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If you're trading for another team's top players, I think you should trade for mine. Thru no fault of my own, I took over the worst team in fbb history.

Errors is maybe the worst way to evaluate whether someone is a good or bad fielder.

You're a lying sack of lies.

Hahaha. Idiot.

It's not going to happen, so I won't venture a guess as to how RK will handle it. I think it's easiest to just think of him as a prospect for the draft.

Just about to post this. That's right, unless he's brought up to the majors this year.

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you just took advantage of a new member that came into a crappy situation. you didn't expect to catch some flack for this? i think mooch's solution is the best - just reverse the trade

My favorite part of the French is watching a guy in a sport coat hop down from his chair to point at one of two million marks to confirm a call. It's hilarious.

Say what ????? there

I'd turn off the tv long before I'd watch any of those.

yeah that would be fine. but he has frank francisco, chris perez and tyler clippard in his starting lineup. yeah, that's a problem. I thought we had a new owner.

3 RPs in the lineup? If he has 2 RPs in the lineup and 1 on the bench, that has to be ok, right?

Thanks Bukie

You're out of line, Tim. You're mad bc you're going to win. You're playing Steve clevenger. Don't tell me I'm not trying to win. Give me a [expletive] break.

Let's be honest, tim. You're mad b/c you thought you could trade a bunch of guys, replace them with [expletive] player, and cruise to the top draft pick. Now that strategy may not work, so you're going to call me out. I didn't say [expletive] when you started the week with Steve [expletive] Clevenger as your catcher. You want the league to believe you're trying your hardest to win when that's the best C you could run out there? I just checked all Cs in the league for the last week and last 2 weeks. There must be 20 FAs on the first page of each list. Clevenger is nowhere to be found.

Now, so everyone doesn't think I'm a big cheater, I'll explain myself. Though again, I think it's total BS that I have to justify my moves to the league. Especially when as of this morning, I have more points than 10 other teams and my opponent's starting C is Steve [expletive] Clevenger. I didn't start E. Santana in his matchup b/c he's been terrible. Tim complained about that at the time. Santana tossed a -15.5. I didn't start Drew Smyly b/c he's been terrible the last few starts. Smyly scored a 6.5 (which equaled his total of his last 2 starts). I picked up Phil Hughes a couple days ago because he was the best pitcher over the last 28 days or something and I needed a start. He was supposed to start today. But Britton came off the 60-day DL and then was sent to the minors. So I had too many players. Instead of playing a third day with an illegal lineup, I dropped Hughes, brought up Eovaldi and sent Britton to the minors. I could have done this yesterday if I'd had the time to figure it all out Friday morning, but I didn't. Instead, the pitchers I had in scored over 75 points. I don't have enough starters to get 7 starts this week and I don't have an empty roster spot. I have Smyly at GAB and Santana at Coors tomorrow. Two guys who've been bad in hitters ballparks. You really want me to start them? Cespedes and Morse both came off the DL last weekend. On Sunday, Cespedes has a knee injury, so I didn't start him. I did start Morse for Duda. Cespedes played Monday and Tuesday and raked. But none of my starters were hurt, so I didn't think I could put him in. I asked on the RK chat and a couple people said it was ok. I went to put him in and he left a game with a hammy pull. He's been out since. Morse has not been good. Duda has. I traded Duda for one of the 20 best prospects in the league yesterday. So I didn't realize Cespedes with a bad knee would put up 20 in 2 days while Morse (apparently healthy) would put up 10. I guessed wrong on which 2 days Cespedes would be in the lineup and great. My bad. THEN AGAIN, I'M BEATING 10 OF YOU.

I didn't see your comment in the RK chat before I asked. Tim S (5:47:44AM): Jeff, you picking someone up to get to seven starts or are you really trying to throw all your games? I'll be honest, Tim, I'm offended that you would call me out, as if I'm being less than ethical. Frankly, it's utter [expletive]. If you think I'm not trying, feel free to send me a message to ask what's going on with my team. But starting a thread about it here is totally uncalled for.

Good. My position is consistent too. When you break the rules, they should be enforced. That's my position. Should be the same for everyone. I was told last week that the league gives teams a day or two to get a guy off the DL back into the lineup. That makes sense and is consistent with the espn, y! and other leagues I've played in. So within 2 days of Britton coming off the DL (which was 2 days after he went from the 15-day to the 60-day, so it wasn't like I knew it was coming), my lineup is legal (I dropped Hughes and swapped Britton and Eovaldi). If the rule isn't that you get a day or two after a guy comes off the DL, I'm 100% ok with losing my points for the last 2 days. My bad. No complaint whatsoever.

Who are you talking about?

I said the rules should be followed when you added a guy without dropping one. There's no excuse for that. If you've played fantasy baseball once before you know how to add and drop. Truffle said to me last week that the league gives people a day or two to get their lineups set after a DL trip. I think that makes sense as its not always easy to know when a guy is going to come off the DL. If that's not the league policy, I was misinformed. I'll gladly give up my points for yesterday. Since you were so worried about me having my best players in my lineup, my guess is you really don't want my points taken away though.

There's a fairly easy remedy to this. You've been asked to pause and think a bit before posting. You clearly didn't do that here b/c your post makes not the slightest hint of sense at all. It'd be one thing if you were posting opinions and those were unpopular. But this is just nonsense. I'm sorry, but there's no other way to put it. And your posting of it regularly across dozens of threads on the Board annoys people. So please stop and think a bit more before posting.

I think there's a difference between a day or two and a week. The line is clearly in there somewhere. I don't think giving teams a day or two to react is a terrible thing. For example, just last week, Morse and Cespedes were due to come off the DL on Friday. Morse's game gets rained out, so he comes off the DL on Saturday, the same day Dirks went on the DL. If I had to be proactive so that my team was never illegal, I would have dropped a player Friday only to find out I didn't need to b/c I had an extra spot Saturday. Another example, Sandoval is coming off the DL today, when all the news I read said he was due back after this weekend. The point is, when you're reacting to the movements of a ML team, you need a day or two b/c you never know for sure when the moves will happen. So have a cushion at first (this is a friendly league). But if you forget and your team is illegal for a week, you lose that week (all points taken away). If you don't fix it for a couple weeks, maybe the commissioner removes the player that created the issue (guy still on the DL weeks later, guy added when no one was dropped, etc). I don't know, but the penalties for long term illegal rosters should be stiff.

Yes, that's truffle. He has 2 RPs: Bentacourt and Ogando. It's just that Ogando is now going to start on Sunday b/c holland is hurt (I assume truffle doesn't get penalized for a RP suddenly making a spot start). If Ogando remains a starter, I don't know what the rules require.

It's pretty easy to figure out. Examples: Alamo: added 2 players on 6/3; only dropped 1 (1 extra) Harry's: traded for 3 MLB players on 5/20; traded away 1 and dropped 1 (1 extra) etc, etc