It was still funny though.

Those are laughable...

@Ken_Rosenthal: Sources: #Dodgers trying to trade IF/OF Alex Guerrero. Talking to numerous teams. Fits best with an AL club.

Supposedly there are rumors the Royals might be interested...

I guess going to back to back World Series and winning it all last year does not count for much in these Power rankings. :rolleyes:

Why would the Royals be interested in him? He's basically Alex Rios without any prior success.

Oh... i see why we would be now.

Must really hate that Rios loss.

That's basically Paulo Orlando, except a year younger and slightly more power and less speed. No thanks.

:D I will miss him-it is like he was never here.

That one time-he got a really good hit.

Without Rios, that 8th in Houston, Game 4, doesn't get rolling...

I would think our interest would be at 2B.

Would love to have Enrique Hernandez from the Dodgers.

I have noticed throughout the off season and during the football season you could always find Royals posts in here.

Now the best fans in baseball have finally started the redbirds thread. Not to start a war but the best fans in baseball are really quiet.

Already have a better version in Jarrod Dyson

Not sure why Cards fans are considered the best fans in baseball.

How difficult is it to be a fan of a team that competes every year? :)

I think it was a self tittle that Jack Buck picked up on and now his son has to keep it out there. Oh well and have to admit they have been consistently good thru the years.

I will miss Hootie I used to go over to the Cards threat just to read him pestering them. Also in gameday and this tread he was fun overbearing but fun. Dude was right on a lot of stuff but just couldn't own up when he was wrong.

Dyson has 6 HR's in 6 years. Hernandez had 7 in 200 AB's just last season, he didn't have a single stolen base. He's also a bit more versatile in the field, he came up as a middle infielder, but has spent significant time at Second, Short, Third, Leftfield, Centerfield and Rightfield. He's also 8 years younger. I'm not sure I see the comparison. If anything, he'd make Christian Colon expendable.

Then we'd be able to trade for Upton. :D

I didn't realize he had played that much infield. Only saw him in reserve OF/defensive specialist action this season.

Statement retracted.

Pitcher and Catchers report Thursday.

Sal has been down here since the beginning of January, minus a week's vacation in Disney World I think.

I am heading up to practice to see who's here on Saturday morning. Still trying to get Sal to sign a bat for me but he's hard to get close to these days up there.

I'm ready for some Royals baseball !

Hell yeah! We're getting close, boys. it's baseball time.

Bring your pretty lady with you to lure him over bro.

Game on finally! I just can't wait for opening day. Mets prepare your anus! We going in dry!

Exactly.

Let them have a shit show for 20 years & see how their fan base looks.

What happened to him?

Do me a favor and make sure Yost doesn't have Sal running back and forth between fields so that he can catch every inning of both split squad games.

He flew too close to the sun.

I guess he screwed some forum members out of money in a betting scheme.

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Believe the story was that he was in charge of a daily fantasy football scheme, but went full Hoortie on his co-investors, doing only what he wanted, setting lineups without input, changing lineups, etc.

It was a bad deal. Things went poorly. I think he blew through about 1/2 their stack in a few weeks.

But that's kind of the daily fantasy game... The "pros" have so much more advanced resources/systems available to them, all the average Joes can hope to do is get lucky and win sometimes and win big enough to make up for it.

It's one of the reasons I'll never do daily fantasy. It's the debbil.

All I can tell you is that it was more of how he responded to being confronted on the above actions, more so than even the above actions.

Everyone who was in that pool should be banned for giving him access to their account.

http://www.aesopfables.com/cgi/aesop...pionandtheFrog

This

Like it was Hootie no body of sound mind would get in a gambling scheme with him and let him take the lead. Would they?
These folks need to come forward in a separate thread so we can scold them further. A good shaming could do some good.

The Royals are going to extend the netting to the end of the dugouts.

http://kansascity.royals.mlb.com/kc/...um_netting.jpg

That's the world we live in alnorth, I'm guessing most ball parks will be doing similar netting.

I'm going to about 6 spring training games this year. I'll let you know which ones when it gets a bit closer.

Maybe they should place netting around the fountains to keep out the drunk girls

Why would we want to discourage drunk girls from jumping in fountains?

Gee, I wonder what Kevin Keitzman will be talking about today.

K State?

If I remember right he lost 75% of the initial investment in two weeks.

The stadium would be half-empty each game after 10 year of losing.

Yeah, I wasn't privy to the story, just heard it second-hand. I still talk to Rick a bit on Twitter. I know he wasn't doing anything other than what he thought was best. Think things just got heated because people disagreed with money on the line.

Daily fantasy is a gigantic scam, guys. Don't do it.

Putting money into daily fantasy is like sitting down to play Texas Hold Em with pros (and in many cases, you're going against the same guys).

Oh yeah, it wasn't my intention to pile on. Just to illustrate how that situation degenerated so quickly.

Hootie has solid takes on the Royals and I do miss him in baseball topics. He tends to hold his analysis as gospel but that's not exactly uncommon on sports message boards.

Hootie was an idiot.

Maybe but he was our Idiot. He could defend his point to the end and other than having total disdain for those who didn't see it his way had interesting takes. He kept it lively and learned a lot from him as all others here. I will miss him this season.

ftfy

Lately yes with all thats going on there and when Jack Harry is on they go at it pretty hard.

I had this exact discussion with Hootie in the fantasy thread. He said I didn't know what the **** I was talking about. Easy money. :rolleyes: I am surprised he was able to drag down people with him.

A fool and their money-are soon parted.

Or some people just like to have some fun and join in on some camaraderie and are so situated that $100 is not a huge deal to them. Or the idiot thing. Whichever.

I had no problem squandering a C-note on that. It was fun and we were never going to win any money anyway. Hootie or not.

Heck, the Hootie deal was worth it alone.

It's hard to make the claim that the $100 wasn't a huge deal to the,. Clearly it was.

Why then did he get banned because of it?

He didn't get banned because of it, he got banned because of the meltdown in the main forum. I'm not convinced yet that it was justified, but I really don't care either way.

I can think of 100 things I would rather spend $100 on than give it to Hootie to gamble on football. :)

Well, in hindsight, me to. Lol

Given the news stories about how rigged Daily Fantasy Sports really are, did Hootie even really "lose" everyone's money, or did a group of CP members agree to piss away that cash on something they had virtually no chance of turning a profit- let alone break even?

I mean... Do you guys realize how far $100 goes at Glitter Gultch on Fremont St in Vegas?

DFS is like any form of gambling. The odds are against you but if you enjoy games of chance with your money, it's fun to try. BTW, I finished in 1st in a DFS baseball tourney last year so a blind squirrel can find a nut once in awhile with those things. It wasn't one of the huge ones but it at least covered my "Hootie throw away money".

Bahahahaha

Hootie was banned right before week 7 of the NFL as a point of reference.

Who could've ever predicted he'd make bad decisions and then blame others? That just doesn't sound like the guy I knew

LOL, really? I havem't heard his show for probably close to a year, but then it was all about how he wouldn't talk about Mizzou since they went SEC ROFL

Oh he is talking now just not good lol

I WAS privy to the story, and I can tell you EXACTLY what happened.

I was one of the members of the group you referred to. We all threw in $100 to bet on FanDuel in their million dollar contest. Hootie had a good idea with a strategy that actually sounded sort of interesting, so we decided to give it a try. There was a total of 50 of us in the group (including Hootie), so the total betting pool was $5000. The idea was to have a few fantasy football gurus take the pot and make hundreds of lineups, with the hope that one of the lineups would hit it big. We were basically going to imitate the strategies that the pros use to win at DFS.

We all knew there was a high probabiity that we would wind up losing all of the money. Eventually we did.

Losing the money wasn't the issue. Hootie got banned because:

1. He decided that the rules we all agreed to as a group did not apply to him.
2. After a few weeks, he announced that he was going to violate the most important rule of the group. He was going to submit some lineups on his own that matched lineups submitted by the group. If one of those lineups happened to be a big winner, Hootie would have raked 50% off the top. He had some bullshit justification for doing it: He said Fanduel offered him some free entries into the contest, and that he had no way of knowing they would make him such a fabulous offer, and there was no way he wasn't going to take them up on it, blah blah blah blah blah. You know how Hootie is when starts filibustering.
3. Everyone said "Dude, you can't do that. This was your ****ing rule to begin with, and we all agreed to it. If you intentionally violate this rule, you will be kicked out." What that meant was that he would no longer be in charge of setting lineups or making any decisions.
4. At that point Hootie went full reerun. Anyone who is familiar with Hootie understands what that means. He's like the Terminator. He can't be reasoned with, he can't be bargained with, and he absolutely will not stop. When he was told that he'd be kicked out of the group if he did that, he told everyone to **** off , announced that he was quitting the group, and he accused the group of stealing HIS money.
5. If he had just left it there, it would have been fine. But he just couldn't do that. There was an agreement among everyone that we would leave Fanduel Forum business in that private forum. That's why the private Fanduel forum was created in the first place. But Hootie wasn't satisfied with melting down in the private forum. He felt the need to bring it into the Lounge. He started a thread in the Lounge and made a bunch of false accusations. I'm sure he didn't see it that way, but the fact is that he lied. He lied when he said everyone stole his money. He lied when he accused two moderators of being part of the conspiracy to steal his money.
6. The two moderators in the group decided they'd had enough of his shit, and Hootie was banned. It was as simple as that. In retrospect, it was totally predictable.

I was sorry that he got himself banned. I enjoyed reading his posts in this thread, and I enjoyed arguing with him.

The fact is that Hootie has been banned from this site many times before. He always comes crawling back with a promise that he'll behave better this time. It was inevitable that he would be banned again. If he hadn't been banned for this, he would have found some other way to get himself banned. That's what Hootie does.

I will say that I completely agree with your comment about DFS. It is a scam. One week the winner of the million dollar pool had just joined the site a couple of days prior to the pool, and had made a total of 5 entries. One of the entries came in first place, and the other came in third. I found it very hard to believe that the game was honest when I saw that. To me, the $100 was an interesting experiment, a cheap way to learn a lot about DFS, and a lesson about what a scam it truly is. I had opened up an account on DraftKings and was thinking about giving it a try. After I saw how the game truly works, I cancelled my account without ever placing a bet.

Yep. Good recap Lex. I had forgotten about some of that. Also a good point on DFS. I failed to mention that since our experiment, I have not spent a dime on DFS either. I have won a little but I don't think regular Joes can win the big pots.

Remember that time there was a big discussion over if/how much should be donated to CP if we won $100K, 250K or 500K+? That was fun.

LMAO

Binnion's my man, Binnion's.....

I'm still traumatized by the day shift at Glitter Gulch. I can't speak of the things I saw there.

Bahahahaha. Yes I do.

Like I said...

@rustindodd: Dayton Moore's contract has been extended. Ned Yost's has been extended through 2018.

Who could have imagined that Ned would lead us to a Championship and wind up being the Royals best coach. :hmmm:

I can't believe people do the Fanduel or Draftkings thing. The commercials alone turn me off.

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He was a major know-it-all ass but I liked his take during game threads even though he called me several names during them.

That's the Hootie we all know.

I'm surprised he wasn't doing it for baseball since he was a genius about everything.

Not me.