I've come to the personal conclusion that a good chunk of those who are "so fed up with the degradation of baseball" never liked it much in the first place.
That or they are a bit nostalgically deluded about how great the 30's or the 50's or the 70's were in MLB.
oh, I'd say the accuracy is very good. As a sports gambler, I've watched countless games in detail on yours and other scoreboards.
They are all great, but CBS tends to post an incorrect final score more likely than the others in my experience. They even have a reputation for it on many gambling forums. Sports bettors tend to notice if a score is 93-70 at one site and 93-72 at another.:-)
That said, we are talking about the difference between 99.2% and 99.5%. The vast majority of the time CBS and the others are both correct.
Hey, sometimes it works out for the best! Sometimes I'll check CBS to see that Duke won by 11 when in reality they won by 13, so my 12 point spread covered and I won the bet.
As for more suggestions, I'm going to take tonight to mull on them, but I will post in response. I only have so much input for CBS sportsline because it is the best (in terms of software and site design, anyhow.)
Ahem, spring training. With the tigers there is no distinction between spring training games and reg season games. They're all losses. Do the math next time.
The Tigers played 31 Spring Training games last year. That would bring the number to 193. So you're still wrong.
its not 100% effective (and could end at any time) but I can still find small (usually rural) stations who feed their unedited broadcast onto the web. I know for a fact of a station where I can get KC Royals games like this for free.
I'm sure its against MLB rules, but these people never seem to have gotten the memo, or any sort of equipment to block out the game from their webcast
you guys have excellent scoreboards (my favorites on the web) but they tend to be wrong more than most other services. I'm not sure why this is. I could probably list some other suggestions if you were interested.
[quote]It's time to design newer, more secure infrastructures so we can scrap the old stuff and (hopefully) deal with less of this bullshit in the future.[/quote]
But then you'd break someones crappy 1979 unix newsreader, and we can't have that!
> On Mon, 03 Mar 2003 22:05:51 GMT, Timberwoof > wrote: > > >In article, > > "Ice Queen" wrote: > > > >> "Mike" wrote in message > >> news:rlm56vck5u6mcfm0n4guvm0e1b9be2dfvm@4ax.com... > >> > >> > even AFTER my war, I STILL find the need to support my Country AND my > >> > President when called upon. With, or WITHOUT "proof absolute". I don't > >> > know, maybe I feel it's just part of the price we pay to call > >> > ourselves "Americans". I hear the whispers of doubt in my own soul, > >> > but I feel the need to stand and fight when called, right or wrong, > >> > not as part of Nationalism. But as payment for being free. > >> > >> If that's not nationalism, then what do you think nationalism is? A > >> weird > >> disease "other" people get? What you just posted is practically a textbook > >> definition of a nationalist statement. > > > > > >Let's just do it this way... > > > >> > even AFTER my war, I STILL find the need to support my Fatherland AND my > >> > F?hrer[1] when called upon. With, or WITHOUT "proof absolute". I don't > >> > know, maybe I feel it's just part of the price we pay to call > >> > ourselves "Germans". I hear the whispers of doubt in my own soul, > >> > but I feel the need to stand and fight when called, right or wrong, > >> > not as part of National Socialism. But as payment for being free. > > > >Think about all those Germans who heard the whispers of doubt, yet went > >along with Hitler, and then tell us that we must do the same. > > > > > >[1] Godwin has long since been invoked by comparing Saddam to Hitler. > > Not to rejoin this circus, but I AM glad to flush out your belief > that the U.S. Government is akin to Hitler & Germany! Good Lord, I > thought our history was just a tad better than that? Ah, what do I > know. On with the show...Mike
Is unreadble! And thats only four layers of ">>>>". Some discussions get even more.
Some basic bold and italitcs would be nice. I'm not asking for unlimited html functions or pictures or stupid smiley face emoticon pictures, but a few functions that are standard (and unobtrusive) in most web forums would be nice.
I agree that the features you mentioned about usenet are nice, but there is no reason why they have to be the be all and end all.
Oh come on now,.30 a cartridge? You don't think they will start making propriatary fuel cartridge design ala inkjet printers and charge us at least a buck a pop?
I tend to be more concerned with the sportsbetting end of things in my quest for legalized online gambling. This isn't such an issue in that arena, as the results can't (easily) be fixed.
You are correct that online casino games are a whole seperate bag.
I see no reason why online sportsbetting shouldn't be legal, however.
I hope it is. Maybe it will establish a precident that online betting isn't so evil, and the US can stop wasting money prosecuting casino and sportsbook owners.
I had one last year, and I couldn't sync the premium articles to my PDA! That was near the only reason I bought the subscription in the first place. If they fix that, maybe I'll buy another one.
Old white guys with a lot of money aren't stupid. They don't have to appreciate rap artistically to realize there is a lot of selling to be done to kids across america. Rap=Cash, and the record companies know it.
I really think I'd just tease my 12 year old self who'd be sitting there playing NES, with fantastic tales of the Gamecube and PS2, and then disappear into the night.
until the fall of the Taliban (and arguably still so), Afghanistan was one of the world's largest opium (aka Heroin) producers
except that during the reign of the Taliban the opium production in Afghanistan basically stopped. It wasn't until we drove the Taliban out that the drugs started flowing again.
It was indeed a hack, I don't think anyone argues that. I just maintain they chose one hell of a fun game to hack mario sprites into. Not a true sequel, but fun nonetheless.
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100% of Iraqi Citizens voted for Saddam this year.
I've come to the personal conclusion that a good chunk of those who are "so fed up with the degradation of baseball" never liked it much in the first place.
That or they are a bit nostalgically deluded about how great the 30's or the 50's or the 70's were in MLB.
oh, I'd say the accuracy is very good. As a sports gambler, I've watched countless games in detail on yours and other scoreboards.
:-)
They are all great, but CBS tends to post an incorrect final score more likely than the others in my experience. They even have a reputation for it on many gambling forums. Sports bettors tend to notice if a score is 93-70 at one site and 93-72 at another.
That said, we are talking about the difference between 99.2% and 99.5%. The vast majority of the time CBS and the others are both correct.
Hey, sometimes it works out for the best! Sometimes I'll check CBS to see that Duke won by 11 when in reality they won by 13, so my 12 point spread covered and I won the bet.
As for more suggestions, I'm going to take tonight to mull on them, but I will post in response. I only have so much input for CBS sportsline because it is the best (in terms of software and site design, anyhow.)
Ahem, spring training. With the tigers there is no distinction between spring training games and reg season games. They're all losses. Do the math next time.
The Tigers played 31 Spring Training games last year. That would bring the number to 193. So you're still wrong.
there are 162 baseball games a year, jackass.
its not 100% effective (and could end at any time) but I can still find small (usually rural) stations who feed their unedited broadcast onto the web. I know for a fact of a station where I can get KC Royals games like this for free.
I'm sure its against MLB rules, but these people never seem to have gotten the memo, or any sort of equipment to block out the game from their webcast
you guys have excellent scoreboards (my favorites on the web) but they tend to be wrong more than most other services. I'm not sure why this is. I could probably list some other suggestions if you were interested.
um, there hasn't been a strike in nearly 10 years. Get over it.
[quote]It's time to design newer, more secure infrastructures so we can scrap the old stuff and (hopefully) deal with less of this bullshit in the future.[/quote]
But then you'd break someones crappy 1979 unix newsreader, and we can't have that!
Usenet needs a "quote" function. Crap like this:
,.
> On Mon, 03 Mar 2003 22:05:51 GMT, Timberwoof
> wrote:
>
> >In article
> > "Ice Queen" wrote:
> >
> >> "Mike" wrote in message
> >> news:rlm56vck5u6mcfm0n4guvm0e1b9be2dfvm@4ax.com..
> >>
> >> > even AFTER my war, I STILL find the need to support my Country AND my
> >> > President when called upon. With, or WITHOUT "proof absolute". I don't
> >> > know, maybe I feel it's just part of the price we pay to call
> >> > ourselves "Americans". I hear the whispers of doubt in my own soul,
> >> > but I feel the need to stand and fight when called, right or wrong,
> >> > not as part of Nationalism. But as payment for being free.
> >>
> >> If that's not nationalism, then what do you think nationalism is? A
> >> weird
> >> disease "other" people get? What you just posted is practically a textbook
> >> definition of a nationalist statement.
> >
> >
> >Let's just do it this way...
> >
> >> > even AFTER my war, I STILL find the need to support my Fatherland AND my
> >> > F?hrer[1] when called upon. With, or WITHOUT "proof absolute". I don't
> >> > know, maybe I feel it's just part of the price we pay to call
> >> > ourselves "Germans". I hear the whispers of doubt in my own soul,
> >> > but I feel the need to stand and fight when called, right or wrong,
> >> > not as part of National Socialism. But as payment for being free.
> >
> >Think about all those Germans who heard the whispers of doubt, yet went
> >along with Hitler, and then tell us that we must do the same.
> >
> >
> >[1] Godwin has long since been invoked by comparing Saddam to Hitler.
>
> Not to rejoin this circus, but I AM glad to flush out your belief
> that the U.S. Government is akin to Hitler & Germany! Good Lord, I
> thought our history was just a tad better than that? Ah, what do I
> know. On with the show...Mike
Is unreadble! And thats only four layers of ">>>>". Some discussions get even more.
Some basic bold and italitcs would be nice. I'm not asking for unlimited html functions or pictures or stupid smiley face emoticon pictures, but a few functions that are standard (and unobtrusive) in most web forums would be nice.
I agree that the features you mentioned about usenet are nice, but there is no reason why they have to be the be all and end all.
Oh come on now, .30 a cartridge? You don't think they will start making propriatary fuel cartridge design ala inkjet printers and charge us at least a buck a pop?
I tend to be more concerned with the sportsbetting end of things in my quest for legalized online gambling. This isn't such an issue in that arena, as the results can't (easily) be fixed.
You are correct that online casino games are a whole seperate bag.
I see no reason why online sportsbetting shouldn't be legal, however.
I hope it is. Maybe it will establish a precident that online betting isn't so evil, and the US can stop wasting money prosecuting casino and sportsbook owners.
pasta salad!!!
holy crap! thanks, I didn't know they offered a .txt download. That is seriously cool. My subscription ran out about a month ago, perhaps I will renew.
they have more content than Time or Newsweek.
I had one last year, and I couldn't sync the premium articles to my PDA! That was near the only reason I bought the subscription in the first place. If they fix that, maybe I'll buy another one.
Old white guys with a lot of money aren't stupid. They don't have to appreciate rap artistically to realize there is a lot of selling to be done to kids across america. Rap=Cash, and the record companies know it.
I really think I'd just tease my 12 year old self who'd be sitting there playing NES, with fantastic tales of the Gamecube and PS2, and then disappear into the night.
I'm 22 and I agree with him.
Plus, fox has Ann Coulter on, and she's hot.
shudder... vomit...
She's a Nazi for god's sake...
Thats not how it goes at all...
Duh-duh, duh-duh duh duh duh duh duh
doodley doo-doo
dum dum diddle diddle dumby doot do.
That's Pink Panther.
until the fall of the Taliban (and arguably still so), Afghanistan was one of the world's largest opium (aka Heroin) producers
except that during the reign of the Taliban the opium production in Afghanistan basically stopped. It wasn't until we drove the Taliban out that the drugs started flowing again.
Nice try though.
It was indeed a hack, I don't think anyone argues that. I just maintain they chose one hell of a fun game to hack mario sprites into. Not a true sequel, but fun nonetheless.
I agree, best sports game ever, but it certainly had some bugs. You tend to notice things like that when playing a game straight from 1991 to 2003