOL, I love the subtle sarcasm..

Subtle as a heart attack.

Why isn't anyone defending the rights of the poor fan base? Those brave people keep coming to the games, watching players with extravagant wages not even trying to give all they got on court. Moreover, they are expected to cheer for them!

Respect for the fans!

My suggestion is to give a financial malus to all teams that don't play crunch time at least 7 times in the regular season, of which 5 at the home court.

Imagine you were watching that specific game...

I would like to complain for a moment about something that's occurring at an alarming rate in Buzzerbeater, and needs to be stopped immediately.

I speak, of course, of the practice of ignoring Mutual TIE Requests. If someone is so interested in your teams well being that he takes the time to send you a request to Mutual TIE, then you should have the decency to respond. It is morally and ethically unsound to not respond (leaving the offerer in a lurch on how to proceed) and then use this information to better prepare your team for a likely TIE.

Shocking, indeed. I didn't know such practice exists and it is no good to hear there is. Thank you for bringing this to our attention. A ban for those players would be adequate.

But we also need to talk about those despicable teams who fail to offer TIE requests as well. In my humble opinion it shows a definite lack of sportsmanship not to offer such a request, if the responsible manager can see that he is going to lose anyway in a normal/normal constellation. It would be but fair to offer TIE request to the superior team.

Unfortunately we hardly see that kind of noblesse.



Last edited by Pallu at 6/12/2008 8:39:45 AM