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Torn MCL and possibly ACL. No link.  Either you trust me or you don't.

Crap. That really stinks.



 :shake:

+5 if your right, -5 if your wrong.

:D

Seems your points are low.  Either he's got big (but very unfortunate) scoop or he's putting very bad Bama mojo out.  That should be worth A LOT more than 5 points each way.

I'm right.  Never made up bs before.

I trust this man.  ;D

I'm hoping for april fools. 

OK...
Efforts to confirm a Watkins injury through UA have not been successful today.
Spoke with a couple of people close to the team today who both said Watkins indeed has injured a knee. To what extent, we won't speculate absent stronger confirmation. Reporting on medical conditions can be dicey, and generally speaking we'll write a news story only with on-the-record confirmation from someone with direct knowledge of the situation. If we're able to get more information confirmed, we'll post a news story. And of course, we'll keep an eye out for him at practice Friday.

Chase
This post was edited on 3/31 8:58 PM by Chase Goodbread

Well I sure hope it is just a mistake about it. Nothing bad, hate to hear any athlete has done this. RTR!

I hate it for Alex, but if we were going to lose someone for a season, LB is loaded enough that we can handle it. I hope it's not true, though, for his sake. Plus, it's hard to replace that kind of game experience, no matter how talented the young guys are.

I checked AL.COM, TS, Rivals, ESPN. No story yet.

I think your right.  Let's up this to +20/-20.  If it turns out to be a knee injury but the details aren't quite right, then we'll go +10.

I'm certain he is not making this up, this is more to prevent some wise guy from coming along and deciding he wants to have a scoop too.

What do you guys think the points at stake here should be?

His avatar is on the line.  Change it to an Aub if he's wrong.

-10 if BS. That's all.

More importantly, not just here because I'm certain this one will be a + for navychief.  But for in the future what should the e-cred stakes be.  This is one of the main reasons I setup the e-cred system.  To reward people who really get the scoop and deter people who just want to poke the gilmers.

Or maybe we should let the OP wager their own e-cred based on how accurate they think their information is.  That certainly has potential.  It would allow people to post things they are not 100% sure about and let everyone who reads it to get a feel for how accurate it is.  Sort of like a numerical based TIFWIW system.  What do you guys think about that?

Gold.  #+

You would first have to establish whether or not a subject or post is wager worthy. # of BSs?

Yes, I like it too.  So chief what would you like to wager on this one?

I guess the allowable range will be 0 to 1/2 your e-cred.  I would hate to bust somebody down to 0 if something they honestly thought was true didn't pan out.  Another benefit of this idea is that a new person with no e-cred won't have much to wager.

I'm starting to really like this idea.

The potential is huge. You need to determine a thread wager worthy, then set a time limit to wager.

Wager worthy emoticon?

Yes, good point.  We wouldn't want people to wager on silly things that are certain to happen just to boost their e-cred.

Let's see... anybody who is on the most e-cred list or is a mod can decide if it is wager worthy.  Of course you can't claim your own post is wager worthy, it has to be somebody different than the OP.

Yes, we need a smiley for this.  I will see what I can find.  If you post this smiley (and you are authorized to do so) then that is the official stamp that it is wager worthy.

And you don't want someone to be able to lollygag until it is confirmed or not confirmed to wager.

More than one wager smiley, say 5, to qualify. Conspiracy theorist.

Great idea.  Especially since their are 20 people on the e-cred list.

Maybe five is too many. You don'twant a guy sitting around hitting refresh to get the 5th one. But if two people got together on a bunch of threads, they could boost their totals to the thousands in an hour.

Then you run into confirmation problems. Chief Justice?

This one is a little tougher, since there are times during the day when a lot of people are on here and there are other dead periods like 2:00 AM.  Maybe we have up to 24 hours to get the 5 wager worthy stamps.  That way it gives you a full cycle regardless of where you are in the world.  If the story breaks open before you get the 5 wager worthy stamps then all bets are off.

Time limit from wager worthy determination-- 1hr?

My source says it's true.

(http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ57Nf_TRlDuz0hH5ghmdY4Q5ZCmllyf1r1QlwSxYodOreZzIKAJw)

Yes, we will need to think about this one.

Only an hour from the 5th stamp until you have to present proof that it is true?  That probably isn't long enough for a lot of stuff.  Like this case for example.

(http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTYacMojs0mIR6itbLz8i2rdM0rWEWRY6rSvzsgK5aE86D_Vx5Q)

At least for now, you could serve as Chief Justice. I'd be surprised if you had more than a couple a week. More once the season starts.

Well this looks interesting. lol, RTR!

No. 1 hour or 1/2 hour to place your wager. The confirmation process may take months in some cases. Auto switch to the "CASINO" pacle once a bet is pacled? Bet smiley.

Oh right, I got it now.  Yes, that sounds good.

I was thinking they would probably place the wager as part of the OP and then the stamps would be to accept it or not.

You have up to an hour after the 5th stamp to place or change your wager.  After the hour is up then it is official and cant be changed.  Hmmm... maybe I need to set the mod time back to an hour now.

:think:

Hmmm.... switching to a casino theme.  That is another great idea.  It would take some custom programming, but I think it would be well worth it.  I will put that on my list.

This reminds me that I have some poker artwork from the "All in with Pocket Aces" wallpaper I built about a year ago.  I will see if any of that stuff is usable.  It would be cool to have some custom chips or something.

LOL, Hey SUPERCOACH do you remember what I told you when I first came here and looked the site over? I will let you think about it, you and I had a fair discussion about it,  ;D. I bet you know I was right now huh.  #+ RTR!

AndrewJBone: (http://twitter.com/#!/ChaseGoodbread/status/53884589009158144) Per UA, Alabama LB Alex Watkins to miss remainder of spring with knee injury. 12:20 PM April 1st

link: http://alabama.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1207019

Expected to be back by summer is a great sign.  Hopefully wasn't too severe and he will make a full recovery as CNS has already bragged on him this spring.

+20 for navychief.

#+

Ricky, not sure what yours and SUPERCOACH's conversation was about, but I've got this:

On the first page of this thread, SC said, "...what do y'all think"?  I'm not going to be anything near a "birther" and even ask for SC's birth certificate.   Saying that, SC needs to run for POTUS.  Very democratic and fair. 

Yeah, it's Friday and I'm sappy but I don't care.  LOL..   #+

This is a super (no pun intended) idea.

Well what I told SC was: When I looked this site over he only had 2 people close to mods was Terrie and general. I looked at everything made a couple of posts and I told SC that this site one day would be the biggest thing going. His ideas and honesty was so transparent he would have a site others would be begging for the rights to. Good job, SC. We are Alabama and growing. RTR!

Its confirmed by al.com too.

http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2011/04/alabama_linebacker_alex_watkin.html

Well we look forward to seeing him get back. He will be fired up then for sure. RTR!

BTW..I was working or I would have wagered them all, plus my wife and my truck

Yes, I figured you probably would have.  So I will let you have the max bet.  Let's see, you were at 63 so I will put the bet at 32.  I already gave you 20, so now I will go give you another 12.

Good thing I run this place, I can just do like the U.S. Treasury and go print some new e-creds when I spend to much.  :D

This may lead to hyperinflation for the goods and services we purchase with E-Creds.

...AND your truck?  NC, you're scaring me.  :o :o

Congrats.  I had faith in you.  ;D