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aBaltoNat · « **Reply #75 on:** March 26, 2018, 10:22:31 am »

Quote from: LoveAngelos on March 26, 2018, 07:27:51 am

Powrboater just look for me at the end of a long hotdog line........the person first in line will be asking the Nats Dog server "what do you serve at this stand?
Hope to see you

mitlen · « **Reply #76 on:** March 26, 2018, 10:28:09 am »

Quote from: aspenbubba on March 26, 2018, 10:04:33 am

Hey TT,

Get Shoeshineboy to return. I really liked his analysis. Thought he was fair centered and balanced

Second. He was one of my go to's for real baseball stuff. Still have 'em (good baseball posters) here but SSB would be a nice read as well.

JCA-CrystalCity · « **Reply #77 on:** March 26, 2018, 11:10:17 am »

Quote from: mitlen on March 26, 2018, 10:28:09 am

Second. He was one of my go to's for real baseball stuff. Still have 'em (good baseball posters) here but SSB would be a nice read as well.

SSB checks in during baseball season and occasionally posts. Does not hit the non-baseball sections all that much. If there's real news, then you may see him. Last flurry of posts were around when Davi was hired.

Scraps · « **Reply #78 on:** March 26, 2018, 05:03:20 pm »

Quote from: Ray D on March 24, 2018, 06:14:38 pm

......... “I don't participate in game day threads, ever. Just not my sort of think.” .......

Ray, are you admitting to being just another 5 o’clock hitter?..... and people wonder why we can’t get beyond the first round of the Playoffs. Geesh!
booooooooooooooooooooo Ray! Get in the game!!!

Go Nats!!!

mitlen · « **Reply #79 on:** March 26, 2018, 05:13:58 pm »

Quote from: JCA-CrystalCity on March 26, 2018, 11:10:17 am

SSB checks in during baseball season and occasionally posts. Does not hit the non-baseball sections all that much. If there's real news, then you may see him. Last flurry of posts were around when Davi was hired.

Think I saw something earlier in the year. (Mindfact), after Minty kidnapped me from the MLB board in the aughts, SSB was the first real baseball poster I read here. I liked his posts. Hope he gets back in the flow this year. I still like some of our current crop as well. I don't normally get in the weeds but some of our posters could make a buck with their insight.

Ray D · « **Reply #80 on:** March 26, 2018, 05:16:24 pm »

Quote from: Scraps on March 26, 2018, 05:03:20 pm

Ray, are you admitting to being just another 5 o’clock hitter?..... and people wonder why we can’t get beyond the first round of the Playoffs. Geesh!
booooooooooooooooooooo Ray! Get in the game!!!

Go Nats!!!

My wife and I have a fragile truce, she has my undivided attention six months of the year and the other six months I watch baseball nearly every night. And she watches many games with me (absolutely refuses to watch football) and I enjoy that. If I were to sit there banging on the computer the whole game I suspect that would be deal breaker.

Scraps · « **Reply #81 on:** March 26, 2018, 05:42:13 pm »

Quote from: Ray D on March 26, 2018, 05:16:24 pm

My wife and I have a fragile truce, she has my undivided attention six months of the year and the other six months I watch baseball nearly every night. And she watches many games with me (absolutely refuses to watch football) and I enjoy that. If I were to sit there banging on the computer the whole game I suspect that would be deal breaker.

You’re doing the “right thing” Ray. I’m just teasing. You certainly don’t want to test your marriage as I have through the years.
When my wife tries to hold a conversation with me during a ballgame I often pretend i’m interested by repeating the same three phases (“Oh really”, “is that right”, and “oh wow”) over and over again until she says, “what have I been talking about for the last ten minutes”???

Don’t be Scrapple.

tomterp · « **Reply #82 on:** March 26, 2018, 07:39:19 pm »

Quote from: Ray D on March 26, 2018, 05:16:24 pm

My wife and I have a fragile truce, she has my undivided attention six months of the year and the other six months I watch baseball nearly every night. And she watches many games with me (absolutely refuses to watch football) and I enjoy that. If I were to sit there banging on the computer the whole game I suspect that would be deal breaker.

I figure I'm not doing or paying any attention to anyone else anyway so I might as well be hanging out with my WNFF homies.

JCA-CrystalCity · « **Reply #83 on:** March 26, 2018, 09:41:00 pm »

I'm really liking Mattionals stuff lately, and NJ Ave and Elvir always get the last word. Dcpatti is way up there, too. There's a few others, but I wanted to give those 4 an acknowledgement.

Oh, and of course Imref in the politics thread.

aBaltoNat · « **Reply #84 on:** March 26, 2018, 10:30:53 pm »

Quote from: JCA-CrystalCity on March 26, 2018, 09:41:00 pm

I'm really liking Mattionals stuff lately, and NJ Ave and Elvir always get the last word. Dcpatti is way up there, too. There's a few others, but I wanted to give those 4 an acknowledgement.

Oh, and of course Imref in the politics thread.

I think you forgot about me. Just sayin'.

JCA-CrystalCity · « **Reply #85 on:** March 27, 2018, 08:32:38 am »

Quote from: aBaltoNat on March 26, 2018, 10:30:53 pm

I think you forgot about me. Just sayin'.

oh, shucks, you are just another one in the big group hug. This is one big safe space.

aBaltoNat · « **Reply #86 on:** March 27, 2018, 08:47:40 am »

Quote from: JCA-CrystalCity on March 27, 2018, 08:32:38 am

oh, shucks, you are just another one in the big group hug. This is one big safe space.

Just how the folks on the politics board like it,!

mitlen · « **Reply #87 on:** March 27, 2018, 09:13:09 am »

Quote from: JCA-CrystalCity on March 26, 2018, 09:41:00 pm

I'm really liking Mattionals stuff lately, and NJ Ave and Elvir always get the last word. Dcpatti is way up there, too. There's a few others, but I wanted to give those 4 an acknowledgement.

Oh, and of course Imref in the politics thread.

Hear! Hear! However, I can't speak about Imref's ditties in the politics thread. I don't go near that joint.

Natsinpwc · « **Reply #88 on:** March 27, 2018, 09:25:47 am »

Quote from: mitlen on March 27, 2018, 09:13:09 am

Hear! Hear! However, I can't speak about Imref's ditties in the politics thread. I don't go near that joint.

I'm too young for that world also.

Elvir Ovcina · « **Reply #89 on:** March 27, 2018, 09:27:17 am »

Quote from: JCA-CrystalCity on March 26, 2018, 09:41:00 pm

I'm really liking Mattionals stuff lately, and NJ Ave and Elvir always get the last word. Dcpatti is way up there, too. There's a few others, but I wanted to give those 4 an acknowledgement.

Oh, and of course Imref in the politics thread.

Thanks. One of the reasons I like it here is that there is a fairly large crowd of people who understand both numbers and how to actually play baseball. It's not just statheads calling people dumb jocks and guys who played in HS 20 years ago (hi!) imagining everyone they disagree with as a pimple-faced nerd they'd like to stuff into a locker.

dcpatti · « **Reply #90 on:** March 27, 2018, 09:36:47 am »

Quote from: JCA-CrystalCity on March 26, 2018, 09:41:00 pm

I'm really liking Mattionals stuff lately, and NJ Ave and Elvir always get the last word. Dcpatti is way up there, too. There's a few others, but I wanted to give those 4 an acknowledgement.

Oh, and of course Imref in the politics thread.

awwhhh shucks, thanks

aBaltoNat · « **Reply #91 on:** March 27, 2018, 10:18:28 am »

I really appreciate the folks who have already been mentioned. I am a bit of a late bloomer when it comes to baseball (Dad hates baseball so I found the game later in life, right after college, on my own) so I don't have near the depth of knowledge as some of you.

Copecwby20 · « **Reply #92 on:** March 27, 2018, 02:05:21 pm »

Off topic but possibly slightly related. In the knife community, online forums were the go to source for staying on top of maker's and their new listings and models. To the point where many makers had sub forums that they paid for to concentrate solely on their items. Over the past 2 years or so the community has noticed a massive drop off of makers that were maintaining their paid sub forums and going over to facebook groups instead.

While it may not be for everyone, what would y'all think about a WNFF FB group. I'm on FB much more than I am here.

aBaltoNat · « **Reply #93 on:** March 27, 2018, 02:12:06 pm »

Quote from: Copecwby20 on March 27, 2018, 02:05:21 pm

Off topic but possibly slightly related. In the knife community, online forums were the go to source for staying on top of maker's and their new listings and models. To the point where many makers had sub forums that they paid for to concentrate solely on their items. Over the past 2 years or so the community has noticed a massive drop off of makers that were maintaining their paid sub forums and going over to facebook groups instead.

While it may not be for everyone, what would y'all think about a WNFF FB group. I'm on FB much more than I am here.

Hell no.

Why would we split it up now?

HalfSmokes · « **Reply #94 on:** March 27, 2018, 02:16:28 pm »

I upload a photo of the kids once or twice a year for the relatives, other than that, I don’t use Facebook at all

skippy1999 · « **Reply #95 on:** March 27, 2018, 02:16:42 pm »

Quote from: Copecwby20 on March 27, 2018, 02:05:21 pm

Off topic but possibly slightly related. In the knife community, online forums were the go to source for staying on top of maker's and their new listings and models. To the point where many makers had sub forums that they paid for to concentrate solely on their items. Over the past 2 years or so the community has noticed a massive drop off of makers that were maintaining their paid sub forums and going over to facebook groups instead.

While it may not be for everyone, what would y'all think about a WNFF FB group. I'm on FB much more than I am here.

I think there was one a couple of years ago but I don't think there was much interest, but maybe I'm mind-facting? I'm in a couple of other facebook nats groups but this one is really by far the best to me.

tomterp · « **Reply #96 on:** March 27, 2018, 02:35:35 pm »

I'm less and less interested in having every click dumped into a massive database where it's not just sold to the highest bidder, but sold to any old bidder at all, and to my detriment.

Remember Gimmythegeek from the MLB board? He warned us in 2005 about how this site - WNFF - was untrustworthy and that some nefarious owner was going to be using it to extract a pound of flesh our more out of us. Yes, I have kicked in a couple of bucks

a couple of times to keep the lights on, but Facebook is really that risk that Gimmy was trying to articulate.

Gimmy had health problems, did he drop off the MLB board or was he around to the end?

GburgNatsFan · « **Reply #97 on:** March 27, 2018, 03:00:13 pm »

Quote from: Copecwby20 on March 27, 2018, 02:05:21 pm

Off topic but possibly slightly related. In the knife community, online forums were the go to source for staying on top of maker's and their new listings and models. To the point where many makers had sub forums that they paid for to concentrate solely on their items. Over the past 2 years or so the community has noticed a massive drop off of makers that were maintaining their paid sub forums and going over to facebook groups instead.

While it may not be for everyone, what would y'all think about a WNFF FB group. I'm on FB much more than I am here.

I belong to two. They suck. (Then again, Facebook sucks.) I'll pay more than my fair share to keep this group's infrastructure funded.

mitlen · « **Reply #98 on:** March 27, 2018, 03:35:30 pm »

Quote from: tomterp on March 27, 2018, 02:35:35 pm

I'm less and less interested in having every click dumped into a massive database where it's not just sold to the highest bidder, but sold to any old bidder at all, and to my detriment.

Remember Gimmythegeek from the MLB board? He warned us in 2005 about how this site - WNFF - was untrustworthy and that some nefarious owner was going to be using it to extract a pound of flesh our more out of us. Yes, I have kicked in a couple of bucks a couple of times to keep the lights on, but Facebook is really that risk that Gimmy was trying to articulate.

Gimmy had health problems, did he drop off the MLB board or was he around to the end?

I don't do Facebook. It's like Uncensored to me. I don't know what's over there and don't wanna know. I'm afraid it'd be a bad trip. Over my life, I've wasted tens of thousands of dollars on booze, drugs, phoney girlfriends, fake concert tickets, lemon vehicles and any number of shady schemes/bad investments mankind has thought up. By far, this is the best wasted money I've ever spent.

varoadking · « **Reply #99 on:** March 27, 2018, 03:46:33 pm »

Quote from: mitlen on March 27, 2018, 03:35:30 pm

I don't do Facebook. It's like Uncensored to me. I don't know what's over there and don't wanna know. I'm afraid it'd be a bad trip. Over my life, I've wasted tens of thousands of dollars on booze, drugs, phoney girlfriends, fake concert tickets, lemon vehicles and any number of shady schemes/bad investments mankind has thought up. By far, this is the best wasted money I've ever spent.

Easily the best left-handed compliment I believe I've ever heard...