BallOfSpray Forum Hall Of Fame – Nominations

[Horton]

With the 11th anniversary of the BallOfSpray coming up in a week I thought it was time to start thinking about our own Hall Of Fame.

Criteria:

• Person must have been a member for at least 5 1/5 years (half the time the site has existed)

• Person must have significantly contributed to the knowledge or entertainment of the membership

• Other?

 

[Than_Bogan]

Semi-serious question: Does the person have to have NOT been banned? A few of the most famous Ballers are "no longer with us" because they were just a little too "entertaining."

[Horton]

@Than_Bogan I'm willing to entertain nominations of any sort

[skidawg]

On pure entertainment value, the first two to come to mind is MS & Hill

[Cooper_Trelawney]

For the constant jabs with @Horton, @eleeski needs to be nominated for sure!

[ski6jones]

Ed Brazil.

[swc5150]

Jody Seal

[BlueSki]

The Panda

[Jody_Seal]

Two candidates Ed Brazil and Eric Lee!

[ral]

Did Thomas Wayne manage to survive 5.5 years in this (or any) forum?

[Stefan]

Bruce Butterfield

[Drago]

@Ed Brazil, @Bruce_Butterfield ( @adamhcaldwell @AdamCord 5 2/2 yrs?)

@twhisper @MarcusBrown @matthewbrown

[Than_Bogan]

Seriously useful information

@Bruce_Butterfield

@AdamCord

@Jody_Seal

@Edbrazil

 

Entertaining Rabble-Rousers

@OB or @OB1

@ShaneHill or any of his numerous aliases

@Jody_Seal

 

Original Ballers

@The_MS

@Dirt

 

Excessive posters

@Wish

@Than_Bogan

@OB or @OB1

 

Banned But Never Forgotten

@Taelan28

@gator1

 

Village Crazy Guy (With Occasional Deep Insight)

@eleeski

 

I'll probably have more at some point. (See: "excessive poster.")

[Horton]

At least one of the "Founders" who has not been mentioned is @jdarwin. The new guys may not know him but Darwin, along with @The_MS and @skidawg are the real core founders. With out those 3 guys there would not have been the WaterSkiMag Ski Test that helped really kickstart the forum.

[EFW]

Thomas Wayne!!!!

[JAS]

How could we be remiss and not nominate Horton, a first ballot honoree for sure!

[Horton]

@jas no I nominate myself as an eligible

[Bruce_Butterfield]

@horton don't nead no good englich.

 

So are you open to multiple categories of hall of fame?

 

- solid skiers

- A$$holes we would prefer to forget, e.g. Thomas W & Talean

- Crazy Uncle who lives in the attic, e.g. Eric

- Everyone's favorite whipping boy, e.g. MS

- Gearheads & boat experts, e.g. Jody & DW

- Nominees for the 12 step program.....whoops that's a long list

 

On second thought, its probably better to keep it simple.

[klindy]

@Bruce_Butterfield you’d be a good nominee for a couple categories for sure (some you may have listed above and perhaps others).

[Than_Bogan]

Ooh where do I sign up for the 12 step program?

[RAWSki]

BOS Founder awardees should be put in the Hall by @Horton without a vote IMO. But 'first ballot' HOF'ers should be @Edbrazil, + @Jody_Seal then @Bruce_Butterfield and maybe @MISkier but I believe he may be too young and needs to age

[The_MS]

@scoke goes way back to the WSF but since he has been living out of a van at OKKE we don’t hear from him as much. @thager has been banned more than anyone and he is day one also. When your profile says “stir vigorously and leave” you know he is up to no good.

Day 1 ballers

@skidawg

@jdarwin

@MrJones

@Bruce_Butterfield

@eleeski

 

[ghutch]

Adam Caldwell, Adam Cord, Matt Brown, Bruce Butterfield, Jody Seal

[ForrestGump]

I'm a legend in my own mind. Does that count?

[Horton]

@The_MS that is basically my list.

[The_MS]

I know there are a few others like @EFW @Ham_Wallace @Hallpass

[MISkier]

I would have thought we’d see @A_B in the list.

[MuskokaKy]

wow....must be winter! lmao

[The_MS]

Forgot about @AB

[Mortyski]

I would also add @ab to @Than_Bogan ’s list He could fit into three of the categories. He told me once on The Nichols forum to think of the right hand gate ball as a donut. I still laugh about that comment.

[Hallpass]

Couldn't be me @The_MS. Must have been a typo. 'bout as close as I'm getting to a HOF, a typo :).

 

[Mortyski]

Sorry my mistake I meant add @A_B not @ab

 

[The_MS]

Maybe @bkhallpass ?

[A_B]

@Mortyski you are correct on both names. I started out as AB and then was caught up in some sort of system bug and became A_B.

 

I remember the donut suggestion as well, still chuckle about it. Only us full-figured guys would appreciate it! And I have seen my share of donut comments out here!

 

[ForrestGump]

@Than_Bogan I just want to point out that I have no aliases created by me. Those are all Horton's doing. Besides, Horton and Hill's 27 day ski-cation across middle america should be enough to guarantee me HOF status at some point.

[6balls]

@forrestgump your story about the sleep walking hawaiian tropic model alone has me putting you on a ballot some day.

[Horton]

@ForrestGump yes at "some point"

[ForrestGump]

If i come out of retirement, does that negate my HOF eligibility?

 

[Horton]

@ForrestGump in a couple of years when we run out of really good candidates you will be a lock for the Hall of Fame

[Bruce_Butterfield]

By any rational criteria, @ForrestGump ’s nomination to the BOSHOF has to be posthumously.

[klindy]

@Bruce_Butterfield at least we have a video copy of “the greatest story ever told”.

[EFW]

But don't you guys ever wonder what happened to people like him? Thomas Wayne. I mean I know he could get on your nerves but he had some really good posts if you got over the other stuff. I'm sorry for going off on a tangent but I just wonder about what happened to these people . What was that other guy's name that big cheater Jim Michaels? How do you go from being so into water skiing,that you build your own lake, building all that stuff to cheat and then just disappear ? Okay I'll stop I'm sorry.

[9400]

Nobody wanted it more than Dr. Jim Michaels.....built a lake, hired the best coaches, did the best PEDs (just an assumption on that one), took any of the best cheaters in water skiing and topped them by a mile.

Very happy to see Taelon nominated, my favorite poster ever.

[PUoldmaid]

@EFW @9400 I saw Jim at a tourney in Wisconsin maybe 4 or so years after that - close to whenever his AWSA prison time was nearing end. He was working as a volunteer. What he did was wrong but I think it was admirable he openly admits that and is trying to regain people’s trust and be helpful. He also let Marquette’s team use his lake for practice and was their advisor some years. He is eligible to hop back in. I’ll forgive him. You know he’ll never pull that again.

[Spineofgoo]

Buford Danger.

[ForrestGump]

Buford was a legend before she popped out.

[EFW]

@PUoldmaid He made a mistake he knows it. Forgive him and move forward.

Those 2 (TW) definitely added some color here.

[RichardDoane]

I still hear from TW from time to time. He’s still making the world’s best pool cues and skiing in AK.

[richfoster]

@scotchipman. I know he has been banned,but hasn’t he contributed a lot of positive,knowledgeable and entertaining content over the years?

[Horton]

@richfoster I just double checked your IP address and account history to make sure you are not @JaredSmith