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Peavy isn't going anywhere. The names I would be looking at are: Harden Cain Hudson Burnett Blanton in that order. -
I'll just say this: "Hey FOX, nobody cares about your pathetic black-out Saturday baseball games. I can count on one hand the amount of West Coast people that even tuned into your Boston/New York game today, and I wasn't one of them. I know of a place where you can shove the rest of this season's broadcasts."
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I only have 2 starts left. Brandon Webb actually put up a zero this week for my 5th start.
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Mine has 3 moveable weights, but yeah, that's probably the one you have. Wow, I was hitting bombs yesterday. I hit too many on the range and got too worn out to hit 'em straight on the back 9. I'm definitely loving mine.
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I got 2 of them bitches and traded Uggla before the season. that uggla trade kinda worked for everybody. brian got soto, i got uggla, you got wainwright. obviously wainwright is hurt, but they've all been good when healthy. though i'd maybe trade uggla for soto at this point since towles has been worthless. I'll bet Towles mashes this go around. Houston needs him to do exactly that. Soto just barely went over 50 at bats last year, so he burned a year also. But, I do like the rule going forward. It sucks to have a September call up get 5 to 10 at bats and lose a year of eligibility. Heck, Soto is a perfect example. Without that rule, he wouldn't be exempt after this season since he had like 1 at bat one season and 14 the next to go along with his 50+ last year.
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My team has been a major disappointment and I don't want to talk about it. :bye: Seriously, I'm speechless with how this team is currently sporting a 7-6 record with a very good possibility of being .500 after this week ends. A lot of underachievers, disappointing performances and injuries have turned a potential powerhouse into a threat to miss the playoffs entirely.
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It seems like I have a ridiculous hole on every round. Last week was a classic example. I'm on a par 3 hole that's about 130 yards out. There is a small opening over a creek with tall trees lined up on the right. I shank my 9 iron over onto the next tee box way right. There is virtually no possible way to get on the green from here as the trees are too thick and too tall to go through or over. What do I do? I follow up my shanked tee shot by topping the ball badly. The ball worm burns its way under the bridge that crosses over to the green hits a rock and caroms right onto the green for a par. Needless to say, my golf buddies laughed rather hysterically at my rather unique par. A par looks the same on the score card, so I quickly came to terms with it. My damn irons still haven't arrived, so as a reward for my tremendous patience, I went and bought a new Taylor Made R7 Driver, 3W and 5W. My new woods are very eager to meet my new irons. :wave:
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Not at all. And his AVG is currently way too low for a guy that shows so little patience. However, I think he'll have a big second half.
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No Ryan Braun love, eh?
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I'm perfectly fine with Soto, DeRosa and Theriot batting 6-8. Add in a pinch hitter for an at bat or two late in games, and Soriano will have lots of guys to drive in at the top of the order. Plus, Theriot can run like crazy all he wants in the 8 hole.
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If you had any confidence in him continuing that production, there's no way you'd look to trade him! well, it would obviously depend on what i was getting in return. it's getting to the point now where there aren't many SP's that i would give him up for in a 1-for-1 deal. it's not like i'm going to take randy wolf or somebody in return for him. If I had Randy Wolf, I'd probably offer him up for Danks.
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I had 4 starters lined up for Thursday, but one of them got bumped up to Wednesday. 5 of my 7 starts will be on Wednesday and Thursday.
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My keeper list should be pretty solid as well. Brandon Webb James Shields Kelvim Escobar Max Scherzer/Aaron Laffey/Ubaldo Jimenez/Carlos Carrasco/Carlos Marmol Matt Holliday Ryan Braun Geovany Soto Jacoby Ellsbury Stephen Drew Alexei Ramirez/Carlos Gonzalez/Ian Stewart With the potential to also keep one of Rickie Weeks, Vernon Wells, Carlos Pena, Javier Vasquez or Milton Bradley since my only non exempt players are Webb, Holliday and Escobar (who has yet to pitch this year). We'll just call it an open try out. However, I am really starting to like what Alexei Ramirez is doing. I need to find a spot in my line up for him to play regularly. Anyone have interest in Rickie Weeks?
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Maybe not, but he plays the weakest position on the roster besides C, as a 2b. Utley, Kinsler, Uggla, Roberts, Phillips, Upton, and Pedroia disagree that 2B is a weak position. DeRosa's 19 points against my team last night also begs to differ.
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If a player misses a whole year, the year does not count as an exemption. There are several players that have had this happen, and Juan confirmed this with me when I had Rocco Baldelli. I believe BJ Upton missed a whole year in between trips to the majors, as well.
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I just ordered these last week off of Ebay. They are Taylor Made knockoffs. I think they'll be better than my old used set. I'll keep you posted. The price is pretty good. http://cgi.ebay.com/New-2008-IRONS-CUSTOM-OVERSIZE-GOLF-CLUBS-IRON-SET_W0QQitemZ330247268745QQihZ014QQcategoryZ115280QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem By my calculations, they should arrive today, which is good because I have a 3pm tee time today.
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I've kind of felt like the Cubs have already spent beyond their means the last few years to try to win a World Series. If they can open the pocket book even further with a World Series victory, I wouldn't be too disappointed.
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I only have 8 starts this week, but to me it's really only 7, because the last time James Shields pitched against Boston, we all know how that turned out. Needless to say, Shields is sitting against Boston and barring another suspension, he'll be pitching against KC later in the week for my 7th start.
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NC only has 12 starts to pick from this week, with most of those starts against really crappy offenses. I'm just going to go ahead and write this one off as a loss from the get go, because optimism sure isn't working.
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I'd definitely be interested in this in a separate league. The only other league of significance I'm in is Chuck's ESPN league, and between the abandoned teams there and the other two guys who expand their roster size on a daily basis by rotating in and out every free agent pitcher available, I've completely lost interest over there.
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That is true but I think its fair. Most of the time, people just miscount. I agree... and knowing Doug and his history in the league, I'm sure it wasn't intentional. I think he was just out of town or too busy to check in. I mentioned in the game chat a few days back that he needed to pull someone from his rotation, but I never saw him in the game chats until late Sunday night.
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Speaking of rules, did you receive the email I sent you that had the rules that Chris put together, Juan? I sent it to you a long time ago and you never acknowledged receiving them.
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Not much incentive for a manager to make sure they don't go over in starts for the week. It probably means the difference between me winning or losing this week, but what the hell, my team doesn't deserve to win anyway.
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Juan, How do you decide what pitching start gets nixed when a team has more than 7 starts? Does the opposing team get to make that decision? Draconian Empire has 8 starts this week, 3 of them today.
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It doesn't make it fun for me when I make offers for a player and receive no response, meanwhile that same player gets traded to someone else for a lesser package. If my complaints about it are making it unfun for others, then I won't mention it again.
