I know he isn't a poster, but Dan O'Brien!!! He's great. He used to be with Houston and a few other teams. And he went to Ohio St. Who else would you want!!??Originally Posted by savafan
I know he isn't a poster, but Dan O'Brien!!! He's great. He used to be with Houston and a few other teams. And he went to Ohio St. Who else would you want!!??Originally Posted by savafan
Most Tired Topic of the Year:
Politics. I wish to garsh they'd just get rid of 'em.
“And when finally they sense that some position cannot be sustained, they do not re-examine their ideas. Instead, they simply change the subject.” Jamie Galbraith
Most Valuable Posters
GIK/Boss - Did you log in today to Redszone and noticed that everything worked just fine? Then thank these two guys. Tirelessly and quietly behind the scenes these guys keep the trains running on time, so to speak. Most of all they do it without any of the public kudos - and they certainly don't ask for any attention for doing so. Think about Redszone not being here - we'd all be at *shudder* mlb.com's forums or something worse.
Most Clever
Creek - Always has that biting, witty point to make that is dead on. She's tall, knowledgeable about baseball and smart. Really, what more do you want from a woman?
Most missed poster
Stormy & TeamDunn - Both have been away far too long.
Most Missed Poster who has no business not being around
Raisor - His Redszone membership has been revoked by his new wife, apparently.
Most Positive
TeamCasey - Gotta be TC - she echoes the enthusiasm I hold for Reds baseball time and again. I can see that energy in her posts, like a shining beacon in a fog of mist....yeah....that's it...a shining beacon....
Best Moderator
Tie - all of them. These guys put up with so much grief trying to play the big brother sorting thru our pissing matches. Can't pick just one. Maybe if you Chip a macro sized piece of paint off a zombie, then Reds4life fan Joseph wouldn't be such an ochre. Or something like that.
Best Moniker
Scrap Irony makes me chuckle every time I see the name.
Best New Poster
WilyMoROCKS - Although there were a couple up there for this award
Best Historian
WestofYou - Can anyone else really even be considered for this award? I don't know if tests have yet confirmed if he is the bastard son of Branch Rickey or not. Get back to me on that one.
Best Discussion
Anytime we talking about catching. There have been a couple of times this season where us former knuckle draggers can reminisce and it always brings back good memories.
Worst Discussion
Sac Flies - Dear God - make it stop right now. RIGHT NOW.
The Old Red Guard Award
Crash Davis - Crash's post about ESPN and their loss of the average fan that I still refer to from time to time. Heck that could have been from last year for all I remember. I don't care - it was excellent stuff.
Best use of statistics
M2 & Steel - Not so much a statistic award but more of a "Best Outside the Box thinking" type of award. Both continue to educate me, the engineer, in different ways looking at the game of baseball. Not just from a statistical point of view but from a total "re-think" of how we as fans look at the game. I don't always agree with both or either of you, but you always keep my brain thinking about the game just when I think I have it all figured out. I eat that stuff up so keep it coming.
Last edited by jmcclain19; 12-12-2005 at 10:42 PM.
Worst Typist goes to WV PacMan, unchallenged. Where did he disappear to anyway??????
I was thinking captainmorgan07 for that one. A few capital letters and punctuation wouldn't go amiss. No offense captain.Originally Posted by dman
Do we even need to vote on the historian award? Just give it to WOY.
Originally Posted by jmcclain19
Yo! I'm here, and posting and everything!
Now, if ya'll want to vote me in as "Best Looking", who am I to argue?
Time for the nominations.
The Categories from last year (any ideas for new categories this year?):
Most missed poster
Who's missed most?
My nominee: guernsey. I really miss guernsey and the knowledge he brought to the board.
Best tag line
My nominee: Puffy's tag lines are always funny, no matter what he changes them to.
Best Moniker
My nominee. I'm going to give this one to Caveat Emporer, although CaptainHook comes in a close second.
Most Valuable Poster
My nominee: Too many to list. M2, woy, Steel, creek, ochre along with the previously mentioned Caveat Emporer and CaptainHook off the top of my head are my favorites to read. But there are plenty of others
Most Clever
My nominee: woy's one liners are always hiliarious, and they're always so darn clever. When I read his posts I feel like the joker in Batman saying "where does he get such wonderful toys."
Best Armchair GM
My nominee: I'm going to give this one to M2. He has a lot of vision about a "plan" that I wish existed in the Reds organization.
Worst Typist
My nominee: captainmorgan07, bar none.
Funniest
For the second straight year, I can't imagine not voting for Puffy.
Best Use of Statistics
My nominee. I'm going to give this one to Steel. He does an absolute fabulour job trying to prove to people why each and every transaction the Reds make are either good or bad. You might not always like to hear what he says, but he's right 99% of the time, if not more. He goes above and beyond to explain things to people.
Most Positive
My nominee: RFS62. Always there to pick you up after you feel like Dan O'Brien just slit your throat and left you to die. I appreciate it, buddy.
Best Use of an Emoticon
My nominee: Sir Krono, maybe only because he has the most opportunities to use them
Nicest
My nomination: Sandy. She's been through hell this year, and still would do anything for anyone at anytime. I real class act.
Roy Tucker follows very closely behind. Just a great guy any way you slice it.
Best Moderator
They have all done a fabulous job this year. Congrats, and thanks to you all.
Most Off-Topic
My nominee: BadFundamentals. It's always about Dunn and K's, somehow.
Best Newcomer
My nominee: CaptainHook, followed closely by the GARB. Not sure if they both qualify, but I can't remember voting for them last year. They are both great additions to the board, regardless.
Lifetime Achievement Award
Who has provided the most to Redszone for the duration of their time spent here? Someone who has been around since the early days and hasn't skipped a beat. The Frank Sinatra of Redszone.
My nominee: I'm going to give my vote to RFS62. Just a great, deserving man. He has done so much this year following the hurricanes that he deserves an actual national award of recognition, and his contributions to the board over the years are outstanding. You da man!
Most Tired Topic of the Year
My nominee: Dunn and strikeouts. Get over it already. The guy strikes out, big deal. He also produces more runs than anyone else on the team, which is his job on offense.
Last edited by Red Leader; 12-13-2005 at 09:56 AM.
'When I'm not longer rapping, I want to open up an ice cream parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg.'
-Snoop on his retirement
Your Mom is happy.
Fox is still around under a different moniker.Originally Posted by savafan
I think we just rename it for him.Originally Posted by OldRightHander
Championships for MY teams in my lifetime:
Cincinnati Reds - 75, 76, 90
Chicago Blackhawks - 10, 13, 15
University of Kentucky - 78, 96, 98, 12
Chicago Bulls - 91, 92, 93, 96, 97, 98
“Everything that happens before Death is what counts.”
― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
Most Missed: Stormy
Stats: M2, Steele
Mods: All of them, of course
Historian: Linedriver
I haven't given the others any thought yet, but these came to my head immediately.
"Enjoy this Reds fans, you are watching a legend grow up before your very eyes" ... DoogMinAmo on Adam Dunn
I know there was about 5-10 of us that did game threads for awhile.
I am mainly here to read news... I don't post most (look at the post count )
Anyways, the game thread is where I got most of my Rep Points
You think you got what it takes to play a real fantasy game? Join me at Jockstocks. You can play Baseball, Basketball, Football, Golf, Nascar and even Hockey!
Jockstocks Homepage
Do you have your shirt on? - Adam Dunn to Marty on the Bananna Phone.
The Categories from last year (With my nominations under the bold)
Most missed poster
Raisor - but he'll be Comeback Poster of the Year for 2006.
Best tag line
Redslands - "This post needs to do the little things" & SuperBarry11 - "Love is doing the things that don't show up in the box scores" - Hilarious
Best Moniker
krono - proving the quanity DOES way out over quality
Most Valuable Poster
Krusty - the trade ideas are usually off the wall - but I like to read them.
Most Clever
Creek - especially when Dunner gets mentioned in a not-so-flattering light.
Best Armchair GM
Either Steel or M2
Best Trademeister
Same as above.
Best Discussion
Any DanO move.
Worst Typist
captainmorgan - he must have a lil capt'n in him (or her)
Funniest
Redsland's Red Report - or Real Reds of Genius.
Best Use of Statistics
woy.
Most Long-winded
Never insult your bunkmates if they can dock you rep points ( )
Most Positive
Any of the Teams - Boone, Casey, Dunn
Most Negative
See "Most Long-winded"
Best Use of an Emoticon
Me getting dinged for on a few points that I felt were deserved.
Nicest
KittyDuran. - especially after she sent me a team photo and her giddyness - fun to read that stuff.
Best Moderator
Everybody.
Most Off-Topic
jmmclain19's "How to identify RedZoners' in Public"
Best Newcomer
WillyMoRocks got some serious rep points in a hurry - astronomical move man.
Best Outsider
I don't pay attention to that I guess
New Categories
The Marty Brennamen Award
Matt700WLW - when he's working the board
The Old Red Guard Award
Anything with Rasior's Pyth. Theorem of Baseball - the Nationals thread was great.
Best Historian
anyone who has a website called www.deadballart.com might win.
Lifetime Achievement Award
I've only been around since May - I can't vote.
Most Tired Topic of the Year
Anything on Brennaman. Dude's been here in Cincinnati as long as some of us have been alive. We know his shortcomings - but face it - He ain't going anywhere. Let him spew his spew and cheer when's right. Case Closed.
Two other categories -
Most Absurd, Yet Funniest Thread of the Year
It had to be the RedZone 10. I think that one, though not a very positive thread, ought to be archived for sheer laughter.
Best Use of an Avatar
Steel's Calvin's is pretty funny.
I shall now wander away into the good night..
Last edited by Heath; 12-13-2005 at 12:39 PM.
Some people play baseball. Baseball plays Jay Bruce.
Most missed poster
Stormy, it's been too long.
Best tag line
"In what was destined to be a short-lived spectacle, a chicken, suspended by a balloon, floated through the Samurai bar's doorway." - TRF
Best Moniker
Bad Fundamentals, perfect name for a fundamentally bad poster
Most Valuable Poster
This is a tough one. WOY and RFS62 managed to raise their already ridiculously high bars this year, but I'm starting to think flames jump from Steel's fingers when he's posting because that's how on fire he's been for the entire year.
Most Clever
BCubb, random genius
Honorable mention to Puffy and his trademarked loathing (not to mention his in-depth interview with CBus)
Best Armchair GM
princeton, who never met a box that could hold him
Best Trademeister
Tie - Red Leader and Island Red, they don't propose a ton of trade, but when they do it's almost always a good idea.
Best Discussion
What this board does on draft day is truly amazing. It's two days of great stuff every year.
Funniest
Redsland, we've got a lot of witty folks around here, but Redsland is gut bustling funny.
Best Use of Statistics
Part of Steel being on fire has been his precision use of statistics. He's put on a clinic in the right way to slice the numbers.
Most Long-winded
Normally I'd say it's bad form to vote for yourself, but with Stormy inactive this year I'm forced to say it's me.
Most Positive
Krusty always believes there's a slobberknocker around the corner, bless his heart.
Most Negative
FCB, nobody does it better.
Nicest
Rosie Red strikes me as probably being one of the nicer you'd ever want to meet.
Most Off-Topic
Jim Coombs
Most Absurd Thread
"How to identify Redzoners in Public" deserves an award and I figure this one is as good as any.
http://www.redszone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=39603
Best Newcomer
Yet another crowded field with Blimpie, registerthis, CincyRedsFan30, Ricardo Cabesa, rdiersin, PickOff, WilyMoROCKS, WVPacman, Cyclone792, Heath and 11BarryLarkin11
But, following in Zombie's footsteps, Joseph's gone from newbie to moderator in a single calendar year.
Best Outsider
Stewie, who gives Phillies fans a good name (and that's not easy to do).
The Marty Brennamen Award
Doc Scott's a brilliant PBP guy. CTA513 is probably the most dilligent
The Old Red Guard Award
I don't even know if it was this year or late last winter, but RFS beautifully bridged the stats/seamhead divide, showing us all how someone with a great mind for the game never stops learning. Just a great post and a lesson for everyone know matter how long you've been following the game. I'll include a link to it if I can find it.
Best Historian
WOY has put together a series of historical essays this year that are as good as any baseball history you will read anywhere, ever.
Lifetime Achievement Award
Boss and GIK for starting this whole thing.
Last edited by M2; 12-14-2005 at 01:37 PM.
I'm not a system player. I am a system.
Most missed poster
Stormy. He makes me smarter when he posts…err…used to post.
Most Whipped Poster
Raisor, the vows say “…forsaking all others…”. But I don’t think that posting more on Redszone equates marital infidelity. Dork.
Most missed game chatter
TeamDunn. A Reds game, a six pack, and Redszone chat just ain’t as good without TD around.
Best tag line
Not a tag line, per se, but the “Posting to Contact” under Big Donkey’s username made me laugh pretty hard the first time I saw it.
Best Moniker
lollipopcurve. So many generic usernames out there, but you can be pretty sure that you’re on a baseball board when you see that moniker.
Most Valuable Poster
M2. Has nailed the heart of every matter he’s posted about for quite some time. Always a guy you can count on to be here day in and day out.
Most Clever
gonelong's posts make me wish I'd have typed mine that way.
Best Armchair GM
This one is nigh-impossible. There are easily a dozen people on this board I’d rather have running the team than the current FO. So I’m going to go to follow Boston's lead and name Boss and GIK as co-GM’s. If Redszone is run is any indication of how they’d run a MLB franchise, we’d surely be in good hands.
Best Trademeister
Ravenlord. Always thinking out of the box and always coming up with realistic scenarios. Much appreciated effort. Ditto for Red Leader.
Best Discussion
The Eric Milton signs thread. That was a long LONG thread that, in retrospect, became a key reference point that most likely turned a lot of folks on to how bad the Reds situation actually is.
Worst Typist
Eh. Who knows. No name for this one, but if someone posts without actually using paragraphs, that’ll trump simple typos for me.
Funniest
BCubb2003. His “Random Thoughts” threads are a Redszone staple that I look forward to every day.
Best Use of Statistics
M2. Always out-of-the-box and looking at things most folks wouldn’t notice. Ravenlord also deserves a mention because he’s the hardest working guy in show biz when it comes to using metrics. He's an innovator who’s willing to look at things backwards and upside down if it means there’s something to be learned.
Most Long-winded
Me. The next time I’m truly succinct will be the first. I used to think this award perennially belonged to GAC, but then I realized that he’s not really long-winded. He just uses more paragraphs than anyone else.
Most Positive
If you sat Krusty down in the middle of a large room full of horse crap, he’d immediately begin looking for the pony.
Most Negative
FCB. But it’s a realistic negativity rooted in reality and borne of recent Reds history.
Nicest
MWM. He’s the only person on the board that I can confirm will drive my drunk arse around, so it’s more of a “wins by default” thing than anything else.
Best Moderator
Everyone has done a great job under the new system, but I’m going to give this year’s award to Chip because his rundowns of the Hot Stove League radio show are an excellent contribution to the board and an immediate must-read.
Best Chatter
GAC. Like drinking beer at a bar while watching the game with a buddy.
Most Off-Topic
Any number of redundant Player X Sucks! threads. Oh, they’re technically “on-topic”, but you can bet that topic has been covered elsewhere.
Best Newcomer
Tie between Big Donkey and Joseph. One of the reasons Redszone is so great is that every once in a while you learn about what’s going on before anyone else. Big Donkey is a HUGE contributor to that and Joseph learned how to swim in the shark tank quicker than just about anyone ever.
Best Outsider
Stewie. And MattyMo is always a welcome read. And can someone please confirm that ramp hasn’t slit his wrists?
The Marty Brennamen Award
I’m going to just give props to the whole Reds Live board. Every game, there’s someone there to pick up the baton. Well done.
The Old Red Guard Award
Article: "Stats vs. Scouts: Do We Need to Choose Just One?". The whole thread.
Best Historian
WOY. If I were watching “Baseball- A Film by Ken Burns”, I’d want WOY sitting next to me so that I could ask him for accuracy checks.
Lifetime Achievement Award
traderumor. Incredibly passionate, articulate, and active. Even when disagreeing with tr, his positions force me to learn more about the topic.
Most Tired Topic of the Year
If I hear one more word about a recliner in the Reds clubhouse, I’ll break something.
"The problem with strikeouts isn't that they hurt your team, it's that they hurt your feelings..." --Rob Neyer
"The single most important thing for a hitter is to get a good pitch to hit. A good hitter can hit a pitch that’s over the plate three times better than a great hitter with a ball in a tough spot.”
--Ted Williams
Board Moderators may, at their discretion and judgment, delete and/or edit any messages that violate any of the following guidelines: 1. Explicit references to alleged illegal or unlawful acts. 2. Graphic sexual descriptions. 3. Racial or ethnic slurs. 4. Use of edgy language (including masked profanity). 5. Direct personal attacks, flames, fights, trolling, baiting, name-calling, general nuisance, excessive player criticism or anything along those lines. 6. Posting spam. 7. Each person may have only one user account. It is fine to be critical here - that's what this board is for. But let's not beat a subject or a player to death, please. |