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  1. abuck1220
    what was that, like ten years ago? i'm glad to hear you (and others) are a little insecure about your team. because i actually feel pretty damn good about mine. this might be the best offense i've had, and that's saying something given the offense i had the year i traded for teix and beat tim for my first (?) title. Your pitching has a fantastic opportunity to suck badly. That should concern you. Dempster is realistically your best 5th starter option. eh, not really worried about it. hill and wang will probably be top 30. liriano has the potential to be even better. worst case scenario is hill, liriano and ubaldo all pitch OK, but not up to championship-caliber standards, and i trade one or more of them to a team out of the race for a starting pitcher upgrade. with their exemptions, even a struggling hill/liriano/ubaldo is valuable to a team out of it. it'd be different if 3/5th's of my rotation had the potential to flop but weren't exempt.
  2. abuck1220
    what would be the deal after the next deal?
  3. abuck1220
    and as far as me losing all my exemptions, i'll still have martin, hill, liriano, corpas, ubaldo and uggla as exempt after this season. i'll only be losing fielder (so so so so close to getting another one for him under the new rules) and wang.
  4. abuck1220
    what was that, like ten years ago? i'm glad to hear you (and others) are a little insecure about your team. because i actually feel pretty damn good about mine. this might be the best offense i've had, and that's saying something given the offense i had the year i traded for teix and beat tim for my first (?) title.
  5. abuck1220
    ozzie's going to be long gone by the time construction begins on any new stadium.
  6. abuck1220
    i love that people concede that soriano is a better hitter than theriot, but not a better leadoff hitter. lol. lol indeed.
  7. abuck1220
    Yes, you keep thinking that. ok.
  8. abuck1220
    little leaguers may play how they practice, but i don't think big leaguers do.
  9. abuck1220
    that seems fair.
  10. abuck1220
    in his article slamming computers for their predictions, he acknowledges that the computers were exactly right on about the white sox in '07. i don't get his point.
  11. abuck1220
    Yes. Lots of people actually. And I know, I know, because you don't share the same opinion on the issue then it must be stupid to care about this, but regardless, thousands of people do. Maybe millions. maybe trillions.
  12. abuck1220
    Yeah, I do. Not enough to commit Harry Caray on second base or anything. ;) But I'm very much a traditionalist and enjoy the history of the game. I remember not that long ago having bar bets that I could name all the baseball fields and football stadiums, and winning the bet. Now I'm down to knowing only a handful of them because, seriously, AT&T? Chase? Citizens? No thanks. And in a couple of years when American Express buys out Chase we get a name change again. oh, i didn't realize this ballpark re-naming was going to cause you to lose bar bets as to how many stadiums you could name. by all means, resume the outrage. i truly didn't know.
  13. abuck1220
    i'll be honest...you guys better hope liriano doesn't return to form because if he does, i'm expecting to put up some serious points. a top 3 catcher potentially two top 5 1b a top 5 2b the top ss three top 20 OF poor ty wigginton really feels like a piece of [expletive]. yeah, my rotation has questions, but there is top 30 potential from wang, hill and liriano with even higher ceilings than that for hill and liriano. and, as always, my pen should be pretty good.
  14. abuck1220
    just a little clarification. for example, hill (and liriano actually) made only four starts in '05...that means his exemption clock started after '06...meaning he's still exempt after '08?
  15. abuck1220
    stop it. Still angry. come on...you had two shots at him before i did. #2 was too high. #9...well...I couldn't believe Lackey was still on the board. Plus I thought he'd last until #14. i thought for sure he'd be gone before #13...i had all but conceded that i'd be taking abreu there. then i got him with my second rounder! by the way, abreu was the 7th best OF last year? is that right??
  16. abuck1220
    stop it. Still angry. come on...you had two shots at him before i did.
  17. abuck1220
    that's pretty cool. i couldn't click "draft" fast enough when i saw hawpe was there at 13!
  18. abuck1220
    What a moronic thing to say. I sure hope NSBB doesn't become like so manny crappy baseball boards out there. it will become crappy if people don't cry after losses?
  19. abuck1220
    so is drake a lock as a 4 now?
  20. abuck1220
    if they rename wrigley i'll run on the field and kill myself at 2nd base on opening day. seriously, people care about this?
  21. abuck1220
    heh...that's the first thing i thought too. ridiculous.
  22. abuck1220
    i mean, i hate to say it's time to bring back japanese internment camps, but come on, shingo.
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  24. abuck1220
    Well, it's true speaking of overrated -- torii hunter.
  25. abuck1220
    people thought that was real?
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