Call for RR Team Preview writers
by ken on Mar 9, 2010 3:38 PM EST
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Gang, it's that time of year again where we solicit volunteers to write team previews. This is a fun project that acquaints us with the competition through the lens of inside jokes and RR memes. Seriously, I always enjoy reading these and I'm consistently impressed with the quality of writing from our constituency.
Same drill as last year. Pick the NL team you wish to preview and I will set a schedule for when they should be published. My tentative plan is to preview the NL Central the week of March 14, the East the week of the 21st, and the West the week of the 28th. I call Milwaukee.
If you're wondering what should be included, I've pasted below the jump BK's advice from last year. You can also click on the "rr nl team previews" tag at the bottom to see examples.
Now you may be asking, "what should be in my preview?" Once again, we're looking for the answers to at least the following questions:
- What is the team's overall outlook for the coming season?
- Who are the key losses/additions to the team?
- What pitchers/hitters do the Reds not want to see?
- Who are the pitchers/hitters the Reds are looking forward to facing?
- Any rookies/prospects of interest we can expect to see this season?
- Any history of note between the two teams?
- Any former Reds?
- Any Bill Hall All Stars or Tomo Ohka All Stars?
If you're not familiar with Bill Hall All Stars and Tomo Ohka All Stars, check them out on the wiki. The way you write it is pretty much up to you, as long as it answers the questions above and is easy to read. You don't have to scrutinize every little detail of the organizations, just the stuff that would matter to a casual fan of the team or a Reds fan sizing up their opponent. If you want to set those questions up and knock them down one by one, that's perfectly fine, or if you want to write it in longer paragraphs, that works too. As long as it isn't one long sentence with no punctuation.
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Here's the roster so far:
Mon 3/15: Brewers – Ken
Tues 3/16: Cubs – Geki
Wed 3/17: Cardinals – crolfer
Thurs 3/18: Pirates – Whackreds.com
Fri 3/19: Astros – Sports goggles 4 lyfe
Mon 3/22: Mets – thevole/nycreds
Tues 3/23: Phillies – dmcgee77
Wed 3/24: Nats – ZJiff30
Thurs 3/25: Marlins – Cy Schourek
Fri 3/26: Braves – thedigjam
Mon 3/29: Dodgers – BLee2525
Tues 3/30: Padres – Highlifeman21
Thurs 4/1: D’backs – coocooforcocoapuffs
Fri 4/2: Giants – WoodrowThedaug
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I got the Mets
This should be fun
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. -Aristotle
by nycredsfan on Mar 4, 2010 8:02 AM EST via mobile reply actions
Darn, I was gonna give that one a shot
being that I’m usually surrounded by mets fans.
then again, you’ll do a much better job than I would, so it’s probably for the best.
Let me know if you really want to do them
I’m just getting a personal kick out of their trainwreck of an off season (and last 3 seasons for that matter)
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. -Aristotle
No no, it's all yours
I’ve not really done much writing in a while and I doubt I’d do the piece justice.
(And by “justice” i mean REALLY letting them have it. Ha HA!)
I'll take a shot at the D-Backs.
I be so turned up, I be swaggin to da max
by coocooforcocoapuffs on Mar 4, 2010 8:24 AM EST reply actions
If you change your mind
I could take the Pirates. I wrote them up last year.
Let me write out a formal proof for you.
There are other teams remaining
But you need to act soon!
by ken on Mar 5, 2010 3:18 PM EST up reply actions
I can do the Cards again unless someone else wants them.
"People don't kill people. Burning oreo packages kill people."
proper terminology is "I'll tap the Rockies"
sheesh.
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by Slyde on Mar 4, 2010 8:56 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Indeed
but I meant a different definition for “tap”.
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Which I wouldn't...
Mountains? I mean, common!
"People don't kill people. Burning oreo packages kill people."
Pink Mountaintops would totallly disagree with you
‘cause they’re getting their lovin’ on with the mountains
eyewwww
What a perv.
(Note to self: do not use airplane blankets.)
All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?
Why not at least you the airplane bathroom?
I think this is one of the reasons it doesn’t bother me that they sell blankets, I’d much rather pay $5 for a sealed blanket than get a dirty one for free.
Volquez, Bailey, Cueto, Chapman, and Leake. The future is so bright I have to wear sunglasses.
If you read the FBI report at Smoking Gun
It doesn’t sound like this is just a guy who couldn’t wait. Either he’s one of those guys who gets off on exposing himself in public, or he was attracted to the woman sitting beside him, and figured this was the closest he was ever going to get.
He was bothering her before he got busy with the blanket. She put on her headphones to get him to stop asking her questions, and opened up her laptop. He leaned over her shoulder to read her e-mail. She told him to back off, and that’s when he started with the blanket.
All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?
Sounds like a great Single Serving Friend...
"People don't kill people. Burning oreo packages kill people."
by crolfer on Mar 4, 2010 9:28 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Cumb'd.
"Let's get this movie. We already have the underwear."
by Fat Vegas Alan on Mar 5, 2010 6:19 AM EST up reply actions
lovely guy...
Volquez, Bailey, Cueto, Chapman, and Leake. The future is so bright I have to wear sunglasses.
I had an encounter with a guy like him
He followed me around campus jerking off. The cops told me they couldn’t really do anything, as long as he did it inside his pants. They also told me he was weird but harmless, and I should ignore him and not worry. He raped a little girl two weeks later.
All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?
yeah. wow.
Not funny at all, actually.
"And then there was the USAID guy in Kandahar who drove a giant pink Cadillac, which the locals set on fire one day. If you wanted to destroy something symbolic during a riot, you just could not do better than that. Good stuff." - Ghosts of Alexander
so no stalking or sexual harassment?
Oh yeah universities don’t give a shit about sexual abuse.
Volquez, Bailey, Cueto, Chapman, and Leake. The future is so bright I have to wear sunglasses.
by justin007000 on Mar 4, 2010 11:30 PM EST up reply actions
it wasn't stalking, exactly
He had a certain “type,” and many women had complained about him, all matching a certain physical description. He was careful not to do anything that would get him immediately arrested, and if confronted, he would run away. Which is probably why the cops thought he was harmless.
I bet if Mr. Solo Mile High Club had kept it under the blanket, there would have been little anyone could do. Except move to a different seat.
All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?
Someone could have just punched him.
Someone could have stood up over him and said, “Excuse me, but ‘m pretty sure this guy is masturbating right here in his seat. If he doesn’t stop I’m going to punch him. In fact, I’m not gonna let him off the hook on this one. I mean.. he was masturbating in a public.. I’m gonna go ahead a punch him.”
And then.. boom. Punch him.
"Let's get this movie. We already have the underwear."
by Fat Vegas Alan on Mar 5, 2010 6:25 AM EST up reply actions 3 recs
This sounds to me like an appropriate course of action.
"People don't kill people. Burning oreo packages kill people."
Wow
No post should end with the sentence, “He raped a little a girl two weeks later.”
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by Dave from Louisville on Mar 9, 2010 10:40 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
sounds like
he was the one sticking up.
All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?
I just got back to Red Reporter
long time no see. I’ll do the preview for the Marlins again.
"And then there was the USAID guy in Kandahar who drove a giant pink Cadillac, which the locals set on fire one day. If you wanted to destroy something symbolic during a riot, you just could not do better than that. Good stuff." - Ghosts of Alexander
Hey I did the Padres last year!
You can have ’em…:)
My fantasy football team this year? Lippincott's Shorts
by cesarhernandez on Mar 4, 2010 12:35 PM EST up reply actions
should i do the Braves?
"They're the ones that gave you the keys, they can’t get upset when you crash the car" -- 'tHan on my being a mod
by jch24 on Mar 4, 2010 10:46 AM EST via mobile reply actions
Not if they don't want to end up pregnant, you shouldn't.
"aaron harnann is so aweseom" - justin
by BK on Mar 4, 2010 10:59 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Long time no see, jch fertility joke!
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. -Aristotle
I'm just sayin', I don't think he can afford 25 more child support payments.
"aaron harnann is so aweseom" - justin
by BK on Mar 4, 2010 11:04 AM EST up reply actions
Braves
I live in Atlanta, so I’d love to do the Braves.
All yours
I’ll go back to providing witty and insightfyl comments around the site.
"They're the ones that gave you the keys, they can’t get upset when you crash the car" -- 'tHan on my being a mod
by jch24 on Mar 4, 2010 12:55 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
suck it, I'm typing these on my phone
"They're the ones that gave you the keys, they can’t get upset when you crash the car" -- 'tHan on my being a mod
by jch24 on Mar 4, 2010 1:14 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
You seem to have mellowed over the years, which has definitely made for better postings
But I, for one, would welcome some vintage Geki on that preview.
I wonder if the Cubs understand options
by ken on Mar 4, 2010 1:52 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
I forone would like to see a vintage Geki post
and for Geki to make a Bleedcubbieblue fanshot with a link to that post.
Volquez, Bailey, Cueto, Chapman, and Leake. The future is so bright I have to wear sunglasses.
why are you trying to start a flame war with BCB?
Did they steal your lunchbox?
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Same thing with LGT! too
"aaron harnann is so aweseom" - justin
by BK on Mar 4, 2010 2:43 PM EST up reply actions
You shoukd have written your comment like this.
"They're the ones that gave you the keys, they can’t get upset when you crash the car" -- 'tHan on my being a mod
by jch24 on Mar 4, 2010 2:54 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
You shoukd learn to spell
"aaron harnann is so aweseom" - justin
by BK on Mar 4, 2010 3:26 PM EST up reply actions
You shoukd liss my asd
"They're the ones that gave you the keys, they can’t get upset when you crash the car" -- 'tHan on my being a mod
by jch24 on Mar 4, 2010 4:06 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
Giants
I’ll preview them. I’m on their coast already.
I have a good feel for the Phillies
Since this is a hands on assignment, could me in.
Do a good job.
’Cause the Phillies are pretty good.
"Let's get this movie. We already have the underwear."
by Fat Vegas Alan on Mar 5, 2010 6:28 AM EST up reply actions
For some reason, there's a deep love in my family for DC.
Guess it’s cause my dad grew up there. So, if no one else wants, I can take the Nationals.
"Red Reporter - An elitist clique full of like-minded douchebags." - BK
Yes.
They’re supposed to be beaten by the 49’ers in the Super Bowl every few years but they haven’t played up to that level of expectations in quite a while.
"Let's get this movie. We already have the underwear."
by Fat Vegas Alan on Mar 5, 2010 12:09 PM EST up reply actions
The Super Bowl?
I thought that was hockey
Needless to say, this didn't work and everybody died.
by SullivanSmith on Mar 5, 2010 1:49 PM EST up reply actions
True.
The Cincinnati Bengals: “We’re now a little bit better than the teams you don’t even think about any more!”
"Let's get this movie. We already have the underwear."
by Fat Vegas Alan on Mar 5, 2010 10:04 PM EST up reply actions
TO'ed
You should follow me on twitter @DavefrmLville....the Onion does!
by Dave from Louisville on Mar 9, 2010 10:42 PM EST up reply actions
Well, since ZJiff took my surrogate team....
I’ll return to the site of my previous NL Team Preview, the LA Dodgers.
"Karma - there it was. The meaning of life, straight from Carson Daly's lips to my morphine-laced ears." -Earl Hickey
Damn it..
This feels exactly like Boy Scouts in 1990.. I loved camping, I hated all of the bullshit that went along with it. Merit badges.. Participating in flower sales.. Sometimes I feel like the leech I am.. Well, work is slow right now and I’ve spend today posting more than I have in MONTHS, so I guess if no one has claimed it:
Lets make the ASsTROs my Cooking Merit Badge.
(hopefully some has claimed it….)
Education is what you get from reading the directions. Experience is what you get from not reading them.
I'll do it if you don't want it...
but it’s not like I don’t have plenty of work I should probably be doing, too.
Let me write out a formal proof for you.
Am I doing the Padres, or is cesarhernandez?
Just asking for clarification
It’s cool if I don’t do the Padres
You called them first
So it’s yours, unless you want to rochambeau Cesar for it.
by ken on Mar 9, 2010 7:13 PM EST up reply actions
cesarhernandez can have the Padres, since he did them last year
I step aside to tradition
by Highlifeman21 on Mar 9, 2010 8:38 PM EST up reply actions
So you let him kick first?
It’s really not a huge deal. But if you want to step aside, hopefully Cesar is still up for it.
Ill take the astros
If theyre still available
by Sports goggles 4 lyfe on Mar 9, 2010 8:05 PM EST reply actions
yeah slyde totally plagiarized my Fanshot on Dusty...
Volquez, Bailey, Cueto, Chapman, and Leake. The future is so bright I have to wear sunglasses.
Oh well
I was just going to pagarize various game threads from last year
If you're not having fun, stop participating.
I got started on mine tonight...
I think I spent more time working on that tonight than I’ve spent on school work in the past month… Hmm.
"People don't kill people. Burning oreo packages kill people."
STORY OF MY LIFE
Volquez, Bailey, Cueto, Chapman, and Leake. The future is so bright I have to wear sunglasses.
by justin007000 on Mar 10, 2010 2:51 AM EST up reply actions
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