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2 minutes ago, JackieMoon said:

I would like to have my account deleted. I will no longer be following "pro sports" and wish to have my account erased. Thank you.

Then log out and don't come back?

15 hours ago, packerfan21396 said:

Does anyone else experience skipping whenever they scroll on desktop?  For instance, when I'm trying to scroll up it jumps back down a bit on the way to the top of the page.

Is this due to the insertion of ads here and there? If that is what you mean, yep, that happens on both phone and PC.

18 hours ago, oldschoolvikings said:

I used to have a clunky old template that I'd cobbled together from 3 or 4 other templates, but I never liked it much so I never used it.  At some point I'd found a drawing of a baseball player that I thought might make a possible template if I fiddled around with it, but I never had the time. So anyway, world wide pandemic, and I have time.  Here it is...

 

This totally looks like the Lakeshore Chinooks. I like it!

Deion Sanders has left NFL Network. His contract was up and he chose not to renew, based on what I read.

NHLTalk still seems regularly updated, and not by AP stories.

Not sure I will miss Craig at HardballTalk, as he couldn't write a baseball story without inserting his views on business/politics/other into nearly every one of them. I get it -- I know where you stand -- but I'm just here to read about the games I missed.

27 minutes ago, LMU said:

I remember that he got a job and left here because after staring at a computer screen all day he had no desire to keep doing so when he got home.

I was going to say that, unlike most of us, he grew up

1 hour ago, infrared41 said:

 

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.

So that vote must be 23-0, correct?

2 hours ago, DG_ThenNowForever said:

 

"Or two"? I wonder what their business plan is. I guess if they can make in time of COVID, then they can make it anytime. But two years sounds incredibly optimistic in a time where 2 percent of our population is dropping dead.

2% of the population aren't dying. 2% of people who have caught the virus are dying.

Big difference.

5 hours ago, Gothamite said:

 

It is separate from the sports branding, which uses Bucky Badger and the motion-sickness W.

 

 

I don't bother with this response often, but some of us actually like this logo and consider it worlds better than its predecessors. 

21 minutes ago, Dilbert said:

Does anyone else have this issue? Everytime Im on the boards the page constantly is bouncing up and down. I think it may be because of the ads but Im not for sure. Its been happening for quite a while now.

Particularly when a page first loads. Yeah, the ads infiltrate the threads and cause things to bounce.

On 6/17/2020 at 11:24 PM, WavePunter said:

"Y'all" is already plural.. the "s" at the end makes it weird imo.. speaking as a very southern individual who says "y'all" quite often..

Yeah, cuz the plural of Y'all is All Y'all

Sorry - should have read the whole thread

1 hour ago, officeglenn said:

 

It was merged with the thread about Tom Brady's photoshoot in a Bucs uniform. Unfortunately the photoshoot thread title was kept by accident, and there was no way to split it back off again. The title of the thread was changed back to the unveiling one to try and maintain continuity.

Ok. Mistakes like this are reasons to NOT do this at all.

Why is it that when I click on the new posts part of the Bucs thread, i'm sent to page 1? Did something get merged again? This is why it sucks -- I've got no idea if this is just a glitch, o if something I haven't actually read is mixed in there.

14 hours ago, BringBackTheVet said:

Here's the Super Bowl LII Champion Philadelphia Eagles radio booth during Super Bowl LII, where they destroyed the New England Patriots to become the Super Bowl Champions.

 

It's super interesting... and pretty chaotic.  At one point, Merrill Reese is watching the game with his binoculars.  Both broadcasters seem totally dependent on the spotters around them pretty often.

 

How'd they do in that game? 

I like the spotting board. I made mine using NFL Block A just for fun.

On 6/7/2020 at 12:16 PM, the admiral said:

Do NFL announcers get the all-22 feed during games?

I don't know. I'm going to speculate that they don't, as there isn't necessarily enough room in a broadcast booth for additional monitors.

In my experience in the radio booth at Camp Randall, ain't no way in hell to fit additional monitors there. At the far end of the booth is the one monitor that is available. The rest of it is personal laptops, notes, spotting charts and the like. The small area behind me over my left shoulder is where the radio control board is.

3 hours ago, sc49erfan15 said:

 

Isn't this worse "now" than "then?"

I'm not sitting at a game, or watching a game, so there's definitely less of it in my world

People talking about fantasy football

On 4/17/2020 at 7:24 AM, BringBackTheVet said:

 

Yes.  I think sometimes the ad at the top of the screen changes between really big ones and smaller ones, and makes the screen jump a lot.

 

I can't tell you how many times I've clicked on the wrong thing because the screen jumped right as I was about to click.  It's that way on mobile too.

Finally realized what you meant. Yup - that's been happening for me for months. each page needs to let the ad load before clicking something, or you (royal you) will click the wrong item.

I'm getting periodic logout again.

Just now, DG_ThenNowForever said:

A team could have a fun day by issuing a press release that says "The Columbus Clippers will play as the Columbus Clippers."

This would be the Yankees, if they had a sense of humor.  Love the idea!

On 1/27/2020 at 11:39 AM, DC in Da House w/o a Doubt said:

An article about how the George Washington poppin champagne logo was made for the Harrisburg Senators.

 

 

The pencil sketches look like Bob Uecker.

31 minutes ago, DG_Now said:

 

It's the exclamation point, sadly. Which is a shame, because that's what would make it pop.

Put your name in volt and it will pop.

Vo_DG_Now_lt

9 hours ago, Jer15 said:

 

Well played

You mean:

Well played, Mr. Bisordi.

12 minutes ago, BringBackTheVet said:

This is good.  Is there some way that name changes are "announced" or posted so that people know that whoever is posting something is the same person that they've been interacting with for years just under a new name?

Who are you?

2 hours ago, GDAWG said:

 

This is how unstable indoor teams are, that they don't even screen or vet employees.  It is yet another reason the sport isn't taken seriously. 

Nah - it isn't taken seriously because too many teams are fly by night.