CC is for fun and games.

Sports Talk is serious business.

i invite any and all TWW'ers 2 partake in the debate, but wen u allmost need a translater to read sum1's posts, then they becum mor of a liabllite than an asset 2 tha conversastion.

5/3/2011 2:16:43 PM

youre playin yourself man

thats cool, coonery is what youre bred from, in ya family blood im sure.

[Edited on May 3, 2011 at 2:21 PM. Reason : f]

5/3/2011 2:20:53 PM

Jus tryna relate so errbody can unnastan.

5/3/2011 2:22:11 PM

youre hilarious

youre 50 cent, get a chuckle out of you once in awhile but you really aint sayin shit in the end.

goofball

[Edited on May 3, 2011 at 2:24 PM. Reason : f]

5/3/2011 2:22:58 PM

All I ask is that your posts don't read like scribble from someone who's about to go battle Papa Doc at the Shelter.

5/3/2011 2:25:06 PM

at this point your embellishing for comedic effect. my post are not unreadable, theyre not super articulate but i gets my point across.

im not being accused of being a troll for nothing.

thats all you do is run around clowning, youre fuckin Smokey from Friday, and on top of that you wait unitl someone else sparks shit up before you jump your childish ass in and talk shit

its rinse and repeat every fuckin day. you need a makeover nigger

[Edited on May 3, 2011 at 2:31 PM. Reason : r]

5/3/2011 2:29:36 PM

I agree with BigHit on RW. RW has never had an offseason to focus his efforts and become a better player at either sport, and now the Rockies are saying enough is enough.

5/3/2011 3:09:22 PM

They are?

5/3/2011 3:24:04 PM

well this thread turned fun all of a sudden

5/3/2011 3:27:08 PM

Russell and Troy Tulowitzki shook on it



[Edited on May 3, 2011 at 3:30 PM. Reason : x]

5/3/2011 3:29:20 PM

is that from Predator, when Arnold shakes Carl Weather's hand?

5/3/2011 3:31:30 PM

I thought the Rockies were saying this:

Quote :

"""Is an option open (to play football)? It might be. But there has been no indication to us about any football activity, whatsoever. His total focus is on baseball."""

5/3/2011 3:31:34 PM

The funny thing is, baseball is the sport you need the least prep work for as far as integrating yourself into a team. Yeah, you need to spend time honing your swing before the season, but you can do that on your own or with a trainer. But as far as being part of a team, you can go to a new team and be in the lineup the next day.

With football, especially learning a new offense, you really need several weeks of work with your teammates to be ready to play. Which makes that September 5th date a real red flag if he does in fact intend to toss the pigskin for one more year.

5/3/2011 3:36:06 PM

Quote :

"why wouldn't he at least discuss this with the Rockies? seems very unprofessional"

I'm not sure if anyone has pointed this out yet but he is very clearly hedging his bets. Or, stated another way, leaving his options open.

If I'm working for company A (the rockies) and I'm either

1) Not sure they are going to keep me, or
2) Not sure I want to stay there

then you best believe I want to secure something with company B (NCSU). And I'm likely not going to tell company A what I am up to for fear they will resort to not wanting me.

5/3/2011 5:33:09 PM

Company B isn't a company. Its a voluntary deviation from his normal career path. What can he "secure" with company B? Three months of work and then what? He's a baseball player moonlighting as a football player, not the other way around. Playing football this fall would be purely a luxury.

5/3/2011 5:36:38 PM

Yeah, football is just a hobby for the guy at this point

It's like me leaving my day job to play Call of Duty all afternoon

I mean who does that

5/3/2011 5:39:49 PM

Dead wrong.

Company B pays him in the form of "training".

5/3/2011 5:42:09 PM

I could go pro in Call of Duty too

It's a hobby

5/3/2011 5:43:05 PM

Training as in practices, as in the very practices he's been voluntarily skipping for the past three years to play baseball?

5/3/2011 5:43:42 PM

Well, he can't very well fucking do two things at once? Hey, I'm pretty good at programming in C and Labview. I'm currently doing things in C but people say ultimately my future is in Labview. Hey, i tried it out awhile and I'm not sure I like it or I'm not sure (and the people that pay me aren't so sure) I'm as good at it as I advertised. Maybe I should think about going back over to C.

For starters, you're taking this whole job analogy way too far but you're failing at it nonetheless.

The bottom line is he is keeping his options open for how he wants to spend the next 6-12 months of his life.

[Edited on May 3, 2011 at 5:48 PM. Reason : .]

5/3/2011 5:48:01 PM

Quote :

"Hey, i tried it out awhile and I'm not sure I like it or I'm not sure (and the people that pay me aren't so sure) I'm as good at it as I advertised. "

if you're talking about baseball here, you're way off

5/3/2011 5:53:05 PM

Russell Wilson doesn't have a choice. He can't choose to be a baseball player or a football player. He is a baseball player. He is not programming code. He doesn't give a fuck about code. His decision boils down to whether he wants to play football for free or not. This is not two jobs. This is a job and a hobby. This is programming code vs fishing. Trading stocks vs riding bikes. Selling insurance vs Dungeons and Dragons. Job...Hobby. Hobby...Job. I can't really make it any more black and white.

5/3/2011 5:53:40 PM

Quote :

"He is a baseball player."

The fuck? He's both you dumb ass. It's a god damn good thing people can't get paid for their hobbies.

Oh wait, they can.

Are you really being this retarded?

[Edited on May 3, 2011 at 5:58 PM. Reason : .]

5/3/2011 5:57:31 PM

Chance, I cordially invite you to get on my level

5/3/2011 5:58:14 PM

semantics of this argument aside, i would bet a shit ton of money that the Rockies aren't having second thoughts about Wilson

5/3/2011 5:59:12 PM

Can't fault a man for being cordial

5/3/2011 6:05:36 PM

Russell Wilson will never make a dime from football, and you could easily make the argument that he's costing himself money by not committing full time to baseball. Even if not now, then down the road, when (if) he takes longer to reach the big leagues, thus delaying his service clock. Please help me to understand your argument, if in fact you have one.

5/3/2011 6:09:58 PM

^or if he plays baseball for a few years or plays out his contract, then says "oh yeah i still have that one year of eligibility left" and jets back to football pursuing the pipe dream of becoming an NFL quarterback

5/3/2011 6:11:52 PM

he COULD become drew henson AT BEST

5/3/2011 6:12:22 PM

Did anyone else know that Nyjer Morgan played high-level junior hockey?

If you had me list all MLB players by the likelihood that they played junior hockey, Nyjer Morgan would probably be dead last.

[Edited on May 3, 2011 at 6:15 PM. Reason : and Bob Gibson played for the Globetrotters? wtf]

5/3/2011 6:14:33 PM

i would go Ichiro Suzuki

5/3/2011 6:17:34 PM

I only knew that about Morgan because they mentioned in last year when he was trucking all those catchers

5/3/2011 6:26:25 PM

Why didn't RW enter the NFL draft this year? I mean, TJ was picked.

5/3/2011 6:49:45 PM

Quote :

"Russell Wilson will never make a dime from football"

Thats one chode-on-a-message-board's opinion. You also don't have dick of an idea what is running through his head. I'd be mildly shocked if he honestly thought "eh, I got millions in future earnings on lockdown with this here baseball thing, I wanna fuck around with college football for one more year". Neither you or I can prove one way or another until he says so.

Quote :

"Please help me to understand your argument, if in fact you have one"

It is but one set of hypotheticals that I could see someone in his situation making. I don't really pay close attention to everything you post because you interlace it with too much unfunny drivel, but did you actually make a real argument or just a Slave Famous argument?

5/3/2011 6:52:40 PM

Sorry, I didn't realize 5'10" quarterbacks with subpar arm strength and a concussion history had a place in the NFL.

Pardon my oversight.

5/3/2011 7:02:57 PM

Yeah, I'm not questioning your internet all star assessment. I'm saying the very decision to engage in a "hobby" that can only negatively impact your earning potential is a decision that next to no one would make...therefore, Wilson isn't making it solely on that basis.

5/3/2011 7:22:17 PM

^^TJ Yates was picked apparently (haven't kept up) - so at least there's a market for QBs that toss the ball out of bounds when they feel pressure on 4th down.

5/3/2011 7:32:09 PM

I think he can make several hundred thousand a year in the CFL. If Darian Durant can do it, Wilson sure as fuck can.

5/3/2011 8:03:44 PM

People play sports for fun.

But I'd guess you'd have to play sports to realize that.

5/3/2011 8:15:47 PM

Then why are you fucking commenting?

5/3/2011 8:22:34 PM

Because I don't like you.

5/3/2011 8:36:11 PM

Tebow has never had a concussion

5/3/2011 8:40:58 PM

with the way he played in college i would be shocked if he never got a concussion

though having one and reporting one are two very different things

5/3/2011 8:48:02 PM

bullshit he didn't - do you forget the knee to the head in 2009 vs. kentucky

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=4516919

5/3/2011 11:54:59 PM

Wow. I was fucking kidding he's had 2

5/4/2011 12:00:05 AM

From the N&O today

Quote :

""He has not once come to us and expressed an interest in playing football this year," Marc Gustafson, the Rockies' senior director of player development, said Tuesday in an interview. "It is not an issue between the Rockies and Russell. It has never been brought to our attention." Read more: http://www.newsobserver.com/2011/05/04/1173320/rockies-see-no-issues.html#ixzz1LODc7HCe"

New theory. Tysiac chose to be creative in his characterizations of RW's football trajectory this year. So how is he coming back in JUNE (< 4 weeks) and he's not discussed this with the Rockies? His team is in first place in their division which would take him into late september for the playoffs.

TOB strategic planning ftw.

5/4/2011 9:25:07 AM

At this point, Nice job by TOB in scratching Russell from the roster in order to give a scholly to someone who is committed to playing for us... Someone who showed up for Spring practice... someone who would not have received a scholly otherwise.

If he was an absolute, then I dont think TOB would have ever started planning around MG. But he knew that time was short and that there was no guarantee ... TOB is not a gambler, and so, true to himself, he had to plan around MG.

5/4/2011 9:37:31 AM

Quote :

"is that from Predator, when Arnold shakes Carl Weather's hand?"

whatsa matta, da CIA got yoo pooshing a pencil all day?

5/4/2011 10:14:42 AM

its "Whatsa matta? CIA got you pushing too many pencils."

5/4/2011 10:28:59 AM

Next page....

[Edited on May 4, 2011 at 11:07 AM. Reason : .]

5/4/2011 10:47:04 AM