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Subject: Just 4 fun: Top Ten Signs

Posted by: StLCards - [296581212] Wed, Aug 16, 13:13

I thought it would be fun to put together a "Top Ten" list (or more) of signs that you are a RotoGurupie. I'll start with:
1) You can't wait to get to work because you can access the RotoGuru message forum much faster from there.

EmbarrassedHawksFan
ID: 394541910
Wed, Aug 16, 13:21

everytime you watch the drew carey show, you think of the pink pimp.

JeffG
ID: 25414311
Wed, Aug 16, 13:24

you use the term Randro in every day conversation.

blue hen
ID: 386331314
Wed, Aug 16, 13:24

2) You know what "RANDRO" means, but, more importantly, you know what "ORDNAR" means.

3) You set your alarm for 10:55 AM ET on weekends (see thread from about two weeks ago).

4) You know the state bird of Delaware.

5) You count out the change for your lunch in Ducats. Or, even better, in SW Ducats.

6) In the middle of November, you brag to all your friends that your rotation of Mark Clark, Justin Thompson, Donovan Osbourne, and Adam Flohr is "stellar".

Brittle Bones
ID: 53521914
Wed, Aug 16, 13:28

you give a crap about chris stynes

KB8ers, Guru Jr.
ID: 0616111
Wed, Aug 16, 13:30

When you see a documentary of Nazi Germany on the History Channel, you think "Select Forum". j/k :)

philliephan
ID: 5843138
Wed, Aug 16, 13:30

You are visiting a sick relative on a respirator in the hospital, suddenly a blackout affects the whole area. The second thing you worry about is if the hospital's generator will work. (If I have to tell you what the first thing is then you just wouldn't understand.)

6-9 With The Afro
ID: 2245413
Wed, Aug 16, 13:32

- In everyday conversation you refer to guys like Pedro, Randy Johnson and Shaq as "studs" raising eyebrows and concerns from your fellow employees, friends and wife.

- When on vacation (and honeymoon!) you frantically search for the local town library of the place you are staying as they are the only place in town you know will have internet access.

KB8ers, Guru Jr.
ID: 0616111
Wed, Aug 16, 13:35

When you get a ticket for speeding, you say to yourself, "Man, I got Ramoned"

Seattle Sleuth
ID: 67421613
Wed, Aug 16, 13:42

When you see a documentary of the Napa Valley on the Food Channel, you think "Select Forum". j/k :)

Baldwin
ID: 25440222
Wed, Aug 16, 13:42

Your wife knows whether you need a haircut but has completely forgotten your eye-color.

Ditka85
ID: 304231123
Wed, Aug 16, 13:43

You hate the Rockies but always know who they are playing at home.

VIDevilRays
ID: 0502611
Wed, Aug 16, 13:44

When you can't balance your checkbook but can calculate swps.

When you root against the team you've loved all your life cause you have the opposing pitcher.

6-9 With The Afro
ID: 2245413
Wed, Aug 16, 13:45

You have a coronary when Corey Maggette misses a free throw.

KB8ers, Guru Jr.
ID: 0616111
Wed, Aug 16, 13:56

When you read the hip hop magazine "The Source", you think "steve houpt".

When your girlfriend is pissed at you for somethin you said, you wish your mouth had a "Self-Edit" feature. Better yet, you wish her complainin mouth could be "blocked".

You have a callus on your finger from too much "Reload" clickin to see new posts.

patjams
ID: 357401611
Wed, Aug 16, 13:58

You watch the 8:00 sportscenter, the 9:00 Baseball tonight, the 10:00 sportscenter, the 11:00.......

Strike One
ID: 496441210
Wed, Aug 16, 13:59

when you hear the word "piggy", you don't think of an animal.

Baldwin
ID: 25440222
Wed, Aug 16, 14:00

Winning a non-gurupie division won't even get you a yawn and a golf clap.

EmbarrassedHawksFan
ID: 394541910
Wed, Aug 16, 14:00

you have been to the blue hens website, or even worse, you actually wonder how the blue hen did last night. :)

Strike One
ID: 496441210
Wed, Aug 16, 14:05

when you favorte team has a no-hitter going into the ninth and you hope they give up a couple of runs so your hitter can get some points.

6-9 With The Afro
ID: 2245413
Wed, Aug 16, 14:08

You find nothing gross about the term "Recycled Spinal Fluid" ; )

JeffG
ID: 25414311
Wed, Aug 16, 14:09

You actually know what Guru, aiko-aiko, species, jedman, punishark, J, blue hen, and the pink pimp look like.

JeffG
ID: 25414311
Wed, Aug 16, 14:11

You cannot go to lunch at noon, you must wait until you see the day's price changes.

6-9 With The Afro
ID: 2245413
Wed, Aug 16, 14:12

To get your attention your wife has to call you by your handle!

"Hey 6-9 get over here!"

KB8ers, Guru Jr.
ID: 0616111
Wed, Aug 16, 14:14

When you watch Charleston Heston in the Ten Commandments, you think "Guru" and the "Forum Standards".

When you see Alfalfa of The Little Rascals, you think "Ruscuya5".

dgreds
ID: 3242938
Wed, Aug 16, 14:19

When in conversation with a friend, you start quoting people named Madman and James Polk.

patjams
ID: 357401611
Wed, Aug 16, 14:22

When you see the spelling bee on ESPN you think of Strike One. ;o)

Homer Sexuals
ID: 14701614
Wed, Aug 16, 14:23

On your Exit Interview, the reason you provide for getting a new job is "Blocked Rotoguru.com".

E
ID: 597141014
Wed, Aug 16, 14:24

You actually click on an ad for a site :-)

Tim G
ID: 43435414
Wed, Aug 16, 14:26

You calculate SWP at a Little League game.

KB8ers, Guru Jr.
ID: 0616111
Wed, Aug 16, 14:27

When you watch a program on Einstein explainin E=MC2, you think of Madman's pitching charts.

You spell "portable radio", "partible radio".

Homer Sexuals
ID: 14701614
Wed, Aug 16, 14:28

The kids don't get breakfast 'til AFTER you check the overnight posts.

jumpball
ID: 4644339
Wed, Aug 16, 14:32

You know you are a Gurupie when . . .
it's more important to catch your better half in the Gurupie standings than it is to catch her in the bedroom.

darkside
ID: 1845038
Wed, Aug 16, 14:32

You shut your office door on Wed. and Fri. mornings so you can make the all important trade decisions in peace.

Ref
ID: 1442849
Wed, Aug 16, 14:32

ROFL, some of your comments are so funny--yet so true. I'm glad I'm not the only one!!!!!!!!!
LOL, PJ!
Also agree with Vi and DG and several others. I've also rooted for a player to do well against my DOdgers because I had them. Or, better yet, you have the pitcher and the batter and you try and figure out the scenario to get you the most points on that play! Or, you watch games you care nothing about because you have a player and you have more important thing that must be done!

StLCards
ID: 296581212
Wed, Aug 16, 14:41

You think the official scorers are complete idiots because the E they gave on the play cost you 5 SWP.

You monitor every MLB game on the internet - but only while players from "your" team are batting.

You worry about D'Amico's health, not because you're a caring individual, but because you just used your last trade on him.

KB8ers, Guru Jr.
ID: 0616111
Wed, Aug 16, 14:42

You'll NEVER watch that sitcom "Blossom" anymore.

Ditka85
ID: 304231123
Wed, Aug 16, 14:42

My favorite is the one about Strike One and the Spelling Bee.

Jesse Barfield
ID: 53521914
Wed, Aug 16, 14:43

you can stay on your computer for two hours straight without having to look at porn

E
ID: 597141014
Wed, Aug 16, 14:46

ROFLLMAO JB!

jedman
ID: 5443537
Wed, Aug 16, 14:48

Your kids now refer to you as a computer nerd.

You get ticked off because your kids want to do homework on the computer.

You take your laptop on vacation and make sure you have dial up numbers in the area code where you are staying, or better yet, dial long distance to use your at home dial up, who cares what it costs, I must trade.

Ref
ID: 1442849
Wed, Aug 16, 14:50

You curse the umps because the bad call cost SWPs!

StLCards
ID: 296581212
Wed, Aug 16, 15:02

You spend more time trying to improve on your WWR than your relationship with your WIFE.

VIDevilRays
ID: 0502611
Wed, Aug 16, 15:02

When someone mentions red cross, you DON'T think about the organization.

Mark L
ID: 4444938
Wed, Aug 16, 15:03

After patiently telling your daughter that she should clap for the guys in the blue jerseys, you have to explain why you jump out of your seat cheering when Jeff Kent goes yard.

Brittle Bones
ID: 53521914
Wed, Aug 16, 15:05

tuesdays and thursdays are your favorite days of the week

Josh Gibson
ID: 1175478
Wed, Aug 16, 15:12

You take your cell phone with you on a date (the woman you hope to marry no less) to call the 24 hour sports line and get updates on the games being played that night. Sad......I'm glad I've never done that.

Homer Sexuals
ID: 14701614
Wed, Aug 16, 15:20

You're stuck on a business trip for an extra day, so you call your wife and direct her, from memory, through a pitcher trade.

blue hen
ID: 386331314
Wed, Aug 16, 15:20

This one actually happened. So you're sitting there talking with your local baseball writer. He tells you that he voted for Scott Williamson at the NL Rookie of the Year. Two things happen:

1. You think "He should have voted for Durazo because he's much better for the SW buck."

2. You mention Chad Durbin, and he says "Who?"

Myboyjack
ID: 4443038
Wed, Aug 16, 15:23

HS- I've done that at least a dozen times this year;)

jedman
ID: 5443537
Wed, Aug 16, 15:23

When you are at the game, you get real ticked off because the out of town scoreboard doesn't show who hit home runs or who the winning pitchers are.

When listening to the local sports talk show, you get ticked off when all they report are the scores, not who the big hitters were for the game.

You stay up way later than you should because you just "have" to know your final SWP for the night, as if they won't be the same in the morning.

You don't buy your favorite players on your home team, because you are afraid you might "jinx" them.

Ref
ID: 1442849
Wed, Aug 16, 15:23

Damn, Homer, I had to do that once last year to get Kerry Wood. Luckily it paid off ;)

Pond Scum
ID: 54420321
Wed, Aug 16, 15:26

When you took the gurupie profile survey, you lied because you were embarrassed to admit how much time per week you spend on this even though the survey was anonymous.

Perm Dude
ID: 37613316
Wed, Aug 16, 15:27

You patiently teach your young son the importance of pitcher buys just before they are due to pitch. The catch: your son is only 3 years old, and really only wants to make big and little letters on the screen. This doesn't deter you, however, from the lesson!

StLCards
ID: 296581212
Wed, Aug 16, 15:27

You get an error message while logging in to RotoGuru.com and you instantly assume your place of business has blocked the site.

Myboyjack
ID: 4443038
Wed, Aug 16, 15:27

You find yourself watching inane shows on ESPN2 such as Cheerleading CHampionships and Lumberjack contests so that you can check the ticker on the bottom of the screen in hopes that some of your SW players will show up as hitting stars.

Prettyfly
ID: 17431315
Wed, Aug 16, 15:29

about $

1) you dont have job anymore because you can get $10 000 only for one click

2) always you see a train you can think only about money

3) you cant sleep if you earn less than $100 000 per day

...

4) if you have a pet you call him Unit

5) if your pet is hurt a little you call him Pedro

6) if your pet is hurt a lot you will trade him

RecycledSpinalFluid
ID: 39446311
Wed, Aug 16, 15:31

When you hear "Red Cross" and think "blood bath", not "blood bank".

I'm tearing up 6-9 With The Afro, thanks.

Harkonnon
ID: 4453220
Wed, Aug 16, 15:32

you can name any bum in the majors having two good games in a row, smelling the money coming.
But when you get asked about the world series, playoffs or standings you reply
"My rank in the standings is wwr xyz", but what the heck is a World Series and when is that playoff game startin' ?

RecycledSpinalFluid
ID: 39446311
Wed, Aug 16, 15:34

When work is getting delayed because you keep hitting the REFRESH button on this thread.

patjams
ID: 357401611
Wed, Aug 16, 15:36

If you are a certain someone, you get waaaay too excited when your thread generates the most posts for the day.

EmbarrassedHawksFan
ID: 394541910
Wed, Aug 16, 15:40

you think aiko aiko's week in review should have a spot on letterman.

Mike D
ID: 1417106
Wed, Aug 16, 15:47

You sincerely are proud of being voted for (and even winning) the Guru Jr. award.....but there is no one outside the internet you can share it with. :(

You know more about your friends' favorite teams then they do.

You actually know statistics and tendencies for minor league baseball players.

You once considered driving to Pedro Martinez's house with a ladder, and starting a "Pedro watch" thread.

You have read about Bell Curves.

You now know some HTML, and think it is really cool.

You have a child and rush to update your "Forum Registry" entry.

C.C. SOLDIERS
ID: 27451209
Wed, Aug 16, 15:49

You actually sit down and watch the Brewers at the Tigers to see what D'Amico and Higginson are gonna do.

philliephan
ID: 30425416
Wed, Aug 16, 15:55

You say "Not tonight dear, I need to Randro."

Homer Sexuals
ID: 14701614
Wed, Aug 16, 15:56

You can project your roster value to the penny, but don't know jack about your 401K.

philflyboy
ID: 2844635
Wed, Aug 16, 15:57

you buy a second computer for your home so that the other 3 people can fight over it. But they are not allowed to touch yours.

Rotoguru forum is your home page

this is a great topic laughed all the way through it. I see myself in alot of these posts. Is that good or scary?

dgreds
ID: 3242938
Wed, Aug 16, 16:00

This has to go down as the thread of the year. So many of these are so funny and the saddest part about it is that they are actually true.

Every time that I can't access this site, I think that my work has locked me out. I immediately call my wife or a friend to ask them to check if it works.
I can't wait to get to work so I that I can run my macros and have quick access to this site.
I stay up late at night just to find out what ARod does in his fourth atbat.
I root for Darryl Kile to throw a shutout even though I need the Cardinals to lose so my Reds can catch them.
I really quote people from this site.
Last week, I was so excited that I was selected by the Guru that I had to share it with someone. The only problem is that I was too embarassed to tell someone that I am addicted to a website.
I've had to call friends to ask them to make trades for me (I wouldn't call my wife because she would kill me if she knew how much time I spent on this site and game).
When I had my baby son, practically the first thing I did was update the registry.

deepsnapper
ID: 39526123
Wed, Aug 16, 16:02

Being an almost lifelong Dallas Cowboy fan (I'm older) and you consider someone named "philliephan" a buddy. May Landry forgive me!

When the Start Page on your browser is the "Rotoguru Message Forums"

You talk about Species, Pink Pimp, J, Blue Hen, etc. to your wife like she should know who you're talking about.

You'd rather run Richard's spreadsheet than watch the opposing batters 1/2 the inning.

You save the copies of the weekly "Rotoguru Blurbs" emails to their own folder.

When you actually care about what the other people might think about what you post.

Homer Sexuals
ID: 14701614
Wed, Aug 16, 16:05

You miss *Jessica*

KB8ers, Guru Jr.
ID: 0616111
Wed, Aug 16, 16:06

You think you're watchin The Gomer Pilewort : USMC Show.

You call your dog, "Big Poo Generator".

You call the little fish in your aquarium, "puni sharks".

You think James K Polk is our current president.

You read your dollar bill as sayin, "In KTxGOD we trust".

Ref
ID: 1442849
Wed, Aug 16, 16:14

You actually hope that cheap players that have gained a lot of money get hurt so you can get them on your LRV team!

philliephan
ID: 30425416
Wed, Aug 16, 16:14

You are not suprised to see 71 (make that 72) replies to this thread.

KB8ers, Guru Jr.
ID: 0616111
Wed, Aug 16, 16:23

You wanna hire a sniper to hunt down Don Nelson, Bill Parcells and Buck Showalter.

You wanna hire Twarpy to find out if your girlfriend is being faithful.

Willix
ID: 494739
Wed, Aug 16, 16:29

**You're in your office at 11:00 getting ready to make your trades after a lot of due diligence, when your boss comes in and says there will be a meeting that shouldn't last more than an hour. You panic and say you have to finish up an important e-mail, and that you will be there in five minutes!

**You are at a bar talking to a nice girl when suddenly you are caught in the Baseball Tonight tractor beam generating from the TV in the corner. After watching some highlights and noting you had three guys on the daily HR list, you look down and notice the girl is gone! They just don't understand the importance of SW!

**You have a DSL connection at home just so you can have just as fast access to the internet at home as you do at work.

**You get calls on your cell phone and home phone from crazy Gurupie named Walk who is in your neck of the woods and just has to know how his teams are doing while he is away from computer access. ;-) Just kidding Walk my man, you can call me anytime. I appreciate the calls! Just had to give you a hard time. :-)

Great thread. Best laugh I've had in awhile. I have a sickness, but I'm not alone! :-)

Timing
ID: 117371616
Wed, Aug 16, 16:37

Every time you hear the word moderator you think there is a conspiracy brewing.

Ref
ID: 1442849
Wed, Aug 16, 16:40

You schedule your office meetings for the afternoon so they won't interupt your SW trade planning.

6-9 With The Afro
ID: 2245413
Wed, Aug 16, 16:41

This is the greatest thread. KB8ers - great posts (still laughing at the Blossom reference)

Okay here's another:

Your wife discovers a file on your computer called Richard's "Spread" Sheet and immediately assumes it's another one of your downloaded porn files.

JW
ID: 58410317
Wed, Aug 16, 16:50

Of the 150 words your 2-year old daughter can use with confidence, "Glendon Rusch" and "Scott Schoenweiss" are four of them.

You idly think that if you had a son, you'd like him to turn out just like ... J.

Ref
ID: 1442849
Wed, Aug 16, 16:53

...not everyone boos the Ref ;)

Punishark
ID: 436232717
Wed, Aug 16, 16:55

• When you start to notice that prices at the gas pump are dropping, you refer to it as "Price Gravity"...

• You went out and rented "Ghidrah, the Three-Headed Monster" last weekend...

• When you pass by the video "What About Bob" you can't help but start to get irritated...

Big E
ID: 15751812
Wed, Aug 16, 17:10

You knew who Mike Darr was - LAST YEAR

You are a Yankee fan who is seriously disappointed that Pedro Martinez is only 13-4

You think that your pitcher is a wimp for leaving the game in the 7th after throwing ONLY 156 pitches

You have e-mailed some guy up in the northeast named Dave Hall

Punishark
ID: 436232717
Wed, Aug 16, 17:11

• You wished everything in life was "Weekly repriced" instead of "Daily repriced"...

• You wonder how you can load your checkbook into the "sartables"...

• You've had to stop yourself short of introducing yourself to somebody with your Message Forum name...

The_Beast
ID: 37211617
Wed, Aug 16, 17:21

You throw something at the TV when Web gems show Mark Quinn getting robbed of a double.

Purple Pimp
ID: 48434315
Wed, Aug 16, 17:30

LMAO Beast (I have done that)

azdbacker
ID: 106281117
Wed, Aug 16, 17:30

LOL, punishark, especially the WAB reference. Great thread, the funny/sad part is that they are all true.

What about Bob
ID: 506212013
Wed, Aug 16, 17:30

OK, Kudos to StlCards for starting this thrd. We sure wouldn't see this quality thrd on the "Football Select" forum.

#10-Don't like the all-star games anymore because it gives you nothing to do, and forces you to spend "extra" time with the family.

#9- During football season actually have to hope the game stays close until the end for fear that YOUR QB or RB will get pulled for safety sake:-(

#8-Often daydream and wonder how many teams KB REALLY has

#7-No matter what else happens in your life on a given day, if your WWRank went up, you consider it "A Good Day"

#6-when someone mentions to you they are in counseling, can't help but picture "walk" standing at the front of a crowded room, and proudly telling all, "Hi my name is walk, and I'm a tradeaholic"

#5-Often wake-up in the middle of the nite in cold sweats having a bad dream that you forgot to get Pedro when he scores 200 SWPoints

#4-Spend an hour looking for the damn piggy in full-season when you fall $10,000 short of making that trade or check your back to make sure someone isn't playing some kind of evil prank on you.

#3-Find tremendous comfort when you make a stupid move in SW, knowing that your chances of finding someone who has made a bigger boo-boo is only a mouse click away. AND you are happy to hear it.

#2-Often feel sad or angry, when someone you have never even seen, makes negative and insulting remarks about you or doesn't share your opinion

#1-Actually hope that the rotoguru.com message boards are down once in a while, so you can actually perform some real-life functions(eat, sleep, have sex(not necessarily in that order))

Purple Pimp
ID: 48434315
Wed, Aug 16, 17:32

You play Triple Play 2000 and after every game you calculate the SWP for each player and then compare them to real life.

Big Hath
ID: 204552313
Wed, Aug 16, 17:35

When you hear about a rising stock on the financial news, you think immediately of Adam Kennedy, Mike Lamb, Mitch Melusky . . .

C.C. SOLDIERS
ID: 27451209
Wed, Aug 16, 17:46

You know you are a gurupie when you put your SmallWorld teams in your will.

Razor
ID: 18650614
Wed, Aug 16, 18:01

- You root against Kevin Brown just so you can post some smack in the "LA Dodgers" or "LA Dodgers Part 2" thread

- You root against Randy Johnson just so you can post some smack in the "LA Dodgers" or "LA Dodgers Part 2" thread

- You know more about your friends teams than they do, and you are throroughly embarrased about it

- You know WAY too much about players that haven't seen the majors yet i.e. you know which team gets ripped off in trades involving prospects before you see the ESPN analysis

- You see a team has scored 10+ runs and are excited to find out if your guy on that team had a big day

- Your ranked 26th in the world........but your REALLY first in the world if you don't count all those other gurupies in front of you

- Your favorite pitcher on your favorite team throws a 2 hit shutout but your pissed because he only got 5 K's, the bum

philliephan
ID: 30425416
Wed, Aug 16, 18:06

You are pissed off because you dropped 3 places in WWR, then realize that the teams that passed you are also yours.

Catfish
ID: 16521916
Wed, Aug 16, 18:10

* Visit a long-lost and dear friend who lives in a foreign country, and your second question is "Can I log on to your computer?"

* Take up residence in your teenage son's bedroom because that's where all the electronic stuff lives, and put the Jays game on his TV, pick up the St. Louis game on his Real Audio, and follow the other 13 games on Gamecast.

* When you hear that a pitcher is injured and out for the season, you can only think: "Damn! There goes another cheapie!"

* Make lists of everyone you can think of called Martinez. Or Gonzalez. Or Rodriquez.

Strike One
ID: 496441210
Wed, Aug 16, 18:18

.....you knew that brian sinorski was the starting pitcher for the rangers tonight before the game came on ESPN.

....your parents ground you from the computer for a week cause you didn't mow the lawn the day before. so you go to the local library just to check on your teams.

.....your weekend breakfast consists of a pop tart and an 8oz carton of orange juice.

well, this is definetly the thread of the week. props to StLCards for coming up with the idea

i'm off to Foxboro to attend the USA-barbados World Cup Qualifing match. i'll be one of those kids in the first couple of rows with their face painted red white and blue. and if the US loses, i swear i'm starting a riot!

Prettyfly
ID: 17431315
Wed, Aug 16, 18:28

Youre never wrong but you always have bad luck

philliephan
ID: 30425416
Wed, Aug 16, 18:31

You know how many SWP each of your players got, but you can't remember who won the game.

Timing
ID: 147371618
Wed, Aug 16, 18:37

You spend more time watching the GameCast than watching the actual game.

RecycledSpinalFluid
ID: 39446311
Wed, Aug 16, 18:50

When you realize that 80% of these post pertain to stuff you do regularly.

philliephan
ID: 30425416
Wed, Aug 16, 18:53

Only 80%?

100

James K Polk
ID: 42451271
Wed, Aug 16, 18:59

You've actually sat and wondered, more than once, "Is it pronounced 'dee-gee-reds' or 'dee-greds'?"

101

James K Polk
ID: 42451271
Wed, Aug 16, 19:10

When you think nothing of spending 20 minutes on research, then 10 more minutes on writing a post (complete with reference links to at least two sources), then 5 more minutes on editing that post to make sure you don't sound like an idiot, all because someone you've never met asked a question about a player who's not even on your team.

102

dgreds
ID: 494301322
Wed, Aug 16, 19:34

The second your wife leaves the house for one second (right now) you have to logon immediately to check what other posts have appeared on this thread.

Mr. Prez, it's pronounced dee-gee (my initials) reds (my favorite team).

103

J
ID: 32459220
Wed, Aug 16, 19:40

You wont trust your teams to your best friend or roomate while out of town, but you decide some guy named "allhair allstars" is the perfect babysitter!

You're dissapointed in yourself for not being near a computer around noon to post price changes!

You go out of town and take care of the important stuff - babysitter assigned, standings are gonna be taken care of, but you forget to get directions!!!!

You have to think of a really good story to tell your friends you are with that you just ran into a guy named "skinneej".

You all of a sudden think its cool to spend 4 hours a night in a chat room!!!!!!

You have a need to learn HTML, for no reason other than to post things here!

You have a need to learn programming stuff for no reason other than to post things here!

You call some guy you've never met "staci" and they're cool with it ;)

You see a guy named Dr. Nick come into the chat room and you know that its actually Chris, whoever Chris really is!!!!

You finish in the top 10 in SW hoops and get a sweet prize and try and think of a good story as to how you got it! (yeah, I'm still in denial)

104

J
ID: 32459220
Wed, Aug 16, 19:46

You begin to worry that people actually think you've got a thing for Glendon Rusch.

105

Perm Dude
ID: 247581222
Wed, Aug 16, 19:52

You hear about the huge earthquake in Taiwan, and the first thing you think about is Gurupie Taipei Mutant, and whether he's OK.

106

bc
ID: 2741222
Wed, Aug 16, 20:05

I'm referencing patjams' post #26- "When you see the spelling bee on ESPN you think of Strike One. ;o)."

I now call your attention to Strike One's post #94- ".....you knew that brian sinorski was the starting pitcher for the rangers tonight before the game came on ESPN."

The pitcher throwing tonite for the Rangers is Brian SIKORSKI. Sorry Strike One. I just couldn't pass this one up. ;-)

This thread is definitely a keeper.

bc

107

KrazyKoalaBears
ID: 30671612
Wed, Aug 16, 20:16

You know what an Assimilator is... and you know how to use it without killing someone!

108

Stuck in the Sixties
ID: 347231620
Wed, Aug 16, 20:23

When you think of days of the week in terms of when the next trades will occur

When you drag out a printout of your SW team at a party while others are showing their kids

109

philliephan
ID: 30425416
Wed, Aug 16, 20:25

You pick up Mike Mussina based on the fact that he has been bad lately and has a bad matchup. (Well... actually that is a sign your handle is J. ;-)

110

BeerGuy
ID: 314171816
Wed, Aug 16, 20:32

When it's the first day back to school and your math teacher is running through the roll for the first time. When she gets to your name and asks what you prefer to be called, you give her your grupie name.

111

Tim G
ID: 437191323
Wed, Aug 16, 20:48

Your dog's team has a higher WWR than yours, so you steal his team.

You tie up the printer at work printing out sartibles.

There is an entire drawer in your file cabinet devoted to fantasy sports.

You buy a file cabinet for home to store duplicates of those files.

One entire wall of your apartment is wallpapered with fantasy information.

112

skinneej
ID: 425391611
Wed, Aug 16, 21:22

Man, I have laughed my ass off through this thread. J, I hope it was a good story, and not "that was some weirdo I know through the internet". ;-)

Tim G, I have a drawer here at work also just for my teams and fantasy information. I even have printouts from a few years back in some sports. I used to have to run to the printer so no one would see what I was printing, but now I have my own personal one. Some guy in my department transfered out so I grabbed it before anyone knew it was gone!

Man I am guilty of most of the stuff above. I have called friends and family to make trades while on vacation, scheduled trips around trading days, visited my parents and in-laws before noon to make trades. "Great to see you, can I jump on the computer." Man I'm an addict.

113

fullcount
ID: 11645520
Wed, Aug 16, 21:28

This is a keeper thread! Most of these are too close to home. I would add my own, but I can't think of anything that hasn't already been posted. So, I'll pick the 10 the I like the best instead:

#10: when you think about a train, you think only about money gains
#9: You schedule your office meetings for the afternoon so they won't interupt your SW trade planning.
#8: You get ticked off because your kids want to do homework on the computer.
#7: When someone mentions red cross, you DON'T think about the organization.
#6: You find nothing gross about the term "Recycled Spinal Fluid".
#5: When you can't balance your checkbook but can calculate swps.
#4: when it's more important to catch your better half in the Gurupie standings than it is to catch her in the bedroom.
#3: You know what "RANDRO" means, but, more importantly, you know what "ORDNAR" means.
#2: When you read the hip hop magazine "The Source", you think "steve houpt".
#1: You calculate SWP at a Little League game.

And this list leaves off a lot of other, very deserving, signs.

114

Danny Boy
ID: 56452217
Wed, Aug 16, 21:30

You know you're a Gurupie when your girlfriend signs onto AOL at your house and you sign on to rotoguru.com to check and make sure you haven't missed anything, forgoing opportunities to do anything more worthwhile.

No, this does not describe me right now, I have no idea what you are talking about...

Dan

115

Matt S
ID: 227401621
Wed, Aug 16, 21:40

Great Thread!!!

- When a daily blurb is something long and intelligent.

- When you don't eat dinner because all your Sandbox and Smallworld pitchers are stinking it up

- When the only thing holding you back from going on vacation is your fantasy teams

- When you go to a Single-A ball game to do some "fantasy baseball scouting"

- When you set your alarm for 8:58 AM PT everyday

- When you are about as fast with a calculator as an accountant

- When you don't make a post because you don't know how to spell a word

- When you copy and paste your posts to Word so you can spellcheck it

- When you skip a full day of school to see a matinee game on an American holiday that features one or two hitters on your fantasy baseball team

116

Catfish
ID: 20557322
Wed, Aug 16, 21:48

You print the SW team sheets at work and there is always this totally annoying second page with nothing useful on it, except maybe the teams that are 16th to 20th in the division. So you discard the second page, but you don't want anyone to know that your wastebasket is full of fantasy sports print outs (because that's not what they are paying you to do all day) so you sort of rip them up and bury them face down, under the day's business section of the newspaper ...

117

Tosh
ID: 16111219
Wed, Aug 16, 21:55

When you can wake up at 8:58 AM PT without an alarm clock.

When you leave your computer on all night so you don't have to waste time with Windows starting up.

From the last pitch D'Amico throws until when he pitches again 5-6 days later ... do nothing but worry and look for replacements.

You keep all your spreadsheets from the last several years just in case.

118

Harkonnon
ID: 4453220
Wed, Aug 16, 22:01

You feel like a Guru pied in the face (a la Bill Gates) when you just set up a new forum to enhance the quality of threads and all these mental cases lurking around huddle up in a huge nonsense thread that has more replies than all others features on your website combined.

119

skinneej
ID: 425391611
Wed, Aug 16, 22:07

Catfish, too funny!

-When watching a game with friends, somebody mentions that a player is having a good game and without blinking you reply that he only has 30 SWP and his 15 day SWP/g is 16.8.

-People have heard you talk about Randro and think you take that Mark McGwire stuff.

-Your wife hears you met some guy named J at the Braves game that you know through the internet and she gives you a strange look!

-You value the opinions of guys named Madman, Sludge, Species, and the Pink Pimp.

120

Strike One
ID: 496441210
Wed, Aug 16, 22:18

....you tell your friend to quit IMing you becuase your trying to learn HTML, when your really just want him to leave you alone so you can read through all the threads faster.

121

Strike One
ID: 496441210
Wed, Aug 16, 22:20

oh, by the way, the game was awesome. the US won 7-0, moving into second place in their qualifing group.

122

Harkonnon
ID: 4453220
Wed, Aug 16, 22:23

When your potty looks like this

123

The_Beast
ID: 37211617
Wed, Aug 16, 22:31

When you have just been invided to go to the movies you rather calculate the top 30 pitchers under 3 million last 5 performances and compare it to their prices.

124

Catfish
ID: 20557322
Wed, Aug 16, 22:33

Oh man this is killing me. I started reading this thread before I left work today and I had to shut my door because they thought I had gone mental.

125

Willix
ID: 51442717
Wed, Aug 16, 22:50

Catfish, too damn funny! I hate that meaningless second page. I always find myself crumpling it up though before I throw it away so no one in the office asks, "What is Small World, and what does it have to do with real estate and accounting?".

I had to log-on at home tonight just to see all the new posts to this thread. Now I'll be up late because I'll have to check every damn box score even though I just watched Baseball Tonight and Sportscenter! I figured I'm logged-on, might as well check right. :-)

126

skinneej
ID: 425391611
Wed, Aug 16, 22:50

Hark, that is awesome. I can see the ad now. "Rotoguru.com, Squeezing the best out of your fantsy sports experience."

This brings back a memory from the beginning of the year and SW. You know you're a gurupie when you know a fantasy sports company in NYC is having toilet problems.

127

louky
ID: 3242516
Wed, Aug 16, 23:08

- When your bummed out that you missed the thread of the year... and all you were doing was playing golf, your favorite thing in the world.

- When you actually read a 100+ post from start to finish, coming in late, without skimming

- To learn that in my mind I have pronouncing dgreds wrong all this time.

-To read 86 posts and have WAB steal my thunder on the beauty of an open forum.

128

James K Polk
ID: 42451271
Wed, Aug 16, 23:09

louky, you too!!?? (re: dgreds)

:)

129

Unitas
ID: 29520320
Wed, Aug 16, 23:13

You have bookmarked the sortables, daily blurb, message forum and baseball standings pages all in a separate RotoGuru bookmarks folder

130

ksoze
ID: 5963241
Wed, Aug 16, 23:13

You read post 102 and think "damn, I never pronounced it that way."

131

ksoze
ID: 5963241
Wed, Aug 16, 23:19

You get to the end of this thread, add your comments, refresh the page and find out that someone beat you to the comments a mere three posts ago.

132

louky
ID: 3242516
Wed, Aug 16, 23:20

MR P, it was allways Dee Greds

One more thing, just realized I haven't checked the 1st score tonight, this thread was just too good. Hope everyone's hitters hit, and everyone's pitcher's had the night off.

133

J
ID: 32459220
Wed, Aug 16, 23:34

I officially would like to open up nominations to keep it as "Dee-Greds" instead of "D.G. Reds"

Do I have any seconds (sorry, dgreds, you really have no say in this)

134

Perm Dude
ID: 37613316
Wed, Aug 16, 23:36

I second that motion, J.

pd

135

C1-NRB
ID: 467451623
Wed, Aug 16, 23:46

...you have so many teams that you can't remember if you have the pitcher or the hitter in the game you're watching and find yourself in a sad-happy state because you either just got a 2-out, 3-run home run in the eighth or a 45 point shift from a potential win to a potential loss.

136

ksoze
ID: 5963241
Wed, Aug 16, 23:55

J, I'd like to call an end to the motion and make it official.

137

Razor
ID: 18650614
Wed, Aug 16, 23:58

Any other handle pronounciation surprises? Personally, I've always pronounced VIDevilRays like Vid-Evil-Rays. I'm still wondering on how to pronounce "Matt S". Don't even get me started on "Matt G"....

138

6-9 With The Afro
ID: 35444321
Thu, Aug 17, 00:07

-You can gaurantee that a player will have a good or bad night depending on wether you just bought him or just sold him

-You're flipping through the channels and see the borg are on Star Trek and you stop and watch hoping they'll 'assimilate' someone

And one more thing- it'll always be dee-greds to me!

139

James K Polk
ID: 42451271
Thu, Aug 17, 00:25

¡Viva la dee-greds!

140

whatsupike
ID: 277321117
Thu, Aug 17, 00:30

when you haven't had computer access for a few days, and you feel guilty because you haven't been clicking ads for guru.
clicka' clicka'

141

slimer
ID: 2644430
Thu, Aug 17, 00:32

This is definitely one of the most entertaining threads of all time. Props to StLCards for starting it.

Hark, that picture of the toilet about made me fall out of my chair.

You know you're a gurupie when...you have 900 channels including every Pay Per View channel and Porn channels and the only channels you watch is ESPN, ESPN 2, and channels with baseball games on.

I have always pronounced it Dee Greds as well.

142

patjams
ID: 4470101
Thu, Aug 17, 00:52

I officially would like to open up nominations to make Stl Cards this weeks Guru Jr. for starting what has to be the most entertaining thread since these message boards started.

143

Todd
ID: 305202122
Thu, Aug 17, 01:21

When you try to leave for lunch at 11:50 rather than 12:00 to try to ride the erubiel durazo train for the 4th time.

144

Ditka85
ID: 304231123
Thu, Aug 17, 01:59

When rather than proofreading your final draft you forward it to Strike One for him to check.

145

MJSbossman
ID: 8451222
Thu, Aug 17, 03:01

-The only reason you watch a game is to see how your player/s are doing.

-You would want your favorite team to lose if that meant your pitcher would get the win.

-You stay up until 2AM just to see the points/WWR update.

-When you cut class and sneak to the library to check on your team.

-You dont finish your homework because you are looking at Rotoguru and/or your team, planning moves.

-You call someone at 12AM to make a trade on your team cause your computer crashed.

146

The Pink Pimp
ID: 36423223
Thu, Aug 17, 04:05

When the the very first response on this list mentions your screen name.

When you know that there are 36 hits for the word "Randro" on Google.com

While watching the College Cheerleading Championships to see the ticker on ESPN2 (see Myboyjack's entry #56) you wonder when cheerleading will be added as a sport so that you can draft that hottie from Florida State.

When you click on brokerage ads that offer "Free Trades" in hopes that they are talking about SmallWorld.

When you have Randy and Pedro's projected starts marked on your calendar.

When you know what "modergate" is.

147

Gangman
ID: 13753174
Thu, Aug 17, 06:14

When you prefer "Message Forum" to
"Penthouse Forum".

Box scores in the newspaper become
irrelevant.

You keep checking your teams in the middle
of the night to see if they've been updated yet.

You choose "auto-division" .... and win every
time.

*PS - This is an absolutely hilarious thread.
Thread of the week I'd say!

148

VIDevilRays
ID: 41417221
Thu, Aug 17, 06:42

LOL Razor!! And it was always dee gee reds to me!!!

149

EmbarrassedHawksFan
ID: 1248319
Thu, Aug 17, 07:01

classic...skinnej, great stuff with the randro/andro reference. lol

150

RockChalker
ID: 4044030
Thu, Aug 17, 07:14

When you read the Boston Globe and Arizona Republic daily.

When presented with the word Bjorn, you have no reaction, but when presented with the stimulus Borg, the body goes into "fight or flight" repsonses.

When asked to clarify on your reactions, you just mumble incoherantly about bringing down Borg and trolls.

When you are upset about a Mike Lansing trade to the BoSox

When you purchased Microsoft Office just because of Richard, J, Madman, and others, and work on learning how to use it.

151

dgreds
ID: 3242938
Thu, Aug 17, 07:55

I have a big problem with you guys changing the pronunciation of my name. I introduce myself to people saying, "Hi. My name is DG Reds." How am I going to explain to people that the President of the US, this guy named Louky (what the heck is a louky anyway?), ksoze (I always think comatose when I see that handle - don't ask me why), and J(I constantly consider changing my handle to just one letter. That is just too cool) have decided to change the pronunciation of my name?

152

Strike One
ID: 496441210
Thu, Aug 17, 08:09

...you actually care about today's kansas city-minnesota game.

GO TIGERS!!
sweep of the M's, 5-1 on the road trip, another +9 runperformance, they are now only 3 games under 500, and are 7 games out of the wild card....YOU GOTTA HAVE HOPE!!!

153

Huskiez
ID: 35613258
Thu, Aug 17, 08:19

I think the funniest post has to be KB8ers first one, no. 5. LOL

154

BF Dead
ID: 2845638
Thu, Aug 17, 08:22

-You don't want to take your family on vacation because you don't have a laptop & you won't have access to your teams
-You're at a friend's/family member's house & ask to use their computer so you can make a trade (I did this last Sunday)
-You babysit someone's team & get worried that you'll screw it up & they'll roast you in the forum
-You've read the 150+ posts in this thread & feel good that you're "normal"

155

philliephan
ID: 5843138
Thu, Aug 17, 08:27

And perhaps the surest sign is:

You have read through this thread, understand it, see yourself in it, AND think it is funny.

Now consider showing this thread to a non-gurupie!

156

deepsnapper
ID: 39526123
Thu, Aug 17, 08:31

DG Reds ...err dgreds, it's your name, we should respect your wishes (J) on the pronunciation.

After all, it's what we thing of you that counts. :-)

As my grandad always said "You can call me what you want, just call me for supper". ;-)

157

J
ID: 50726110
Thu, Aug 17, 08:35

DG Reds, I sincerly appologize if I, or anyone else has offended you. We were just having some fun with it, I really hope you didn't take it personally, hell, nothing on these boards should be taken personally, just ask Strike One!!!

Anyways, if it bothers you at all, I really do apologize and DG Reds it is.

158

Baldwin
ID: 25440222
Thu, Aug 17, 08:40

dgred has this combination feel of the words Degree and Gradient. I always had this suspicion it was some engineering slang.

Honestly it occurred to me lately that the first two letters were initials but I pushed that out of my mind as less fun.

159

dgreds
ID: 3242938
Thu, Aug 17, 09:10

Thanks J (you do know that I was kidding and that I don't actually introduce myself to anyone as dgreds). You know that I take names very seriously and I really don't think that anyone should be mispronouncing names.

That being said, I am guilty of occasionally calling Matt S "matts" and Mike D "miked"

Also, is it M J's bossmen or is M J S bossmen? I had always thought that it's the former but now I'm beginning to think that I was wrong.

160

walk
ID: 104739
Thu, Aug 17, 09:22

When it takes you a fickin' hour to read this thread 'cause you're so fickin' busy but you're talking to your co-mgr WaB whilest writing this and making trades and doing work.

- walk

161

JeffG
ID: 25414311
Thu, Aug 17, 09:39

You know you are a gurupie when...

... you say to yourself "D.G. Reds" over and over again so you will honor his request and pronounce his name correctly next time you see it, even though you know it is something you would probably never say aloud anyway.

... when you actually know the first names of people who's handles aren't steve houpt, todd, matt, or tim.

162

JeffG
ID: 25414311
Thu, Aug 17, 09:41

... when you cannot wait for the nominating to begin for this week's Guru Jr so you can be the first to nominate StLCards as opposed to looking as you are following the crowd.

163

J
ID: 50726110
Thu, Aug 17, 10:18

so, is it pronounced Jeffguhhh or Jeff......Geeee?

;)

Another one I'm sure i'm saying wrong but dont particularly care:
beastiemiked

I know its beastie...mike...D
but I just say, beastie-miked. Ok, I dont think I've ever actually said "Beastie-miked" out loud now that I think about it. Yet, I still think "Mike-D" but not "Miked" (How's the shoulder doing?)
;)

Yet, I know its skinnee - j, not skinneeg

M-J-S-bossman is how I've read that one

(I'm going through this thread to see who else I screw up)

I tend to "pronounce" it azd-backer and squeeze the d in with the az. Instead of AZ-D-Backer.

164

dgreds
ID: 3242938
Thu, Aug 17, 10:39

I always thought that it was skineej. I never even thought that it might be skinee J. Where'd you come up with that one?

I had also assumed that it was beastie Miked. I knew that I was mispronouncing miked but I just thought that when it came after beastie that it was supposed to be pronounced that way.

165

Baldwin
ID: 25440222
Thu, Aug 17, 10:39

azdbacker has been driving me crazy all year. Because azd is so unusual and hard to say my mind goes into dyslexic shock and it warps into adzbacker every time. I'm sure it's disconcerted him to actually see me post it that way mistakenly. It has troubled me at least. The name serves it's purpose anyway. Who doesn't know he backs the D-backs?

166

Harkonnon
ID: 4453220
Thu, Aug 17, 11:30

How about Phil-Liep-Hen (the lost brother from the Hen clan) or Phil Leefen.

I thought MJ is Boss Man is a hidden tribute to his airness.

and just in case,
in NO way
Hark on Non is a sexual preference or something.

the "oh non" is more of chic stylish french design.

Well I could tell you how your handles sound in German, but that might really hurt some of guys.
So I will do it on request only. (hint give it a try JeffG ! 8-Þ)

167

Eustacio
ID: 37649270
Thu, Aug 17, 11:57

--When you combine forces with another Gurupie to co-manage a midseason team.

--When you plan on bringing all 3 of your computers with you to the college apartments just so that you'll always have access to make trades.

--When you get slightly annoyed when people on a message forum mispell your handle.

Oh, and on the subject of the name thing, anybody not named esposo care to take a shot at mine?

168

J
ID: 50726110
Thu, Aug 17, 11:59

its staci with a couple a vowels on the ends.

169

Ref
ID: 1442849
Thu, Aug 17, 12:00

when you catch yourself putting ;) in business e-mails!!!

170

dgreds
ID: 3242938
Thu, Aug 17, 12:28

I always assumed that it was You Stay See Oh.

171

JeffG
ID: 25414311
Thu, Aug 17, 12:29

Harkonnon. You have me curious now, fill me in on what would happen if I try it.

172

Ender
ID: 13443221
Thu, Aug 17, 12:30

When you call your local Congressman and ask him to propose a bill shifting all calendars to Friday - Thursday week just for hoops season and to officially rename Thursday to "Trade Day."

When you contact the Bureau of Weights and Measures just find out "What's a bluehenweigh?"

When you have contacted Wall Street and combed the Journal just find "the value of a trade."

173

dgreds
ID: 3242938
Thu, Aug 17, 12:38

when you're anxiously awaiting the Guru's first post to this thread and trying to guess what he's going to write.

174

Harkonnon
ID: 4453220
Thu, Aug 17, 12:48

JeffG

I'll give you a hint.
Not much of a change on the Jeff as it depends on local slang a bit.
But a G sounds like "G-a-y" in German.
Think you got it.

But there are are also guys who will have favourable switch like J.

a J is spoken "eeott" which is sloppy spoken version of "Gott" which means "God" in English.

175

dgreds
ID: 3242938
Thu, Aug 17, 12:53

when people you never even met before are going to change your name and you're beginning to like the sound of your new name so much that you're thinking of telling your wife to start calling you dee-greds.

176

Ender
ID: 13443221
Thu, Aug 17, 12:57

I would only worried if you are concerned about what time of night and in which room she calls you by the new name ;-)

Which bring's up a whole new way you can tell:

If you ask your wife to call you "Big Mac" when you're alone together.

177

JeffG
ID: 25414311
Thu, Aug 17, 12:59

Thanks Harkonnon. Sorry I asked ;)

178

Eustacio
ID: 37649270
Thu, Aug 17, 13:02

---When you are talking with your friends and say, "Oh, I have to send you the link to this killer statistical analysis Madman started up! Here, let me find the link." and they just look at you and go, "Ummm...okay...".

---When you don't even have to look up the URL and can just recite it from memory, as in "Here, go to the following web address and check it out! http://rotoguru1.com/cgi-bin/mb/base/6438.shtml?966534538. Huh? You need to go get a piece of paper for that?".

Nope. It's A-U-Stah-C-O (according to my old spanish teachers and the people I met in Mexico).

179

Silver Streak
ID: 36417510
Thu, Aug 17, 13:28

---when you get into a fight with the IT department at your workplace because you were waiting until right before lunch to do your trades, and the internet server goes down until after noon....and you're REALLY mad because, for once, you can't blame it on Smallworld.

180

Silver Streak
ID: 36417510
Thu, Aug 17, 13:47

You know that Guru's daily blurb on March 25th, 1998 contained this link "The Top 10 Signs You're a Fantasy Baseball Addict"

note, the link does not work anymore LOL!

181

6-9 With The Afro
ID: 2245413
Thu, Aug 17, 14:56

-When you let parts of your body have a say on what trades to make

-When said part of the body feels the need to have his own handle

182

skinneej
ID: 425391611
Thu, Aug 17, 15:46

Didn't know anyone wondered about my handle's pronunciation. As J said, it is pronounced skinny-jay as in my favorite band the 2 Skinnee J's. Although, I must point out that there are 2 n's and 2 e's, because most people leave out one of the double letters!

I have been mispronouncing several names in my head as well.

The afore mentioned ones
Dee-greds
Azd-backer

ksoze - I always think Koozie, the thing that keeps your beer cold.

Philliephan - I used to think Phillipians like the book in the Bible, but I found out it was Phillie-fan later.

KB8ers - At first I thought he was a Kobe Hater.

183

Punishark
ID: 436232717
Thu, Aug 17, 16:13

I've met several people throughout the years who have mis-pronounced my handle. Most have called me "Puny Shark". I have to correct them, telling them it is a contraction of "Punishers" and "Sharks", my two long-time fantasy teams. So, I guess, the proper way to pronounce it is "Punish-Shark".

A few of my "favorite" mis-pronounced Gurupie handles is Zeuna. I still don't have that one figured out...

184

philliephan
ID: 30425416
Thu, Aug 17, 16:13

Actually it is p hilliephan as my name is Paul and I like hills. But everyone has just assumed that since I root for the Phillies, that it is "Phillie fan", so I haven't bothered to correct it. ;-)

185

J
ID: 50726110
Thu, Aug 17, 16:29

lol p-hill
Punishark, I always assumed it was puny-shark also!
Zoooona (like the TV show chick)

186

Baldwin
ID: 25440222
Thu, Aug 17, 16:33

You realize you just missed 15 minutes of Ren & Stimpy because you were so absorbed in this thread.

187

D2K
ID: 4644639
Thu, Aug 17, 16:40

My name is tough to pronouce, I don't blame anyone if they screw it up...

188

Wahoo
ID: 43416811
Thu, Aug 17, 16:46

You stay at work late to research your teams so your wife doesn't know how much time you really spend on this.

189

Eustacio
ID: 37649270
Thu, Aug 17, 17:00

You use your job as a computer lab assistant to use the 35 Dell 500's with a T1 hookup to download 50,000 SW Roster History PAges so that you and a couple others can attempt to find out SW's Repricing Equation.

190

Matt...........S
ID: 245552418
Thu, Aug 17, 17:07

When you just used your whole lunch break to catch up on this thread, and are still very hungry. !!!!!

191

Tim G
ID: 43435414
Thu, Aug 17, 17:09

I can pronounce it fine, but what the heck is a "pilewort?" Do I want to know?

192

bandit
ID: 1635116
Thu, Aug 17, 17:10

haven't posted in a long time, but this thread is unreal!
computer is in bedroom, so i go to work early to make trades so as to not wake up the sleeping wife.
best thread in a long time!!

193

Buck
ID: 1443248
Thu, Aug 17, 17:25

You know that you are a RotoGurupie when your wife announces that she is pregnant and you immediately start thinking of Gurupie handles when she wants to suggest names. Sad but true !!

By the way, my name rhymes with duck, puck, luck, etc. I just said that in case anyone was thinking of starting a new thread. ;)

194

Baldwin
ID: 25440222
Thu, Aug 17, 17:43

Pat lil' Pilewort on the head for me will ya?

195

red barchetta
ID: 134341516
Thu, Aug 17, 18:20

-When watching highlights of homeruns and RBI's for your players on Sportscenter you automatically check out the box in the corner to see how many outs there were.

Great Thread! This has to be thread of the year.

196

BeerGuy
ID: 314171816
Thu, Aug 17, 18:34

when you understand why Recycled Spinal Fluid put smiley faces next to the rankings in The Smallworld Order.

197

ClevelandRocks
ID: 26791510
Thu, Aug 17, 18:36

WHen....
its 11:38 AM EST
you get pulled over for going 42 in a 25 mph zone and for some reason when the cop pulls you over and asks you why you are were going so fast, you blab out, "I was just trying to get home before the roster freeze"

Unfortunatly this peaks the cops interest and he wants details as to just exactly what you meant by "roster freeze". You start talking as fast as you can realizing that it would take about 5 min to explain and 5 min for him to write up the ticket. Leaving you just 12 min to get home ,log on, and Randro on 4 teams and Ordnar on 1.

198

Species
ID: 58412510
Thu, Aug 17, 19:29

You know you're a Gurupie when:

- you REALLY wonder why Madman is so mad. Statistics never lie, so how can he be mad?

- you wonder how a famous hiker on punts is a Gurupie.

- you are really curious to know if philliephan really has something to do with beastiality

Some favorites from above:

"When you see 'What about Bob' at the video store and get irritated"

"When you prefer "Message Forum" to "Penthouse Forum".

Some name stuff:

- "jedman" was doing a simply "J Edman" for his name, but you can't call him anything but JED-man

- skineej can't be anything but "skin-eege"

Great stuff, EVERYONE.

199

Eat Acid
ID: 224241620
Thu, Aug 17, 19:41

When you turn down, uh, herbal cigarettes from your friends before your shift in the computer lab because you want to focus on your SW research, not because you want to work on your senior seminar. And heaven forbid the poor freshman girl that is trying to use excel to type her experimental methods homework asks you a question.

"CAN'T YOU SEE I'M BUSY HERE!!!!"

200

James K Polk
ID: 355352418
Thu, Aug 17, 19:42

When you can honestly say that the real reason you can type well with just one hand is because your 2-year-old often falls asleep in your arms for his after-lunch nap, and that's one of the few times during the day that you can log on to the boards and post.

201

BIG RUSS
ID: 47622518
Thu, Aug 17, 20:45

When you can't believe you took the time to read all 200 posts, LMAO at practically all of them, and you know what LMAO means.

It will ALWAYS be DEE-greds, even though I know know better. Same goes for azdbacker. I'm BIG RUSS even though I'm not even CLOSE to it!

...And when your WWR is 4000+ and your fed up and want to quit, but something keeps you going.

202

Taxman
ID: 10423310
Thu, Aug 17, 20:48

Your happiest day in four months is when you receive a pay cut, your wife is laid off, your 15 year old daughter announces she's pregnant and your SW team has the top pitcher and hitter for the previous night and each cost less than 1,000,000 ducats and the only other teams with either player are in the 500K leagues.

When you think that KB8ers, is code for:
KowBoys(Troy Aikman)fan-club :>)

Your feel failure because your backup team is dropped to AAA

203

Strike One
ID: 496441210
Thu, Aug 17, 20:56

...when your WWR is 1791 and your friends think your wierd cause you say that it stinks.

204

jedman
ID: 55456319
Thu, Aug 17, 21:04

When Jeff Kent goes 3-4, the Giants win and you're pissed because they were all singles.

205

Ditka85
ID: 304231123
Thu, Aug 17, 22:15

When you didn't pick up Kile yesterday cause he was facing your OTO team.

206

jedman
ID: 55456319
Thu, Aug 17, 22:28

You're still on the message forum on a Thursday night when all the games are finished, you know how your teams did, your trades are done, and yet you keep refreshing to make sure you don't miss something important. Geez, this is terrible.
Good night everybody.

207

DMAN
ID: 296192417
Fri, Aug 18, 01:40

When you go to pageIQ.com to have updates sent to your pager for each of your players on your SW roster.

208

mulvawho
ID: 226552615
Fri, Aug 18, 08:37

When the power goes out in your city, there's a big tree down in the backyard, and your biggest concern is getting over to your girlfriends house and waking her up so you can sign on and trade Byung-Hyun Kim before his big price cut in the morning.

And you know how to spell his name.

209

KTxGOD
ID: 67231611
Fri, Aug 18, 11:09

REPLY TO J's Post #815

ZOOONA The warrior princess right J?

Isnt it ZENA?!?! maybe i dont watch enuf TV

210

SlammedAlex
ID: 597141811
Fri, Aug 18, 11:15

When you stay up till 3am when players points start to update, but instead of waiting for the totals to finish (usually around 5am) You take the time to click on ever players name and hand add the points for your team and every other persons team within 1000points of you.

211

DukeLax
ID: 526181314
Fri, Aug 18, 12:46

When because u blew your last trade on the final rando you weren't able to get the pitcher on your home team which is fighting for the wild card... so naturally you cringe at the thought they would win with a game ending bases loaded double play by your hitter, but wouldn't mind if they'd lose with a grand slam by him instead.

212

deepsnapper
ID: 39526123
Fri, Aug 18, 13:08

When you have to switch hands on the mouse because you've clicked so long on this thread and you want to get to the end before falling out of your chair LoL. (Oww, oww, hand cramp - not THAT kind of hand cramp Hark). (;-Þ)

213

Ender
ID: 13443221
Fri, Aug 18, 13:51

Prez Post #200 SOOOO true. My son asleep in my arms, head cradled in my aching left elbow while my cramped right hand hacks away at teh keyboard many times.

214

SuperMex13
ID: 12757168
Fri, Aug 18, 14:23

- You watch Sportscenter at 10 and then at 11 hoping your guys' production increased.

- Your wife asks you in the morning, "You must have been thirsty last nite, you woke up 5 times for a glass of water" Little did she know you were trying to figure out next week's pitching strategy.

- You go into your browsers internet options and clear the History Log, Temp Internet Files, and Cache. (At Home and at Work, especially at Work)

-SuperMex13

215

Mike D
ID: 427161522
Fri, Aug 18, 15:08

I am offended by people even typing "Mike" and "D" as one word "MikeD." So there. ;)

216

RecycledSpinalFluid
ID: 39446311
Fri, Aug 18, 16:44

1a) You list your Gurupie moniker on your resume.
1b) You list your Gurupie moniker before your real name on your resume.
2) You turn down a job, because, during the interview, they asked: "One question about your resume, Mr Fluid. What exactly are 'Career Guru Jr Votes'?"

217

Big Papa
ID: 594281314
Fri, Aug 18, 16:49

When you watch the Bottom Line on ESPN and after every score you pray to see your guy's stats come up.

When you can't see the top of your desk because there are so many SW notes of future trade plans and dates.

My favorite:
When you "work" and "study" your team for an hour or so at night, only to end up making no trades at all!

218

SteveO
ID: 136171913
Fri, Aug 18, 16:58

You are a gurupie if...

You would be lost without Probable Pitchers.

You curse their dot.com names (Damn ESPN!) when their Probable Pitchers are wrong and you pick up a dud or drop a guy early.

You don't trust Probable Pitchers to be right so you wait until you see the guy pitching in the boxscore before dropping him.

You check out cbs.sportsline.com for the Pitchers' records and espn.com for the team-to-team.

Your last step is Rotonews.com to find out if the guy hurt hisself watching television or getting on a bus.

You would be lost without Probable Pitchers.

219

SteveO
ID: 136171913
Fri, Aug 18, 17:00

Oooh. One more.

You are a gurupie if "good lovin" and "700 point night" are roughly on par for you in terms of making you happy. Ouch.

220

Baldwin
ID: 25440222
Fri, Aug 18, 18:35

Your screen sports so many post-it notes it's beginning to resemble Big Bird.

221

The_Beast
ID: 407381817
Fri, Aug 18, 19:44

You wait the 2 minute load time on this thread to read it for the 75th time since it was created.

222

Saw Dust
ID: 15435316
Sat, Aug 19, 09:55

You spend alot of time on Smallworld Baseball!!

223

ClevelandRocks
ID: 26791510
Sat, Aug 19, 10:27

lol the Beast! how true!

225

EmbarrassedHawksFan
ID: 1248319
Sat, Aug 19, 11:19

saw dust is back? the infamous rotoguru majors original member?

226

StLCards
ID: 157301911
Sat, Aug 19, 11:30

You can't convince your daughter that the first week of college really isn't all that important, so you rush to set the computer up in the dorm room and aaagh! no internet cable, quick where do I get one???? Doh! missed the trade deadline. Being pressured to log off - got to go!

227

Mike B
ID: 415552117
Sat, Aug 19, 11:50

You pay $30 a month for MediaOne so you can load this thread instantly to read it for the 75th time.

228

Strike One
ID: 496441210
Sat, Aug 19, 12:05

....when you get pissed off cause because you've only made 1.15 Million over the last 9 days.

229

AdMaN
ID: 437271723
Sat, Aug 19, 12:11

when you see strikingly familiar characteristics between Ruscaya 5 and Stike One.

-AdMaN

230

deepsnapper
ID: 39526123
Sat, Aug 19, 14:27

When you realize your typing skills have diminished over the years to ~30WPM EXCEPT when you type "Martinez" or "Johnson" in the "Find Player" boxes in .1 sec.

Species - 1 word "FOX" (;-Þ)

231

MJSbossman
ID: 8451222
Sat, Aug 19, 17:19

Oh yea, havnt checked this topic for a while but my name is indeed MJS bossman. M.J.S. are my initials, and bossman is my favorite wrestler in WWF, so dont anyone think that I think of myself as some tough boss guy. But I dont care how you pernounce my name, I pernounce it M-J-S Bossman.

232

TJ3
ID: 246151212
Sat, Aug 19, 19:19

I'm with purple pimp in post 88. I had Tim Waikefield pitch a 235 point performance!

233

esposo
ID: 51520158
Sat, Aug 19, 21:44

these have happened to me:

you know you're a guruppie when:

your 2-year knows who Shaq is, and she knows why you are happy when he makes free throws

your wife really DOES feel sorry for you when the service provider is down and you can't Randro [and she knows what a Randro is]

your wife has suggested that you call your dad and walk him through a Randro

you've tried to talked the school network coordinator into unblocking rotoguru.com for "statistical purposes"

you've asked students to help you hack around the network so you could use the sortables

you've bragged about being a guruppie for over 2 1/2 years and to prove it, you recount how smallworld didn't even update on some weekdays in the past [and you care if others might care]

you've done a "swap of doom"

you've dreamed of coming up with something that could be remotely confused with something that Steve Houpt might have written

you've asked the computer guru at school to help you tweak a Richard Spreadsheet

you've gotten mad at Brian McRae for not telling it like it is

234

Punishark
ID: 58761916
Sat, Aug 19, 23:46

"SWAP OF DOOM"!!! Boy, does that bring back memories! Good call, Esposo!

235

MJSbossman
ID: 8451222
Sat, Aug 19, 23:56

What exactly is a "Swap of Doom."

236

James K Polk
ID: 355352418
Sun, Aug 20, 00:08

In previous years, with weekly repricing, there was an hour between the deadlines for repricing and the roster freeze. It was therefore possible for the stout of heart to trade out of a player after the roster freeze, thereby locking in his points for that night, and into another player, to get his $$$ gains for the day. (Or was it the other way around ...)

Anyway, you had to be brave to attempt the SoD, because Smallworld's servers, unlike this year, were extremely unreliable. It was quite possible you could end up with an invalid roster for the day, forfeiting all your points for the night.

237

Razor
ID: 18650614
Sun, Aug 20, 00:43

Ahh the memories. I remember the ensuing debate on the moral implications of the SoD like it was just last year.....oh wait.

238

pilewort
ID: 577241612
Sun, Aug 20, 02:02

--you refer to your wife/sig-other's menstrual cycle as the "freeze period."

--you tell your wife/sig_other what matters is not the 550,000 you beat, but the 105 who beat you

--you think "click click booga booga" has metaphyisical implications

--you can read the name "Hairy Mound" without giggling

--you've maintained your morals by not selling Hoiberg

--you think Woodward would have figured it all out a lot quicker with KB8ers than with Bernstine

--you resist referring to your past girlfriends as "roster history"

--you slip the phrase "en fuego" into everyday conversation

--your single male friends think "value train" implies a cheap date

239

AznIverson
ID: 255301622
Sun, Aug 20, 19:54

When someone speaks of the Four Horsemen at church and you don't think of the Apocalypse

240

Todd
ID: 305202122
Mon, Aug 21, 10:22

You know your a gurupie when:
You have a 200 point night, but fall 4 spots in your division...

241

esposo
ID: 32533240
Mon, Aug 21, 10:53

Is this supposed to sound like David Letterman of Jeff Foxworthy?

the top ten ...

you might be a guruppie..

242

Chris
ID: 25540221
Mon, Aug 21, 14:02

When the decision to sleep or wait for the 2AM updates is a no brainer...

243

Ref
ID: 1442849
Mon, Aug 21, 14:11

You're late to weekend events because you had to strategize before trading and it takes over 2 hrs.!

244

PermDude Blue Hen Jr
ID: 37613316
Wed, Aug 23, 09:31

You groggily stumble around in the morning, mumbling, reaching for coffee, and the first coherent words out of your mouth are directed at your dog: "Did I miss a Pedro start last night?"

245

Larry V.
ID: 18747239
Wed, Aug 23, 09:51

You know you're a guruppie when, at 1:30 a.m., you notice that it has been 20 minutes since the last post on these boards, then say to yourself, "What's everyone doing? Sleeping? What the heck's wrong with those people?" Oh yeah, and you're supposed to get up at 5:30 to go to work!

246

Baldwin
ID: 25440222
Wed, Aug 23, 13:33

Your not in the least bit 'New Age' but you spend a lot of time thinking about convergence anyway.

247

YankeesRule
ID: 527103117
Sun, Sep 03, 17:58

C'mon, let's keep this going...

248

Catfish
ID: 20557322
Sun, Sep 03, 20:49

You go to a REAL baseball game and can't figure out why they are only playing with three outfielders ...

249

JAYman
ID: 1834316
Sun, Sep 03, 21:25

when u see the handle "adman" and wonder, "is the handle supposed to be 'da man' switched around.

when (this is really true) u "go to the bathroom" during class because u didnt have enough time to buy steve francis before the bell rang!

Keep this going i didnt even know about this until it was BUTT'ed b/c i was on vacation.

So it really is DG Reds??

like YankeesRule said, lets keep this thing going. Its made me literally ROTFLMAO!!

250

JAYman
ID: 1834316
Sun, Sep 03, 21:29

Im at my cousin's house and they are all like, "Why the hell is this wierdo rolling on the floor cracking up like crazy b/c of something written by an embarrased hawks fan!

251

YankeesRule
ID: 527103117
Wed, Sep 06, 18:30

You KNOW it when: (BUTT)

You buy a Palm VII so you can trade in school once SW gets a palm site. (true)

When you buy a candy bar for 59 cents with a $1 bill and you only get 36 cents in change, you tell the cashier, "Hey, you Ramoned me!"

You get a super-fast cable connection just so you can make it through those 11:59 trades. (true)

Your auto-div team is winning by 1500+ pts. with 13 pitcher trades and 18 hitter trades and a roster value of 46 mill SWD. (true)

You think the only difference between KTxGod and the real God is that the almighty didn't finish so high in SW.

You play Triple Play 2001 (not 2000 as mentioned in an earlier post) and calculate the SWP totals for that game.

When you consider a financial IPO and SW IPO of equal importance.

When at a party, you silence the chanting of "CHUG! CHUG! CHUG! CHUG!!", saying, "Nah, I gotta be up in time to RANDRO tommorow.

When on vacation, you spent $10 a day on the Ritz-Carlton's business center to trade. (Even on the days that you didn't need to. (true)

ANYWAY... today was the first day of school :^( , but even so I will make sure that this gets to be the longest post of the year (it's at 251 the record is 330-something), so keep posting, and I'll look through everyone on Oct. 1st and come up with the all time top ten list.

252

YankeesRule
ID: 527103117
Thu, Sep 07, 06:12

BUTT

253

ClevelandRocks
ID: 26791510
Thu, Sep 07, 11:40

whenever you see GIDP

You think of a cowboy riding a horse, saying
"Giddy-UP!"

254

Premium Lumber
ID: 15435316
Thu, Sep 07, 16:34

You are my best friends.

255

Guru
ID: 330592710
Thu, Sep 07, 17:07

Your son comes home from playing baseball, and you ask him how many SWP he got.

256

YankeesRule
ID: 527103117
Sat, Sep 09, 09:03

Wow...All this time and that was only the first post by Guru!!!

257

smiles
ID: 515462721
Sat, Sep 09, 17:41

u know you are a gurupie when...
-Having sex with your gf and accidentally yell out randro, and worse yet you chuckle to your self after words when u think of the nickname of "Homer Sexuals" has to be the worse name ever :)

-Consider using a gurupie's nickname in a amature porn, no kidding(sorry i'm a college kid in michigan, their isnt much to do...)

258

Heavy Hitrz
ID: 1986221
Tue, Sep 12, 02:21

Wow. . . Terrific thread! Reminds me of the long one
early this season where folks explained the origins of
their screen names. For those who missed it, it is
worth the time... esp. Hark's hilarous baby picture. . . I
almost busted a gut!

259

Heavy Hitrz
ID: 1986221
Tue, Sep 12, 02:28

To: esposo in post #233
You’re wife is knowledgeable in the ways of
Randro???... O lucky man!

espo> . . . when the service provider is down and you
can't Randro

That’s what NetZero.com and FreeInternet.com are for.
:-)

espo> you've done a "swap of doom"

<< bowing like Wayne and Garth >>
We’re Not Worthy!
We’re Not Worthy!
We’re Not Worthy!

espo>you've dreamed of coming up with something
that could be remotely confused with something that
Steve Houpt might have written

Hah! Couldn’t’ve said it better myself!

260

Heavy Hitrz
ID: 1986221
Tue, Sep 12, 02:38

With soooo many previous efforts it might be hard to
post something original but...

It is a sign you are a Gurupie when ...

You wish you had more hands during “Going, Going,
Gone” to count the HRs for all your fantasy teams.

261

YankeesRule
ID: 527103117
Tue, Sep 12, 16:29

nice to see some new activity

262

DukeLax
ID: 526181314
Tue, Sep 12, 16:40

You nearly go crazy at a pitcher because you know he could've went at least one more inning having thrown only 125 pitches

263

Heavy Hitrz
ID: 1986221
Wed, Sep 13, 01:45

To: YankeesRule
Let's go for the record... 331 is it?

It is a sign when -
You are genuinely shocked to discover it was NOT
Kenny Mayne, but SNL star Dana Carvey, who
popularized the phrase “chopping broccoli.”

264

YankeesRule
ID: 527103117
Wed, Sep 13, 20:38

When having a conversation, you say, "Hey, that's something J would say." or, "Hey, that's something ____(insert moniker) would say. When the're like, "Craig H?" you're like, "Ummm...KING OF THE GURUPIES???!!!" Needless to say you prove to your friend that ur crazy.

Your girlfriend goes to you, "You better tell me who this girl Randro is!"

265

Craig H
ID: 5785388
Thu, Sep 14, 13:52

"KING OF THE GURUPIES???!!!"

I'm not worthy!

Is that something I can add to my resume?

266

YankeesRule
ID: 527103117
Thu, Sep 14, 13:58

Ask RSF, Guru Jr.

267

YankeesRule
ID: 527103117
Thu, Sep 14, 20:25

Let's get the ol' BUTT out...

268

Heavy Hitrz
ID: 1986221
Fri, Sep 15, 03:57

You lament the absence of real box scores on FOX
Sports’ “Baseball Today” and ESPN’s “Baseball
Tonight.”

These could be easily added at the end of each show
and would only take a couple of minutes.

269

Roo
ID: 1183483
Fri, Sep 15, 04:29

You check the Soccer Forum every day even though you know that only 6 other people have ever contributed.

(and you hate Le Saux!)

:0)

270

The_Beast
ID: 358591419
Fri, Sep 15, 17:34

You cant wait for the brand spankin new Politics Message Forum to start!

271

YankeesRule
ID: 527103117
Fri, Sep 15, 19:59

This just happened:
Rotoguru.com was down so you met in the chatroom and got KTxGOD to give you the IP address to the forum

272

Heavy Hitrz
ID: 1986221
Sat, Sep 16, 04:21

When the highlight of your season is the week you
were "Guru Jr."

273

YankeesRule
ID: 527103117
Sat, Sep 16, 09:09

You refer to the act of joining an auto-div as "commiting suicide"

274

YankeesRule
ID: 527103117
Tue, Sep 19, 15:52

You live to BUTT this thread. (BUTT)

275

YankeesRule
ID: 527103117
Wed, Sep 20, 13:50

Guess we're not gonna get longest thread...oh well...it's been fun ;-)

276

Zoombini
ID: 348322017
Wed, Sep 20, 17:32

The Divisional Power Rankings thread doesnt count because technically its not just one subject. If all the daily SWP leaders threads were put together, it would be pretty dang long too... but this is only one topic...definitly the thread o' the year.

277

YankeesRule
ID: 527103117
Thu, Sep 21, 18:03

You have changed the lyrics of the song "Pimpin" to "Pink Pimpin".

You made an amatuer recording of "Bye Bye Kim" on your Tascam 4004 Portastudio 4-track. (Sort of true)

278

Clevelandrocks
ID: 3881515
Fri, Sep 22, 17:53

You’ve wondered if it would be better if other things in Life should be tallied in SWP

+10 donate blood
+5 for giving to the panhandler
-5 SWP for cheating on a test
+20 when the husband changes a diaper
-30 for having an affair
-5 for admitting that you had an affair
-5 leaving the toilet seat down
+50 your mother in law visits for a week
-10 for every time you got plastered
-10 extra for doing any of
the above WHILE plastered.

279

YankeesRule
ID: 527103117
Tue, Sep 26, 13:56

The 7 deadly Sins:

1. Envy-and-whatnot
2. Greed-something
3. blah blah...
8. BEING RAMONED!
(OK this one sucked)

280

Value Parameter
ID: 288592616
Tue, Sep 26, 17:04

lol.. giving blood while bein plastered.. .lol

damn.. i'm just thinkign about how many diapers im gonna have to change just to get on the positive side.

281

SCHMEGGA
ID: 568501111
Wed, Sep 27, 03:57

You have the original e-mail that Guru sent out to you when he first opened his site inviting you to join-up. And you have it backed up on a zip, cd-r, floppy, and external HD just in case!

282

Mike D
ID: 1417106
Wed, Sep 27, 06:18

You start concentrating on SW Football, Baseball, Playoff Baseball, and Hoops at the same time.

283

Mike D
ID: 1417106
Wed, Sep 27, 06:18

You start concentrating on SW Football, Baseball, Playoff Baseball, and Hoops at the same time.

284

Mike D
ID: 1417106
Wed, Sep 27, 06:19

.........and you are so confused you double post.

285

Guru
ID: 330592710
Wed, Sep 27, 06:35

You've heard of the planet "Gurup"

286

Mike D
ID: 1417106
Wed, Sep 27, 07:00

You are convinced that Don Mathis exists.

287

hoops boy
ID: 51440922
Fri, Sep 29, 23:38

you've been reading rotoguru since before there were message boards, used its power to propel your teams to the top of your division, finaly sent links to the other players in your division, programmed your own schedual matrix and excel spreadsheets, followed boards of sports you had no intention of playing (aussie rules anyone?), even guess hosted a spin-off site, but realize it doesn't mean a damn thing if you've never read this thread.

288

YankeesRule
ID: 527103117
Sun, Oct 01, 19:09

Gimme a B...(B)...Gimme a U...(U)...Gimme a T...(T)...Gimme another T...(T)...What does that spell? BUTT!!!

289

YankeesRule
ID: 527103117
Sun, Oct 08, 09:47

BUTT

290

pilewort
ID: 577241612
Sun, Oct 08, 22:49

Cleveland Rocks: wow! that was too funny.

having an affair is only three getting plastereds? Plastereds should be plus 5.

291

KevinL
ID: 52463114
Wed, Oct 11, 16:16

You take your laptop & cell modem to the ALCS so you can update the Today's action thread. (See post 4).

292

Drunken Masters
ID: 268192517
Thu, Oct 12, 17:05

I think this should be considered to be one of the Forum Keepers threads...anybody else think so?

293

YankeesRule
ID: 527103117
Thu, Oct 12, 17:52

Um...OBVIOUSLY!!!!!!!

294

YankeesRule
ID: 527103117
Fri, Oct 13, 14:08

Let's go for 300!!!

295

YankeesRule
ID: 527103117
Fri, Oct 13, 14:10

One of u goals in life is to have this break 300. :^)

296

YankeesRule
ID: 527103117
Mon, Oct 16, 13:58

LOL

297

h
ID: 329581617
Mon, Oct 16, 18:04

you realize that if you subtract YR's irrelevant posts, the number is no where near 300 and are quite saddened by it.

298

Chuck
ID: 569471619
Mon, Oct 16, 20:08

You think YankeesRule and Adam's G-men are related...

299

YankeesRule
ID: 527103117
Mon, Oct 16, 21:02

Actually, I posted 5 realavent posts. Here's to #299!

300

Yankee
ID: 204481818
Mon, Oct 16, 22:21

Let's make it an even 300 !

301

2PaC
ID: 46492816
Mon, Oct 16, 22:22

i think i'll break that even 300 mark, haha

302

slar
ID: 357252920
Tue, Oct 17, 17:29

You name your first child, a girl, Dawn Mathis.

303

YOUNGBUCK
ID: 471043019
Thu, Nov 30, 19:39

.....you skip class to manage your SW team

304

philliephan
ID: 5843138
Fri, Dec 01, 09:33

You are reading the baseball forum ... in December.

305

pogophiles
ID: 3245839
Wed, Dec 06, 10:42

You are posting to the baseball forum ... in December.

306

dinger
ID: 114241917
Sun, Dec 24, 16:39

you took the time to count YR's 16 irrelevant posts no wait that just says im bored LOL :)

307

KTxGOD
ID: 011531220
Mon, Dec 25, 12:26

hahhaha philliephan/progphiles :)

308

YankeesRule
ID: 299302812
Sun, Jan 07, 08:24

1) You post on X-mas day
2) You posted at 12:01 a.m. on New Year's Day
3) You are posting in the baseball forum...in the next millenium (ok that one sucked)

309

Strike One
ID: 496441210
Tue, Feb 20, 10:06

ok, let's get this show back on the road.

-you most and least favorite players can always be found somewhere on the price movers list.

310

Todd
ID: 305202122
Tue, Feb 20, 10:17

YR,
I don't think anybody was posting at 12:01 on New Year's day.

311

YankeesRule
ID: 299302812
Tue, Feb 20, 19:54

I swear i did. I think the post was deleted because i typed in caps

312

Bob Sacamano
ID: 61491619
Wed, Feb 21, 18:23

you're supposed to be doing a project for school online but you've read all 311 of these posts.(happening to me right now)

313

DMAN
ID: 5042211
Tue, May 08, 14:40

BUTT - for Razor

314

patjams
ID: 51456810
Tue, May 08, 14:48

Nice to go through and see some of our old friend philliephan's posts.

315

Kings Fan
ID: 21411810
Tue, May 08, 14:50

When you're teaching your son the game of baseball and you tell him, "Ok son, just remember that doubles are worth 10 and walks are only worth 3".

316

ChicagoTRS
Sustainer
ID: 4324316
Tue, May 08, 15:14

...when someone mentions 85 or 85 million and you laugh out loud...

...you actually know how to spell Doug Mientkiewicz...

317

CanEHdian Pride
ID: 426351415
Tue, May 08, 15:16

...You find yourself asking everyone if they consider you to be "tubby"

...You've reevalutated your personal grooming habits.

318

GoatLocker
ID: 26058212
Tue, May 08, 16:08

You ask your wife to bring in your laptop when you are lying in ICU, so you can make your planned pitching changes.

She Refused to do so by the way.

Cliff

319

Jevon Kearse
ID: 3910191413
Tue, May 08, 16:16

.....When you don't care that your favorite baseball team just lost, as long as you have the other team's winning pitcher on your smallworld team.

320

egl
ID: 1034512
Tue, May 08, 16:28

WHEN YOU PICK PLAYERS WHO ARE PLAYING AGAINST YOUR FAVORITE TEAM JUST BECAUSE THEY ARE GOING UP IN SW DUCATS

321

Hyp3
ID: 32001521
Tue, May 08, 17:17

*** You find youself advertising and sort of bragging about you team by creating a thread, mentiong their name in it. Your silly way of delivering this message is thru means of the words "today's action".

eg : "today's "hit another one pujols" action"

322

Westchester Mets
ID: 403541913
Tue, May 08, 17:19

Whenever SW crashes, you inform other family members that you are in a state of emergency until SW is back up

323

The_Beast
ID: 45429718
Tue, May 08, 17:27

When you and your friends put money on who will have the greatest SWPs in pool class softball and then your mental server collapses so you cant trade out of the foreign kid train and into the consistant yourself.

324

Mosquitoe
ID: 463452714
Tue, May 08, 18:06

when you've watched the little cable plug into the back of the computer like 100 million times just hoping that the site me back up

325

rockafellerskank
Donor
ID: 48113316
Tue, May 08, 20:00

.. when you actually buy an extra TV for the kitchen and re-arrange the living room so the computer monitor and the big TV can be viewed at once....

rfs

326

rockafellerskank
Donor
ID: 48113316
Tue, May 08, 20:02

if you list your WWR on your resume under "accomplishments"

rfs

327

rockafellerskank
Donor
ID: 48113316
Tue, May 08, 20:24

when you hide the rotoguru.com website in your favorites folder at work under a "false name" so the IT dept doesn't make a stink about it.

rfs

328

rockafellerskank
Donor
ID: 48113316
Tue, May 08, 20:26

when you know your rotoguru ID by heart, but have to check the cell phone memory for your girlfriend's phone number.

rfs

329

rockafellerskank
Donor
ID: 48113316
Tue, May 08, 20:35

.. you turn down a good job because they restrict access to the internet

rfs

330

perk9600
ID: 4542177
Wed, May 09, 15:44

butt

331

6-9 With The Afro
ID: 5743548
Wed, May 09, 16:23

RFS- POST 327.

LMAO, it's so true! Glad I'm not the only one.

332

ChicagoTRS
Sustainer
ID: 4324316
Wed, May 09, 16:57

...when you could actually run the game infinitely better than the people at Small World...

wait...almost anyone could do that...

333

LeftyGomez
ID: 245917
Wed, May 09, 17:26

TRUE STORY:

Your niece announces that she is getting married in a few weeks. She later informs you that her best friend is dating a player for the Kansas City Royals. When she tells you it's Mark Quinn, a sweat comes over you as you are nowhere near a computer to check the Royals schedule. The next words out of your mouth are, "Is he coming?" Not because you want to meet him, but because you want to make sure you have a trade ready, just in case.

334

FRANK DUX
ID: 47042822
Wed, May 09, 19:30

u rather check stats then have sex

335

Gary
ID: 381157822
Wed, May 09, 19:50

Checking stats is like having sex except better;) Yep I am bad.

336

Gary
ID: 381157822
Wed, May 09, 19:56

When you start blaming a pitchers bad performances on you not being able to watch the game due to it not being televised in your area,Madduxxxxxx.

337

RebelFan
Donor
ID: 393471118
Thu, May 10, 05:41

When seeing a Randy and Pedro convergence thread reminds you your anniversary is coming up

338

rfs- work
ID: 64362414
Thu, May 24, 14:36

butt

339

Tincup01
ID: 24422414
Thu, May 24, 14:42

When your father calls you to tell you he's got on the train in time(to come visit you), your first thought is whether he will pass you in your league with his 11:55AM pickup...

340

Cyclone
ID: 544432415
Thu, May 24, 15:43

You would rather much rather ride a "money train" than the gravey train that feeds you and your family.

341

promize
ID: 284122416
Thu, May 24, 16:12

....when you live in a region that's having a severe drought, but wish it doesn't rain so you don't waste pitcher trades on a rainout

342

PudgeFan07
ID: 32451116
Thu, May 24, 18:40

when ur co-worker says "this mans worth 11 million dollars" u say "Who? Pedro?"

343

Destiny's Chico
Donor
ID: 6372319
Fri, May 25, 17:00

BUTT- You consider trying to get the Baseball Tonight and Sportcenter Crew to refer to players' games in amount of SWP.

344

Ira
ID: 164192517
Fri, May 25, 17:19

-When you read all every single message from this
thread even though you feel your sides will pop
from laughter

345

Cyclone
ID: 404332612
Sat, May 26, 12:33

Wondering if you will get the dreaded "Blue Cross" designation if you get acharlie horse in teh middle of the night.

346

azdbacker
ID: 6414422
Sat, May 26, 15:55

You just spent the better part of a beautiful Saturday reading all 345 posts and LYAO.

OK - it's not all that beautiful out, it's actually 110 degrees.

Best OT thread ever, hands down.

347

Ira
ID: 164192517
Sat, May 26, 18:41

When you check every 2 minutes to see if
someone's replied to your new thread

348

IRRIDUCIBILI LAZIO
ID: 384572618
Sat, May 26, 18:58

you're still in front of your pc, at 3:00 in the night italian time, preferring to know the scores by the rotoguru's forum than from the yahho scoreboard, trying to understand what the others are saying when they use typical expressions that you don't know......and i can write another 15 reasons from italy, but you know.....it's 2 in the night!!!

349

Cleveland Fan
ID: 59416270
Sun, May 27, 00:17

....When you start to scan the posts for people named KTxGOD, Pink Pimp, bilireuben,J,Recycled Spinal Fluid, etc. because you respect their opinions

.... when you check the posts before cbsportsline for injuries because you know it will be there first.

350

Joe Sixers
ID: 13429277
Sun, May 27, 07:29

During your "real" job's communications meeting, you can't help but to blurt out "choo chooooo" when a profit is shown for the previous month. Also you wish you could get a last 7, 15, and 30 day listing of company gains and losses.

351

promize
ID: 284122416
Mon, May 28, 18:54

...when you post play-by-play game information, one message at time in the "Today's Action" folder.

352

Janitor
ID: 5431915
Fri, Jun 08, 10:07

you write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper complaining that their box scores aren't comprehensive enough b/c you can't calculate yesterday's SWPs

353

Greenbelt
ID: 28516811
Fri, Jun 08, 11:18

Here's something really scary!...

Because I have memorized the entire scoring formula, while watching "Sportscenter" I can calculate the SWPoints for any player that night...and I can do it fast, too! YIKES!!!

354

Jackie Robinson
Sustainer
ID: 4547814
Fri, Jun 08, 14:47

I know I am in trouble. My seven year old son watches many baseball games on tv with me. If a player hits a double and knocks in a run the first words out of his mouth are that's 15 points.
He wants to manage a mid-season team with my help.

355

6-9 With The Afro
ID: 19551814
Fri, Jun 08, 14:51

...you remember Adam Kennedy circa pre-allstar break '00 aka Fantasy God!

356

ryan lipel
ID: 315332013
Wed, Jun 20, 13:33

LMAO and PIMP while ROTFL at cyclone and joe sixers

357

ryan lipel
ID: 315332013
Wed, Jun 20, 13:40

Reporter : What is your opinion about destructive people such as the late McVeigh?
Gurupie : They are the trolls of society
Reporter : Do you have a solution to stop these so-called trolls?
Gurupie : No, I prefer to just let gravity destroy them. I feel they are no worty of their high price values.

359

Mikel
ID: 33156417
Sun, Jun 24, 10:08

Your main goal in life is to get a beloved Smallworld T-shirt or a Smallworld hat because that mean you finished the season in the top 100

360

Los Loco Pollos
ID: 575112412
Sun, Jun 24, 12:46

LOL i wanna compliment strike one on the piggy comment that was genius!

true story: when you call one of your friends who are at work from the club house of a local golf course and tell them to hury up and drop one of your players cause you overheard a person in the group ahead of your 10:55 tee time mention the poor performance of one of your starting pitchers the night before who you thought he was starting that day.

361

Strike One
ID: 39252299
Sun, Jun 24, 13:31

In order shorten the amount of time it takes to calculate your hitter's SWP by hand you have figured out that each total base is worth 5 SWP thus making it so you don't have to check the double, triple, or homerun columns.

362

Los Loco Pollos
ID: 575112412
Sun, Jun 24, 15:35

When sportscenter shows of a highlight of a certain right fielder for the atlanta braves rob mike piazza of a homerun and the first thing you say is a swearword followed by "that moron cost me 25 points"

363

Strike One
ID: 39252299
Sun, Jun 24, 15:43

31 SWP ;)

364

Huskiez
ID: 25344216
Sun, Jun 24, 19:02

30 TSNP

365

Strike One
ID: 73522811
Sun, Jun 24, 19:56

the home run would have been 30 SWP and the out was -1 SWP, so that a net loss of 31 SWP ;)

366

Huskiez
ID: 25344216
Sun, Jun 24, 20:00

Wow didn't even think about that, good call.

367

Los Loco Pollos
ID: 575112412
Sun, Jun 24, 20:50

lol :-) sorry about the calculating error. I haven't been paying any attention to the TSNP system cause comminishinor a custom league @ commish.com where homers are only 12 points. But i better get up to date cause i plan on having a good midseason league now that i have time. If you guys have a division i'd like to join. And i was wondering if u have an aol chat room name you use to chat on. Thanx and this is the best thread i have read all year!

368

Huskiez
ID: 25344216
Wed, Jun 27, 23:09

When you enjoy bitter confrontations between azdbacker and Razor about who/which is better:
Randy or Brown
Schilling or Park
Gonzo and Grace or Sheffield and Green
Diamondbacks or Dodgers

369

The Left Wings
ID: 2131321
Thu, Jun 28, 04:56

Your computer crashes and you call your best friend in the middle of the night to do the trade for you. Since he doesn't know anything about the system, you walk him through step by step from the top of your head.

Ok that's not something abnormal. Plenty of us did this before. Here's the bad part:

You change your team password when you finally get your computer to work again so that your best friend cannot get into your team anymore.

Come to think of it, I feel pretty bad about it. But then again, I can't take chances, can I? =P

370

Soxfan
ID: 522452715
Fri, Jun 29, 08:13

When the sond "Loser" comes on by Three Doors Down and you are singing in the shower but instead of singing the correct lyrics, "I'm a loser" you sing "I hate C-Losers"...

371

esposo
ID: 530432519
Fri, Jun 29, 08:34

post 359 - the tee shirts are over rated [and too small]

a true sign that you are a guruppie, all of these happened while on vacation:

you go on your family vacation and e-mail your division tracker to your dad's computer so it is waiting for you to get to Florida

you get up at 5:30 AM to sneak in 30 minutes of rotoguru time, stat checking, probable starts

your wife and dad lock you out of the computer so you have to spend time with the family

you watch swordfish and dream about "hacking" into stallworld for 75 more pitcher trades

you go to a large brand name amusement park [like Universal's Island of Adventure for example] and you login on one of those AOL terminal set up around the park just to check out the daily ax-tion thread

372

perk9600
ID: 4542177
Fri, Jun 29, 08:44

You get to work early so you can look at your teams and make your trades hassle free.

373

BOXSCORE NATION
ID: 18429914
Sun, Aug 19, 17:30

You take your vacations when Dave Hall does.

374

Strike One
ID: 356372421
Sun, Aug 19, 20:37

Can you believe that it's been over a year since this was started? Wow.

375

Cleveland Fan
Donor
ID: 294172211
Mon, Aug 20, 13:05

No one can take vacation as long as Dave Hall (except George Bush)!

376

Great One
ID: 15434710
Mon, Aug 20, 15:23

i actually wear my smallworld hat and use my smallworld water bottle... ugh

377

The Left Wings
ID: 456301816
Mon, Aug 20, 15:53

ROFL, Great One. I haven't had the chance to use those two things yet, but whenever I go play hockey, I'll wear the SW t-shirt from last year and hope to run into people who also play SW and recognize the logo so I can talk pools with them.

378

job
ID: 87351212
Mon, Aug 20, 17:24

when u tell ur self u have 1 trade, 5 mins max. then end up taking 2 hours

379

The Pagan Baby
ID: 26641117
Mon, Aug 20, 18:22

I just finished the entire thread. Funniest thing I've read in a long time. Thanx. I'm new to this kind of stuff. What in the hell does LOL & BUTT mean?

380

rockafellerskank
Donor
ID: 48113316
Mon, Aug 20, 18:40

LOL = Laugh out loud
BUTT = Back Up To Top (as in of the threads)

rfs

381

Baldwin
ID: 4261155
Mon, Aug 20, 18:41

Laugh Out Loud

Back Up To Top moves thread to top where it belongs

382

The Pagan Baby
ID: 26641117
Mon, Aug 20, 19:56

Thanx. Sorry to bother you again but what is an ORDNAR? I know Randro.
You know you're addicted when the kitchen sink is overflowing with dishes, you have no clean clothes to wear (you've resorted to fishing in the hamper for sox that aren't too smelly), the car is FILTHY, they shut off the gas because you forgot to pay it (just so long as I've got electricity and web access) and you still walk directly from the front door to the computer every day.

383

DMAN
ID: 5042211
Mon, Aug 20, 20:09

TPB - check here for ORDNAR, as well as others.

385

Micheal
ID: 371024132
Fri, Nov 23, 2001, 07:15

When you whine about there being 2 threads on the same subject.

386

Micheal
ID: 371024132
Fri, Nov 23, 2001, 07:49

When you find yourself chastising posters and referring them to the forum rules for asking help with their teams but don't give any thoughts themselves.

387

Mikel @ school
ID: 541024612
Mon, Nov 26, 2001, 13:39

YOu start calling TSNP, RGTSNP when they put the Rotoguru link on the Ultimate Hoops page.

388

Ira
ID: 1591458
Wed, Nov 28, 2001, 19:43

When people are still writing in these threads..

389

Khahan
ID: 12432113
Fri, Nov 30, 2001, 14:39

No way I could read through all 355 posts, so sorry if these are repeats:
a) You watch your respective sports in terms of Tsn points:
Faulk just broke loose for a 202 point run! (translation: 71 yard TD run)
or
Ramirez just had a 20 point at bat (2-run double)
b) You have something worthwhile to add to this thread

390

Strike One
ID: 356372421
Sat, Dec 01, 2001, 17:15

You get another SSB team just so you make it's team name be "RANDRO"

391

StLCards
Sustainer
ID: 2504849
Mon, Dec 03, 2001, 19:12

You cringe when you watch the game winning field goal sail wide - not because it's your favorite team that lost - but because of all the Rotoguru Pickoff points you just lost.

392

Buckwild
ID: 711241223
Fri, Dec 14, 2001, 17:25

You might be a Gurupie if you think this is helpful advice :

Can you give me the Top 5 most effective answers to the following October question: "Honey, instead of you watching 12 straight hours of football this Sunday, why don't we drive out to Northampton to check out the foliage and maybe go shopping?" --Jeff C, Boston

Sure. The foliage thing is a biggie here in New England, mainly because there are two or three weekends where the leaves are changing and women feel like it's their civic duty to emasculate you and make you drive them around and say things like, "Wow, look at that tree, it's gorgeous!" Just shoot me. The key is to keep coming up with excuses every weekend until the foliage window has closed. For example ...

1. The Rational: "Not this weekend, (fill in the matchup) is a huge game. I can't miss it -- I've been looking forward to it all week. Can we do it next week?"

(This works because she probably won't do follow-up research to determine if your game really is a big game, so she'll have to accept your words at face value. Also, you're leaving the door open for the next weekend, so she won't be too disgusted by you.)

2. The Fib: "I can't, I'm going over to (fill in an emergency buddy's house) to watch the game. We already made plans ... I thought you were doing something on Sunday!"

"Sorry, honey. I can't go see the foliage because the Steelers have a big game today."
(This works as long as you have a reliable friend who you can watch the game with on a moment's notice. Don't choose one of your whipped friends, because they might be doing the foliage thing. Also, when you say, "I thought you were doing something on Sunday," that's beautiful, because it shows her that you were thinking of her and you only made plans because she was busy ... she won't hold it against you that you were mistaken, feeling that you're just a moron with no long-term memory. Hey, whatever works.)

3. The Lie: "Not this weekend, it's supposed to pour all weekend."

(Only works if you have one of those girlfriends who never watches the weather. Pretty risky.)

4. The Compromise: "I really want to watch football on Sunday, sweetie. Can't we do it Saturday?"

(The diplomatic move. You're sacrificing Saturday to enjoy Sunday. Everybody wins. If she made plans for Saturday, even better -- you can even turn the tables on her and say, "But I thought we were doing something on Saturday!" and make her feel like crap.)

5. The Confrontation-Starter: "Oh, that should be fun. Are you going to castrate me before we leave or when we get to Northhampton?"

(So you start a full-scale fight to get out of it ... big deal. It's good to drop the gloves every once in a while. Keeps things fresh.)

393

Strike One
ID: 356372421
Sat, Dec 15, 2001, 10:34

lol, beautiful

394

Mikel
ID: 33156417
Sun, Dec 16, 2001, 10:34

LOL With My Knees Elivated Hitting them on the computer table but not caring if it knocks me on the ground because im ROTFL...GREAT POST Buckwild

395

Buckwild
ID: 2811551620
Sun, Dec 16, 2001, 21:02

I found some interesting espn articles listed on the right hand side

396

Jackie Robinson
Leader
ID: 4942911
Tue, Jan 29, 2002, 10:26

I need help.
I woke up at 4:30 this morning in a sweat.
I was dreaming I was reading the boxscores and my smallworld team had all the wrong players on it.
It's not even February and this is starting.

397

TLMathews
ID: 30117218
Sat, Feb 02, 2002, 18:24

Wife: February 14th is an important holiday. Do you remember what it is?

Me: Sure I do! That's the day pitchers and catchers report!

Glad I put extra straw in the dog house. Ha, ha.

398

Mikel
ID: 33156417
Mon, Mar 25, 2002, 19:08

You draft players on you team that you can acctually watch on tv. alla the braves TBS...Cubs WGN and the local Tigers on FoxSports Net.

you see the word of and all you can think of is who is the best Outfielder Sleeper under 3 mil.

400

Ender
ID: 13443221
Thu, May 02, 2002, 00:01

You actually participate in fantasy fantasy baseball (GMD).

We officially have fantasy teams of managers' fantasy teams...

401

Dan L
ID: 1329128
Wed, Mar 12, 2003, 15:49

BUTT

402

Beetski
ID: 206282522
Wed, Mar 12, 2003, 17:47

Senior year in highscool I changed my whole scheule so i can have 5th and 6th period off, enough time to see the dialy price changes and plan out my moves.

403

Chestergreat
Sustainer
ID: 137142214
Tue, Apr 01, 2003, 10:41

You know you're a gurupie when:

You wake up in a miserable mood. You are quietly brooding during the morning walk with your wife & 2 dogs. She asks if there's anything wrong and you say "No dear. . everythings fine" You take a look at the computer before breakfast and mumble things to it under your breath. As you sit down for breakfast she asks again. . ."Bob, why are you so out of it today". Finally you blurt out at the top of your voice . ."I had Patterson & Radke on my F#%k&^g short list of players and took RJ & Dunn instead . . . OKAY . . ARE YOU HAPPY NOW".

Needless to say . . I may sleep on the couch tonight.
(Story somewhat embellished . . but not too much)

404

TacoJohn
ID: 591522417
Tue, Apr 01, 2003, 13:23

Not so much a "you know you're a gurupie", I just wanted to give a heads up to all the people who are worried about their work blocking their site.

For those cases where it may have actually happened, you can go to anonymizer.com and access the site through there. It will usually get you in.

405

Matt G
ID: 43047610
Tue, Apr 01, 2003, 13:28

When 'Day late' to you is good, but to your girlfriend is bad.

406

TacoJohn
ID: 591522417
Tue, Apr 01, 2003, 13:28

Okay, got a couple. :)

You pass up chances to actually *play* baseball to check out the latest word at Guru.

You run a website about your school's baseball team (Kansas U) that team parents, coaches' wives, etc check out regularly and it's below your TSN teams on update priority.

You've briefly considered selling your computer thinking of how wonderful life might be without it, but can't bring yourself to do it.

407

Abdul Butkrak
Donor
ID: 46113919
Tue, Apr 01, 2003, 15:49

Your toughest decision all day is whether to go to the baseball, basketball or politics forum first.

408

KnicksFan
Donor
ID: 439341814
Tue, Apr 01, 2003, 18:33

The word "Smackdown" no longer makes you think of pro wrestling.

409

Strike One
ID: 356372421
Sat, Apr 05, 2003, 14:14

wow, i can't beleive this thread is still around.

410

RDELMO
Donor
ID: 485371719
Sun, Jul 20, 2003, 11:11

When the best active player (you listening Barry) in baseball could potentially be suspended, and your only concern is having enough trades to cover the loss.

411

Khahan @home
ID: 310231215
Sun, Jul 20, 2003, 20:47

You break out into hysterics anytime you hear somebody mention the amount: $85 million.

412

Ira
ID: 46338611
Mon, Jul 21, 2003, 16:05

lol

413

the_abbott
Sustainer
ID: 44010135
Mon, Mar 01, 2004, 10:58

Reading through the Registry (I was really trying to find my own name, and it is not there!) I was reading TB's personal profile and there was a link to this thread.

I have just spent the last hour and a bit reading the whole 412 posts and have now got jaw ache from the constant smiling!

Exactly what year did this thread start?

You know what they say 'the truth hurts'.

Brilliant!

414

the_abbott
Sustainer
ID: 44010135
Mon, Mar 01, 2004, 11:05

Wow! After I had updated this thread I then found that post 385 was dated November 2001!

415

Matt S
ID: 34945140
Mon, Mar 01, 2004, 17:16

haha, I love the throwback threads!

416

Beetski
ID: 42263014
Wed, Mar 30, 2005, 15:47

I just wanted to bring this back and say that this thread is sweet

417

RecycledSpinalFluid
Dude
ID: 204401122
Thu, Mar 31, 2005, 02:21

You wonder if its a fluke or devine intervention:

You get new license plates for your car (completely random)...and the last three characters are "SWP". Strange.

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The Left Wings
ID: 6142019
Thu, Mar 31, 2005, 03:33

Wow, you definitely have to be a gurupie for quite a few years to know what SWP is.

#6: *sob* =(

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Chris
ID: 4708114
Thu, Mar 31, 2005, 15:21

You remember all the people that posted when this thread started 5 years ago, even though many of them apparently dropped off the face of the Earth.

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blue hen
Leader
ID: 710321114
Thu, Mar 31, 2005, 17:14

... when you wonder what year this thread started in.

... when you realize you've only posted in it twice.

... when you think "Thank god, at least it wasn't the 85 million thread they brought back."

... when you realize you've lived in 7 apartments in 5 different states since this thread started.

... when you notice the absence of the words "aboot" and "cafeps" in this thread.

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RDELMO
ID: 33283119
Thu, Mar 31, 2005, 20:55

when you read all of the above posts just hoping to find some inside info before opening day.

Didn't find anything.....

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