Ceetar

A Boy Named Seo wrote: Jumping in here without reading up first, but if yall need an extra next year, I'm game. Will keep this in mind if anyone quits between now and March.

Matrix and Fight Club probably are near the top of my list of just about any category they qualify for, never mind 90s. Of course, I haven't seen a lot of these.

Mets � Willets Point wrote: What do you do if you get a card for a player who is retired, has a season-long injury or is Adam Greenberg? lose?

seawolf17 wrote: Way to abandon the team while I'm in a meeting. "Oh, don't mind me. Just have to claim this roto team." hardcore.

abandoned. go go go http://ottoneu.fangraphs.com/claimteams way up top of the page is the link to edit team if you prefer a less mechanical team name.

smg58 wrote: The funny thing is, I could have told Wolf anything he needed to know over lunch today... And instead you spent the time making Dickey jokes and giggling?

just waiting on metsmarathon to abandon the team then. Trying to remember if he was up in the air about it being the bot or him or I'd do it for him. Then you can simply click 'claim' on the abandoned team page.

Ah. This is some sort of open online league that we all jumped in together on? I'll do whatever we need, if marathon and I need to do it together, or if he can just change the e-mail address on the second account to mine or whatever. What's the link to the league? no changes to account names are permitted though. (fangraphs account) this is the league: http://ottoneu.fangraphs.com/209/home this is the 'claim abandoned teams' page: http://ottoneu.fangraphs.com/claimteams I could probably email niv about simply switching the team to a different account, but timing it is probably easier. Worse case scenario we force-abandon the team if someone else sneaks in and claims it and we try again.

metsmarathon wrote: i don't want the moral ambiguity of having to go through the arbitration process twice. i don't think it would be fair to let me assign arbitration dollars against myself (or to allow me not to assign arbitration dollars to myself on behalf of the new owner of the clockwork orange and blues). it also muddies the waters of how i would assign arbitration values to the rest of everybody, i should think. I don't see an easy way to transfer a team without the abandon/claim timing method of you clicking the button while seawolf is clicking refresh.

It depends if you want to do arbitration twice, or want seawolf to do it. I believe the renewal date stays, so the transfer is easy. I'm not sure how to do the transfer yet, i assume there's a way to do it without releasing to teh team to abandonment and having him claim it.

http://www.fangraphs.com/fantasy/index.php/new-and-improved-ottoneu-arbitration-process/ sent an email. two options, either you vote one player off every other team, or you add $25 scattered among the salaries of the other 11 teams.

smg58 wrote: Congratulations to the Mohawk Red Flyers! (Whose team is that anyway?) So the site says arbitration begins Oct. 16. What does that mean? arbritration is the new process of voting someone off your opponents team or something? I don't know, this change when in while I was chugging liters of beer in M�nchen so i'll need to read up on it. Mohawk is mgmlax85 who was one of the non-CPF guys but I don't remember where we acquired him from.

Edgy DC wrote: I wonder how horrific it would be. I sometimes think we aren't horrified by cultures we're born into, even if we disagree with them. No matter how repulsive from an objective distance, to us, it's just the sea we spring from. that comes across in the book. Mostly the heroine just wants to continue living the life and meager success she'd carved out for herself. But moments like JCL mentioned do come as well.

Watched this tonight to clear it off the DVR so it has room to breath when we're gone for two weeks. Kinda enjoyed it. Was silly enough, but I enjoy the silliness of 'keeping it in the family' (and the standard +.5 stars for Emma Stone). Sad he didn't get to play with the babysitter though.

seawolf17 wrote: Tempted to jump ship from my other league and may be a free agent this winter looking for a league, if there'll be space. There should at least be the spot vacated by either metsmarathon or m.e.t.b.o.t

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: It was fun despite my wildly unsuccessful, Met-heavy team. Not for nothing but I think next year everyone should be required participate in the draft as it happens, rather than scoop up the remains. Well hopefully we'll all have 10-15 core guys at least to build around next season. So the draft will be only mildly time consuming.

I'm enjoying it, despite horribly horribly sucking. (I'm 10/12 in my other league)

RealityChuck wrote: And 2001 is hardly Kubrick's best, either. It suffers because Kubrick painted himself into a corner, then gave up, using a flashy psychedelic light show instead of resolving their problem. It was the triumph of bright, shiny objects over plot and characterizations and is ultimately responsible for all the empty films that are special effects and nothing else. I did enjoy it when I saw it (in a UFO class in college), but I enjoyed the three subsequent books much more. I know they made a 2010 movie but I haven't seen it. But I think having read the books and the explanations contained within has probably colored my opinion of the movie in retrospect. I think it probably could've done with out the starchild and flashy bits at the end. leaving the ambiguity to why Hal, a presumably perfect computer, did what he did. but maybe not. The movie is iconic at this point, the sound track too. I don't know if it's cultural impact makes it a 'top ten' or not though. I do remember reading somewhere on the "life imitating art" front that one of the astronauts going to the moon noted similarities to something in the movie. I should watch more Kubrick movies, and also, read more Clark novels.

I renewed a league I made for a blog that didn't have a whole lot of interest last year, so now we only have four members. Want to join a fantasy football league? http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/f1/435387 league id: 435387 pw: icecream2

Frayed Knot wrote: I expected to like this one more than I did. Not quite sure why it fell (somewhat) flat for me. same sentiment. gave it a 2.5 or 4/9. I never really understood his motivation for anything. I wasn't sure if he was actually flirting with the girl or just being helpful. Overall it just seemed to be a poor excuse for a murderous rampage. "Here's a stunt driving scene to introduce the skin-mask thing for later" (Even though no one ever saw him in it and lived...so what's the point? They introduce the husband for like three seconds, really just long enough to set up the job they need to get Gosling (did he have a name? I think they mentioned his name once somewhere..) another getaway driver job and start the rampage bit. I guess all the crime/driving stuff was interconnected with the mob and he's always been part of that in some way. Just a low level grunt doing jobs when asked. The whole movie seemed to lack motivation for anything that happened and you never really understand why he's doing anything he does. Or why he's so skilled at combat and all that. So really it's just a story about a low-level grunt that ends up having to kill a lot of people to protect a girl he likes. It's called Drive but there wasn't enough cool car chases and way too many scenes of awkward silence.

I really enjoyed the series, but was so put off by them canceling it I haven't seen Epitaph or season 2 at all. (I believe I haven't seen the 'season 2' of Tru Calling either which I found pretty fascinating as well and most of season 4 of Angel. or Firefly. Geeze, I need to get on some of this don't I?) I think I'm just frustrated with all these neat ideas and universes being created and then barely explored. Maybe 5 set-up episodes was too many to get the feel for what the Dollhouse was, I vaguely remember it taking about that long before I was hooked, but once it took off it really was good and the whole concept seemed fun and really invited all sorts of story lines via knowing the character but it being able to be a different story each time. And the bit with Amy Acker was awesome, I feel like that really changed the way you watched the show. I joke sometimes that Being Human is actually a Dollhouse episode with Dichen Lachman, Sierra, being the active. (She plays a vampire in the second season of that show) Did I fall asleep?

Caught the Terry Collins interview on WFAN. They asked if he wants to see Wheeler get a shot this season in September and he said he doesn't expect that to happen, and he's already thrown a lot of innings.

Mets Farm Report ‏@MetsFarmReport Bust out the umbrellas! What a Rainy July! Rainy Lara finished the month of July w/ 40K & 3BB in 29 IP

I'd assumed until I looked it up that they simply replaced the actor. I don't do a lot of reading up on movies I know I want to see, I'd rather just wait and see the movie itself. It's why I hadn't watched the Man of Steel trailer yet. "Bourne is in Manhattan! I repeat, Jason Bourne has been spotted in Manhattan!" certainly didn't help that presumption. But the most recent book pits Bourne against another former Treadstone member, so my perception of the Bourne universe is very muddled and the preview hit on certain keypoints. And I know the movies have really nothing to do with the books, but it's hard to separate the two in my head sometimes. I don't even think the last book was called Legacy, I think that was the fourth one which despite not being nearly as good as the Ludlum books, was enjoyable and touched on some delicate parts of David Webb's (pre-Bourne) memory.

The Second Spitter wrote: Ceetar wrote: Saw previews for Bourne, Man of Steel and Skyfire, all of which I want to see. oh, and the Hobbit of course. The general reaction to the screening of the first cut is that it has "bomba" written all over it. Who knows, it may be salvageable. I always feel like the floor for crazy action movies is pretty high. Even if it's not good, you've got crazy car chases and that sorta thing to enjoy. IMDB implies it's not even a Bourne movie though, which sorta ruins the whole story imo. Not that the story every really mattered in this franchise, but they're definitely misleading us via the trailers.