Post by Spencer on Jul 5, 2013 14:52:58 GMT -5
1. So lets start with why does your activity sucks so much? Youve been so active in every other league youve ever been in, why shit the bed here?
Nanz - LOL been busy Top Dog. When I started this league I was going into my last semester at school and was crazy. I had to take 8 classes so that i could graduate and boy oh boy they were tough as nails LOL. Anyway so yeah that with interviews and projects and whatnot just took up a lot of my time. After that i tried to be active and i was for like a week or maybe 2 but then I got my job sooo yeah lol. This is currently the 4th week at this place and its been crazy. A lot of stuff i gotta do and a lot of stuff i gotta learn. Today i got out early because the market closed at 1 so that was hot
which is why i was like hey T-Bone send me some questions! Anyway during the week for now i just don't have a ton of time and on the weekends i wanna hang out with friends and the girlfriend also have had a couple of company outings so yeah. The more i get used to being at work the more I'll be logging on throughout the day. I mean i do work on a fucking computer all day so there's gonna come a time where i feel comfortable browsing around without care! maybe a little porn i don't know I'm not a fortune teller. But yeah i still think my activity is higher than a bunch of guys here but i should def be more active and i get called out a lot more because people like you play ashes and other BBS guys know how much more active/better i can be.
My take - I hope you can settle into the new job and spend more time here. Its a great league and I think you can flourish with some activity.
2. You cant be serious with ARoid. You really arent gonna trade him? Hes the last thing you need right now you fucking homer.
LOL that's my BOY!!!!! Not dealing for sure. I mean i could but why? We got the 3rd pick in the draft last year with him in the lineup.... why deal him? All i need are some more top 5 picks and we should be good to go. This is the guy I'm gonna be a huge homer with without a doubt. He is the reason i took the mariners ( LOL broph) so I'm gonna keep him here. He and Cano up the middle is gonna be so nasty all i need is Jeter but that's not gonna happen. LOL If i trade Arod it will be when he is at least 35... and even then i doubt it.
My take - ARod is overrated. He has nice ratings but his production is just meh. I think with the FAs you signed and ARod you wont be able to lose enough to really get a high pick. Might as well just compete.
3. Hamilton. Cano. Harden. Ross. Crawford. Love your young core. What are your biggest needs? How long until you think you'll compete?
Love the core without a doubt. I need more pitching of course but i like Harden and Soriano leading the way and also Mayette and the other fools out there. Next draft my main priority will be getting a stud pitcher... that's without question. As far as how long it will be until i can compete... well these guys are still so young. Hamilton has to develop a ton and the other guys do too. I gotta be patient with these freaks and with OOTP you never know whats gonna happen. I could get awful PDs after this first sim and there goes my future. Just gotta keep rebuilding for at least one more year. After that we'll see how is in FA
My take - Like I said above I think you'll have trouble truly tanking this year. When you make a splash like that in FA its tough to lose. Building on offense is smart though. There is a ton of pitching available but young hitters are rare.
4. Your payroll is currently at your revenue. This is a good thing because you already have 50 mill in cash. Despite this do you plan to trade off your recent FA signings or are they in your long term plans?
Ummm yeah for sure. I signed these guys to trade them. Usually you look for prospects but I'm strictly going for cash. I think if a team could get players for cash without having to give anything in return (prospects) that's a steal. I mean why not add to your team for free (ish)! Smoltz Gutierrez need to go but i' have time until July 1st to see how much money i can get. Renteria on the other hand... i signed him because i liked him a ton. Improve his hits to good and there you go mama! could be nasty. I know i have ARod so i might be willing to move him but I'll be looking to resign him first.
My take - Interesting strategy. You definately need the board cash. It comes in handy. Even if you just use it to remove bad PDs its huge. Not sure how much of a market you'll have for these guys though. Might need to sell low.
5. Your revenue is still pretty high. Seems like you should try and compete soon so that it doesn't drop. Oakland and Texas are good but do you think you could do a quick rebuild and compete this year if you wanted to?
No way. I can't compete this year that's just not gonna happen. I think we will be better this year obviously with the FA signings we made but as far as competing we just don't have enough. Even if i traded my spects for vets it would be tough to get enough to be good... and if i do that then my payroll skyrockets and I'm left in the shitter. Gotta be careful about that stuff it looks like. I don't wanna sacrifice my future for a one year thing....no way Jose! We'll be ready to make moves next year just you wait.
My Take - Financials are important here. OOTP rewards winning and really kills you for losing. If you arent gonna tank hard core its kinda pointless. Will be interesting to see what you do.
6. Winter Meetings are complete. What are your thoughts on the rule changes? Merchandising Revenue Rule? Competitiveness Rule? Reliever to SP Rule? Any ideas for the Dodgers GM?
To be honest i have no idea what the fuck this is all about. I thought I was getting board money LOL The merchandise i do get because my friend waldo has been complaining about that since nam and im like hey we are at a titty bar can we not talk about bbsbl? and he's like but merchandise for cleveland is so high! and im like there goes my boner so now these girls think i have nothing to work with FML. Competitiveness rule is like well ok im tanking now so that kinda sucks balls but i'll have to deal with it. I dont know how to feel abotu it tho honestly because its not like in bbs where you can get 3 vets and make your CY.... OOTP can fuck up your future with pds in a heart beat. Then you have to rebuild all over again? eh its rough. The Reliever rule is awesome. Best rule yet. Drafting relievers and turning them into starters was fucking up draft boards so this is gonna help big time! and yeah if you dont have A duration why would you try to start? you dig?
My take - SMH at how little you know about the league. Hey Nanz try to make ARod your Franchise player again. JK. What the fuck, you ignored the Dodgers question! MORON.
7. This offseason was rough for Erbes. Some big time problems with the file. Have you every see these type of problems in other leagues you've been in? Do these problems make you worry for the long term outlook of the league?
To be honest i haven't seen problems like this because I've never really been in baseball leagues. We never had problems like this is BBSBL 1 and I'm not gonna mention 2 because that lasted 2 minutes. I don't know why there's so much shit going on but i trust erbes to solve it and try to keep it alive for us. I dont worry about it because right now a lot of people love this league and they just wouldn't let it die. Its that simple. ... I do remember one time you didn't save the file and fucked up BBS for everyone and we had to restart LOL. Something like that so yeah just as long as the problems here are fixable we are good to go!
My take - I like that Nanz can make a 5 word answer a paragraph. Pretty impressive tbh.
8. How was your offseason? What was your biggest offseason move? What was the one move you were trying to make that didn't happen?
Off-season was great. I made the picks i wanted to make in the draft. Drafting Prado with my second pick was awesome. Love that guy and i think he is gonna be a stud without question. All the players i drafted should be pretty awesome. In FA i got the 2 guys i bid for Renteria and Smoltz. I wanted to trade them but eh who knows i might keep them. Hopefully they offer to resign with me cheaper than what i got them for. The other guys i got are all for trade.... not sure i wanna keep any of them but who knows! we'll have to see how we play and keep this thing togehter. should be a fun season tho for me.. a lot of things i wanna keep my eye on
My take - I liked your draft. Not sold on your FA. If you can get even 8 mill in board cash Ill be impressed tbh.
9. Overall who had the best offseason? Which team made the most noise and should be much better because of it?
I would say the Padres right? Big Hanes has a ton of good players who are gonna be ready soon and he jut made some big time moves to get his team up and ready for the season. Sure his finances are like hey you got that under control? nah? ok lol but who knows i trust him to get that shit fixed during or after the season. Other than that i dont see any other team making moves or anything worth a while. The good teams are good and the bad ones are bad... then again im not active so who knows LOL
My take - I think he got a ton of talent on the cheap, but he went overboard. Plus his pitching kinda sucks still. He also doesn't have much depth and cant seem to rest his players effectively. Time will tell but I think the Pads are a year away at least.
10. Predict your record and your finish in the division. Tell me who has the best team and why they'll win the WS!
I'll say 65 wins. That seems like a good amount of wins and will keep us under the 100 loss mark which is always nice we'll finish last no doubt but thats exactly what we need YEEEE
Best team in the majors? ummmmm the cubs. Play has a sick pitching stuff like my god thats a good pitching staff. Also jorge and jd hitting the ball and you know he is not done making moves. If only he would offer more than 500k for fuentes he could get the bullpen to be much better
My take - I think youll win more at this point. Im going 68-75. Too much talent to win only 65. As for the Cubs, yup its there year.
Nanz - LOL been busy Top Dog. When I started this league I was going into my last semester at school and was crazy. I had to take 8 classes so that i could graduate and boy oh boy they were tough as nails LOL. Anyway so yeah that with interviews and projects and whatnot just took up a lot of my time. After that i tried to be active and i was for like a week or maybe 2 but then I got my job sooo yeah lol. This is currently the 4th week at this place and its been crazy. A lot of stuff i gotta do and a lot of stuff i gotta learn. Today i got out early because the market closed at 1 so that was hot
which is why i was like hey T-Bone send me some questions! Anyway during the week for now i just don't have a ton of time and on the weekends i wanna hang out with friends and the girlfriend also have had a couple of company outings so yeah. The more i get used to being at work the more I'll be logging on throughout the day. I mean i do work on a fucking computer all day so there's gonna come a time where i feel comfortable browsing around without care! maybe a little porn i don't know I'm not a fortune teller. But yeah i still think my activity is higher than a bunch of guys here but i should def be more active and i get called out a lot more because people like you play ashes and other BBS guys know how much more active/better i can be.My take - I hope you can settle into the new job and spend more time here. Its a great league and I think you can flourish with some activity.
2. You cant be serious with ARoid. You really arent gonna trade him? Hes the last thing you need right now you fucking homer.
LOL that's my BOY!!!!! Not dealing for sure. I mean i could but why? We got the 3rd pick in the draft last year with him in the lineup.... why deal him? All i need are some more top 5 picks and we should be good to go. This is the guy I'm gonna be a huge homer with without a doubt. He is the reason i took the mariners ( LOL broph) so I'm gonna keep him here
. He and Cano up the middle is gonna be so nasty all i need is Jeter but that's not gonna happen. LOL If i trade Arod it will be when he is at least 35... and even then i doubt it.My take - ARod is overrated. He has nice ratings but his production is just meh. I think with the FAs you signed and ARod you wont be able to lose enough to really get a high pick. Might as well just compete.
3. Hamilton. Cano. Harden. Ross. Crawford. Love your young core. What are your biggest needs? How long until you think you'll compete?
Love the core without a doubt. I need more pitching of course but i like Harden and Soriano leading the way and also Mayette and the other fools out there. Next draft my main priority will be getting a stud pitcher... that's without question. As far as how long it will be until i can compete... well these guys are still so young. Hamilton has to develop a ton and the other guys do too. I gotta be patient with these freaks and with OOTP you never know whats gonna happen. I could get awful PDs after this first sim and there goes my future. Just gotta keep rebuilding for at least one more year. After that we'll see how is in FA
My take - Like I said above I think you'll have trouble truly tanking this year. When you make a splash like that in FA its tough to lose. Building on offense is smart though. There is a ton of pitching available but young hitters are rare.
4. Your payroll is currently at your revenue. This is a good thing because you already have 50 mill in cash. Despite this do you plan to trade off your recent FA signings or are they in your long term plans?
Ummm yeah for sure. I signed these guys to trade them. Usually you look for prospects but I'm strictly going for cash. I think if a team could get players for cash without having to give anything in return (prospects) that's a steal. I mean why not add to your team for free (ish)! Smoltz Gutierrez need to go but i' have time until July 1st to see how much money i can get. Renteria on the other hand... i signed him because i liked him a ton. Improve his hits to good and there you go mama! could be nasty. I know i have ARod so i might be willing to move him but I'll be looking to resign him first.
My take - Interesting strategy. You definately need the board cash. It comes in handy. Even if you just use it to remove bad PDs its huge. Not sure how much of a market you'll have for these guys though. Might need to sell low.
5. Your revenue is still pretty high. Seems like you should try and compete soon so that it doesn't drop. Oakland and Texas are good but do you think you could do a quick rebuild and compete this year if you wanted to?
No way. I can't compete this year that's just not gonna happen. I think we will be better this year obviously with the FA signings we made but as far as competing we just don't have enough. Even if i traded my spects for vets it would be tough to get enough to be good... and if i do that then my payroll skyrockets and I'm left in the shitter. Gotta be careful about that stuff it looks like. I don't wanna sacrifice my future for a one year thing....no way Jose! We'll be ready to make moves next year
just you wait.My Take - Financials are important here. OOTP rewards winning and really kills you for losing. If you arent gonna tank hard core its kinda pointless. Will be interesting to see what you do.
6. Winter Meetings are complete. What are your thoughts on the rule changes? Merchandising Revenue Rule? Competitiveness Rule? Reliever to SP Rule? Any ideas for the Dodgers GM?
To be honest i have no idea what the fuck this is all about. I thought I was getting board money LOL The merchandise i do get because my friend waldo has been complaining about that since nam and im like hey we are at a titty bar can we not talk about bbsbl? and he's like but merchandise for cleveland is so high! and im like there goes my boner so now these girls think i have nothing to work with FML. Competitiveness rule is like well ok im tanking now so that kinda sucks balls but i'll have to deal with it. I dont know how to feel abotu it tho honestly because its not like in bbs where you can get 3 vets and make your CY.... OOTP can fuck up your future with pds in a heart beat. Then you have to rebuild all over again? eh its rough. The Reliever rule is awesome. Best rule yet. Drafting relievers and turning them into starters was fucking up draft boards so this is gonna help big time! and yeah if you dont have A duration why would you try to start? you dig?
My take - SMH at how little you know about the league. Hey Nanz try to make ARod your Franchise player again. JK. What the fuck, you ignored the Dodgers question! MORON.
7. This offseason was rough for Erbes. Some big time problems with the file. Have you every see these type of problems in other leagues you've been in? Do these problems make you worry for the long term outlook of the league?
To be honest i haven't seen problems like this because I've never really been in baseball leagues. We never had problems like this is BBSBL 1 and I'm not gonna mention 2 because that lasted 2 minutes. I don't know why there's so much shit going on but i trust erbes to solve it and try to keep it alive for us. I dont worry about it because right now a lot of people love this league and they just wouldn't let it die. Its that simple. ... I do remember one time you didn't save the file and fucked up BBS for everyone and we had to restart LOL. Something like that so yeah just as long as the problems here are fixable we are good to go!
My take - I like that Nanz can make a 5 word answer a paragraph. Pretty impressive tbh.
8. How was your offseason? What was your biggest offseason move? What was the one move you were trying to make that didn't happen?
Off-season was great. I made the picks i wanted to make in the draft. Drafting Prado with my second pick was awesome. Love that guy and i think he is gonna be a stud without question. All the players i drafted should be pretty awesome. In FA i got the 2 guys i bid for Renteria and Smoltz. I wanted to trade them but eh who knows i might keep them. Hopefully they offer to resign with me cheaper than what i got them for. The other guys i got are all for trade.... not sure i wanna keep any of them but who knows! we'll have to see how we play and keep this thing togehter. should be a fun season tho for me.. a lot of things i wanna keep my eye on
My take - I liked your draft. Not sold on your FA. If you can get even 8 mill in board cash Ill be impressed tbh.
9. Overall who had the best offseason? Which team made the most noise and should be much better because of it?
I would say the Padres right? Big Hanes has a ton of good players who are gonna be ready soon and he jut made some big time moves to get his team up and ready for the season. Sure his finances are like hey you got that under control? nah? ok lol but who knows i trust him to get that shit fixed during or after the season. Other than that i dont see any other team making moves or anything worth a while. The good teams are good and the bad ones are bad... then again im not active so who knows LOL
My take - I think he got a ton of talent on the cheap, but he went overboard. Plus his pitching kinda sucks still. He also doesn't have much depth and cant seem to rest his players effectively. Time will tell but I think the Pads are a year away at least.
10. Predict your record and your finish in the division. Tell me who has the best team and why they'll win the WS!
I'll say 65 wins. That seems like a good amount of wins and will keep us under the 100 loss mark which is always nice
we'll finish last no doubt but thats exactly what we need YEEEEBest team in the majors? ummmmm the cubs. Play has a sick pitching stuff like my god thats a good pitching staff. Also jorge and jd hitting the ball and you know he is not done making moves. If only he would offer more than 500k for fuentes he could get the bullpen to be much better
My take - I think youll win more at this point. Im going 68-75. Too much talent to win only 65. As for the Cubs, yup its there year.
