There’s this thing–it’s not a trend, exactly, more like a folly–going on at other sites (one, in particular) where they ask for their readers to guess what stats players will end up with at the end of the season. They average those stats and they publish it like it means something.
Well, it does means something. It means people are dumb, and enjoy wasting their time.
They call them “community projections” and they are perfect for most of the Cubs fan base. While nobody can top St. Louis Cardinals fans in terms of overall insecurity, there’s a pretty big hunk of Cubs fandom that could give them a run for their money. And this kind of exercise is perfect for them.
They can all sit around and obsess over something they have no control over. Like how many walks Ted Lilly will have. Or how many fat girls will swoon endlessly at Ryan Theriot.
The only good thing to come of this, is that at one site, where many of us have been banned, the way they have it set up allows anyone to post. So instead of plugging meaningless numbers into the form, you could write your very own message to the proprietor of that site.
I’m not saying you should, I’m just saying you could, if you wanted to.
Was I too positive to assert that T. Gorz will win 28 and strike out 500+ in 350 innings?
He COULD do it.
I fill them all out, but I just write
THIS IS THE YEAR! in every blank.
Fangraphs.com is also doing a something like this, for every team. But I’d expect their results to be a lot more reasonable.
Oh, the fun that could be had with names.
I’m going to pencil myself in for .370, 22 HR and 119 RBI. No way the Cubs can cut me now.
I project to be fat. Very, very fat.
I project to be nearly as useless as Crane Kenney.
Just like in grade school, I tried to raise the averages by plugging this into every space (it doesn’t work if you just type “google”
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
Crane and Wally were really impressed that I knew how to use a walkie talkie.
Because neither of them do:
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Gorz is gonna own. 230 wins? Check. 1400 innings pitched? Yep. All in a year’s work.
I project the number of cocktail skank whores I bang is going to take a serious muffdive .. er..uh.. nosedive!
You’ve never played well with others. This is why we could never invite other kids to your birthday parties.
Dammit Woman! Let the boy have his little internet site and internet friends and leave him alone! It’s no wonder he never calls anymore.
How do I get banned on BCB? I’d like to try.
I project zero nigg-… I mean colored people download my music this year.
Your joke was played out three years ago on me, John.
And I’m usually pretty lame.
That should read “three days ago.”