This is a post I've been meaning to get around to. Last year during the baseball post-season, my college roommate and I we're trying to get our CBS profiles up to Superstar level to post on the post-season GameCenter glogs. My roommate is an Indians fan and was posting on numerous game threads to get his rating up. I wasn't as interested for that postseason and was already deep into my fantasy football league on CBS. After the Indians got bounced by the Red Sox (because my roommate started running his mouth off) all the two of had to show for our efforts were two profiles with All-Star rankings in the high-eighties. I let my profile slack off a bit, but after my fantasy league ended, my second place finish sky-rocketed my "Skills" rating, giving me a 94 rating overall. Now, I have no idea how the CBS profile rating works, nor do I care, but my roommate and I had a bit of a race going. There was no prize, merely bragging rights within our little dorm room in NJ. Some time in the past couple of months, CBS blessed my efforts with a "Superstar" ranking allowing me to (finally!) post on the Glogs. Now, that's how I spend my nights, watching the GameCenter or if I'm lucky the Braves on TV, usually SNY or Comcast for the Mets and Phillies but occasionally on ESPN or TBS for national game. Glogging a game without audio or video is actually hard, because I tend to miss big defensive plays and have to wait for substitutions and whatnot. Also, GameCenter tends to hate me (and by that I mean my computer sucks), and lags or fixes a mistake on a weird play after I've posted on the glog, making me look like an idiot. Which I am, but that isn't the point. The point is, I beat my roommate to greatness and am now reaping the benefits. And I love it.
And you still suck Norm.
Authors Note 5/16 - Cracked CBS Top 1000. Again no idea how. It's still cool though.
Achieving Greatness - Story of a Superstar
Posted on: May 13, 2008 10:29 pm
Edited on: May 16, 2008 2:17 pm
Category: General
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Level: Superstar Since: Oct 21, 2007 
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Posted on: May 17, 2008 9:08 am
Achieving Greatness - Story of a SuperstarCongrats to the Eagle for top 1000. |
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Level: Superstar Since: Mar 27, 2008
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Posted on: May 19, 2008 12:07 pm
Achieving Greatness - Story of a SuperstarHope my game commentary is worth reading for all of you Braves fans out there. I do what I can. I'm on the way to reaching superstar status so I can glog the games even if I'm not working that particular Braves game. I just started a blog myself that recaps my glogged games for the week as well. As always, thanks for the glog feedback JEagle.. it is sometimes frustrating when your comments get posted about 2 minutes before mine and I say exactly what you said. CBS has our official glogs posted on a delay, so sometimes I look like the idiot that stole the information from your postings when in actuality it is CBS taking their sweet time posting it. - samford2007/Giovanni H. |
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Level: Superstar Since: Feb 9, 2007
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Posted on: May 19, 2008 3:04 pm
Achieving Greatness - Story of a SuperstarYour welcome Giovanni. I'm just glad I can finally post on the glogs. I always wondered about the delay, and you've just confirmed my theory. I wouldn't do it, but I've followed glogs where the CBS guys get ripped for copying the user comments. My biggest problem is trying to look stuff up and follow the GameCenter/TV to see what is going on, while posting on my game thread. It's a lot of fun though, and I since I'm in NJ right now, I can watch the Mets-Braves on SNY when I'm not in night class. Keep up the good work. |
