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1) using profanity or any euphemisms for profanity
2) personally attacking other commenters
3) baiting other commenters
4) arguing for the sake of arguing
5) discussing politics
6) using hyperbole when something less will suffice
7) using sarcasm in a way that can be misinterpreted negatively
8) making the same point over and over again
9) typing "no-hitter" or "perfect game" to describe either in progress
10) being annoyed by the existence of this list
11) commenting under the obvious influence
12) claiming your opinion isn't allowed when it's just being disagreed with
We have a winner - woo-hoo! And, we have more introspection about a T-shirt than you could possibly imagine ...
Points/Slogan
123 Thinking outside the boxscore
113 Where the game is never over
109 Bleeding blogger blue
99 A Dodger blog with mustard or A Dodger blog with relish
74 Passionately levelheaded
65 Conventional wisdom debunked daily
39 Come for the game, stay for the comments
29 Caution: Deconstruction Site
28 Talking Dodgers, wherever you may be
21 Keeping grown fans off the streets
20 Blogging for the cycle
9 Come to think of it
9 Dodgers from the outside in
8 Calm, cool and commented
6 Have you procrastinated today?
6 "Think like a Weisman but communicate in the language of the people." - William Yeats
4 Thinking the Blues
1 Baseball is 99% mental, the other half is ...
1 Obscure but memorable
0 Great minds think unalike
0 Heart and Soul and Numbers and Words
0 Thera-Blue
Free T-shirt for ever-faithful Dodger Thoughts reader BigCPA for coming up with the winner after the voting began - the most successful Dodger write-in since Steve Garvey's 1974 All-Star campaign. (But come on - no votes for "Great minds think unalike" or "Thera-Blue?" That's gold, Jerry, gold!)
So now, the vote - a close one, I'd say, with two first-place votes making the difference out of approximately 100 - is over. What comes next? A couple of quick notes before we get to talking about the design.
First, my wife suggested changing "Thinking outside the boxscore" to the more active "Think outside the boxscore," and I agree. I like the call to action, the invitation for everyone to think with the site instead of watching the site (okay, me) think for them.
Second, while it's obvious why this slogan was so popular, one could argue that there's not enough that's uniquely Dodger Thoughts or Dodgers about it. So as we adapt "Dodger Thoughts: Think outside the boxscore" into the T-shirt, I'm interested in seeing if the twist on Eric Gagne's personal slogan, "Where the game is never over," or the clever "The Dodger blog with relish" (note the slight change) might also be incorporated.
As far as designing the shirt, Dodger Thoughts reader Tommy Naccarato long ago offered to help. I've seen some of his designs in the past and they're good. But if anyone else has wants to offer any ideas - again, without pay - I'd love to see them as well. So if you want to help take us one step closer to T-shirt reality, let me know through the comments or an e-mail.
I'm a little self-conscious about how much time I've spent thinking and talking from Sloganland, but I'm excited about the new slogan and the upcoming shirts. I hope you are too.
I came up with nothing, yet am extremely proud of being a part of it all.
Your welcome. (bows, humbly steps off podium with gentle wave to adoring fans...)
I do not seem to be missing much from tonights game, however...
As far as the t-shirt design perhaps we could have a logo contest to go with the design of choice??
vr
Xei
speaking of slogans, vinny just uttered the phrase "the sing-song chant of hee seop choi", which is a total winner of a phrase as far as i'm concerned.
Allow me to relive the underdog drama:
137. bigcpa
1) We think outside the box score.
1A) Thinking outside the box score.
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140. Jon Weisman
The ballot is live, folks. See new post.
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142. bigcpa
Too late to get "Thinking outside the box score" on the ballot? I'll have to start a write-in campaign.
Congrats Jon.
"Even among the Paul DePodesta trekkies, the I-told-you-so's are being replaced by the uh-ohs."
So... we're trekkies. I don't think he's being complimentary here. I think a man barely able to utilize the King's English for more than a paragraph has thrown down his gage.
Gentlemen, we should perhaps consider a return of fire. Just give me time to put away my klingon mask...
Anyway, that's now my 4 cents on the matter.
I'm no ad exec ... actually, I am an ad exec. Well, a PR exec - same different, my mother thinks.
- JJS (or whatever my real initials are)
Having made a few more enemies, let me suggest that if you're gonna use the "winner" - cut the "think" or "thinking." Sorta redundant, even w/out the title of the shirt. And redundancy, explicit and less so, continues to be the most consistent crime against the language.
Further, "outside the boxscore" adequately describes a good many of the fans here who place way too much faith in the new insights,
and too little in the old (and hence, generate mildly wasteful polemics about 3 and 9 against somewhat decent teams not really being 3 and 9, I swear by Bud.) To honor the kind of chrysalis that the likeable Mr. Bill seemed to have in mind with the first abstract, how 'bout
"Outside the box...score!!!" or
"Boxscore and more!"
Sorry for any hurt feelings. I'll shazzam! for a while. Be well, blue guys.
Having made a few more enemies, let me suggest that if you're gonna use the "winner" - cut the "think" or "thinking." Sorta redundant, even w/out the title of the shirt. And redundancy, explicit and less so, continues to be the most consistent crime against the language.
Further, "outside the boxscore" adequately describes a good many of the fans here who place way too much faith in the new insights,
and too little in the old (and hence, generate mildly wasteful polemics about 3 and 9 against somewhat decent teams not really being 3 and 9, I swear by Bud.) To honor the kind of chrysalis that the likeable Mr. Bill seemed to have in mind with the first abstract, how 'bout
"Outside the box...score!!!" or
"Boxscore and more!"
Sorry for any hurt feelings. I'll shazzam! for a while. Be well, blue guys.
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