Some of you might be wondering, what in the hell are the Hammy Awards? Well, Bullpup and myself got together and wanted to find a way to show our appriciation to all you loyal s.o.b’s. Came up with what we like to call, The Hammy Awards. If you are lucky enough to take down one of these truely remarkable honors, you’ll get yourself a $20 Visa Gift Card and a mini Hammy trophy to display with your username.

We are rolling out 2 catagories to start with. Dont you worry, there will be more..

Hammy Award #1

Funniest Moment of the Year - We already have a full thread dedicated to this. Pick your favorite and PM me or BP with your nominee. We will narrow it down to the top 4 before the winner is announced
the nominations are…

Tomarken- “OSN Legend Tomarken came up with several laughs for the community in the last year, but without a doubt, at the top of the list, was his digital short for OSN-TV

Tomarken put the entire community in stitches, and gasping for breath on this digital short. We hope to see more from Tomarken in 2010.

Bob Rafferty- “OSN Programmer, and CEO of OSN Telecom Administrations, Bob Rafferty absolutely floored the community when he called into OneSeasonTrader Radio. Bob had the premier IPO Alert tool in the business prior to OneSeasonTrader announcing their new pay service “OneSeasonText.com” Bob had been charging for his tool (), and donating the proceeds to charity. When OneSeasonTrader announced live on their radio show that they too were going to be offering a pay IPO alert to compete with Bob’s tool, and capture some of the dollars available in the IPO alert tool industry. Upon the announcement, Bob decided that everyone was going to start making tools, so Bob called in live, during the OneSeasonTrader.com radio show, and announced that he would be making his tool free again. The reaction at the time, was priceless and it created a ton of laughter/controversy. We know looking back, Knup is laughing, and we hope JC does too.

Timmy304- ‘Timmy Timmy Timmy. Better known around OSN as “MMmmmMmMmmgrrrablblblbaaahhh TIMMAH!” had been doing a phenomenal job in hosting Jewced-Up radio with surfingOneFour, when Jewcer decided to get a job bussing tables and couldn’t host himself anymore. Timmy, during one of the weeks, showed up shitfaced, laughing at everything, himself included, and proceeded to pass out in the middle of the show, leaving OneFour to figure out wtf was going on, and try to regain his composure and get the show back on track. Classic moment

BOBO- “Our favorite Hulkamaniac provided us with a CLASSIC moment in OSN history, and for sure a top moment of the year last year. OSN was doing a live chat with Mike Sroka, CEO of the now defunct “OneSeason.com”. The chat room had triple digit people in the chat (I think?) and it was a moderated chat with Mike Sroka. It was a very tense session for OSN Moderators and Bullpup, as they had not a lot of experience using the particular chat room software, and the moderators were doing everything they could to keep the chat organized and flowing well. Needless to say, the moderators were trying their hardest to keep the session informational, professional, and a medium that worked well, so the CEO of OneSeason would want to come back and do the chat session again in the future. After an hour or so, Bullpup decided to unmoderate the chat, and give everyone a chance to talk real time with Mike Sroka. The millisecond that the chat was released, and people were no longer moderated, and could type on the screen….flying ass animations came flying onto the screen courtesy of Bobo, making moderators irate, killing the professionalism that had been the goal, and looking back…giving us a top 5 laugh of the year. __________________

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

Josh Hamilton Shows his support for the"OneSeason" concept. (You can't see but he's also wearing skates and baggy shorts in this photo)

The comeback, feelgood story of recent times in MLB is set to be released into the trading community on Friday. The tattooed wonder kid Josh Hamiltion was IPO’d Thursday evening at approximately 5:22PM PST. If you haven’t read the story on this guy. I highly recommend it. His market cap will be EXTREMELY low. Possibly one of the lowest we’ve seen in awhile. He will be a good SOI for someone to pounce on, and buy a huge stake in, for a cheap price. If Hamilton can put together a string of years like he did last year, he’ll belong up there w/ the names Wright, AROD, and Pujols.

Jayhawk89 has requested the following news bulletin be on the front page of OSN. Here you go!

OneSeasonTools.com is now Open for Registration!

Your $5.95 monthly subscription will give you unlimited access to:

ONE SEASON NATION TOOLBAR FOR INTERNET EXPLORER*

-Display all SOIs right on your desktop! No more leaving a browser page open to keep abreast of the current SOI prices!

IPO ALERTS**-Text alerts for upcoming IPOs

-Email alerts for upcoming IPOs

-Popup alerts for upcoming IPOs via the One Season Nation Toolbar for Internet Explorer

STRIKE PRICE ALERTS: Be alerted when an SOI reaches the specific price you specify*

-Text alerts for strike prices

-Email alerts for strike prices

-Popup alerts for strike prices

PLAYER TRACKER: Get all the valuable and relevant information on every SOI to make an informed decision

-Can be refreshed anywhere from every 30 seconds up to 2 minutes

4 ENTRIES INTO THE ONE SEASON TOOLS CHALLENGE: One entry per week with opportunities to earn multiple entries

-Score the most points by picking the top performing SOIs in this single elimination tournament

-Weekly prize of at least $50***

AUTO-TRADE FEATURE: execute trades automatically from our website****

-request IPOs

-Place buy or sell orders based on your set strike price

-Access all your personal account information from our website.

24 HOUR TECH SUPPORT: We will respond to your concerns within 12 hours

During one week in the month if 50 or more unique players are signed up for the One Season Tools Challenge, the winner for that week will receive $100! This will only apply to the first week each month that the 50+ entrants are entered.
Want to earn an extra enrty a week? Simply refer a new user. In doing so you as well as the new user will recieve a additional entry for that week. Any referrals must be verified by us. The only requirement is that you must be signed up as an active subscriber to receive credit. The verification process is simple. Just send an email to oneseasontoolsalerts@cox.net. Once verified you will receive an email with instructions on how to redeem your etra entry. There is a max of 2 entries per week, however, entries are bankable. For example, you can refer 10 people and have an extra entry for 10 weeks!
We at One Season Tools thank you for all your positive feedback. We welcome your questions and comments at oneseasontoolsalerts@cox.net

*Toolbar must be installed and running to receive alerts via popup.
**Alerts may be set up for 1 or all 3 notifications.
***A prize equal to or more than $50 may be awarded during weekly contest.
****Auto trade feature will be available as soon as One Season releases the API.

To sign up got to http://www.oneseasontools.com and follow the instructions in the lower right column of the page __________________

OSN members have been planning and plotting a get together in Boston for this summer. BP and OSNTV have recieved multiple requests to travel to the land of the “Masshole” also for this get together…so, not being one to spoil a (boston tea) Party, we will be going to Boston, MA for the Fourth of July!

And it just so happens that BP’s beloved Mariners will be in town to play the Red Sox that weekend. Are we going? You bet your bippy!

If you are in or around the Boston Area, and would like to partake in the multiple fun activites that are being planned for the OneSeason community in the Boston area, please give Quixrox a PM in the forums. Or email bullpup@oneseasonnation.com and he can forward your info to Quizrox! See everyone in Boston July 4th!

Interviewer “What’s in like to be that fast?”

Chris Johnson “Uh its…..it feel real good”

Who wants to go next year?

By Overwhelming demand, the OSN is having a Nation Power Hour tonight in the OSN Chat Room. This has been requested for some time now, and there should be a good turnout, and a lot of fun. See you there! Stay tuned here or the chat room for details on time.

Update from QuizRox

IT’S ON! Market Close! 9PM PST. Midnight OneSeasonTime  (EST)!!!

Be there or be RR.

Great News for the OneSeason Community! OneSeason Nation Member and regular chatter “OSA” OneSeason Alerts! They have added trading and IPO requests from their desktop tool! You can view charts on players real time, as seen last week on OSNTV. There won’t be much that goes down without you knowing about it. It also works OUTSIDE of your web browser, and can be minimized into the part of your computer down by your clock, and won’t be blocked out from typical work web filters! This desktop tool is absolutely sick. It is very minimalistic, fast, efficient and kicks ass! You can download it at www.OneSeasonAlerts.com

This tool is 100% OneSeason Nation approved, and kicks much ass. Have fun with it!

Thanks to the OneSeason Nation community, we now have a YouTube Channel! We will be posting unique digital short type movies we create, teasers for OSNTV, and use it to spread the word about OneSeason on the YouTube website. You can help out by friending the OSNTV page, watching the clips, rating them, having some fun! If we can get the vidoes posted with tons of views and ratings, we can get the videos moved up into the YouTube searches and spread the word about OneSeason and OSN! Have fun with this and thanks to Jonathan from New York for creating this and running it for us!

Jay Cutler thinks he has a better arm, hands down. than John Elway. Apparently the Broncos don’t think he’s all that great, and will be going with Kyle Orton, trading Cutler to the Bears for Kyle Orton and 2 picks.

As far as the OneSeason Nation goes, the forums are ablaze, The Brett just bought 40 shares of Cutler, and OSN has word, straight from the Head Honcho, a HUGE bears fan as well, Mike Sroka!

From Mike to the OneSeason Nation regarding this trade…

” (I’m) JACKED!!!  Take Orton and a couple draft picks…we are FINALLY gonna have an offense to go with our kickass defense.

Da Bears Super Bowl Bound in ’09-’10….Better start getting a new shuffle ready.

-MIke”

What are your thoughts on this trade?

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Another great addition to the OSN GEAR section! I am very excited about this one, because it is the first item I had an idea on, and Art2Shirt hopped on it, and made it happen for the Nation! These are the rubber/silicone wristband that you see many NBA players wearing, and that were made popular by the yellow Livestrong bracelets that were very popular years ago. Except this time, they are OneSeason Nation! They are available to purchase, OR if you win a caption contest, you can get one free. I will be buying some for prizes for the different contests we do. We only ordered 100 at first from the manufacturer, and if you guys like them, and want to get more, the more we buy, the bigger the discount gets. Have fun with these! They are a great way to show some pride, start conversation about OneSeason, or just rock it. They are very slick looking! They will be the most inexpensive things in the OSN GEAR store and great for snagging to give away as prizes if you, yourself want to make a contest. Thanks again for Dean over at Art2Shirt for going outside the box and making this happen for the OSN!

Frito

The official “voice” of OSNTV, Frito is rockin his OSN jersey! Thanks for the photo Freets! OSN Jerseys are becoming very popular. They have your screenname on the back, and number of your choosing. These will be the attire of champions at the OSN 1yr birthday party in Las Vegas! Ocotber 2009? Stay tuned!

OSN Member Dancenham just sent this in to OSN Headquarters in Sacramento, CA. Snap your photos of OSN gear out in public! Dancenham will be awarded with a prize to be named soon! Great job Ham!