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I'm late to this and my team name story is lame. I'm a Nats fan, so it's a play on the old Expos name. Yayyyyy. The original Exponentials is my other Ottoneu team, so maybe I'll freshen up this team name before the season starts. Ideas welcome.
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I'm from the great northwest and have always thought Cascade or The Cascades would be a good team name & logo. LT harbor's back to a place I grew up.
LT Titans ⚂ on
January 13, 2017 3:46 PM
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Porno for Pyros weren't actually punk, but I liked their band and their name.
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Reminds me of the movie Spinal Tap. Anybody seen that? Hilarious.
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I can ask Scoto Boras to be our manager-- he'll get us all the best gigs
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Re: punk band
Randall on drums, Han Solo on piano, Fake on guitar, Clash City on bass guitar, DeVito on vocals, and everyone else can be a roadie!
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Breaking News. Awesome.
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Here's the Randall Simon video. One poster on YouTube titled his post "Sausage Assault." Pretty sure some punk bands have considered that name as well and probably thought better of it for obvious reasons lol. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkeygYiur9E
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Great stories! I was always curious about all these team names. Maybe a potential punk band can form out of this.
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@FG and CCR, I have actually thought Fake Girlfriends would make a great name for a punk band
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When I adopted Rivas Gigantes, I was watching an episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia where Danny DeVito got....particularly weird.
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Haha, as I Cubs fan, I remember Simon's stint in Chicago as well. I think the sausage incident was funny, and I think if he didn't have a track record of being assish, it may not have ended up being such a big deal. Lol, what a character. He was kinda like Bonds, except he only hit like 50 hrs in his career. Gotta hit a ton to act like a doucher.
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My team name is not nearly as interesting as those of most of you. I picked up an abandoned team last year, "Big Al", which I imagine was owned by a guy named Al and he may have been big. I'm pretty lazy, so I never thought about changing the name because that would entail some effort on my part....
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Just want to have fun's trade block has been updated!
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Fake Girlfriends's trade block has been updated!
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I got hooked on baseball in 2010, didn't pay much attention before that. I started playing a video game called MLB 2K10 based on the 2009 season. The best pitchers that year had been Tim Lincecum, Zack Greinke, and Roy Halladay (honorable mentions to Johan Santana and CC Sabathia). When my friend and I would draft rosters, I loved to choose Roy Halladay as my no. 1 starter and I became a fan of him.
Coastal Empire on
January 11, 2017 10:42 AM
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Randall Simon's Bat to the Head's trade block has been updated!
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I'm not sure of the age bracket in this league, but I'm a Pirates fan and back in 2003, Randall Simon and the Pirates were in Milwaukee. The Brewers have a sausage race during the game, and as the sausages ran close to the dugout, Simon hit (it was more like a love tap) one of the sausages in the head with a bat, and the sausage crashed. There was a major outrage. Simon was charged with disorderly conduct, fined and eventually traded to the Cubs. His career after that didn't amount to much.
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Mine should be pretty obvious. The Clash is probably my all-time favorite band, and Clash City Rockers (the first song on the US version of their first album) sounds like a sports team name. I've used it since I started playing fantasy. I also occasionally used Murder City Devils, another favorite band whose name sounds like a sports team.
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In honor of our new owner, I think everyone should tell the story of their team name! I'll go first. This was my first Ottoneu team and I didn't really know what to call it. But it was right after the news about Manti Te'o getting scammed online by a guy who pretended to be his girlfriend for years. I thought it was so bizarre. Even though it had nothing to do with baseball I decided to use it.
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Fake Girlfriends's trade block has been updated!
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Wow, flurry of activity in a day... Welcome Randall
LT Titans ⚂ on
January 10, 2017 11:56 PM
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Going to chill for a while until all these trades go through. Thanks for the offers and the welcome to the league.
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Randall Simon's Bat to the Head's trade block has been updated!
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Well that didn't take long. Welcome aboard, Randall Simon!
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Big Al's trade block has been updated!
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Claimed the abandoned team. Active owner looking forward to the season.
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Except for Fake Girlfriends- he can see what we're all thinking.
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If you're curious, the only things I can see that no one else can is your email address, the last time you logged in, and when you next payment is due.
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Oh by the way, I cannot see anyone else Roster Organizer. I claimed the team with another account to look, then abandoned it.
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I know at least one player who was in the trade category- the $13 Robertson I was offered dozens of times!
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@Expo - no one he planned to cut, but he has 9 players in the Trade category.
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I'm confident someone will take over that team soon though.
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That's too bad he took off without warning like that.
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Yeah, in the future I think a good policy is to require renewal payment before arb. Another of my leagues just created a policy to require it within two weeks after the season so everyone is committed and invested.
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Is there possibly a way to see if HK used roster organizer to plan out cuts?
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Kind of sucks that this happened right before the keeper deadline, since the team is over cap and over rostered. I'm going to research if there's a precedent for handling this situation in case no one claims the team by 1/31.
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Hey everyone - just a heads up that Hello Kitty is now Goodbye Kitty. If you know anyone looking for a team, it can be claimed here: https://ottoneu.fangraphs.com/claimteams
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Clash City Rockers's trade block has been updated!
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Fake Girlfriends's trade block has been updated!
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The Exponentials 2's trade block has been updated!
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Fake Girlfriends's trade block has been updated!
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LT Cascade's trade block has been updated!
LT Titans ⚂ on
January 4, 2017 2:15 PM
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Just want to have fun's trade block has been updated!
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Napalm Bombs's trade block has been updated!
Napalm Bombs on
January 4, 2017 10:28 AM
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Fake Girlfriends's trade block has been updated!
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LT Cascade's trade block has been updated!
LT Titans ⚂ on
January 1, 2017 2:15 PM
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Danny DeVito's trade block has been updated!
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Just want to have fun's trade block has been updated!
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Napalm Bombs's trade block has been updated!
Napalm Bombs on
December 29, 2016 7:36 AM
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