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When do you throw in the towel?
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Wed Jul 19, 2006 8:15 pmby GREGGZILIANI
Great googly-moogly! Barnstormers has just been smacking me around. Here is the latest team to give me heartburn. I thought they werent bad for $60M, but now Im not sure. Is it too early for me to check out on this team, or is there hope?
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Wed Jul 19, 2006 8:20 pmby PJ Axelsson
The earliest I throw in the towel is just prior to the draft, when I see Ed, Munich Man, and PJMB all in my division... :lol:
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Wed Jul 19, 2006 9:13 pmby deepdrive
One thing I'd try to do is funnel as many (more) innings through Lefferts as possible. I'd try to pitch Lefferts until his arm fell off. :D Sisk and Stewart are getting to many innings me to be comfortable with.
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Wed Jul 19, 2006 10:59 pmby Palanion
I never throw in the towel. When (not if) my team sucks, by midseason I have probably explored more than a half-dozen trade proposals, maybe pulled off one or two, rearranged the batting order a dozen times, given some shlub a spot start so I can reshuffle the rotation, and decided that if the team can jut go .500 the rest of the way to prevent 90 losses, I'll be happy. Lower my goals, and they seem more attainable.
:wink: :oops: :shock: :wink:
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Thu Jul 20, 2006 1:00 amby ADRIANGABRIEL
If my team doesn't at least start out 2-1, I simply release every player I have.
agabriel
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Thu Jul 20, 2006 2:21 amby CHRISTIANSTOUGH
:lol: Every time you post you crack me up.
Yes, by all means, quit early, quit often, that's what I tell the kids on the teams I coach. It's not that winning doesn't matter, it's that it doesn't matter if you don't care.
When some upity kid on one of my teams says, "but coach, we want to win". I just give him a snack cake and change the subject. It works wonders. If he's really persisitant, I make him wash my car.
So my suggestion would be to stop caring. Get a box of twinkies and invest time into cable TV's slew of cold case files/city confidential/ true detective dramas.
Oh, and move to Tucson, the capital of apathy.
When do throw in the towel?
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Thu Jul 20, 2006 11:19 pmby JAMESBEESON
Never.
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Fri Jul 21, 2006 8:07 amby Rob55
A lot of times I throw in the towel right after naming the team, but other times I wait until after I fill out he draft card to give up.