Before Angelswin.com???

[tdawg87]

36 minutes ago, Adam said:

I was a fake lee for 3-4 years

Thewiseoldacre?

[Adam]

It was some variation. 

[Adam]

We should all go troll some other team's board.

[tdawg87]

Just now, Adam said:

It was some variation. 

I just remember a dude who said he was 97 or some shit and Lee hated him.

[Adam]

I think there we dozens of fake lees

[Adam]

I just registered on some Washington Nationals board. 

[Blarg]

2 hours ago, TaylorBot said:

Who was the dude who met Lee at In-N-Out once to confirm he was a real person? He was a big presence on the OMB. HaloCowboy or something like that?

A guy named Omar (went to a playoff game with him) went by the screen name Retard Detector (Ping!) interviewed Lee at Anaheim Bowl after Lee had been in an accident. His face was busted up and never reflected the profile picture Lee used. He admitted he trolled the boards simple because he was bored. He bragged about his younger Asian wife and his bowling scores but Omar never checked on those. 

[tdawg87]

3 minutes ago, Blarg said:

He bragged about his younger Asian wife

Wait a god damn second

[Blarg]

18 minutes ago, Adam said:

I just registered on some Washington Nationals board. 

I had an account on NYYFans that had the I Hate The Angels thread and quietly trolled that for a while. Bumping the thread every time the Angels played the Yankees. One of the best responses was, The Angels make me want to kick puppies.  

[Taylor]

5 minutes ago, Blarg said:

A guy named Omar (went to a playoff game with him) went by the screen name Retard Detector (Ping!) interviewed Lee at Anaheim Bowl after Lee had been in an accident. His face was busted up and never reflected the profile picture Lee used. He admitted he trolled the boards simple because he was bored. He bragged about his younger Asian wife and his bowling scores but Omar never checked on those. 

That's right! That's the guy. What happened to Omar?

I swear someone met Lee at INO, though.

[Brandon]

9 hours ago, Dtwncbad said:

I was on the OMB.

Seems so long ago.  My dominant memory of that board was a nuclear war between me and AngelGraffiti over who should start everyday at shortstop, Eric Aybar vs. Brandon Wood.

AngelGraffiti was a very opinionated and super stubborn poster.   I suppose I am too.

AG’s take was that Wood had not earned the position and that Aybar was way underrated and would actually go down as the greatest shortstop in Angel history.

My take was there was literally no reason for Wood to be back in the minors and also no reason to have him sit on the bench so they needed to just put him in the lineup and forget about him, that it is pretty tough for players to earn tomorrow’s start with success in today’s at bats, and that Aybar was a good player but definitely not all that special.

If I remember correctly this debate went on for probably 500,000 words.  I am a bit embarrassed by it now.

In the end we were both right and we were both wrong.

There was a reason to not start Wood.  He had massive anxiety problems that made him unstable mentally.  We didn’t know this at the time but that’s what was going on.

He ended up a bust.

And Aybar was not the all time greatest shortstop in Angel history.

Eventually I found out that AG had some condition like aspergers (or something like that) that caused him to be really abrasive and condescending, so Instarted to view him differently.  So he had an excuse for being obnoxious.  I didn’t.  Other than just not being mature enough.

But the most fun I had in that board was impersonating Glausisthaman.  OMG that was fun.

Glausisthaman was such a crazy homer for Glaus that every post was about Glaus being a beast with beast power and he ended like every post with something like: “paaaabooooombaa!”  (I guess the sound of a Glaus homer coming off the bat?).

So I started an account like Glausistheman (one letter off of his name) and I would post all over the place mimicking him.  The key was not the exaggerate his ridiculous homerism on Glaus but to be exactly like he would be.

This made it almost impossible to detect if it was him or me the imposter.  It drove him insane for a little bit following me around trying to tell people the last post wasn’t him, even though whatever I wrote would be basically identical to what he would have written.

To me anyway, it was hilarious and harmless and I got a huge kick out of a couple of posters asking the legit Glausisthaman “what difference does it make?”  “Are you telling me you would not have posted the same exact thing?”  “Who cares if there is one of you, two of you or nine of you?  Every post is the same anyway.”

So that was fun (albeit obnoxious).

Anyway I mostly had fun on that board despite some of my own cringe posts that didn’t age well.

I was very sorry the board was removed and was really hesitant to “start over” on another board but I am very glad this board exists and happy to be here.

 

9 hours ago, Dtwncbad said:

I guess I will tell a story that fits here in this thread even if it is not baseball related.

When AOL became widespread, their chat rooms were really popular.  If I recall, there was a limit to the number of people that could be in a chat room, like 12 maybe?

Anyway there would be chat rooms called very specific things like “Best TV shows” or “Ford vs Chevy”.

So my friends and I would lurk around and decide on a room to enter.  We would never indicate that we knew each other at all.

Here was the game:  enter a topic specific room, casually and accidentally “discover” that others in the room had a different common interest, steer (and dominate) the conversation to the alternate subject, and just never ever break character.  The live entertainment would be the comments getting mad about talking about the “wrong subject” for that room, and the win was when everyone else gave up and vacated the room leaving only us.

So in a Ford vs. Chevy room where people are talking about horsepower and transaxle towing ability, I would mention my wife left all her croche supplies in my Ford.  Then my friends would be like, “she does croche?  So does my wife.”  Than another friend would be like “don’t knock it until you try it, I do it myself”.  And I might ask “How did you get into it?”  

And then the croche topic would take over with all the Ford vs. Chevy guys heads exploding.  Of the greatest importance was to convince the room this was simply accidental and a coincidence and that we didn’t know each other but that this was truly, organically just the inevitable path of the conversation in the chat room.

All I can tell you is it was so much fun and we would get ourselves laughing so hard we could not even function.

It was awesome.

500,000 words you say.

[Dtwncbad]

26 minutes ago, Brandon said:

 

500,000 words you say.

Add a few zeroes 

[Docwaukee]

4 hours ago, Adam said:

We should all go troll some other team's board.

what if I told you that I've been doing that for the last 14 years?  

[Tank]

6 hours ago, Stradling said:

Before AngelsWin.com I was rather fond of Canadians.  

me too

[ten ocho recon scout]

4 hours ago, Adam said:

I think there we dozens of fake lees

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Bruce_Lee_imitators

[ten ocho recon scout]

4 hours ago, Blarg said:

A guy named Omar (went to a playoff game with him) went by the screen name Retard Detector (Ping!) interviewed Lee at Anaheim Bowl after Lee had been in an accident. His face was busted up and never reflected the profile picture Lee used. He admitted he trolled the boards simple because he was bored. He bragged about his younger Asian wife and his bowling scores but Omar never checked on those. 

I remember that name, retard detector, lol. Didnt he have a go to like "found one" or something like that when hed quote a stupid post?

And good for Lee. We all daydream about a younger asian wife.

Weird that he took her name in the marriage though. Mostly young guys doing that, not the older gents

[T.G.]

I once trolled Cub fans on the old ESPN boards... I pretended I was a woman and I called myself "white halter top" and told the Cub fans to look for me at the next game in the right field bleachers.  They bought it...

@Dtwncbad after reading the stuff you did back in the day, I only have one thing to say...

 

[Angel Oracle]

14 hours ago, Blarg said:

A guy named Omar (went to a playoff game with him) went by the screen name Retard Detector (Ping!) interviewed Lee at Anaheim Bowl after Lee had been in an accident. His face was busted up and never reflected the profile picture Lee used. He admitted he trolled the boards simple because he was bored. He bragged about his younger Asian wife and his bowling scores but Omar never checked on those. 

Did someone say younger Asian wife?

[DCAngelsFan]

On 3/18/2021 at 4:33 PM, ten ocho recon scout said:

Also, nostalgia for angelgraffiti. Good poster, very knowledgeable. But yeah, could come off as a prick. But he was one of the first to change my views between sabr and old school stats.

I used to think the same of exileindc. But he was the other that opened my eyes. Kind of like the @Inside Pitch of that board. 

I remember AG - smart as hell, but you had to be able to accept the occasional dismissive "you're an idiot" responses from him - Asperger's iirc.  Once I realized that was just who he was, didn't much faze me - although there were times I'd kind of put him in the penalty box and not talk to him - sure he never noticed.  

Exiledc was similar in a way - smart as hell, could be brutal at times - he did not suffer fools.  Make some lazy assumption about something being discussed, and he'd smack you down.   Once he got to know you, that you weren't just a troll or an idiot, he was fine.  Learned a lot from him - didn't always agree with him, but he definitely made me think.  

I can *almost* but not quite remember the guy who caused the board to be shut down b/c mlb.com thought he might hurt himself - I remember he had all of these theories and formula that he created and insisted had some amazing insights - but mostly they were just pointless transforms of existing stats with zero correlations to anything.  That was always the thing he missed - "correlation."