The OCD Game

This is what started it all . . . a missive to Max explaining my Max Kellerman OCD game.

Max . . . my friend CJ and I held our "Max Kellerman OCD draft" this morning. The draft serves as the basis for a game where we select quotes and passages that you incessantly repeat on your show, and we score points each time you utter such lines. It doesn't have to be verbatim, but in order to score a point, the line has to be directionally correct. Our teams are listed below

Mr. Run Differential's Team:

“The Yankees are just unlucky . . . when you look at their run differential . . . .”

"There is AAA, then Japan - which is like AAAA, then the National League and at the top of the heap is the American League."

“Eddie Curry is the best low-post player in the league . . . . not the best center but the best low-post scorer“

Any 30 second discussion of evidence - whether it be direct, circumstantial or physical.

"Money ball is not about OBA. Its about undervalued commodities”

“Stephon Marbury is not quite elite, but he’s playing at an ‘almost’ elite level”

“Tiger Woods – Sportsman of the Year? How can that be since golf is not a sport.”

“Cashman has stocked the system with young power arms . . . Hughes, Sanchez, Olendorf, Desalvo, Karstens, Rasner, Kennedy, Chamberlin"

Bonus Selection: any reference to El Duque and "high leverage"

CJ's Team:

“The Giants were the ELITE team in the NFC right up until the moment Luke Pettitgout got hurt . . . “

Barry Bonds career recap where mention is made of Barry's pre-steroid days where he was an elite left-fielder and his steroid days where he became the greatest hitter of all-time. In order to score points, Max must mention his OBP/SLG numbers pre and post steroids.

“Phillip Hughes is the best twenty-year old on the planet”

An ambiguous selection but we have agreed that CJ will score a point every time Max recites the ENTIRE Knicks starting lineup by shamelessly overrating the player at each position. However, in order to score a point, Max must refer to the position by number rather than conventional nomenclature. For instance, to score a point, Eddie Curry must be referred to as "the one" and not the center. Also, to score a point, Max must refer to at least three positions. No points will be awarded for Max merely stating that Curry plays the one and Lee is at the two.
“There are three categories of steroid abusers: suspected, likely and convicted. Barry Bonds falls under convicted . . . .”

“Isiah Thomas has done an excellent job. When he took over, the Knicks were an old, slow and irrelevant team. He has turned it into a young and exciting team that is close to competing for a championship.”

“When I lived in Washington, D.C. for those fifteen months doing Around the Horn . . . I saw Jarred Jeffereis play a lot and Knicks fans will eventually grow to love this guy.”

“The Yankees problems can be traced back to April when they had a lot of injuries and the bullpen got overworked . . .and Chase Wright, the Yankees fourteenth option, was forced to start.“

Bonus Selection: Any reference to Robbie Cano and ".340" or "excellent defense"