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2 minutes ago, CaliforniaGlowin said:

I've never had so many good teams at one time.

First you gotta have a lot of teams and you seem to have checked that box and then some. Can't say I've run across many Seahawks/Rams fans or Heat/Nets fans. 

2 hours ago, Sec19Row53 said:

That sounds good, but there's no way Green Bay or Milwaukee would have gotten Pittsburgh-Washington rather than Chicago-Detroit.

 

The same can be said for Chicago and Detroit!

Today was a CBS doubleheader day. Maybe that has something to do with it.  

14 minutes ago, the admiral said:

EDIT: this is where we really could have used dfwabel had he been able to resist making death threats toward posters' wives

Yeah, other than the death threats, dfwabel was a good poster. Anyway, to take a shot at answering your question, my best guess is the markets who would have gotten the game at its regularly scheduled time will still get it on Monday. Any market that wasn't going to get it will be relieved to know that Maury will still air at its usual time. But I could be wrong.

EDIT: Looks like D_G beat me to it.

42 minutes ago, BringBackTheVet said:

Here's a fun game for those of us who have been around a decade or more - who were the mods when you joined?

Best I can remember, Lee, Slapshot, Mockba (now -kj-) Brian in Boston, YH, JoshWaggle (or something like that), and I believe Chris was still a mod way back then. There may have been more, but those are the ones I remember.

55 minutes ago, Sec19Row53 said:

So that vote must be 23-0, correct?

27-0

57 minutes ago, Olmec said:

How does one become a moderator?

It's a complicated process, but I'll do my best to explain how it works.

First, the Majestic XII has to decide to open the moderator books. This happens roughly every 23 to 27 months. It's called the "Twenty Three to Twenty Seven Month Quell." A combination of charts, equations, Jim Beam, and a washing machine are used to determine the exact time frame. Once the M-XII declares "the moderator books are open", there is a special M-XII committee that selects members as a possible moderator candidates. Usually, 31 members are "tapped" as potential mod candidates, but that number can be a little higher or a little lower depending on that season's quell. "Tapped" candidates will find Hartford Whalers jersey slipped under their door. Once the 31 members are selected as a potential mods, there are a series of grueling physical and mental tests in which each candidate must participate. Secrecy forbids me from being specific about the tests, but I can tell you that they're not easy.

Of the initial 31 (give or take) candidates, the number that make it through the initial process averages about 4.7. Some quells may produce five or more candidates while other quells have been a complete waste of everyone's time because no one got past round one. The candidates who survive the initial process are then subjected to another series of even more grueling physical and mental tests. Again, I can't be specific, but I can tell you that part of it requires building an air compressor from scratch. Generally, 1-2 candidates will make it past round two of testing. Those candidates are then voted on by the full membership of the Majestic XII. The M-XII vote must be unanimous. If the vote is not unanimous, the M-XII will post a picture of a Cleveland Browns helmet with a random logo on it. If the vote is unanimous and a new mod has been selected, the M-XII will post a picture of an NFL helmet with a gray face mask to let the masses know that a decision has been made and a new moderator has joined the ranks.

Hope that explains it.

3 hours ago, BringBackTheVet said:

can’t even type the female word for dog?

I'm guessing you meant the word for a female dog. Far as I know, women don't have their own word for dog, but anything is possible, I guess.

39 minutes ago, sportsfan7 said:

Why? Personally I thought he had some pretty good concepts, but it wasn't mindblowing. The Goldmine seems to be reserved for a). epic meltdowns, b). random, hilarious threads, or c). a combination of the 2.

That doesn't mean we aren't willing to take a look.

4 hours ago, Sebastianm said:

Who here remembers that Europe football league that Josef-Bretones made, that should be in the Goldmine.

Find a link and we'll take a look.

7 minutes ago, j'villejags said:

This feels like a clever play on the Yankees, as many southerners (who say y'all) would refer to northerners as those "damn yankees." Was that his intent? 

 

I seriously doubt it. As I said in my previous post, Florence is all about the "Y'all" bit. FWIW, my entire family is from Kentucky. I've heard "Y'all" more times than I can count. I've never heard a Kentucky hillbilly, relative or otherwise, say "damn yankees." They call us Ohioans "buckeyes" and it's not meant as a reference to Ohio State. No idea how they refer to people from other states, but if it's "damn yankees", I've never heard it.

17 hours ago, ~Bear said:

The name is....dumb, to be frank, but the brand itself is classy enough to overcome to overly silly name. 

If you're familiar with Florence, the name makes perfect sense. My Mom used to live in Florence.  When I was there, "Florence, Y'all" wasn't just on the water tower, it seemed like it was everywhere. No idea if it still does, but the city used to have an annual "Y'all Festival."

Anyway, I love the look and the name. Well done.

Sleeves on football jerseys.

MLB games that were played in under 3 hours

Mel Allen doing TWIB

MLB Game of the Week on NBC

MNF on ABC with Frank, Howard, and Dandy Don (Look it up, youngsters. You'll be glad you did)

Super Bowls that started before 6:30 PM 

1 hour ago, the admiral said:

I submit Morrissey calling the Cubs' win for the Indians broadcast with "I was always a fool to believe this house was ever a home,"

Of all the places I thought I would get my daily reminder that a Cleveland team blew a championship, this thread on these here boards wasn't any of them. 

4 minutes ago, the admiral said:

"The dream was so real, it had to come true" is a half-step removed from a Morrissey lyric.

I would have gone with it sounds like a Bon Jovi lyric. Yours is better. 

20 minutes ago, Sport said:

It was a championship, yes, but it's also the Calder Cup and you'd find 0 people who Cleveland who'd say this championship ended their drought so he's at 14 out of 10 and he needs to be at like a 9. 

I'd forgotten that the Monsters won the Calder Cup. Also, I think 7 would have sufficed. 

1 hour ago, DEAD! said:

 

Was this until Ricky Vaughn showed up? 

Well after. 

1 hour ago, Digby said:

Yeah, I don’t miss the days of cavernous multiuse ballparks

You haven't lived until you watch a baseball game with 3500 other people in a stadium that seats 80,000. 

8 minutes ago, ClevelandBaronsNHLfan said:

The original Cleveland Barons were very successful in the ahl winning nine Calder Cups. The current ahl team one the cup in 2016.

I was talking about attendance, but thanks. 

2 hours ago, _DietDrPepper_ said:

Decided to try it again and it worked. Don’t know what changed

So who were you before this? 

19 minutes ago, OnWis97 said:

Thank you for the note (Title?  Whatever it's called)  on your former name.  That should be required for one month on any name change.

If nothing else, we should have a thread in which name changes are announced. 

On 12/16/2019 at 9:47 PM, Red Wolf said:

The only people that enjoy listeners calling in are the listeners that are calling in because it makes them feel important.

Callers are nothing more than a crutch for bad hosts. A good host can weave in the occasional caller and Jim Rome is pretty good at mining his callers for decent content, but to rely on callers is just really bad radio. Roughly 1% of the actual listening audience will pick up the phone to call a radio show. Do any of us really believe that we're getting the best and brightest out of that 1%?

The first year I did my old radio show, we tried to concentrate on callers. That only lasted about 3 months because the callers were just awful. They just dug hearing themselves on the radio. They added nothing to the actual show. After that, we decided one caller per 1/2 hour was all we'd allow and that caller had to really bring it. Not relying on callers was the smartest thing we did in three years of doing that show. 

2 hours ago, BringBackTheVet said:

Dammit - seems like this would be the goldmine thread... but I "don't have permission to view its content".

 

 

I have permission and I would have seconded your vote, but LMU already took care of it. 

1 hour ago, LMU said:

I was just going to the mod section to suggest adding it to the Goldmine. My work here is done. 

Didn't we do this once before about 10 years ago? Break out the old "Hi, I used to be..." name tags. 

3 hours ago, IceCap said:

 - something unrelated -

You finally got rid of that awful underscore! Well done, Maggle.