Tracer Bullet

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/sports/stories/2011/03/10/source-of-e-mails-to-coach-revealed.html?sid=101

I can respect a man who loves bbq that much

I think a lot of what it is, is Bloggers sending info into Yahoo Sports and having them connect the dots. Yahoo also isn't in bed with the NCAA like ESPN is with their billions of dollars of tv deals. yeah and what does Y! have to lose. in the last 5+ years, i don't think i've used Y! for anything but fantasy sports and CFB investigative reports.

i have some sympathy for their situation. i'm not sure i spent my money all that wisely at 21-23 (or 33?) years old and it was .000001% of what they have. plus i had great parents, some good teachers, friends, etc and an accounting degree at the time, where many of these guys haven't done any school work since they were 12 and many don't have the best parents or other outside influences to help them out.

5 spots left.

they should be forced to play the little sisters of the poor.

on the plus side, if there's a lockout and ochocinco mans up, tommyz is going to knock him the F out http://www.facebook.com/tommyzbikowski http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/03/07/zbikowski-challenges-ochocinco-to-a-four-round-boxing-match/

yeah, if we had joey votto or adrian gonzalez manning first, i could understand the hesitation, i guess. but we don't have the luxury of a really good second option.

League min is 414,000 for 2011. Good GOD, how can these men afford to feed their families? With gas prices the way they are, some of them might not even be able to afford a yact. ugh

hahahahaha

anyone that played last year interested in joining again?

trim it to 10-12 teams - that might help. if you don't want to run it, erik, pass it to me and i'll set it up.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=6179423 $25k for a recruit...i mean...recruiting services

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news;_ylt=AoOGUDIGDYAQjnwwJ8CM3wgcvrYF?slug=cr-oregon030311

when he saw you, did he stroke your face or something?

I'd be interested. though my possible keepers suck.

I've heard a lot of rumblings about Oregon but nothing I'd consider a solid source yet. saw on a very solid source that its oregon and some guy named Baron Flenory (former Chip Kelly player from another school).

some? Maddux looks like he ate Starlin Castro. Speaking of...has anyone seen #13?

The first time I sat in the bleachers the tickets were $6 or $8 dollars. I'm 42 and I think I was 12 or 13, so that's not that long ago. Big leagues sports is not family friendly. 4-5 years ago, my BIL and I sat in the bleachers for $25/ticket on a Saturday in August.

i'm reserving judgment until fiver presents the other side

is 500 the seats right next to the bullpen? I sat there with a group of friends last year and it quickly overtook upper deck box as my favorite seats. we were maybe 10 rows from the bullpen. it was awesome.

these are my thoughts as well. not sure when i'll be in Chicago and the price is too high and availability too limited to make it worth buying tickets i'm not positive i'll be able to use. i don't think i ever spent time in the vwr trying to buy tickets with the intent of selling them, but it was nice to know you'd likely get back what you paid if you couldn't see the game. now you have to pay out the ass today and likely won't be able to sell them at all if you can't use them. maybe we're just a few years away from being able to buy season tickets at will-call again.

well, we can eliminate truffle as a suspect

What the [expletive] is wrong with you? seeing a second basemen pitch in a game we're willing to effectively forfeit is sufficiently fun to risk having a moron like Baker use a SP in the 15th inning after almost every fan has gone to sleep? i'm trying to reconcile all of this. What is there to reconcile? Who here is talking about just giving up on a game once it hits a certain number of innings besides you? Those of us talking about effectively forfeiting game are talking about preferring the Cubs to do that if it's essentially a meaningless game and the bullpen has been used up, not just "oh, it's the 14th inning and we still have a couple of relievers left...let's pack it in!!!" the difference between "games that last longer than 14 innings" and "games that last longer than 14 innings in which both teams have multiple relievers left" is what, would you say, in an average year? 1? maybe 2? It seems that we all agree that they're of little value b/c they're 1 meaningless game out of 162. So you think having the 2nd baseman throw a couple of innings makes more sense then considering alternatives. i'm not really suggesting the only alternative is to end the game after X number of innings. I'm just thought it was interesting to look at re-working extra inning games that go beyond a certain point b/c they're of so little value and the risk of long-term injury to players greatly outweighs what little benefit they have.

i'm confused. if we're all ok with forfeiting a game after a few extra innings (and I certainly prefer that to using a starter), why is there something wrong with me again? What the [expletive] is wrong with you? seeing a second basemen pitch in a game we're willing to effectively forfeit is sufficiently fun to risk having a moron like Baker use a SP in the 15th inning after almost every fan has gone to sleep? i'm trying to reconcile all of this.