UPDATED: Royals Review AL Only Ross Gload Memorial League and Open Thread

by Gopherballs on Feb 22, 2012 12:33 PM EST

There are a couple spots available for the RR AL Only Ross Gload Memorial Roto League. The draft will be Thursday, March 15, at 7:30 pm central time. It is a standard 5x5 roto format (OBP, HR, RBI, R, RBI for hitting, W, K, WHIP, ERA, SV for pitching). You also get to keep the stats of players traded to the NL during the season.

If you are interested, please post below and include an email at which I can reach you. I will then be in touch in the next day or so. The only ~~prerequisite~~ recommendation is that you are available for the draft date (which will not be changed)~~, so please express interest only if you are available~~ on March 15 at 7:30 pm.

UPDATE: After checking the ESPN site, if you cannot make the draft, ESPN does allow you to rank players and set draft preferences beforehand. Thus, you can still participate even if you are not available for the live draft, but your team will be auto-drafted based on your rankings and preferences.

For those not interested, this thread can be used to post your fondest memories of Ross Gload, your thoughts on the direction that the Walking Dead or Luck are taking, or whatever off-topic subject tickles your fancy.

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Ross Gload and MITCH making it happen

Doubting Thomas, the patron saint of sabermetrics

by Jeff Zimmerman on Feb 22, 2012 2:31 PM EST reply actions

I really wanted to link the original "Gload will explode" thread

but the search function seems to only go back a few months for comments.

Of the vocal random fans of marginal players, the Gload will explode guy has to take the top spot. I also liked the random Brian Anderson fan, who was at least polite. There was also an irrational Jarrod Dyson fan, and I am sure there were others who I cannot recall.

by Gopherballs on Feb 22, 2012 3:09 PM EST up reply actions

I seem to recall a big Melky supporter who posted randomly last year

by Sweep_the_Leg on Feb 22, 2012 3:11 PM EST up reply actions

Joel was banned so many times that I don’t know if his comments even exist anymore.

You may know me as NYRoyal.

by Scott McKinney on Feb 22, 2012 3:21 PM EST up reply actions

Too bad if the original "explode" comment did not survive

although the entertainment value from the initial dialogue may very well be outweighed by the carnage that followed.

by Gopherballs on Feb 22, 2012 5:44 PM EST up reply actions

Not sure if Nighthawk wants me putting it up over here, but...

he’s put his expertise in degeneracy to work regarding Luck at IP, here:

http://inconsiderateprick.blogspot.com/search/label/As%20Luck%20Would%20Have%20It

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by Old Man Duggan on Feb 22, 2012 9:44 PM EST reply actions 1 recs

No problemo. To protect myself from shame, I'm literally cloaked in a cloak of invisibility.

I suspect folks who don’t give two shits about horse racing are probably left a little cold by the series so far. Went back and watched the big horse race again, and was a little disappointed I didn’t latch onto Nolte’s novelty monkey act first time around. He was literally chattering his teeth and clanging symbols up in the grandstands as the big horse came rushing down the lane, wasn’t as obvious to me on the first pass. However, the scene with Ace and Mike was about as good as you can expect from a Milch/Mann mash up. The dialogue up in that piece was outstanding. In a corny tough guy hard boiled crime fiction kind of way. Which happens to meet with my low-brow sensibilities.

by Nighthawk at the Diner on Feb 22, 2012 10:14 PM EST up reply actions

I'm reading Chandler for the first time right now.

Holy shit could that sonuvabitch write.

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by Old Man Duggan on Feb 22, 2012 10:26 PM EST up reply actions

Fuck yes. What are you reading?

I’ve taken down the Big Sleep, the Lady in the Lake, and The Long Goodbye. Been awhile tho. If you find yourself off the rails on a vintage crime fiction jag, check out Red Harvest by Dash Hammett. Chandler one upped Hammett and put the stamp on the genre, basically. I love that Marlowe plays chess and is hep to classical music. Those books all made for some good God damn movies too. I think its the Big Sleep with a great scene between Bogart and Bacall, whence Bogart threatens to put her over his knee and spank her? They actually slip into some erotic horsey styled dialogue if IIRC (could possibly be mixing that up with another Noir classic).

by Nighthawk at the Diner on Feb 22, 2012 11:45 PM EST up reply actions

I'm reading The Big Sleep.

It. Is. Amazing.

It’s weird that it’s taken so long to get around to him. I’ve read Cain, and I love Jim Thompson, but I guess I always saw Chandler and Hammett as slightly older and was accordingly leery.

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by Old Man Duggan on Feb 23, 2012 1:32 AM EST up reply actions

I am liking Luck a lot

(thanks in no small part to your help explaining the inside baseball parts of the show) but I am a week behind. The one part that has worked least for me is the Jerry compulsive gambler storyline (although from previews it looks like there is some payoff coming). Watching a gambling addiction is just tedious, and it has been done millions of times (and probably no better than the two minute scene in Croupier that hit all the notes perfectly).

by Gopherballs on Feb 23, 2012 12:45 PM EST up reply actions

I've read these guys

and love ‘30s-’40s noir novels.

They’re all great: I’d rank them Hammett, Chandler, Cain, Thompson, but that’s just me.

My favorite genre book is a collection of Hammett stories called The Continental Op.

I suspect James Ellroy has read that book.

"That fucking fucker of a general swears too fucking much." --Unnamed soldier about Gen. George Patton, 1943

by Juancho on Feb 23, 2012 4:03 PM EST up reply actions

Thanks gopherballs. Episode #4 is best one yet. IMHO. Feel free to shoot me a ? or whatever if you'd like.

I like a few of Thompson’s books, The Killer Inside is fantastic, but most of the other stuff I’ve read from him doesn’t have that same electricity. Ellroy has def read Continental Op stories. Some of Ellroy’s books are a blast to read as well. I think I’d generally agree with your list Juancho, maybe I’d flip/flop Chandler and Hammett, but you can’t go wrong with either one. Contemporary Irish guy (I think), who can bring a fair crime fiction story to the page, Ken Bruen.

by Nighthawk at the Diner on Feb 23, 2012 6:35 PM EST up reply actions