a TRULY funny 'trade' story, long, but a good laugh. Options

[bohman]

Disclaimers:
names have been changed to protect the innocent (and guilty), curse words changed to curse misspellings, sorry for the long post

Begin of story:

we use CBS. cbs sends out a standardized trade notification to everyone in the league when a trade goes down.

yesterday, a buddy sent this out:

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CBSSports.com Fantasy Football Notification
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The White Elephants trade Matt Ryan and Vernon Davis to Michael-Turner Overdrive for Donnie Avery and Rob Bironas.

This is not an automated e-mail sent out from the CBSSports.com Fantasy Football web site.

Prefer not to receive this notification in the future?
Go to: http://nomorewhiteelephanttrades.com
to change the e-mail notifications you are currently set up to receive.

it is almost an exact duplicate of the notification cbs sends out, only with some minor differences.

well, many owners in the league didn't read the fine print, and it fooled them. also factoring into that is that one owner (the white elephants) is notorious for bad trades where he gets fleeced.

so this email gets sent out:
This trade is a joke! A borderline #1 fantasy qb and te for a #3 wr and a kicker?????

i respond with this:
i agree, this trade IS a joke!

STILL not getting it, a different owner sends this out:
Where's the veto on that commish?

the owner who sent out the bogus message then sends this:
Some folks are quicker than others...

Everyone must go! Throw me some trade offers!

i respond to the veto email with this:
there will be not veto, whereas the owners informed that they had a footrace and the winner would get the better side of the deal.

seems fair to me!

prompting this email from a different owner:
Foot race, hell Im too lazy for that. I wouldve just bribed him with a case of beer.
(this owner had previously gotten busted in 2004 for acquiring chris chambers for a case of beer and some schmo player)

then this email gets sent out from an owner who bet $50 on best regular season record with the white elephants:
well, i'll say i just locked up $50 from maloney....Thankyou sir

THEN, the capper. the funniest part is that the owner getting fleeced in the fake trade, the white elephants, fell for it too! what a moron:
WHAT THE FUkK IS THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!??????????????? I NEVER PROPOSED OR ACCEPTED THIS TRADE. I WOULD HAVE TO BE OUT OF MY FUkKING MIND!!!!!!!!!!!! I WASN'T EVEN AWARE A TRADE WAS OFFERED. FUkK YOU MICHAEL TURNER OVERDRIVE. WHAT AN INSULT TO ME THAT YOU WOULD EVEN OFFER A TRADE LIKE THIS. COMMISH, HOW COULD YOU EVEN ALLOW THIS TO HAPPEN. FUkK YOU TOO LIONS DEN (AND ANYBODY ELSE WHO THOUGHT I HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH THIS). WHY DON'T YOU TAKE THAT 50-DOLLAR BILL AND SHOVE IT SO FAR UP YOUR A$$ UNTIL YOU BECOME ULYSSES S. FUkKING GRANT. SOMEBODY WANNA EXPLAIN TO ME WHAT THE DEAL IS HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

mind you, that this whole email chain started at 1pm. white elephants ranting email occured at 12:50 am.

then the fool places 3 after-midnight calls to me, waking me and my wife up. prompting this response from me this morning:
bwaahahahahhahaha. man, this would have been the funniest thing except that it is actuallly the saddest.

also, FYI (again), curse words get your email filtered from MICHAEL TURNER OVERDRIVE, so be creative and say FUKK and $hit.

now, back to business....

WHITE ELEPHANTS, DON'T EVER FUKKING CALL ME AT 12;30am EVER AGAIN UNLESS YOU ARE ON FIRE. especially for anything fantasy related.

FYI FOR EVERYOEN HERE, FANTASY IS A FANTASY GAME AND CAN WAIT TILL MORNING.

WHITE ELEPHANTS called me not once, not twice, but thrice last night after midnight. waking my wife and i both up,

thanks for pissing off my wife WHITE ELEPHANTS. like i need any help with that.

WHITE ELEPHANTS, you have to be the dumbest dealer in the history of the dope game.

F'ING READ THE DAMN EMAIL BEFORE YOU ACT LIKE A MORON. this goes for all the rest of you fukks out there too who got hosed by MICHAEL TURNER OVERDRIVES email (albeit a very creative email). i'm looking at you LIONS DEN, SLOPPY SECONDS, DAMN HONKEYS, and POO JAMMERS.

and if you cant figure it out from the email, FUKKING CHECK YOUR ROSTER YOU DOLT. CHECK THE TRANSACTION REPORT YOU BOOB.

i mean, you didnt even check your roster before you send out that email and call me 3x times after midnight? jesus f'ing christ.

although the $50 ulysses s grant comment was funny, you're still a moron.

so then i get this email from the owner who began this whole charade, MICHAEL TURNER OVERDRIVE:
I saw your email after sending the below. Sorry you got woken up but that does add to the humor on my end, as I wasn't 100% WHITE ELEPHANTS's email wasn't a joke until I heard that.

So good man. I'm patting myself on the back over here. The reaction from SLOPPY SECONDS alone was priceless to me, but apparently that was just one candle for the cake WHITE ELEPHANTS sent.

Ah, I'm so proud of myself.

Made my season!

at least he can enjoy this, since michael-turner overdrive is sporting a 3-7 record. white elephants are last with 2-8, and he is on pace to lose three $50 bets.

[Hokie79]

That's high comedy.

[MrQuestions]

LMAO! This is the real funny trade thread.

I kind of want to do this in my league right now.

[Hokie79]

LMAO! This is the real funny trade thread.

I kind of want to do this in my league right now.

Read my mind...

[Bri161]

Priceless. This looks like it could be a scene out of that FX show about fantasy football.

[El Duderino]

Ha, very funny dude. I had to try out the idea. I've already gotten one pretty funny response. I sent out a fake trade of Chris Johnson/Drew Brees for Lynch/Olsen/Vikings D, lol.

[dsmoke1986]

Priceless. This looks like it could be a scene out of that FX show about fantasy football.

That...I pictured the guys from that show when reading the op's post.

That is pretty genius.

[bohman]

yeah, this one will go down in the books.

trash talking rights have been acquired for life by Michael-Turner Overdrive

keep in mind that i am the commish over this zoo of a league. all owners aged 30 to 34, but act like 15 year olds.

our draft parties are sights to behold...absolute scenes

This post has been edited by bohman: Nov 19 2009, 06:22 PM

[bohman]

Priceless. This looks like it could be a scene out of that FX show about fantasy football.

yes, it certainly could.

actually, the WHITE ELEPHANTS are very similar to the character 'Taco'. eccentric to a fault, into making his own $hitty music, absent-minded, the list goes on...

[PhantasyPhreak58...]

pimp

[Kelly Leak]

Keep it coming, that was great

[bohman]

so i texted back and forth with the owner of the White Elephants yesterday/last night.

he said he had had a bad/long day at work, got home, and checked his email first, and neglected to check the site.

he is applauding the prank and apologizing to me for waking me and my wife up. i told him it's all good. my wife got a good laugh at his expense too. we are all good friends, so she knows how eccentric (borderline crazy) he is.

he thought Michael-Turner Overdrive somehow hacked into the site!

[megamoviejohn]

Dude, that is just epic awesome! Sounds like an awesome league, so freaking funny.