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Edit: Soler will play good baseball.

Wait, Tim GETS a first round pick too? lol

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your keepers are awesome. wanna swap teams?

he looks [expletive] psycho

How does that compare to a few years ago? Prior rules only allowed you to make changes for certain reasons (injury, benching, etc). Now you can do whatever you want with your lineup during each week and waivers run instantly on each dropped player.

yes but there are some changes (like it's now a daily roster and lineup changes league).

did the cbs overhaul actually...improve the site? [expletive] me, it may just have

that [expletive] little squirt quit on us? And all of a sudden, too. He's been playing fantasy sports for years and then one day just stops? I can't explain it.

CT pussied out and UK is in?

I [expletive] love Maddon

FYI - Cespedes is also exempt one more time (he's been in the league just 3 years, so this year is his last exemption).

[expletive]. Thanks for being such a great man, Ernie.

I have no idea who I'm keeping, so I could take points or keepers or draft picks, but here's what's available. Included a keeper explanation at the bottom for the new guys. Feel free to ignore if it isn't helpful. Last year's points (count toward the 2000 point limit for keepers) Felix: 807 Brantley : 551 Arrieta: 520 Pence: 480.5 C Santana: 448 Liriano: 433 HRam: 360 Exempt players: Carpenter: last exemption this year Ryu: 2nd exemption this year Roark: 2nd exemption this year Calhoun: 2nd exemption this year Wong: 2nd exemption this year Pineda: 2nd exemption this year Castellanos: first exemption this year Odor: first exemption this year Shoemaker: first exemption this year K Vargas: first exemption this year J Nelson: first exemption this year Soler: ha [expletive] no Counting exemptions: I think it's easier to understand if you see some examples. Limits are 50 PAs, 5 starts, or 10 total pitching appearances. Carpenter is a good example. He didn't use an exemption in 2011 b/c he was under 50 PAs. He used his first exemption after the 2012 season. He used his second after the 2013 season. So he's using his 3rd and final exemption after last year. So his points last year won't count toward the 2000 cap for keepers. Ryu used his first after 2013 and his second this year, after 2014. So he's exempt this year and will be exempt next off-season. Note that a guy can use an exemption, but still be kept as a minor leaguer. Soler had more than 50 PAs, so he'll use his first exemption this year. But he's under 200 ABs, so I can keep him as a minor leaguer rather than as one of my 10 keepers.

Tell me if this is off (now with nsbb names): 16. Calvinball (champ) - MR 15. NSBB (2nd) - Tim 14. Cracker Killers (H2H winner over STI) - Sneaky 13. Socia's Tragic Illness - Truffle 12. Hand Sanitizers - abuck 11. Quakers - same -- playoff cutoff -- 10. Dealers - members only 9. Harry's Budcrew - cbbryan 8. Bazingas/base ball - tree 7. Process - imb 6. Chicken of Sea - brian boen (not nsbb regular) 5. Lynx - stitch 4. DBlock - raw 3. Alamo (H2H even, better Div record than Theo) - raisin 2. Theocracy - CT 1. Rodelo - roadster

ITT: we find out who has kyle blocked

worse look: yanking an offer from a commit two weeks prior to NSD http://www.tennessean.com/story/vols/2015/01/21/marques-ford-decommits-tennessee/22123845/ That's one of the really crappy parts of the sec. Feel bad for the kid. Fixed

keepers are due typically 2/15. But the last few seasons, abuck has had to state when trading can begin to make sure we're all waiting for managers to get filled up before trading.

abuck - do you want to throw down the trade marker so everyone knows when they can start making offers?

tree got mooch's so I think ct gets bukie's, right?

someone let blue font in and let's get this [expletive] moving

Nah, he's better than most posters here. I'll grant you that this site has nearly 5000 registered posters, and that the vast majority of them post infrequently, if at all. That said, I still disagree with your premise. Despite his flaws, Kyle is actually one of the better posters here. Unrelated - remember when people used to defend meph?

Thinking that guaranteeing a 31 year old pitcher $210 million is a bad thing = meatball logic? Sure, okay You think it's worse to pay a guy 210M over 14 years than it is to pay him 210M over 7 years. Yes, that is dumb and meatball. Well I'm convinced How many times has this been discussed? You can't possibly have missed it every time. Getting $10 today is better than getting $10 in a year. Do you understand that? You can invest that $10 if you get it today and in a year, maybe you have $10.30. Now instead of $10 making you 20-30 cents in a year, think of $10m today making you $300,000 in a year. That's the most basic way to look at this. A 1%er like ssr can explain the details of how much more money $210m is if you get it over the next 7 years compared to how much it is if it's spread over the next 14. But it's a lot. If the dollars are the same, it's always better for the team to pay more later (ignore luxury tax issues, which are't a consideration for the nats).

No thoughts on this??? (Trying to stop the continued discussion that has eclipsed any other discussion....) Speaking as a journalist, the media guy bragging about getting Lynch fined looks like an idiot. However, Lynch refusing to answer questions is more than a little silly - though his ways around answering anything have been rather humorous. As for the fine itself, it's not that much to ask an athlete to give media members a few quotes to pass along to fans. But any media members pursuing fines for players because they don't want to give comments is ridiculous. Why does it matter if one particular guy gives quotes to the media or not? Fans very rarely give a [expletive] what most players say right after a game. Is anything really better if he gives a couple canned responses? It's a ridiculous fine.