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  1. abuck1220
    where's the gray area? if a guy on your DL doesn't start the season on the DL, you lose him.
  2. abuck1220
    i thought they could still be on the DL (if they're hurt and not playing and likely to be on the DL), but if they end up not starting the season on the DL, they had to be dropped.
  3. abuck1220
    they have to win some of those games against tough competition for SOS to matter. playing a bunch of good teams and losing doesn't help your cause.
  4. abuck1220
    exactly. hard to feel sorry for a 19-12 team or whatever. and yeah, asu may have been ariz twice, but it's not like asu didn't have a bunch of bad losses. i maybe can understand some of the whining about seeds for teams that just want to win a game or two. but i don't feel sorry for unc having to play in a tough region. i mean, isn't their goal to win the whole thing? then what does it matter if they have to play tennessee to get to the final four? if they're the best, aren't they going to have to beat the second best anyway?
  5. abuck1220
    what teams do you have an issue with? just seems like they dismissed conf. tourney results in some instances and regular season in others (more in terms of seeding than who was in our out). Tennessee should NOT be in the same regional as UNC. Kansas shouldn't have to potentially play Texas in Houston in the Elite 8. Arizona St. got shafted. also, does anyone else think the play-in game should be between two at-large teams? i think that if you earn an automatic bid to the tourney, you should be in period. or eliminate the play-in game, which is altogether lame to begin with sounds like you only have a beef about one team not getting in -- arizona state. your original post sounded like you had more issues with the teams that got in/didn't get in more than seeding, where teams were playing, etc.
  6. abuck1220
    what teams do you have an issue with?
  7. abuck1220
    get your [expletive] together, people.
  8. abuck1220
    drake should have been a four, but i guess it doesn't matter that much. can't believe butler is a seven.
  9. abuck1220
    zing.
  10. abuck1220
    like i said, i'm fully aware of the fact that my pitching may drag me down. and i don't disagree with your assessment of ubaldo, wang, liriano, dempster or villanueva in the slightest. but there's a hell of a long time between now and the end of the season, and if my rotation as it sits now is my rotation at the end of the season, i'll be shocked. have i ever stood pat at the trading deadline?? again, it's not like my rotation is dempster, suppan, marquis, glavine and doug davis. the guys i have are tradeable even if they are underperforming.
  11. abuck1220
    i would love for that to be your 10 keepers going into 2009.
  12. 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.
  13. abuck1220
    what would be the deal after the next deal?
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. abuck1220
    ozzie's going to be long gone by the time construction begins on any new stadium.
  17. abuck1220
    i love that people concede that soriano is a better hitter than theriot, but not a better leadoff hitter. lol. lol indeed.
  18. abuck1220
    Yes, you keep thinking that. ok.
  19. abuck1220
    little leaguers may play how they practice, but i don't think big leaguers do.
  20. abuck1220
    that seems fair.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. 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?
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