2013 dead pool roster and scoring thread

[Erik]

13 points for ElD. Scoreboard updated.

[Erik]

I liked it when the English Beat asked her to stand down.

[Erik]

Annette Funicello dead at 70. 30 points for Griswold. Scoreboard updated.

[griswold]

Annette Funicello dead at 70. 30 points for Griswold. Scoreboard updated.

WOOT!

Funny story...my buddy (buckeye1) and I are driving to the Indians home opener today and I was telling him about the death pool on RJ.

I read him Erik's roster and said "This SOB has 4 people die already for him and I don't have any!"

So I read him my roster and he says "Yeah, I can't believe none of those folks have died yet."

We park the car, go in to get something to eat. And he looks at his phone and starts laughing....I said, "What?"

And he shows me his CNN update the Annette Funicello died....he says "How's that for karma?"

We high-fived each other!

Nice!

[heyelander]

Comedian Jonathan Winters died today...

doesn't it seem like such a waste of life when someone undrafted dies?

[Erik]

RIP Pat Summerall. His broadcasts with Madden were quite entertaining during their peak years.

No one took him this year. TyWebb took him in 2011.

[Steve]

WOOT!

Funny story...my buddy (buckeye1) and I are driving to the Indians home opener today and I was telling him about the death pool on RJ.

I read him Erik's roster and said "This SOB has 4 people die already for him and I don't have any!"

So I read him my roster and he says "Yeah, I can't believe none of those folks have died yet."

We park the car, go in to get something to eat. And he looks at his phone and starts laughing....I said, "What?"

And he shows me his CNN update the Annette Funicello died....he says "How's that for karma?"

We high-fived each other!

Nice!

I don't think karma is the correct term......

[Roto Rooter]

I don't think karma is the correct term......

Exactly. Karma would have been the 2 of these stand up guys getting hit by a car and dying for high fiving with joy over someones death. Actually pretty much everyone who does a deal pool roster probably has some good karma coming at em.

[Judge Jude]

yes, karma will be the term for what comes next

#finaldestination

[Pogues]

Exactly. Karma would have been the 2 of these stand up guys getting hit by a car and dying for high fiving with joy over someones death. Actually pretty much everyone who does a deal pool roster probably has some good karma coming at em.

We're in trouble steve...you and I seem to be in the same camp as Roto Rooter on this one.

[Gregg]

Exactly. Karma would have been the 2 of these stand up guys getting hit by a car and dying for high fiving with joy over someones death. Actually pretty much everyone who does a deal pool roster probably has some good karma coming at em.

And scoring 96 points in the RJ Members Death Pool!

[Fresno Bob]

Exactly. Karma would have been the 2 of these stand up guys getting hit by a car and dying for high fiving with joy over someones death. Actually pretty much everyone who does a deal pool roster probably has some good karma coming at em.

I don't understand this....seriously.....do you hold the same feeling for people that own stocks, or say, fantasy baseball players that you don't like. My picking Fidel Castro in a deadpool has zero impact on if he actually dies.

[Roto Rooter]

I don't understand this....seriously.....do you hold the same feeling for people that own stocks, or say, fantasy baseball players that you don't like. My picking Fidel Castro in a deadpool has zero impact on if he actually dies.

Really you don't see the difference in picking sports stars for stats and picking people based on their likely hood of DEATH and then have even the smallest amount of joy when they actually do die. You picking Castro doesn't sentence him to death?? No way! I thought he was a deadman the second you drafted him. Thanks for clearing it up Mr. stand up human being.

The point is it's pretty damn disgusting to "draft" human beings based on different factors leading to their death, then tallying points for the death and patting eachother on the back. If you don't see how it's tasteless, disgusting and bad karma then have fun next time one of your roster folk dies. Throw a party even.

[DMT]

Throw a party even.

When Dick Cheney dies I plan to do just that.

[Fresno Bob]

Really you don't see the difference in picking sports stars for stats and picking people based on their likely hood of DEATH and then have even the smallest amount of joy when they actually do die. You picking Castro doesn't sentence him to death?? No way! I thought he was a deadman the second you drafted him. Thanks for clearing it up Mr. stand up human being.

The point is it's pretty damn disgusting to "draft" human beings based on different factors leading to their death, then tallying points for the death and patting eachother on the back. If you don't see how it's tasteless, disgusting and bad karma then have fun next time one of your roster folk dies. Throw a party even.

maybe I'm immoral or a sociopath, but no, I don't see a difference. Basically give me a player pool and a scoring mechanism, and I'll draft anything. Are you against shorting stocks as well, you are betting that employees and current shareholders are going to lose money, hell, maybe even go bankrupt, but my short/draft pick has ZERO impact on the actuality of it occurirng. I'd argue that watching and betting on boxing or MMA is worse, as you are actively rooting for people to be beaten senseless or forced to submit, and I'm not against that either as no one is forcing those guys into the ring.