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sterlingice
01-09-2012, 09:19 PM
Ok, so we won't have to wait 3 more years.

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y268/sterlingice/random/morans.jpg

IWS #184 was football but that barn burner of a 9-0 game has me ready for baseball season. With the warm weather around here (read: it's not below freezing all day), I've been pining for Spring Training.

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The Rules

The rules are the same as previous FOFC “I’m With Stupid" Contests, as set forth by the game’s widely revered and most truly beloved founding fathers.

The object of this contest is to answer the questions posted, and to provide the most common answer among those submitted. For each question, your score will be equal to the number of people who submitted that response. Your score for the contest will be the product of your individual question scores. Yes, that word "product" here in the States means that they will be multiplied together, not added. Highest score wins.

Collaboration of any kind is strictly forbidden. No posting your answers to this board, nor sharing them by e-mail or in any other way with other potential contestants. Just don't be an asshat, and this should end well.

All determinations of "matches" and anything else requiring judgment fall to that of the sole administrator of this round of the game. You can reduce the need for doubt and judgment by properly spelling your submissions, being clear, and that sort of thing. My decisions are final and utterly inarguable, no exceptions.

Any references that are unclear to you, due to language or geography, should be understood to be authored from the perspective of an English-speaking American. However...

Your answers do not necessarily have to be correct in order to score points. If I ask "What kind of cake do you like best?" and you answer "chocolate cake" along with 4 other equally misguided people, you each regrettably will be awarded 5 points... even though the correct answer is "The Cake Is A Lie."

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The Hall of Heroes

Abe Sargent - IWS#49, IWS #149
Ahbrady - IWS#15, IWS#41, IWS#85, IWS#100
Airhog - IWS#1
Albionmoonlight - IWS#30, IWS#50, IWS#101, IWS#127, IWS#146
Archer219 - IWS#18, IWS#100
Arctus – IWS#135
Ardent Enthusiast - IWS#6
Atatange1 - IWS#79
Barkeep49 - IWS#62, IWS#100, IWS#117
bbor - IWS#23, IWS#26
Bearcat729 - IWS#82, IWS#93
bhlloy - IWS#179
BishopMVP - IWS#36
Blade - IWS#13
BrianD - IWS#106
Bryce - IWS#40, IWS#53
Buccaneer - IWS#47
Butter_of_69 - IWS#128, IWS#144, IWS#158, IWS#176
Bsak16 - IWS#6, IWS#9, IWS#17
cartman - IWS#48, IWS#100
Celeval - IWSE146
Chief Rum - IWS#45, IWS#56, IWS#95
CMP - IWS#171
Coffee Warlord - IWS#176
ColtCrazy - IWS#178
Cornhuskerly - IWS#46
Crim - IWS#57
Cringer - IWS#155, IWS#158
Cthomer5000 - IWS#54, IWS#75
CU Tiger - IWS#152, IWS#179
Cuervo72 - IWS#27, IWS#38
DanGarion – IWS#100, IWS#122, IWS#178
Danny - IWS#54
Dodgerchick #177
Desert Dweller - IWS#6
Desnudo - IWS#88, IWS #120, IWS #137
Digamma - IWS#14, IWS#92
DukeRulesMAB - IWS#76
Dutch - IWS#90
EagleFan - IWS#41
Farrah Whitworth-Rahn- IWS#126
Frozenrope - IWS#86
George W Bush- IWS#80, IWS#84
Glengoyne - IWS#71
gold101 - IWS#63
GoSeahawks - IWS#64 IWS#131
gstelmack - IWS#116
Hammer755 - IWS#38
HeavyReign - IWS#23
Henry296 - IWS#12
Honolulu_Blue - IWS #129, IWS #144
Hoopsguy - IWS#170, IWS#174, IWS#181
HornedFrogPurple - IWS#10
jbergey22 - IWS#172
JeeberD - IWS#44, IWS#52, IWS#61, IWS#87, IWS#91, IWS#110, IWS#138, IWS #141
Jesse Ewiak – IWS#100
Joe Canadian - IWS#29
John Lynch - IWS#10
Karlifornia - IWS#81, IWS#97, IWS#99, IWS#124, IWS#134, IWS#158, IWS#161, IWS#172
kingfc22- IWS#75, IWS#123, IWS#140, IWS#151
kurtism - IWS#79
KWhit - IWS#142, IWS#147, IWS#150, IWS#164
Lathum IWS#182
lighhousekeeper - IWS#125
lurker - IWS#158
Logan – IWS#100
Maple Leafs - IWS#34, IWS#84, IWS#94, IWS#113, IWS#118, IWS#139, IWS#168
Marmel - IWS#8
Masked - IWS#22, IWS#30, IWS#31, IWS#33, IWS#100
MattJones4Heisman - IWS#157
mauboy1 - IWS#77
MIJB#19 - IWS#59, IWS#69, IWS#117
Msf518 - IWS#11, IWS#15, IWS#35, IWS#39, IWS#100
Neuqua - IWS#19
NoMyths - IWS#46
Noop - IWS#46
Nothingman - IWS#6, IWS#45
ntndeacon - IWS#81
Oliegirl - IWS#72, IWS#81
PackerFanatic - IWS#130
Panerd - IWS#3, IWS#84, IWS#89, IWS#107, IWS#120, IWS#133
PineTar - IWS#108
Pjstp20 - IWS#42
Primelord - IWS#11
PurdueBrad - IWS#173
Pyser - IWS#85, IWS#163, IWS#180
QuikSand - IWS#9, IWS#16, IWS#18, IWS#24, IWS#32, IWS#58, IWS#66, IWS#70, IWS#73, IWS#78, IWS#83, IWS#93, IWS#100, IWS#103, IWS#111, IWS#132, IWS#156, IWS#165, IWS #169, IWS#179
Qwikshot - IWS#5
Radii – IWS#100, IWS#106
Raiders Army - IWS #154, IWS#179
Ramzavail - IWS#53
Raven Hawk - IWS#68 IWS#96
RendeR - IWS#6
RGunner - IWS#121
rkmsuf - IWS#145
RonnieDobbs - IWS#37
RPI-Fan - IWS#9, IWS#182
sabotai - IWS#143
Samdari - IWS#21
ScottVib - IWS#9
Solecismic - IWS#83
spleen1015 - IWS#98
SplitPersonality1 - IWS#4, IWS#104
Sterlingice - IWS#28, IWS#31, IWS#35, IWS#51, IWS#183
stevebollea - IWS #169
stevew- IWS#159, IWS#164
Subby - IWS#107, IWS#110, IWS#112
Sublime 2 - IWS#25, IWS#134, IWS#148, IWS#161, IWS#179
Suicane75 - IWS#109
Swaggs - IWS#2, IWS#35
Tarcone - IWS#162
Tasan - IWS#65
TazFTW - IWS#153
ThunderingHERD - IWS#114, IWS#119, IWS#122
Timmae - IWS #115
Toddzilla - IWS #167
Tredwel - IWS#6, IWS#9, IWS#20, IWS#43, IWS#67, IWS#84
TRO - IWS#7, IWS#9, IWS#12, IWS#85, IWS#102, IWS#109
tucker342 - IWS#60
tyketime - IWS#175, IWS#178
Vince - IWS#37, IWS#46, IWS#62
wademoore - IWS #166
Wbatl1 – IWS#105, IWS #136
Whar - IWS#75
Wheels - IWS#55
WSUCougar – IWS#105

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The Questions....

1. Which is a better Spring Training location- Weather, games, the whole nine yards: Arizona or Florida?

2. Speaking of real, live baseball, what's the best stadium to watch a game in?

3. Albert Pujols is at 445 homers and only 31 so he'll probably break the mark in 2013. Who is the next to 500 (not including him)?

4. Where does the vast and voluminous vegetarian Prince Fielder sign?

5. Besides the Phillies, pick a team to win the NLCS.

6. Finally, humor me: how many games do the Yuni-powered Royals win this year?

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Send the answers to me via PM and put IWS#184 in the title please.

I'm going to aim to end this Friday morning- I don't want to go all QuikSand on it. If Prince Fielder signs during the IWS period, we're going to have to cut it short. The end time will be the first timestamp on the first story on MLBTR saying he has signed.

SI

Logan
01-09-2012, 09:26 PM
Nicely done. Might be a good idea to number the questions...

EagleFan
01-09-2012, 09:30 PM
sten

sterlingice
01-09-2012, 09:31 PM
Done and done (the numbering). I haven't done one of these since sometime the last century, I think (IWS#52)

SI

tarcone
01-09-2012, 09:40 PM
tnes

Abe Sargent
01-09-2012, 10:14 PM
SWET

Toddzilla
01-09-2012, 10:54 PM
ʇuǝs

CrimsonFox
01-09-2012, 11:01 PM
SNES

SackAttack
01-09-2012, 11:04 PM
Losing entry submitted.

MizzouRah
01-10-2012, 06:26 AM
sa sa sent

Danny
01-10-2012, 06:30 AM
I think for this one I will forget to send an entry and then just claim I had all the most popular answers in the results thread. I've never tried that before, so people will probably believe me.

PurdueBrad
01-10-2012, 07:08 AM
Sent. Some toughies in there this time too. This could/should be another poor showing by me!

Comey
01-10-2012, 07:36 AM
Oh yeah, sent last night.

spleen1015
01-10-2012, 08:32 AM
Nice, difficult questions. Nicely done, SI.

PackerFanatic
01-10-2012, 09:04 AM
God damn Yuni...

Sent.

CU Tiger
01-10-2012, 12:23 PM
sent...uhhhh

CrimsonFox
01-10-2012, 12:23 PM
sent...uhhhh

...PEED! :D

MIJB#19
01-10-2012, 12:24 PM
Must not finish last...
I can't fail my homeland now. We're world champions in this sport.

TRO
01-10-2012, 12:39 PM
I'm with Moran!

Young Drachma
01-10-2012, 12:57 PM
sent

Ronnie Dobbs2
01-10-2012, 02:13 PM
Sent. Hope IWS and the fast past continue.

Glengoyne
01-10-2012, 03:50 PM
Seen it

General Mike
01-10-2012, 05:44 PM
Too hard

claphamsa
01-10-2012, 05:47 PM
we should have all time bad rankings... im always in the bottom category!

General Mike
01-10-2012, 05:54 PM
penny

sterlingice
01-10-2012, 07:18 PM
Nice, difficult questions. Nicely done, SI.

I have not tabulated results and don't want to skew things but I did have a little regret about one of the questions as being too difficult. The rest, I was hoping for splitting Stupid a bit but nothing that I couldn't rattle off a snap answer (correct or not) if someone had a gun to my head.

SI

sterlingice
01-10-2012, 08:09 PM
Up to 42 entries. I'll end this tomorrow after noon at some point (barring the Prince Fielder signing clause) so one more day! Great follow up showing by Stupid!

SI

Julio Riddols
01-10-2012, 08:49 PM
http://www.elfwood.com/art/e/a/eagle/ents.jpg

sterlingice
01-11-2012, 08:26 AM
Bump- last day

SI

sterlingice
01-11-2012, 07:36 PM
And... STOP. Pencils down. Filing gnomes will be tabulating the results

Great turnout!

SI

CrimsonFox
01-12-2012, 01:32 AM
Geez....you can't trust gnomes!

corbes
01-12-2012, 05:23 AM
Yes, especially when the tiling gnomes start fabulating the results. They'll say anything!

sterlingice
01-12-2012, 06:00 AM
Darn gniling fomes!

I'm With Stupid - IWS #184 Results - Front Office Football Central (http://www.operationsports.com/fofc/showthread.php?t=83176)

SI