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 05/14/2007 05:00:19 PM · #51
Originally posted by marbo:
Originally posted by De Sousa:
Hello,

My name is Jorge and I̢۪ve been doing photography for about less than a year....


Don`t worry, you will get the hang if it. Just hang in there :P


ROFL! :-D
 05/14/2007 06:17:15 PM · #52
UNTOUCHABLES RULE!!

05/14/2007 06:35:17 PM · #53
Originally posted by Buckeye_Fan:
Maybe you should be called the "Dream Team"!! Lots of talent there!!


And of course we all remember the 2004 Olympic basketball games...
 05/14/2007 07:15:24 PM · #54
You think a lot of yourselves don't you?

I love the baseball comparison. I also loved it in 1997 when our Florida Marlins put together a kickass team of mostly semmingly average players, stomped the Yankees, and went on to win the World Series in only their fourth year of existence.

Many of the Marlin's made themselves 'superstars' that year and to the immense dissappontment of fans, the team was dismantled and sold off by Wayne Huizenga.

I REALLY loved it in 2003 when an almost entirely different Marlin's team, one made up of low budget, no name players, came back from a sub 500 season to surprise the first place New York Yankees by knocking them out of the race for the World Series in the Fall Classic. For the second time in their ten year history they again won the World Series.

Now here we are in the first season of DPL with a team made up of high budget players and the expectations that come with their status as superstars. Sounds like a challenge to me. I'm sure that there are a lot of "Marlin's" type teams in the DPL with a surprise superstar or two (or three) of their own.

I'm gonna love it when you 'big budget players' fall to a team that you have just motivated to take you down. I've always rooted for the underdogs anyway.

Oh yeah, I love competition too. Can you tell? :)

edit to add a plug for my team - - -

- - - International Shooter's Organization

"Our shooter's have the world covered" because our team composition is truly international.

Message edited by author 2007-05-14 19:28:42.
 05/14/2007 07:25:24 PM · #55
Just in case it wasn't crystal clear, my tongue was firmly planted in my cheek when I wrote the piece. I also agree that winning is the only option for the Hogs. Anything less will be failure. It's a high bar. If this encourages others to try harder and improves the DPL (and DPC) experience, then I'll have accomplished my objective.
 05/14/2007 07:31:32 PM · #56
Don't worry, it was crystal (the cheap plastic kind) clear ;)

My reply was tongue in cheek too. Actually, I had noticed your team makeup and recognized immediately how tough you guys are going to be to beat.

Still though, it makes a good challenge and I'm sure will motivate a lot of teams to do their best to be competitive.

Message edited by author 2007-05-14 19:33:35.
 05/14/2007 08:23:24 PM · #57
Originally posted by DrAchoo:
If this encourages others to try harder and improves the DPL (and DPC) experience, then I'll have accomplished my objective.


Every competition needs it's Yankees or Tiger Woods. It would be boring otherwise.

:-)

Message edited by author 2007-05-14 20:29:19.
 05/14/2007 08:25:53 PM · #58
reading back through my original post, it seems that i left out the tongue-in-cheek part.

that being said, you're all still full of yourselves and are complete buttheads.

...tongue in cheek, of course. ;)
 05/14/2007 08:28:50 PM · #59
Originally posted by muckpond:
...you're all still full of yourselves and are complete buttheads.


I nominate Muck president of our fan club. :-/
 05/14/2007 08:35:51 PM · #60
Originally posted by scalvert:
Originally posted by muckpond:
...you're all still full of yourselves and are complete buttheads.


I nominate Muck president of our fan club. :-/


i'mma get me one those foam fingers. but all special-like:



:P ;)
 05/14/2007 08:36:44 PM · #61
I always knew we were #1 in your heart Mucky...
 05/14/2007 08:37:13 PM · #62
Originally posted by thegrandwazoo:
Originally posted by DrAchoo:
If this encourages others to try harder and improves the DPL (and DPC) experience, then I'll have accomplished my objective.


Every competition needs it's Yankees or Tiger Woods. It would be boring otherwise.

:-)


Thanks for thinking of us Doc. I take solice in the knowledge that no matter what Team Ribbon Dawgs do, they'll never come out of this with their heads held high. Of course you're the odds on favorites... the best money and a little backdoor... did I say backdoor... I meant back room shenanigans can buy. If you win, there'll be no parade as it was more or less expected. If you lose, no matter how small the margin... you lose BIG. Best of luck. You're gonna need it. :P
05/14/2007 08:38:54 PM · #63


Rooters for ya! Gooo! Hogs!
05/14/2007 08:39:54 PM · #64
Originally posted by Qart:
Thanks for thinking of us Doc. I take solice in the knowledge that no matter what Team Ribbon Dawgs do, they'll never come out of this with their heads held high. Of course you're the odds on favorites... the best money and a little backdoor... did I say backdoor... I meant back room shenanigans can buy. If you win, there'll be no parade as it was more or less expected. If you lose, no matter how small the margin... you lose BIG. Best of luck. You're gonna need it. :P


Don't think for a minute we don't fully realize that if WE didn't exist, YOU'd be the odds on favorite with the "stacked" team. Then you'd own all the pressure...

...you guys can send me a thank you card or something.
 05/14/2007 10:30:18 PM · #65
Originally posted by De Sousa:
Hello,

My name is Jorge and I̢۪ve been doing photography for about less than a year. I̢۪m proudly member of the RIBBON HOGS team.

I wish you all good luck


When the Outcasts are hoisting another championship banner you may rethink snubbing the Outcasts a season ago. :P
 05/18/2007 11:12:01 AM · #66
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 05/18/2007 11:33:24 AM · #67
Isn't there a limit to how many ego's will fit into one thread? :-)
 05/18/2007 11:36:30 AM · #68
Originally posted by Telehubbie:
Isn't there a limit to how many ego's will fit into one thread? :-)


No.
 05/18/2007 10:52:36 PM · #69
Originally posted by DrAchoo:
Originally posted by eqsite:
Nothing kills a team like a little clubhouse friction:

God is great. God doesn't exist. OK, Dr Achoo, Scalvert...go!

:D


In the name of reconciliation Shannon has agreed to listen to Christian radio in the clubhouse. I now sport a "Darwin" fish on the back of my black Mercedes.


05/18/2007 11:19:35 PM · #70
BOO!!


05/18/2007 11:47:12 PM · #71
Originally posted by eqsite:


I've already done my homework and have two entries in for next week. I get to go and play. We promised mom we'd stop as soon as someone starts crying.

Message edited by author 2007-05-18 23:47:23.
 07/03/2007 08:22:53 PM · #72
Well, you did it. You won the regular season by almost .4 points over the second highest team. And you did it by having the most consistent ribbon winners on the site decide to join the same team. You couldn't have subverted the DPL better if you tried. As a fan of subversion, I tip my hat to you.
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