Old Skool Swamp

[The Sybian]

Maybe I'm just horrible at the search function, but does anybody have the links to the all time drafts? I know I participated in the basketball and baseball ones, but I kind of remember the football one kind of fading out (or maybe that's when I was fading out).

I don't think they are on these boards.

Bummer, it be fun to look back at the hot women draft.

I remember that we all mocked PDX for picking Helen Mirren, then we backtracked after we realized she is the hottest old woman ever.

First pick I thought of, and almost cracked a joke. I'm confident I never backtracked [insert Rass pulling up a quote of me backtracking]. Although... I do get the strategy. Kind of like picking Travis Kelce in the first round in a fantasy football draft. Nobody wants a TE first round, but when there are so few options, you draft Helen Mirren early.

[brian]

Maybe I'm just horrible at the search function, but does anybody have the links to the all time drafts? I know I participated in the basketball and baseball ones, but I kind of remember the football one kind of fading out (or maybe that's when I was fading out).

I don't think they are on these boards.

Bummer, it be fun to look back at the hot women draft.

I remember that we all mocked PDX for picking Helen Mirren, then we backtracked after we realized she is the hottest old woman ever.

First pick I thought of, and almost cracked a joke. I'm confident I never backtracked [insert Rass pulling up a quote of me backtracking]. Although... I do get the strategy. Kind of like picking Travis Kelce in the first round in a fantasy football draft. Nobody wants a TE first round, but when there are so few options, you draft Helen Mirren early.

You have to assume Dame Helen would be proud to have her physical characteristics compared favorably to Travis Kelce on an obscure internet message board.

[Gunpowder]

Maybe I'm just horrible at the search function, but does anybody have the links to the all time drafts? I know I participated in the basketball and baseball ones, but I kind of remember the football one kind of fading out (or maybe that's when I was fading out).

I don't think they are on these boards.

Bummer, it be fun to look back at the hot women draft.

I remember that we all mocked PDX for picking Helen Mirren, then we backtracked after we realized she is the hottest old woman ever.

First pick I thought of, and almost cracked a joke. I'm confident I never backtracked [insert Rass pulling up a quote of me backtracking]. Although... I do get the strategy. Kind of like picking Travis Kelce in the first round in a fantasy football draft. Nobody wants a TE first round, but when there are so few options, you draft Helen Mirren early.

I made that argument at the time and I don't remember anyone else co-signing.

[The Sybian]

Maybe I'm just horrible at the search function, but does anybody have the links to the all time drafts? I know I participated in the basketball and baseball ones, but I kind of remember the football one kind of fading out (or maybe that's when I was fading out).

I don't think they are on these boards.

Bummer, it be fun to look back at the hot women draft.

I remember that we all mocked PDX for picking Helen Mirren, then we backtracked after we realized she is the hottest old woman ever.

First pick I thought of, and almost cracked a joke. I'm confident I never backtracked [insert Rass pulling up a quote of me backtracking]. Although... I do get the strategy. Kind of like picking Travis Kelce in the first round in a fantasy football draft. Nobody wants a TE first round, but when there are so few options, you draft Helen Mirren early.

I made that argument at the time and I don't remember anyone else co-signing.

I thought it was a good point, but it was more fun to pile on boybleu

[P.D.X.]

haha yeah what a douche

[Ryan]

Pretty sure I still have all the draft boards even if the threads are gone. Will look tomorrow.

[BSF21]

I'm rocking the Swamp Album draft playlist on Spotify this very morning.

[mister d]

That draft caused huge bounce-backs for Beach House and Interpol in terms of my daily listening.

[HaulCitgo]

Kid watched some tim donaghy show last night. Kinda sucked and quit watching though the line about tasting bird shit killed the kid.

[Gunpowder]

I wonder if the invasion of BengalsZone is on there

[Jerloma]

I wonder if the invasion of BengalsZone is on there

That might have been the most fun couple hours I've ever spent on the internet.

"RAWR!!!"

[rass]

Everyone else is doing 20 year retrospectives. Why not us?

http://www.sportsfrog.net/phpbb_swamp20 ... ic.php?t=3

http://www.sportsfrog.net/phpbb_swamp20 ... .php?t=250

[MaxWebster]

well. reading those threads made me even more depressed.

[Shirley]

Everyone else is doing 20 year retrospectives. Why not us?

http://www.sportsfrog.net/phpbb_swamp20 ... ic.php?t=3

http://www.sportsfrog.net/phpbb_swamp20 ... .php?t=250

That was interesting. Several observations:

1. We've lost a lot of regular and semi-regular posters
2. There used to be a lot more political diversity in the Swamp. That's too bad.
3. While I think we could use more diversity ... is it just me, or were all the "conservative" posts in those threads ill-informed and/or dumb? They certainly were not proven to be right after 20 years!

[Steve of phpBB]

3. While I think we could use more diversity ... is it just me, or were all the "conservative" posts in those threads ill-informed and/or dumb? They certainly were not proven to be right after 20 years!

I wonder, though, how many of us knew that Iraq had no WMDs whatsoever? Not even chemical or biological weapons? Even TB's response was premised on the notion that Saddam had WMDs, but so did the US, and Iraq's WMDs did not allow us to launch a war.

That was basically my position at the time also, though I felt that the war could be justified on the ground that Saddam was a murderous tyrant.

[EnochRoot]

3. While I think we could use more diversity ... is it just me, or were all the "conservative" posts in those threads ill-informed and/or dumb? They certainly were not proven to be right after 20 years!

I wonder, though, how many of us knew that Iraq had no WMDs whatsoever? Not even chemical or biological weapons? Even TB's response was premised on the notion that Saddam had WMDs, but so did the US, and Iraq's WMDs did not allow us to launch a war.

That was basically my position at the time also, though I felt that the war could be justified on the ground that Saddam was a murderous tyrant.

I was always against the Iraqi invasion, because I recognized the conflation of events (9/11) to whip up nationalist fervor. Colin Powell's 2003 presentation about WMD was a fucking fabrication to the highest degree. A year or two later when questioned about how he was so wrong about it, wondered why USINT didn't speak up? That's another horse shit lie, because war was forced upon us. Options about sharing INT between countries was shot down by that cabal.

It was always fucked up.

[EnochRoot]

Everyone else is doing 20 year retrospectives. Why not us?

http://www.sportsfrog.net/phpbb_swamp20 ... ic.php?t=3

http://www.sportsfrog.net/phpbb_swamp20 ... .php?t=250

That was interesting. Several observations:

1. We've lost a lot of regular and semi-regular posters
2. There used to be a lot more political diversity in the Swamp. That's too bad.
3. While I think we could use more diversity ... is it just me, or were all the "conservative" posts in those threads ill-informed and/or dumb? They certainly were not proven to be right after 20 years!

2. The right went way, way to the right after 9/11. A lot of that had to do with Murdoch poisoning minds 24/7.
3. "Conservative" posts by the time The Swamp was a thing weren't really happening any longer. Yeah, if you're talking about investment strategies or local bond issues you could still have a conversation, but the well had already been poisoned.

[EnochRoot]

Also, where's BillCross these days? I liked him back in the day.

[A_B]

I was probably more conservative then and then you groomers got your claws into me.

[sancarlos]

I was probably more conservative then and then you groomers got your claws into me.

Me too. (Although, my parents quietly blame my wife.)

[Square Rob]

Also, where's BillCross these days? I liked him back in the day.

Bill is still professing. I touch base with him extremely periodically.

[Rush2112]

I wonder why HDO doesn't drop by anymore.

[sancarlos]

I wonder why HDO doesn't drop by anymore.

I think he left after you-know-who got banned.

[mister d]

Can we vote on whether this should remain stickied or if we can let it fall so I stop clicking?

[sancarlos]

I vote for keeping the sticky.

[tennbengal]

I'm just always relieved when this has a a new response that some fuckawful take of mine from 2008 has not re-surfaced...

[The Sybian]

I'm just always relieved when this has a a new response that some fuckawful take of mine from 2008 has not re-surfaced...

If you had a horrible take, most of the rest of us were probably on board with it.

[Square Rob]

I'm just always relieved when this has a a new response that some fuckawful take of mine from 2008 has not re-surfaced...

Same. I used to post so much more than I do now, and had so many bad takes.

[rass]

Tried and failed twice to find the former member who was a TX principal who was in favor of hitting kids (as per here) but I did find this thread which, while it contained thoughtful content and is interesting in the context of the program's recent resurgence, was disappointing in its lack of embarrassing Sandusky content. Any of those PSU super fans still around under a different moniker? Were any of them a pre-red pilled nate?

[sancarlos]

Tried and failed twice to find the former member who was a TX principal who was in favor of hitting kids (as per here) but I did find this thread which, while it contained thoughtful content and is interesting in the context of the program's recent resurgence, was disappointing in its lack of embarrassing Sandusky content. Any of those PSU super fans still around under a different moniker? Were any of them a pre-red pilled nate?

texas_sportsman was his name. I found him in the member list of both the 2006 and 2011 Swamps. He had 65 posts in the 2011 one but they all appear to have been deleted, so I couldn’t find what we were searching for.

[zazopolis]

The Zaz lives! (in a much healthier and OLDER manner)
I got an inkling in the force about the revival of the Old Skool Swamp and just had to pop in.
I've forsaken unhealthy booze abuse since the legalization of MaryHooney here in Minnesota.
I have also forsaken the bizzos. Ain't nobody got time for that.
I've been adopting elderly beagles for the past 10 years and I spend nearly all of my time getting high, watching hockey and beagling around with my fur-dudes.
On the work front, it turns out I'm not a great team player, so I run a small town newspaper where I'm a one-man band and pretty much write everything but sports.
It's less work for more pay and the older I get the more I appreciate the free time.
Last Friday, I had a sit down with myself about productivity.
What the fuck are we still doing in the office at 1 p.m.? Get your shit together. We should be out of here by noon on Fridays!
That's about it.
Hope y'all are well.
...as you were.
z

That rballer lisp-girl thread was gold. I forgot how funny Zaz's posts were.

Yeah, I read his posts and wondered how his health is holding up if he still lives as his posts would let on. I posted in that thread about dating a girl and trying not to make her laugh because her laugh was so horrible. It's vaguely familiar, but for the life of me I can't remember the girl or what she looked like or even what her laugh and voice sounded like.

Really fun reading through a thread from 2006 discussing potential future USMNT players. So many names I'd forgotten who were promising and never panned out. Someone was taking about a 17 yo kid named Josmer Altidore who was showing potential with the MetroStars (maybe they were Red Bulls by then).

[Giff]

Zaz!

[P.D.X.]

niiiice

[The Sybian]

Great to hear from you, Zaz! Been a long fucking time. Hope there is still pontoon time in your summers.

[Steve of phpBB]

Zaz! Good to hear from you.

[tennbengal]

Good lord. Great to hear from you.

[rass]

Nice to hear you're still houndin'!

[Shirley]

Oh man, I hope Zaz becomes a regular, or at least semi-regular, again!

[sancarlos]

Hey, bud!

[Johnnie]

Zaz! Great to hear you're doing well.