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Admin note - Sorry for the delay, folks. -Waldo
It's baaaaack! Yes, the game you all pay waaaaay too much attention to and get underoos in a bunch about has made it's return to the TZ. The heck with March Madness Brackets, you know as well as I do that the RFTL is really the primo game in town. We will award a lid and a bat to the winner.
You ready... here you go...
RACE FOR THE LID XI
Contest Rules:
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1. Whatever the rules are, BudGirl (your RFTL judge and jury for 2010) can change them any time for any reason, including whim. The purpose of this rule is not to promote chaos, but to preempt wailing, moaning, whining, and griping. Particularly griping.
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2. Picks below 80 can’t win. Even if they’re right they’re wrong.
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3. All posts are in this thread. Posts out of this thread are DQ’d unless BudGirl changes the rules.
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4. One choice per person.
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5. If there are gaps in the high picks, say, between 95 and 162, the high pick gets the gaps down to the next highest pick. This does not work in reverse, i.e., below 95. We all lose if the Astros win fewer than the low pick.
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6. The grand prize, of course, is an Astros cap of BudGirl's choosing from the Astros Team Store or Astros.com. Because of that, BudGirl is allowed to make rulings on prize disputes that may arise... namely, she gets to tell you to go to hell if you whine that you should get the prize!
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7. NO POSTINGS WILL BE ACCEPTED UNTIL THE OFFICIAL COMMENCEMENT TIME, WHICH IN THIS CIRCULAR DEFINITION WILL BE ON OR ABOUT 10:00 A.M., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31st (the Official Commencement Time). Anyone who post before then will be DQ'd.
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8. No entries will be accepted after the first pitch on Opening Day. Or thereabouts.
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9. If there is no correct entry BudGirl will find a winner by a method created in her mind.
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10. Here’s the list of past winners:
2009 Ron Brand
2008 EasTexAstro
2007
2006 Fredia (who PM'ed me and called me every name in the book... misspelled of course)
2005 Drew Corleone
2004 Andyzipp
2003 Jim R
2002 no winner
2001 Neil T. (See how arbitrary and capricious his rulemaking can be? He didn’t even enter the contest until the 161st game, right after he disqualified the real winner.)
2000 no winner, but one heck of a whiner
1999 Astrobabe
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Fish are always eating other fish. If fish could scream, the ocean would be loud as shit. You would not want to submerge your head, nothing but fish going "Ahhh, fuck! I thought I looked like that rock!"
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geezerdonk
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a long tradition of existence
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« Reply #1 on: March 29, 2010, 09:03:08 AM » |
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Shall we play some Ring Toss before dinner?
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« Reply #2 on: March 29, 2010, 09:06:04 AM » |
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dude... premature... 7. NO POSTINGS WILL BE ACCEPTED UNTIL THE OFFICIAL COMMENCEMENT TIME, WHICH IN THIS CIRCULAR DEFINITION WILL BE ON OR ABOUT 10:00 A.M., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31st (the Official Commencement Time). Anyone who post before then will be DQ'd. |
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"If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed."
"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man. "
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« Reply #3 on: March 29, 2010, 09:21:09 AM » |
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dude... premature...
He also violated rule 2. |
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Fish are always eating other fish. If fish could scream, the ocean would be loud as shit. You would not want to submerge your head, nothing but fish going "Ahhh, fuck! I thought I looked like that rock!"
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« Reply #4 on: March 29, 2010, 09:21:53 AM » |
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dude... premature...
THAT'S your problem with his post? The timing? |
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« Reply #5 on: March 29, 2010, 09:24:24 AM » |
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THAT'S your problem with his post? The timing?
Well, no. But for the other part, I simply applied the "Opinions are like assholes..." rule. |
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"If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed."
"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man. "
-Mark Twain
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« Reply #6 on: March 30, 2010, 02:22:24 PM » |
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He also violated rule 2.
But according to rule #4, that is his only shot at the lid. |
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« Reply #7 on: March 31, 2010, 02:00:46 AM » |
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It's 10:00 a.m., 3/31/10, in Cairo (or Istambul if you prefer). 88 wins!
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« Reply #8 on: March 31, 2010, 08:40:25 AM » |
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It's 10:00 a.m., 3/31/10, in Cairo (or Istambul if you prefer). 88 wins!
That's nobody's business but the turks. |
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RO RASROS!
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« Reply #9 on: March 31, 2010, 09:28:55 AM » |
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That's nobody's business but the turks.
No, that was Constantinople. |
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Pam Gardner is one of the final four interviewers? Really? FML - OSF, 10/12/09
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« Reply #10 on: March 31, 2010, 09:35:35 AM » |
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No, that was Constantinople.
Why'd they change it? |
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« Reply #11 on: March 31, 2010, 09:41:34 AM » |
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Why'd they change it?
I can't say, people just liked it better that waaay! |
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« Reply #12 on: March 31, 2010, 09:45:19 AM » |
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Locking this topic until 10 (or so.)
Any guesses prior to the unlocking are null and/or void.
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Fish are always eating other fish. If fish could scream, the ocean would be loud as shit. You would not want to submerge your head, nothing but fish going "Ahhh, fuck! I thought I looked like that rock!"
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"You want me broken. You want me dead.
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« Reply #15 on: March 31, 2010, 10:16:39 AM » |
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« Reply #17 on: March 31, 2010, 10:16:48 AM » |
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« Reply #18 on: March 31, 2010, 10:16:54 AM » |
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you cant hit a home run unless you step up to the plate.
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