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Agreed. They paid their money. Let 'em react however they want to react given poor performance or good performance.

That's pretty good numbers, but I'd still bat him 9th.

See my last post in this thread. Ditto to you.

You have been around long enough to know NSBB message board policies. I really don't care how much you rant, but if you intend to do so, you must still abide by the rules of this board. If you have forgotten those rules and policies, a link can be found in my signature. I thank you in advance for showing more respect to this community.

wow, that got you back in the game quickly. :shock: Bonderman isn't going to get credit for a complete game even though he went 9 innings. :cry: It's all about my pitching. 11 of my 12 starts so far this year have been QS.

What the hell? Halladay is pitching the 10th?

Halladay and Bonderman putting on a show. Gonna catch Tim tonight. Woohoo! Both went 9 innings and each only gave up an earned run. Meanwhile, Oswalt got worked.

If it makes you feel any better, Murton probably would have been out stealing, too.

How many substitutions are there really going to be? There are only 3 reserves. If a team is carrying 2 extra pitchers, they only have 1 reserve to switch out on offense. Whereas, allowing 6 or 7 pitchers to get starts to get your magic 7 starts gives that team an upperhand over a team that only has 5 starters and 3 reserves. Typically, I'm not going to switch out my starting offensive players. But, I could have if I knew Sexson and Guillen were going to sit for a whole series or a predetermined postponement. And the argument to me is quite valid. Why allow pitching substitutions but not offensive substitutions? More than anything, clarify the rule.

It's appearing normal on MLB EI through my cable company.

Come on, Vance. That's not nice. This person obviously doesn't want to be revealed for valid reasons. While this message board is the be all end all of everything that is good in everyone's life :D , it's hardly worth risking her job over. Let's leave it at that.

What's wrong with DeRosa?

Oh how I long for the days when you were just a lurker. :D

They have yet to come up with an exact science into the mysteries of abuse of a pitching arm. How much can an MRI detect? Does it show nerve damage? It very well could just be coincidental that the youngest pitcher with the most pitcher abuse points hasn't been right ever since. But, the evidence is there that suggests that it wasn't just coincidental. You can toss it out there that the likelihood that the pitching abuse points in 2003 had nothing to do with what's wrong with Prior now, but it doesn't make your point any more correct than anyone elses.

Good luck from me, also.

Team A: has 7 starters each scheduled to pitch once during the week and the limit happens to be 7. Team B: only has 5 starters and only has 5 starts scheduled for the week. Team A can switch out their starters to get their 7 starts, but Team B with only 5 starters can't make any offensive roster moves to offset the extra players Team A is running out there? I'm just asking why we can make pitching roster moves, but not offensive roster moves. I think it's a valid question. More than anything, it's apparent to me that the rules need clarification. My opponent last week added a pitcher mid week and inserted him into his rotation and got points when he already had 6 starters on his roster. Yet, I can't switch out a player for a postponed game because we don't want this to turn into a competition of who makes the most roster moves each week? I think teams either need to go with 5 set starters and a set line up, or allow internal roster changes daily. When you introduced a limit on pitching starts, I think you changed the dynamic. If one team is using their reserves to get an extra start or two for the week and the other can't use their reserves because they are offensive players, it gives a clear advantage to a team with extra pitchers.

Between an off day for several teams, a postponement of another game and apparently a day off for another couple of guys, Jimmy Rollins is my only offensive player playing today. So far: 2-2, 2 HR's Go Jimmy, you fantasy stud! Only 13 more home runs today and we'll catch NSBB.

Hey. What happened to all my Uggla points? Talk about a kick in the crotch. Cool. Another Seattle postponement. ](*,)

My feelings on the subject are that we should be able to make any roster move we want as long as it doesn't involve adding a free agent that then gets into a line up that same week. In other words, if I want to bench Rolen because he's nursing a sore back and replace him temporarily with a different 3b on my roster, I should be able to do that. If I want to promote someone mid week from my minors or activate someone from the DL, I should be able to do that. All of these options would preclude that my team stays legal for any roster changes I make, of course. If someone has 7 different pitchers they want to use in a different week to get their 7 starts, I don't see a problem with that. Why not allow any roster moves that pertain to your own roster at any time of the week? I really got abused last week not having a 1b, an OF and a RP for a whole series due to snow outs. Couple that with another guy who got relegated to bench duty, and I had 4 players in my starting line up that didn't play Friday, Saturday and Sunday. With only 3 reserves and limits on pitching starts, it's not like anyone gets any significant advantage by switching out players daily, especially if they aren't allowed to add a free agent and insert them in the line up. But, if I was able to make a change, I could have put Ryan Shealy in for Richie Sexson and Rocco Baldelli in for Jose Guillen while Seattle sat out a whole series over last weekend. And as I bring this up for debate, it just occured to me that my opponent from last week added a free agent and stuck him in the line up against me last week, even though he already had 6 starters on his roster. And the added player did not replace a SP, but rather a reserve 1b. I don't really care about it since my team won, but had I lost because of it, I might have pitched a whiny baby fit. :D How about either clarifying the rules in a sticky thread or consider simplifying the rules and allowing more roster flexibility? To me, limiting starts to just 7 for every team puts teams that have guys sitting on the bench offensively at a disadvantage. Does that make sense? Last year, I didn't care if I had guys in my line up that didn't play if I was getting 10 starts out of my pitchers. This year, limited starts could have cost me the first week because half of my offensive players weren't playing.

I don't see the issue with NC's moves. I'd actually like to see more flexibility with rosters.

Well what the heck has he been doing the last 2 weeks? I'm going to guess that he's been on the phone trying to order his MLB EI package.

Amazing fact #23: Dan Uggla offensively has more points so far this week than the rest of my offense combined.

It appears that the Cardinals want Adam Wainwright's arm to fall off before the all star break. 101 pitches in game 1, 113 in game 2. This for a guy who pitched out of the bullpen throughout 2006. [-(

My QS streak ends at 8 with a very poor outing by Ervin Santana against, of course, Cleveland.

It won't be hard for the affiliates to figure out which "Home Improvement" episodes to air in place of the Cubs game. :D