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Important Announcent Regarding ESPN

Posted by Pean
611 days ago


Hi Folks,

I just wanted to let everyone know about an important announcement that will be made later today. ESPN will announce a very large ($4.1 Million) round of financing for ArmchairGM.com. They are really interested in capturing great user generated content, and will use YOUR articles to help grow the Worlds Greatest Sports Empire. We are very excited to help their global dominance.

There are a few caveats, which DNL had to agree to.

  • No more negative posts/comments about ESPN or ESPN personalities. Anyone who violates this will be BANNED. No exceptions.
  • ESPN owns the rights to everything you post. Even your username
  • Cross posting will be encouraged. They really want teaser text in all blog posts, that will link to the content that is on ESPN.
  • No more videos embedded on ArmchairGM.com. They must be linked to ESPN.com
  • No more uploading images
  • No more avatars
  • No more voting for articles. Popular articles will be decided by ESPN
  • Beat reporters will continue, but we are REQUIRED to have 20-25 users each on the Yankees and Red Sox.
  • No more polls. SportsNation Polls on ESPN can only be used.
  • More flashy and sound enabled ads
  • Homepage will have SportsCenter Auto Loaded
  • In order to read popular articles, you will have to pay $19.99 a month.
  • In order to read new articles, you will have to pay $29.99 a month.
  • Each week, someone has to volunteer to write an article on "Why Joe Morgan Is Great".
  • Someone has to build out the "Spelling Bee" Encyclopedia

Sounds pretty easy to me! Let's do it!

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Cornfed78Draft Pick
611 days ago
Score 7+-
And Happy April Fools Day to you too Pean!
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Tyrone BriggsHall of Famer
611 days ago
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In other words... status quo.
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EnyboDiv-I Stud
611 days ago
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Oh Pean, you're such a kidder. What's next, a breaking news story about how Providence College will hire Bobby Knight to replace Tim Welsh?
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Alex HolowczakHall of Famer
611 days ago
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"There are a few caveats, which DNL had to agree to."

No, you mean, "there are a few caveats that DNL had to agree to."

Thanks for adding the link category I asked for! :)
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Alex HolowczakHall of Famer
610 days ago
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And surely, it would be.. an "Announcement"?
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Pittsburgh GunnyMajor Leaguer
611 days ago
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Worldwide Leader my arse.
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BigPPupMajor Leaguer
611 days ago
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April Fools.... But I am glad to know I finally made it to the show, and I can leave all you suckas behind.
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AfraidofedhochuliDraft Pick
610 days ago
Score 1+-
APRIL FOOLS!
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SSreportersLegend
610 days ago
Score 2+-
Only one way to find out... Berman is an idiot and ESPN SUCKS!!!!
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Falcon02520Legend
610 days ago
Score 2+-
Damn Pean, make it an article next time and I bet every user here votes for it...
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RomiezzoLegend
610 days ago
Score 3+-
Well, guys, since I don't have any money to pay for those articles, and there's almost no ways to gain points, I'm gonna pull off a Manny Stiles: I'm outta here... (You know I'll be back)
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False ProphetAll-Star
610 days ago
Score 9+-
Translation:
  • "No more negative posts/comments about ESPN or ESPN personalities. Anyone who violates this will be BANNED. No exceptions." - Bye Bye SSR
  • "ESPN owns the rights to everything you post. Even your username" - Sweet, cyber-communism
  • "Cross posting will be encouraged. They really want teaser text in all blog posts, that will link to the content that is on ESPN." - Now I get to enjoy a preview of everything the great staff at ESPN has to offer. (on a serious note, their NFL research Dept. is actually pretty good, even if their writers suck).
  • "No more videos embedded on ArmchairGM.com. They must be linked to ESPN.com" - Hooray ESPN.com's videos aka the only thing worse than myspace pages.
  • "No more uploading images" - Please sylize all future articles
  • "No more avatars" - AND Cyber Facism? Why didn't we do this earlier?
  • "No more voting for articles. Popular articles will be decided by ESPN" - I never liked having freedoms
  • "Beat reporters will continue, but we are REQUIRED to have 20-25 users each on the Yankees and Red Sox." New York and Boston's coverage must reflect ESPN's opinion on the population differences between the Northeast Metropolis's and the rest of the world.
  • "No more polls. SportsNation Polls on ESPN can only be used." - That's so nice of them to tell me what I get to share my opinion on. Now I don't have to think of ideas for articles!
  • "More flashy and sound enabled ads" - Can we also change the URL to armchairgm.espn.com/myspace too?
  • "Homepage will have SportsCenter Auto Loaded" - Can it also play the ESPNews theme song rediculously loud on repeat?
  • "In order to read popular articles, you will have to pay $19.99 a month. In order to read new articles, you will have to pay $29.99 a month." - Let's charge more so that the Worldwide leader in sports will stay the worldwide leader in sports!!!
  • "Each week, someone has to volunteer to write an article on "Why Joe Morgan Is Great"." - Davis, you want first dibs?
  • "Someone has to build out the "Spelling Bee" Encyclopedia" - SSR? Change of plans. You can either be banned permanently, or fill out the Spelling Bee encyclopedia.
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Falcon02520Legend
610 days ago
Score 5+-
I actually read this whole comment... nice commentary
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False ProphetAll-Star
610 days ago
Score 2+-
thanks, I'm surprised you actually read it all. It's longer than the lockerrom post itself
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Too Manny StilesVarsity Captain
610 days ago
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Wait. So this means the site will finally have a programmer that gets things fixed right the first time???
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PeanMajor Leaguer
610 days ago
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:(
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Too Manny StilesVarsity Captain
610 days ago
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April Fools!!!
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Davis21wylieMVP
610 days ago
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Each week, someone has to volunteer to write an article on "Why Joe Morgan Is Great".


Hey, I'll definitely volunteer. I mean, I can't say enough good things about the guy. He's really great at what he does, and is actually one of my all-time favorites. To summarize: Joe Morgan is simply tremendous.


Wait... we're talking about Joe as a player, right?
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False ProphetAll-Star
610 days ago
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no, we're talking about Joe Morgan, the world famous baseball broadcaster
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Yakob878MVP
610 days ago
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It better be a joke, or else i just quit
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Agent0Red-Shirting
610 days ago
Score 5+-
Yea I agree
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Niteowl049AAA-er
609 days ago
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I was surprised Joe Morgan was so adamant in his views about Bonds being innocent. Haven't heard his opinions on Bonds since the indictment. Of course Bonds is still innocent until proven guilty but I wouldn't want to be in his place right now.
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