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Bought in 1/2011, Sold in May, repurchased today
Following up on a post I made about 8 years ago here:
Bought in 1/2011 for about $45 / share (adjusting for 7-1 split in 2014)
Sold in 5/2018 for about $186
Bought this morning for about $168
Sure, I coulda made more if I sold in August rather than May and bought at the open today rather than three hours in, but sometimes it helps to size the market up, and either way I more than quadrupled my money when I sold in May (plus all the dividends and coin I made writing unexercised calls along the way), and got to pocket about %10 of the value when I repurchased the same number of shares today.
Note that I also sold more in May writing calls that got taken out a couple months ago for (effectively) $195. I'm alert for opportunities to re-accumulate those shares, too.
MSFT headlines for today
Business Insider (via Yahoo!): Microsoft Bails On Becoming A Cable TV Replacement Because It Costs Too Much
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Microsoft-Bails-On-Becoming-A-siliconalley-3295234692.html
ZDNet: Marketing job cuts expected to hit Microsoft
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/marketing-job-cuts-expected-to-hit-microsoft/11630
Triangle Business Journal: IBM sets patent record while Microsoft drops to No. 6 in rankings
http://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/news/2012/01/11/ibm-sets-patent-record-while-microsoft.html
AP (via Yahoo!): Xbox workers threaten suicide in China labor tiff
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Xbox-workers-threaten-suicide-apf-2198742383.html
CBS MarketWatch: Microsoft slips on warning as techs edge down
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/microsoft-slips-on-warning-as-techs-edge-down-2012-01-11
Bloomberg: Microsoft Says Fourth-Quarter PC Shipments May Have Fallen Short
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-11/microsoft-says-fourth-quarter-pc-shipments-may-have-fallen-short.html
IBM stock passes a declining Microsoft
Excerpt:
Hot on the heels of Apple passing Exxon Mobil to become the most valuable business in the world, there's another shakeup at a slightly lower level. IBM is the second-largest tech company by market cap last week, behind Apple and just a hair ahead of Microsoft. It's the first time in 15 years that Big Blue looks larger than Redmond.
Around the turn of the millennium, Microsoft's market cap was three times the size of IBM's, topping out at $600 billion during the peak of Microsoft's powers. That was also the pinnacle of the dot-com bubble. As you might imagine, things have changed since then.
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In the last five years, IBM's market cap has nearly doubled while Microsoft's dropped by about 30 percent. There were times when this position-flip looked inevitable, such as when the Vista debacle hit its shares at the same time as the mortgage-fueled financial crisis of 2008, but it never quite happened. Until now.
Of course, neither of these companies can hold a candle to the recent growth of Apple, which passed IBM's total value only two years ago and then jumped ahead of Microsoft's in the summer of 2010. There was a time when lowly Dell was bigger than Apple, and any change in that relationship looked newsworthy. Not so much, these days.
ARS Technica: IBM rises again as its stock passes a declining Microsoft
http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/10/ibm-rises-again-as-its-stock-passes-a-declining-microsoft.ars
Five years later, Zune's troubled journey ends
Excerpt:
As of today, Zunes are no longer corporeal beings, Microsoft announced on zune.net. After five years of struggling uphill against a flood of Apple’s iPod products, Zune hardware is being discontinued, although the brand name will live on as the name of Microsoft’s media services.
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With the Zune gone, Microsoft has lost the potential to extend the Windows Phone platform to devices where consumers wouldn't face recurring costs or contracts, which Apple has in the iPod touch. Microsoft could still extend its mobile platform to non-phones, though the Windows Phone branding will make that a bit difficult.
ARS Technica: Five years later, Zune's troubled journey comes to an end
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2011/10/five-years-later-zunes-troubled-journey-comes-to-an-end.ars
Somebody might want to remove the Zune advert ("Zune HD - 16 GB or 32 GB, you choose..") from this board's header.
Dear Steve,
You rock.
Buona fortuna
Actually, the stock is doing great, and those of us who hold it are reaping the benefits. Year after year. And the more we buy, the better we do.
I bought the weekly $400 call on Monday for $2.35, expected it to be worth $8 when I wake up and after a huge jump in price, its now worth $1.00. What a sham this stock is.
If you choose to buy a call option that's $25-$33 out of the money just four days before expiry, that's your call, but your decision to bank on a 6-9% gain in less than a week doesn't reflect so much on the underlying stock as it does your own judgment.
There are times when you can make a ton of money on this stock in a very short period of time, and it's not entirely luck when you can position yourself to make that money, but your wrong guess as a newbie AAPL trader doesn't make the stock a sham. Learn about time value and its rapid devaluation during expiry week before blaming anyone but yourself for your mistake.
My iCloud glitches
First let me say that I'm presently a very happy camper after more than a year of being somewhat less happy. The background to the problem that iCloud is solving for me starts with having a lot of music, video, and photos that maxed out the 80 GB hard disk on my 2003 eMac several years ago. I migrated this stuff to an external 1 TB drive over a period of years, including all of my music. Then the external HD failed.
I thought I'd been making backups of that music to a separate external HD, but in fact I had only been making backups of my iTunes music library rather than the music files themselves.
In total I had about 40 GB in music files, most ripped from CD, but also including about 600 songs purchased from the iTunes (Music) Store and another 30 indispensable albums or so that I ripped from my old vinyl.
From other computers and a half-dozen iPods around the house, I was able to salvage about 3/4 of the music files that I'd purchased through the iTunes Store, but the rest looked like it might be a total loss, especially when the busted external HD (Western Digital) went missing, but I found it again last week after it had been gone for more than a year.
I hated the idea of having to re-rip all my CDs, to say nothing of my vinyl, and I still do, but I have hope that the external HD can still be salvaged by dropping it into a new enclosure, which has helped in at least one similar case before.
To be fair to Apple, I understand that I could have contacted them and gotten permission to re-download the 150 tracks I'd purchased but which had been lost when my external HD crashed and I have no doubt that they would have come through, I'd just never gotten around to it.
In the meantime, Apple's new terms of use for the music I'd purchased online were going to allow me to listen to the 150 or so songs that I'd purchased through the iTunes Store and which I hadn't heard in a year or so, so yesterday after the announcement I started downloading to my 3G iPod touch. Been listening to many of those tracks ever since.
The glitch is that when I was doing so from the iTunes app using the "Not On This iPod" tab, I've managed to download tracks like this more than once. Probably as a result of multiple Sync events happening while the downloads were taking place. In other words, the app was allowing me to download my tracks using the "Not On This iPod" tab even though they were already on my iPod.
I also now have several "Purchased" playlists on this iPod touch when connected to iTunes 10.2.2 on my computer (an iMac that I bought last year to replace the old overtaxed eMac), including Purchased 1, Purchased 2, and Purchased 3, which I didn't create and haven't figured out how to delete yet.
No real complaints about any of this, of course ... it's beta software after all, and I'm listening to music that I bought but haven't been able to listen to in more than a year, most recently "Black Eyed Dog/Free to Run" by Gomez, "Childhood's End" by Pink Floyd, "Six Months in a Leaky Boat" by Split Enz, "Slave" by the Stones, Bob Marley's "Iron Lion Zion" remix, "Televisor" by Morningwood, "Birth, School, Work, Death" by The Godfathers, "While You See A Chance" by Steve Winwood, "There Goes The Bride" by The Derailers & "Ain't Gonna Work" by Leftover Salmon, Marvin Gaye's peerless "What's Going On", Gil Scott-Heron's "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised", & Graham Parker's "Stick To The Plan", and (heh) "Rapture" by Blondie & "Boogie Oogie Oogie (Single version)" by A Taste Of Honey. Ah, eclectic bliss.
Households with both an iPad and a Xoom
Anecdotally, we purchased both an iPad 2 and Xoom recently and spent the last four weeks using the device[s] at home. The iPad has lived up to all the hype with the wife and kids nearly fighting over who gets to play with the device. In this short time, the Xoom acquired the name “Dad’s iPad” and sat mostly idle. Our experience suggests it is mostly clunky software and lack of quality control in applications from the Android app store has turned users in our household off. The Xoom was boxed up and sent back to Amazon earlier this week.
Business Insider: Here's What Happens In Households With Both An iPad And An Android Tablet (5/27/2011)
http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-what-happens-in-households-with-both-an-ipad-and-an-android-tablet-2011-5
Correction: Fortune, not Forbes
That article should have been attributed as:
Fortune | Microsoft's office: Why insiders think top management has lost its way
... rather than:
Forbes | Microsoft's office: Why insiders think top management has lost its way
The URL was correct:
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/03/31/microsofts-office-why-insiders-think-top-management-has-lost-its-way/?section=magazines_fortune
Microsoft's office: Why insiders think top management has lost its way
Excerpt:
James Whittaker for one grew sick of it. A leading figure in the software testing field, he started consulting for Microsoft in 1994 and eventually went to work for the company full-time. He was someone who met regularly with Bill Gates. And yet he found that even well-regarded old hands like himself didn't have the juice to compete on the merits.
"Instead of a culture that said, 'Let's experiment and see which ideas work,' the culture is one of, 'Let's kiss enough ass so maybe they'll approve of our product,'" said Whittaker, who quit in 2009 to work for Google (GOOG). Maybe the worst of it: those in authority often attained their position because they had been lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time, succeeding when the company was riding high and despite producing a mediocre product.
"It's a culture that actually awards the political assassins," said a software engineer who thought he might be one of the exceptions -- an outsider able to thrive despite moving to Redmond mid-career. He was well aware of Microsoft's reputation for being hostile to those hired into senior positions from the outside but he was flabbergasted just the same when a top exec showed up in his office one day to spell out the facts of life inside Microsoft shortly after he arrived on campus.
"He's standing there telling me, 'I can have your team broken apart any time I want, just remember that,' " he said. As far as he could tell (he didn't last long), the coin of the realm within the company was one's relationship with Ballmer, Gates, or both. One of the "kingpins," as he described them, will drop that he recently had dinner with Ballmer -- and then hint darkly at how miserable someone of his considerable clout can make other people's lives unless they toe the line.
Forbes | Microsoft's office: Why insiders think top management has lost its way
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/03/31/microsofts-office-why-insiders-think-top-management-has-lost-its-way/?section=magazines_fortune
Bloomberg: Microsoft Said to Scrap New Zune Models After Failing to Break IPod’s Grip
Zune, introduced in 2006, never managed to break the iPod’s grip on the music-player industry and became the brunt of late- night talk-show jokes. Apple Inc. (AAPL)’s iPod led the market with 77 percent of unit sales last year, while the Zune failed to crack the top five, according to NPD Group Inc. By adding the Zune features to the Windows Phone software, Microsoft aims to gain ground in another challenging area -- mobile phones -- where it’s lost market share to Google Inc. (GOOG) and Apple.
Microsoft, based in Redmond, Washington, declined to comment on plans for the Zune.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-14/microsoft-said-to-stop-releasing-new-zune-models-as-demand-ebbs.html
Nice event link
Thanks for posting.
Infoworld: Microsoft takes a swing at the iPad and misses by a mile
Microsoft's marketing strategy for selling Windows 7 tablets to iPad-leaning enterprises proves, once again, Redmond doesn't get it
http://www.infoworld.com/t/mobile-platforms/microsoft-takes-swing-the-ipad-and-misses-mile-378
Slyhunter: Why Apple doesn't split its stock
There was a good bit of discussion here a few years ago about that. The thought seemed to be that Apple was seeing a lot of short-term trading then, which made it more volatile and easier for vultures to shake out weak and easily frightened holders.
Apple seemed to want to be like Berkshire-Hathaway in that there's not much short-term trading going on with such a high-priced stock. And Apple seemed to look forward to having a much higher per-share valuation, which has indeed come to pass -- all Apple had to do was to stop splitting the stock to accomplish it.
I agree with that decision, having traded AAPL quite a bit in those days and witnessing quite a few weak hands get shaken out when one rumor or another (the negative ones were often bogus) circulated, with the short-term effect that AAPL was getting hammered even though the company was doing extremely well.
I don't think any investor wants to see that, unless they're prepared to buy when the rest of the world is selling. But that requires a great deal of informed knowledge of what's going on with the company's business, or else a good sense that crap (as opposed to real news) is in the air.
You don't need to buy AAPL in hundred-share blocks if you don't have a lot of money. But if your interest is in short-term block trading, AAPL may not be the stock for you. AAPL has treated me extremely well through the years both before and after I was actively trading it. Less work and a lot more benefit to just holding it long-term.
By the way, all my AAPL is in a Roth IRA these days, so no capital gains to worry about.
BusinessAL: I just bought a bunch
Increased my long-term holdings by 50% late last week. See http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=58001103 for part of my rationale.
I'd actually indicated to my broker three months earlier that I wanted to buy, but I'm pretty busy these days and didn't follow up. That cost me $50 per share in lost gains. However, I think there's still plenty of room to run, and I plan to hold all my AAPL shares in the near and intermediate term.
AAPL isn't all I bought, as I'd finally been wanting to go long on the broader market -- I'd pulled a bunch of stock out into cash shortly before the latest Dubya recession began. Just took me until this past week to execute my re-entry.
rjop: Apple's P/E ratio
First, go here: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ae?s=AAPL+Analyst+Estimates
Take the current price: $323.79
Divide it by Apple's actual earnings per share you find there for the last 4 quarters:
3.67 + 3.33 + 3.51 + 4.64 = 15.15 EPS
323.79 / 15.15 = 21.37 P/E (ttm)
Do the same calculation for the next 4 quarters:
323.79 / 19.13 = 16.93 P/E (ftm)
Then do a quick adjustment because Apple always lowballs guidance (while analysts play along) to bump Apple's projected earnings by 15% (Apple has exceeded this "earnings surprise" by at least that much over the past 4 quarters and historically has done so by considerably more) to get a more realistic forward P/E:
323.79 / 22.00 (1913 * 1.15) = 14.72 P/E (adjusted ftm)
Yes, these are higher P/E ratios, compared to Apple's competitors in the computing space. But they are low by Apple standards, and their forward ratio is close to being in line with those competitors. And, of course, some of Apple's competitors in its traditional computing space (HPQ, DELL) are not Apple's primary competitors these days (GOOG and RIMM are) where Apple has any viable competitors at all (which it does not for iPods and iPads, for example).
Finally, Apple is leaving all these "competitors" in its dust growth-wise, excepting GOOG which has significantly weaker but still robust growth but a higher P/E, one reason Apple is expected to become the most valuable company in the world next year, as measured by market cap.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=GOOG&t=2y&l=off&z=l&q=l&c=AAPL%2CMSFT%2C%5EIXIC
Bootzie: re 'free lunch'
If you read up on Masdar, you will find that they plan to get 100% of their energy from renewable sources. There (in the UAE) it's mostly solar. In my neighborhood, it's hydro. In other places, such as a project I'm peripherally involved with in the Midwest, it's wind.
You can build green, and no doubt Apple will do so. Masdar is intended to consume about 25% as much power as an equivalently sized traditionally-built city, and will have its own power-generation capability. Heck, it's expected to export power back to its oil-powered neighbors.
Bully to Apple for going to Foster + Partners for the same architecture firm that's building Masdar, and while they may not end up with the same energy goals as Masdar, I fully expect them to do a lot better with Apple's sustainability than anything you're used to.
Call that a "free lunch" if you like, especially compared with any alternative you might be thinking of. But you do yourself (and, really, everyone else) a disservice by doing so.
Update on Apple corporate campus expansion
Go back to the message I'm replying to for background on the situation several years ago, noting that the URL for Steve Jobs' presentation to the Cupertino City Council about the matter in 2006 is no longer valid; here's a new one:
Amid layoffs, Microsofties reveal further turmoil in Redmond
Excerpt (red text was originally strike-through text, which iHub doesn't seem to support):
Now that the anonymous blogger Mini-Microsoft has chimed in on the demise of Kin and the rumored confirmed layoffs, disgruntled 'Softies are coming out of the woodwork.
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Amid layoffs, Microsofties reveal further turmoil in Redmond
http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/archives/213808.asp
The Kin is Dead + Ballmer must be ticked
1. NY Times: Microsoft Kin Discontinued After 48 Days
That didn’t take long.
Just 48 days after Microsoft began selling the Kin, a smartphone for the younger set, the company discontinued it because of disappointing sales.
The swift turnabout for the Kin, which Microsoft took two years to develop and whose release was backed with a hefty ad budget, is the latest sign of disarray for Microsoft’s recently reorganized consumer product unit.
“It’s an absolute failure,” said Charles S. Golvin, an analyst with Forrester Research. Mr. Golvin said he was surprised to see Microsoft kill a product so quickly, given the company’s history of sticking with new products and improving them over time.
2. Wired: Rumor: Leaked Slides Reveal Windows 8 Roadmap
“Apple brand is known for high quality, uncomplicated, ‘It just works,’” a slide reads (see above). “This is something people will pay for!”
Sure, the rudderless Kin should never have been released, and Microsoft's phone efforts look pretty sad. Maybe Microsoft learned something from the experience ... I would like to think so anyway. But Microsoft slides describing what Apple does successfully and outlining how Microsoft might be able to do the same with better execution, that's gotta sting. Assuming those slides are real, of course.
Microsoft Shakeup Ballmer's Last Chance?
Excerpt:
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer put his credibility, and possibly his career at the software maker, on the line Tuesday with a bold reorganization of the company's struggling hardware unit.
Gone in the shakeup are Entertainment and Devices Division president Robbie Bach, a 22-year Redmond veteran who is "retiring" at age 48, and design and development senior VP J Allard.
With no replacement named for Bach, Ballmer now assumes more direct oversight of E&DD—which houses key consumer products like the Xbox, Zune, and Windows Mobile.
Microsoft is quickly losing ground to rivals like Apple and Google in the consumer segment, and Ballmer's revamp of the unit may be a last ditch effort to reverse the trend.
The stakes couldn't be higher. With mobile devices set to become the dominant computing platform in the coming years, a failure by Microsoft to keep up with the competition could make the company an also ran.
And it might also mark the end of Ballmer's decade-long tenure atop the company. He's got his work cut out.
Microsoft now holds just a 6.8% share of the mobile market, down from 10.2% a year ago, according to Gartner. Worse for Redmond is that strategic rival Google is making big strides in the sector with its Android-based devices, even as Windows Mobile slumps.
The ED&D unit as a whole isn't faring much better. In the first nine months of Microsoft's 2010 fiscal year, hardware and hardware-related sales were down 5% year-over-year, to $6.5 billion. Xbox and PC game revenue fell 5% during that period, while Windows Mobile and Zune revenue was off 4%.
For Ballmer, those numbers add up to desperation—and the CEO acknowledged that the decision to let Bach walk wasn't an easy one.
InformationWeek: Microsoft Shakeup Ballmer's Last Chance?
http://www.informationweek.com/news/storage/portable/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=225200247
Microsoft Courier tablet canceled, HP tablet next?
Today may end up being a bloody day for prospective iPad alternatives. Earlier today, we learned that Microsoft's Courier tablet was a real product under consideration by Microsoft, but that the company has since ended the project. Now comes a report from TechCrunch claiming that HP no longer plans to offer its upcoming Windows 7-based "Slate" tablet.
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The change in direction may be more than OS-deep; the TechCrunch report also states that "HP may also be abandoning Intel-based hardware for it’s slate lineup simply because it’s too power hungry. That would also rule out Windows 7 as an operating system." (The iPad, for example, uses a custom Apple-designed chip instead of using Intel processors meant for use in more typical PCs and netbooks).
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Shortly before the iPad was announced, I took a look at the tablets that we had seen up to that point, and concluded that mouse-driven interfaces--like those used for Windows 7 and Mac OS X--aren't well suited for touch. Meanwhile, WebOS is designed from the ground up with touch in mind. If this story is true, it looks like HP's engineers feel the same way: TechCrunch's source says that "HP is not satisfied with Windows 7 as a tablet operating system."
PC World: Another One Bites The Dust? HP Reportedly Kills Windows 7 Slate Project
http://www.pcworld.com/article/195312/hp_slate.html
Kinda too bad about Courier being canceled ... it looked intriguing.
JAX pls ø
Week 3 of living dangerously
I'll take Miami.
DewDiligence re: your private message
Sorry I didn't see it until now ... but in any case I wouldn't have been able to reply in kind until/unless Happy Hours return.
To answer your question about what I posted that excel found offensive, in my post's context of remarking about my recent trip to Boston and the lack of airport bars from which to view the Angels-Yankees ALCS game occurring then, I used the same TLA that can be found in this nationally syndicated newspaper item (which runs in excel's nearest big-city paper):
http://www.seattlepi.com/hax/411982_hax1111.html
He found this "vulgar". The rest of America, obviously, does not.
All Picks, final
This should be a sticky post, or else in the iBox.
Rk Name 1st Round Winners 2nd Round Winners WS Winner
1 Pinkie da Cat YANKEES ANGELS CARDINALS PHILLIES YANKEES PHILLIES YANKEES
2 DBLEAGL YANKEES ANGELS DODGERS PHILLIES YANKEES DODGERS YANKEES
2 NO3PUTTS1 YANKEES ANGELS DODGERS PHILLIES YANKEES DODGERS YANKEES
4 DOMAINMASTER YANKEES RED SOX DODGERS PHILLIES YANKEES DODGERS YANKEES
4 ELISCOMING YANKEES ANGELS CARDINALS PHILLIES YANKEES CARDINALS YANKEES
4 EZXCCSC YANKEES ANGELS DODGERS ROCKIES YANKEES DODGERS YANKEES
4 SUSIE924 YANKEES ANGELS DODGERS ROCKIES YANKEES ROCKIES YANKEES
8 ALIBI YANKEES RED SOX DODGERS ROCKIES YANKEES DODGERS YANKEES
8 BIGRICHARD (DICK) YANKEES RED SOX CARDINALS PHILLIES YANKEES CARDINALS YANKEES
8 HONYAKER YANKEES ANGELS CARDINALS ROCKIES YANKEES CARDINALS YANKEES
8 MIGHTY SHADOW YANKEES ANGELS CARDINALS ROCKIES YANKEES CARDINALS YANKEES
8 TR8DERVIC YANKEES RED SOX DODGERS ROCKIES YANKEES ROCKIES YANKEES
8 YANKEES1963 YANKEES ANGELS CARDINALS ROCKIES YANKEES CARDINALS YANKEES
14 STOCKMASTERJGY YANKEES RED SOX CARDINALS ROCKIES YANKEES ROCKIES YANKEES
14 houtheman YANKEES RED SOX DODGERS PHILLIES YANKEES PHILLIES PHILLIES in 7, 38
14 wyobuford YANKEES RED SOX DODGERS PHILLIES YANKEES PHILLIES PHILLIES in 6, 36
14 Old_Drummerman YANKEES RED SOX DODGERS PHILLIES YANKEES PHILLIES PHILLIES in 5, 35
18 TENAC YANKEES RED SOX CARDINALS PHILLIES YANKEES PHILLIES PHILLIES
19 AIMING4 TWINS ANGELS DODGERS PHILLIES ANGELS PHILLIES PHILLIES
19 CAPGAIN YANKEES ANGELS CARDINALS PHILLIES YANKEES CARDINALS CARDINALS
19 CRADDOCK YANKEES ANGELS CARDINALS PHILLIES YANKEES CARDINALS CARDINALS
19 DMANS YANKEES ANGELS CARDINALS PHILLIES ANGELS PHILLIES ANGELS
19 DEWDILIGENCE YANKEES RED SOX DODGERS PHILLIES RED SOX PHILLIES PHILLIES
19 DOLGORUKI YANKEES ANGELS DODGERS ROCKIES YANKEES DODGERS DODGERS
19 FUNG DERF YANKEES ANGELS CARDINALS PHILLIES YANKEES CARDINALS CARDINALS
19 LAURAP YANKEES ANGELS CARDINALS PHILLIES ANGELS PHILLIES ANGELS
19 MISSY YANKEES ANGELS CARDINALS PHILLIES ANGELS PHILLIES ANGELS
19 SSKILLZ1 YANKEES ANGELS CARDINALS PHILLIES ANGELS PHILLIES PHILLIES
19 SPITSONG YANKEES ANGELS CARDINALS PHILLIES YANKEES CARDINALS CARDINALS in 6, 34
19 THIRDFLAT YANKEES ANGELS DODGERS ROCKIES YANKEES DODGERS DODGERS
31 CCCPMD666 YANKEES RED SOX DODGERS ROCKIES YANKEES DODGERS DODGERS
31 GHMM YANKEES RED SOX CARDINALS PHILLIES YANKEES CARDINALS CARDINALS
31 NSOMNIYAK YANKEES ANGELS CARDINALS ROCKIES YANKEES CARDINALS CARDINALS
31 SHERMANN7 YANKEES RED SOX CARDINALS PHILLIES RED SOX PHILLIES RED SOX
31 TEAMLASVEGAS YANKEES RED SOX CARDINALS PHILLIES YANKEES CARDINALS CARDINALS
36 BEERWORLD YANKEES RED SOX DODGERS PHILLIES RED SOX DODGERS DODGERS
36 LOGGERMAN YANKEES ANGELS DODGERS ROCKIES ANGELS ROCKIES ANGELS
36 MICMACPOLE YANKEES RED SOX DODGERS PHILLIES RED SOX DODGERS RED SOX
36 PENNYBUSTER TWINS ANGELS DODGERS PHILLIES ANGELS DODGERS DODGERS
36 SKEPTICAL OPTIMIST YANKEES RED SOX CARDINALS ROCKIES YANKEES ROCKIES ROCKIES
36 SOXFAN TWINS RED SOX CARDINALS PHILLIES RED SOX PHILLIES RED SOX
36 WALKNMANNV YANKEES ANGELS CARDINALS PHILLIES ANGELS CARDINALS CARDINALS
43 LEE KRAMER YANKEES RED SOX CARDINALS PHILLIES RED SOX CARDINALS RED SOX
44 EXCEL TWINS ANGELS CARDINALS ROCKIES TWINS CARDINALS TWINS
44 JACKSON42 YANKEES RED SOX CARDINALS ROCKIES RED SOX CARDINALS RED SOX
44 LAWRENZO TWINS ANGELS CARDINALS ROCKIES ANGELS CARDINALS ANGELS
44 SPCALK TWINS ANGELS CARDINALS ROCKIES ANGELS ROCKIES ROCKIES
44 TRINITYZ1 YANKEES RED SOX CARDINALS ROCKIES RED SOX ROCKIES ROCKIES
Seattle bound ø
All Picks, before World Series Game 6
This should be a sticky post, or else in the iBox.
Rk Name 1st Round Winners 2nd Round Winners WS Winner
1 houtheman YANKEES RED SOX DODGERS PHILLIES YANKEES PHILLIES PHILLIES in 7, 38
1 Pinkie da Cat YANKEES ANGELS CARDINALS PHILLIES YANKEES PHILLIES YANKEES
3 Old_Drummerman YANKEES RED SOX DODGERS PHILLIES YANKEES PHILLIES PHILLIES in 5, 35
3 wyobuford YANKEES RED SOX DODGERS PHILLIES YANKEES PHILLIES PHILLIES in 6, 36
5 DBLEAGL YANKEES ANGELS DODGERS PHILLIES YANKEES DODGERS YANKEES
5 NO3PUTTS1 YANKEES ANGELS DODGERS PHILLIES YANKEES DODGERS YANKEES
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Susie: he did
he will usually PM someone before deleting a post and ask them to edit it
But it's Hallow'een, and between Trick or Treaters and composing another post, I didn't see his request until after 15 minutes had passed.
Then he chose to cross the line.
It's a shame that you want to leave a good board.
It is indeed, and it's not something I want to do. But all the boards I join are either good boards, or they have the potential to become that way, and then they do.
Things change even when individuals don't.
Thanks to you, ElisComing, and all for the good thoughts.
I wasn't booted, Susie
I just will not post to a board where admins delete posts for no rational reason. It's a waste of my time. And my time is valuable, no matter how much I might value the interaction I found here.
I founded a board very like this one some years ago. Some of you know it. I left voluntarily, just as I'm leaving now, because an admin on another board on that same site deleted one of my posts. Both boards on that site are now irrelevant.
Then, six years ago, I came here. But now, unless excel restores a perfectly innocuous post I made (#98387, I believe), and which he has indicated his unwillingness to do,
No harm, no foul
Except here, I guess.
No matter. Nice swapping stories with y'all for the past six years. Yankees fans, Boston fans, and everything in between.
Sorry, excel
But I don't react well to being censored for no good reason.
That kind of heavy-handed censorship has already killed the one board on this site that put it on the map in the first place. For no good reason. I think that's exactly the fourth time I've had a post deleted in the last 10 years. And none of the other three sites remain relevant.
Either you restore the post, or I'm outta here.
There are lots of places to post that welcome informed, rational commentary.
Hamels doesn't seem inclined to cooperate.
Yanks without Groundzilla in the middle of their lineup don't look nearly so tough. Why is Swisher playing?
And while Hamels looks good so far, Pettitte doesn't seem to be fooling too many Phils.
Yanks might just find themselves praying for more rain against the champs here.
God Bless Davey Lopes
Even Fox knows what he can do. And just did.
The faster Phils runners are going to run wild on Pettitte today, at least from 1st to 2nd.
They aren't funny*
*Sample size = 1
You'd think, with home field advantage
... that the Phillies would be sitting pretty on their way back across New Jersey.
But Cole Hamels is not The Man this year. And Andy Pettitte is the same postseason gorilla he's always been. Saturday looks like a Yankees win to me.
Game 4, Joe Blanton would be in for a tough matchup against Sabathia. Unless Sabathia's tolerance for short rest runs out. But running Cliff Lee out there on 3 days rest, which he doesn't do much (if at all), is also a tough time. Yanks will probably win Game 4 either way.
Game 5, if Cliff Lee goes, is a Phillies win. But AJ vs Pedro would be another toss-up.
And there may not be a Game 6.
I hope Charlie gets some sleep the next couple nights.
ElisComing: Awright
I get ya. And you get me.
I'm sure you can understand the conflict.
Too bad for Ryan Howard and his gilt Mexican hat about that wide strike zone tonight.
Best,
ElisComing re: siggy
In 2001, the Yankees didn't win. Big red "X" over the number "1".
In 2002, the Yankees didn't win. Big red "X" over the number "2".
...
In 2008, the Yankees didn't win. Big red "X" over the number "8".
It's now 2009.
ElisComing: It's not hard to figure out
Just read it again.
Brutal call against the Yanks, by the way. Exactly the sort of call that instant replay should fix.
ElisComing: You need to fix your siggy
Put a big red X over the number 8.
It's number 9 being contested this year.