How long should we give Santoswoodenlegs at fanposting?
by The Lip on Apr 11, 2009 11:26 AM CDT
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PrintAlright, while I personally think santoswoodenlegs will resume his significant, relevant and extemely funny body of work, I am concerned that he is losing his edge as evidenced by his recent fanposts. Will he ever return to the type of poster the BCBers imagined him always to be. I've stated here before why I think SWL will always exceed our expectations in the blogosphere, but his god awful personal attacks on an unassuming, always amiable and insight poster, which doesn't allow him time to photoshop and otherwise create the witty comments we've come to expect make me wonder. When he does post, it's nothing like we're used to and, at times, comes out of LF, or is less original. (His last two fanposts said basically word for word the same thing, so, to whoever may say I don't have a "trained eye", you can read them yourselves and tell me if you think you need a trained eye to see what I mean!).
Anyway, having said that, I think that maybe if he is still struggling after this week, he needs to have his fanposts moved down in the sidebar, to fanshots at the very least and maybe even be limited to the comments section. I would put dat cubfan daver , who I have much more confidence in lately, and I imagine Al would too, in his place to shake things up and he would be a photoshop and satire guy as well.
Not at all saying this after a tough couple of days and is in no way a knee jerk reaction, but even the staunchest SWL fan must admit his struggles in the last day or two and maybe it's due to the pressures of writing fresh content, or we have made the adjustment to him and our expectations are too high. Without a break, I don't see any signs of him being able to return to funny, satirical posts that are not exactly the same as his last ones.
How long until someone accuses SWL of decline, like DLee, or regression to the mean, like Theriot, if he continues his struggles at fanposts?
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I almost considered making a post in addition to this
but it wouldn’t be prudent
#34: You'll be missed!
As long as he wants
He still has his fastball.
Nervous nellies just don’t like the truth.
There is no such thing as an ugly female breast
Everbody has slumps
It’s up to SWL to break out of it though. SWL, if you don’t break out of your slump in one week, we might have to trade you to Brew Crew Ball.
"Check the magic of a winning season and there are always reasons beyond the talent." Ned Colleti
by wrigleyrocker12 on Apr 11, 2009 11:59 AM CDT reply actions
LMAO
Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings.
Silently chanting my mantra...
This can’t go on forever.
This can’t go on forever.
This can’t go on forever.
"May the sun never set on American baseball." ~Harry Truman
It's only
four posts, I repeat only four. Nothing to panic about. So one blown post does not mean all the rest will be blown.
So some of the posts have swung and missed at hitting the humor. I am confident SWL will rebound to even greater posts. Don’t jump just yest.
"You can't take life to seriously, you don't get out of it alive"
and all teams will have bad posts from time to time
and four post is a small sample
Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings.
Dat's
right Jack. Come on, really does anyone really believe that SWL was going to have 160 good posts and only two bad ones?
People calm down. True talent will rise to the occasion.
"You can't take life to seriously, you don't get out of it alive"
This all stems from Al....
always sticking up for the roles of the veteran posters. Sure, he brought BCB to the next level, including over 1K comments on the opening day thread, but when is it time for the regime change? I know Al has a guaranteed adviser position lined up at “Pinstripe Alley” after his contract is up at BCB…
Fukudometer: Created 3/31/08 Wrigley Debut 4/5/08 WGN and Japan TV Debut 4/6/08 Sun Times Debut: 4/20/08 Coffee Table Debut: 7/17/08 (http://www.wearecubsfans.com)
There's nothing to worry about
SWL’s talent on the mound is limitless. Even the greatest experience a few boob… er, bobbles along the way.
Ryan. Theriot. Sucks.
I'm just waiting for the "How long should we give Al as site admin" post.
Because meta-parody is just that much funnier.
I left my clever sig line in my other pants.
We haven't had a Peavy post in the series, either.
"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx
if nothing else
he did not WOO once in the post, that alone should be worth something
Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings.
As a pilot, I must say
I’ve seen quite enough of Ronnie in or around airplanes on this site!
Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true! --Homer J. Simpson
by Shanghai Badger on Apr 11, 2009 10:13 PM CDT up reply actions
How about poor me?
I was on a plane with him!
Jay is our Quarterback. Also please note my email has changed on my profile anyone who sometimes sends me emails.
by puckishcubsfan on Apr 11, 2009 10:36 PM CDT up reply actions
Did they hand out parachutes?
Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true! --Homer J. Simpson
by Shanghai Badger on Apr 11, 2009 10:57 PM CDT up reply actions
Well
I asked the flight attendant to strap me to the wing. She was from Chicago and knew who he was so she said she was going to ask to be locked in the luggage compartment.
I think they made up a rule to shut him up.
Jay is our Quarterback. Also please note my email has changed on my profile anyone who sometimes sends me emails.
by puckishcubsfan on Apr 11, 2009 11:13 PM CDT up reply actions
just avoid the dumpsters
Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings.
Maybe SWL is suffering from withdrawal from HGH (humor growth hor-moan)?
…just a thought.
"If it's obvious, it's obviously wrong." - a well known stock market guru
Does SWL...
need some rehab and some of the ever famous towel drills?
I didn't get the players I wanted in the offseason!! Hopefully I get what I want in the Regular Season---The World Series Trophy!! Go Cubbies!!
Anyone else hear Lous interview
Lou Piniella had little patience with a radio reporter’s question after the SWL’s post. Piniella was asked if he thought SWL needed to stop making posts on BSB
“What are you talking about, no more SWL posts?” Piniella shot back. “I don’t even know what you’re talking about. Then who posts in his place? This would further deplete the roster of posters You manage that way, you’ll be fired about a month into the season.”
Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings.
But
But SWL is a 29 YEAR OLD ROOKIE!
Jay is our Quarterback. Also please note my email has changed on my profile anyone who sometimes sends me emails.
Buster Olney
is reporting a possible cross-town trade of SWL for Dr Crawdad. (Linky)
I left my clever sig line in my other pants.
Trade SWL??? To whom???
Who would want his insight? Poor guy (I thought he was a girl, judging by the hottie icon he has) Maybe he oughtta change his name to Santocan’tclickhisheelsanymore. Next thing I’ll bet he says that he’s actually a Somali Pirate. LOL
"It was a wise Man that invented Beer" (Plato)
I think Santo's posts are intended to be humorous, but...
…they probably reflect more accurately how Lou manages. Apparently Lou must have a Doghouse Bulletin Board that gets updated each game, possibly in-game as well. Gregg has a bad outing—a chance to redeem himself last night? Not on your life—Doghouse!!!!! The 2nd series of the season and it seems to me that Lou is already pissed and panicky, it’s no wonder this team chokes under him and will likely continue to do so.
His team choked themselves right into two NLDS
they may well choke themselves right into a WS… forfend!
Ryan. Theriot. Sucks.
Well, I guess I should give Lou the same amount of time to get it together that he's
going to give Lee. After that it’s going to be just like in Animal House, “Dean Wormer—Dead!!!! Niedermeyer—Dead!!!….”
Rec'd!
It’s amazing how the nervous nellies crawl out of the wood work when something goes wrong DURING A ONE HUNDRED SIXTY TWO GAME REGULAR SEASON!
Then there’s the infamous, “how long should we give Domer…” post the other day. Boy does that sound like a proclamation. How’s that one looking now?
And another thing: How long should “WE” give someone, like we matter to what’s being done in the front office, in the club house or in the dugout. Yeah, right. It was once said, ‘If you make moves to appease the fans soon you’ll be sitting with them’.
Sweet Lou for Mayor in '11.
blackhawk24, I respect your posts here....
… but I think you’ve taken all of these way too seriously.
"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx
It was a parody of another post...
… maybe you missed the original.
"That's my opinion and if you don't like it, well, I have others." ~ Groucho Marx
This is not SWL's fault
There is no question he is the team’s #1 photo poster but longer satire is not something he can do.Much as I like Al , I have to agree with others that most of the blame falls on him. If had signed, traded or brought up better satirists, SWL would not have felt pressure to try something he is ill equiped for. I don’t know if it was too many Jimmy John’s sandwiches or spreading himself too thin by doing TWO books in addition to BCB but Al took his eye off the ball and tried to use SWL too often. So before SWL’s typing fingers fall off and we have to put him on the DL, I think Al needs to find someone else to step to the plate and become a middle-late innings satire specialist.
"I daydream just like everybody else, I just do it with my body facing the field, so everybody thinks I'm paying attention."- Greg Maddux
I think it would be helpful to look at the numbers.
6.02 × 10^23
2.71828
867-5309
FF (only in hexadecimal)
So as you can see, SWL’s lack of performance early this season is directly in line with the slow starts he has gotten off to in the past few years. Looking at his RIDING-CROP (a stat that I devised that is better than WHIP, trust me on this), I suspect he will settle down with a few more appearances and we can expect him to be in top form by May, barring any wrist injuries. The only thing that concerns me is his ratio of TBKs to GOTO, fo SHO.
Since he has 15 IPS, which (using Dolby’s equalizations) still gives him a MI-6 in the top 13.728642% of the league, I expect his AMC to normalize and we should see a decline in XFL resulting in a career year for Mr. Woodenlegs. I’m going to go out on a limb here and say his THX at the end of the regular season will be somewhere around 1138.
And that’s why everybody wants a piece of the action. (Everybody needs a main attraction.)
I left my clever sig line in my other pants.
by znohitter on Apr 12, 2009 3:59 PM CDT up reply actions 2 recs
I just got my wife to read this...
she would believe me that my IPS is anywhere over 10.
As I've told you before, I never repeat myself.
by santoswoodenlegs on Apr 12, 2009 6:09 PM CDT up reply actions
plus you used sentence structure, paragraphs, and made it readable
that is a plus
Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings.
Well,
I ran the simulation with GOSUB, but it kept coming back.
I left my clever sig line in my other pants.
Triple Uber Rec!
Hilarious zno…freakin’ hilarious
"I got a PBS mind in an MTV world"...Jimmy Buffett
by The Ryno and I Know on Apr 13, 2009 9:07 AM CDT up reply actions
that's
awesomesauce.
"That’s the great thing about baseball, you never know what’s going to happen till you get the final out." — Lou Piniella
by drewishdrewid on Apr 13, 2009 9:42 AM CDT up reply actions
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