DIS Dads DDC XXV: It’s a Special Holiday Episode of the DISDad’s Club

[GoofyIsAsGoofyDoes]

Looks like I need to submit a couple of meaningless posts...

Now what on earth would prompt that particular reaction?

 

[Goofy + 3]

Well... I guess I'm like a mouse and couldn't resist the cheese on the trap.

The second mouse gets the cheese.

 

[GoofyIsAsGoofyDoes]

...in order to get up to 50 for the thread. There, that's better.

Ahhhhh… I see
A fan of nice round numbers.

 

[declansdad]

It's a slow close... Lets you savor it a bit longer...

If I was at home I would have a beer and enjoy it.

 

[declansdad]

Looks like I need to submit a couple of meaningless posts...

There is no such thing!

 

[GoofyIsAsGoofyDoes]

The second mouse gets the cheese.

But, even if the trap has already been spring…
ya’ still need to be certain that the bait wasn’t also poisoned.

If I was at home I would have a beer and enjoy it.

I'll drink to that

 

[afwdwfan]

GoofyIsAsGoofyDoes 46

Hey, Rob! You look like you've been pretty busy the past couple of days. Have all of your posts come in garbage time?

 

[that's nice]

The second mouse gets the cheese.

True. The first mouse gets it in the end...


or the neck.. .

 

[Captain_Oblivious]

There is no such thing!

Or rather, they're no more meaningless than all of the rest of my posts!

Hey, Rob! You look like you've been pretty busy the past couple of days. Have all of your posts come in garbage time?

Sort of like the Detroit Lions' offense! I think Grantland.com said they're going to start calling their QB Stat Padford.

 

[GoofyIsAsGoofyDoes]

Hey, Rob! You look like you've been pretty busy the past couple of days. Have all of your posts come in garbage time?

Define “garbage time”…
Sound like a Yankee phrase to me.

 

[afwdwfan]

Define “garbage time”…
Sound like a Yankee phrase to me.

See the Captain's post.

And try watching some football sometime!

 

[afwdwfan]

As defined by Wikipedia...

Garbage time, also known as "junk time", is a term used to refer to the period at the end of a timed sporting event that has become a blowout when the outcome of the game has already been decided, and the coaches of one or both teams will decide to replace their best players with substitutes.[1] This serves to give those substitutes playing time experience in an actual game situation, as well as to protect the best players from the possibility of injury.[2]

Garbage time owes its name to the fact that that period in a game is frequently marked by a significant drop in the quality of game play. This occurs for two primary reasons. First, the players involved during that time are generally less experienced, having not played nearly as often as the starting players. And second, the fact that seldom-used substitutes usually desire more future playing time means that when those players do play, they are often more concerned with making an individual impression than with executing team play at its best; this is especially true during garbage time because at that point, the matter of which team will win has already been decided anyway.[3]

There are so-called "unwritten rules" for garbage time which indicate that the leading team should neither continue to play its starting players, devote unnecessary effort toward increasing the size of its lead, nor attempt particularly difficult and spectacular plays.[4] Doing so is interpreted as an unsportsmanlike attempt to embarrass or humiliate the trailing team, and in some cases may also be seen as retaliation, either against the opponent or the critics of the team in general (see running up the score for a more detailed explanation of this type of behavior). However, sometimes a team may have a legitimate motivation for running up the score, such when margin of victory is a factor in rankings, as it was for many years in the Bowl Championship Series.

During garbage time, the trailing team can sometimes rack up an unusually high tally of statistics, leading the respective box score to be misleading with respect to their actual game performance. For instance, in American football, if the losing team is behind by several touchdowns, the offense may resort entirely to the passing game in a futile effort to catch up. At the same time, the leading team (on defense, with inferior players) may allow them to complete plays (which benefits them by running out the clock). This may lead the statistics to indicate a high amount of passing yards for the losing squad, which would suggest the team performed better than in reality. In general, although not always the case, it is not unusual for the losing team to have more passing attempts/yards than the winning team.

Particularly at the youth level, garbage time is eliminated by the use of a mercy rule, which automatically ends a game when the margin of winning has crossed a point that is commonly believed to be insurmountable.

The phrase garbage time is one of a number of commonly used basketball terms, each of which is thought to have either been coined by broadcaster Chick Hearn, or first given widespread exposure through Hearn's adoption of it for use during his broadcasts.

 

[GoofyIsAsGoofyDoes]

See the Captain's post.

And try watching some football sometime!

Ahhhh… it’s an insult… I seeeee….
If that’s the way you want to see it, fine by me.
I post when I have time, and right now I have time.
An hour from now… maybe not so much.


I also don’t post as often as some of the rest of y’all because you’re often on conversations that I just don’t have anything to add to or feel unwelcome in.
The conversation today is fairly general, so there’s more room to actually jump in.

Same reason I don’t post much on the other site.
At times, I feel very unwelcome over there.



Besides…

afwdwfan 137
GoofyIsAsGoofyDoes 52

if that’s the measure of success, what you complaining about?

 

[Goofy + 3]

But, even if the trap has already been spring…
ya’ still need to be certain that the bait wasn’t also poisoned.

Whoa.. That was...heavy.

You can learn alot from a mouse.

 

[GoofyIsAsGoofyDoes]

Whoa.. That was...heavy.

You can learn alot from a mouse.

 

[afwdwfan]

Ahhhh… it’s an insult… I seeeee….

I also don’t post as often as some of the rest of y’all because you’re often on conversations that I just don’t have anything to add to

It never stops anybody else.

or feel unwelcome in.

Wha????

The conversation today is fairly general, so there’s more room to actually jump in.

The conversation here is almost always fairly general.

Same reason I don’t post much on the other site.
At times, I feel very unwelcome over there.

Really?????

Besides…

afwdwfan 137
GoofyIsAsGoofyDoes 52

if that’s the measure of success, what you complaining about?

I'm not complaining, I'm just noting that you're taking advantage of garbage time to try to make your total more respectable.

 

[mm1971]

Ahhhh… it’s an insult… I seeeee….
If that’s the way you want to see it, fine by me.
I post when I have time, and right now I have time.
An hour from now… maybe not so much.


I also don’t post as often as some of the rest of y’all because you’re often on conversations that I just don’t have anything to add to or feel unwelcome in.
The conversation today is fairly general, so there’s more room to actually jump in.

Same reason I don’t post much on the other site.
At times, I feel very unwelcome over there.



Besides…

afwdwfan 137
GoofyIsAsGoofyDoes 52

if that’s the measure of success, what you complaining about?

Hey Rob!

You can always feel comfortable to join any of my conversations. Your comments and opinions are always welcome. Unfortunately I can't promise they will be worth joining.

 

[GoofyIsAsGoofyDoes]

I'm not complaining, I'm just noting that you're taking advantage of garbage time to try to make your total more respectable.

Well…
I certainly don’t want to seem respectable.

I’ll stop here.
Y’all enjoy the rest of the close.

<===(don’t worry… that’s a thumb)

 

[afwdwfan]

Well…
I certainly don’t want to seem respectable.

I’ll stop here.
Y’all enjoy the rest of the close.

<===(don’t worry… that’s a thumb)

I wasn't trying to get you to stop. Just taking some nemesisly shots.

 

[Captain_Oblivious]

I also don’t post as often as some of the rest of y’all because you’re often on conversations that I just don’t have anything to add to or feel unwelcome in.
The conversation today is fairly general, so there’s more room to actually jump in.

Same reason I don’t post much on the other site.
At times, I feel very unwelcome over there.

Heaven forbid you would ever feel unwelcome in the DisDads, no matter what website we're on. I'm sure that has never been anyone's intent.

And I joke about padding stats, but I've never cared much about the total number of posts. I care more about the quality of content.

Naturally, I fall way short there, too, but nobody posts spreadsheets based on that.