Smack Talk Mind Games (1 Viewer)

[sspunisher]

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[Sabertooth]

We have this guy in my league who talks a lot of ####. He then appends ... good luck to you this weekend...to everything. It was funny early on until he became a total drama queen about other things later on. Then it just got annoying.

So we had another owner just tear him up one side and down the other. He went nuts on him. Then at the end wished him a very Merry Christmas and what not. It was hilarious. Funniest thing I've seen on our boards in some time.

 

[Dinsy Ejotuz]

Reigning champ from last year in one of my leagues went absolutely ape#### after I traded Boldin and Celek to land Gronkowski in the preseason. Demanded the Commish do something then quit the league when the trade was allowed to stand. Sent him a nice note thanking him for his trade advice after week two or three, and cc:d the league. Have had to restrain myself from sending another one these last few weeks as Gronk is going Grendel on the NFL.

 

[Sabertooth]

Reigning champ from last year in one of my leagues went absolutely ape#### after I traded Boldin and Celek to land Gronkowski in the preseason. Demanded the Commish do something then quit the league when the trade was allowed to stand. Sent him a nice note thanking him for his trade advice after week two or three, and cc:d the league. Have had to restrain myself from sending another one these last few weeks as Gronk is going Grendel on the NFL.

Wait, he thought you got the crap end of that trade? Lolz! Send the email, but be careful to do it only after the season. Because otherwise you might get burned.

 

[Topes]

Reigning champ from last year in one of my leagues went absolutely ape#### after I traded Boldin and Celek to land Gronkowski in the preseason. Demanded the Commish do something then quit the league when the trade was allowed to stand.

Wait, he thought you got the crap end of that trade?

 

[Dr. Octopus]

Reigning champ from last year in one of my leagues went absolutely ape#### after I traded Boldin and Celek to land Gronkowski in the preseason. Demanded the Commish do something then quit the league when the trade was allowed to stand. Sent him a nice note thanking him for his trade advice after week two or three, and cc:d the league. Have had to restrain myself from sending another one these last few weeks as Gronk is going Grendel on the NFL.

Wait, he thought you got the crap end of that trade? Lolz! Send the email, but be careful to do it only after the season. Because otherwise you might get burned.

I don't even understand how that's possible? While I'm sure not many saw Gronkowski having a season like this, he was a second round NFL pick coming off a very good rookie season. Boldin looked near the end of the line last season, while Celek was a decent player but an average fantasy TE.I read it the other way at first (and even then I thought quitting over it was way over dramatic) but I guess since Wrob is rubbing it in - it seems like the guy was "protecting" his interests. Too funny.

 

[Stompin' Tom Connors]

One GM in my league loves to go the other way with the smack talk. Purposefully avoids saying anything that would smack of smack, says good luck before every game, even votes for the other team to win each week when our league is on Yahoo.

It's actually worked for him for the past two or three years -- playoffs two years ago, champ last year, playing me in the semis this weekend w/an 11-2 record. Drives me f'n nuts -- especially as this is totally against his character.

I can't decide whether matching his tactic or going overboard on the filthiest smack I can think of will break this Keerocking.

 

[footballnerd]

One GM in my league loves to go the other way with the smack talk. Purposefully avoids saying anything that would smack of smack, says good luck before every game, even votes for the other team to win each week when our league is on Yahoo. It's actually worked for him for the past two or three years -- playoffs two years ago, champ last year, playing me in the semis this weekend w/an 11-2 record. Drives me f'n nuts -- especially as this is totally against his character.I can't decide whether matching his tactic or going overboard on the filthiest smack I can think of will break this Keerocking.

reverse jinxing is an effective approach too, "man, my team is going to have to work its ### off cause CJ2K is gonna blow up for you"

 

[Mr. Know-It-All]

Two weeks ago - dude sends out a league wide IM basically saying 13-0, surprisingly easy, can't believe it has never been done in this league before - hope the playoffs are a little more challenging.

After last week the quietest guy in our league (also the 8th seed) beat the #1 seed (the guy that posted the above) and sent out the following - "choke on that".

Those might have been the only 3 words he has ever posted on the message board - but coming from him it was freaking hilarious.

 

[Raiderfan32904]

Just got an email from this week's playoff opponent. Now he knows I am hurting at RB starting Pierre Thomas and Chris Ivory at RB. "Why don't you start some of your backups against me, get them some game experience?", then softens it all with "good luck". I can only respond with a and "good luck in the championships fella". "wish me some luck in the toilet bowl game" I have no answer for his mojo.

 

[PainTrain]

Had a guy mock me about picking up Tebow, and openly dared me to start him instead of Stafford a couple days before our first head-to-head match of the season. I quickly replied "Done" and made the requested changes to my starting lineup. Of course... now we all know what Tebow does when he gets the starting job.

 

[doeseatplace]

Not really smack talk, but an owner in our league waits until like 12:30 on Sunday to post his lineup just about every week

What? You're trying to confuse me by not revealing whether you're starting Vincent Jackson or Mike Williams? Does that affect my preparation, make me call into question my lineup choices and generally screw up my game plan that I tailored to beat you?

 

[Raiderfan32904]

Not really a smack talk story, but an anti-smack story.

Last year, going into the championship, my 14-1 team looks like a 2010 all star fantasy roster, just loaded top to bottom. My opponent has been smack talking and calling me out talking about taking out the "uncle with benefits". I calmly entered my usual lineup and never responded. He got so psyched out, that he subbed out half his starters for sleepers and fliers and his team bit the dust hard. The funny thing is that my all-star team had an off week, and he'd have beaten me in the finals if he just stuck with his usual lineup. So I won by silently psyching him out.

 

[bonesman]

A few years ago I got the this guy who thought he was a Jedi-mind-trick master to draft Reggie Bush in rnd 1 (his rookie year I think)... I had the commish, who was friends with the guy, talk up how much I was talking about Bush. UNFORTUNATELY, some tardo who was in his first year in the league snags him about 2 picks earlier. Totally devastated my devious master plan.

 

[Ignoratio Elenchi]

Not really smack talk, but an owner in our league waits until like 12:30 on Sunday to post his lineup just about every weekWhat? You're trying to confuse me by not revealing whether you're starting Vincent Jackson or Mike Williams? Does that affect my preparation, make me call into question my lineup choices and generally screw up my game plan that I tailored to beat you?

I usually set my lineups around 12:30 on Sundays. I imagine that's pretty common, and it has nothing at all to do with affecting my opponent.

 

[Craig_MiamiFL]

I usually set my lineup 2 dozen times, with different smack talk each time....and the opponent receivers an email each lineup change.

I usually go for more than 2 dozen times to the moronic opponents that don't respond to trade offers.

 

[GregR]

A few favorites...

"Next time we play how about I give you some of my backup players for you to start so you can actually make a game of it?"

"After seeing your team in action this week, I'm going to propose your team be renamed to 'Bye Week' on the schedule."

"If you're going to be out of town like last week and don't have time to set your lineup, just let us know and we'll have someone set it for you. What's that? You weren't out of town? Oh. Sorry. I just assumed your wife must of set that lineup based on uniform color or something."

Here's something shamelessly stolen from someone on here which got a lot of laughs. Much credit to whoever came up with it originally.

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Yours with immense sincerity,

Mr. Sanjay Punjab

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Nahasapeemapetilon Consulting

In the past I've also liked playing off current movies and the like. Leaguewide email from years back along the lines of.

My brother came over to visit the other day and was asking for fantasy football advice, what players he should be targeting. I explained how I was the league champion in our league three years in a row, and then got on my laptop and saved my rosters onto a disc for him. I tossed it to him, but he missed and it sailed into the fireplace and landed in the hot flames.

He apologized but I told him not to worry about it. I picked the disc out of the fire with a pair of tongs and told him, "Hold out your hand. It's quite cool," and I dropped the disc into his hand and told him to look at it.

"Nothing. There's nothing," he told me, and I relaxed back into my seat.

And then, "Wait... there are markings. It's some form of writing, a bunch of X's and O's. I can't read it," he said.

"There are few who can," I told him. "The language is that of Playbook, which I will not utter here."

"Playbook?"

"In the English tongue it reads:

One Team to rule them all.

One Team to rend them.

One Team to beat them all

and to The Toilet Bowl send them.