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

Take a shyt without your laptop, and enjoy the day.  Because .4% is a beautiful thing.

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.

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.

Here is your morning cup of Joe. Abide by these rules at all costs. The sky is falling. Sell all your GRTZY. To me. Enjoy this post taken from the Nation’s forums today, courtesy of OSN Director of Keepin’ it Real, The Brett. Enjoy.

Good Morning Nationeers.

I am going to introduce 5 Rules for Tuesday

Please adhere to these rules at all cost.

I will give a healthy dose of Positive Rep Love all over the face of the first National to catch each offender.

Happy hunting.

1) No Bitch Assness.
This is actually a well known P. Diddy rule.
Basically stop acting like anyone else should give a shit about your Sportfolio and do something about it.
Make a decision and nut up.

2) Who IS Best Buy?
If you are going to tell us who is the best buy, make sure you include how many shares of said player you own.
For example please don’t rave about BABE at $8.25 a share being a great deal if they are your shares for sale at $8.25.
Trying to scam the other members of the Nation is a Randy move and very rarely works.
The most important part of this rule is please don’t try to convince me PORT is a good buy at $8.25 when no one else on Earth wants him.

3) Don’t tell us about the IPO formula
Don’t tell us your conspiracy theory on the IPO monkey.
Bobo the IPO dropping orangutan will drop whoever he wants whenever he wants,
then he will beat off and throw his poo at you.
Deal with it.
I say we dip that bastard in formaldehyde for a few days, but
I DON’T KNOW SHIT ABOUT THE MARKET SO I WILL SHUT UP.

4) Don’t explain the market to me
Don’t tell us your fail proof solution to everything that is wrong with the market.
A free market is as complex interesting and unpredictable as each individual participating in it’s whim on a second by second basis.
You don’t know shit, stop proving it.

5) Avoid the Kool-Aid
Don’t claim BBEN is going to have a MC of 20k and his very presence on OS will unlock the money rainbow into everyone’s account.
Everyone knows the only true market savior is Yinka Dare,
BBEN will be a 10-12k turd just like all the other turds coming out after him (minus BIRD)