Jun 12 2015 09:22 AM
Re: Schaefer: In case you missed it
Yes! I might actually win this thing.
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Schaefer: In case you missed it
| Benjamin Grimm Jun 12 2015 09:00 AM |
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I kind of buried a (relatively) important announcement in the Schaefer 2015 thread, so I'll post it again here so that the few remaining people who may care about this are sure to see it.
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| batmagadanleadoff Jun 12 2015 09:22 AM Re: Schaefer: In case you missed it |
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Yes! I might actually win this thing.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Jun 12 2015 09:41 AM Re: Schaefer: In case you missed it |
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My fault, sorry.
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| d'Kong76 Jun 12 2015 09:49 AM Re: Schaefer: In case you missed it |
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It was a good run, thanks for keeping it going all these beers!
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| themetfairy Jun 12 2015 01:33 PM Re: Schaefer: In case you missed it |
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Thanks for coordinating this as long as you have.
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| Edgy MD Jun 12 2015 01:54 PM Re: Schaefer: In case you missed it |
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Side-effect in part of the forum's slow demise.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Jun 12 2015 01:55 PM Re: Schaefer: In case you missed it |
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We should sell the Schaefer Award to a more popular website.
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| Zvon Jun 12 2015 04:47 PM Re: Schaefer: In case you missed it |
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Maybe if it's launched from the boards facebook page it'll pick up some steam. When you post for a call to vote it should hit the walls & feeds of all those friended by the CPF on fb. I bet there are other old fans who fondly remember the Schaefer Met Player Of The Game. Maybe they'll get involved. You would have to be loud about it initially, to get folks attention. I hate to see this go away. I also don't understand why every one here does not vote. It's such a simple thing.
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| d'Kong76 Jun 12 2015 08:48 PM Re: Schaefer: In case you missed it |
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We should probably just shut the ol' girl down in December.
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| SteveJRogers Jun 13 2015 05:14 AM Re: Schaefer: In case you missed it |
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Create a Twitter # for Schaefer voting? Maybe open a space on Redditt? Maybe a Tumblr site for repostings? Or whatever is going to replace Facebook?
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| G-Fafif Jun 13 2015 06:12 AM Re: Schaefer: In case you missed it |
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How about if we have a forum where there's an easily understood established protocol and you can vote for several days after the game and a really diligent moderator continually tabulates the results and announces them with great visual flair on a going basis?
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| Benjamin Grimm Jun 14 2015 07:06 AM Re: Schaefer: In case you missed it |
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First, to everyone above who has thanked me for doing this for eleven years, you're welcome. It's been fun and I too am sorry to see it end.
I'm afriad that sounds like it would take far more effort than I'd care to expend. I'm sure that there are hundreds of people (if not more) out there who would like to participate in something like this, but I'm not inclined to go beating the bushes in an attempt to find them.
I think the Twitter hashtag suggestion is a pretty good one. If we were at the beginning of this Schaefer revival and if I was a proficient Twitter user, this might very well be the approach I'd take. But I know fairly little about Twitter, other than that it doesn't interest me very much. And I know nothing at all about Redditt or Tumblr, and I mean that literally.
I've considered that, and haven't ruled it out. It would take a little (but not a whole lot) of start-up development and if I manage to motivate myself to do that between now and next April, I might put such a thing in place. At the very least, I expect that I'll at least post my own votes to the UMDB so that the single-game results appear in the box scores and the Players and Pitchers of the month will continue to appear on this page. If anyone thinks that they would participate in off-forum voting let me know and I'll keep you posted, through PM, of whether or not that will happen. I may (or may not) continue to post the end-of-month and end-of-year results here, although perhaps without the custom 1970s baseball cards.
That sounds like it should work, and did, I suppose, for a number of years. I think that there are still enough people posting on this forum, and participating in IGTs, to keep this viable. Voting should really only take a few minutes, but for whatever reason, there are only four or five people (beyond me) who seem interested. There's a story that Redd Foxx, when playing in Las Vegas, walked on stage one late night and only saw five people in the audience. He said, "Five people! I'm not doin' a show for five fuckin' people!" and then walked off stage. I guess I can identify with how Redd Foxx felt. This Schaefer thing is not a very big effort; it only takes a few minutes a day, but even that seems like too much of an effort for the entertainment of five people. And my apologies to those five devoted voters: I really appreciate your sticking with it as long as you have.
David Letterman, by announcing his retirement over a year in advance, indirectly inspired me to announce the end of Schaefer at this point in the season. Each October I think that I may not want to keep the Schaefer thing going the next year, but by April I'm always willing to give it one more try. I realized that the only way to get off this merry-go-round is to announce the ending at a time when I'm aware that I no longer want to do it, rather than keep deferring the decision to April, a time when I've forgotten the discouraging participation from the year before.
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| d'Kong76 Jun 14 2015 07:56 AM Re: Schaefer: In case you missed it |
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I'll ketchup Mon morn... ya'll should too!!
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| Benjamin Grimm Jun 16 2015 07:08 AM Re: Schaefer: In case you missed it |
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Voting for all three games played against the Braves this past weekend will close on Wednesday, some time after 10 a.m.
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