APF2k8 - Legends League S1 - Week 5

Onward we march. Grumpicus you win your titanic struggle to track down frankie last week. Everyone else, have fun this week. I'm available Thursday night, Gumbie. After 6ish PST.

I *think* I'll be around tonight after 6 pst.

***FRANKIE!!*** When can we play? Evenings after 10 or 10:30 east are best for me.

Kush, what say ye? I'm available any weeknight, as well as saturday morning.

Jayhawker, let's roll! I'm free at various points this weekend.

Hey Pred'. Guess it's you and me next. Best time for me now seem's to be this weekend. Saturday morning earlish (i.e. 7am-10:30am), or later in the Evening. Sunday Morning too thru early afternoon. I'm West Coast. (and there is always a possibility in the evening during the week, but not till 7:30pm PDT.

<-- Available most nights* after 9:30 central and by special appointment.

*I can't start until 10:30 central tonight.

Bumpie when do you want to play. I'm online every night so just hit me up on XBL is the best way to get me.

Grumpicus wrote:

<-- Available most nights* after 9:30 central and by special appointment.

*I can't start until 10:30 central tonight.

Not a good time for me tonight or the next few days because of work. I could do monday or tuesday though.

Thin_J wrote:
Grumpicus wrote:

<-- Available most nights* after 9:30 central and by special appointment.

*I can't start until 10:30 central tonight.

Not a good time for me tonight or the next few days because of work. I could do monday or tuesday though.

Monday or Tuesday will be fine. Let's go with Monday so we have Tuesday for a fallback. 9:30c ok with you?

ruthlessmuffin wrote:

Bumpie when do you want to play. I'm online every night so just hit me up on XBL is the best way to get me.

I should be on tonight. I just ordered a new receiver for HDMI switching. So once I have it all installed, I'll be golden.

I forgot Jayhawker is box-less. Schade.

Bagga, I'm good Sat morning, I'll add you and see you tomorrow morning.

Kush15 wrote:

Bagga, I'm good Sat morning, I'll add you and see you tomorrow morning.

How does 9 AM Eastern sound? I'm goin' BBQ eating at 11.

Slumberland wrote:

I forgot Jayhawker is box-less. Schade.

Yeah, still Boxless in St. Louis. Enjoy the free win, though!

I'm really bummed, as this seems to have been a great league so far. The schedule is really flying. Looking forward to the second season. There will be a second season, right?

I'm planning on a second (third, fourth..) season. I'm enjoying this.

Grumpicus wrote:

Monday or Tuesday will be fine. Let's go with Monday so we have Tuesday for a fallback. 9:30c ok with you?

Alrighty, I'll plan on monday at 10:30 my time. I'll let you know in advance if I can should anything change, but I'm usually at home with time to myself on monday nights so it shouldn't be a problem

Hey Donan, I can do tomorrow night after 6:00 PM EST or so. Sound good?

Kush,

Hate to flake on you; can you do 9:45? I'll check back then to see if you're around. If not, that's fine -- how's sunday night look for you?

Prederick wrote:

Hey Donan, I can do tomorrow night after 6:00 PM EST or so. Sound good?

That should work out fine. 'See' ya then.

firesloth, I can play either Sunday night around 11 or 12 eastern or Tuesday after 10. As for last week I'm sorry I didn't realize, the week had changed. I wasn't on the site or X-box, last weekend and I didn't know into I heard from Grumpicus, I told him we can play thursday, I guess he didn't tell you that. I don't know what his (titanic struggle problem) was about finding me, I didn't get a message or voice mail into Monday night, anyway It's no a big deal. Just so everbody know if you can't get in touch with me you can tell ruthlessmuffin he can call me. For the most part I'm on everynight, exept weekends after I'm on after 8 eastern..

frankiemumbles wrote:

I told him we can play thursday, I guess he didn't tell you that. I don't know what his (titanic struggle problem) was about finding me, I didn't get a message or voice mail into Monday night

Actually, if you check last week's thread, you'll see that I posted my availability less than 24 hours after the thread was created. I followed up 2 days later (on Friday) hoping you'd check the site again. Finally, as week 4 neared its end, I posted one last time. Someone suggested I log into XBL and drop you a line there and so then I did that. This finally got your attention and you told me then, on the last day of the schedule, that you couldn't play that night... which, despite your assumption above, I promptly relayed to group.

I wrote:

he was playing Vegas but was about to log off for the evening. He's busy tomorrow and suggested Thursday. I responded that I could play starting at 10:30 central on Thursday but did not receive a response.

Finally, on Wednesday afternoon while at work, after seeing via xbox.com that you hadn't responded to the Thursday at 10:30c playtime I had proposed the night before, I sent you another XBL text message while it said you were playing the Darkness demo. I did eventually here back from you on Thursday afternoon (via XBL which I don't/can't check until I actually log in, late in the evening, after the kids go to bed) but by then we were already 14 hours into week 5 so I didn't bother responding.

And that's the story of my "titanic" (not my words, by the way) struggle to set up a game with you.

Bottom line is this. If you're in this league and want to play, we've all agreed you should be checking this thread so the league moves along at a good clip. Even Jayhawker checks in and his XBox is dead.

Secondly if you're on XBox Live (which Grumpicus says you were during last week) playing other games and can't be bothered to even check your messages there, then what should people do? Having someone else in the thread call you is hardly a solution. Check into this thread, schedule your game or be prepared to be handed a forfeit.

I hate to be a hard a**, but there are people enjoying this league. There are people no doubt excited for the playoffs and excited for next season. There are probably people who want to get in next season. All of that would die if we waited a couple weeks every time someone wasn't reachable.

Speaking of which, I'm available most of tomorrow, Gumbie, and all of this afternoon. PM me, post to this thread, send me a Live message, whatever and let me know what works for you.

Prederick wrote:

Hey Donan, I can do tomorrow night after 6:00 PM EST or so. Sound good?

I may be about 30 minutes late Pred'. Got to watch the end of the Washington Hukie, Ohio game.

Well, some slightly bad news. The house printer just went down and i'm tasked with acquiring a new one ASAP. I'm going to have to say i'll be unavailable until 8:00ish. If that's no good, then Monday or Tuesday would probably be good.

Prederick wrote:

Well, some slightly bad news. The house printer just went down and i'm tasked with acquiring a new one ASAP. I'm going to have to say i'll be unavailable until 8:00ish. If that's no good, then Monday or Tuesday would probably be good.

O.k. I'll take that as 8ish EST. I see if I'm still around and go for it. Good luck with the printer. (btw, have to be Tuesday. Monday is GRAW night for me).

frankie -- Ugh, Sunday/Tuesday are the worst days for me. I'll see what i can do, but Monday or Wednesday would be easier for me.

I. Am. Cursed.

So, me and Donan played a pretty damn entertaining game. I'm finally getting production from both my passing game and my rushing game, but Rod Woodson has gotten burned THREE TIMES by Fred Biletnikoff, each for TDs. So it's 20-20 (we missed some XPs), and a big play by Charley Taylor has the ball on, like, my 8. I call a 4-4 Zone Blitz, and miracle of miracles, Clyde Simmons picks the ball off with, like, 1:30 remaining. I've burned all my timeouts trying to leave time on the clock in case Donan scores. We get the ball on our three.

First play from scrimmage, short out patters. I call a max protect so I can at least have some time to throw it away. That's EIGHT MEN back blocking. So what happens?

One guy slips through, a generic. Safety. Donan wins.

We are destined for that #1 pick people. I'm going to go drink myself to death.

Good game RuthlessMuffin.
I just couldnt stop the dynamic duo that is Marino and Rice. Awesome job on both sides of the ball by your team.

thanks good game Bumpie

Good game Pred'. You were telling me about your bad luck with generics and such. Yet they seemed to be clicking for this game. Yet in the end, the bad luck came up and bit ya. Bummer! I can certainly understand you fustration. Anyway, good time chatting with ya and playing the game.