TAN #29 The case of the disappearing TAN (Page 77)

lvthgme - 2008-06-19 12:52 PM

Disagree. There are soooo many factors that go into people playing well consistently. How many NBA guys will play well as a #2?

I really loved Jackson's book Sacred Hoops. There is some malarky in ther about mysticism and such, but a lot of detail about...well it's coaching. That team didn't win every game or championship. Why not, if it's so easy with MJ?

chadtower - 2008-06-19 9:51 AM What I said makes sense. At least as good means "equal to or better than", meaning no worse. I think they would have been better. That's just opinion, though. Look at it this way... any guy that throws a tantrum on the sideline and refuses to enter a playoff game in the closing minute deserves to be questioned.

Rynamite - 2008-06-19 11:57 AM

Trivia is tonight, we're gonna try to go back to back...since we got first last week.  It's very Jeopary  like.

Aikidoman - 2008-06-19 12:59 PM

But if you put an allstar in at his spot, and they are as good as him. He is still not an allstar?

Moss, Bobby Night, I could go on, and on, and on..... And on.... But they are still some of the best the games have seen.

chadtower - 2008-06-19 10:05 AM He's an allstar because he was voted to be one. It doesn't always equate to "one of the best". It often equates to "overrated" too. Happens a lot on championship teams in basketball... better players on losing teams get snubbed and no one remembers. That doesn't make the guy who was on TV more often better - it only means more people saw him because he was on the Bulls. Neither of those guys refused to play/coach because they weren't getting the ball. There's a difference between a tantrum and refusing to play at the end of a playoff game. Why do you think they tried so hard to trade him after that?

- 2008-06-19 10:08 AM

What is the format?  How do they ask questions and is it just the first person to yell it out? 

what are the questions usually about?

Rynamite - 2008-06-19 10:20 AM

Teams of 8 or less. 3 rounds, 10 questions per round. Round 1 is worth 1 point each, round 2 2 points, round 3 3 points... and the questions get harder each round. A guy asks the questions over a PA system, and your write the answers. He collects the answer sheets each round and scores them. Top 3 teams win gift certificates.

Questions are about pretty much anything. Current events, sports, history, movie taglines, company mottos, song lyrics. There's one in round 2 that he calls "Pirate, Pirate, or Senator" where he says a name, and you have to know whether the guy was a Pittsburgh Pirate, a pirate of the seas, or a Current US Senator. He does true and false questions about totally random things, stuff like that. It's a lot of fun.

- 2008-06-19 10:22 AM

I'm usually pretty good at yelling stuff out. I remember a lot of random crap about biology and art history that I learned in school.  What I can't do is American sports or American History..

- 2008-06-19 12:22 PM

I'm usually pretty good at yelling stuff out. I remember a lot of random crap about biology and art history that I learned in school.  What I can't do is American sports or American History..

- 2008-06-19 10:23 AM

Song lyrics I'm pretty good at.. pirate, pirate or senator sounds hilarious, but I would fail...

chadtower - 2008-06-19 12:24 PM So last night bricked nearly the whole course for my first tri next month. Did the whole bike and the whole run. I paced it so I could get an idea of how hard the whole thing would be and really I had tons left in the tank at the end. I think I'm ready and all training for the next three weeks is just bonus. I neeeeever could have done that three months ago.

Rynamite - 2008-06-19 10:26 AM

Everyone makes up ridiculous team names too. Last week we were "Hairy nipple syndrome sucks.... just ask Traci (one of the girls there with us)".

One team is always "The guy who asks these questions is a moron."

Sprint_DA - 2008-06-19 10:26 AM

Crowny: QC Tri pics are up.

Ryna: How'd the 10k go last night?