BigbadB

Injuries have really slowed down my point production the last 3 weeks. That, and really crappy pitching. ps - if i would have known you were going to make such a production about me asking you if you were interested in percival i would have kicked your ass even worse. What would you have done if you dropped a guy, I picked him up less than a week later and offered to trade him to you? I mean, come on. You deserve whatever you get for that brainstorm. :yahoo: well, you acted like it was the most offensive thing you've ever seen in your life. as i told you, i didn't realize you had dropped him. secondly, you dropped him because you didn't have room on your DL, not because he was terrible. thirdly, when you dropped him you had scherzer in your pen, and when i offered you percival, scherzer had been sent to the minors. fourthly, it wasn't like i was asking for webb and holliday for him...i probably would have practically given him away. fifthly (should have done a power point), i WANT you to have a replacement RP because i'll be rooting for you to beat up on my division rivals from here on out. in conclusion, you acted like it was the most preposterous thing you've ever seen in all your days as a fantasy baseball player, and it really ranks about #6,093 on the list of dumb **** i've seen in this league alone. when i read your pm response, i had to go back and look at my original pm to make sure i had really only asked you if you wanted percival and not asked to **** your mom. Wow. Overreact much? Here is my exact quote in my PM. That's all I said in my PM. How in the world did you come up with "most offensive thing I've ever seen in my life" out of that post. Yeah, later on I posted it in the stupid fantasy trades thread, but I didn't name names. Spin it all you want, but you tried to trade me a guy I cut loose a week ago. That's very bush league.

Who is more amazing? Player A: 31 IP, 18 hits, 18 BB's, 29 K's, 2.03 ERA, 1.16 WHIP Player B: 43 IP, 18 hits, 15 BB's, 63 K's, 2.09 ERA, 0.77 WHIP

So what you are basically saying is Richie Sexson is being fairly compensated for the production he provides? :D

Isn't it, though? :lol:

Injuries have really slowed down my point production the last 3 weeks. That, and really crappy pitching. ps - if i would have known you were going to make such a production about me asking you if you were interested in percival i would have kicked your ass even worse. What would you have done if you dropped a guy, I picked him up less than a week later and offered to trade him to you? I mean, come on. You deserve whatever you get for that brainstorm. :yahoo:

I watched all 91 holes. Wow! SD in SD (Sudden Death in San Diego). What a great tournament. What a tough course. I'm going to have to get over and play that one first chance I get.

Injuries have really slowed down my point production the last 3 weeks. That, and really crappy pitching.

Raw Dawgs (8-3) at Dishman's Dishmans (4-7) Galesburg Hand Sanitizers (5-6) at Alamo Stealth (7-4) Tootielicious (7-4) at Lynx (6-5) Harrys Budcrew (5-6) at The Eyes of Texas (6-5) Quakers (6-5) at Draconian Empire (4-7) Buddiga (4-7) at Fuzzy Logistics (6-5) Severe Tooterstorms 3-8) at Voo Doo Bayou Bashers (4-7) NC Cubs (7-4) at Northside Baseball (6-5) Co-Match Up Of The Week: Tootielicious vs. Lynx NC Cubs vs. NSBB I couldn't pick between these two, so there's two this week. My team continues to give up points like they are going out of style. Between my team and my opponents teams, one of us has had the high score for the week in 6 of the 11 weeks to date. More often than not, it's my opponents putting up the big score.

Actually, what sucks is to barely be over .500 and one of the top scoring teams in the league.

What a relief. All this time I was thinking that the top scorer of the week wasn't going against my team for once. I predict Buddiga scores 600 this coming week.

True story. I dropped Troy Percival on June 6th. On June 8th, he was picked up off waivers by another team. On June 14th, I was asked if I had any interest in trading for none other than Troy Percival.

I don't see the issue. What better time is there to bring in your shut down reliever than with the bases loaded with no outs late in the game? I love how Lou makes moves to try to win every game. I also love how he has changed how he uses Marmol. I have very little to complain about with how Lou is running this team.

This is a cubs message board & last I checked, fuko played for the cub. The question was raised about fuko being a disappointment. It was then brought up about his batting slot. His obp being well over .400 screams that of leadoff hitter. Another pointed out a more productive offense through stats backing. Sorry, you are out of line on this one. Why can't he hit #2 behind Soriano? Then he's still batting in front of Lee and Ramirez and he provides more of a power threat and is much better at your beloved stolen bases than Theriot. EXACTLY!

I like productive players. I didn't think Edmonds would be productive, so I hated the idea of adding him. He's been productive, therefore, he has earned my respect.

I certainly didn't expect Ruthian numbers the first season Fukudome faced major league hitters.

I don't really look at it as mortgaging the future to win now. Good teams are built from the ground up. That's currently where the Cubs find themselves. They have talent that they have filtered through the system: Soto, Marmol, Wuertz, Theriot just to name a few. They have talent locked up long term: Zambrano, Lee, Ramirez, Soriano and Fukudome. They have key role players who don't have ridiculous price tags: DeRosa, Johnson, Ward, Edmonds. They have talent waiting in the wings: Murton, Hill, Gallagher, Patterson, Pie. They don't have a ton of dead weight hampering their budget: Marquis, Blanco, Howry, Eyre. Looking at the big picture, the high priced talent that's locked up long term is doing most of the damage to opposing teams. They just can't do it all themselves, so between the farm (trade or promotion) and the role players, now is the time to go for it. No time made better sense than this year. If there isn't a guy on the farm who can help this year, then you make the necessary trades to increase the odds of winning it all, future be damned. However, I don't believe a trade now actually negates winning in the future. The team has a solid enough foundation to come back for more for the next couple of years. After that, age may start playing a factor with Ramirez, Lee, Soriano and Fukudome. Their contracts aren't going to allow for more multiyear contracts in the budget, so strike while the iron is hot.

Torrey Pines is a public course. I golfed at Sea 'n Air yesterday, which is a beautiful course on the military base on Coronado Island. For the record, Tiger and I were tied after the first hole, since I also double bogeyed 1. :grin: I didn't delete enough stuff off my DVR and didn't get all the coverage, but I guess I got enough. Now I wish I had recorded the Cub game to see the vintage replica uniforms.

I have found that I have less hatred for players if they do good things for the Cubs. I have completely forgiven Jim Edmonds for being a Cardinal at this point. I could probably do the same for Bonds.

I really, really hate Bonds. But, this wouldn't be a bad idea right now. If Soriano is out until close to the trade deadline, the Cubs use Bonds until Soriano comes back and then trade Bonds to some other team in the playoff race. The circus show will have died down and other teams would see value in Bonds. We get something of value in return for putting up with the circus. Lefty power bat that can play LF. He would probably play dirt cheap at this point. It wouldn't hurt to make an offer. As cheap as the Cubs could get him, they could turn him loose if he becomes too much of a distraction. This also allows the Cubs to use the current resources to upgrade the pitching staff.

I don't see anyone (including the Raiders) gambling on an alcoholic, injury prone RB. Not to mention that I don't know of any alcoholic, injury prone RB's that ever amounted to anything decent in an NFL uniform.

How often is a top organizational prospect a PTBNL in a trade? Has it ever happened? I'd guess not.

Wow. Pie must have some incredible trade value to get us a frontline starter and a backnine closer from different teams.

Usually, Maddux takes himself out of games. Last night, they went with a pinch hitter which ended up helping the Padres score a run to take the lead. Whether or not they asked Maddux if he had anything left, I have no idea.

Life is good.

I'm giving Alexei Ramirez a try at 2b. He's been hot lately and it could be that he's adjusted to major league pitching. The regular playing time certainly helped.