Proving how little anyone knows about what actually triggers IPOs to be released…for fun, OSN is going to predict that TODAY is Jose Reyes day. Today is a Friday and we predict his  IPO will be announced today at some point. How do you feel about this youn speed burner for the mets? He is currently on the DL, set to come back after the All STar Break at some point. Are you buying or selling or neither? Post your thoughts!

The guy with the sportfolio picture taken straight off Gay.com Jose Reyes has leapfrogged Brandon Roy and Ray Allen BOTH to be YOUR next SOI in the Pipeline! Reyes is a fantasy monster when he is healthy, which he currently is not. He is young and would be a welcome addition to any fantasy roster, again, when healthy. What do you think his prospects are? Comment away or check out the OSN chat to see what people are saying! (you don’t have to be logged in to watch the chat.)

UPDATE!

Update: the affected servers are due to a power issue at one of our datacenters. We’ve got a technician working on it and will be back up soon.

Offical word from OneSeason on the Maintenance screen…from DJ Burdick.

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Calvin “Megatron” Johnson is set to hit the IPO Pipeline on OneSeason. He was sitting number 5, and has passed Brandon Roy and Ray Allen like they were NFL Defensive backs. There is a good amount of excitement in the OSN forums about MEGA. What do you think? Do you want to own some of this genetic freak? 6″ 5″ 240 pound wide reciever who is a fantasy stud. He plays for the worst team in the history of the NFL. The 0-16 Detroit Lions. This will be an interesting one to watch.

No other player invokes emotion from the hardcore baseball fans in the OneSeason Nation world like Ken Griffey Jr. EVERYONE at one point or another owned one of those ‘89 Upper Deck Rookie cards. It is a sign of the times. Griffey is 40 years old and in the twilight of his career. For many of us, thinking about Ken Griffey Jr, playing for Seattle, in his younger years, is symbolic of our glory years, of our youth. Trading baseball cards, shooting hoops, ditching homework to go to the arcade with your friends. Griffey was an absolute beast. He was the Michael Jordan of baseball. It is sad to see what injuries did to his career. Check this out.

During his 20 year career, Griffey averaged about 680 plate appearances per season. Because of injury, Griffey missed out on approximately 1700 plate appearances in his career. Griffey averaged 1 home run every 17 at bats in his career. So tack on 100 more home runs. He’d be at 717 today.

Griffey’s injuries started as Bond’s career (and size of his body) began to explode. Griffey was always an opponent of becoming huge and muscle bound. He maintained too big of muscles would reduce flexibility, and the ability to be limber, which are necessary to be a great baseball player.

So, we watch for Griffey to come to OneSeason. It might be today, it might be tomorrow, but it will be this week sometime, and it’s bittersweet for this Griffey fan. It’s great that he’s coming to OneSeason, but it also makes you think about what is going on in your life, and where the past 22 years since “The Kid” was drafted, have gone.

What are your thoughts on The Kid?

We just recieved word from Orn over at OneSeason Alerts.com that effective immediately, their legendary, BLAZING fast IPO alerts are now 100% FREE! I can confirm that OSA’s desktop alerts are equal to, or faster than every other alert system out there! Head over to OneSeasonAlerts.com NOW and sign up! No frills, no gimmicks, no catch Just blazing fast IPO Alerts. Also, how long did it take you to figure out the answer to Malkin’s Captcha was “6″? If you signed up for twitter.com/1seasonnation, you would have had the IPO Alert and the answer in under a minute. GREAT work to PDXPup! Great News for EVERYONE! Free stuff rules!

The Secret is out! OSN Members are using a new technique to make the IPO process easier for the entire OneSeason Nation. Now the entire community is invited to be part of this great service. OSN’s own (and OSNTV writer and correspondant) PDXPup has been notifying people of IPOs FREE using twitter AND texting to everyone the ANSWER to the IPO Question! It’s easy to sign up. Just go to OSN’s Twitter Page and follow OSN. That’s it. You’re done! Make sure your phone number and carrier is entered into your Twitter control panel, and make sure text notifications from OSN are turned on as well. PDX has state of the art IPO Alerts, and notifies the world, the second the IPO comes out with the answer to the question! You don’t need to do anything but request your shares! Another free fun service brought to you by OSN! Props to PDX for providing this service for everyone!

http://www.twitter.com/1seasonnation

As you can see by the graph here (prvided by OneSeasonAlerts.com’s desktop tool), Ryan Braun had a VERY strong showing today on his debut into the OneSeason trading community. you can see where he spiked early on as 2 big dogs (One confirmed as The OneSeason community, and AllSportsTalkRadio.com personality “Sdog”) scooped up 50+ shares apiece. Braun is a flat out stud, who we all should know now, won the rookie of the year 2 years ago, and has a cult-like following in that area of the US.

There question now begs….will Griffey Jr. or Malkin be the next IPO? Malkin has teased us with being the 4th hockey SOI to hit OneSeason, only to be pushed back by traders in favor for more popular players traders voted up past Malkin.

I can think of one big dog who…well I can think of two big dogs who are absolutely stoked about Ken Griffey Jr coming to OneSeason! Bullpup, and DJ Burdick. There has been a lot of talk in the forums about people super excited for the prospects of Ken Griffey Jr. being released as an IPO. Will they back up that excitement by capturing large shares of Griffey when he hits the market? Time will tell!

Week 3 of “Beat the Bacon” is set to begin. This has been, hands down, the most popular game played so far in the OneSeason Universe. Last week we had over 30 people playing to get their hands on the cash! Don’t miss this VERY easy game to play. You have until Monday Night to get your picks in. We are opening this up to the entire OneSeason community! You can send your picks to dancenham@oneseasonnation.com for this week! Here is the official rules.

“You know, the best part of the best drug in the world isn’t the high. It’s the moment just before you take it. The dice are dancing on the table. Between now and the time they stop, that’s the greatest high in the world.”

Week #3 - More Money Week

At the start of contest period, you will select 1 MLB SOI that you have in your sportsfolio. You will then be given OSN Money to use based on your Fan Mogul Rankings. You will then take that money and make bets throughout the contest using a pre-set table of bets.

Fan Mogul Ranks & $$ that it gets you:

#1 on the Fan Mogul gets you $100
#2 gets you $99
#3 gets you $98
#4 gets you $97
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#99 gets you $2
#100 gets you $1

Each contest will start on a Sunday, that will give Dancenham an entire Saturday to go through the Fan Moguls to verify how much OSN Money you start with.

What Can I Bet On?

Everyone will use this Table of Bets:

Positional Players

15. Pitcher gives up 3 or less Earned Runs in the game: 6:1

You need to have your player picked by Monday Night 11:59:59PM EST. (two extra days to get your entry in)

I will hand out the OSN Money during closing hours so you can begin placing bets on Sunday.

Legends CAN be used. We have a Baseball SIM with MNTL and BABE. We place them in the NYY lineup and have them play who the yanks are playn in real life

You can only select 1 SOI to use.

The bet of course is based around your SOIs performance

The one with the most OSN Money at the end of the Week (6/13/09) wins $75 cold cash that will be sent via PayPal. If you do not have paypal, I guess I will mail you the check.

IF A Legend Ends Up Winning The First Prize
I Will Award The Next Highest Non-Legend $25

If A Non-Legend Wins First Place Prize
I Will Award The Next Highest Legend $25

OneSeason Nation member (and official Legal Counsel) Philadude has created another 3rd party game for OneSeason based around On Field Performance! For this game you can win $125 for The Triple Crown, or the Cy Young games. Here is a description, right from Philadude himself!

THIS GAME STARTS MONDAY! Get Entered for your chance to win $125!

It’s the same premise as traditional rotisserie baseball, except that rather than each participant drafting their own team with different players, participants are allowed to use the same players, but it’s ownership percentage that separates them.  Standings are based on a combined point ranking in the three stat categories, which is in turn based on total stats of the MLB player, adjusted by ownership percentages.  In a nutshell…the better stats your three players have and the more shares you own of each player when they put up those stats, the better you do.

Here is an article submitted to OSN by Lurker ‘B.K.’ that he sent to OSN and requested be posted on the front page. Thanks for the article B.K.! You should post in the forums too! If you have an article you’d like posted. Send it to bullpup@oneseasonnation.com

Don’t follow the naysayers into the fireselling-If you’re smart!

There are people out there would have have you believe that the skies are grey, and trouble looms on the horizon for OneSeason. Some of them are promoting the crash, and pleading the end, because they are trying to buy up shares as fast as they can. They other people are a pretty funny bunch. They are the people who expect OneSeason to save them from their SHITTY purchases. If you listen to Oneseason Radio, you’ve heard for weeks who these terrible purchases are. (BMAR, DMAC, TMAC, etc) And these guys who have made shitty decisions are now trying to cry foul and blame OneSeason and try to have someone else take responsibility for their own trading actions. Hey, Smart Guys. If you lose your money, someone else made money. Congrats on playing OneSeason poorly. Maybe you should have paid more attention to the community, and who people were hot or not on, and traded accordingly. The Brett was pretty smart getting out of GTZY months back, and was laughed at when he did it for $7. Now Gretzky is selling for $2.00. Who’s fault is that? Are you mad at OneSeason, are you mad at Brett? Point the finger at yourself. You are just mad because people beat you to the punch!

boo hoo someone just profited off of me

Some of these people, who have made LAUGHABLE choices on who to own in their sportfolio, now want to point the finger at OneSeason, and blame OneSeason for their sportfolio. The FACTS are, if YOU lose money in OneSeason, someone else MADE money. Plain and simple. Don’t buy into the hype of the sky is falling. We’ve heard some great interviews from Mike Sroka and D.J. on One Season Nation regarding the future of the site. We know there is more fun stuff coming, and they are very excited. There are dozens of sites popping up all around us based on games, and other things to do with regards to OneSeason. Don’t buy into the gloom and doom. Please don’t follow the people who are just pissed of at their SHITTY decisions and trying to piss everyone off, and blame OneSeason, and call for OneSeason to fix things. Hey Dudes, YOU bought your shares, and OTHER PEOPLE are selling them for less than you paid for them. Suck it up, and stop your WHINING. I have bought myself nice positions in a few different guys, and haven’t been affected at all buy the crashing of the early issued players. All of these early issues are coming back down to earth and getting inline with the rest of these newer issued players. Stop your whining. Stop complaining. Stop blaming someone else for your decisions. Man up and do something about it. A lot of guys in the “Nation” forums complained about losses before, but by staying in tune with what is going on, a lot of them report being in the positive now. OneSeason is strong, and come football season, you will all be very happy that you found OneSeason when you did.

-BK OUT

Alexander Ovechkin traded far under the magic 75 cent plateau today. The OneSeason Mendoza line, if you will, and ALL signs point to a reverse split for ALOV. Great news. Once these pre-hoo guys get pulled to the level of guys like Ryan, Forte, Pedroia, Payton, Josh Hamilton, Ichiro, and the rest of these low share, low MC guys…the market can go nowhere but up! But as far as an ALOV Reverse Split, we don’t know when it will happen for sure because OneSeason uses a weighted average for ‘a period of time’ before closing to determine if the SOI reverse splits or not. Half of the formula is there. We’ll see tomorrow if the other half was there to make the Reverse Split happen or not.

Yao Ming once again, as predicted by OSN, reverse split this evening, leaving 7853 outstanding in the market. With Yao’s price still being around the dollar range ($1.22 at the time of this writing), ANOTHER reverse split is NOT out of the question. At $0.75 with 7853 shares outstanding puts Yao’s Market Cap at just under $6k. Who else is under 6k? Kevin Garnett, Kevin Durant, Tim Duncan, Amare Stoudemire, Paul Pierce, and Dirk Nowitzki. Yao Ming should fit in among those players nicely, and should end up in that range in the long run.

Since October of 2008, OneSeason’s first 3rd party site, the OneSeason Nation, has been striving to bring you fun things to do and talk about. All for free. We started with just forums, and since have added everything that the community has asked for! TV, Radio, articles, games, contests, prizes, T-Shirts, and much more. As many of you know, we also added a video game arcade where people have been duking it out for the high scores, and competing for the champion of the Arcade trophy. The battle has been raging between Dumbchump, Acancellie, and Sdog for tops in the arcade. Recently, we have added TONS of new games to the arcade for you to play, when you’re looking for something to do. Tetris, Space Invaders, Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, Mega Man, Super Mario Brothers, Solitare, Majong, and TONS of others are available for you to play. ABSOLUTELY FREE! Have fun! Here is the direct link right to the Arcade! http://oneseasonnation.com/forum/arcade.php?