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Message from England to Russia and Turkey in 'ruffians':
Guys,
Yes, I am taking Paul out. I am quite certain he will move Bel-Nth
supported by Hol. This means SKA will support NTH. Also, I am not sure I
will be able to vacate Denmark to fill it with SKA, as someone (Paul or
Chris) can move to Kiel.
Yes, I am thinking of popping the WES fleet. Will you bounce me in NAf Meef?
What do you guys wanna see me build?
/Christian
Message from Russia to England and Turkey in
'ruffians':
>Message from [email protected] as England to Russia and
>Turkey in 'ruffians':
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>Yes, I am taking Paul out. I am quite certain he will move Bel-Nth
>supported by Hol. This means SKA will support NTH. Also, I am not sure I
>will be able to vacate Denmark to fill it with SKA, as someone (Paul or
>Chris) can move to Kiel.
Okay, that's understandable.
>What do you guys wanna see me build?
Has the time come to decline builds? If not, maybe one more army?
Cal
Message from Austria to England in 'ruffians':
Christian,
Well, that went pretty well! Too bad Paul didn't go for Kiel, you could
have taken both of them with no problems then.
Thoughts? I should like to have my fleet WestMed dislodged so I can retreat
it OTB and re-build as a fleet. Keeping Rome for a season is a blessing,
sure enough! Do you want me to keep Kiel this season, and if so, we should
arrange a bounce there, yes?
Let me know what you desire!
Best,
Chris
Message from Austria to Germany in 'ruffians':
Paul,
I have wanted to apologize to you for a week or so. You are the one I feel
worst about in this game. I screwed up, and there is no question about that
anymore. Now, I have abandoned you to Christian's tender mercies, and
there's nothing I can do about it at this point. The diplomatic tide with
R/T simply forced me this way.
I am sorry that I didn't work with you. Given another chance, -- well,
given another chance, you'd probably stab me just to get even, but, ;) ==
given another chance, I'd have taken the convoy to Edi.
All the best,
Chris
Message from England to Russia and Turkey in 'ruffians':
Meef, will you bounce me in NAf again and I can popp the Austrian F Wes.
Christian
Message from England to Austria in
'ruffians':
Chris,
What now? Did you like the way I tricked Turkey to TRN? :)
Anyway, maybe I should force your fleet WES to disband? That would make a
sure build for you, and we would need an Austrian fleet coming from behind.
It seems vital to cut ION...Anyway, I will be moving Den-Kie. Feel free to
support me! :)
Christian
Message from Germany to Austria in 'ruffians':
Chris: No lasting grudges. Let's just play it a little wiser next time, eh?
Paul
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> Message from [email protected] as Austria to Germany in 'ruffians':
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> Paul,
>
> I have wanted to apologize to you for a week or so. You are the one I feel
> worst about in this game. I screwed up, and there is no question about that
> anymore. Now, I have abandoned you to Christian's tender mercies, and
> there's nothing I can do about it at this point. The diplomatic tide with
> R/T simply forced me this way.
>
> I am sorry that I didn't work with you. Given another chance, -- well,
> given another chance, you'd probably stab me just to get even, but, ;) ==
> given another chance, I'd have taken the convoy to Edi.
>
> All the best,
>
> Chris
Message from Turkey to England and Russia in 'ruffians':
Guys, sorry for the delay in my reply, hectic at work. Also I will be outta
town fri - sun w/ no email.
I will tun - naf to bounce Christian.
I will f bla s sev - rum to support Cal.
Meef
Message from England to Austria in
'ruffians':
Chris,
Well, I will dislodge your WES fleet then. I guess the best thing is if we
bounce over Kiel. If you have to choose I would prefer if you use Bud to
support Serbia instead of Rum. Two build this season will yield a innocent
A Lon and a F Lvp. You would be able to build two, with keeping Rom and
disbanding F Wes and getting one of Ser/Rum. An army Vienna and a fleet
Tri? (not much else to build standing in Bud so why did I ask?)
all the best
Christian
Broadcast message from Germany in 'ruffians':
It seems like there's always somebody asleep at the switch here....
Paul
Broadcast message from Austria in 'ruffians':
Whoops! Sorry!
Broadcast message from Russia in 'ruffians':
> Broadcast message from [email protected] as Austria in
'ruffians':
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> Whoops! Sorry!
Ditto. I was SURE I had my orders in. I was even wondering what the holdup
was, but I guess I was thinking about the retreats...
Cal
Broadcast message from Observer in 'ruffians':
Well, thanks to Paul for playing it out, and now they were four.....
should I do some more "odds" now? ;-) I must admit that it still looks
like it has some play in it to me.....
Jim-Bob
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>
> The game is reaching the point where, if Austria still wants to throw
> the game to England, I don't see how Turkey and Russia could prevent
> it. I _think_ Turkey will eventually cave and stab Russia, but I'm
> not sure. He might prefer to let England win.
Yeah, but that would be REALLY disappointing if that is all that
happens. There is SOOOO much more potential play in this game!
>
> I read that El-Amin sprained his ankle yesterday. Bummer. Makes me
> doubt that my Yahoo picks will do well - I have UConn making the Final
> Four. I have them losing to Stanford in my ESPN picks.
Yup, but either way, if you had asked me I would have told you that
UConn has been totally erratic all season (especially El-Amin and
Tony Robertson) and they have NO chance of making the Final Four.
I think they beat Tennessee and I chose them to beat Stanford,
but I have little confidence in the pick. UConn has actually
played better with El-Amin out sometimes (there is where
Robertson is the key and he was great against Utah St.).
>
> A very surprising low number of upsets in the first round, especially
> if one thinks, like I did, that Gonzaga and Pepperdine should have
> been favored. Only 3 upsets, but I got two. I missed on Seton Hall,
> but got the other 4 Big East teams (the conference seems to have been
> underrated, but we'll have to wait a bit on that judgment.)
>
> Rick
As I write Kentucky and Syracuse are going nip and tuck. I think
Kentucky will win before losing to MSU next Thursday. I'm upset
that I missed on Seton Hall. Shaheen Holloway was GREAT early
in the season as he came in for the fall in phenomenal shape and
on a mission. But then Seton Hall really slumped badly at the
end and I thought Oregon had enough to get by them. I ***hate***
missing an upset and thought about that one. It would have been
my 13th upset pick, but I already picked way too many. I am
NEVER going to do well unless there are a lot of upsets. I
love this tournament for the upsets.
I do think the Big East is a great conference, it is just so big
that it's lost a lot of focus.
Jim
Message from Austria to Russia in 'ruffians':
Cal,
Long time no talk! How's life in the Great white north?
Chris
Message from Austria to Turkey in 'ruffians':
Meef,
Well, there you go. Are you ready to talk yet?
Chris
Message from Turkey to Austria in 'ruffians':
Chris,
I vote for a 4-way draw, eatr.
I think this play is almost gone in this one.
What do u think?
Meef
> Message from [email protected] as Austria to Turkey in
'ruffians':
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> Meef,
>
> Well, there you go. Are you ready to talk yet?
>
> Chris
>
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Message from Austria to Turkey in 'ruffians':
Meef,
There's just as much play left as you want. if you are ready to move on
Cal, I am ready to hold off Christian.
That, by the way, is still the price of stopping an English Solo. I do hope
you believe that I will throw it if you don't work with me, at this point.
Rome can be yours again! ;)
Chris
This is the last message of yours that didn't make it into TAP.
I ended up holding it until last night. I'll put it out on E-Mail
later today sometime....
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> So much for Ohio State.
>
Indeed, and I was really surprised they went down EASILY!
> And Temple, and Stanford. I've now only got one Final Four team left.
> Thankfully, that's MSU, but really, picking MSU to win everything is
> not going to get me ahead of a lot of people with my picks.
>
I only have one left too, but it it UCLA. I like the pick and obviously
I like them to beat MSU. Then I'll be happy as the brackets will be
broken for everyone ;-)
> I'm so annoyed with myself for picking two Pac-10 teams to make the
> Final Four! I mean, I KNOW the Pac-10 teams ALWAYS fall flat in the
> tourney. Grrr. But still...UNC beating Stanford?? Hard to believe.
>
Yeah, I let Lute Olsen adoration take me too far too (I was a big Iowa
fan when he was there to show you how far back it goes), but I ***KNEW***
they wouldn't make the Final Four. And I didn't like Stanford's lack
of athleticism on defense at all. We forget, but North Carolina was
picked by many pundits BEFORE the season to win the National Championship
behind Cota and that big man of theirs whose name I forget, but he's
tall and wicked quick. I just HATE UNC and can't bring myself to
pick them for anything. More recently, they have been disappointing
to be sure, but obviously they are back to pre-season status.
> The only positive I take from yesterday is that I picked Tulsa to beat
> Cincinnati. I've picked them to win one more game, and don't really
> think Miami should be too much for them to handle.
>
You got that one right, I will be rooting for whoever wins that game
to go all the way. I sort of want a team that our lowly PC Friars
beat to win the National Championship. We beat Miami IN Miami.
> I was right to say that three Big East teams would make the Sweet
> Sixteen, though there is no way I would have ever dreamed that the two
> losers would be St. John's and UConn, the finalists in the Big East
> tournament.
WE totally agree on that.... although there is a LONG history of the
Big East Tournament finalists failing in the Big Dance as opposed
to the earlier losers doing better.
>
> Given a chance to repick the Final Four from the Sweet Sixteen, I
> would go with Tulsa from the South, Gonzaga from the West, OSU from
> the East and MSU still from the Midwest. I don't really like OSU that
> much, but the East is gutted (it was really never strong to begin
> with). Even Seton Hall could win that now. Half of the teams I
> thought could beat MSU have already lost. Sure, UCLA could beat them,
> but they could also lose by thirty. Iowa State could beat them. Right
> now, I think whoever wins the Midwest will win it all. Duke does not
> have a great Duke team.
I'm rooting for the Hall....
>
> As a UCONN fan, I have to think that they would be in position to make
> a Final Four run, had El-Amin not gotten injured. The same could
> easily be said about Cincinnati and Kenyon Martin.
>
But you WILL agree that El-Amin has been inconsistent ALL season!
I stand on my opinion that El-Amin was going to have a bad game
for some reason in some game -- happened to be for injury -- and
they would lose if Robertson didn't pick it up and have a great
game -- and he didn't. That one I got right in general if not
in particular.
> I would really love to see a Tulsa/Gonzaga final. And who wouldn't!
>
> Rick
>
I'll root for it..... but I still like UCLA too. If they could play
defense, they would be a shoo-in.
Jim-Bob
Message from Russia to Austria in 'ruffians':
> Message from [email protected] as Austria to Russia in
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> Cal,
>
> Long time no talk! How's life in the Great white north?
Busy as hell as you can probably tell. Between web page work and my regular
job, I barely have time to pay attention to my e-mail.
Later,
Cal