NATION domination!

Great Job OneSeason Nation. Some Muscle was flexed today, and the NATION dominates the market on the AL MVP! Congratulations! There will be prizes in the works for the folks who accomplish this task on any player. This is the 2nd SOI that that the NATION owns! Check out Larry Legend as well!

Domination! That’s what OneSeason Trader and OneSeason Nation poker player lbs0219 did tonight to WSOP superstar Jamie Gold.  Aced held the Jamie Gold Invitational tonight which was a $30+$3 buyin.  There was a $1000 bounty on Jamie’s head and a $250 bounty on Jamies mom’s head.  OSN/OST poker players had like 5-6 that joined the tourney with hopes of knocking out Jamie.  Both lbs0219 and bengal725 were at his table to start.  And believe it or not, the pounder himself, lbs0219 knocked out Jamie to win a cool 1K!!!!!!!  lbs0219 had AK while Jamie went all-in preflop with AQ.  OOOOPS.  Don’t mess with OneSeason poker players buddy.  lbs dominated him and took his $1000 in the meantime.  Nice work, I guess that means we’ll be seeing lbs a lot more around Aced.com!

So if that wasn’t enough excitement for one night.  Another OSN/OST guy, Bengal725, took out JamiesMom for the $250 in cash money.  Good lord.  OneSeason is clearly Jamie Gold’s daddy!  I fully expect Jamie to wear a OneSeason Nation hat accompanied by a OneSeasonTrader.com shirt for this years WSOP.  How sweet would that be? Great work guys and see you all at the poker tables in the near future!

What do these 3 Men Have in Common?

No guns, money, drugs, or lack of education
Just talkin shit on the muddafuggin NATION
Hardwood, grass, turf or ice
Droppin other sites like they were Kimbo Slice
The first spot to check your IPO timestamps
More annoying to your girl than her monthly Hoe cramps.
Daily threads and caption contests
Once in awhile even pictures of nice breasts

It’s the Nation baby and it’s kinda nerdy
It’s posts about theories that get kinda wordy
It’s a group of sports dorks who are mostly over 30
It’s predictions and shit, what will the cap on Larry Bird be?
It’s BP and me and Bob Rafferty
It’s the Nation Baby

Talk shit about alerts and play some poker
No experience required to be your own broker
The market goes up and the market goes down
But on big days it seems everyone’s around
Your one spot stop for all your sports talk
Maybe one day you can even own some Tony Hawk
It’s LOL and it’s all goods
It’s gonna go bananas when they drop T Woods
No YAO love allowed and please don’t be a hater
But we’d be happy to have ya if your a new or old Trada

It’s the Nation baby and it’s kinda nerdy
It’s posts about theories that get kinda wordy
It’s a group of sports dorks who are mostly over 30
It’s predictions and shit, what will the cap on Larry Bird be?
It’s Dancenham, DJ and Reality
It’s the Nation Baby

Get your asses tradin’ NO BITCH ASS NESS

Congratulations to our January Contest winners! Each winner will receive merchandise from the TSTL store.

Please email durshar@aol.com for details on how to get your credit!
Huck3 - $25 in merchandise from the TSTL store.
Fordie_onces - $10 in merchandise from the TSTL store.
Cuban - $5 in merchandise from the TSTL store.

Now on to the February contest. This month we will have 3 prizes ($25, $10, $5) so that is 3 chances to win. LeBron James has been chosen the TSTL’s hero the month for February 2009.

James had a another unbelievable month in January. He racked up 3 triple-doubles in 14 games and was really close to a couple others. After it was all said and done he nearly had a triple-double average for the month.

27.5 pts. 9.6 reb. 8.2 ast. 2.1 stl. 1.5 blk.

Honorable mention for the month of January - Chris Paul; without James’ beast-like numbers, Paul would have been the man of the month. Maybe next month, Chris.

Go here for rules.

HERE IS YOUR TSTL HERO OF THE MONTH! GET YOUR SHARES OWNED POSTED ALONG WITH A MATCHING SELL ORDER FOR AN ABNORMALLY HIGH DOLLAR AMOUNT SO THE SPONSOR CAN VERIFY!

REMEMBER, You can always increase your entries into the drawing if you get more than your first submission during the month. A confirmed sell order with a higher amount of shares than the one you have confirmed will override your first submission.

Good Luck and Have fun!

• yukonskiers 4 shares
• wildes12      2 shares
• Vman23       13 shares
• gobstopper  10 shares
• ICE228         2 shares
• iambp          4 shares
• RealityCheck 45 shares

Bob launched his new website yesterday. Check it out if you haven’t yet. There are many features and additions to the site. The most prominient feature you’ll notice is a free IPO Alert service via Text (standard carrier text rates apply). Expect an upgrade to Bob’s tool to fix some memory issues, as well as some fun surprises. Bob is bringing you these services 100% free. Please give his phone company a look or consider donating!

Clearly a Kick-Ass Sponsor

Congratulations to “The Brett” for his winning caption last week. We received a few messages saying that after they saw his caption, they didn’t even bother. Clearly the winner. Congratulations Brett. And Don’t forget it’s also Artoshirt.net’s OSN Appreciation month. Register for an account with them, and get $2 in your account. That’s it. See the sticky in the General Forum for more details.

Here is this weeks photo in need of YOUR clever caption. Winner will be announced next Saturday! Good Luck from The OneSeason Nation, and Artoshirt.net

CLEARLY HAS ROID RAGE

Does this picture above show clear Roid Rage? What will happen to AROD’s SOI price tomorrow? It was first reported by Rockman in the Nation’s forums this morning that there are reports surfacing that everybody’s favorite ball player, Alex Rodriguez cheated in baseball and tested positive for steroids in 2003. That was the year he won the MVP while with the Rangers in Texas. When Rodriguez was asked about the situation he commented, “You’ll have to talk to the union,” Rodriguez told reporters. “I’m not saying anything.”

Will his shares get dumped tomorrow? We’ll see. What are your thoughts on this situation?

I am stuck at work so I figured I might as well start an early thread.

I missed most of the action Thursday due to unavoidable actual work needing to get done (not cool)

I think because it is Friday I will take this Daily in a slightly different direction. I think I am going to start adding some relevant and probably some irrelevant observations to spark a little more conversation.

The market should start to stagnate as trader’s Sportfolio composition accurately reflect what they see happening a month, year, 5 years from now instead of being ruled by a constant fear of being the last one holding the rope.

So let’s have some stimulating conversation to distract us from Hockey moving 120 shares in 2 days.

Topic 1
Kobe is the coldest blooded mofo in the entire NBA. If I were starting a franchise I would take Lebron, if I wanted to sell tickets I would take Lebron, if I needed to sell dirt popsicles to a woman in white gloves I would take Lebron. If I needed 1 shot to win 1 game for my life… I would take Kobe.

Anyways, game of the night last night the Lake Show take care of business on the road with no Bynum. Great win. Why couldn’t Boston get a shot at the end of regulation? Starbury would have gotten a shot BELIEVE THAT! I was going to put a bill on the Lakers GETTING 6.5. Kobe is too good to get 6.5 ever.

Topic 2
Pat Summit won her 1000th game last night. Part of me is impressed, part of me realizes what a joke women’s basketball is. They play on the same court with the same rules and a smaller ball but they shoot a lower percentage? I’m not saying I could beat the best women in the world, but if you rank all the male basketball players in the world, and all the female basketball players in the world… I would shut out the girl ranked the same as me.

Topic 3
Lane Kiffin accused Urban Meyer of cheating and still missing out on a recruit.
1) Florida isn’t following the rules to the letter in recruiting? NO SHIT!
2) Why does the Raiders coach care if Florida is cheating? Don’t hate em cuz you ain’t em Lane, I’m sure the silver and black could hang tough with the Gators for a quarter.
3) Any publicity is good publicity? Maybe this will make people realize that Lane Kiffin is the coach at Tennessee, and Tennessee is about the gayest looking team ever. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers called and they want their 1980’s uniforms back for their stadium Hall of Fame.
4) Lane Kiffin has a hot wife

Topic 4
Santonio Holmes, Chris Cooley, Vinsanthe (sp?) Shiancoe all have something in common, what is it?
(PS I will neg rep the hell out of anyone who replies to this topic with pics)

Topic 5
Anyone who cares please let me know which MLB team you would like previewed first. Maybe I’ll start with the champs?

Topic 6
I have decided to start charging for the Daily Thread, you can prepay. Wednesdays when there are pictures of hot chicks will start at $5 and Saturdays will be $1.

And Bob, so help me if you start making free daily threads we are going to have a problem.

What time will his SOI be released? Will it be a success? Will he stink up the joint? Time will tell. How do YOU think he’ll perform? Comment away!!

I for one view OneSeason as a Trading Card without the cardboard site,

I have been admittedly confused since day 1 about the 3rd party apps.
(However I do agree that the IPO alerts would qualify as the first viable example)

That being said I started to analyze baseball cards and what went right and wrong with them during the course of my lifetime.

The goal is to see if I believe OneSeason will resonate with all the former card traders and be a viable long term business.

My father is the youngest of 4 boys in a sports crazy house hold / neighborhood. Baseball cards serve as a means of social interaction, a badge of honor for the kid with the best collection, and a glimpse of childhood heroes.

My uncle Denny (who not coincidentally was the oldest) still collects cards to this day and has every complete set of baseball cards produced in his lifetime (He works in baseball and has some AMAZING stuff) I will always remember the first time we went to his house and saw his collection of Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle rookies
(think it’s a coincidence those are my all time 1/2?)

My dad, remembering his childhood and the role baseball cards played in his youth took me to get my first pack of baseball cards after my first “hardball” game before we went to Tobin’s Pizza in Bloomington, IL.
I will NEVER forget that 1987 Topps Doug Decinces that was my first ever baseball card.

I spent the gross domestic product of Guam on trading cards of every kind and received them and the accessories that went along with them for every holiday.
I had and have 10’s of thousands of cards from the 80’s and 90’s as well as every conceivable storage container, binder, page, sleeve, case that was sold at my local card store.

Some dick hole got greedy and we saw the “Rise of the insert”.
All of the sudden a Kenny Lofton with part of his jersey attached was worth more than my thousands of George Brett cards.
A pack went from 50 cents to $3.49 over night and every card started to be shiny and limited.
I am fairly sure Upper Deck kind of started this disaster by producing higher quality and more expensive cards.
Eventually good old cardboard trading cards were dead,

and in their place were ghey ass shiny pieces of plastic, metal, or fancy paper that no little kid could really afford to buy anymore.

To this day I believe someone should go back to producing good old fashioned 50 cent packs of cardboard cards and marketing them hard to kids.

I firmly believe that the fall of baseball cards is directly related to the tight jean skateboard riding junior high and high school faggots who do nothing but grow their hair out and hang out at the mall. I guess Pete Wentz should be glad Topps got greedy, but any barber out there who knows how to give a decent buzz haircut and the creepy old guy who used to run the Baseball Card shop downtown should both be writing angry letters IF they can afford the stamp to mail it.
BTW, GIRLS JEANS ARE FOR GIRLS, and dudes shouldn’t wear scarves.

Bottom line is this.

OneSeason has a chance to capture all of us who grew up on Baseball cards
and I for one believe they can pull it off.
So many former card traders have grown up and are productive members of society that we can afford cards,
they just don’t make them anymore.
At least not in a form that didn’t sour us on the industry.

The acquisition of the card was always the most exciting part.
Opening a pack of cards was magical,
and getting an IPO has some of that anticipation

The social act of “trading” cards with your buddies was always the most memorable part of the hobby.
I traded a 1986 Barry Bonds for a Bo Jackson “Ballplayer” card,
and was pretty sure I was the next Warren Buffet in 1989.
Nick Becker was on the short end of the stick at the time,
but he still brings it up when I go home for Christmas.
OneSeason has that, remember when shares of Jordan were 73 cents?
You could have had them but instead you thought OS was going to crash and sold all of your shares.

The last part
LIMITED SUPPLY.

The coolest part of that Bo Jackson card wasn’t that it was Bo Jackson, it was that I was the only one of my friends who had it.

At some point I would like to see OS release a VERY LIMITED supply of a player and have it be a no split share.

The cards that are worth the most now aren’t the ones with Jeff Kent’s chewed up gum on them that came in a $14 dollar pack

The most expensive card in the world is old ass Honus Wagner and it’s on a piece of shit cardboard back with bent corners.
No one gives a damn about how it graded,
they give a shit that there are 50 on Earth.

Sorry if I rambled, but I just wanted to explain why I think OS can be huge.

Mike Sroka appeared on FOX Business for an interview about OneSeason! Check it out!

Michael Phelps, better knows as PHIN to the Nation, apologized today in a statement that was released about the above picture taken at a party.

“I engaged in behavior which was regrettable and demonstrated bad judgment. I’m 23 years old and despite the successes I’ve had in the pool, I acted in a youthful and inappropriate way, not in a manner people have come to expect from me. For this, I am sorry. I promise my fans and the public it will not happen again.”

Something tells me this will dissappear fast. People have as much interest in Michael Phelps off the field antics, as they do his twin brother, Eli Manning.

I hope Michael Phelps got paid in advance for all of his endorsements! Michael Phelps got snapped at a party engaging in some shady activities. I’m sure it’s just Hookah, right?

The OSN Caption Caption Contest is back with it’s 7th installment! Congratulations to last weeks winner lbs0219! I knew that was Steve Bartman. He didn’t wear headphones, to disguise himself! Here is this weeks photo. This should definitely get some clever captions coming in! Thanks to our sponsor Arttoshirt.net for making this contest possible for the Nation! Have fun!

Winning Caption by "The Brett"