*** Official August - October Chatter Thread ***
 

Going ahead and restarting the Chatter thread.

Rules: absolutely anything goes in here, no matter how off topic, as long as it doesn't violate the site's terms and conditions or the general tone of this forum (i.e. still be respectful to each other). But you can talk about any subject you want in here... . Discuss anything you want!


Previous chatter thread (active through 8/20)
*** Official May - June - July Chatter Thread ***

-P

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first


Thremp whines when I don't get on AIM....hahahahhhahahhaa

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Since there's a new thread, I'll make my final pitch for anyone that wants to get into a small stakes ($50) fantasy football league, please PM me. We need 2 more, and our draft is Thursday night.

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third

lol, SIA took down all their week 1 NFL totals.
I guess they got hit too hard posting o/u 41 for AZ/SF. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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SIA has kicked my ass in August. They must be real proud of themselves.

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first


Thremp whines when I don't get on AIM....hahahahhhahahhaa

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I do. I have things to discuss and the world revolves around my time table. Sadly, you seem immune to that realization.


HYACHAHCHAHCHAHHCZA

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the word september is unnecessary, imo

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Changed it. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

-P

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the word september is unnecessary, imo

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How will I know where to post next month?!?

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this month has been nasty to me...1-7, -12u...

yuck.

only second losing month this year, but damn, i feel like [censored] right now, and probably make no more bets until regular season nfl starts, and even then, i'm only dipping my toes in until i get a feel back...

losing streaks suck. badly.

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this month has been nasty to me...1-7, -12u...

yuck.

only second losing month this year, but damn, i feel like [censored] right now, and probably make no more bets until regular season nfl starts, and even then, i'm only dipping my toes in until i get a feel back...

losing streaks suck. badly.

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So you've made 8 bets in over three weeks? Some people bet more than that in a single day.

Go flip a coin 8 times, and count the number of heads.
Repeat this 100 times, and come back with the results.

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good to see our old friend is still as sharp as a marble


http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showfl...;gonew=1#UNREAD

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good to see our old friend is still as sharp as a marble


http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showfl...;gonew=1#UNREAD

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[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]

Thanks.

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People agreed with him in apparent seriousness.


loooooooooool

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Winner Take All FFB League
Two spots left in 8 man league...1st come 1st serve

$315 buy-in.
Best record during regular season gets auto bye into Superbowl
2 thru 5 play out playoffs to go up vs. regular season winner
1st pays $2000
2nd pays $400

pm me your aim/email/name etc if interested so i can add u to league

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Winner Take All FFB League

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1st pays $2000
2nd pays $400

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Sweet.

That being said, when is the draft?

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Whenever everyone agrees they can do it

so basically sometime between now and a day or two before the regular season starts

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You charge vig for your fantasy draft?

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You charge vig for your fantasy draft?

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its to be pay for cbssportsline...yahoo has no draft times available that start before like noon.

and i actually lose a little esp if it ends up being 6 teams instead of 8...but looks like it will be 8

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Winner Take All FFB League
Two spots left in 8 man league...1st come 1st serve

$315 buy-in.
Best record during regular season gets auto bye into Superbowl
2 thru 5 play out playoffs to go up vs. regular season winner
1st pays $2000
2nd pays $400

pm me your aim/email/name etc if interested so i can add u to league

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scratch that..1 spot left.

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i been away, can americans still bet on sports online? what sites? thanks-Indy

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Yep.

Bodog
The Greek
SportsInterAction
5 Dimes
WSEX

and many more. No Pinnacle, though.

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Yep.

Bodog
The Greek
SportsInterAction
5 Dimes
WSEX

and many more. No Pinnacle, though.

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ok but...isn't line shopping very hard now?

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How can you not mention Matchbook for betting? For straight bets it is THE BOOK TO USE since Pinny is gone.

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How can you not mention Matchbook for betting? For straight bets it is THE BOOK TO USE since Pinny is gone.

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this gambling ban sucks....man i cannot believe we have not marched on DC yet.

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Indiana this is what it is like living with Big Brother watching our every move. Might as well be living in a police state. I can't wait to move out of this country for good.

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Brendan,

I primarily bet rugby and Matchbook doesn't have any rugby lines. I end up having to bet -115 lines for the most part, although the lines are still so soft that -115s are easily beatable.

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hedgie43,
complete sidetracking question

I've always wondered why the US doesn't have a great rugby team. It seems to me that the US could use excellent college football running backs and linebackers that don't quite make the NFL and be a dominate rugby force. Am I overestimating how easy it would be for that type of guy to make the leap and learn rugby? Am I overestimating the physical edge that type of guy would have?

Thanks

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MT2R,

We have had some success in converting football players to rugby players. Dan Lyle, a linebacker from VMI, didn't take up the game until he was 24 and he became one of the best in the world at his position, winning the English Premiership's Player of the Year award in 1998. There are a few others like him, but it is completely dependent on the position. Some positions you need to have played for a long time so that the game comes naturally and so that you have the necessary skills, which take time to develop. Other positions are fairly easy to learn and those are the positions where American players have had the most success, as most of us don't grow up with the game.

As for physical edges, rugby takes much more fitness than football, although with enough time, football players should be able to get up to the right fitness levels. Rugby (union) has only been professional for 11 years now and in the early years of professionalism, American players definitely had an edge in terms of training and proper diet. Now, however, the training programs and diets of the players are very professional so that edge that we have has probably decreased. However, we as a country still produce some of the best athletes in the world and if we got the right guys to play rugby we would definitely be a power.

The Rugby World Cup is coming up next month and we will probably lose every game. We have a decent shot to beat Tonga and a very slim chance of beating Samoa. The others in our pool, South Africa and England, will slaughter us. But there is definitely hope for the future as USA Rugby is looking into getting more former college football players involved. In fact, USA Rugby is in discussions with Spike TV about making a rugby reality show (somewhat like the Ultimate Fighter) where former D1 college football players are trained in rugby and then they have some games and the standout players would be awarded contracts with the national team. Oh and if you want to watch some of the World Cup games, all of the USA games plus a few others will be tape delayed on Versus.

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Indiana this is what it is like living with Big Brother watching our every move. Might as well be living in a police state. I can't wait to move out of this country for good.

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i agree...but i ain't leaving the USA because I've traveled the world and nowhere else is good for me to live permanently. Not to mention that my ancestors shed their blood for this land so I gotta stick it out.

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Need 5 more for my fantasy league. Its going to be on yahoo.

2qb, 2rb, 3wr, 1te, 1k, 1def, 2d players, plus 6 man bench

8 man league, draft time is set at Monday, September 3nd at 3:00, but we can change that if we need to (season starts the 6th).

Let me know if you're interested, its going to be a $200 league, money goes

1st: 900
2nd: 500
Highest Point total: 200

The ppl in it now are me, yellowsub and chinakin, post in this thread if you want in or send me a pm.

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is the SBFFL not happening this year?

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is the SBFFL not happening this year?

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we're going to do it.

I'll post a thread on it tomorrow when i get back from Vegas. We've got ten days before the season starts, we can surely pull everything together in that much time.

-P

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Posted this in someone's stupid deposit thread, but I don't think anyone actually read that, so now I'm posting here:

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Are there any e-wallets that are still remotely convenient? I could try to deposit with E-checks if I have to, but if I could somehow move $2000 or so from Stars to a sportsbook by next Saturday, that would be a lot more convenient than trying to use my real world cash.

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Here's a sweet quote from Fortune's Formula.

The important thing is to make as much money as possible, as quickly as possible--and then worry about how you'll spend it.

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oh c'mon, someone has to want to join my league!

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Has anyone been watching the line movement for the WNBA game tonight?

I could've sworn I saw the moneyline at +228/-248 like ten minutes ago, but now it's up to +323/-353. Maybe I accidentally looked at the first half line?

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The Dodgers are a bunch of poopoo heads [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

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fools....with football season, I'll probably be back on IRC
occassionally (rarely) we had some good thoughts cross there last year
I enjoyed it

so, I think Homer set up #2p2sports last year and I think it's still up on efnet