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It's set up now. Standard 5x5 for now, until I can think of an adequate pitching category to add that won't weight one type of pitcher disporportionally over another. The offensive category, should I add another, would be OBP. Live draft tentatively set for Monday March 2 at 6 pm central time.

For whatever reason it tells me "server error" when I try to finalize the league setup. Could I be doing something wrong?

because committing a felony and cheating at a game are the same thing And if cheating makes you millions more, that's a form of theft, isn't it? no Care to elaborate? You'd disagree with me if I said the sky was blue.

I've got 9 spots spoken for. I'm looking for some others. IM me if interested. the only requirement is that you be active. Once someone gets off their butt and fixes the "server problem" Yahoo is currently having, I'll set up the league and send out invites to those who have already contacted me.

because committing a felony and cheating at a game are the same thing I didn't say that. The argument was "if everyone does it, is it still wrong?" And if cheating makes you millions more, that's a form of theft, isn't it?

Yes I dunno about that. Let's assume the vast majority (say more than 70%) of players used PED's in any given year. Isn't the point of cheating to gain an unfair advantage? Is the advantage unfair if everyone has access to the method and no one is punished for utilizing it? Yes cheating is getting an unfair advantage. 30% of baseball players did not have that advantage. Your train of thought punishes some people - the people that played by the books for doing what was right and not taking advantage of a situation where the league and the player's union decided not to do anything. They are the real perpetrators here. They share about as much blame as the players who were on the juice. I have never seen so many people defend illegal activity. I'm hardly "defending" it. What I am doing is asking how some activity can meet the definition of "cheating" if most everyone is engaging in it. Forget how some governing body defines cheating. I am asking the question in more of a broad sense. If most of society engages in theft or robbery, is it still a crime? The answer is yes.

Which is why when the complete truth does come out, he will look bad. Does ARod think we are stupid? Professional athletes don't take anything trainers give them. This is the route Barry Bonds is taking, and I hope at his trial his is exposed so other athletes don't try and go this route. Yes. He does. A lot of people do this when backed up against the wall, though, not just athletes. There are people who lie, lie, lie, even when caught red-handed. I saw our Loss Prevention Team walk out a shoplifter once who said "THERE WAS NOTHING UNDER MY JACKET" when indeed several people saw him watch the tape of him stuffing them all in there just a few minutes before. When in doubt, lie. Everyone else does it.

You have to get some dirt on one of the mods. Great.... now I have to hire a private detective to follow Vance around. The good thing is it should only take a few hours.

I know... you could have knocked me over with a feather when I read that. ;) Everyone loves IMB

I know. Wishful thinking. But you could put outside pressure on the Player's Union from the media if word got out about it.

Bonds, ARod, Clemens, and McGwire won't make the HOF. That is certainly something to be gained. Obviously, the HOF is going to somehow acknowledge the players during the "Steroid Era". If the top 2 HR hitters (assuming ARod passes Bonds) and one of the greatest RH pitchers of all time aren't acknowledged in the HOF, it certainly lessens the point of a HOF. Already excluded is the all-time hits leader. What if names like Pujols, Ramirez, Howard, etc. eventually get leaked? I would think the HOF is going to have to emphasize the differences between the eras in baseball (dead ball era, pre-integration era, post-integration era, steroid era, etc.) and deal with the changes in society. Or put asterisks on the plaque saying something like "Major League Baseball believes his stats may have been enhanced by the use of performance-enhancing drugs" so they can separate the clean players from the tainted ones. I know that no owner would do this, but could they theoretically offer a contract to a player with a provision that the rest of his contract is voided immediately after a positive steroid test? I know no player would sign it, but it would be a bold step for a free agent to come out and say "I want this in my contract so there is no doubt at all about my accomplishments on the field." That way a team wouldn't have to worry about "eating" a contract of a star player, but could just cut him loose with absolutely no further commitment. The Player's Union would [expletive] a brick if any owner ever offered a contract like this to a player, though.

Yeah, now he comes clean. After he got caught.

The final pitch of the game was probably the nastiest of all.

My only gripe about Hot Stove is that it's replayed over and over and over and over in the mornings. Kinda like SportsCenter. Yeah, it's live, but they cover all the same stuff anyways.

Bonds, ARod, Clemens, and McGwire won't make the HOF. That is certainly something to be gained. mcgwire is at least borderline but you aren't gaining anything by keeping out bonds, arod and clemens. they're three of the all-time greats with or without steroids, and it's just embarrassing to the voters and the hall itself if those guys aren't elected. to me it isnt a question of "were they good enough with or without steroids". the fact they contributed to the integrity damage of the game automatically eliminates them IMO. Steroids saved baseball. Unfortunately, they did. You wouldn't have had the Home Run Chase in '98 without them, which is credited with bringing fans back after the strike in '94. One hell of a Catch-22 baseball got itself into. Let's rally against the thing that saved us in the first place!

They'll get in eventually, but I'd find it hard to think that Bonds would get in first-ballot if he's sitting in a jail cell at the time, or just freshly released.

Assuming he got his head out of his ass this winter.

If it was me and I was innocent, I'd be talking to everyone who stuck a microphone in my face stating my case, not ducking away from interviews. This just smacks of the actions of a guilty man.

Of all people, who would have thought that Jose Canseco would be the voice of reason?

Every now and then you'd hear talk about "Who could catch Bonds" and ARod's name always comes up. There are people who don't like him, but at least they thought he had natural ability, and were probably rooting for him to pass Bonds so the HR record would be considered "clean" again. This will probably disillusion quite a few people.

Ichiro already has 3000 career hits between the usa and japan iirc.

I'd be all over that like white on rice. Give him a low-base deal with vesting options based on IP, because he's not going to get a big, multi-year deal anymore. At least not with his next contract.

What if we fused the topics? For instance, what if I asked the questions "Does Jake Peavy like anime? If so, what are his favorite kinds? Are there any good anime hangouts in Chicago that would entice him to come here?" and so forth? anime hangouts? Yeah, I don't know much about anime culture. I didn't know if there were places were slobbery, pimple-ridden anime nerds congregated to discuss their favorite shows and characters and such. D'oh, I'm thinking of conventions. Anime conventions But if there are, and Jake Peavy is into anime and likes cosplaying as Inuasha, at conventions, he's coming here!!

What if we fused the topics? For instance, what if I asked the questions "Does Jake Peavy like anime? If so, what are his favorite kinds? Are there any good anime hangouts in Chicago that would entice him to come here?" and so forth?

It's not that outlandish. Hendry did the same thing for Dusty. Why do you think Neifi, Ordonez, Macias, etc stayed around as long as they did? Because Hendry thought they were valuable players? No, because Dusty did. I can guarantee you if Dusty didn't want them here, they wouldn't have been here. Hendry wasn't the one putting them in the lineup (and batting them 1-2 no less) at the expense of some of the other players. That was all Dusty.