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Old 05-02-2008, 12:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Gunter View Post
Practice is just that, practice. Which includes a chance for the company to figure out if it is running like it should. Who knows what is being changed. I hope they figure it out before the bid is supposed to close.
It's easy to sum it up if you're just talking about practice. We're sitting here, and I'm supposed to be the an upgrading pilot, and we're talking about practice. I mean listen, we're sitting here talking about practice, not a bid award, not an award, not an award, but we're talking about practice. Not the trip that I go out there and die for and fly every leg last it's my last but we're talking about practice man. How silly is that?

Now I know that I'm supposed to lead by example and all that but I'm not shoving that aside like it don't mean anything. I know it's important, I honestly do but we're talking about practice. We're talking about practice man. We're talking about practice. We're talking about practice. We're not talking about the award. We're talking about practice. When you come to the AOC, and you see me fly, you've seen me fly right, you've seen me give everything I've got, but we're talking about practice right now.
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Originally Posted by KnightFlyer View Post
It's easy to sum it up if you're just talking about practice. We're sitting here, and I'm supposed to be the an upgrading pilot, and we're talking about practice. I mean listen, we're sitting here talking about practice, not a bid award, not an award, not an award, but we're talking about practice. Not the trip that I go out there and die for and fly every leg last it's my last but we're talking about practice man. How silly is that?

Now I know that I'm supposed to lead by example and all that but I'm not shoving that aside like it don't mean anything. I know it's important, I honestly do but we're talking about practice. We're talking about practice man. We're talking about practice. We're talking about practice. We're not talking about the award. We're talking about practice. When you come to the AOC, and you see me fly, you've seen me fly right, you've seen me give everything I've got, but we're talking about practice right now.

Dude you're killing me. Gotta love A.I.
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Old 05-02-2008, 01:50 PM
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I didn't see this mentioned in any of the earlier threads..if I missed it I apologize.

I'm hearing some pretty persistant rumors than the first practice excess bid was essentially invalid due to software issues. Third hand info from JL.

Just a heads up to check the results of future bids and make sure you were awarded what you bid, in seniority order. Which apparently wasn't happening on the first practice bid.
Confirmed this week in MEM that the first bid had serious software glitches that resulted in incorrect awards.

Company is now focused on putting out "correct" practice awards over "timely" practice awards.

If glitches continue the bid closeout date may be delayed.

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Nevermind.... Humor failure light just illuminated....

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Originally Posted by KnightFlyer View Post
It's easy to sum it up if you're just talking about practice. We're sitting here, and I'm supposed to be the an upgrading pilot, and we're talking about practice. I mean listen, we're sitting here talking about practice, not a bid award, not an award, not an award, but we're talking about practice. Not the trip that I go out there and die for and fly every leg last it's my last but we're talking about practice man. How silly is that?

Now I know that I'm supposed to lead by example and all that but I'm not shoving that aside like it don't mean anything. I know it's important, I honestly do but we're talking about practice. We're talking about practice man. We're talking about practice. We're talking about practice. We're not talking about the award. We're talking about practice. When you come to the AOC, and you see me fly, you've seen me fly right, you've seen me give everything I've got, but we're talking about practice right now.
Man, you beat me to it. That's the first thing that came to my mind when I read that post. LOL.
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Old 05-02-2008, 04:34 PM
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Dude you're killing me. Gotta love A.I.
I watched that press conference live on ESPN news in it's entirety and it was awesome. AI was still ****ed about going out to the Celts early, and was coming out of his exit interview. They kept grilling him with the same question over and over again, and you could just see it building to an explosion.
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Old 05-02-2008, 05:01 PM
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For those of you who have no idea what we're talking about.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=eGDBR2L5kzI
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Old 05-02-2008, 06:32 PM
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Now it makes sense.

I guess the company REALLY needed to practice. Even though it is just practice.

"How can I make my fellow players better by practice?"

Now we know how.

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