715750454C40574149220 wrote: I have to say that you guys from the other board, could someone tell the name of it again please, have made OBN a bit of fun in this time of no baseball.
In the past, we have had guys who get on other posters with slaps and slanders that were mostly done maliciously. But you guys seem to get along and I think in most cases just agree to disagree on things Pirates.
I sure hope that sometime soon we will be able to get back to some serious discussion about the state of the Pirates and discuss some games.
In the meantime let's all keep it light and hardy and help each other through these trying times.
The PMB was quite a place. Make no mistake, most of the time, it was an ongoing war between two factions. There were those who thought the Management Team was the greatest thing since the sun was invented, and those of us who thought they were the worst thing that ever happened to Pittsburgh. It was rare that here was a middle ground. Most members were strongly encamped one way or the other. There were few exceptions.
There were, however, a lot of good things about the old board. We had frequent contests, including multiple fantasy sports leagues, where the winners were awarded 'Stargell Stars', or later after a dispute, a 'Clemente Crown'. Running tallies were kept on who had won what, and how many stars or crowns each member had earned.
We even had an annual get-together at the first home game after the trade deadline called the "Anti-Christmas" game, usually after the Bucs dumped their better players for someone else's steaming pile of has-been or never were players.
some of the guys even had an annual golf tournament where they would play for the "Parrot Cup (or jug).
All-in-all, it was a good place, but one day MLB just shut down all of the message boards, and just like that, everything went black.
then, many of us wound up at the UPPMB - totally disastrous place to be - we were never accepted, some of our old antagonists were already there, and things just went south. One day, they just pulled the plug and the message board went away. Their original members at times wouldn't even engae us when we tried to talk baseball, they just seemed to want no parts of anything we could offer.
So, we wound up here, and it has been a great experience.
So, thanks for taking us orphans in! 'More please, Sir!!"
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btw Javy, I am sitting in my family room looking at that Parrot Cup right now. We haven't held that golf outing the last 2 years so Doc can't win it back.
Oh, we're going to get it going again. We haven't had it the last two years because of health reasons for some of the more esteemed, and awesomely skilled golfers.
Keep it polished.
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It will certainly be open to all OBN members.
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