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Soler Baez Ross Do you want another two infielders instead? LaStella and ?? Think we'd do better for a PH bat from an OFer. Also, one of our outfielders is going to catch sometimes. Yeah, David's last sentence is the selling point. With Ross and Schwarber, you have two back ups at C. With Baez and LaStella, you have two guys backing up the infield. With Soler and probably Victorino, you have 2 guys backing up the outfield. That Bryant, Zobrist and Baez can all play outfield as well doesn't force a 5th outfielder, but there is certainly room on the roster for 5 bats, so why not?

No. It's $8 mil this year and $9 mil next year if both sides opt in and $5 mil if either side opts out. So at most we have him for $17 mil the next two years and the least it's $13 mil for this year. If I understand Rogers tweets correctly. Wasn't the Orioles rumor 3/35m? He left a lot of money on the table to come back if that's the case.

This is amazing. Much happiness!

And that sorry excuse of a human being, Talib.

DeMarcus Ware didn't play in that game against the Bears. HUGE difference.

Usual Suspects for me. Primal Fear is another one that comes to mind that could have made the list, but certainly doesn't top Usual Suspects, Fight Club or The Game.

It would be nice if Hoyer didn't have the same initials as Hendry. It distracted my reading enjoyment.

Maybe they just passed notes back and forth to each other last year.

Why does he want to get rid of the tailgating? That seems like a really weird reason to refuse to work with the city to get a brand new stadium. That's only part of it. But, the people tailgaiting are eating and drinking their own food for hours before the game, which is revenue they feel they are losing in concessions. ETA: Oops. Responded to a notification that I received, not noticing that Goony already responded with the same answer. Actually like Goony's response better since he included the ridiculous prices that they charge in the stadium.

I don't think they are hitting Russell there because he hasn't managed to hit himself out of that spot yet. They like him there, which is actually a compliment to Russell. It adds a 3rd bat to set the table for the best hitters in the line up. Getting the pitcher's spot further away from when the #3 and #4 hitters hit is valuable to production.

So he waits it out a full year and jumps at the very last chance? NFL gave Spanos until March of '17 to make a commitment.The next year will be very interesting to watch unfold.

Spanos is playing nice with San Diego to screw the Raiders and San Diego. The Raiders don't have a place to play. If the Chargers announce LA, they will have to be the 4th team playing out of the Coliseum next year along with Rams, UCLA and USC. That's a scheduling nightmare, and it won't really be all that popular for the Chargers since they will be out of their market and 4th in popularity at that location. If they announce LA, the Raiders will move to San Diego immediately because Qualcomm is still inhabitable. The Chargers don't want that third team in SoCal because it hurts their share of the market long term. They will only be leasing in LA, so they are only renters with no home of their own. Spanos is probably just going to spin the team once they get to LA next year. San Diego isn't being fooled by Spanos. He's only making nice in hopes that people buy tickets to games. He's definitely out of here unless the city ponies up for a stadium, which they have yet to do before the threat to LA was real. This has been crazy to watch unfold. If Spanos was willing to let a new stadium be built in the parking lot of Qualcomm, the chances of getting some city backing could happen. But, he's absolutely standing his ground that he wants a downtown stadium because he wants tailgaiting to go away, which is a huge tradition in this town.

I'm formerly Peoria. That's all the representin' it needs! But, loved listening to Brickhouse. Geez I'm old. Peoria to San Diego? [expletive] that's one hell of an upgrade. Yeah. I'm still diggin' it.

I'm formerly Peoria. That's all the representin' it needs! But, loved listening to Brickhouse. Geez I'm old.

When playing in money leagues, which is what I do, do you all have veto powers on trades or do you let league management allow all trades regardless of how one sided they might seem?

Might as well make it an official welcome, especially so we don't have to continue using GR as a name reference. Jeff is taking over Robert's NC Cubs team. With that out of the way, commence newbie attacks.......... Now! :clapping: :yahoo:

Normally, abandoned teams are replaced by now. Rosters are supposed to be pared down and everyone's money is supposed to be in the commissioner's hands as we venture into a new fantasy baseball season. Any rule changes should be getting discussed now along with just getting familiarized with our teams and the available talent pools and draft orders once again. Robert hasn't been replaced. DeShawn and Chuck's levels of participation have been disappointing. Don had expressed interest in moving on. A few other managers are in jeopardy of not having their rosters pared down or their fees paid in on time. Is trimming the league size a better idea than trying to find last minute managers to replace the non active managers? And if it is, there is probably a lot to discuss in how to go about doing this.

This has been brought up before, but is anyone opposed to increasing the amount of DL spots? Is this something that needs to wait until this season is over, or can we consider increasing it now? The juggling act I'm performing right now is becoming a real pain in the ass. One more DL guy, and there won't be anyone I wish to drop to get 7 starts for the week. Part of my bench has become DL players. Dropped a guy I didn't really want to drop because my DL is full. If we did implement more DL spots, we might need to discuss how to prevent every DL guy in the free agent pool from becoming extra storage on some team's DL, because that is not what the addition of more DL spots would be designed for. With the current group of sissies playing this game, 6 DL spots might not be enough.

What should we do here? We were all very patient as he held up round after round of the draft to make his pick. While he got better about managing his pitching starts, he doesn't appear to be making the necessary roster moves to make his team legal. He currently has guys on the DL in his starting line up, and guys who have been off the DL for a few weeks now that are still on his DL. The commitment of a few minutes each week just isn't there, and I don't think it's asking all that much to make sure your line up is legal and competitive each week. I can certainly understand and respect if he's so busy that he just doesn't have time to manage his team, but if that's the case, maybe someone else can take over the team until he has the time to dedicate to managing the team once again. This has been an ongoing problem for a while now. Thoughts?

Al (Quakers) chose him with the 98th pick (7th round), but a hiccup in the system skipped that pick.

Before the draft on Monday, I might need to let Rodelo adjust his roster due to some bad information I might have given him regarding Tim Stauffer. He asked me to double check his roster and I basically told him that Stauffer would count towards the cap since he has 5 different years of major league service time with his first year counting as an exemption. For some reason, I was under the impression that once a player had burned an exemption that any service time in future seasons would also count as an exemption, but that's not how it's worded in the rules. It just says that an exemption is burned in any year that there are less than 50ab's, 5 starts or 10 relief appearances. Stauffer has two seasons mixed in between exemption years burned that wouldn't count under this rule. If that is how the rule is to be, Rodelo should be able to pick Stauffer back up since it was I who told him his points count towards the cap. I realized this now after seeing that Juan must be counting Yovani Gallardo this same way as Yovani's second year did not eclipse any of those numbers in his 4 years of major league service. If Yovani counts towards the cap, that would put Juan's team over. If he doesn't, then Stauffer doesn't either. I could have sworn that when we established this rule, it only pertained to players who had not yet burned an exemption, and that once a guy burned his first exemption, any future season with even one at bat or pitched inning in the big leagues would count as another season burned.

Woo Hoo! Sleet was the name of the game in San Diego last night. Hardly seems like it's time to play baseball again, but sure enough........ The draft will begin March 7th. This draft will be an extended online draft where each owner should be notified by email when it is their turn to pick, and they will have a certain length of time (yet to be determined) to make their pick. We hope to complete the draft within a few weeks, as we will still need to conduct a prospect draft immediately following the major league draft. I've set the major league portion of the draft to 10 rounds, and those 10 rounds are for major league eligible only players. After 10 rounds, anyone in the free agent pool will be fair game provided they are not eligible for the prospect draft. The prospect draft will be minor league eligible players only. We will continue choosing until everyone is done choosing. You are allowed to draft beyond the roster limits in both the major league and minor league drafts. However, trades will not be allowed if your roster is illegal. Please go to your Roadkill fantasy league page and double check to make sure your email address is correct. This is extremely important! League news, messages, updates and announcements get sent to the inbox for the email address you provide on that site. I'm aware of one manager who had the incorrect address on that site, and that the old address hasn't been valid for several years now.

When would we like to begin the draft? I've scheduled an extended online draft, and this feature hasn't worked the last few years, but they have made some significant upgrades this offseason to the software, so maybe it will work gooder this year. Discuss!

I renewed the league at $149.99, so I basically need $9.00 from each manager. Unfortunately, I do not do paypal, so you'll have to send me a check or money order to: Brian Frankland P.O. Box 19848 San Diego CA 92159 I'd like to receive each manager's check by February 14th. I'll have Tito break your fingers if you are late with your 9 beans. Payment Received: Brian Al Robert Don Navin Karen Rodelo Juan Clint Tim Shane Adam Deven Bob Tarr (with an Australian $20 bill, making him paid up for 2012 also). Glad to see Olivia Newton John getting some face time on Australian cash.

We have sadly replaced Bukie and Vick (don't remember his screen name). Juan is taking is old team back, which was the team Vick took over from Juan. Dlocks will be taking Kevin's team. I guess Deven kicking everyone's ass was too much for these other guys to handle. Anyway, welcome aboard and here is to another great year for our league and hopefully a good year by our Cubs. Please give the new guy an opportunity to look over his roster before you pillage his roster with trades.