Cheech Tremendous

Haven't we learned many times over that anything can happen in a short post-season series? Good teams are defined by their regular season success.

This thread is a compendium of bad. Fanofcoils was the worst poster I've ever seen. EDIT: So I just went back and re-read this thread. I still can't for the life of me figure out what the fuck fanofcoils was talking about. Nothing in this thread makes sense in the least.

There were some seriously flawed assumptions in that article. Everyone is entitled to an opinion, but his analysis flies in the face of what nearly every single economist is saying about our economy. This financial crisis is a prelude to other sectors failing in next 12-18 months, which is an important factor he missed.

But the Cards won more games than the Dodgers. It's sort of stupid to fault them for coming up short because they played in a really good division. Besides, who cares what Pujols says. Guy's been dicked out of 3 or 4 MVP trophies already. Can't we just give it to him for being the best player in baseball this year by a country mile? It's not as if there are any strong candidates from the NL playoff teams anyways.

If that's true, they should rip up that contract extension for Minaya. Also, the way I heard it is Cano+Bruney+Kennedy+Prospie+Money for Beltran. The source of this rumor is really shaky, so I'd file this under not happening.

When are we closing the voting?

Thank you.

C/Ping the entire WON is not allowed. Check with Venk before you do it again.

So they couldn't leave well enough alone with destroying wrestling in the United States. Now they want to ruin Mexico, too?

I really thought this bailout would provide a little relief in the short term, but I may have been dead wrong. Things are heading south fast.

I brought this up to our esteemed Ombudsman, but since I'm fairly sure he has no power whatsoever I would like to open this up to the rest of TSM. I want to know how everyone feels about the mega-threads that seem to dominate this board. I hate, hate, hate mega-threads. This includes any and all Comments Which Don't Warrant a Thread threads, General Discussion, and every other all-encompassing topic (Campaign 2008, Offseason Threads, etc.). These things seem to choke out discussion and kill traffic. Anyone else feel this way, or am I arguing a position that no one else agrees with? So, the question is quite simple. Do you like these big threads, or would prefer to see things broken up in a more manageable fashion? Let your voice be heard!

What is your point? Everyone was confused by your "no organization encourage discussion" spiel. Maybe if you say it louder we'll all get it.

Why are you yelling?

'Bout fucking time. According to the LA Times article other retailers will just purchase mass quantities from Best Buy and sell them in their stores, so the "exclusive" tag is somewhat misleading. Anyone want to take guesses on how many units are sold the first week? And where do I get my free Dr. Pepper?

Well, according to Czech's post I won. Sort of.

Good thing I'm not Jewish. That would be a deal-breaker for me.

I was checking out Google Trends this morning and Nancy Benoit was the 6th hottest search of the day. Weird.

Wait, what's this... a Cleveland show? Do tell. I have no clue what you guys are talking about.

I just couldn't get into last night's episode. Haven't seen the new Indiana Jones movie, so that sort of fell flat. Besides, didn't they already do that storyline for the SE Star Wars? Cartman and Butters had potential with the China thing, but it lost steam right away. Worst episode for me since Oprah's vag got a starring role.

That was not the best sentence you've ever written, is it Cheech. No, sir, it is definitely not. Why even bother at this point? I don't know how much we really accomplish by having the thing split now years into its existence and one month before it effectively ends. Might as well keep it around for posterity's sake. Let it serve as a monument to an unfettered TSM posting world, where loose moderating and poster excess ruled the day. Probably wouldn't hurt to have a new thread for this last month. Unpin the other and call the new one "McCain/Obama: The Stretch Run", or some shit like that. I don't like subforums. I could be in the minority though.

Then let's make the whole board one big fucking thread. We can just drop in whenever we want and post about anything. It will be awesome. Look, let's define what we are talking about here. If you sit down on your computer, log in to TSM, write out a post and click Add Reply, aren't you at least thinking that the thought will initiate discussion or provoke thought? If not, then what the fuck are we here for? To just post something as catharsis and hope it disappears into the ether? I am just of the opinion that most comments can fit somewhere, thereby "warranting" a thread. And if we need to have the TSM binky around (CWDWAT) to make sure people still post, well then that's fine too, as long as it is moderated and relevant discussion is directed elsewhere. Is this so crazy?

This board is 90% nonsense and it always will be. Doesn't really matter how it's organized. Also, bad thread gets started, bad thread get closed, poster gets warned, the end. Why do people believe that we will end up with mass chaos unless we have our precious CWDWAT?

I don't think that there's a hard and fast rule to this stuff. Like I said, it's the threads that meander on without any discernible point or end in site that are bad. At least in the case of an Offseason Thread it's only going to go a couple of months. Even then, there are natural break points when new threads can be created. In baseball you have the Winter Meetings, then pitchers and catchers reporting... there are points when new thoughts start and threads can begin anew. As to what actually warrants a thread? I'm no authority. Posters won't figure that out on there own and there's no TSM Guidebook (that I know of) that tells us when something is warranting a thread. If a moderator is reading a thread and a new topic gets more than a handful of responses, just split it out. Moderators shouldn't tell us how to drive, but they can help direct the traffic.

Czech effectively summed up my feelings on this issue, and since he resides in management I'll let this thing drop. I do hope that there might be a little pressure placed on the mods to you know, moderate, and carry out some of these Official Staff Opinions. I personally like all of the current moderators but I get the sneaking suspicion that some of them aren't really doing much. But that's neither here nor there, so for the day let's just say thumbs up for a positive response from the staff. Oh and...

Nah, we're all sitting on the sidelines reminiscing about good TSM fights. This one's just pathetic.