Welcome a New Writer to BTB's Front Page
by Dave Halprin on Feb 8, 2010 7:00 AM CST
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PrintAs is tradition here at BTB, we add some front-page help over the offseason. We do this to add new voices to the blog with differing points of view and expertise. We like to bring up guys (or gals) from the community who have done exemplary work in the FanPosts and the comments section over an extended period of time. Also, it has to be someone who has received the recognition of his peers.
We've got just such a person at BTB. You guys know 'em, most of you guys love his work, so it should be no surprise we are bringing him up to the front for the 2010 offseason.
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Please help me welcome One.Cool.Customer as a contributing writer here at BTB. O.C.C. (as I will officially call him from now on) has been posting awesome FanPosts using statistics to look at all kinds of things to do with football and the Cowboys. He'll continue that work now over the spring and summer.
Congrats O.C.C. on your excellent work so far, and on your many upcoming masterpieces. (Heh, nothing like putting a little pressure on right out of the gate.)
Now, a word or two from our newest contributor - One.Cool.Customer. (Known to his friends as Lars).
I had lots of fun posting in the FanPosts section in the past, and judging by the comments, so did most of you. When Dave asked me to help out on the front-page for the offseason, I felt both delighted and a little nervous. Posting on the front page is a different animal altogether, so I ask for a little patience as I find my way around the do's and dont's. For those of you familiar with my previous stuff on BTB, expect more of the same - all
others, expect posts that are heavily focused on stats, sometimes serious in tone, sometimes irreverent, and
occasionally with obscure stat that are off the beaten path.
Some of the regular readers here know that I live in Germany. But now it's time to come clean on another minor detail: I don't just live here, I am in fact a German. I spent some time in the early eighties with my parents in Columbia, South Carolina (Go Clemson! And Jerry, please draft Jacoby Ford) where my parents bought an impressionable 10-year old a Cowboys jacket, and I've stuck with the Cowboys ever since. My younger brother got a Steelers jacket, so the two of us now have 11 rings between us :-).
Here's hoping that you will find my contribution to the front page either entertaining or enlightening - and ideally a
combination of both - in what already feels like a very, very long off-season ahead of us.
Lars
Be sure to say hello to O.C.C. and congratulate him on his move to the front.
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I'm sure I can speak for a lot of us, when I say...
Keep doin’ what ya doin’.
FEAR the STAR.
"You have been banned from Bleeding Green Nation" -JasonB
I'll, uh, second and third that :)
O.Cool… you really made Grizz’s job easy, as your posts are so consistently a pleasure to read. You deserve it!
Does this mean your “Trolling…” posts will make the front page? :)
Doomsday returns... Wade Phillips style.
Well deserved OCC
Look forward to more of your entertaining posts and of course, the all-important Cheerleader art, without which no OCC post would ever be comlpete…
FREE THE OGLETREE!!!
HERE HERE!!!
Best of Luck man! Appreciate the job done so far!!!
Congratulations OCC and excellent choice Dave,
Your fanposts have been great Lars.
Looking forward to more of the same.
Congrats OCC!
I love your fan posts, and look forward to seeing them front and center – keep up the great work!
Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life. Do not be concerned with escaping safely - lay your life before him. - Bruce Lee
by LucyFur3d on Feb 8, 2010 7:25 AM CST via mobile reply actions
Congratulations!
Keep the cheerleader pictures coming!
Lifetime Cowboys Fan from the Swamps of Jersey
No brainer....
Love your work OCC. Congrats! And your right about a long off-season ahead of us. It was like yesterday I was getting ready for opening day in Tampa!
Anomoly............Finally here.........
Welcome to the O.C.C., bitch!
That should be your first post.
by Baked Potato Soup on Feb 8, 2010 8:47 AM CST up reply actions
Thanks everybody
I appreciate the show of support and will try hard to live up to it – though sneaking cheerleaders onto the front page might be a little more tricky than in the fanposts :-)
by One.Cool.Customer on Feb 8, 2010 9:37 AM CST reply actions
Dammit!
Well if you can’t sneak cheerleaders on I guess it’s time to can this idea… oh well!
: )
by The Immortal Iron Fist AKA AFB on Feb 8, 2010 9:44 AM CST up reply actions
Yeah, I'm on the way to becoming an OCC skeptic
I mean, has anyone EVER sold out that quickly????
FREE THE OGLETREE!!!
Just cause you're a front page writer
doesn’t mean you can’t occasionally put up a fanpost! :-)
Oh yeah – congratulations!!
Congrats man
After all the hard work, it is well deserved. Good job man
I'll live and die with number 9....
Good job OCC - Congrats and looking forward to your 1st front page
Love the stats (but I’m a geek, so serve ’em up ;-)
When in doubt, empty your magazine
Viel Glück!
"Drinks are on me if Lewis posts >168IP and an era lower than 3.86." by RangerMad on Jan 20, 2010 12:36 PM PST
biggup
come down selectah!
2009 BTB Part Deux Fantasy League Champion. 'Kill Everybody 13-2'. KDP knows football.
Viva OCC!
and I second your Clemson and Jacoby Ford sentiments. Thank goodness you didn’t get drawn in to that ugly stepsister downstate since you lived in their town. XD
Welcome to the show, brother!
Who’s down with OCC? Yeah, you know me…all the homies!
BTB League Consolation Ladder Champ...thought you knew.
Congratulations
It is certainly deserved.
If I had a nickel for every Super Bowl the Eagles have won, I would have zero nickels.
Gratz!
An excellent choice. Congrats to OCC for being picked and to Dave for picking him.
Congrats! Almost unfair..
that BTB continues to fortify its foothold as THE place for discussion for the knowledgable fan. Especially contrasted with the infantile tripe found on DMN & “espndallas” (lol)- to think those guys actually get paychecks for their drivel.
Congratulations!
My first few months I thought you were a regular writer anyway. Finally I figured out that you were just a fan posting great stuff….and now I have to re-adjust to you as a writer. I don’t mind, you have earned this distinction.
When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car.
No surprise at all
Very entertaining/enlightening posts. Keep up the good work and congrats! Excellent choice BTB.
"The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart."
Best Wishes
you sound ideal for coverage of the winter olympics. ;)
if you can satisfy most of this bunch most of the time you will be doing a great job.
Congrats OCC.
Love the statistical nuggets you dig up for us. And the artwork you share with us. Well-deserved.
Congrats man :)
"When people talk about Super Bowl dynasties they mention the 1970's Steelers, 1980's 49ers, 1990's Cowboys and the current New England Patriots, but nobody has dominated the Super Bowl like Anheuser-Busch. In recent years, Budweiser has been the MVP of Super Bowl advertising -- making another company the favorite to win the Ad Meter poll was never an option."
Simon Noble
Congrats OCC
If you are ever in the Kaiserslautern area, you are welcome to come by my house for some beer and my wife’s cooking.
I absolutely love your country, by the way. I would stay here indefinitely if the taxes weren’t so high.
Ich bin ein Berliner--JFK
I was hoping this was coming
Congrats Lars.
altho I’ve said the Fanpost rec list actually was a perfect place for you because it actually stays up in view even longer than front page posts, your stuff is obviously quite worthy of being front page material and you were the obvious candidate for Dave to bring aboard officially, and I’m sure we’ll all pitch in with comments the same regardless of not being able to see your posts in the fanpost rec list.
Congrats OCC
You know most , including myself love your articles but this noncense of no cheerleaders must be reconsidered. Intermissions are absolutely necessary to maintain proper focus on stats. There are stats in your stuff isn’t there? Oh well, congrats again and we all look forward to your next story.
Congrats OCC, I love your posts, great choice Grizz.
Ignore the Mainstream Media, EMBRACE THE HATE!!!!
Congrats man
Can’t wait for ur posts, make sure u add in a cheerleader or two
by nicholas.rodriguez on Feb 8, 2010 7:01 PM CST reply actions
It will be great to see your work on the front page, O.C.C.
"Everybody wants something but nobody wants to pay the price" - Michael Irvin
Who's Down With OCC?
Hip Hop Hooray…
Hoe, Hey, Hoe, Hey, Hoe, Hey, Hoe!!!
Props to U, Cool!!!!!!!
Congrats are most definitely in order!!!!!!!!!!!
Is playing smart too much to ask?
Big congrats...
It was only a matter of time. I’ve never seen someone posting such high quality FanPosts like you did, so consistently.
Defending Big D: A Dallas Stars blog on SBN: easy to use, free to join.
by Brandon Worley on Feb 9, 2010 1:07 AM CST via mobile reply actions
Congrats
Your posts are always a pleasure to read, and probably the second post I read on this site after Raf’s each week. I tried to do one single statistical analysis of how effective our offense was when we were penalized and it took me 3 hours and I was wrong on a few accounts…I have no idea how you do it. But keep’em coming!
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