All-SpursTalk: The Finals

[Blackjack]

All-SpursTalk: The Finals


With the second poll closed in this, the inaugural All-SpursTalk awards ceremony, the Third Team is set, while the Second Team awaits five more nominees; one last vote remains for a team only two-sevenths complete. But the Second Team's completion cannot come about without a final vote. First Team honors are still on the line, six spots remain.

Eleven nominees will vie for six spots on this year's First Team: five that survived the Second Team vote and six-of-the-seven leading vote-getters from the initial nomination's poll. You all know the names ... which only makes this an even tougher decision to make.

The criteria remains the same, "Raising the Bar" still the name of the game. Those that have consistently brought a quality contribution to the SpursTalk board over this past year -- doing whatever it is they do well -- are the people we're looking to reward and honor. We're down to some of the best of the best, so those in consideration have all met that standard in their own way. But there has to be a way to differentiate. A way to find the absolute cream-of-the-crop. This Texan can only come up with one logical, rational solution:

This bout is scheduled for 72-hours. Eleven combatants will enter the squared circle and this is a no-disqualification match, anything goes: eye-gouging, crotch-assaulting, Delonte-Westing, rodent-infesting, tea-bagging, Richard Gereing, taint-thrashing, rectal-tearing, disease-spreading, limb-breaking, projectile-shatting, mouth-breathing, Pierce-faking, drug-inducing, hair removing ... [ * gasps for air * ...continues] ... , if it's got an 'ing' you should probably think about it. You will obey my commands at all times, well, the one I have to start the fight, and protect yourself at all times -- though it'd make it easier on me if you just allowed yourself to be oft. This match will conclude when there are six nominees left standing, after which 2010's inaugural All-SpursTalk will be decided. Touch 'em up, go to your neutral corners, or at least spread out a bit, and come out swingin' at the bell. Any questions? Forget it! You're on your own . . .

Fighter are you ready? Fighter are you ready? Fighter are you ready? Fighter are you ready? Fighter are you ready? Fighter are you ... oh, for Christ's sake!


Let's get it on!

[Dex]

Judge Mills Lane...

[Blackjack]

Judge Mills Lane...

I needed someone with integrity.

The first tiebreaker remains the same (vote-total upon nomination) but the second is subject to a change depending on how it plays out. There might be another poll out for the whole SpursTalk community to decide who goes where. But we'll cross that bridge when we get there.

Thanks to Pistons < Spurs for helping me with the artwork.

[Blackjack]

My peoples, please remember you're picking 6. Pick 6 nominees to complete the First Team. The 5 remaining will be left to man the Second Team, but I need you to pick 6.

Cool? Cool.

Now go vote for 6!

[lefty]

Where the is Pistons < Spurs ?

[spurs_fan_in_exile]

Wow.

[Blackjack]

Where the is Pistons < Spurs ?

He's on the Second Team along with mountainballer; he tied at 48 with ChumpDumper but Chump held the tiebreaker.

[Blackjack]

The Phila_ doth protest too much, methinks . . .

[Fpoonsie]

Sooo...before I vote, it's "Pick-6" as in pick SIX?

[Muser]

That's awesome

[lefty]

He's on the Second Team along with mountainballer; he tied at 48 with ChumpDumper but Chump held the tiebreaker.

Ah ok

[Brazil]

sorry to ask but where is Bruno ? the think tank forum is awsome !

[Blackjack]

Sooo...before I vote, it's "Pick-6" as in pick SIX?

Fpoonsie ... always gots to be the smartass.

[Spurminator]

Screw all of you guys. I had a really good post in, like, 2004, and I thought that might count for something. Guess it's all about "what have you done for me lately," as evidenced by all of the noobs on this list. FWDT? WTF?

[jaffies]

Black,

you mean to tell me that ing

BRUNO

didn't get enough votes to be All-ST anywhere from 1st through 3rd?!!!?

Also, I want me some Ed Helicopter Jones!
Give polandprzem some cred, too.
Exstatic, anyone?
SpursBrazil, AggieHoopsfan, Dex, urunobili, mardigan, elnono, chieflion, DPG, MIB....etc.

...even lefty...maybe...



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Oh, and I'm gonna vote for SFIE even though he's my nemesis!
He's funnier than I am so I hate that sonofa ! I'm severely threatened by the amount of 's he gets. Up yours exile!

[spurs_fan_in_exile]

Black,

you mean to tell me that ing

BRUNO

didn't get enough votes to be All-ST anywhere from 1st through 3rd?!!!?

Also, I want me some Ed Helicopter Jones!
Give polandprzem some cred, too.
Exstatic, anyone?
SpursBrazil, AggieHoopsfan, Dex, urunobili, mardigan, elnono, chieflion, DPG, MIB....etc.

...even lefty...maybe...



edit...

Oh, and I'm gonna vote for SFIE even though he's my nemesis!
He's funnier than I am so I hate that sonofa ! I'm severely threatened by the amount of 's he gets. Up yours exile!

[Ed Helicopter Jones]

Black,

you mean to tell me that ing

BRUNO

didn't get enough votes to be All-ST anywhere from 1st through 3rd?!!!?

Also, I want me some Ed Helicopter Jones!
Give polandprzem some cred, too.
Exstatic, anyone?
SpursBrazil, AggieHoopsfan, Dex, urunobili, mardigan, elnono, chieflion, DPG, MIB....etc.

...even lefty...maybe...



edit...

Oh, and I'm gonna vote for SFIE even though he's my nemesis!
He's funnier than I am so I hate that sonofa ! I'm severely threatened by the amount of 's he gets. Up yours exile!

Thanks for the love Jaffies. I'd probably have to figure out a way to post more often if I wanted to earn a spot on the All-Spurstalk team. For me it's about championships, not personal recognition...so no worries.

[spurs_fan_in_exile]

Thanks for the love Jaffies. I'd probably have to figure out a way to post more often if I wanted to earn a spot on the All-Spurstalk team. For me it's about championships, not personal recognition...so no worries.

You're like Robert Horry, only younger.

[Dex]

jaffies with some solid campagning. I don't know how, but I'm taking back one of my first team votes and giving it to him.

My presence on this board is like the wind upon the waves, or the sand upon the beach. Individually lilliputian, but were it to be absent, the landscape would be wholly different.

Now, here's a badass spinning fire kick:

[lefty]

Black,

you mean to tell me that ing

BRUNO

didn't get enough votes to be All-ST anywhere from 1st through 3rd?!!!?

Also, I want me some Ed Helicopter Jones!
Give polandprzem some cred, too.
Exstatic, anyone?
SpursBrazil, AggieHoopsfan, Dex, urunobili, mardigan, elnono, chieflion, DPG, MIB....etc.

...even lefty...maybe...



edit...

Oh, and I'm gonna vote for SFIE even though he's my nemesis!
He's funnier than I am so I hate that sonofa ! I'm severely threatened by the amount of 's he gets. Up yours exile!

Wow I got a mention

Thanks

[Blackjack]

jaffies puts on a good show but it's hard to take him all that seriously when I know he received his 6 votes from the initial nomination after telling people he only had a month to live and that he'd " suck their *!@$*" for their vote; the latter, I'm ashamed to say, had me expand the teams to get him aboard.

Sorry, jaffies, The V-bookie check bounced and I have to feed the family. No hard feelings, right? And I hope that V-bookie cash is on the way ... I'd hate to have to give up more details (but I will because I have absolutely no shame).

And, if I'm being honest (he says in his best Simon Cowell), I truly regret having to break this news. I've lost just about all the leverage I had against you and I'm screwed for the next portion of the awards. I need you, jaffies. I need you like a fat kid needs cake; like Amy Winehouse needs crack; like politicians need our blind eye and cash; like rodents need a cozy nook found on the person of Richard Gere.

What I'm saying is:


And if you'll just come back home, I'll admit to everyone that what they've just read was only the rantings and ramblings of a scorned lover. The key's under the gnome, the one that signifies out of bounds.

[rascal]

Black,

you mean to tell me that ing

BRUNO

didn't get enough votes to be All-ST anywhere from 1st through 3rd?!!!?

Also, I want me some Ed Helicopter Jones!
Give polandprzem some cred, too.
Exstatic, anyone?
SpursBrazil, AggieHoopsfan, Dex, urunobili, mardigan, elnono, chieflion, DPG, MIB....etc.

...even lefty...maybe...



edit...

Oh, and I'm gonna vote for SFIE even though he's my nemesis!
He's funnier than I am so I hate that sonofa ! I'm severely threatened by the amount of 's he gets. Up yours exile!

Too many homers on your list.

[ChumpDumper]

He's on the Second Team along with mountainballer; he tied at 48 with ChumpDumper but Chump held the tiebreaker.

I'm embarrassed I got this far.

[ShoogarBear]

jaffies puts on a good show but it's hard to take him all that seriously when I know he received his 6 votes from the initial nomination after telling people he only had a month to live and that he'd " suck their *!@$*" for their vote;

You should get First Team just for that.

[Blackjack]

You should get First Team just for that.

Well ... if I'm gonna get a groundswell of support like that, I really don't see how I can turn a blind eye.

I mean, it's for the people and by the people. What type of person would I be to not let their voices be heard. I'm an American, ya see. I have a belly button and the right to bear arms.