don't forget about me for awards!!
Ah, crap you already did. I'll post some nominations later.
don't forget about me for awards!!
Ah, crap you already did. I'll post some nominations later.
Most missed poster
I miss Stormy, and Guerney. I really miss Old Red Guard, RIP.
Most Whipped Poster
Raisor. Cut the chain and the ball will fall off.
Best tag line
I don't read these, but someone has something about value above replacement poster, nice
Best Moniker
CaptainHook, Caveat Emporer, linedriver, & Catch22
Most Valuable Poster(s)
M2, Steel, and woy share an incredible amount work here. Thanks guys.
Most Clever
Lots of clever little devils here.
Best Armchair GM
M2 has a plan. If I had some jack he'd be the first message board GM in MLB.
Best Trademeister
Your asking the wrong guy, I think all these hypothetical trade threads are a waste of time.
BigDonkey has had the pulse of the actual trade scene, he gets my vote.
Best Discussion
Too many to list.
Worst Typist
Anyone not using paragraphs.
Funniest
BCubb2003
Best Use of Statistics
Steel for having shared massive quantities of relevant statistical analysis.
Most Long-winded
GAC, you'd think we are paying him by the word around here.
Most Realistic
M2 seems to have a nice grasp of what about to happen.
Nicest
BadFundamentals. He takes quite a bit in stride. Hang in there you poor misguieded soul.
Best Moderator
Anyone that is among the living.
Best Newcomer
Big Donkey - thanks for the heads up on the trade scene.
Best Outsider
Stewie - appreciate a look from the outside in.
The Old Red Guard Award
Article: "Stats vs. Scouts: Do We Need to Choose Just One?". Nice work on that one.
Best Historian
WOY. I want an autographed copy of that first book.
Best All-around board members
RFS62 and OldRightHander. These guys get "it".
Thanks for everyone keeping a level of civility here such that we can all get together and discuss, hash, re-hash, moan, cheer, and laugh together.
GL
Last edited by gonelong; 12-13-2005 at 03:33 PM.
Most missed poster
ORG always
Most Whipped Poster
BF. really. and to his credit, he took it in stride. He's still wrong though
Most missed game chatter
N/A
Best tag line
Aside from mine? anything woy puts in his sig is gold.
Best Moniker
Falls City Beer
Most Valuable Poster
woy again. Sees the game with a completely different eye, and doesn't take an extreme SABR POV while using stats better than anyone.
Most Clever
FCB
Best Armchair GM
I'll go with co GM's Steel and M2 with princeton has the head of scouting.
Best Trademeister
This should be known as the Krusty award.
Best Discussion
Any thread with the words loathe, Randa and signing in it.
Worst Typist
i uuusualy dont nOtice TYPING erors.
Funniest
Raisor, but don't tell him I said so. egomaniac.
Best Use of Statistics
Actually I like how woy let's stats speak for themselves. I also like Doc Scott here when it comes to analyzing ML players.
Most Long-winded
Stormy. Hands down. Even when he isn't here he's long winded.
Most Positive
Creek is positive suckitude can be measured. does that count?
Most Negative
BF
Nicest
TeamBoone.
Best Moderator
We have moderators? cool.
Most Off-Topic
gotta be the Jim Coombs thread. That was priceless.
Best Newcomer
Any newcomer that made the jump to ORG.
Best Outsider
Ramp
The Old Red Guard Award
dunno, but i love discussion of the merits of the 25th guy on the bench.
Best Historian
WOY. I'm thinking of stalking him if he doesn't write a book already.
Lifetime Achievement Award
Larkin Fan. Been here apparently through some tough time medically, and is always positive.
Most Tired Topic of the Year
K's are bad.
Dubito Ergo Cogito Ergo Sum.
I think you guys all rawk, as do the ladies, so it's impossible for me to make any distinctions here.
Well, except for remdog being the most negative poster on the board.
Other than that, kudos to all of yous. And stuff.
"It's easier to give up. I'm not a very vocal player. I lead by example. I take the attitude that I've got to go out and do it. Because of who I am, I've got to give everything I've got to come back."
-Ken Griffey Jr.
Most missed poster
I haven't been here long enough
Best tag line
who knows.
Best Moniker
West of You
Most Valuable Poster
WOY
Best Armchair GM
M2.
Worst Typist
captainmorgan07
Funniest
Puffy
Best Use of Statistics
Steel.
Most Positive
Creek
Best Use of an Emoticon
Krono
Nicest
Sandy.
Best Moderator
All of them
Most Off-Topic
Dan O'Brien
Best Newcomer
Prolly Big Donkey
Lifetime Achievement Award
again, I haven't been here long enough
Most Tired Topic of the Year
The Redszone "clique"
Most missed poster
Really, I get a kick out of the guys who go all postal. But I'm transgressive.
Best tag line
Mine usually kick ass.
Best Moniker:
Boobhat. Awesome.
Most Valuable Poster
M2 and RFS62: the Willie and Lefty of Redszone
Most Clever
WOY--storehouse of arcana that kicks ass.
Best Armchair GM
Steel--I'd turn the Reds' front office over to this guy.
Worst Typist
What happened to that one guy, *something* ND? Dude was the least lucid writer ever. After reading one of his posts, I felt like I had bugs crawling around in my brain.
Funniest
Red Leader's dropped a number of zingers this year. He's on a roll.
Best Use of Statistics
M2--the solidest conclusions drawn from data.
Most Positive
Again, Red Leader fits the bill.
Best Use of an Emoticon
Gotta go Krono here.
Nicest
Too hard--I can't pinpoint a single poster. But RFS62 is damn high.
Best Moderator
Boss, Ochre
Most Negative
That one guy *something* 4256--he's pretty negative.
Best Newcomer: Captain Hook
Lifetime Achievement Award
Krono's post count is freakin' nuts. Hats off--you bleed deep red.
Most Tired Topic of the Year
Losing
“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
I believe this is his website:And can someone please confirm that ramp hasn’t slit his wrists?
http://maverickball.com/
It's been updated recently. It's always possible that I'm confused and that's not really Ramp's, but I think it is.
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Most Missed Poster
ramp101 – He provided a welcome outsider’s view when the Reds were teetering between contender and pretender. Of course, that was back when his own Marlins were doormats. As they climbed in the standings, the rampster didn’t have time for us anymore. After the off-season they’ve had, we’ll presumably be seeing lots of our old friend for the foreseeable future.
Best Avatar
paintmered – I’m not sure where that little guy is galloping off to, but it sure looks like he can’t wait to get there.
Best Moniker
Danny Serafini – There are Neil Diamond songs that are so stupid I laugh hysterically whenever I hear them. Between his Mexican League pedigree, his promises of 15-win seasons, and his Japanese League sayonara, Danny boy is Forever in Blue Jeans.
Most Valuable Poster
SteelSD – He’s Yoda, patiently explaining for the thousandth time that hate leads to the dark side, and then posting three-year park-adjusted splits that prove it. Few combine the passion, eloquence, and evidence to make a claim, back it up, and sway the skeptics. He does it all day every day.
The Hank Aaron Award
westofyou – Fans gripe that the MVP Award should be paired with a Best Hitter Award. Writers remind said fans that such an award already exists, and it’s named after the HR king. WOY brings a wealth of statistical data to the party, but that’s giving him short shrift. He also has an unbelievably deep storehouse of knowledge about the history of the game, and a great appreciation for the interplay between the past the present.
Most Clever
creek14 – Your quips keep me in stitches. They say laugher is the best medicine, and that’s good, because these stitches really hurt.
Best Armchair GM
M2 – The GM has to see the big picture, know all the players, know all the other guys’ players, be able to define a strategy, articulate it to the masses, and sell it to the unwashed. In short, he needs to be smart, articulate, dynamic, pragmatic, charismatic, and spell my name right on the check. I think this is the most important position in the organization, and I’d give it to M2 in a heartbeat.
Best Nuxhall Impersonation
RFS62 – Joe is the conscience of this organization, and RFS is the conscience of RedsZone. Usually warm and friendly, occasionally stern, he’s the barometer for how a day, or a thread, is going.
Best Discussion
Some say DunnHater arrived with a bit of an agenda. All I know is that DH/BF swooped in and led discussions so full of flawed premises and circuitous logic that they led to wide-ranging discussions about OBP, OPS, slugging, conservation of outs, RC/27, lineup construction, and any number of other fundamental tenets of baseball theory. To read these threads and learn what is shared in them by so many Zoners is to begin to appreciate RedsZone as a graduate course in fandom conducted in a playground sandbox at recess.
Funniest
BCubb2003 – Another shoutout for Random Thoughts. The saddest tragedies give audiences brief moments of levity between the gaps when sorrow turns to anguish. RedsZone is kind of like that sometimes.
Most Positive
GAC – You want to believe, no doubt about it. Heck, you wanted to believe nobody would score on Danny Graves, and if that’s not blind devotion, I don’t know what is.
Most Negative
REDREAD – I hope that in nominating him for this award, he accepts it as a badge of honor. He’s been saying for years that the worst would come to pass, and he’s been right at every turn. If there were someone in the Reds organization who had the juice and the guts to say the things REDREAD has said over the years, we may not be in this mess. But there’s not and we are.
Nicest
KittyDuran – What a kind, caring, giving person. (Both on the field and off./gg) I’m inclined to believe there are less than six degrees of separation between her and noted nice guy, The Mayor.
Best Moderator
Chip R – Prolific. Fair. Funny. Everything you want in an overseer.
Best Newcomer
Caveat Emperor – Great first year! You made an immediate splash and kept right on swimming. You’re a fine addition to our band of…whatever we are.
The Old Red Guard Award
I learned a lot in the posts that broke down last year’s off-season acquisitions, polled the assembled masses on their thoughts, and ran detailed analyses of what 2005 might look like. In some ways they were case studies in optimists/pessimists and stats/scouts. But there are some pretty in-depth discussions in there, too, all backed by solid numbers and statistical modeling. Interesting threads that portended full-fledged nightmares.
Lifetime Achievement Award
Boss Hogg – It’s tempting to give this to one of the really ancient posters, like Krono or Raisor , but none of this would have been possible without Boss, and this year in particular has helped to drive that fact home.
Most Tired Topic of the Year
“You can't judge DanO because you’re not a GM; also, you don’t know what kind of offers he got.”
All-Stars
Joseph – Newbie-turned-mod; always impressive.
ochre – Already was a mod, and a fine one at that.
letsgojunior – Not a mod, but a prolific poster and outstanding individual.
traderumor – Your transformation from doe-eyed follower to table-pounding revolutionary is a testament to the power of RedsZone.
Puffy – I don’t loath you.
MWM – You know his story.
TeamCasey – Too many posts about players’ butts, but otherwise pretty cool.
Last edited by Redsland; 12-13-2005 at 06:33 PM.
Makes all the routine posts.
Originally Posted by Boss-Hog
I knew Boss was Fox all this time!!
How's that Royals beer guy you got all your "info" from?
Most missed poster
Hard to say
Best tag line
zombie usually has the best ones
Best Moniker
Harangatang
Most Valuable Poster
SteelSD
Most Clever
Redsland
Best Armchair GM
SteelSD
Best Trademeister
Krusty
Best Discussion
Danny traded thread
Worst Typist
any post without even one capital letter
Funniest
zombie
Best Use of Statistics
SteelSD
Most Long-winded
uh...savafan?
Most Positive
GAC
Most Negative
BF
Best Use of an Emoticon
gonna say Pedro...where Pedro posts, an emoticon follows
Nicest
Easier to say who isnt nice....too many to name for nicest.
Best Moderator
Boss-Hog
Best Chatter
GAC
Most Off-Topic
never kept count
Best Newcomer
Joseph...newbie to mod deserves props
Best Outsider
ramp
The Marty Brennamen Award
ghettochild - last game of season and he is PBPing...thats a fan
The Old Red Guard Award
nothing that memorable to me
Best Historian
woy
Lifetime Achievement Award
boss - gik
Most Tired Topic of the Year
anything political... guilty myself
Best Avatar
Falls City Beer - cant beat that mulleted dude with the Sammy Hagar shirt
Most Missed Poster
ORG. I didn't post when he was here, probably because I spent so much time reading and thinking about what he was saying that I never bothered to write anything myself. Why even try to measure up to that?
Best Avatar
WOY always has some clever ones.
Best Moniker
Can't say.
Most Valuable Poster
Can't name just one. Steel and WOY come to mind, but each person brings something different.
Worst typist
captainmorgan07, in a landslide
Best Armchair GM
M2
Best Discussion
Just about anything on the days leading up to, including, and after the draft.
Funniest
BCubb2003's random thoughts posts, and Puffy.
Most Positive
Teamsters and Krusty. I don't always agree with Krusty. Heck, I seldom do, but I like his ability to always look for the bright side and his belief that this team actually can get better.
Most Negative
BF if the topic is anything related to Adam Dunn. REDREAD for his stark realism. I don't always like what he says, but he is right a lot of the time.
Nicest
Can't name just one.
Best Moderator
All of them.
Best Historian
WOY
Best Newcomer
Joseph, making mod that fast has to be something. Honorable mention to WilyMoRocks.
The Old Red Guard Award
Although I learned a lot from much of the statistical analysis, WOY's historical posts were a great read.
Lifetime Achievement Award
Boss and GIK for starting the whole darn thing.
Most Tired Topic of the Year
Anything mentioning Adam Dunn, strikeouts, and sac flies.
Sheer volume of posts and clever use of emoticons
We should just name this the Krono award.
Most missed poster
ORG - The place isn't the same without his posts.
Best tag line
Hmmm, I've had so little time to read lately that I can't come up anything - so they're all good.
Best Moniker
princeton - even though I don't like the school.
Most Valuable Poster
The one, the only RFS62. The Yoda of Redszone.
Most Clever
I'm pretty impressed with registerthis's efforts lately.
Best Armchair GM
A tag team of cincinnati chili and M2.
Best Trademeister
Krusty has traded everyone on the Reds roster at least 5 times.
Best Discussion
"Be the last person to post on this thread."
Funniest
Puffy and RL.
Best Use of Statistics
WOY is the master of his domain.
Most Long-winded
Edskin on his "must-win" threads.
Most Positive
TC and TB.
Most Negative
The rest of us.
Best Use of an Emoticon
zombie
Nicest
Long list - Roy, TC, zombie, MWM, Paint, pedro, CE, SANDY, SuperBarry, Rosie, Krono, RL, Puffy
Best Moderator
All of them
Best Newcomer
CE and registerthis
Best Outsider
MattyMo and Ramp
Best Historian
Again WOY
Lifetime Achievement Award
RFS - really the heart and soul of the board.
Most Tired Topic of the Year
All of the Dunn discussions.
Best Looking Redszone Male
Puffy in a landslide.
Last edited by letsgojunior; 12-15-2005 at 06:23 PM.
Most missed poster
Stormy. I can't remember when he exited the building, but the lights have been dimmer ever since. We've picked up some real gems along the way, but it's a shame when one has to move on.
And of course, ORG.
Best tag line
ZOMBIE
Lots of others, but I have a hard time remembering who they belong to.
Most Valuable Poster
Rather than say one poster, I will mention the things that always get my attention- good use of stats (and formatting!), deep knowledge of the game, sense of history, and respect of other posters.
That last part is the one thing I believe makes the best posters stand out. Some use stats, some don't, but those who hold their fellow Zoners in high esteem are the Most Valuable Posters.
Most Clever
Redsland
NWM deserves a nod. Can be funny, but most often bitingly clever.
Best Armchair GM
M2 - there has never been a FO move by any club that M2 couldn't parse and comment on.
Best Trademeister
Krusty
Worst Typist
I don't mind poor typing as much as I do poor writing. It's okay to be in a hurry, but for god's sake take the time to express yourself cogently.
Funniest
Puffy, Zombie.
Best Use of Statistics
Steel, WOY
Most Positive
GAC, TC
Most Negative
BF never saw a thread that couldn't be turned sour.
Best Moderator
They all do a great job. Thanks MODS!
Best Chatter
I don't know. It seems like every time I start chatting, people log off.
Hello!?
Lifetime Achievement Award
boss - gik
We should just close voting on this one, folks. No Boss/gik, no Redszone.
Most Tired Topic of the Year
"The FO/Dano sucks."
We know already and I'd argue that we'd all be a lot happier if we just accepted their baseline suckitude. That way, we can't be anything but pleasantly surprised by even something as minor as Milton's ERA getting under 6.00.
Best Avatar
I can't remember who this belonged to, but the animated SNL "More Cowbell" avatar made me ruin my keyboard.
Next Reds manager, second shooter. --Confirmed on Redszone.
I had it for a while. I got a fever...Best Avatar
I can't remember who this belonged to, but the animated SNL "More Cowbell" avatar made me ruin my keyboard.
Then I think it passed to Krono and finally to me.Originally Posted by smith288
My dad got to enjoy 3 Reds World Championships by the time he was my age. So far, I've only gotten to enjoy one. Step it up Redlegs!
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