<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Patrick McIrish:
Jake - nothing wrong with your attitude but that is _exactly_ why I don't want to enter. Nothing personal but I'm not trying to beat you or "destroy your hope for fame". Seriously. Nor do I care about beating anyone else on TRK's list unless there was a wager involved. I'm only trying to beat Olympic, Pinnacle, Bowmans etc......, the people who are holding the money. Not sure you understand but I got in it for a whole different reason than you guys. You are hoping to attract customers, I am trying to win actual $$$ from the books. In fact I would glady let you beat me by any margin as long as I am making real money playing my own picks. I couldn't have been happier with my +11.6 regular season and +6.33 I think in the play-offs. That's a solid +17/18 units in baseball that I will take every year. Trust me. No props, futures or anything else, just grinding it out everyday. I don't want to "destroy the hopes" as you put it of winning, I wish you luck. Besides I think you and Dog probably are both better than I in bases anyway, no big deal for me to say it. Don't think you will ever get it but you are the last guy on my list of enemies or the last guy I want to beat. LOL. I think it's healty for you to compete with others actually, I just need to focus on beating the books not you. Hope you understand. Good luck to all of you.
TRK - I hate saying no to you so PLEASE don't ask me. LOL. You see how Jake is, well there's plenty others like that here too. They may not bet much but would love to win this contest. That's not a cutdown, simply they check the standings everyday instead of their spread sheets. LOL. It's important to them. Hope it's cool with you because you were super easy to work with and it's really no hassle at all but it is very important to some of these guys like Jake to win. This latest round of bickering and all is not what I come here for and quite frankly am a little burnt out right now anyway. I'll talk to you later about it but others would get way more out of this than I would. I gave you a whole year to track me and I consider you a good friend!!!
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It's important for me to win because that means me and others are making money. The two can coincide, wanting to win and wanting to beat the books. They are not exclusive.